Travis Hime
@travishime.net
Data scientist, writer, former physicist. Viable Paradise 2024 alum. He/him.
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I'm bookmarking this for the next time someone asks me exactly what does 'a structural edit' mean. This may be a screenplay not a novel, but it's an excellent example of the principles and process regardless.
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm bookmarking this for the next time someone asks me exactly what does 'a structural edit' mean. This may be a screenplay not a novel, but it's an excellent example of the principles and process regardless.
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so excited!! this was a clarion story and wouldn't be possible without my classmates and instructors, looking forward to seeing her out in the world
Happy to announce that we've acquired "In the Wake of Whales" by @clairejiawen.bsky.social for FF#28!
Claire's work has previously appeared in Clarkesworld and khōréō.
Claire's work has previously appeared in Clarkesworld and khōréō.
September 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
so excited!! this was a clarion story and wouldn't be possible without my classmates and instructors, looking forward to seeing her out in the world
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A condition took away the use of my hands. Silksong helped me rehab them
aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...
aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...
September 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A condition took away the use of my hands. Silksong helped me rehab them
aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...
aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...
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I made this book and you can read it now!
It's cool!
It's a raucous lesbian wild west adventure comedy with mechanical men and murder mysteries!
books2read.com/b/angelmaker
It's cool!
It's a raucous lesbian wild west adventure comedy with mechanical men and murder mysteries!
books2read.com/b/angelmaker
September 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I made this book and you can read it now!
It's cool!
It's a raucous lesbian wild west adventure comedy with mechanical men and murder mysteries!
books2read.com/b/angelmaker
It's cool!
It's a raucous lesbian wild west adventure comedy with mechanical men and murder mysteries!
books2read.com/b/angelmaker
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new story day! a friend called it 'evangelion bitch murder popstar lesbians' and i really can't do any better than that, hope you check it out!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/
September 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
new story day! a friend called it 'evangelion bitch murder popstar lesbians' and i really can't do any better than that, hope you check it out!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/jia-wen_09_25/
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I do think it’s very funny that “[LLMs] also love groups of three, overtly parallel structure, and impersonal writing” describes the sentence itself that has been written.
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I do think it’s very funny that “[LLMs] also love groups of three, overtly parallel structure, and impersonal writing” describes the sentence itself that has been written.
Me in 2017: Come on Hyrule, just kill Ganon so hard he doesn’t keep coming back. Skill issue
Me in 2025: Once again the slave power has risen to lay waste to the country, we must consult the great sages Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln in the hopes of sealing the evil
Me in 2025: Once again the slave power has risen to lay waste to the country, we must consult the great sages Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln in the hopes of sealing the evil
July 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Me in 2017: Come on Hyrule, just kill Ganon so hard he doesn’t keep coming back. Skill issue
Me in 2025: Once again the slave power has risen to lay waste to the country, we must consult the great sages Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln in the hopes of sealing the evil
Me in 2025: Once again the slave power has risen to lay waste to the country, we must consult the great sages Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln in the hopes of sealing the evil
5yo: Why is the dragon in The Hobbit a bad guy?
Me: He killed a lot of people to steal their gold.
5yo; That’s really bad.
Me: Yeah.
5yo: I wish everybody in this world and in The Hobbit was nice.
Me: So do all who live to see such times…
Me: He killed a lot of people to steal their gold.
5yo; That’s really bad.
Me: Yeah.
5yo: I wish everybody in this world and in The Hobbit was nice.
Me: So do all who live to see such times…
July 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
5yo: Why is the dragon in The Hobbit a bad guy?
Me: He killed a lot of people to steal their gold.
5yo; That’s really bad.
Me: Yeah.
5yo: I wish everybody in this world and in The Hobbit was nice.
Me: So do all who live to see such times…
Me: He killed a lot of people to steal their gold.
5yo; That’s really bad.
Me: Yeah.
5yo: I wish everybody in this world and in The Hobbit was nice.
Me: So do all who live to see such times…
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If you subscribed to any of the blocklists currently maintained by sky sentry, there’s a very good chance that you’re inadvertently blocking people you know and like, because the person now running those lists is using them to pursue silly personal beefs. Check into it.
July 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you subscribed to any of the blocklists currently maintained by sky sentry, there’s a very good chance that you’re inadvertently blocking people you know and like, because the person now running those lists is using them to pursue silly personal beefs. Check into it.
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
Book: Lonesome Dove
Movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Okay you guys, what’s the best book, movie, or TV show your dad introduced you to
June 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Book: Lonesome Dove
Movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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I seem to be writing a free members and up Patreon post about writing about what I see in "Beginner" and "Intermediate" writing
It's about narrative control, and I'm going to try and talk about the time streams of fiction I attempted to teach at Viable Paradise 2024 (It's hard for me to explain)
It's about narrative control, and I'm going to try and talk about the time streams of fiction I attempted to teach at Viable Paradise 2024 (It's hard for me to explain)
Get more from C. L. Polk on Patreon
creating Stuff Writing Nerds Like
www.patreon.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I seem to be writing a free members and up Patreon post about writing about what I see in "Beginner" and "Intermediate" writing
It's about narrative control, and I'm going to try and talk about the time streams of fiction I attempted to teach at Viable Paradise 2024 (It's hard for me to explain)
It's about narrative control, and I'm going to try and talk about the time streams of fiction I attempted to teach at Viable Paradise 2024 (It's hard for me to explain)
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ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
May 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go
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Hi friends, I have a poem out in Haven Spec! Did you know there is a poetry form called a sapphic? (I got very excited about writing sapphic sapphics when I learned this.) This poem is a sapphic about witchy crows (also pretty sapphic subject matter tbh).
www.havenspec.com/dawn-witchin...
www.havenspec.com/dawn-witchin...
March 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hi friends, I have a poem out in Haven Spec! Did you know there is a poetry form called a sapphic? (I got very excited about writing sapphic sapphics when I learned this.) This poem is a sapphic about witchy crows (also pretty sapphic subject matter tbh).
www.havenspec.com/dawn-witchin...
www.havenspec.com/dawn-witchin...
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*rolls a giant wooden Cybertruck with a bow on it up to the gates of the White House and rings the doorbell
March 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
*rolls a giant wooden Cybertruck with a bow on it up to the gates of the White House and rings the doorbell
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It’s a DOUBLE STORY day from me! I’ll have so, so much more to say about my beloved “Handsomest Gentlest” tomorrow (when I am less sick and less exhausted 😭) but you can read it now! Possibly my favorite thing I’ve ever written. I hope you love it too.
Our ✨March 2025 Issue✨ is now free to read online 🥳🥳🥳!
Read it all here:
www.havenspec.com/issue-nineteen
Read it all here:
www.havenspec.com/issue-nineteen
March 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It’s a DOUBLE STORY day from me! I’ll have so, so much more to say about my beloved “Handsomest Gentlest” tomorrow (when I am less sick and less exhausted 😭) but you can read it now! Possibly my favorite thing I’ve ever written. I hope you love it too.
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My weird little Ovid retelling—my most rejected story—is out today! This is a story about the queer, haunted margins of the canon. Or, in other words… a story about never being able to please your horrible dad until the day he eats himself alive and you learn how to turn into a bird.
"Erysichthon's Daughter" is a story of hunger and desire. Today, indulge in M.R. Robinson's version of this myth:
smallwondersmag.com/...
smallwondersmag.com/...
Erysichthon’s Daughter - Small Wonders
Daddy, I know you didn’t mean to fell the sacred oak. I know you wouldn’t lie to me. You swore you’d never lie to me.
smallwondersmag.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My weird little Ovid retelling—my most rejected story—is out today! This is a story about the queer, haunted margins of the canon. Or, in other words… a story about never being able to please your horrible dad until the day he eats himself alive and you learn how to turn into a bird.
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guys we can't win this without the Christians. I checked the math like six times. please be nice
Wes Moore: "I say this on a Sunday morning -- I know there is a King of Kings and a Lord of Lords, and I know he does not live in the White House."
March 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
guys we can't win this without the Christians. I checked the math like six times. please be nice
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The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...
Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?
March 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...
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NEW STORY DAY! ✨ “Lucinda Espinosa’s Twenty-Seventh Death” is the strange queer story of my heart, my ultimate “write what you want to read” story. A multiverse story, sort of. A space western, sort of. But mostly it’s a love story, and I hope you love it too. www.fusionfragment.com/issue-24
Issue #24
“All the Pretty Starships Fly Like This” by J.R. Dewitt: freedom from imperial control / mindships / hot fudge cherry berry”As Big As A Whale” by Avra Margariti: obsession /…
www.fusionfragment.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
NEW STORY DAY! ✨ “Lucinda Espinosa’s Twenty-Seventh Death” is the strange queer story of my heart, my ultimate “write what you want to read” story. A multiverse story, sort of. A space western, sort of. But mostly it’s a love story, and I hope you love it too. www.fusionfragment.com/issue-24
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I used to answer phones and log email and physical mail in a congressional office and can confirm
It's getting logged in the same system. What members and senior staff see is the total tally.
And the email inbox won't get "full" from non- constituents preventing you from getting your voice heard
It's getting logged in the same system. What members and senior staff see is the total tally.
And the email inbox won't get "full" from non- constituents preventing you from getting your voice heard
Many say otherwise, but whenever I get a human being on the phone when I call my government reps, I ask if email has less impact than a phone call. They ALWAYS say it has the same impact and gets logged the same. Just a data point. Contact your reps, don't let perfect be the enemy of democracy.
February 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I used to answer phones and log email and physical mail in a congressional office and can confirm
It's getting logged in the same system. What members and senior staff see is the total tally.
And the email inbox won't get "full" from non- constituents preventing you from getting your voice heard
It's getting logged in the same system. What members and senior staff see is the total tally.
And the email inbox won't get "full" from non- constituents preventing you from getting your voice heard