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The siren call of the em-dash.

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The distracted boyfriend meme (boyfriend checking out another woman while shocked girlfriend looks on) -- the other woman says "em-dash," the boyfriend says "me", and the girlfriend is other forms of punctuation to continue compound sentences
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There's this amazing thing about reading & writing--when you come across a passage that you love or hate or find strange--you can dig right down into the words to figure out how that effect was achieved.

Here's me doing a close read of a few lovely sentences because I wanted to study how they created such a dreamlike tone:

https://bit.ly/3tfVNQC

How do YOU mine what you read for writing techniques?

#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #CloseReading #Writing #WritingCraft
#writing #writingcommunity #WritingConversations #CloseReading #WritingCraft

Musing

I love #writer conversations on social media, and community experiences such as NaNo, but I often feel like I can't participate because my genre is so different... Writing folklore collections is not the same process, and not the same problems. I would love to have more writers around me who work with folktales, myths, traditional material. Like @juergen_hubert 😊

This doesn't mean I don't love reading "behind the scenes" wip stuff from other genre writers though 😊

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#writingcommunity #writer @Jürgen Hubert

Little-known fact: corvids are better writing assistants than monkeys.

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two black crows pecking at a typewriter -- one at the keys and one at the paper -- an old black and white photo from LIFE
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Typography: It's Important!

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Christmas lights in red boxes with the label: 10 Fuckering Lights. It's supposed to say flickering but they chose a terrible typeface.
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"Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.” ― Carl Sagan

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starfield with a silhouette of a tree with this quote superimposed: “A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.” –Carl Sagan
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I could have really used this book, back in 2016 when we crossed into our current timeline.

Anyone else?

#humor #humour #penguinbooks #writingcommunity #SFF #sciencefiction #multiverse #alternatetimeline #bookstodon
FAKE old fashioned penguin book cover (orange, with penguin logo at the bottom) Penguine Books: How to survive in a strange world after sliding into an alternate timeline
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As if children's books aren't already losing visibility due to censorship now this...

This year Goodreads has removed all children's books categories from their Goodreads Choice Awards, meaning no more #MG or #PB categories. Worse, Graphic Novel & Poetry, have also been eliminated.

Here you can vote to ask them to bring those categories back:

https://help.goodreads.com/s/suggestions/a0G8V00001thIKIUA2/choice-awards-middle-grade-picture-book-novelinverse-each-a-category

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A screenshot of the petition to Goodreads to bring back all the #kidlit categories to their Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Wishing all who are participating in #NaNoWriMo an awesome month of writing! I hope you have a lot of fun. 😊

My next project is in the research phase, so I'm not participating, but I'd love to hear about your projects if anyone wants to share!

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What the hell was that dispenser serving?

Proofreading: It Matters!

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drink dispenser with a sign on it that says: sorry (a little unhappy face holding up that word) Sorry for incontinence
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Sept 9 #WritersCoffeeClub—Have you ever abandoned a writing project that wasn't working? What was wrong?

You don't even know. I have *two* blog posts that touch on this subject: "The Lament of Inspiration" (https://michaelthomet.com/2023/07/06/the-lament-of-inspiration/) and "Picking Up Old Projects" (https://michaelthomet.com/2023/08/24/picking-up-old-projects/)

I've got boxes of abandoned projects. I struggle with completing things. I always find some way to divert myself and then projects evaporate. It's frustrating.

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The Lament of Inspiration

I have a love/hate relationship with inspiration. For most writers, designers, artists, inspiration is that thing you chase down in the dark of night hoping to glimpse it just long enough to come u…
Michael Thomét
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Max is a terrible proof-reader, but he knows where all the reference books are kept. (He finds style guides particularly tasty.)

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Max the grey siberian, looking cute for the camera, lying on top of a shelf holding style guides and dictionaries
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Typography: It Matters!

#typography #type #font #fonts #humor #humour #funny #writingcommunity #books #writing
Two notes in red pen, both saying the same thing: I will always find you. The first note has a cute font that includes hearts of the i. The other has a font that looks like something a killer clown would use.
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Savagely accurate.

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Little sign on a table next to a ceramic mushroom that says: "Being a writer is cool because it's like always having homework and then you die."
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Just got this ad on FB.
To quote someone who did write:

WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS

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Screen shot from a video ad. A blonde white woman in a beige sweater is facing the camera, talking. The caption on the ad says "How I sell 1,000's of books each month without writing them. So go ahead, click that link."
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Nothing to see here, just a perfectly ordinary writer at work.

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b&w photo of a serviceman of some kind sitting at a typewriter while wearing a breathing apparatus and a weird glass helmet with vacuum tubes and wire around the outside of it
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Another article on the plague of AI-generated "pseudo-books" flooding Amazon (travel books apparently are especially affected) #WritingCommunity #GenerativeAI #Publishing https://www.axios.com/2023/08/16/ai-book-publishing-fake-amazon
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