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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

      4/ Anyway, this is terrible writing, and you should not be taken in by it. You should, however, read "A Reader's Manifesto", or, at the very least, read the shorter essay version online. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/ … It will insulate you from the siren call of this sort of badness.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

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      5/ yes, that's it, I'm bragging about my poor reading comprehension https://twitter.com/a_s_arthur/status/1308090195896684544 …

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted friendl yman

      6/ TRUE! ...but at least I don't write like Cormac McCarthy.https://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308089059282219009 …

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      friendl yman @prettyXricky
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      you are insufferable man
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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

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      7/ "to seem cool" because everyone knows that criticizing someone's writing style is the best way to score with chicks https://twitter.com/screenclutter/status/1308088433588473856 …

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted friendl yman

      8/ honestly, what helps me feel better about my prose is the $4,000 of gold coins on the wall, the monthly check from Amazon, royalties from the audiobooks, and checks from my Russian publisher. Mocking Cormac McCarthy is just something fun on the sidehttps://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308092672150835205 …

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      friendl yman @prettyXricky
      Replying to @MorlockP
      no but it helps to feel better about your own clinical prose
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted friendl yman

      9/ me, a peasant: I have opinions on art, and I will share them you, an intellectual: no, actually, caring about art is a cover for insecurity. No one ACTUALLY cares about art.https://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308095132449808384 …

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      friendl yman @prettyXricky
      Replying to @MorlockP
      clearly the checks arent big enough to smother whatevers eating at you.
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

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      10/ > Gallons of prose yes, I agree, "gallons" is the right unit of measurement (same as is used to measure septic tanks ; mine is a 5,000 gallon unit, btw) https://twitter.com/JohnGalt20161/status/1308096854643490816 …

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Upstate Federalist

      11/ yeshttps://twitter.com/upstatefederlst/status/1308098110204370945 …

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      Upstate Federalist @upstatefederlst
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Given the replies to your thread here, I now understand how the left gets to the point where they believe inserting large, superfluous words in spots where they have no meaning signals for super-duper intelligence.
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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted glow moss

      12/ gosh, the midwits are really unhappy that I point and LOL at what they mistakenly think is good literaturehttps://twitter.com/tolecrien/status/1308098826465550337 …

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      glow moss @tolecrien
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      shut da fuck up
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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

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      13/ No, the problem is not that McCarthy is hopelessly opaque; it's that he's trying to do a thing, and he does that thing poorly and laughably. https://twitter.com/anosognosically/status/1308099629511254018 …

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted friendl yman

      14/ I didn't mention it once until you chose to use an ad hominem and incorrectly impute motivations to me. Don't get upset that I'm refuting your arguments; instead concentrate on learning to argue better, scrote.https://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308101283094683649 …

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      friendl yman @prettyXricky
      Replying to @MorlockP
      you talk a lot about money and book sales for a guy jsut trying to share his opinions on art
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Joshua Hiles

          15/ There is nothing merely gold PLATED about the manner in which I am a son of a bitch.https://twitter.com/JoshuaHiles/status/1308100967561334789 …

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          Joshua Hiles @JoshuaHiles
          Replying to @tolecrien @MorlockP
          You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

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          16/ anyone who knows anything about KDP can just look at the sales rank of my books and turn that into dollars (that's what I do when TheBrometheus is bragging about his sales and I want to fact check him) https://twitter.com/TweetsBeach/status/1308103099685494785 …

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Joshua Hiles

          17/ my apologies! I hereby ...well, no, I don't actually retract #15 above, bc it's true ... but I disclaim any beef with @joshuahiles!https://twitter.com/JoshuaHiles/status/1308103420717535232 …

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          Joshua Hiles @JoshuaHiles
          Replying to @MorlockP
          I was talking to the guy who told you to shut up. But I understand why my sentence was confusing
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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted friendl yman

          18/ Fair enough! Let me replace it with "I have nothing to be insecure about, because people like my writing and it earns me money ... which isn't bad for a hobby I have on the SIDE, after my other hobbies like farming, which I do after my actual careerhttps://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308103876009250816 …

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          friendl yman @prettyXricky
          Replying to @MorlockP
          responding to "you are insecure" with "nuh-uh i have big checks" is not refuting my argument. it doesnt even qualify as moving the goalposts, its just irrelevant. you didnt even defend your own work, jsut its marketability
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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Señor Bob

          19/https://twitter.com/Bobthewelding1/status/1308104328603893760 …

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          Señor Bob @Bobthewelding1
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          To be fair, Brometheus made $9 last month. Probably.
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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

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          20/ ok https://twitter.com/TweetsBeach/status/1308104050542510080 …

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          21/ I make about $2k / mo from my writing via KDP (note that this doesn't count audiobook sales, where I get paid quarterly, or foreign publication sales, where it's annual)pic.twitter.com/mpaez7QkIo

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          22/ although some months I do a bit better, like in August, when I made about $100k https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tjic/escape-the-city-a-how-to-homesteading-guide/ …pic.twitter.com/7ic5NSpD56

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          23/ so, like I said, it's not bad, for a hobby I do after the farmwork and my actual day job are done.

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted friendl yman

          24/ Yeah, I'm sure yours does.https://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308104805219471360 …

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          friendl yman @prettyXricky
          Replying to @MorlockP @JoshuaHiles
          there are people out there who like eating shit but i dont go around telling people mine doesnt stink.
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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted friendl yman

          25/ I posted the sales figures because @TweetsBeach asked for them, three distinct times, IIRC. The reason I haven't defended my style is that you haven't asked me to. And, frankly, I feel no need to. >>>https://twitter.com/prettyXricky/status/1308106673656074240 …

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          friendl yman @prettyXricky
          Replying to @MorlockP
          yeah thats my point. once again you have nothing to say other than your sales figures. is that the measure of your art or abilities?
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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          26/ My defense of my style is this: I have been reading fiction for over 40 years. I've read thousands of books, some of them great, some of them terrible. I have read dozens if not a hundred books about writing, about style, literary criticism, etc. I trust myself >>>

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          27/ to know what makes fiction work, and when it fails. And then I wrote, re-wrote, and re-re-re-re-wrote until my output matched my own [ very ] high standards. As always, I trust myself far more than I trust anyone else.

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Sep 2020

          28/ Anyway, @TweetsBeach , you asked for my sales figures, and I gave them. Any further critique on that score? You want to poast your own?

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