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Henry Lee Stewart
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𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 ...

Writer in progress.

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- Couple hours on the short over the weekend.

Not much time in the chair. Moved some stuff around then printed out what I've got, read through it, and made some notes...

#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #booksky
A photo of a birdbath with the date "2025.11.25" above The Work - Couple hours on the short over the weekend. Not much time in the chair. Moved some stuff around then printed out what I've got, read through it, and made some notes. I'm pretty happy with what I have so far. I like the idea. Sometimes I think it's a little basic, but I think it works. I like the pacing, the build, and how the parts are fitting together. Again, it feels like it's longer than I was aiming for, but whatever. There's also a bit in the middle that I'm kind of second guessing, but I'm going to just roll with it and see what happens. The Work I'm trying to focus on just writing this story the best I can right now and finishing it, and not on any outcomes like quality or response. The plan for this week is to get down as much of a garbage, vomit, crappy, worst possible version of a zero draft of this story as I can. I just want to get it out of my head and down on paper where I can work with it. What's your writing plan for this week? With hope for our work, hls.
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I have shared this in previous years, but I don't do new year resolutions.

Instead, I pick a theme word or words.

The past couple years (with an eye to the potential, then definite, looming Trump regime) have been about redundancy & adaptability.

For 2026, I am choosing "light."

In many senses.
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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- Only about an hour this week on the story

Unfortunately, the Scrivener experiment didn't last long, so I'm back at my Emacs nonsense.

Lost some time moving things back over and reorganizing, but got back to making stuff up today.

#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #booksky
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Down to the well.

Rough images, sentences, bits I come up with. Sometimes while free writing. Others are half remembered dreams or thoughts I've written down. All grist for the mill.

#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #booksky
Fragment 3357 Glass and chrome. Smoothed concrete and air conditioning. Pressed and neat and clean and crisp. Appearances are everything, he whispers to himself, fake it till you make it that’s the only way to stay afloat.
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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- A couple of hours over the weekend

Had some other stuff to take care of this weekend, so not much time at the desk.

Did get some words down. Moved stuff around. Made a little progress.

I'll take that.

#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #booksky
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
aaronparnas.bsky.social Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I think Love Shack may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

I will not be taking any questions at this time.
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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- About three hours on Control since Tuesday (mostly this morning)

Rough week for words. Really struggled getting into this draft. Was way too much in my head -- lots of resistance and doubt ...

#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #booksky
A photo of a reflector on the ground with the date "2025.11.14" above The Work - About three hours on Control since Tuesday (mostly this morning) Rough week for words. Really struggled getting into this draft. Was way too much in my head —lots of resistance and doubt. Debated shelving the story and trying another. Decided to keep at it and find a way to make it work. Realized I wasn't happy with the structure. A couple of bits didn't quite line up. The Work Got up early this morning, tore it all apart, and tried jamming it together in different ways. Eventually got it to fit better. There are a couple of bits I have to move or rework, but overall I'm much happier with the flow. I'm still worried there's too much story for a short, but I'm just going to write it and see what happens. I don't mind if it's too long, I just want to finish it. Currently The weather is turning. We're supposed to get a storm this weekend, and the temps are heading off the cliff. My sinuses have not been happy about this. When I have some time (or am procrastinating), I've been trying to figure out what else I could share here. I was thinking of writing some little essays, but I have no idea what to write about. Would you all be interested in little standalone notes on writing stories or storytelling in general? Listening to: Memories of Green -- Vangelis With hope for our work, HLS
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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It was this time last year that I was wholly distracted from pressing project deadlines by making this ragtag troupe. Currently resisting the pull to add new recruites...
Illustrations of Medieval helmets resembling the faces of Muppets characters Gonzo, Kermit, Piggy, Animal, Fozzy, and Sam Eagle (as an Aztec, being truly American).
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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How Hookland Works – you all own it, fill you boots. Now updated to reflect how AI means Arseholes Involved. #Hookland
How Hookland Works … Almost everything online and detailed in the Hookland Writer’s Bible and the Hookland Guide publications is available for your free use. You want to use a picture for an album cover, a C.L. Nolan quote for an epigraph or even borrow a village or town for a story – fill your boots. As long as you give due credit to Hookland and in cases where the Hookland material is not created by me, the original creator, the copyright police will never pursue you. Not even if your story is a huge commercial success or your album sells more copies than you can dream about. There’s no charge. You own whatever you do with Hookland. It is a creative playground, a pre-enchanted landscape for anyone to use. You will only ever come a cropper with the copyright police if you use elements of Hookland and don’t give due credit. Everyone who loves and uses Hookland owns everything in the county canon. By not crediting that fact, you are extracting the urine and disregarding a whole community of people. There are two other things to note: Firstly, none of the above applies if you are creating work promoting racism, vile misogyny or homophobia of any sort. You can whimper about creative censorship, but I come from a long line that stands against the promulgation of hatred. You’ll find nothing but bitter curses and refusal in Hookland. Nastiness and nascent-Nazism has consequences, even in fictional realms. Secondly, Hookland is not for the use in works using AI. When it comes to Hookland, AI as it currently stands usually means Arseholes Involved. It’s a thieving, hollowing and unethical beast of a thing. It has no place in a principled, decent society outside medical and scientific research. It has no place in Hookland and never will. Try to mix AI slop and Hookland and I promise you will be haunted. I will always support and try to help/answer any questions for anyone wanting to use Hookland creatively. It is there to be explored, it is there to be played with.
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Digging for fire.

Rough images, sentences, bits I come up with. Sometimes while free writing. Others are half remembered dreams or thoughts I've written down. All grist for the mill.

#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #booksky
Fragment 1564 She pulls at her lip then, decided, sets the shotgun on the table and picks up the circular saw.
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Jeffrey Epstein said Trump "spent hours at my house" with a sexual abuse victim and "Of course he knew about the girls" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Stumbled across @storypeer.com the other day. Looks like a promising peer feedback service for screenwriters.

Anyone know of something similar for prose works (shorts, novels, etc)?

#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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It's just one damned word after another! If you want to be a writer, you have to write. Constantly. And when you aren't writing, you are thinking about writing. A lot of paperwork!

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November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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- About three hours on Control over the weekend.

Printed out the draft I have, read through it, and marked it up. Felt better about it after that. I think it's pretty solid and kind of works.

#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #booksky
A picture of trees with the date "2025.11.11" above The Work - About three hours on Control over the weekend. Printed out the draft I have, read through it, and marked it up. Felt better about it after that. I think it's pretty solid and kind of works. Now, if I could remember how to go from notes, placeholders, and hand-waving to actual narrative sentences, to putting down how it all goes down on paper, that would be great. Currently In a moment of inspired procrastination over the weekend, I once again attempted to install Scrivener on linux. Somehow, it worked this time? I've tried Scrivener in the past on windows, and while I really like the concept and some of the features, it just didn't click with me. I may have been trying to use it outside of its intended scope. Currently However, this time after copying over my draft, I spent some time tweaking settings and playing around with it. It may be because my process has changed in the meantime, but I wasn't struggling with it. I'm going to give it another shot and see if I can finish off this story using it. Wish me luck. Reading: How to Read a Book - Adler and van Doren Listening to: Some random lofi mix I found the other day With hope for our work, hls.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
samthielman.com CHOAM for the holidays @samthielman.com · 14d
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. QT of @avidreader1000 Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Senator Schumer has failed to lead this party in one of its most critical moments, and Americans will pay the price. It’s time for him to step down from leadership and make way for a new generation willing to fight for the people instead of the powerful.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Keep Trying
#art
a digital drawing of a gray cat with a capped eye and studded collar, leaning forward and bleeding from the nose. It looks at the viewer with defiance or determination. Text around it says “get killed eight times/ come back nine”. The red border around the image has two cars, arrows, knives, and poison bottles, numbered to match its deaths.
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.

Cowards
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 17d
#BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS for an immediate “administrative” stay of a Rhode Island district judge’s order that is otherwise requiring it to resume the distribution of SNAP benefits from other funding sources no later than the end of today.
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Sharing something different today.

Rough images, sentences, bits I come up with. Sometimes while free writing. Others are half remembered dreams or thoughts I've written down. All grist for the mill.

#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #booksky
Fragment 5178 She stands on the farmhouse porch and looks over the dead field, one hand shielding her eyes from the grueling sun overhead. He’s been gone for months. Gone to find work or something. It’s been so long she can’t remember what his story was. She gathers up the laundry and makes her way to the pump and line. One pump two and a wheeze then finally a trickle of water to fill the washtub. She wonders if she should get another mule, get some seed, and try the land again. She wonders what went wrong. Is the land dirty or poisoned? Or was he just as incompetent at plowing as he was at everything else? The water sputters then the pump hisses dry. She wonders to herself how much she can carry and if she should just call it and head over the dead field to the town over yonder.
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM