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John Swift the author
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Living the plot: “Dude with a problem.” Enjoying espresso until it (or I) exist no more.
I was just thinking that if Cheetos are a crime against food, does that make me an accessory or an accomplice if I eat the whole bag in a single sitting?

No. No, I did not, but I want to know the risk.
August 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Why do I sometimes feel like it’s requiring extra IQ points to sound like I’m hovering near the mean?
August 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Reposted by John Swift the author
Kindle dropped the Ebook price of both
The Hand of the Archer
& Noise Ordinance
$2.99 & $0.99 for the rest of the month!
Thanks & Enjoy!
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Amazon.com
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July 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A fun story idea can come from anywhere. A data professional posted something funny last week that needs to made into a novel.

#writing #storyideas
July 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Give me three anti-tropes to stuff into a short story. I need something to break out of a #wip lull.

I will post what comes from the best combination on my Medium account.

#writing #writingprompt #amwriting
June 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It’s been a week that is so like, “if I told you about it, I’d have to … I can’t tell you what.”
June 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
What did the horse say when the cowboy yelled, “Giddyup?”

Neigh.

I hope you’re #writing something better than this bad dad-joke.
June 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Is there anything more to say on a Saturday night?

Nope.
June 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I guess it’s time to kill a character in something I’m #writing. That usually keeps it interesting.
May 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
“Of all the things that never happened, that never happened the most.”

@andreremi42.bsky.social

#writing
May 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Some #writing wisdom that was shared with me…

Never hold back your best stuff.
May 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Counting tots at midnight, regardless of the sum, is total commitment to accuracy and not restraint.
Perhaps eating 27 tater tots at midnight was a mistake
May 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Someone asks you to get it together… it’s totally fair to calmly explain that you are so unhinged that you can’t even define the word hinge.

#unhinged
May 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Finally started writing a story that I have been thinking about for a long time. It’s a thousand mile walk and I’m on my third step.

#writing #wip
May 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
None of this is real.
May 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Anyone know what the over-under is on days until someone officially demands we spray Brawndo on the crops?

After all, it was in that amazing documentary that had Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, and Dax Shepard in it.
May 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Someone said that the kids will save us.

They are more likely to kill us.
May 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
After some rest I can report two things.

The interior of my eyelids are good.

Still unimpressed by this pedestrianism I see.
May 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Unimpressed.

Nope.

Maybe it’s just nap time.
May 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Until you have sat in a room full of your townspeople until 11:15 at night debating and amending the budgetary allocation for your town…

You have no idea what democracy is.

Who knew that when to allocate money for sidewalk repair would require 20 minutes of discussion?
May 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
If I was alive in Feudal Japan I really hope I was a ronin.
May 6, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Watch Blue Eyed Samurai. Amazing art.
May 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can we please stop pretending that everyone else is an idiot?

Nobody ever made a mistake? You never got duped?

I did. Ones of times, even.

Self-righteousness is an ugly way to meet the world.
May 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Fun fact. The Wizard of Oz was the first of a 14 book series. Published in 1900.

The slippers were silver.

#booksky
May 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
All the greatest books have one thing in common.

They were all published.

#booksky #writing
May 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM