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Plotting chauvinist. Strong opinions about sentence form. Sci-fi/fantasy. Crank worldbuilding opinions. Craft practice.
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Plotting chauvinist. Strong opinions about sentence form. Sci-fi/fantasy. Crank worldbuilding opinions. Craft practice.
Regrettably, we cannot forge Apollonian Gaskets at this time.
My roommate has been doing a TNG rewatch and I've been joining on and off and we just got here
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My roommate has been doing a TNG rewatch and I've been joining on and off and we just got here
Me, on the floor sobbing: Please, just be normal about Twilight, please
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Me, on the floor sobbing: Please, just be normal about Twilight, please
#Prosetober Day 9: Climax
Another tool you doubtless reach for without too much thought, but it can give your writing a real sense of forward motion, accomplishment, or conclusion when you take the time to consider its uses
Another tool you doubtless reach for without too much thought, but it can give your writing a real sense of forward motion, accomplishment, or conclusion when you take the time to consider its uses
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#Prosetober Day 9: Climax
Another tool you doubtless reach for without too much thought, but it can give your writing a real sense of forward motion, accomplishment, or conclusion when you take the time to consider its uses
Another tool you doubtless reach for without too much thought, but it can give your writing a real sense of forward motion, accomplishment, or conclusion when you take the time to consider its uses
#Prosetober Day 8. You probably don't need an introduction to metaphor. But I think it's often overlooked how much room there is for subtlety, and you may find a reintroduction makes you see your acquaintance in a new light
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
#Prosetober Day 8. You probably don't need an introduction to metaphor. But I think it's often overlooked how much room there is for subtlety, and you may find a reintroduction makes you see your acquaintance in a new light
Incredible work by the Thinking Machines. (I am fully pro-Butlerian Jihad now)
October 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Incredible work by the Thinking Machines. (I am fully pro-Butlerian Jihad now)
I remain fascinated by how many ads for "AI" have art that is both very gaudy and displays the many shortcomings of this kind of generation. (Look at the perspective issues on that monstrosity! Don't look at the colors too long lest they are seared into your eyeballs!)
October 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I remain fascinated by how many ads for "AI" have art that is both very gaudy and displays the many shortcomings of this kind of generation. (Look at the perspective issues on that monstrosity! Don't look at the colors too long lest they are seared into your eyeballs!)
#Prosetober Day 7: There is rest for the wicked---what's your hot take about sentence craft?
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#Prosetober Day 7: There is rest for the wicked---what's your hot take about sentence craft?
Happy spooky season on this #Prosetober Day 6. Please write a monstrously long sentence, as big as you can grammatically muster!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Happy spooky season on this #Prosetober Day 6. Please write a monstrously long sentence, as big as you can grammatically muster!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
#Prosetober Day 5! Combine both of the last two techniques together
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
#Prosetober Day 5! Combine both of the last two techniques together
How your email finds me
October 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
How your email finds me
#Prosetober Day 4, a bit late!
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
October 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#Prosetober Day 4, a bit late!
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
#Prosetober Day 3 brings us to coordinating modifiers! The trick here is to keep elaborating, making the ideas *wider*
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
October 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
#Prosetober Day 3 brings us to coordinating modifiers! The trick here is to keep elaborating, making the ideas *wider*
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
📣It's fine to enjoy things!📣
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
📣It's fine to enjoy things!📣
For #Prostober Day 2 we have something you probably know: Modifiers! It's worth brushing up on terms and thinking about them explicitly, and they make talking about writing easier. But whatever you call them, see if you can get all of them into your three sentences
October 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
For #Prostober Day 2 we have something you probably know: Modifiers! It's worth brushing up on terms and thinking about them explicitly, and they make talking about writing easier. But whatever you call them, see if you can get all of them into your three sentences
Please note, many of these propositions could be further split. For example you could extract "it was pinned carefully" from "The letter arrived pinned to the girl". What's important is thinking about the content, not the exact way you break it down.
October 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Please note, many of these propositions could be further split. For example you could extract "it was pinned carefully" from "The letter arrived pinned to the girl". What's important is thinking about the content, not the exact way you break it down.
For #Prosetober Day 1 we have a bit of an appetizer, Propositions! As the bedrock ideas we use to build sentences, starting with propositions directs us to think about ideas and be more purposeful when we start building those sentences tomorrow
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
October 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
For #Prosetober Day 1 we have a bit of an appetizer, Propositions! As the bedrock ideas we use to build sentences, starting with propositions directs us to think about ideas and be more purposeful when we start building those sentences tomorrow
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
Somehow it's the last day of September, which means tomorrow we are going to start doing writing exercises most days
September 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Somehow it's the last day of September, which means tomorrow we are going to start doing writing exercises most days
Re-reading the opening of The Great Gatsby, again for research purposes, I am struck by how gay it is. 'Sometimes when young men suppressing the truth went to tell me something, I would feign sleep'
Uh, Nick, where were you with these young men with personal secrets that it made sense to sleep?
Uh, Nick, where were you with these young men with personal secrets that it made sense to sleep?
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Re-reading the opening of The Great Gatsby, again for research purposes, I am struck by how gay it is. 'Sometimes when young men suppressing the truth went to tell me something, I would feign sleep'
Uh, Nick, where were you with these young men with personal secrets that it made sense to sleep?
Uh, Nick, where were you with these young men with personal secrets that it made sense to sleep?
I just wrote my exhortation for Day 6 trying to get you to abandon decency and good taste and instead write a MONSTER SENTENCE and I am feeling really hyped
If you'd like to practice craft, join us for #Prosetober!
If you'd like to see deplorably long sentences, make sure you're here on Oct 6
If you'd like to practice craft, join us for #Prosetober!
If you'd like to see deplorably long sentences, make sure you're here on Oct 6
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I just wrote my exhortation for Day 6 trying to get you to abandon decency and good taste and instead write a MONSTER SENTENCE and I am feeling really hyped
If you'd like to practice craft, join us for #Prosetober!
If you'd like to see deplorably long sentences, make sure you're here on Oct 6
If you'd like to practice craft, join us for #Prosetober!
If you'd like to see deplorably long sentences, make sure you're here on Oct 6
Was Tolkien gay? Well, could a straight guy be this catty?
September 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Was Tolkien gay? Well, could a straight guy be this catty?
Sharpen your quills, gather your pens, and blow out your keyboard---#Prosetober, a game of short themed writing exercises, is coming! Whether rhetoric and sentence types are old hat or something you've been doing by ear, 25 of the days are a chance to write a few sentences with form in mind
September 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Sharpen your quills, gather your pens, and blow out your keyboard---#Prosetober, a game of short themed writing exercises, is coming! Whether rhetoric and sentence types are old hat or something you've been doing by ear, 25 of the days are a chance to write a few sentences with form in mind
I feel like this title hit harder in the original German
September 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I feel like this title hit harder in the original German
Thanks, I hate it!
September 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Thanks, I hate it!
I do believe the planet the Time Travel story is on is going to have storm latitudes, not unlike the storms around the South Pole of Earth, but with even fewer restrictions on their formation
September 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I do believe the planet the Time Travel story is on is going to have storm latitudes, not unlike the storms around the South Pole of Earth, but with even fewer restrictions on their formation
This is another dead giveaway that it's not *really* a literary objection
Far be it for me to defend Foucault (I don't hold with the May 1977 petition), but this is just ad hominem, and one that is not especially accurate to Foucault's sexuality
Far be it for me to defend Foucault (I don't hold with the May 1977 petition), but this is just ad hominem, and one that is not especially accurate to Foucault's sexuality
September 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is another dead giveaway that it's not *really* a literary objection
Far be it for me to defend Foucault (I don't hold with the May 1977 petition), but this is just ad hominem, and one that is not especially accurate to Foucault's sexuality
Far be it for me to defend Foucault (I don't hold with the May 1977 petition), but this is just ad hominem, and one that is not especially accurate to Foucault's sexuality