Steve J. Wright
@stevejwright.bsky.social
Arts and sciences person, very unprofessional SFF writer and reviewer, blogs at stevejwright.com. Mastodon @stevejwright@c.im
#Novelmber+
28038. I'm putting the reduced productivity down to the awful effects of being summarized by ChatGPT. (Involuntarily, of course.) Current POV character was not privy to the talk about the fish soup. Current POV character is happier not knowing.
28038. I'm putting the reduced productivity down to the awful effects of being summarized by ChatGPT. (Involuntarily, of course.) Current POV character was not privy to the talk about the fish soup. Current POV character is happier not knowing.
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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28038. I'm putting the reduced productivity down to the awful effects of being summarized by ChatGPT. (Involuntarily, of course.) Current POV character was not privy to the talk about the fish soup. Current POV character is happier not knowing.
28038. I'm putting the reduced productivity down to the awful effects of being summarized by ChatGPT. (Involuntarily, of course.) Current POV character was not privy to the talk about the fish soup. Current POV character is happier not knowing.
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Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Dear Mahmood/Labour,
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.
Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
For the people who tell you Bluesky is an echo chamber full of left wing politics.
They are only distantly related; the ancestors of the penile leeches that infest hippos evolved as a symbiote in moomins and have now become a key part of the moomin reproductive cycle. Every seventh year they emerge from their moomin hosts and sing with a voice like a nightingale full of butter.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
For the people who tell you Bluesky is an echo chamber full of left wing politics.
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Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
#Novelmber+
26551. Backsliding a bit there, I fear. Everyone is fully dressed and eating fish soup. Or, in one case, listening to stories about food preparation in unnecessary detail, and losing interest in the fish soup as a result.
26551. Backsliding a bit there, I fear. Everyone is fully dressed and eating fish soup. Or, in one case, listening to stories about food preparation in unnecessary detail, and losing interest in the fish soup as a result.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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26551. Backsliding a bit there, I fear. Everyone is fully dressed and eating fish soup. Or, in one case, listening to stories about food preparation in unnecessary detail, and losing interest in the fish soup as a result.
26551. Backsliding a bit there, I fear. Everyone is fully dressed and eating fish soup. Or, in one case, listening to stories about food preparation in unnecessary detail, and losing interest in the fish soup as a result.
#Novelmber+
25003. Backsliding a bit in productivity, but there have been exigent circumstances today. Characters continue to be fully dressed. (In one case, amazingly dressed.)
25003. Backsliding a bit in productivity, but there have been exigent circumstances today. Characters continue to be fully dressed. (In one case, amazingly dressed.)
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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25003. Backsliding a bit in productivity, but there have been exigent circumstances today. Characters continue to be fully dressed. (In one case, amazingly dressed.)
25003. Backsliding a bit in productivity, but there have been exigent circumstances today. Characters continue to be fully dressed. (In one case, amazingly dressed.)
#Novelmber+
23555. Calling it a night. POV character is now fully clothed.
(If you were wondering, last night she was stepping into a machine that makes clothes directly on your body. She knows about the technology, but it's outside her normal price range, so she's never used one before.)
23555. Calling it a night. POV character is now fully clothed.
(If you were wondering, last night she was stepping into a machine that makes clothes directly on your body. She knows about the technology, but it's outside her normal price range, so she's never used one before.)
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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23555. Calling it a night. POV character is now fully clothed.
(If you were wondering, last night she was stepping into a machine that makes clothes directly on your body. She knows about the technology, but it's outside her normal price range, so she's never used one before.)
23555. Calling it a night. POV character is now fully clothed.
(If you were wondering, last night she was stepping into a machine that makes clothes directly on your body. She knows about the technology, but it's outside her normal price range, so she's never used one before.)
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21667. POV character is about to have unexpected things done to her naked body. It's all done in the best possible taste.
(No, it's not a sex scene. It's all entirely innocent.)
21667. POV character is about to have unexpected things done to her naked body. It's all done in the best possible taste.
(No, it's not a sex scene. It's all entirely innocent.)
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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21667. POV character is about to have unexpected things done to her naked body. It's all done in the best possible taste.
(No, it's not a sex scene. It's all entirely innocent.)
21667. POV character is about to have unexpected things done to her naked body. It's all done in the best possible taste.
(No, it's not a sex scene. It's all entirely innocent.)
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic
#Novelmber+
19793. If I keep going for a bit, I'll make 20k, and then, in theory, I'll have a whole day in hand.
19793. If I keep going for a bit, I'll make 20k, and then, in theory, I'll have a whole day in hand.
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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19793. If I keep going for a bit, I'll make 20k, and then, in theory, I'll have a whole day in hand.
19793. If I keep going for a bit, I'll make 20k, and then, in theory, I'll have a whole day in hand.
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Start of "Felons in the Eyes of God".)
(Start of "Felons in the Eyes of God".)
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Start of "Felons in the Eyes of God".)
(Start of "Felons in the Eyes of God".)
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Since it's Remembrance Sunday and performative poppy discourse is happening as usual, here's my take from a couple of years ago:
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That’s for Rememberance
So I bought a poppy to wear. A red one. A depressing number of people – or a number of depressing people – have taken to associating this symbol with a dismal sense of jingoism. They wi…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Since it's Remembrance Sunday and performative poppy discourse is happening as usual, here's my take from a couple of years ago:
stevejwright.com/2023/11/09/t...
stevejwright.com/2023/11/09/t...
#Novelmber+
14370. The essence of drama is conflict. POV character is wandering round a museum and getting lots of conflict with her feet.
14370. The essence of drama is conflict. POV character is wandering round a museum and getting lots of conflict with her feet.
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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14370. The essence of drama is conflict. POV character is wandering round a museum and getting lots of conflict with her feet.
14370. The essence of drama is conflict. POV character is wandering round a museum and getting lots of conflict with her feet.
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The rich don't want you to have more money, they want it all for themselves. That's why they're rich.
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The rich don't want you to have more money, they want it all for themselves. That's why they're rich.
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My self-published novel is 90,000 words. I have no budget for marketing, much less trsnslating, but I'd rather learn Old Church Slavonic by myself and pen all 90,000 words by hand in Glagolitic letters than ask an AI word blender to touch my book.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
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November 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
My self-published novel is 90,000 words. I have no budget for marketing, much less trsnslating, but I'd rather learn Old Church Slavonic by myself and pen all 90,000 words by hand in Glagolitic letters than ask an AI word blender to touch my book.
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12647. Mostly current POV character (a journalist) filling in background. Best word of the day, probably "monozygotic".
12647. Mostly current POV character (a journalist) filling in background. Best word of the day, probably "monozygotic".
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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12647. Mostly current POV character (a journalist) filling in background. Best word of the day, probably "monozygotic".
12647. Mostly current POV character (a journalist) filling in background. Best word of the day, probably "monozygotic".
#Novelmber+
10944. Natural break, end of chapter. All very civilized today, except possibly for the 400 kilo naked guy in the swimming pool.
10944. Natural break, end of chapter. All very civilized today, except possibly for the 400 kilo naked guy in the swimming pool.
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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10944. Natural break, end of chapter. All very civilized today, except possibly for the 400 kilo naked guy in the swimming pool.
10944. Natural break, end of chapter. All very civilized today, except possibly for the 400 kilo naked guy in the swimming pool.
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9327. Progress is being made! And the guy from yesterday has escaped disintegration. Which is good. For him.
9327. Progress is being made! And the guy from yesterday has escaped disintegration. Which is good. For him.
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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9327. Progress is being made! And the guy from yesterday has escaped disintegration. Which is good. For him.
9327. Progress is being made! And the guy from yesterday has escaped disintegration. Which is good. For him.
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7175. New POV character has been introduced, having a day filled with nausea, bad coffee, and the imminent threat of horrifying disintegration.
7175. New POV character has been introduced, having a day filled with nausea, bad coffee, and the imminent threat of horrifying disintegration.
November 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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7175. New POV character has been introduced, having a day filled with nausea, bad coffee, and the imminent threat of horrifying disintegration.
7175. New POV character has been introduced, having a day filled with nausea, bad coffee, and the imminent threat of horrifying disintegration.
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
👏 Today marks 75 years since the creation of the ECHR.
We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s human rights.
But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR.
As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights.
The Bear explains
We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s human rights.
But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR.
As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights.
The Bear explains
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
👏 Today marks 75 years since the creation of the ECHR.
We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s human rights.
But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR.
As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights.
The Bear explains
We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s human rights.
But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR.
As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights.
The Bear explains
Reposted by Steve J. Wright
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
Angela Carter
Angela Carter
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
Angela Carter
Angela Carter
#Novelmber+
5247. Bit of an improvement. Also, a natural break point. Tomorrow, to a new chapter and a new POV character.
5247. Bit of an improvement. Also, a natural break point. Tomorrow, to a new chapter and a new POV character.
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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5247. Bit of an improvement. Also, a natural break point. Tomorrow, to a new chapter and a new POV character.
5247. Bit of an improvement. Also, a natural break point. Tomorrow, to a new chapter and a new POV character.