Alex Payne

@al3x

Writes novels, screenplays, short stories. 2020, 2021. Appropriately contrite about helping make when I wrote code. Ⓥ🌱

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Mar 2020

    More nice news arriving at a tough time: I was selected for this year's six-week summer workshop. Looking forward to studying with and alongside some incredibly talented speculative fiction writers... assuming it still happens🤞

    Announcing the Clarion West Class of 2020
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    22 Sep 2020

    Kick off spooky season with a thicc anthology of location-based scares. Have you ever wondered how an exorcism in Nigeria would go down? Are you the sort of person that seeks out Hell Trees and abandoned bunkers? More info:

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  3. 11 Aug 2020

    The story by in Black Static #75 from , "Except for the Down Below", is really superb. You could get the issue here, maybe: 🕳

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  4. 6 Aug 2020

    Favorite writing music of late is 's Noveller project. Her entire catalog is great but this track off her latest LP is a whole universe in a song:

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    26 Apr 2020

    If you like good fiction, please go follow some of my amazing classmates:

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  6. 26 Mar 2020

    Getting this news today sorta feels like getting a tax refund on the day of your grandmother's funeral, but... my script "Deepfake" won the Tracking Board Launch Pad feature screenplay competition. Alone in my home office, I toot the smallest horn.

    Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Feature Competition! Check out the winners and list here:
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  7. 19 Feb 2020

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  11. 28 Oct 2019

    “We now know pretty well that predominantly plant-based diets are much healthier and more sustainable than meat-heavy diets. But sometimes there is still confusion among people about what foods to choose.”

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  12. 22 Oct 2019

    RIP Nick Tosches. If you’ve never read his travel essay “Confessions of an Opium-Seeker” (or the book it was expanded into), indulge in one of the best pieces of non-fiction English language writing from the millennium in progress:

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  13. 10 Oct 2019

    Is it still a “birth”day if you’re increasingly certain that you’re merely one of countless extras filling out the background scenery in the fitful dreams of a timeless idiot god as it floats beneath an ocean of infinite night? Anywho, thanks for the gift card grandma

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  14. 2 Oct 2019

    “We seek to shore up the act of writing with false defenses, like the dubious idea that one could ever be absolutely ‘correct’ when representing fictional human behavior. I understand the desire, but I don’t get how anyone can possibly hope to achieve it.”

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  15. 1 Oct 2019

    “The publication of these studies is unfortunate because following the new guidelines may potentially harm individuals’ health, public health, and planetary health. It may also […] erode public trust in scientific research.” red-processed-meat/

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  16. 1 Oct 2019

    cc . I hardly ever tweet anymore but signed in just to share this with you. Bummer to see such glib cruelty on Daring Fireball. But then, it’s a similar bummer to still see advertising leather cases and watch bands as some kind of luxury.

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  17. 1 Oct 2019

    “One finding […] is that there are many reasons other than health to reduce meat consumption. Ethical concerns can be important, as can concerns about effects on the environment. If some receive a small health benefit as a side effect, everyone wins.”

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  18. 17 Sep 2019

    My script "Deepfake" made it to the semifinals at the Script Competition in the Drama Feature Screenplay and Enderby Entertainment Award categories. Feeling just a little less like I'm howling at the moon with this writing thing.

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  19. 5 Sep 2019

    Ghosh: "You know, secular. Very, very rational. And he’s in fact exactly that kind of person out of whose rationalism our disaster grows. I mean, he’s exactly that kind of person who, today, they’re incapable of changing their habits of thought, you know?"

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  20. 4 Sep 2019

    “The belief that [freedom of speech] is some absolute, untainted hallmark of civilisation is linked to self-serving exceptionalism – a delusion that there is a basic template around which there is a consensus uninformed by biases”

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