Sam Maiden
@samthebraveuk.bsky.social
Writer | Movie buff | You lose 100% of the hotdog eating contests you don't enter. 📚 #WritingCommunity #booksky
Shout out to the streaming service caption teams who insist on putting [Speaks Language] over the top of the embedded subtitles so we have no clue what people are saying 👌
August 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Shout out to the streaming service caption teams who insist on putting [Speaks Language] over the top of the embedded subtitles so we have no clue what people are saying 👌
Musk is against remote work, but I'm curious how many in-office days he has while running DOGE, Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, X, etc...
March 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Musk is against remote work, but I'm curious how many in-office days he has while running DOGE, Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, X, etc...
What makes a book a great horror, and how do you personally tackle the challenge of writing something that should be interpreted as unsettling and scary? #writingcommunity
January 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What makes a book a great horror, and how do you personally tackle the challenge of writing something that should be interpreted as unsettling and scary? #writingcommunity
Cutting is such an underated part of writting. Sometimes you need to get rid of something to make it work.
I cut 18 pages out of the draft of my foraging book this morning, it felt amazing, took out a recurring section that just wasn’t working. Only the best stuff is going in
January 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Cutting is such an underated part of writting. Sometimes you need to get rid of something to make it work.
When writing, how do you jump into chapter 10 and continue the story? I get stuck and find myself re-reading everything to get back into the flow, but it causes so many issues. #amwriting #writingcomminity
December 23, 2024 at 9:26 AM
When writing, how do you jump into chapter 10 and continue the story? I get stuck and find myself re-reading everything to get back into the flow, but it causes so many issues. #amwriting #writingcomminity
Did Harry Potter even even graduate from Hogwarts? I mean, those last two years were a bit sketchy, ciruculum-wise.
November 25, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Did Harry Potter even even graduate from Hogwarts? I mean, those last two years were a bit sketchy, ciruculum-wise.
Does anyone else miss those overly-epic, hand-painted fantasy covers of the 70s-80s? It's about time for a comeback, I'd say.
November 23, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Does anyone else miss those overly-epic, hand-painted fantasy covers of the 70s-80s? It's about time for a comeback, I'd say.
I have a serious itch to read a book about a modern-day character who gets sucked into a fantasy book and has to deal with the dramas of that world. Is there a name for this trope?
November 17, 2024 at 3:42 PM
I have a serious itch to read a book about a modern-day character who gets sucked into a fantasy book and has to deal with the dramas of that world. Is there a name for this trope?