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Big time book influencer: Here's the most important book I've ever read, it changed my life Me: I wonder if it's the illiad? The book: The Fluidity of Randomness by Davey Dombey (2016)
I'll let my children know
whatever is keeping you awake past your bedtime is not worth it
I wonder if this'll lead to authors self publishing and then going on mini tours, doing readings, connecting with readers who are weary of AI slop
I sit here writing a page a day. A book takes me a year. Those pages are fed into a machine along with those of a million other writers who sweated it out and the machine can produce a book in ten seconds. You can even prompt the machine to write in my style. So who is going…
He was good in Police Academy and seems like a nice guy but yeah silly to claim he invented books
man there are a LOT of people tweeting at me who think gutenberg invented books
An underappreciated genius
Billy Joel is the 20th century Walt Whitman. You can't make sense of post war America without him. The casual slander of a beautiful poet for cheap likes is shameful
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what are some good jobs for people with a lot of good ideas but no skills or interest in implementing them???
Billy Joel is the 20th century Walt Whitman. You can't make sense of post war America without him. The casual slander of a beautiful poet for cheap likes is shameful
Billy Joel made some of the worst and most evil music in the modern era
The distinction between fiction and non fiction is often arbitrary and often ancillary as far as judging the quality of a book.
Type of dude who'd sacrifice the world for some shrimp and then eat the shrimp
Everyone is talking about bats but I always thought Ozzy bit the head off a dove
Trying to imagine Christopher Hitchens or Gore Vidal doing one of those debate circle things and I can't see it. Buckley might do it though
Sales have really picked up after a massive slump. Thanks to everyone who purchased a copy! But I won’t rest until the coffee table of every home boasts a copy of these stories in the tradition of Salinger and Cheever. Link below:
There are remarkable similarities between reports of alien abductions and reports of abduction to the fearie realm a couple hundred years ago. It's all the same place. The faerie realm just has spaceships now
If you're a mentalist and you discern during a show that someone has robbed a bank or something in the past are you obliged to turn them in? @OzTheMentalist
Lying in bed with a 102° fever and am slightly delusional. AMA
You have to have something worth saying. Something that takes 250 pages or more to properly get at. Lots of people (especially lit fic types) just want to have written "a novel" and will just regurgitate the cultural norms of their social circle.
Learning proper writing technique can only take you so far, and no matter how many books on craft you read, you'll soon find yourself approaching the upper limit of your ability. Most writers can't write an ending to their stories not because they don't understand "craft", but…
Show me a picture of strong men creating good times
"Show me a picture of strony men creating good times."