Chuck
@charlesap.bsky.social
This script for the cluster, that one for TV
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Chuck
@charlesap.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I should pin a post.
The devil will give you a bargain for your hearts desire.
The fairy queen offers you a feast when you are famished.
The AI will help you with that codebase.
The fairy queen offers you a feast when you are famished.
The AI will help you with that codebase.
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The devil will give you a bargain for your hearts desire.
The fairy queen offers you a feast when you are famished.
The AI will help you with that codebase.
The fairy queen offers you a feast when you are famished.
The AI will help you with that codebase.
I keep bringing home little boxes of chocolates for Christmas for the family but I keep eating them. One of these days the store will be out (they do run out) and I'll be in trouble.
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I keep bringing home little boxes of chocolates for Christmas for the family but I keep eating them. One of these days the store will be out (they do run out) and I'll be in trouble.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Jeff lies like politician.
Ralph lies like a dead man.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Jeff lies like politician.
Ralph lies like a dead man.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Jeff lies like politician.
Ralph lies like a dead man.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Jeff lies like politician.
Ralph lies like a dead man.
If you mention blood duels are a thing in the first act you damned well better have one happen in the third.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
If you mention blood duels are a thing in the first act you damned well better have one happen in the third.
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I wonder how you are approaching this exercise. Would love to hear any rules and restrictions.
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wonder how you are approaching this exercise. Would love to hear any rules and restrictions.
Day 16 of writing the same scene over from scratch, as an exercise. I'm calling it #scenetober. Starting to have to get creative, which is the point.
October 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Day 16 of writing the same scene over from scratch, as an exercise. I'm calling it #scenetober. Starting to have to get creative, which is the point.
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"the flute is older than the wheel"
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"the flute is older than the wheel"
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a successful dramatic scene is one that the audience enters because of plot and leaves because of character.
September 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
a successful dramatic scene is one that the audience enters because of plot and leaves because of character.
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Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.
September 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.
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the word “sloppycat” just popped into my head for people who try to ape actual specific human work using slop generators
please feel free to use it
please feel free to use it
September 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
the word “sloppycat” just popped into my head for people who try to ape actual specific human work using slop generators
please feel free to use it
please feel free to use it
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There is no joy like learning how to do it. There is no joy like solving the problems in a story, figuring them out, fucking with them. There's no joy, really, like making up something flawed and messy, and then learning how to make it better.
August 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There is no joy like learning how to do it. There is no joy like solving the problems in a story, figuring them out, fucking with them. There's no joy, really, like making up something flawed and messy, and then learning how to make it better.
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Watching the Audra Winter drama unfold (from as great a distance as possible), and puts me in mind I was just talking about a lot of the shit that underpins this a couple months away (see quoted thread).
There's another seeming layer of hubris/delusions of grandeur at work there. But basics follow.
There's another seeming layer of hubris/delusions of grandeur at work there. But basics follow.
Was talking with @agawilmot.bsky.social this weekend, a bunch of it about books/storytelling. And that conversation has had me thinking more about something I see a lot as an editor: early career skill development, stretching technical muscles, and growth as a writer. So, a (likely messy) thread:
August 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Watching the Audra Winter drama unfold (from as great a distance as possible), and puts me in mind I was just talking about a lot of the shit that underpins this a couple months away (see quoted thread).
There's another seeming layer of hubris/delusions of grandeur at work there. But basics follow.
There's another seeming layer of hubris/delusions of grandeur at work there. But basics follow.
At the end of of a long presentation at a proofreader's conference someone takes the mike and says:
This is more of a comma than a question mark--
This is more of a comma than a question mark--
August 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
At the end of of a long presentation at a proofreader's conference someone takes the mike and says:
This is more of a comma than a question mark--
This is more of a comma than a question mark--
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I saw this video years ago and have never lived without a gigantic jar of gigi paste in my fridge since... (I live in an Indian and Pakistani neighbourhood, which helps).
youtu.be/U4zVQxPJmnY?...
youtu.be/U4zVQxPJmnY?...
How To Cook Every Indian Dish Ever
YouTube video by BuzzFeed India
youtu.be
August 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I saw this video years ago and have never lived without a gigantic jar of gigi paste in my fridge since... (I live in an Indian and Pakistani neighbourhood, which helps).
youtu.be/U4zVQxPJmnY?...
youtu.be/U4zVQxPJmnY?...
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Why must I write a bad novel before I can write a good one?
August 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Why must I write a bad novel before I can write a good one?
can we have a Sanctuary Moon / The Last Frontier crossover please
August 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
can we have a Sanctuary Moon / The Last Frontier crossover please
I am a space-ship in a film. I make banked turns in a vacuum and you will hear a swoosh when I go past. When I go very fast I do it with a bang.
I am a writer in a film. I am filthy rich and have been on book tour for the last year. People will commit murder for my next manuscript.
July 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I am a space-ship in a film. I make banked turns in a vacuum and you will hear a swoosh when I go past. When I go very fast I do it with a bang.
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The audience will almost always be less moved by a main story that helps resolve a subplot.
It tends to feel like an afterthought.
Look for the subplot to help resolve the main story in your screenwriting. It's far more satisfying and much more emotional bang for your buck.
#screenwriting
It tends to feel like an afterthought.
Look for the subplot to help resolve the main story in your screenwriting. It's far more satisfying and much more emotional bang for your buck.
#screenwriting
July 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The audience will almost always be less moved by a main story that helps resolve a subplot.
It tends to feel like an afterthought.
Look for the subplot to help resolve the main story in your screenwriting. It's far more satisfying and much more emotional bang for your buck.
#screenwriting
It tends to feel like an afterthought.
Look for the subplot to help resolve the main story in your screenwriting. It's far more satisfying and much more emotional bang for your buck.
#screenwriting
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Is Wizard of Oz the first adventure party in modern fantasy or what
July 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Is Wizard of Oz the first adventure party in modern fantasy or what
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@timgoens.bsky.social @badatgender.bsky.social Y’all will flip out.
OK, so here’s my JJ Abrams story…
Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…
Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…
Happy birthday to the composer of the theme music to the nonexistent 70s private detective TV series “Chuck Taggart, Private Eye!”
That’s one hell of a story. I suppose it’s about time I told it…
That’s one hell of a story. I suppose it’s about time I told it…
June 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
@timgoens.bsky.social @badatgender.bsky.social Y’all will flip out.
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Yesssssss
a novel not as a plot and its resolution but rather like a particle accelerator that allows the force of the novel to gain more and more speed until a new form of it emerges
June 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Yesssssss
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🎶 Ther ys a place biyonde the wyrmhole
A place onlye to loveres knowne -
The brave, the hopeful, the lost, the worthye,
Peraventure me and thee!
Will not thou wende wyth these fooles and dreameres
To the planete we calle home?
We hope we wil greete thee soone
On Sanctuarye Moone 🎶
A place onlye to loveres knowne -
The brave, the hopeful, the lost, the worthye,
Peraventure me and thee!
Will not thou wende wyth these fooles and dreameres
To the planete we calle home?
We hope we wil greete thee soone
On Sanctuarye Moone 🎶
June 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🎶 Ther ys a place biyonde the wyrmhole
A place onlye to loveres knowne -
The brave, the hopeful, the lost, the worthye,
Peraventure me and thee!
Will not thou wende wyth these fooles and dreameres
To the planete we calle home?
We hope we wil greete thee soone
On Sanctuarye Moone 🎶
A place onlye to loveres knowne -
The brave, the hopeful, the lost, the worthye,
Peraventure me and thee!
Will not thou wende wyth these fooles and dreameres
To the planete we calle home?
We hope we wil greete thee soone
On Sanctuarye Moone 🎶
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Anyone who thinks LA is full of socialists has never taken a meeting at a studio
June 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Anyone who thinks LA is full of socialists has never taken a meeting at a studio