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.
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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?
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?
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
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
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
@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.
@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
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
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.
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
@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.
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