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Jul 8, 2021

Gentle reminder that book 2 in my ghost hunting novella series came out recently. It's like my love letter to Supernatural and the Dresden Files, but with two high school girls as the leads

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I want to read Slenderman scholarship. Bring me the horror ARG anthropological/sociological studies. The new era of folk and fairy tales are born in the dark corners of creepy pasta and YouTube. Just *grabby hands*

With graduation only a semester or two away I've been thinking about grad school, and today I wondered if I could do media studies focusing on internet cinema and internet horror. You could find a hundred thesis ideas there and just scratch the surface 👀

If I don't get in I'm just going to make my own film. I think I have the resources to make something good without the university's help at this point

I've been misled. I do not in fact have a producer and that means the thesis program may not happen for me next semester

I found out the deadline for applying for next semester's thesis film program at my university was much earlier than I expected so I'm scrambling. I may have found my producer though and that's the biggest step!

Gentle reminder that, when it seems like things are only getting harder, you are also getting stronger, wiser, and more capable. It may not feel like it - growth isn't simple and steady and linear - but you are more than you were, and will be more still. 🌱

Cory Doctorow mostly AFK until Nov 7

Oct 26

Can I pick a game writer's brain briefly about writing tests for job interviews? I've only done one writing test for a job previously so I don't have a good frame of reference for what is or isn't typical

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Oct 26

Every billionaire is a policy failure, but every billionaire is also a factory for producing policy failures at scale. The political power conferred by massive wealth makes democracy a sham, where "one person, one vote" is swamped by "one dollar, one vote." 1/

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I found a little indie lit mag for my university. I have some ideas for helping them out with content distribution to make the issues a little more accessible. Going to see if I can get on staff for a semester or two

Oct 25

New short story progresses. I'm at around 1000 words and hopefully I'll have time to write some more today. I want to wrap this idea up quickly so I can get back to the novel

Oct 25

Well, the upside to most of America acting like covid is over is that it's not hard or expensive at all to get my hands on proper high quality N95 masks 💀

Henry Selick wants to revisit scrapped 'Ocean at the End of the Lane' stop-motion movie

Oct 24

The danger of occasionally trying to sell these few unpublished short stories I still have is my brain going "I could write more of these" while ignoring the past 12 times I decided to not seriously write short stories before I sell some full novels first 💀

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' director Henry Selick reveals he once tried to make a stop-motion movie based on Neil Gaiman's 'The Ocean at the End of the Lane.'

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'The Nightmare Before Christmas' director Henry Selick reveals he once tried to make a stop-motion movie based on Neil Gaiman's 'The Ocean at the End of the Lane.'

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Oct 20

You know, NaNoWriMo is coming up. Need a writing group for motivation or critiques? We've got a small Discord group for fantasy, horror, and thriller writers, including whatever subgenres you like. It would be great to have you

Oct 20

I was just introduced to Ernst Lubitsch's To Be Or Not To Be today and if someone had shown me this I would've gotten into black and white films much earlier. It's hilarious "The best way to combat nazis onscreen is to ridicule them."

Oct 20

I've already got a wip but lately the back of my mind has been slowly building a villain origin story and it's like an abyss slowly drawing me in

I want to interact more with the people I follow. I know it isn't news to anyone that the feed is like 80% tweets from people you don't even follow but it's wearing on my patience again. After so much time away from Twitter I forgot about this 😣

'Tis the season in Austin, TX

Bring back cloaks. I love dark, mysterious and shadowy hoods too much to settle for these lame hoodies

I want to disappear for a few months like Gandalf and show back up having visited remote archives and learned much about an arcane topic. The research being about ancient secrets man was not meant to know is a nice-to-have but not a requirement.

I've felt nothing more than the professor including a "maybe" in the "Are you here?" Online roll call question

I love learning from PhDs and MFAs about their field but people need to remember that learning doesn't stop after the letters and being wrong certainly doesn't 💀

Your reminder that having letters after your name doesn't preclude you from getting basic things in your field totally wrong. I've found that the confidence that comes from an advanced degree can be a curse sometimes

I would consider this an excellent proof that long covid kills your sense of smell but if I'm honest my olfactory performance was never exactly top tier so

I stumbled out of my bedroom at 2pm and made a bowl of honey nut cheerios for myself and about 3 bites in I'm giving the bowl some side-eye and thinking to myself "Why is this...savory?" Anyway so that's the story of how I drank spoiled milk for the first time 💀💀💀

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Oct 18

Writing tip: if something isn't quite working about a story, you can try just making it like, a lot weirder.

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The number of wrong number texts has ranged from 1 a week to 3 different people in a day. That particular time I felt like I was losing my grip on reality as multiple people called me by different names with such certainty

I've had the same cell number for like 8 years. Suddenly in the last couple months I've been getting dozens of texts from different people, all saying different things and all trying to get in touch with different people. I can't help but feel like Moe from The Simpsons

Another couple of uninterrupted hours, another ~1500 decent words. Things are happening. I wish I could find more time for this.

Oct 16

It's officially fall because it's the first day of the year that I've broken out my favorite comfy long sleeve shirt 🥰

Oct 15

Finally got a chance to sit in a coffee shop and write again. I missed this so much 😭

BONES AND ALL | Official Trailer | MGM Studios

Oct 15

I'm so confused that this is a real Instagram ad. How is this not a joke?

THE STUDENT LOAN DEBT RELIEF APPLICATION IS OPEN TELL YOUR FRIENDS studentaid.gov/debt-relief/ap

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Bones and All looks so good. I can't wait for this to hit theaters!

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You can’t run from who you are. From acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino and starring Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, and Mark Rylance – watch the #BonesAn...

Oct 13

I applied for some game writing work over 2 months ago and an interview offer and writing test request just came in 👀

Oct 13

The lighting was very bright and flat, which I don't think served the film. The cinematography was beautiful but it was always at its best when they let things get darker

Got to see Let the Right One In for the first time in theaters. Somebody's gonna hate me but I think I liked the remake better 😬 I think this one has a lot of things the remake didn't though. The queer coding is actually there, for one thing