Ryan DeMusis Leveillee

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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video games, y’all gotta slow down

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Are you really a writer if you don't typo in your social media

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So I Made a Substack I really only made it because I didn't like the squarespace blogging feature

I guess Bluesky is still just a place for me to post when I did something, since I still havent't posted since my last promotion, haha.

I wrote another substack post. It's about why I made a substack.

demusisleveillee.substack.com/p/so-i-made-...

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Thank you for reading if you do.

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It's a very personal piece, and completely spoils the game In Stars and Time by @insertdisc5.com, so please play that first if you have any interest (and you should, it's really good).

Maybe I'll do more with the substack? But if this is the only thing that lives there, I'm satisfied.

26.07.2025 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In Stars and Time and My Anxiety Disorder They're just like me FR

You can find it here: demusisleveillee.substack.com/p/in-stars-a...

I'm a fiction writer, so writing something like this isn't usually what I go for. But in a year that motivation has been low at least in part due to my anxiety, I chase whatever I can get.

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The game hit me right where all of my anxieties were just as I was starting treatment. So I felt compelled to write about that.

I pitched this... article? Personal essay? Piece of writing around a little to no luck, but I still felt compelled to write it.

So I made a substack. And I wrote it.

26.07.2025 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hello. Breaking my "I've been here for a while but I haven't posted" streak with this!

It's been a bad year. Alongside the context of the US and world being a disaster, I had a bit of a breakdown, and received a diagnosis for Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

I also played a really good video game.

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It is becoming increasingly clear that the best word processing software for writers is a Notepad .txt document with a handgun kept next to the keyboard in case it tries anything funny.

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