J.Kenny
@jkenny.studio
author | composer | ghostwriter
music – https://jkenny.studio
writing – https://jasonkenny.com
newsletter on writing and creative act – https://jasonkenny.com/dispatch
music – https://jkenny.studio
writing – https://jasonkenny.com
newsletter on writing and creative act – https://jasonkenny.com/dispatch
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With alt-text bc what a beautiful answer
(I mean don't use AI to build a robot, please god don't do that, but the rest of it yes lol)
(I mean don't use AI to build a robot, please god don't do that, but the rest of it yes lol)
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
With alt-text bc what a beautiful answer
(I mean don't use AI to build a robot, please god don't do that, but the rest of it yes lol)
(I mean don't use AI to build a robot, please god don't do that, but the rest of it yes lol)
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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A lot of truth to be found in John Gardner’s “On Becoming A Novelist”
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A lot of truth to be found in John Gardner’s “On Becoming A Novelist”
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
I'm in postproduction on a few projects I'm looking forward to releasing next year. Until then, there are still these to listen to and support my work...
#musiciansky #bandcampfriday
#musiciansky #bandcampfriday
J.Kenny
Instrumental music, soundtracks, and collaborations from Berlin-based composer and writer, J.Kenny.
Artist photo by LT Krieg.
jasonkenny.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'm in postproduction on a few projects I'm looking forward to releasing next year. Until then, there are still these to listen to and support my work...
#musiciansky #bandcampfriday
#musiciansky #bandcampfriday
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the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now
October 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now
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Just a woman taping cellophane to her car damaged by Russian drone attack. Saturday in Kyiv
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Just a woman taping cellophane to her car damaged by Russian drone attack. Saturday in Kyiv
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My brother’s best friend is dead. My brother just texted me. they went through hell together. Were the first to be deployed to Kharkiv to fight Russians. He was in every story my brother ever told me. Now, killed by Russia. air around me turned colder. time stopped and
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My brother’s best friend is dead. My brother just texted me. they went through hell together. Were the first to be deployed to Kharkiv to fight Russians. He was in every story my brother ever told me. Now, killed by Russia. air around me turned colder. time stopped and
these album mixes might be closer to finished than i realised...
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
these album mixes might be closer to finished than i realised...
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Some thoughts on starting the rewriting process... just before I do the same on my novel in progress
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
Revision, Rewriting and Applying The Hero's Journey — J.Kenny
When you read back through your manuscript – and you might even get a sense of these parts while writing – you will find passages or sequences that don’t hit the right note. The first step in this rev...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Some thoughts on starting the rewriting process... just before I do the same on my novel in progress
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
Some thoughts on starting the rewriting process... just before I do the same on my novel in progress
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
Revision, Rewriting and Applying The Hero's Journey — J.Kenny
When you read back through your manuscript – and you might even get a sense of these parts while writing – you will find passages or sequences that don’t hit the right note. The first step in this rev...
jasonkenny.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Some thoughts on starting the rewriting process... just before I do the same on my novel in progress
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
[image is from Proust's notebook, wildly edited and marked up]
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Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
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Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
The focus of the Dispatch this year has been on writing the first draft of your book and starting the revisions. The next two editions of the Dispatch look at using classical story structure to strengthen your story through revisions.
join the wire –
join the wire –
dispatch — J.Kenny
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November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The focus of the Dispatch this year has been on writing the first draft of your book and starting the revisions. The next two editions of the Dispatch look at using classical story structure to strengthen your story through revisions.
join the wire –
join the wire –
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Cowards, all of them. I live in Illinois, and I'm writing to Dick Durbin everyday letting him know I want him to retire immediately, so Pritzker can appoint a fighter.
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Cowards, all of them. I live in Illinois, and I'm writing to Dick Durbin everyday letting him know I want him to retire immediately, so Pritzker can appoint a fighter.
sometimes the timeline delivers
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
sometimes the timeline delivers
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"He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."
Jean-Luc Godard.
ph. Louis Garrel by Bruce Weber.
Jean-Luc Godard.
ph. Louis Garrel by Bruce Weber.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."
Jean-Luc Godard.
ph. Louis Garrel by Bruce Weber.
Jean-Luc Godard.
ph. Louis Garrel by Bruce Weber.
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Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
Writers of non-fiction also face problems with exposition. Here's how Michael Lewis paced it through Moneyball.
Pacing For Non-Fiction — J.Kenny
To cover a difficult topic in a way that’s as engaging as Moneyball, there must be a question that pulls us into the book. The chapters, or sequences, must develop from each other. Plunging head first...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Writers of non-fiction also face problems with exposition. Here's how Michael Lewis paced it through Moneyball.
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apnews.com/article/cens... purge the truth so they can lie w/out federal data contradicting them. they are delusional enough to think that they can kill the truth by deleting it from the databases they control. the truth will not die easily.
Data scientists perform last rites for 'dearly departed datasets' in 2nd Trump administration
A group of U.S. data scientists has published a list of federal datasets that have been altered or removed since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
apnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
apnews.com/article/cens... purge the truth so they can lie w/out federal data contradicting them. they are delusional enough to think that they can kill the truth by deleting it from the databases they control. the truth will not die easily.
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The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
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Three ways to take your podcast and turn it into a book. Different methods that have worked for my clients.
Three ways to turn a podcast into a book — J.Kenny
Ghostwriting is an exercise in adaptation. My job is to adapt my client’s story or ideas to the written page in a way that captivates their readers. A handful of my clients started the process of writ...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Three ways to take your podcast and turn it into a book. Different methods that have worked for my clients.
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Fabulous quote from Jung.
![Out of the unconscious flows the well of life, and what you don't accept in yourself naturally falls back into that well and poisons it; when you don't recognise certain facts, they form a layer in the unconscious through which the water of life must come up, and it will be poisoned by all those things you have left down below. If they are accepted in your conscious life, then they are mixed with other more valuable and cleaner substances, and the odious qualities of the lower functions disappear more or less. They only form little shadows here and there, sort of spice for the good things. But by excluding them, you cause them to heap up and they become entirely evil substances; for a thing to become poisonous, you only need to repress it.
By Carl Gustav Jung from, 'Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939, Vol. 2'.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Fabulous quote from Jung.
know your history
This is literally Holocaust revisionism and I would like people to see the memorial in front of the Reichstag to members who were killed by the Nazis the vast majority of whom were killed for being communists- each slab is a known member
November 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
know your history