J. M. Williams ✏️ is querying his debut novel

Well worth a listen. Such a well-realized world, it almost comes across more as reporting on fact than sharing fiction.
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Acceptance #9! So excited to share this story with you. I've submitted it 12 places over the last year and five months. Friendly reminder to never stop. More soon! #WritingJourney

Using the Focus Friend app I can focus on writing instead of going down a rabbit hole of Hank Green videos on my phone

Holy crap. #FocusFriend really works. Not just for work, but for writing. I mean Labor Day Weekend also works for that. But the app has REALLY helped me make writing progress. I think it's the increments, in addition to all the other brain hacking going on. I swear up and down by my incrementalism.

The curse which, when lifted, takes along with it the gift that it gave us. In other words, our power. You musn't lose your willingness to decide.

Even at (ESPECIALLY at) innocuous levels, AI erodes our most fundamental hallmark of human autonomy, erasing the moment-to-moment inconvenience that stretches the muscles of our freedom: the ability to decide. Our most mundane and essential mental burden.

Tom Sturridge deserves all the praise he can get. This show carved out a massive challenge for itself, trying to stand in the wake of disgusting controversy. That doesn't change the fact that Tom Sturridge is doing things as Dream that no one else on TV right now can equal.

YouTube video by TED Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED

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2k words done today. Can't remember the last time that happened, let alone with my novel, let alone before 10:30 am. Hopefully a good omen now that we're finished moving into the new place. #WritingProgress

Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara.

Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 53% funded. When we reach $30K, we will give EVERY BACKER the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Highlights eBooks! KEEP IT ROLLING, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/FTfV1GZ

CGI isn't getting worse. Resolution is getting better.

My new flash fiction, "Owning a Cat Is Like Having a Ghost," is now out in Issue 12 of the beautiful @livinapress.bsky.social ! You can find it on Amazon in multiple formats. Huge thank you to Laci F. Hector!

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FLASH FICTION: A Look Inside Welcome back. Come and heal.

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Acceptance #8! This journey has required patience, but this is my second flash fiction acceptance in just over a month. More details to come. For now, I'm just grateful to have more chances to share these personal stories. This one's about cats 😸 #WritingJourney

That's how you write a sketch that plays to the host's strengths #snl #waltongoggins

Story #7 is here! Grateful to the beautiful Macrame Literary Journal for accepting this little story in their Spring 2025 issue. It's a privilege to be included! Thanks for reading. Enjoy. #WritingJourney
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These Bones In a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons…

If you liked @sinnersmovie.bsky.social, then you will LOVE this book. These Bones www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

a close up of a man with a beard and long hair making a surprised face . ALT: a close up of a man with a beard and long hair making a surprised face .

When you open your browser to find that, after two years of religiously checking their website once a week, @tacobellquarterly.org has finally reopened to submissions . . .

Acceptance #7! And it was a piece I had previously retired and pulled out for one last go around. Just goes to show you that an acceptance might be right around the corner when you're about to throw in the towel. Stay tuned for some new flash fiction headed your way this season 😊 #WritingJourney

Charlie sells pianos. Annette is in the market.
My new short story, Same New Song, is now available in the Spring 2025 Print Edition of @alliumjournal.bsky.social. Pick up your copy of this esteemed journal today: allium.colum.edu/purchase

I Drink the Core to Taste the Thunder by Akis Linardos Always loved middles, ever since Mama brought me that chocolate egg enwrapping a capsule, enwrapping a toy soldier whose plastic tasted like thunder, thunder that shook my teeth, jolted lightning thro...

Now Live: "I Drink the Core to Taste the Thunder" by Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social

A gripping, beautifully written piece of short fiction. Don't miss this one!

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Saying Goodbye to Trial by Content. Plus, Our 10 Favorite Episodes. Trial by Content · Episode

Heart-broken. I've never been more sad listening to a podcast episode. Can't wait to hear these three team up again. We'll miss you #TrialByContent
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I still don't know exactly how I feel about #TheBrutalist, but I do know that I want that library.

Maine Character Energy #GovernorMills

I submitted to the @unchartedmag.bsky.social Cinematic Short Story Contest! Publication + $2500! Judged by Rachel Harrison. Details here: www.unchartedmag.com

#WritingCommunity - what do you do when you run out of places to submit a story? Post it on your website? Put it in the junk drawer and hope an unexpected opportunity arises? Put it to rest and move on with your life?

Write one! 👏🏻👏🏻 We would read it! 👏🏻👏🏻

My Tik Tok hot take: once you spit out the water, that should be the end of the video #brainrot

One thing I learned from cartoons is that men don't have eyelashes.

There are people in your life for whom your acceptance could mean their greatest liberation. Where is somewhere in your life you can give that gift?