J Max Potter

Writer. Reader. Musician. Dog dad. Lightly simmering panic attack. stories in @Juxtaprosemag @sicklitmag @city_arts @driftwoodpress @riverteeth @guernicamag

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@danielcecil I’ve been meaning to read salter! I was going to read light years but I’ll read this first.

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Need writing help! Middle of act 2, character leaves one important location for a second but i’m having trouble moving him and starting new life with new characters. How do you handle this kind of transition? Good examples?

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@tomshea I love that. It goes to the idea that good fiction is organic and tells the truth of its subject. Something I definitely struggle with is listening to my characters which is another way of saying I struggle with listening to myself.

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@pauletteperhach Moved to Montana for school at 20. Parents drove me cross country from Michigan. Arrived at the end of fire season in the hottest august on record. Moved into my new apt. No internet, mountains still smoldering, no friends as mom/dad left the valley for home

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Anybody else got their stimulus check on a debit card? How am I supposed to pay off my credit card with that?

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Being in a committed relationship in your mid-30s is basically just acting as the buffer between your partner and their families when they start traumatizing each other at dinner.

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The thing I’m looking forward to most post-pandemic is when this season of rupaul’s drag race starts touring.

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stop thinking right-wing online conspiracy theorists are working “from their mom’s basement.” The ones in their moms basements are the ones huddled there by the pandemic while the nazis are out in the community selling you tires, time shares and teaching kids

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@_robarnold I remember it being very strange and engaging

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@_robarnold Realizing now I actually read Ishiguro’s the buried giant some years ago but was told it was such a departure for him it’s like it was a different author

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Does the doctor tell you your blood pressure because they expect you to know what the numbers mean? Or just to feel superior?

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Can you speak ill of the dead when it never had a beating heart to begin with?

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Turns out marketing copywriting is just coming up with a lot of clever puns and innuendo. I’ve been training for this since 2001 when I decided my punk rock Bar Mitzvah theme would be “Mosh with Josh.”

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@danielcecil Got a match?

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When someone mutes their microphone for just a second on a zoom call, you know it’s because they’re farting right?

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Listening to my girlfriend in the other room talking to my dog when she doesn’t know I can hear her is how I know shes the one.

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Fuck Sheldon Adelson

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@kettlemt Ever seen the video? Tom Petty tries to start singing like three times and Prince just keeps going.

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My food stamp card came today so... everything is solved.