Rory

🖊 Writer. Sci-fi, fantasy, philosophy, and more. Aerospace engineer by day 🚀

[Rory @Rorywrite]

Read my short story, The Transcendent!

It follows a young scientist who is part of a project to build the first man-made wormhole. The project leads to the uncovering of deep, unexpected truths about human nature and our place in the universe.

https://t.co/v6WdwgdwLm

[Rory @Rorywrite]

The answer is 42

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

science is solved
it’s over

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@MitchellDHadley Indeed.

Also, there are plenty of good books by authors writing in the POV of the opposite sex, as I'm guessing you know.
I usually don't see those people here though, I try to avoid identity politics haha

[Rory @Rorywrite]

Write what you know doesn't mean you should only write about your personal experiences or areas of expertise.

It means write the emotions you know. Let your own struggles and experiences inform the story no matter what the genre is.

We all have unique experiences that relate to universal human emotions an audience can relate to.

Find a way to connect the powerful emotions you know best to your writing

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@imagine @WonderStudiosX @glumlot_ I'll watch the rest later but the first few lines were cheesy/melodramatic

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@ThomasPSulliva2 @deanpb_author Great point

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@ThomasPSulliva2 @deanpb_author Nice. It's tough to beat the Sensei of cinema, Kurasawa, but I'll try to keep an open mind

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@ThomasPSulliva2 @deanpb_author I'll have to watch the original Magnificent Seven then

[Rory @Rorywrite]

"Nobody ever needs to know anything that happens in your first draft. It is you telling the story to yourself.

The process of doing your second draft is a process of making it look like you knew what you were doing all along.”

- Neil Gaiman

[Anthony Lance | Editor✍️ @Anthonybookedit]

Your second draft is where the book actually shows up. The first is just you finding it.

[Rory @Rorywrite]

Analysis helps, but I think being good at conversation is a skill you develop through experience.

At least I learned through experience, by building things like confidence, instinct, and intuition. Takes time but maybe not as much as analyzing everything and working up from there

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@ChristianWFreed Yeah, I still go to the movies but my excitement has definitely gone down too

[Rory @Rorywrite]

There have been successes. Weapons was a big success for Warner Brothers last year for example, and it was actually a good movie. The filmmaker had only made one movie for A24 before that.

Studios used to take more chances on lower budget movies and some of them turned out to be highly profitable. Franchises like Star Wars and Terminator started pretty low budget. I'm sure the quality of ideas has gone down but maybe big studios not investing in them is one reason why.

And I'm sure you're right that there have been a lot of failures, I just try to avoid them

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@_bryanisreal That account does have some beautiful writing. It's just tough to post something profound every day

[Rory @Rorywrite]

Seems like short stories were a lot more popular back then. It's a shame, but seems true

One explanation is TV. I watched a documentary on Kurt Vonnegut that said he had to pivot from short stories to novels once TV became the dominant mode of short form entertainment.

I don't know exactly why people tend to only read novels but it's where the market is.

[Rory @Rorywrite]

Everything is connected. Based on leading physics, it's likely that the universe is composed of quantum fields. The fields permeate the entire universe and manifest themselves as particles and forces that make up everything we experience.

We don't just share the world, or the universe, we are one with them.

[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

We have such a beautiful world. It is by nature a shared world. We should all be working together to protect it and each other.

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@ryanpatrickauth Yeah, rocket lab is great. Their backstory is really interesting too. Idk if you've heard of or read "When the Heavens Went on Sale" by Ashlee Vance, it tells the story really well

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@BrianRoemmele If something's stuck on a dish, every dishwasher I've used fails to get it off. So at least get that shit off

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@KyleLeeWriter I'll still romanticize it. It is about sitting down and getting the work done, but it definitely feels like something magical when you get in the zone. Or at least a higher state of consciousness than what we usually experience

[Rory @Rorywrite]

@pearls4swineguy Imagine reading one line of a text as complex as the bible and telling people to never feel a basic human emotion based on it