James
@jamesborley.bsky.social
Knee deep in the passenger seat of editing my first novel ⌨️
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Day job in marketing 🖥️
Here because I missed the whole Twitter thing and I'm too old for BookTok.
Reader 📖
Day job in marketing 🖥️
Here because I missed the whole Twitter thing and I'm too old for BookTok.
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ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction #flashfiction #shortstories and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...
April 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction #flashfiction #shortstories and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...
One of thousands of funny lines from All Fours by Miranda July.
"The fucking Quakers. They'd invented chocolate bars and maxipads and now this."
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"The fucking Quakers. They'd invented chocolate bars and maxipads and now this."
💀
April 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
One of thousands of funny lines from All Fours by Miranda July.
"The fucking Quakers. They'd invented chocolate bars and maxipads and now this."
💀
"The fucking Quakers. They'd invented chocolate bars and maxipads and now this."
💀
Very much enjoyed the Severance finale, BUT it has thrown up so many more questions....
March 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Very much enjoyed the Severance finale, BUT it has thrown up so many more questions....
Also I have so many questions about Severance. Gonna lay them out here, feel free to chip in...
March 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Also I have so many questions about Severance. Gonna lay them out here, feel free to chip in...
Finished Orbital. What an achingly beautiful book. Made me feel equal parts insignificant and undeniably precious. Now onto some classic Isherwood. An author that I confess I've never read 😬🙈
March 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Finished Orbital. What an achingly beautiful book. Made me feel equal parts insignificant and undeniably precious. Now onto some classic Isherwood. An author that I confess I've never read 😬🙈
Rewatching Dawson's Creek and realising Mike White of White Lotus fame was one of the writers. A crossover ep would be EPIC.
February 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Rewatching Dawson's Creek and realising Mike White of White Lotus fame was one of the writers. A crossover ep would be EPIC.
Is anyone part of a writing group? Thinking of either joining one or starting one, but I kinda like writing alone and not talking to people so not sure where to go with that.
January 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Is anyone part of a writing group? Thinking of either joining one or starting one, but I kinda like writing alone and not talking to people so not sure where to go with that.
📣Short story comp alert📣
The Harper's Bazaar short story comp. Theme is 'the open road'. 2,000 words to shortstory@harpersbazaar.co.uk by midnight on 23 February.
www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/c...
The Harper's Bazaar short story comp. Theme is 'the open road'. 2,000 words to shortstory@harpersbazaar.co.uk by midnight on 23 February.
www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/c...
The 2025 Harper's Bazaar short-story competition is now open for entries
Here’s how to apply
www.harpersbazaar.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
📣Short story comp alert📣
The Harper's Bazaar short story comp. Theme is 'the open road'. 2,000 words to shortstory@harpersbazaar.co.uk by midnight on 23 February.
www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/c...
The Harper's Bazaar short story comp. Theme is 'the open road'. 2,000 words to shortstory@harpersbazaar.co.uk by midnight on 23 February.
www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/c...
Thanks to the algorithm for suggesting this absolute gem. Yes I watched the whole thing. Yes it's marvellous.
youtu.be/gNty2y0DQN8?...
youtu.be/gNty2y0DQN8?...
Defying Gravity | Synchronized Roller Coasters (Wicked)
YouTube video by Tube Cody
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January 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thanks to the algorithm for suggesting this absolute gem. Yes I watched the whole thing. Yes it's marvellous.
youtu.be/gNty2y0DQN8?...
youtu.be/gNty2y0DQN8?...
Discord telling me my password is 'too weak or common' is just plain rude
January 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Discord telling me my password is 'too weak or common' is just plain rude
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You folk have two weeks--JUST TWO WEEKS--to dust off your amazing stories and send them in to the Bristol Short Story Prize competition! Prizes, publication, and great publicity all await our shortlisted authors! Full details: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
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ALT: a quartz clock with a thermometer on it
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January 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
You folk have two weeks--JUST TWO WEEKS--to dust off your amazing stories and send them in to the Bristol Short Story Prize competition! Prizes, publication, and great publicity all await our shortlisted authors! Full details: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
What a deeply depressing term. 'not second screen enough' 💀
January 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
What a deeply depressing term. 'not second screen enough' 💀
Am I right in thinking that a big part of David Lynch's storytelling revolved around the idea that after we detonated our first nuclear weapon that the world was never the same, like something evil was released as a result? Or did I make that up? Either way, I've always liked that as a concept.
January 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Am I right in thinking that a big part of David Lynch's storytelling revolved around the idea that after we detonated our first nuclear weapon that the world was never the same, like something evil was released as a result? Or did I make that up? Either way, I've always liked that as a concept.
Watching John Wick for the first time ever and I have absolutely no idea why I made that decision. What am I even watching?
January 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Watching John Wick for the first time ever and I have absolutely no idea why I made that decision. What am I even watching?
Getting a rejection 6 months after submitting something to a lit mag really does sting doesn't it.
January 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Getting a rejection 6 months after submitting something to a lit mag really does sting doesn't it.
Been playing around again with Scrivener vs Ulysses because I'm a multiple device kind of guy and it was all just getting on my nerves having different versions flying around the place.
I think I've found my way back to Google docs? Is that an ok thing to do for writing fiction?
I think I've found my way back to Google docs? Is that an ok thing to do for writing fiction?
January 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Been playing around again with Scrivener vs Ulysses because I'm a multiple device kind of guy and it was all just getting on my nerves having different versions flying around the place.
I think I've found my way back to Google docs? Is that an ok thing to do for writing fiction?
I think I've found my way back to Google docs? Is that an ok thing to do for writing fiction?
Onto the next. Really enjoyed Real Life, so hoping this lives up to the hype.
Also, thoughts on The Vegetarian are incoming. Just in case anyone is interested 😉
Also, thoughts on The Vegetarian are incoming. Just in case anyone is interested 😉
January 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Onto the next. Really enjoyed Real Life, so hoping this lives up to the hype.
Also, thoughts on The Vegetarian are incoming. Just in case anyone is interested 😉
Also, thoughts on The Vegetarian are incoming. Just in case anyone is interested 😉
Anyone know of a good list of short story competitions for 2025? In the mood to set myself some deadlines.
January 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Anyone know of a good list of short story competitions for 2025? In the mood to set myself some deadlines.
Just sent the full draft manuscript of my novel to my editor and now feeling equal parts terrified and excited.
January 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Just sent the full draft manuscript of my novel to my editor and now feeling equal parts terrified and excited.
I spent a good chunk of the Xmas break editing 'the novel'. Now to polish up the synopsis and send it out to an actual human being - other than me - to read it. I'll be hiding in a hole somewhere for the foreseeable, ta 🙃
December 31, 2024 at 2:46 PM
I spent a good chunk of the Xmas break editing 'the novel'. Now to polish up the synopsis and send it out to an actual human being - other than me - to read it. I'll be hiding in a hole somewhere for the foreseeable, ta 🙃
Charlie Frost in later life remembering that weird xmas from years ago...Remember that time when dad came back as a possessed snowman and I hid it from everyone and drove up a mountain and hid in a cabin? And I didn't tell anyone? Then mum found out and drove up to get me and then dad died. Again.
December 16, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Charlie Frost in later life remembering that weird xmas from years ago...Remember that time when dad came back as a possessed snowman and I hid it from everyone and drove up a mountain and hid in a cabin? And I didn't tell anyone? Then mum found out and drove up to get me and then dad died. Again.
Still a bit mesmerised by Anthony McCall at the Tate Modern. Could've stayed in there for hours...
December 14, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Still a bit mesmerised by Anthony McCall at the Tate Modern. Could've stayed in there for hours...
I have a question about A roads in the UK. Any road experts around?
December 12, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I have a question about A roads in the UK. Any road experts around?