Reposted by E.J. Phipps
Yet.
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Yet.
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
I'm bookmarking this for the next time someone asks me exactly what does 'a structural edit' mean. This may be a screenplay not a novel, but it's an excellent example of the principles and process regardless.
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm bookmarking this for the next time someone asks me exactly what does 'a structural edit' mean. This may be a screenplay not a novel, but it's an excellent example of the principles and process regardless.
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
Using the belief that creators are the "petite bourgeoisie" to justify pirating books/stealing art is EXACTLY what makes it so hard for anyone who isn't rich to pursue their creative dreams
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Using the belief that creators are the "petite bourgeoisie" to justify pirating books/stealing art is EXACTLY what makes it so hard for anyone who isn't rich to pursue their creative dreams
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
If you steal our art, you PERSONALLY are preventing us from building sustainable careers
It's been ages since I've seen a musical in an actual theater ( I've seen a bunch on streamkng opposed to on streaming).
-Sweeney Todd
-Wicked
-Mamma Mia
-Shrek
-Les Miserables
-Sweeney Todd
-Wicked
-Mamma Mia
-Shrek
-Les Miserables
OK but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
🌹 Hadestown
🐄 Into the Woods
♟️ Chess
🌉 In the Heights
🦷 Little Shop of Horrors
🌹 Hadestown
🐄 Into the Woods
♟️ Chess
🌉 In the Heights
🦷 Little Shop of Horrors
OK but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
🎵 Hadestown
🎵 Six
🎵 Hamilton
🎵 (soon) Les Mis
🎵 (soon) Beauty and the Beast
🎵 Hadestown
🎵 Six
🎵 Hamilton
🎵 (soon) Les Mis
🎵 (soon) Beauty and the Beast
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It's been ages since I've seen a musical in an actual theater ( I've seen a bunch on streamkng opposed to on streaming).
-Sweeney Todd
-Wicked
-Mamma Mia
-Shrek
-Les Miserables
-Sweeney Todd
-Wicked
-Mamma Mia
-Shrek
-Les Miserables
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
I guess this explains the AI boom a lot. Nobody wants to put time into making things because the audience refuses to actually pay any attention to it anyway. Nobody wants to make the things and nobody wants to watch it. What's the point? What are y'all doing here?
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I guess this explains the AI boom a lot. Nobody wants to put time into making things because the audience refuses to actually pay any attention to it anyway. Nobody wants to make the things and nobody wants to watch it. What's the point? What are y'all doing here?
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
you can judge the extent of a legal fuckup by the volume of audible laughter coming from the lawyers of bluesky and in this case I think we're at jet engine levels
Sure. "The Grand Jury did not see the operative indictment" is the kind of fuckup where lawyers literally don't actually know what happens next because it SO fundamental a thing that it is LITERALLY possible nobody had even thought of this as a thing that could happen.
Translate for us non-law-talkers...?
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
you can judge the extent of a legal fuckup by the volume of audible laughter coming from the lawyers of bluesky and in this case I think we're at jet engine levels
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
If you observe anything in Charlotte today
As always, if you see something that you suspect could be an immigration enforcement action in progress, call our hotline at (336) 543-0353 or the hotline number in the About tab so we can verify and provide support.
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you observe anything in Charlotte today
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
excuse me what
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
excuse me what
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
I was in bed at 830 last night (yay sleep regressions), so I didn't see the Northern Lights. Crossing my fingers that I'll be up long enough tonight to maybe get a picture.
BUT I have this pretty picture from yesterday morning.
BUT I have this pretty picture from yesterday morning.
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I was in bed at 830 last night (yay sleep regressions), so I didn't see the Northern Lights. Crossing my fingers that I'll be up long enough tonight to maybe get a picture.
BUT I have this pretty picture from yesterday morning.
BUT I have this pretty picture from yesterday morning.
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
I know many new writers worry about how readers will receive their work. That’s a valid concern! That said, two things:
1. This gig is only worth it if you write what YOU want.
2. Some will hate your stuff, but some will like it. Your readers. They’re awesome. Write for them.
1. This gig is only worth it if you write what YOU want.
2. Some will hate your stuff, but some will like it. Your readers. They’re awesome. Write for them.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I know many new writers worry about how readers will receive their work. That’s a valid concern! That said, two things:
1. This gig is only worth it if you write what YOU want.
2. Some will hate your stuff, but some will like it. Your readers. They’re awesome. Write for them.
1. This gig is only worth it if you write what YOU want.
2. Some will hate your stuff, but some will like it. Your readers. They’re awesome. Write for them.
Snow. In south-central NC. In November.
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Snow. In south-central NC. In November.
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
I feel like I'm screaming into the void every single time that I call my Senators (Budd and Tillis) and Rep (Mark Harris). I'm going to do it tomorrow anyway.
We're stuck with Budd until '23.
Thank fuck Roy Cooper is running for Tillis's seat next year.
Harris is up for re-election in '26. 1/3
We're stuck with Budd until '23.
Thank fuck Roy Cooper is running for Tillis's seat next year.
Harris is up for re-election in '26. 1/3
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I feel like I'm screaming into the void every single time that I call my Senators (Budd and Tillis) and Rep (Mark Harris). I'm going to do it tomorrow anyway.
We're stuck with Budd until '23.
Thank fuck Roy Cooper is running for Tillis's seat next year.
Harris is up for re-election in '26. 1/3
We're stuck with Budd until '23.
Thank fuck Roy Cooper is running for Tillis's seat next year.
Harris is up for re-election in '26. 1/3
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
If you care about other people, please call congress and demand a guarantee on ACA subsidies.
Millions of people depend on the ACA to prevent mountains and mountains of suffering.
202-224-3121
Millions of people depend on the ACA to prevent mountains and mountains of suffering.
202-224-3121
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you care about other people, please call congress and demand a guarantee on ACA subsidies.
Millions of people depend on the ACA to prevent mountains and mountains of suffering.
202-224-3121
Millions of people depend on the ACA to prevent mountains and mountains of suffering.
202-224-3121
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
Big day for people who care about other people
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Big day for people who care about other people
Reposted by E.J. Phipps
Remember, gang, if you’re yelling insults at ICE, stick to things that will be deeply humiliating if they’re read aloud in court. Consider “Your parents only love you out of obligation, not because they like you,” “l bet you jerk off to the Teletubbies” and of course, the Yo Mama joke.
It's not just here but in some charged threat cases where DOJ is treating, "you're a Nazi" or "you're a fascist" as a threat rather than a reasonable observation.
From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Remember, gang, if you’re yelling insults at ICE, stick to things that will be deeply humiliating if they’re read aloud in court. Consider “Your parents only love you out of obligation, not because they like you,” “l bet you jerk off to the Teletubbies” and of course, the Yo Mama joke.
If you're in the US, this is your reminder to vote today.
Even if it's "just" for your local school board or town council because those elections are so freaking important.
I don't have any local (to me) elections this year, but I'm watching a nearby town council election closely.
Even if it's "just" for your local school board or town council because those elections are so freaking important.
I don't have any local (to me) elections this year, but I'm watching a nearby town council election closely.
November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If you're in the US, this is your reminder to vote today.
Even if it's "just" for your local school board or town council because those elections are so freaking important.
I don't have any local (to me) elections this year, but I'm watching a nearby town council election closely.
Even if it's "just" for your local school board or town council because those elections are so freaking important.
I don't have any local (to me) elections this year, but I'm watching a nearby town council election closely.