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Nick Harkaway
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · Jul 13
I’m just going to say “MURDER…”
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 7h
I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 23h
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 11h
@soniashah.bsky.social Have pinged you a (slightly tedious but not really) email via the address on the site. Hello!
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 11h
:) no, they just sent me an email saying WE ARE GOING TO DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT which, if I recall, I set up to read a book someone wanted me to blurb which I then couldn't persuade the system to allow me to see despite, you know...
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 15h
Is it me, or is NetGalley not the most friendly bit of software?
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
I literally have no idea :) v fun
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
Facts
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
Eight episodes :)
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
O god
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
Do not get ahead of yourself -
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
Well if there’s a tv show and people like it -
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
In the third book we should just use em dashes and nothing else
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
Our show is happening.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
Slightly disturbing.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
I wonder if they’ll ban you for being an asshat.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
Sry.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
Pathology.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h
I am.
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Aidan Truhen @aidantruhen.bsky.social · 17h
Okay so this is cool but I am totally not freaking out

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‘Kill Jackie’ First Look: Catherine Zeta-Jones Is a Glamorous Art Dealer Out for Revenge in Thriller Series From Prime Video, Fremantle and Steel Springs (EXCLUSIVE)
The first look at upcoming thriller series 'Kill Jackie,' starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as a drug smuggler turned art dealer.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h
Anyway: to work.

#writing
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h
That happens to me a lot. I go all over the place looking for something while avoiding an answer so obvious that some part of my subconscious thinks it’s too tame or predictable.

That is not usually the difficulty people encounter in my writing. #writing
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h
And in that decision is revealed the other plotline I had never considered, but which is implied and necessary to the story. It was *right there* and I would have ignored it for ever. #writing
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h
You could make a novel from the moment this loose thread implies. You cannot do anything useful with it in another novel. It’s too much. #writing
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h
I thought around now I’d be getting it out and expanding it. Instead, having decided that would just crash the signal-to-noise in this book through the back wall, I’m ditching it, and in doing so I realise it was only ever a single line. #writing
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h
Interesting #writing moment: a rare “kill your darlings”. (I find it’s often best to get Mrs H to kill them for me.)

Basically there’s been a plotline I like sitting in the background for aaaages, and today I’m cutting it. And it turns out that *it was never there*.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h
Yes, but -

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h
Ech. It can be both... Long, long conversation for another day. TL;DR I have a mild obsession with the Dialectic of Enlightenmen, which I think in concert with Bauman’s liquid modern has a lot of explanatory and predictive power right now.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18h
Ech. It can be both... Long, long conversation for another day. TL;DR I have a mild obsession with the Dialectic of Enlightenmen, which I think in concert with Bauman’s liquid modern has a lot of explanatory and predictive power right now.
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