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Lee Schneider
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Novelist, Storyline Sessions facilitator, USC faculty member. Father of 3. Married to a goddess.
Weekly letter: https://subscribepage.io/500words
Books: https://leeschneiderbooks.com
Storytelling Masterclass: https://redcupagency.com
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Old cars that are green can make good pictures. Working with some serious Fuji Provia simulation and a digital rangefinder.
#fujifilm
A vintage lime green car photographed with a Fujifilm EX-4 using a film emulator to create a Provia film look
June 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Personal Branding for Introverts: https://opennotes.blog/2025/05/06/personal-branding-for-introverts.html
Putting a hat on a cat, but the cat is leaning backward because he doesn't like hats.
May 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Issue 104 - The Internet is Still Okay: https://opennotes.blog/2025/05/02/issue-the-internet-is-still.html
A public domain drawing of a snowflake that looks like it is woven out of string. A screen capture of the page of a novel in progress, with editor's notes on the side and scribbles all over it. An old line drawing showing a world split in two with another world inside.
May 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Remember this. Good times. I miss the old wonky internet.
The old Twitter fail whale with a notation that Twitter is over capacity.
May 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Work in Progress: https://opennotes.blog/2025/05/01/work-in-progress.html
A screencapture of a few pages of a novel in progress showing editor notes in the margins and handwritten notes written with an Apple Pencil using an iPad.
May 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Issue 103 - Storytelling: https://opennotes.blog/2025/04/28/issue-storytelling.html
A peaceful view of Arcos de la Frontera in southern Spain showing farmland and mountains in the distance.
April 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Told him that I couldn’t have him sit in my lap when I was working. So he decided to stare me down. #cats 🐈
A cat is sitting beneath a laptop that is elevated on a stand, staring hostility at the camera.
April 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Glory Days: https://opennotes.blog/2025/03/05/glory-days.html
A screen shot of the Wikipedia page for the episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles translated into Spanish. Season 7 of the series included an episode co-written by Lee Schneider and Matthew Malach.
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Storytelling for social impact is vital in these uncertain times. www.redcupagency.com/blog/storyte...
A young woman volunteer in a park, getting a petition signed.
February 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The latest updates on how we’re coping with the LA fires and how you can help. Also, my next novel is almost ready and you can be an early reader. (And be a hero to me.) Plus a new masterclass for storytelling. Read 500 Words now
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January 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Describing the LA fires: impossible. But I’ll try. Here are some inexpressible thoughts.
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January 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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California Redwoods. Lots of fire damage but the trees find a way to survive.
Towering redwood trees stretch upwards, forming a canopy that filters sunlight.
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Water in Southern California! We went in a hike in Temescal Canyon and were we surprised to see running water for the first time in many months. 🌲
A person in a blue jacket stands on a trail beside a small stream surrounded by rocks and trees.🌲
December 26, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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A love-hate relationship with this part of the #writingprocess. One last read, which isn’t really one last read, printed as a PDF to fool me into seeing it fresh, and always lots of handwritten notes.
A page from a book is heavily annotated with handwritten notes and edits.
December 20, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Delivery in progress. #bread #baking
Three homemade baguettes are resting on parchment paper on a baking tray.
December 8, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Now I think Bluesky might make it.
A social media profile page for Dolly Parton promoting her "Good Lookin’ Cookin’" cookbook with links and posts. 31 followers so far.
November 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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Amazon gobbled up the wonderful Book Depository and then shut it down. Bigger companies buy and kill smaller ones all the time. This was like closing up a neighborhood book store. Lucky we still have bookshop.org and betterworldbooks.com

H/t to @V_ for posting that series of bookmarks.
A bookmark from the new-defunct bookdepository.com with colorful cartoon images of happy readers holding books.
October 29, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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We’re not kidding around when it comes to English Breakfast. We buy restaurant-level amounts of it, from LA MILL in Alhambra. #tea
A two-pound bag of English Breakfast tea from Lamill.com in Los Angeles. Gray bag with lighter gray label.
October 25, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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The Future Lab: A new episode today about climate fiction with Tory Stephens, the climate fiction creative manager for Grist. We talk about how fiction changes the mindset of both writers and readers.

www.futurex.studio/tory-step…
Tory Stephens, a Black man, looking to the camera in the podcast cover art.
October 1, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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With more AI-generated slop that I can handle on my screens these days, I say it’s time to issue online credentials that will prove that you’re a human being. Read more at the link, or listen to the post:

buttondown.com/500words/…
A bold, black-and-white graphic featured 500 WORDS with the number creatively styled above the text.
September 20, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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It’s time for … THE FUTURE LAB PODCAST. This week’s episode is an interview with Matt Gemmell, who writes techo-thrillers. Here’s the episode page with an audio player:

www.futurex.studio/matt-gemm…

The Future Lab is a series of interviews wit... https://opennotes.blog/2024/09/17/its-time-for.html
In this photo, author Matt Gemmell smiles at the camera. He is a white man with dark hair.
September 18, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Book group, book discussions, finding new books. That’s what I’m writing about this week: buttondown.com/500words/…

Read or listen to me read it to you at the link.
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September 13, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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When is it right to clone the voice of an actor? Or to digitally copy their movements? The newsletter this week wonders aloud if producers will start to like AI actors more than humans. buttondown.com/500words/…

#actors #AI #voiceactor #videogames
The 500 Words logo is a type treatment of the words 500 Words. In this version the usual black and white has some lens flare in it.
August 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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I’ve been using our local library a lot, so I wrote an appreciation of librarians for the newsletter this week. 500 Words: Issue 84: Praise for Librarians. Read it at the link, or listen to me read it.
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August 4, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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Advice to self: Just keep going. Also, listening to bombastic music helps. music.apple.com/us/album/…
A chart showing word count for a novel in the Scrivener app. The writer is about 81,000 words into a 120,000 word project, with a projected endpoint of May, 2025.
August 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM