Megan

Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy.

[Megan @meganclancy]

@luckygirllucyj @JoeyMannarinoUS Thank you for saying this! It's gross when people attack the children of politicians, who certainly didn't have a choice in what their parents are doing with their lives.

[Megan @meganclancy]

Hey @switchyards , how do you handle a member behaving inconsiderately? There are so many people who take really loud phone calls in the main rooms. I know it's ok to take calls, but I shouldn't be able to hear him from 60 feet away with the music going, you know? #switchyards

[Megan @meganclancy]

@TheMovieMermaid I just rewatched this and so true! Jami Gertz, who plays her, is the wealthiest actor in the world so I feel like that somehow cosmically makes up for the unfairness.

[Scirex @scirex]

@fasc1nate The shapes of story plots, which encompass most stories, were outlined by Kurt Vonnegut as part of his masters thesis.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing:
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1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.⁣
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2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.⁣
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3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.⁣
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4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.⁣
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5. Start as close to the end as possible.⁣
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6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.⁣
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7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.⁣
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8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.⁣

[Megan @meganclancy]

Tonight it is finally cold enough for the duck sandwich bed! (feather bed + me + down comforter)

[Megan @meganclancy]

I got a new guitar for my birthday a few months ago, and I am completely in love with it. I've never named a guitar before, but today a name popped into my head and it's perfect. Meet Bluebell. #taylorguitars #guitars #acousticguitar

[Megan @meganclancy]

@4evafatgrlhrs @JanelleMonae I’m at the show too…she’s a total pro and a queen.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

[Megan @meganclancy]

@woahitsjuanito I hate it so, so much

[Megan @meganclancy]

New song for my omnichord!

[Jemaine Clement @AJemaineClement]

I actually don't play bass on that one. The bassline is provided by a Suzuki Omnichord on the ROCK setting. Which is why it rocks so much.

[Anna Mazzola - is not here @Anna_Mazz]

It's 45 years since the best ever account of an attempted crime.

From the Edinburgh Evening News, 18 August 1978.

[Wodehouse Tweets @inimitablepgw]

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

[Megan @meganclancy]

@ourflgmeansjeff @MonkysNPlaybils I took the dogs out last night and the yard was full of them. It was lovely! I don't stop to appreciate them often enough.

[Megan @meganclancy]

So much rain. The basement is flooding, my head is splitting, but at least the garden will be happy.

[Megan @meganclancy]

@APrettyThief I have a theory that people age into the love of Persuasion! Second chances become more appealing once you've lived long enough to rack up some regrets.

[Megan @meganclancy]

I loved this book!

[H.G. Parry (updates only) @hg_parry]

THE MAGICIAN'S DAUGHTER is out in the world today!

I want to talk about it here, but this might get long, so feel free to just admire the beautiful cover instead.

[Megan @meganclancy]

@torbooks The Magician's Daughter (HG Parry), The Curse of Chalion (Lois McMaster Bujold), Devil House (John Darnielle)

[Zach Zimmerman @zzdoublezz]

my therapist changed my life when he taught me there are 4 types of conversation:

1) small talk (weather, etc)
2) swapping (you tell a story, I tell a story)
3) listening (you tell a story, I listen/validate)
4) problem-solving (you tell me a story, I help solve the problem)