I have never seen someone use the phrase "grow thicker skin" and not mean "don't point out that I'm being an asshole."
— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) January 31, 2019
via Twitter https://twitter.com/SamSykesSwears
January 31, 2019 at 02:38PM
The personal blog of Jay Garmon: professional geek, Web entrepreneur, and occasional science fiction writer.
I have never seen someone use the phrase "grow thicker skin" and not mean "don't point out that I'm being an asshole."
— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears) January 31, 2019
Concepts like “calories” and “meals” don’t exist on planes. There, we follow the laws of the sky.
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) January 26, 2019
you mean to tell me a chicken fried this steak
— Tame Impala Poundstone (@Slennon_) January 26, 2019
You may not believe in climate change—but your bank does. And your phone provider. And your hardware store. And your credit card company.
— Christopher Flavelle (@cflav) January 22, 2019
And they’re all thinking about how to use it to sell you more stuff. https://t.co/1ZAT0GgbDp
Given that the Covington Catholic High School students think they're mature enough to understand pregnancy, abortion, childbirth, and parenting — and to tell women what we should do with our bodies — it'd be great if the media would stop coddling them like they're little boys.
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) January 22, 2019
Twitter's all a-buzz with news of Ariana Grande's new single, 7 Rings.
— Alexandra Erin (@alexandraerin) January 18, 2019
But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made...
"It's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps." That is an absolutely perfect line. What a brilliant man. https://t.co/14Ae93vGn4
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) January 22, 2019
I have no patience for outright despair. I have no patience for self-virtuous, puritanical devotion to defeat & doom. It is a self-protective surrender that excuses people from action—from the disappointment of trying & losing anyway.
— syd🌹🌱 (@SydneyAzari) January 21, 2019
If you want to understand the power of science fiction
— Damien Walter (@damiengwalter) January 21, 2019
note that a product named after a trope in a science fiction story that predicted a future where people live in poverty on a single food source is now the single food source for people living in poverty in the present https://t.co/sruuKwFgYJ
Reminder that anyone running for president is *a politician*, not your mom, your dad, your savior, a saint, a messiah, a preacher or an entertainer. They will have messed up and they will mess up. Pick the best one anyway.
— Summer Brennan 🌈👠 (@summerbrennan) January 21, 2019
Happy "White Conservatives Telling You That Dr. Martin Luther King Would Do and Say Things He Absolutely Never Would in Order to Advance Their Own Awful Bigoted Agenda" Day
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) January 21, 2019
If you're having trouble building a magic system for your story, try writing down four bullet points:
— James L. Sutter (@jameslsutter) January 20, 2019
*Something magic can do.
*Something magic CAN'T do.
*A price/toll that using magic incurs.
*What it feels like to do magic.
Those four points are often all you need.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing routine is the ideal writing routine. pic.twitter.com/D0sXigDvWe
— Michael J Seidlinger (@mjseidlinger) January 18, 2019
3. HERO - WORLD - HOOK is a perfectly balanced triangle.
— Delilah S. Dawson (@DelilahSDawson) January 18, 2019
This HOOK could only happen to this HERO in this WORLD.
This HERO is uniquely challenged by this WORLD.
This WORLD created this HERO.
They should all logically fit. Your job is to fit this puzzle together with a plot.
Hey Everybody But Especially #Louisville And/Or #Tabletop Game #Nerds:
— Ben Carter (@notbencarter) January 17, 2019
Here is a Louisville-made, @kertiscreative-designed board game about politics on @kickstarter 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Christmas is just around the corner. https://t.co/SjtrFyb0lC
Han Solo and Shrek dress the same
— 🤠drew🏴🌹 (@poohcowboy) January 15, 2019
This is the best creative advice you’ll ever get. https://t.co/uXrpqXrUmn
— Walt Williams (@waltdwilliams) January 16, 2019
Despite our many disputes and differences over the years it’s good for close friends, England and America, to look across the great ocean at each other and remember the fundamental things that bind us:
— HamberderHat (@Popehat) January 15, 2019
We are both complete trash fires right now
Less interested in a 70% marginal rate than I am in taxing long-term capital gains the same as ordinary income.
— Dawn (@502eire) January 15, 2019
The world is choked with men who have never fought, lionizing other men whose battle experience they don’t understand, crowing for conflicts they won’t have to shoulder personally, and scolding us when we deviate from their expectations.
— Myke Cole (@MykeCole) January 15, 2019
Well I don’t know how you keep nailing these, but thank you for my new screensaver. And headshot. How do I make this my ringtone? https://t.co/eXGKmUyLiN
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) January 15, 2019
The brainiacs in the Valley have discovered “public education” and “taxes.” https://t.co/QOcGhwSBjz
— Neill Mohammad (@neill4illinois) January 8, 2019
The median salary for a full-time writer in America is $20,300. https://t.co/lxaGLXx1VJ
— Pamela Paul (@PamelaPaulNYT) January 6, 2019
Hard truth about a writing career: You will look up to a circle of writers you admire. One day, you may meet some of them. Some will astound you, some will embrace you, some will snub you, some will hate you. You may never know why. Remember this and welcome the next generation.
— Delilah S. Dawson (@DelilahSDawson) January 6, 2019
the worst part of writing is coming up with ideas, followed closely by developing those ideas using words
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) January 3, 2019