Writing Club Tip #116

"Writing flash fiction based off trash prompts with 0 expectations can be great!"

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Writing Club Tip #78

"Read books in the genre you’re writing, steal your way to victory"

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started reading again, it's been a while

turns out if you wanna inspire yourself to write, engaging with the medium is a great first step!

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We cede occupied Ukrainian territory now in exchange for a 'deal,' we legitimize land grabs as a viable form of foreign policy.

Welcome back multi-polar world. Can't wait for state competition to lead to multi-million+ casualty events on a regular basis.

Same day job app rejection. Sure, it's great to know that I'm not wanted for that position, but it also means someone today opened up my app, looked it over, and tossed it all within the span of a shift.

Yea, not a great feeling.

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

It's a simple tip, but a good one. The more you do anything, the better you get. Even if that more doing is incremental, you're still getting better.

Plus the idea of writing as practice is underappreciated. We're all hobbyists at heart, and hobbyists practice their craft!

Finished a reread of draft 2. Got some good notes.

Now that the easy part is done, time to make sense of them all and actually write draft 3 😭

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note to recruiters out there, never never NEVER make me apply to a job through a chatbot

i cannot stress enough how much i don't want to do that

GIDEON THE NINTH x GODKILLER

DOWNDRAFT

Valandra is a legend - the only delver to reach the bottom of the Abyss and return. But few know the costs that came with it. Decades later, as new threats form in the shadows, she must retell her story or finally face the consequences.

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"Our cities are full"

Our cities:

And I wonder if that religious revivalism is in part informed by the social isolation outlined in this article?

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I feel like I've personally felt a slow and steady religious revivalism creeping into greater society, but I haven't see the scope of it captured well until this article #theatlantic

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Recently discovered @zen-browser.app recently, and as a longtime Firefox fan, I have to say, I'm in love

Listened to a podcast recently on @foreignaffairs.com with Nicholas Eberstadt, and I thought it worth a re-read of his fantastic article on depopulation.

www.foreignaffairs.com/world/age-de...

Ok, with the holidays grand slam over, it's time to get back to writing.

Luckily I'm in the process of reading my second draft, couldn't ask for an easier way to get back on the wagon.

Chapter 7 here we go!

Bring back the small car!