Mason Cook

Australia's premier indigent artist.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@Mr_Boffin I think its course correction but can feel like targeting. A lot of agencies have some form of 'currently looking for female and underrepresented voices' or 'particularly keen to hear from Black, Asian, and LGBTQIA+ writers across all genres' Not saying that is bad. Just a fact.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

All this writing discourse has shown me, is how many awful people there are out there. Ugh.

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@BryanBaugh You should give yourself Monday off and enjoy it.

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@JPStewartWriter Or maybe it's because instead of a book they are being handed a tablet or phone. Is that a possibility?

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@ParanormalJunk2 Why do you think adults always take things too far instead of focusing on the original issue? Why are young boys turning away from reading and how can we fix that?

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@megha_lilly People have gone way of topic about this. It was intended to be discourse about young boys and how to reengage them in reading, but somehow became about what men do or don't read.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@_Bethdesigns Shane held his breath as the cupboard creaked beneath him.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@AbigailFalanga Do you think because everything is too fast paced now? Pushing you through the story instead of allowing you to experience the world?

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@Rippalorian The lack or expansive and descriptive prose. And that everything needs to be fast paced, constantly pushing the plot forward. Let me live in your world.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

Maybe we can just talk about how we encourage boys to read instead of turning everything into a fight.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@AFistfulof45s The curriculum books never piqued my interest. What did was the library days and scholastic fairs.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@joslyoung Is it disengagement? What do you think causes the imbalance?

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@TeaAtMilliways Everyone is coming at this whole thing the wrong way. It isn't an argument of what boys and girls read, but if boys have moved away from reading, how to get them interested in reading again.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@nguyenhdi Do you think that girls are more likely to pick reading up by themselves?

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@Wolverinegoon He's a Darwin stubby tall.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@runfrommepls One of the greatest series of all time, until Sanderson :P But it you don't like worldbuilding and Descriptive and atmospheric prose it's probably not for you. Modern literature favours tighter prose, shorter scenes, faster pacing and less descriptive exposition. Simpler.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@ReedsyHQ "She decided to boldly, recklessly, tell him the truth." I would use the commas as rhythmic pauses and emphasis, not as grammatical separators.

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@DonalTDeLay Oh that's interesting, I saw Duncan Rouleau.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@cephaloct It's giving me Duncan Rouleau vibes. I'm here for it. HE was always stylized though. Do people really not think that? Most comic art is to some degree, unless you're Bryan Hitch.

[Mason Cook @MasonSCook]

@strangefl0wer No dude. Own it, strut your shit!