Sam Edwards

Writer. Fool. Doomed Optimist.

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

I've been feeling unmotivated with my writing recently. Lack of engagement with published pieces, hit a brick wall with the novel...

Received this today from a volunteer reader from a Lit Mag.

Made my day. Damn near got choked up. I needed this. Thank you.

#WritingCommunity

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

What's that song that plays at the end of ARRIVAL? I need a good cry

[Holly-Beth @cronenbabe]

the pope needs to have a stern talk with martin scorsese, he needs the fear of god put back into him

[NeoGameSpark @NeoGameSpark]

The entirety of CASINO ROYALE is a masterpiece but Christ almighty the opening parkour segment is one of the greatest scenes ever put to screen.

[maddie @madsssagascar]

if someone ran a marathon and someone else drove 26 miles i wouldnt congratulate the driver just because he ended up at the destination

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

Pretty damn close.

What an underwhelming finale to an underwhelming season of television.

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

About to watch the series finale of THE BOYS.

Heard it... isn't great. Surely it can't be as much of a letdown as Game of Thrones, or Stranger Things, can it?

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

About to watch the series finale of THE BOYS.

Heard it... isn't great. Surely it can't be as much of a letdown as Game of Thrones, or Stranger Things, can it?

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

Yuck. Just seen the updates and statements.

Honestly, going vroom vroom in Forza Horizon 6 is a much better use of my time.

Japan babbbbyyyy vroom vroom

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

The GRANTA / Commonwealth Prize fiasco is depressing and infuriating in equal measure. The future is bleak for creatives.

Going to play Forza Horizon 6 all day to get my mind off things. Vroom vroom, baby

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

The GRANTA / Commonwealth Prize fiasco is depressing and infuriating in equal measure. The future is bleak for creatives.

Going to play Forza Horizon 6 all day to get my mind off things. Vroom vroom, baby

[Addison Zeller @amhcrane87]

Part of me feels that it's justice: a long-deserved reckoning for the overpowering dullness of fancy lit mags.

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

@shallowbrigade Overwritten, flowery language that says NOTHING.

How about some plot? No thanks, just elitist, over the top prose that doesn't go anywhere, thanks.

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

@travis_shosa It's almost like prestigious, overly 'literary' and theme-heavy prose and lit mags are often dull and difficult just for the sake of it.

Bit of an eye opener for elitist literature

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

Well, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize).

"Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing.

A major milestone for AI, at any rate...

@GrantaMag

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

Seeing this trailer REALLY makes me want to watch Goldeneye tonight

[Stephen Ford @StephenSeanFord]

it is still wild to me that Goldeneye, Toy Story, Jumanji and Heat were in theaters at the same time in the december of 1995

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

Thoughts on recent TV:

Paradise - Great stuff
The Pitt - Amazing stuff
The Boys - Fine. Starting to drag a bit.
Modern Family rewatch - easy to see why this was a sitcom juggernaut. Consistently hilarious.
From (first two seasons) - wow. Under the radar. Loving this.

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

I fed my baby at 3.30am and after putting him back to bed, nipped into the kitchen in my boxers for a reward and grabbed some leftover easter egg choc, scoffing it by the light of the fridge.

Anyway, retweeting this for no reason in particular

[Jez @JezCorden]

What my fridge sees at 4am when I've come to snag a cheese slice

[it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips]

if you don't feel like writing, maybe you should force yourself to do it anyway and end up with ten unusable pages of garbage

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

@LeeAnnCooperrr I got through an MA in Creative Writing the same way. The lecturers called my writing 'avant-garde' and 'daring'.

In reality, commas scared me and full stops intimidated me. A semicolon, however; chef's kiss.

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

Shit. I do this so much in a first draft.

[Geoffrey D. Morrison 🇵🇸 @GeoffreyDMorri1]

Everybody's first instinct is to overdescribe the banal repositioning of bodies in physical space because they are seeing a little movie in their head, but that's not a book – it's a little movie

[Sam Edwards @Sam_Edwards1990]

Yeah, this is one of my favourite reads of the year.

Definitely checking out more Szalay after this