Steve Hostetler

No worries. And yes. I am. It happens all the time.

I'm NOT Steve Hoffstetter. I'm Steve Hostetler.

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That which makes you a real writer is the act of writing.

It unfortunately happens frequently. You are not the first, and you will not be the last. No worries.

Wrong Steve. My last name is Hostetler. Not Hofstetler.

I did something!

Agents and Editors,
Should I mention my BA in Psychology or my MFA in Creative Writing in a query letter if the letter is strong without it? (I'm querying a YA/thiller that does involve mental illness.)

Yes! 100%. I grew up in the 80's and 90's and there were a lot of knockoffs, but no one watched them.

Fellow mystery/thriller authors and horror folks, at this point, I think we can safely say that stabby is an adjective we all use. I think it should be in the dictionary. What say you?

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I don't know how it's possible for someone to be this old and this stupid at the same time. This person should not be allowed to vote. Ever. Not sorry.

YouTube video by SpartanVc Stevie Wonder-Pastime Paradise

Anyone else who grew up in the late 80's and 90's not know Gangster's Paradise sampled this:
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Get outta here! My mind is blown right now!

Let me get this straight... We basically lived through Contagion and every other apocalyptic pandemic movie ever made in 2020. Now, AI is running a muck and we're bringing back prehistoric wolves? Are we trying to live through Terminator and Jurassic Park next?

Yep.

Why do people who don't write think that writers view their undeveloped premise ideas as a valuable commodity? Having a story idea is NOT the hard part of writing. There aren't enough days left of my life to tell all the stories in my head. I don't need your ideas. None of us do.

Apparently, all it took to get rid of Musk was for Republicans to lose a State Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Who knew? 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

I completed a graduate teaching certificate in online instruction and curriculum development today!
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The algorithm must think I enjoy the fact that our names are so similar that people either confuse me for you or think I'm using a fake name, because I keep running into your posts accidentally. At any rate, this one was worth a like. 🤣

I thought you were joking. That's a serious proclamation?

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If that is the job of a guardian angel, then mine is a lazy bum who's not good at his job, and he should have been tossed out on his ass years ago for napping at work.

So, I was singing along with Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston, and when I got to the "Suicidal... Suicidal ... 🎶" part, Alexa thought I summoned her, and she gave me the number to the suicide prevention hotline. Hahahahahahahaha! 🤣 🤣 🤣

Aluminium was actually a misspelling by a reporter at The Quarterly Review in the September - December 1812 issue. To be fair, many Americans do butcher the language horribly and should be hanged for the crime, but Brits are likewise guilty.

The next time you hear a British person say we Americans speak English incorrectly, kindly inform them that they objectively pronounce many words incorrectly. Aluminum is not pronounced or spelled Aluminium. So sayeth the British chemist Humphry Davy who named it.

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of internal sensitive data | TechCrunch Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords, while publishing a storage bucket

Next time someone tells you that Elon feeding social security numbers into an open source AI database isn't a problem because "smart people" know what they are doing, show them this article from 2023. People who work in IT see this ALL THE TIME.
techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/m...

"I hate writing, but I love having written."
-- Dorothy Parker

I'm with you, Dorothy.

Musk is now claiming that a bunch of gold is missing from Ft. Knox. I'll take Pretext to Justify a Federal Crypto Currency for 1000, Alex.

More than one person has told me there is too much exposition in my stories, but I can't help but wonder how many times Chuck Palahniuk has heard the same criticism.

#WritingCommunity Does anyone listen to the podcast Book Fight? It seems like they just stopped posting new episodes. I like Book Fight. Anyone know what the deal is or if it's ever coming back?

Here it is... the secret formula for successfully marketing a self-published book:

Step 1) Collect underpants
Step 2) ???
Step 3) Profit!

I'm still there because I was on Twitter before that nepo-baby man-child ever even had an account. My original account was made pretty early on in Twitter's existence, and I'm not leaving! It's an act of defiance as much as anything at this point.