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J. J. Hillard
@hillizard.bsky.social
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J. J. Hillard @hillizard.bsky.social · May 14
Trailer for "#Counterfeit" — #awardwinning #shortfilm I wrote that Michael E. Berg (#SpilledInkCinema) produced. Now in festivals this year!
youtu.be/axf4E8u0fMU
#indiefilm #filmnoir #dramedy #screenwriting #screenplay #screenwriter #thriller
hillizard.bsky.social
Here's the intro to "#Nemophilia" — a flash fiction #horror #shortstory I wrote — available to read at the bottom of this list of flash #fiction #stories : flashphantoms.net/september-fl...
#flashfiction #forests #pigs #truffles #woodland #mystery #menace
December 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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No more endless waiting. Just, you know, regular waiting. Plus, if you submit today, you can get a response before the next episode of Pluribus!

Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fastes...

#writing #writers #writingcommunity
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December 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
#NewYorker #cartoon
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
"... #Disney gets to put some limits around how its characters appear on #Sora, collects licensing fees from #OpenAI, &... gets $1B worth of equity in one of the biggest startups.... these are 30-sec. #videos. We’re not talking about creating either shorts or #movies..."
www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/b...
Disney’s OpenAI deal is a $1 billion hedge on the future of slop | CNN Business
Analysis: Disney’s OpenAI deal is a $1 billion hedge on the future of slop
www.cnn.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
hillizard.bsky.social
My short, humorous sci-fi story " #Assignation" now on the awesome Freedom Fiction Journal:
www.freedomfiction.com/2025/12/assi...
Bonus link: www.assemblymag.com/articles/964...
#scifi #sciencefiction #humor #sexual #innuendo #banter #space #docking #refuel #extraterrestrial #women #men #astronaut
View of the earth from the ISS from orbit.
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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"Maybe #writers should celebrate a nomination simply because it makes them feel heard [read], and maybe as a result of feeling heard, their writing will blossom in new, important ways."
#PushcartPrize #readership
www.writermag.com/get-publishe...
What do Pushcart Prize nominations really mean, anyway? - The Writer
With over 10,000 nominations each year, is it ever ok to brag about your Pushcart Prize nomination? We spoke to writers and editors to find out.
www.writermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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November 15, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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#MaryShelley #author #Frankenstein #ScienceFiction #GuillermoDelToro #RealGDT #Netflix
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November 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Today's inspirational message:
Cartoon by Ellis J. Rosen. An office for someone literary - either an editor or an agent. Degree certificate on the wall, city view, bookshelf. At the desk, a dog sits holding a script. Another dog sits on a chair facing a desk. They're obviously having a meeting. The dog holding the script says, "If you introduce a stick in act one, somebody needs to throw it."
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
"... #science-fiction #author #WilliamGibson is said to have observed that the future is already here, just not evenly distributed—which might explain why #AI seems to have minted two cultures, one dismissive and the other enthralled."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
#creativity #JamesSomers
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.
www.newyorker.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Sub Club
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#CreativeWriting #writers
Sub Club | Substack
Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers. Click to read Sub Club, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
hillizard.bsky.social
"[ #realGDT's] creature may be the gentlest of any ' #Frankenstein,' gentler even than Mary Shelley's, but his maker is also the cruellest(sic) of Frankensteins, the most recognizably monstrous."
#NewYorker #ManvirSingh #monsters #Halloween #vampires #werewolves
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Monsters Went from Menacing to Misunderstood
For most of human history, monsters were repugnant aberrations, breaches of the natural and moral order. What’s behind our relentless urge to humanize them?
www.newyorker.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
"As commentators on both sides of the #AI divide frequently note, either as a promise or a threat, this is the worst the technology will ever be. #Hollywood will have to confront— and compete with that reality if it's to help make sense of what’s to come."
www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
#writers
What Hollywood Is Missing About A.I.
The technology is now popping up onscreen in everything from “The Morning Show” to “St. Denis Medical”—but nothing on air this year could compete with reality.
www.newyorker.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
"Welcome to the FISH List of lively independent literary magazines. This list evaluates and ranks over 3,000 lit mags against 14 criteria to help you find your new favourite indie lit mag."
www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/fish-list....
#FishCharlie #writers
FISH List
Short stories hand-picked from authors around the world. Submissions accepted. Humour, crime, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and everyday life.
www.fictionontheweb.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
"The #Foofs aim to spotlight the #writers who are doing things a little bit differently. The surreal & absurd; the speculative & magical; & the weird & experimental short fiction from the wonderful community of writers & literary magazines."
foofaraw.press/the-foofs-20... #shortstories
The Foofs (2025)
an award "show" for the weird and the wonderful
foofaraw.press
October 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
#WhiteHouse #renovation
October 29, 2025 at 4:03 AM
hillizard.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n... #frankenstein #GuillermoDelToro #GAI
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
#NewYorker #cartoon #media
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Tipping, tipping, tipping... the dominoes fall johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10... #ClimateCrisis
Tipping, tipping, tipping... the dominoes fall
Dying reefs, shrinking icesheets, withering forests and collapsing currents are the latest symptoms of an Earth system enduring dangerous trauma, according to the Global Tipping Points Report 2025.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
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#screenwriters #screenplay #creativity #AI
Who wants to watch an AI actor read an AI script?
There's been a lot of hype this week over the first so-called AI Actress, Tilly Norwood. Created by Xicoia, the AI division of the production company Particle6, Norwood has appeared in the AI-generate...
newslttrs.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
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#SinnersMovie
“Sinners”: Director Ryan Coogler on His Latest Hit, Delta Blues, His Mississippi Roots & Vampires
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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October 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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October 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
hillizard.bsky.social
"Entrepreneurs and the capitalist class are relentlessly seeking to deploy #AI in a manner that exceeds its reasonable use cases in order to maximize profits. This profit motive will incentivize the use of AI ' #actors.'"
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
#TillyNorwood
Opinion | AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood is an innovation nobody asked for
A new AI "actor" is piquing the interest of talent agents. This spells disaster for cinema.
www.msnbc.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I want going to dress up for Halloween this year until I stumbled across...
Spirit of Halloween costume, fiction writer, includes laptop notebooks lukewarm coffee bags under eyes and a natural desire to cause characters pain in English
October 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Earth doesn’t want to be “saved”. Earth just wants to be left alone 🌿✌🏽🕊️💙
October 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM