Derek Wagner

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." Words in @factorfourmag and @diabolicalplots. Odyssey Writing Workshop '23. Codex Member.

[Derek Wagner @DMWagner6]

My latest story, Dourglamis, dropped this morning at Diabolical Plots! It’s an allegorical flash piece about late stage capitalism—and sentient castles! Please give it a read if you have the time!

https://t.co/iON5PADRId

[Derek Wagner @DMWagner6]

@FeserEdward Wonder where it’s stealing it from

[Derek Wagner @DMWagner6]

@MaxEllison2048 @nick_kapur If…

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

📌

[oscar @_onthewayjay]

“You cannot quote me a single line from Aquaman” is one of the funniest things anyone has ever said

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief.

When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion."

— Bertrand Russell

[Derek Wagner @DMWagner6]

@BorisDralyuk This is who I see when I read this

[ཐི𖥔ཋྀ @GenyaTheHag]

mozart’s opera ‘don giovanni’ poster illustrated by yoshitaka amano

[Hodari Shadowalker ❄️🐆 @HodariNundu]

Imagine diving into the Cretaceous seas worrying about mosasaurs, only to find out mosasaurs live in fear of a 19 m long Cretaceous kraken, a giant cirrate octopus the size of a sperm whale! Nanaimoteuthis may have been just that! :B What a time to be alive!

[Derek Wagner @DMWagner6]

@Saam_Orlong Apparently I have more self-respect than I thought!

[𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐤 (𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧) @Aurumek_]

I used my brain and my hands ✨️

[maisa☀️ @FKAswan]

why do you guys act like classics are a genre😭 they have nothing in common besides being compelling works of literature

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

(Reading a novel with a third person narrator) who said that? (looking around the room) where ARE you?

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

For years, LLM evangelists have claimed they are incapable of plagiarizing. But what else would you call this?

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

It’s okay for hard things to be hard. On the subject of AI and writing, I like the way George Saunders puts it:

[Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes_]

The cat tries to use telepathy to cheat on the test, but the duck didnt study either.

[umar 🌾🍂🦬 @uskglasses]

the most influential piece of writing wisdom for me is ursula k. le guin, who wrote a dozen books about guys sailing, saying:

“Yeah idk, i've never been in a boat. I was just sort of guessing”

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Read the draft carefully. Now re-read it even more carefully. Read it again. Now submit. Now reveal a typo in the first sentence.