Funny detail in Marryat's 1836 novella "The Pirate". Current conventions for English fiction don't allow you to annotate dialogue with explanatory parentheses in the authorial voice.
Notices tagged with writing
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Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 07:09:56 UTC Martin Rundkvist -
Greg Pak (gregpak@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Jan-2023 15:01:50 UTC Greg Pak okay time to make words and sentences #writing
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WritingPrompts (writingprompts@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Aug-2018 11:00:04 UTC WritingPrompts Two detectives who are also secretly criminals independently commit two different crimes one night. The next day, both are sent to investigate the other's crime.
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Emma Maree (emaree@tootplanet.space)'s status on Monday, 12-Mar-2018 10:04:24 UTC Emma Maree Hey Mastodon, here is a quote that I needed and maybe you did too:
"WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there."
— Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writer’s block to create a first draft as a professional author
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Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 07:22:22 UTC Sean Tilley For now, I am building out a simple set of experiments. Initially, I needed a convenient way to monitor project feeds from different places, so I've used the Channel Sources feature to create syndicated bot channels for the federated projects I want to watch.
This requires some adjustment and fine-tuning, but you can subscribe to it through Diaspora, Friendica, GNU Social, Mastodon, Socialhome, Hubzilla, or anywhere that can use #OStatus, #ActivityPub, #Diaspora Protocol, or #Zot. -
Missives from Cyber (loveisanalogue@social.wxcafe.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2017 21:46:53 UTC Missives from Cyber The humans had been missing for months. Robots anxiously gathered in the streets
- I think they went on lunch break, said one
- For six months? Don't be ridiculous, replied another
- One mentioned something about ice cream, said a third
- Ice cream? Not your typical lunch break then
- Will you stop talking about lunch break?Years, decades, centuries went by. They build a robot civilisation with the most brilliant AIs
And yet the lunch break rumour never quite died out
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@mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2014 18:47:19 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se @ignurante crazy. 16 yr old boy got #arrested for #writing sth like "I killed my neighbour's pet dinosaur,I bought a gun for that" !justice