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gotta give away 2319 $Degen in 4 hours

will give it to someone who writes a short story in /shortstories 

will suss out obvious ChatGPT prompts

odds are you get it if you write something good

Time to vote for our first theme!

For now, I'm going to leave this as an open vote - no token gating, anyone can vote.  Recast to spread the word and get more eyes on the channel.

Once the votes are in, I'll announce the theme, and that will be the theme for the first week - September 23rd to 28th.

Then, we'll do a new poll every week to pick the theme for the following week.

Theme options will be juxtapositions of words that you wouldn't necessarily think go together.

Like "cozy dystopian"  (Not gonna lie, one of my faves to play with... or "grim whimsy"  (death at a tea party...)

You do not have to stick to the theme to cast here!  It does have to be microfiction or questions about the channel, though.

But those casts that *do* stick to the theme will get extra rewards - like best will be selected for a "Moxie Flood" where we encourage everyone to engage with their post, replyking to reward them. 

This week's options:

Cozy dystopian
Grim whimsy
Shattered perfection

Typos can be impactful because the penis mightier than the sword.

“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.

I don’t think my handwriting is very neat. Please understand. 😂

Lovely handwriting @sika mine looks like chicken scratch compared to yours ✍️

sorry in advance... it’s been a while since i’ve handwritten anything this long, usually just jot down notes on sticky notes 🙄

Think I've fiiiiinally settled on a CDA. It was a bit wooly before, it's stronger now. It makes more sense with the story i want to tell. I can fit it to the images I have in my head that haven't left me alone for almost a year, gnawing away, the journey the character goes on to make it all make sense, to make him a better, more complete person. To give him an arc, to make him grow. To allow him to do something at the end of the film crucial to his advancement that he couldn't do at the beginning. 

Now to fill it in. Now to find the best way to demonstrate that statement of truth. 

After that, layer by layer, we bring it to life.

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!

Since its release, The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold over 50 million copies, been translated into more than 60 languages, won numerous awards, and been adapted for television.

Full wiki article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar#:~:text=Since%20its%20release%2C%20The%20Very,one%20copy%20every%20thirty%20seconds.

Passive income from books is real, and can be incredibly long term.

A simple idea can make you generational wealth.

Don't give up on your dream.