#Fiction

One thing I've decided to do, instead of just highlighting people's hypocrisy, is use their words against them. "Problematic," for example. It's genuinely problematic to me - and takes a
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Read the Good Shepherd by the great C.S. Forester again. The story of a captain of an US destroyer which has to protect an Atlantic convoy against a Wolfpack. The
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THREAD: Predictive Programming and Symbolism. (1) Basically since the beginning of human history, and the birth of entertainment, [they] have shoved their symbolism, true intentions, and truth down our throats.
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CW: loss of bodily autonomy, pregnancy, stillbirthfucking PARDON??? if this person struggles with substance abuse, there's a very clean albeit tragic through-line here- you can't just stop, it doesn't work
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Nobody cares about that thinkpiece you just wrote.That's the premise of ‘Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit' by @SPressfield, a book that teaches you how to write things that people
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The ratings game is pretty easy to 'game'. I have done it in the past, as the editorial head of NDTV India. Between Nov '08 to June '09, I used
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Is it possible to read a book in the author’s voice? Yes, when you are reading An Era of Darkness by @ShashiTharoor Book 1 of 2020 Book 2 of
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This ridiculously misleading. The source for this is text from the National Portrait Gallery (see link), and is being used by shon to imply that Mary Wollstencroft accepted Chevalier d’Éon
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Tho I didn't get any agent/editor love on last Thurs's #PBPitch, it was an insightful and valuable classroom for pitching/story ideas. I've spent several hours studying pitches, noting hot topics
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Week 2, I'm interested in the Z-Day episode that begins in the morning with Grace's elation about a free Zambia and ends after midnight with Grace & Agnes walking &
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Last night, after nearly 6 anxious months of being told "the company will have a response for you shortly," my employer, @latimes, finally handed me a decision on the pay
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I'm sorry, but this whole entire premise is ridiculously homophobic. Normally I wouldn't repost this sort of thing, but I'm censoring out the Twitter user (don't bother them) and focusing
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Short thread ...In 2004, Fox News' then supreme star Bill O'Reilly published a book that urged Americans to identify "who really cares about you as a person - and who
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Starting a press as writers homegrown from this #WritingCommunity has given us special empathy for transparency.Today we've felt a lot of emotion and indecision with a lot of our "maybe"
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a thread of ccs' boundaries, because some of us need to be reminded of them: technoblade:• don't use his "face reveal" from the steering wheel stream• don't use his real
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I’ve been hearing a low murmuring about Ted Lasso, on Apple TV+.The dam broke yesterday and I gave it a watch. I couldn’t put it down.This is the most interesting,
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