Chuck
@charlesap.bsky.social
This script for the cluster, that one for TV
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Chuck
@charlesap.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I should pin a post.
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Examples:
Honest, but insecure
Loving, but damaged
Brave, but easily overwhelmed
Talented, but creatively blocked
Warm-hearted, but easily taken in
etc. See how you go.
Honest, but insecure
Loving, but damaged
Brave, but easily overwhelmed
Talented, but creatively blocked
Warm-hearted, but easily taken in
etc. See how you go.
February 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Examples:
Honest, but insecure
Loving, but damaged
Brave, but easily overwhelmed
Talented, but creatively blocked
Warm-hearted, but easily taken in
etc. See how you go.
Honest, but insecure
Loving, but damaged
Brave, but easily overwhelmed
Talented, but creatively blocked
Warm-hearted, but easily taken in
etc. See how you go.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 320:
Writing complex characters is great in principle, but in practice often results in messy, difficult characterization. If that's you, try choosing just TWO main characteristics to start off with - one positive, one negative - and build on those as you progress.
Writing complex characters is great in principle, but in practice often results in messy, difficult characterization. If that's you, try choosing just TWO main characteristics to start off with - one positive, one negative - and build on those as you progress.
February 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 320:
Writing complex characters is great in principle, but in practice often results in messy, difficult characterization. If that's you, try choosing just TWO main characteristics to start off with - one positive, one negative - and build on those as you progress.
Writing complex characters is great in principle, but in practice often results in messy, difficult characterization. If that's you, try choosing just TWO main characteristics to start off with - one positive, one negative - and build on those as you progress.
why are long hot shower and hot long shower two different things
you know what I mean
you know what I mean
January 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
why are long hot shower and hot long shower two different things
you know what I mean
you know what I mean
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Collating a hoard of loose screenwriting advice/rules/etc, from index cards I'd keep on my corkboard while breaking a TV episode or film, by copying them into a page of my new Big Writing Notebook and...
...over 50% of them could be summarized as PEOPLE CARE ABOUT CHARACTERS ABOVE ALL ELSE, STUPID.
...over 50% of them could be summarized as PEOPLE CARE ABOUT CHARACTERS ABOVE ALL ELSE, STUPID.
December 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Collating a hoard of loose screenwriting advice/rules/etc, from index cards I'd keep on my corkboard while breaking a TV episode or film, by copying them into a page of my new Big Writing Notebook and...
...over 50% of them could be summarized as PEOPLE CARE ABOUT CHARACTERS ABOVE ALL ELSE, STUPID.
...over 50% of them could be summarized as PEOPLE CARE ABOUT CHARACTERS ABOVE ALL ELSE, STUPID.
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One fun thing about the Japanese is we love the FUCK out of Christmas and have only the loosest concept of what is going on
Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
December 25, 2025 at 4:54 AM
One fun thing about the Japanese is we love the FUCK out of Christmas and have only the loosest concept of what is going on
The devil will give you a bargain for your hearts desire.
The fairy queen offers you a feast when you are famished.
The AI will help you with that codebase.
The fairy queen offers you a feast when you are famished.
The AI will help you with that codebase.
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The devil will give you a bargain for your hearts desire.
The fairy queen offers you a feast when you are famished.
The AI will help you with that codebase.
The fairy queen offers you a feast when you are famished.
The AI will help you with that codebase.
I keep bringing home little boxes of chocolates for Christmas for the family but I keep eating them. One of these days the store will be out (they do run out) and I'll be in trouble.
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I keep bringing home little boxes of chocolates for Christmas for the family but I keep eating them. One of these days the store will be out (they do run out) and I'll be in trouble.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Jeff lies like politician.
Ralph lies like a dead man.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Jeff lies like politician.
Ralph lies like a dead man.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Jeff lies like politician.
Ralph lies like a dead man.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Jeff lies like politician.
Ralph lies like a dead man.
If you mention blood duels are a thing in the first act you damned well better have one happen in the third.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
If you mention blood duels are a thing in the first act you damned well better have one happen in the third.
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I wonder how you are approaching this exercise. Would love to hear any rules and restrictions.
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wonder how you are approaching this exercise. Would love to hear any rules and restrictions.
Day 16 of writing the same scene over from scratch, as an exercise. I'm calling it #scenetober. Starting to have to get creative, which is the point.
October 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Day 16 of writing the same scene over from scratch, as an exercise. I'm calling it #scenetober. Starting to have to get creative, which is the point.
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"the flute is older than the wheel"
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"the flute is older than the wheel"
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a successful dramatic scene is one that the audience enters because of plot and leaves because of character.
September 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
a successful dramatic scene is one that the audience enters because of plot and leaves because of character.
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Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.
September 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.
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the word “sloppycat” just popped into my head for people who try to ape actual specific human work using slop generators
please feel free to use it
please feel free to use it
September 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
the word “sloppycat” just popped into my head for people who try to ape actual specific human work using slop generators
please feel free to use it
please feel free to use it
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There is no joy like learning how to do it. There is no joy like solving the problems in a story, figuring them out, fucking with them. There's no joy, really, like making up something flawed and messy, and then learning how to make it better.
August 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There is no joy like learning how to do it. There is no joy like solving the problems in a story, figuring them out, fucking with them. There's no joy, really, like making up something flawed and messy, and then learning how to make it better.
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Watching the Audra Winter drama unfold (from as great a distance as possible), and puts me in mind I was just talking about a lot of the shit that underpins this a couple months away (see quoted thread).
There's another seeming layer of hubris/delusions of grandeur at work there. But basics follow.
There's another seeming layer of hubris/delusions of grandeur at work there. But basics follow.
Was talking with @agawilmot.bsky.social this weekend, a bunch of it about books/storytelling. And that conversation has had me thinking more about something I see a lot as an editor: early career skill development, stretching technical muscles, and growth as a writer. So, a (likely messy) thread:
August 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Watching the Audra Winter drama unfold (from as great a distance as possible), and puts me in mind I was just talking about a lot of the shit that underpins this a couple months away (see quoted thread).
There's another seeming layer of hubris/delusions of grandeur at work there. But basics follow.
There's another seeming layer of hubris/delusions of grandeur at work there. But basics follow.
At the end of of a long presentation at a proofreader's conference someone takes the mike and says:
This is more of a comma than a question mark--
This is more of a comma than a question mark--
August 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
At the end of of a long presentation at a proofreader's conference someone takes the mike and says:
This is more of a comma than a question mark--
This is more of a comma than a question mark--
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I saw this video years ago and have never lived without a gigantic jar of gigi paste in my fridge since... (I live in an Indian and Pakistani neighbourhood, which helps).
youtu.be/U4zVQxPJmnY?...
youtu.be/U4zVQxPJmnY?...
How To Cook Every Indian Dish Ever
YouTube video by BuzzFeed India
youtu.be
August 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I saw this video years ago and have never lived without a gigantic jar of gigi paste in my fridge since... (I live in an Indian and Pakistani neighbourhood, which helps).
youtu.be/U4zVQxPJmnY?...
youtu.be/U4zVQxPJmnY?...
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Why must I write a bad novel before I can write a good one?
August 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Why must I write a bad novel before I can write a good one?
can we have a Sanctuary Moon / The Last Frontier crossover please
August 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
can we have a Sanctuary Moon / The Last Frontier crossover please