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Owen Booth

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Moderately attractive sometime writer. You should go do something useful instead of posting here.

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · Nov 13

Since we’re all politely reintroducing ourselves: I’m the idiot who accidentally wrote these two books and some other stuff

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 3h

Good work US-based chums

Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 4h

If it works for you it works for you! That’s the wonder of art!

Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 4h

I like Soderbergh too, but it really is spectacularly terrible

Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone doing bizarre phoney “English” accents - even the English actors…

Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 5h

I know it’s not your problem but I tried to watch “Black Bag” and it was the worst thing I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen “Babylon”.

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 1d

Have discovered that AI is *really* good at (1) producing pointless internal company documentation that nobody has the time to write, and (2) summarising pointless internal company documentation that nobody has the time to read.

If only there was some sort of conclusion we could draw from this.

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 2d

This is wonderful www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/moo...

Moon Boots

Our baby could not yet hold his head up. I lay on my parents’ living room floor next to my son, wondering how I was going to afford and overcome everything by myself, thinking I was too clumsy to take...

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 2d

I can only hope

Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 2d

(As long as you don’t expect to be paid)

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 2d

Make art or shut up.

(Both are viable options)

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 3d

(And obvs no writers are going to be actually able to *earn a living*…)

Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 3d

The stuff about “track” rings horribly true! New writers should probably avoid going anywhere near mainstream publishers for *at least* their first couple of books - except that indies are really struggling at the moment & can’t afford to take the risks they used to either.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 3d

Writers! Here is an incredibly bleak read about the state of publishing. Pretty soon it seems all books will be written by AI or posh people who don't really need the money

thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 4d

"I want a neatly-constructed 1,500-word analysis of the relationship between Prospero and Antonio in The Tempest or you're back on that dinghy, son." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...