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Oliver Blakemore
@oliverstoryteller.bsky.social
Storyteller. Fantasy writer. Pitching my novel.

https://linktr.ee/olivershiny
Follow along while I discover this process.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
As to how I work, I get to redefine that. I don't want to take three years to write a novel anymore. Fortunately, I think I have worked out a box of tools that will help me refine my process. That's next.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I know a few things I like. For example…

vikings
rock and roll
found family
astronomy and general space stuff
the elements of "worthiness", "virtue", "honor", and other embarrassing ephemera

Not necessarily all at once. But maybe.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm not starting from nowhere with those questions. Lucky. I get to rethink them, though. It's an opportunity.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I can say I think it's a cool story. That means I am nearly at a place where I get to work on the next story. That means I get to ask myself a few questions. Like what do I like? And how do I work?
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August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Just not quite to a place where I can explain it in a few words. That's a test of its glory. Can the coolest part of it fit into a sentence or two? It will. I just haven't distilled that yet. I will.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I can't quite explain the story. But that's not because I don't understand it. Not anymore. That's key. I do understand it. New and good to say so. I understand it and I like it.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It means I am nearly not embarrassed to say I wrote a cool fucking book. Nearly. Not quite all the way. But nearly.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It's more an emotional decision than an intellectual one, for me.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Adulthood does happen to the worst of us.
August 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Pink.
July 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
AI doesn't replace thinking, folks. It doesn't replace work or effort.

It just changes what you need to pay attention to.

So pay attention.
July 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Its accomplice: careless review.

That means human error.
July 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
My worry was more being seen as not an alpha male by the dudes I mistakenly thought had maleness figured out.

These days, not so much.
July 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM