Jay Merrow

Free thought and free choice are the first things to disappear under a dictatorship.

"Propoganda will only get you so far. You need a radical insurgency you can count on, to do the wrong thing."

If you haven't watched Andor, you need to. Even if you're not a Star Wars fan. It's the single greatest piece of media that has prophetically put words to everything we are living in now.

Honestly, just living. Spending a lot of time offline these days. Kinda nice

Turns out, taking a break from social media is great for writing. Three projects in the works, and a summer full of sunlight. #amdrafting

So... I moved to Italy and started over again. Apologies for an enternal absence. It's been an interesting spring.

I can't understate how immensely frustrating it is to watch my home country fall into fascism while constantly filtering through discussions on how 'we didn't see it coming.'

Crack a book. It's been on the horizon for decades.

painting of a platypus talking on an old pink flip phone

platypus gossiping

prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil...

I admittedly took a step back from all social media for the past month. Rest assured, I'll only be a menace from here out

I hate moving 🤌✨

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[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Eventually you gotta hone into that idea where you write for yourself and you never have to justify or reason to anyone why you do this. Your pursuit towards this goal can be severed from the hustle, and it frees you from needing to make every moment of life 'productive'.

Not to be too post-lyrics-that-vaguely-hint-at-current-events, but Something Bad is happening in Oz, and it's impossible to ignore.

Well, it looks like this next project is a go. Feminist Gothic horror, here we come

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Help, I'm drafted another outline of a new WIP instead of drafting on my existing WIPs 🥹

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Yeah, I do that. LibreOffice if you want something similar to MS Word, but personally I prefer Scrivener and have used it for years. One-time purchase, fantastic for everything.

but it really depends what grammar you're following. CMOS is the American publishing standard. UK grammar dictates there's only a capitalisation after a full stop, so same thing.

According to the CMOS 12.43 on faltering speech and incomplete thoughts, looks like you don't capitalise afterwards when it's in dialogue like that.

Reading through this WIP outline again and adding bits to the end, I'm feeling inspired. It's got all the heart I want with sprinkles of absurdity. Exactly what life should have, really.

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My parents put me in my first writing class when I was about 10. It set it all off, but still Ieft writing many times after that. These days, I write because I must, and that's all there is to it.

So my goal for january was to draft 25k, and with a week left I'm looking at 17k. I dunno, y'all, maybe setting goals really does work.

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when you manage to write another 1k even though you're sleep-deprived, overworked, and feeling extra existential lately. The work goes on, friends. The work goes on.

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a group of men standing next to each other with the words `` so it begins '' written on the screen . ALT: a group of men standing next to each other with the words `` so it begins '' written on the screen .

Waking up to unprecedented times again 🫠

Learning to balance all of the things again this year in unprecedented times (again), I found it's especially important to do the things you love.

Me examining a new follower:

I love when that happens! I've been reading some pretty great betas lately too

Me too. There's such a peacefulness about the morning

White mug of coffee next to paperback book titled Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Diving into book #4 of the month! 💙📚

so anyway, I've read three books this week and drafted 5k. Turns out staying off of socials for a bit is good for the writing... that's dumb.

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