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So...I REALLY enjoyed participating in the "Friends Who Write" with @ehcarpenter and @papa. What I wrote:

https://app.t2.world/article/cm3j6lzvv66733920mcizwehcro
https://app.t2.world/article/cm3jb646a2442441zmcc8156xd1

For me, it helped to set deadlines for creation. I would love a regular writer's group.

There is a web-based version of YearCompass. Pretty cool! Going to do this next week.

There is a web-based version of YearCompass. Pretty cool! Going to do this next week. 

https://yearcompass.vercel.app/

Would love some feedback. Goal is to expand these ideas to a book and some simulations over the next year.

Would love some feedback. Goal is to expand these ideas to a book and some simulations over the next year.
https://paragraph.xyz/@mirrorandloom/the-observer-paradox

just backed my babe and you should too

https://www.hypersub.xyz/s/subs-up-nbcn73y0nlds/2?referrer=0x414188cf6b8a562a7635e87508bc461b1ff3a6ea

spent 20 minutes trying to find an old blog post i wrote today before i started writing a new one on (potentially) the same topic

until i realized, if i can't find my own content, chances are no one else here can either, so here we go, dupes or nothing

if you enjoy Richard Powers' writing, this interview might interest you
🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳

if you enjoy Richard Powers' writing, this interview might interest you
🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 

https://youtu.be/QUDlpMN-f5w?feature=shared

“Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.

Lawyers for the former chief executive officer argued “everyone rushed to judgment” after FTX’s collapse and that fair-trial principles were swept away in a “sentence first-verdict afterwards tsunami,” according to a brief Friday in the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals in New York.”

This guy is the definition of entitlement. If there is a new trial prosecutors should seek capital punishment or at least corporal. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-13/sbf-seeks-new-trial-blaming-federal-judge-for-ridiculing-him

The very villain this season sorely needed! 

This is great screenwriting.

Writers

Loved this. Lately, I’ve been wavering in my use of em dashes—something that long marked my style—in favour of parentheses. I did so because I wasn’t seeing many other writers in the space using them and I wondered if maybe I was being to “creative writing major” in my stylization. Perhaps I’ll pivot back

In middle school, I read “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” (and greatly enjoyed it); shortly afterward, I started writing semicolons at every opportunity I had.

This practice of mine has waned since—perhaps we are due for an old-fashioned, 19th century–style punctuation renaissance!

Not written poetry for months. I had a purple patch after first joining here when i was releasing a poem almost every other day, but I've not felt inspired for a while in that medium.

I'm still all set to start writing again in September. Still not planning on teaching, despite the parental sales talk.

As I was writing & rewriting today, Tufte's ink ratio concept suddenly came to mind. 

This analogy — it isn't really an analogy; it's all still ink — is more clear to me than some other suggestions for improving one's writing.

As I was writing & rewriting today, Tufte's ink ratio concept suddenly came to mind. 

This analogy — it isn't really an analogy; it's all still ink — is more clear to me than some other suggestions for improving one's writing. 
https://www.codeconquest.com/blog/data-ink-ratio-explained-with-example/

Set a 20m timer to try and forcibly minimize the the scope of some writing. I always take on too much or follow side quests.

Timer just rang for the 3rd time. Still unhappy with it. Way too much scope.

Every damn time man.

Writing tips from George Orwell from 1946:

- invent unique metaphors. overused metaphors don't trigger the reader's imagination.
- use simple words, avoid jargon.
- use active voice: "subject did thing" not "thing was done by subject"

Words Only

Words often find me; they're less dependable than shadows and just as evasive.