Dr_Leadfoot

I'm a writer designing worlds and narrative logic for interactive friction. Currently writing small ChoiceScript gamebooks. Also planning a web serial. Soon™.

[Dr_Leadfoot @Dr_Leadfoot]

Actually it's senryu, but we're not getting into the weeds over that today... #AmWriting #AuthorLife #BuildInPublic #Ship30 #WritingProcess #WritingStreak #micropoetry #poetryisnotdead

[Dr_Leadfoot @Dr_Leadfoot]

Self-righteousness isn't the virtue some of y'all think it is.

[7pigeons - Author @7_pigeons]

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[GrizzledDad @GrizzFM_16]

So a publisher uses AI to see if a writer used AI…got it.

Not that writers should use AI, but it seems pretty fucking hypocritical.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

This kind of asinine navel gazing only comes from people who don’t know shit about writing, or writers who are really shitty at their job.

You don’t train your audience. You write stories that you enjoy yourself, which an audience of other people will enjoy too.

My audience tends to be mostly male, but I’ve also got a lot of female fans too. At no point in the creative process do I give a shit about “rethinking the gender binary”.

I tell a story. People either like it or they don’t. Trying to pander to one demographic is likely to just make it suck.

You can never make everyone happy. Especially people who use words like gender binary unironically because they are always going to be butt hurt about something.

Just write the stories you want to tell. If that kind of story appeals more to boys, awesome. But then you are going Indy or writing for one of the few publishing houses that isn’t run by finger shaking scolds who write dumb ass tweets like this. Because the traditional publishing industry is lousy with people like this.

[Dr_Leadfoot @Dr_Leadfoot]

@Abathor_Game https://t.co/H4AxdUDYdJ

[Dr_Leadfoot @Dr_Leadfoot]

@Literatureomar A man could drive himself mad counting the eons between those ticks the second hand makes at the end of his shift on a Friday. Still, I never could avoid doing it.

[Dr_Leadfoot @Dr_Leadfoot]

@_Lin_inc It's already happened. That money was spent a long time ago.

[Dr_Leadfoot @Dr_Leadfoot]

We aren't pretending. We learned early on that it wasn't okay to NOT be okay. So we came to terms with that. We found our own equilibrium and became what we needed. The alternative was a daily slide toward insanity.

More often than not, the people around us never noticed.

[Dr_Leadfoot @Dr_Leadfoot]

Someone asked why men pretend they're okay. My initial response was a bit flippant, so I'd like to elaborate. I can't speak for all men everywhere, just as someone who grew mostly up in the 80's and 90's. Mine was a different era, so your mileage may vary. Imagine with me...🧵

[Dr_Leadfoot @Dr_Leadfoot]

And if you slipped up somewhere or got unlucky again and you AREN'T keeping up, there's something wrong with you. You aren't worth a spot on the team, or a place in society. Through it all, almost no one even bothers asking if you're okay.