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Lee Schneider
@docuguy.bsky.social
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
Old cars that are green can make good pictures. Working with some serious Fuji Provia simulation and a digital rangefinder.
#fujifilm
June 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
May 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
May 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Remember this. Good times. I miss the old wonky internet.
May 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
May 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
April 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Told him that I couldn’t have him sit in my lap when I was working. So he decided to stare me down. #cats 🐈
April 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Storytelling for social impact is vital in these uncertain times. www.redcupagency.com/blog/storyte...
February 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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
January 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Describing the LA fires: impossible. But I’ll try. Here are some inexpressible thoughts.
January 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
California Redwoods. Lots of fire damage but the trees find a way to survive.
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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. 🌲
December 26, 2024 at 5:52 AM
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.
December 20, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Delivery in progress. #bread #baking
December 8, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Now I think Bluesky might make it.
November 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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.
October 29, 2024 at 5:23 PM
We’re not kidding around when it comes to English Breakfast. We buy restaurant-level amounts of it, from LA MILL in Alhambra. #tea
October 25, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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…
October 1, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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/…
September 20, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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
September 18, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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.
September 13, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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
August 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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.
buttondown.email/500words/…
August 4, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Advice to self: Just keep going. Also, listening to bombastic music helps. music.apple.com/us/album/…
August 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM