Xander Jon Dijk the Writer

Big day! Sending in my first full request for Hurry Up and Die.

Ahh! I did something talented and nobody will ever see it to celebrate with me!

It’s never too late for caltrate

Long Chile is still more famous than Bryce Eldridge. For now.

Humor is your friend.

A spider in its web above a pile of spider shit

If you leave a spider alone for long enough, you end up with a pile of spider shit.

Prefer music or silence for those activities.

Now, being on podcasts…I like that. It’s fun.

Hey! I finally found my people. Everyone I know loves podcasts, and I just don’t get them. I can read a full article in the time it takes for the hosts to greet themselves and tell a couple in-jokes. And I don’t know where they find the time.

Some kind of kaiju appearing briefly in the North Sea there. I wonder what that's about? 🤔

Gud thread

As far as I’m aware—and I’m not an authority—what you’re asking for doesn’t exist short of finding a successful Patreon account willing to collab.

Agreed. Style and brand are perhaps related and certainly interact, but they are not the same thing.

Professor X holding up a photo of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor in a heart shaped honeymoon suite bed.

Uncanny X-Men #178: Cyclops mails Xavier a post-coital honeymoon photo like it's the most normal thing in the world.

If you’d like Grammarly to have options for turning off AI, you have to complain to them. I got a response saying this has been on their product roadmap for ages, but demand isn’t high enough to prioritize it.

Demand it!

For perfectly understandable reasons, the publishing industry wants us to tell our stories as quickly as possible. But, it can never seem like you’re rushing. If a reader catches you rushing, they will hate you in small ways for it.

Google search for "all you can eat buffet near me" with an "ai overview" of the results saying that you can use Google to search "all you can eat buffet near me" to find a buffet.

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

I'm sorry, your tweet must have escaped the bizarroverse. We're gonna need to put you back.

I’m going to admit something that will make me sound 20 years older than I am…

I’m still not sure I’m board with emoticons, and I only use emojis so folks will stop bothering me without thinking me rude.

:-D

Even worse, no Oxford.

AI is for writers who don’t like to write but want to have written, and readers who don’t like to read but want to have read.

Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.

whereas

sorry I didn't reply to your message. I read and understood it in full, but seeing as it was a statement that I had no actual opinion about, I saw no cause to unlock my phone and reply.

please know I am utterly unbothered by this: prompt better if you want a reply.

If you want to replace itch, I suggest a three site solution:

1. A place to search and browse completely distinct from
2. A place to host and access via code received from
3. A place to buy codes to access work on 2.

Turn payment into mini BitTorrent.

I miss when I could “hear” by reading the rectangular banners that spawned near the source of the sound.

Did that last week. I make fantastic maps.

General advice: Leave yourself little spaces of joy or else you risk burnout and bitterness.

Today's Million Dollar Idea:

Like Dies the Fire, except instead of the Laws of Thermodynamics completely changing, soap gets less foamy.

Hard agree. Join however many critique groups you need to learn the skills yourself. Becoming a good writer can’t be rushed, you’ll only become a hack instead.

Partner: What else did you do?
Me: Conceptualization. I'm trying to cut from 115k-95k words while simultaneously making the story better.
P: So you're editing.
Me: Oh, no, no, no. I'm thinking, and I accomplished much.
P: So you wrote something.
Me: No.