Patrick Regan
@underwoodfive.bsky.social
Runner of games. Teller of stories. Lover of the night. Writer of copy.
Among other things.
Check out my website for my portfolio, writing samples, and word droppings masquerading as poetry and short fiction:
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/
Among other things.
Check out my website for my portfolio, writing samples, and word droppings masquerading as poetry and short fiction:
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/
One of @stephenking.bsky.social's greatest insights is that almost all of his human villains are, at their core, kind of self-pitying losers.
Whenever you get a look into their thoughts, it's always a stream of grievances at the world that justify their actions.
Whenever you get a look into their thoughts, it's always a stream of grievances at the world that justify their actions.
August 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
One of @stephenking.bsky.social's greatest insights is that almost all of his human villains are, at their core, kind of self-pitying losers.
Whenever you get a look into their thoughts, it's always a stream of grievances at the world that justify their actions.
Whenever you get a look into their thoughts, it's always a stream of grievances at the world that justify their actions.
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I'm genuinely not worried about AI replacing screenwriters or actors. Nor am I worried about it destroying the world.
My mom called it perfectly: AI isn't magic; it isn't the end. It's just like the Microwave.
So I ran with the metaphor.
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My mom called it perfectly: AI isn't magic; it isn't the end. It's just like the Microwave.
So I ran with the metaphor.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a...
AI is a Microwave
“You know, AI is exactly like the Microwave oven”. My Mom said that at a recent family gathering, where my brother, my wife, and I were discussing whether AI was disrupting or helping o…
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August 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I'm genuinely not worried about AI replacing screenwriters or actors. Nor am I worried about it destroying the world.
My mom called it perfectly: AI isn't magic; it isn't the end. It's just like the Microwave.
So I ran with the metaphor.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a...
My mom called it perfectly: AI isn't magic; it isn't the end. It's just like the Microwave.
So I ran with the metaphor.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a...
I'm genuinely not worried about AI replacing screenwriters or actors. Nor am I worried about it destroying the world.
My mom called it perfectly: AI isn't magic; it isn't the end. It's just like the Microwave.
So I ran with the metaphor.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a...
My mom called it perfectly: AI isn't magic; it isn't the end. It's just like the Microwave.
So I ran with the metaphor.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a...
AI is a Microwave
“You know, AI is exactly like the Microwave oven”. My Mom said that at a recent family gathering, where my brother, my wife, and I were discussing whether AI was disrupting or helping o…
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I'm genuinely not worried about AI replacing screenwriters or actors. Nor am I worried about it destroying the world.
My mom called it perfectly: AI isn't magic; it isn't the end. It's just like the Microwave.
So I ran with the metaphor.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a...
My mom called it perfectly: AI isn't magic; it isn't the end. It's just like the Microwave.
So I ran with the metaphor.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/a...
When not writing great books about focus, productivity, and digital distraction, Cal Newport is also a computer scientist. He recently put up a post about AI, the likelihood of long-term disruption, and AGI.
Follow what's happening, not what people say WILL happen.
calnewport.com/ai-and-work-...
Follow what's happening, not what people say WILL happen.
calnewport.com/ai-and-work-...
AI and Work (Some Predictions) - Cal Newport
One of the main topics of this newsletter is the quest to cultivate sustainable and meaningful work in a digital age. Given this objective, it’s ... Read more
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May 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When not writing great books about focus, productivity, and digital distraction, Cal Newport is also a computer scientist. He recently put up a post about AI, the likelihood of long-term disruption, and AGI.
Follow what's happening, not what people say WILL happen.
calnewport.com/ai-and-work-...
Follow what's happening, not what people say WILL happen.
calnewport.com/ai-and-work-...
Genuinely, Andor is one of the greatest TV shows I've ever seen, and one of the best works of Science-Fiction I've ever seen. This isn't a full review of everything - that would be a series of articles. But it is what I loved most about the show.
www.serializd.com/review/33608...
www.serializd.com/review/33608...
Underwoodfive's ★★★★★ review of Andor
When all is said and done? One of the greatest sci-fi TV shows, one of the most interesting pieces of Star Wars fiction, and easily the most interesting thing Star Wars has done in almost a decade.…
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May 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Genuinely, Andor is one of the greatest TV shows I've ever seen, and one of the best works of Science-Fiction I've ever seen. This isn't a full review of everything - that would be a series of articles. But it is what I loved most about the show.
www.serializd.com/review/33608...
www.serializd.com/review/33608...
For the horror fans out there, my wife and I recently watched Azrael, an indie horror darling starring Samara Weaving with almost no dialogue.
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A ★★★ review of Azrael (2024)
A delightful, if light-weight, little horror movie. It makes the most out of its gimmick, anchored by a powerhouse performance by Samara Weaving. Who, incidentally, is looking more and more like her…
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May 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
For the horror fans out there, my wife and I recently watched Azrael, an indie horror darling starring Samara Weaving with almost no dialogue.
letterboxd.com/underwoodfiv...
letterboxd.com/underwoodfiv...
I read Piranesi and quite enjoyed it. Have you read anything lately? Fiction or otherwise.
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Patrick Regan's review of Piranesi
4/5: What a delightful short novel. My only experience with Susanna Clarke was in the BBC adaptation of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel - which I quite enjoyed - so it was fun to approach this one…
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May 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I read Piranesi and quite enjoyed it. Have you read anything lately? Fiction or otherwise.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I just started Roland Allen's History of the Notebook, and they mentioned by beloved Hobonichi Techo in it! What makes it great?
Read on and find out!
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Read on and find out!
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Review – Hobonichi Techo Planner. AKA: The Greatest Notebook I’ve ever Owned
My brother James and I both have ADHD, and we’ve spent a lot of our lives looking for systems to help us manage it. Every ADHD person’s system has to, by definition, be unique to them. One of the f…
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May 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I just started Roland Allen's History of the Notebook, and they mentioned by beloved Hobonichi Techo in it! What makes it great?
Read on and find out!
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/r...
Read on and find out!
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/r...
It can't all be focus and fear. Take a moment to sleepwalk in the night and enjoy a little flash fiction from the dark side:
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Flash Fiction – “Sleepwalkers”
My family have always been sleepwalkers. When my grandfather was still alive, he would sit my daughter down on the rug by the fire and light up his father’s pipe. Carved from the bones of pre…
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May 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It can't all be focus and fear. Take a moment to sleepwalk in the night and enjoy a little flash fiction from the dark side:
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/1...
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/1...
An idea that I've had rolling around in my head for a while. It's easy to feel like you have to pay attention to everything. But right now what the world it needs is for you to pay attention
May 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
An idea that I've had rolling around in my head for a while. It's easy to feel like you have to pay attention to everything. But right now what the world it needs is for you to pay attention
When everything feels impossibly urgent, paralysis follows. I've discovered that choosing where you can give your focus isn't privilege—it's resistance against those who profit from your distraction.
Don't give them what they want.
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Don't give them what they want.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com?p=154856090 #AttentionEconomy
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When everything feels impossibly urgent, paralysis follows. I've discovered that choosing where you can give your focus isn't privilege—it's resistance against those who profit from your distraction.
Don't give them what they want.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com?p=154856090 #AttentionEconomy
Don't give them what they want.
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com?p=154856090 #AttentionEconomy
Translation: The boss did something very stupid, so we're saying "We're looking into it" and hope he just forgets about it in a couple of days.
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White House walks back Trump's big Hollywood tariff announcement
Trump said his administration would "immediately' begin 'implementing' a tariff on foreign films, but the White House said a decision isn't final.
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May 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Translation: The boss did something very stupid, so we're saying "We're looking into it" and hope he just forgets about it in a couple of days.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
I will always share work from @patrickhwellems - one of the sharpest cultural critics working today. Still finding a way to make a business model out of long-form, thoughtful content!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3y8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3y8...
Post-Credits Scenes Aren’t Fun Anymore
Watch the Speed Racer episode right now on Nebula https://nebula.tv/videos/patrickhwillems-the-most-important-movie-of-the-21st-centuryGet 40% off of a full ...
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May 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I will always share work from @patrickhwellems - one of the sharpest cultural critics working today. Still finding a way to make a business model out of long-form, thoughtful content!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3y8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3y8...
In these chaotic times - daily economic turmoil daily, rule of law in question - losing focus doesn't help you fight for a better day. As an ADHDer who's been practicing for this, I found G Storey's wisdom helpful: brilliantcrank.com/the-dice-035...
The Dice — 035
America Needs You paired with solid lessons from Ikigai, Stoicism, Antifragility, Buddhism, and Ubuntu.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In these chaotic times - daily economic turmoil daily, rule of law in question - losing focus doesn't help you fight for a better day. As an ADHDer who's been practicing for this, I found G Storey's wisdom helpful: brilliantcrank.com/the-dice-035...
Few writers had a bigger impact on a young Patrick than Neil Gaiman. Learning who he really was has been difficult. @timwaggoner post on the topic helped crystallize my thinking on it. These situations suck, and no reaction will change that.
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Dealing with Authors Who are Jerks, Bastards, or Downright Evil in Real Life
(I originally wrote this entry in August 2024. I used "problematic" in the title in an attempt to cover a broad category of writers whose ...
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April 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Few writers had a bigger impact on a young Patrick than Neil Gaiman. Learning who he really was has been difficult. @timwaggoner post on the topic helped crystallize my thinking on it. These situations suck, and no reaction will change that.
writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2024/08/deal...
writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2024/08/deal...
When I'm home, it lives on my desk. When I'm out, it stays in my bag. Unless I'm using it, I introduce a little friction between my phone and myself. Patrick Rhone's "This is a Tool" article articulates perfectly why I've been doing this for the past two years.
www.patrickrhone.net/this-is-a-to...
www.patrickrhone.net/this-is-a-to...
This Is A Tool – Rhoneisms
Rhoneisms
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April 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When I'm home, it lives on my desk. When I'm out, it stays in my bag. Unless I'm using it, I introduce a little friction between my phone and myself. Patrick Rhone's "This is a Tool" article articulates perfectly why I've been doing this for the past two years.
www.patrickrhone.net/this-is-a-to...
www.patrickrhone.net/this-is-a-to...
Nothing in the whole of creative world makes me struggle with resistance more than starting. Once I get going, I’m functionally unstoppable, but that initial inertia? Man.
In other, related news, I started a new spec script. Think Silent Hill 2 meets As Above, So Below in a dead mall.
In other, related news, I started a new spec script. Think Silent Hill 2 meets As Above, So Below in a dead mall.
March 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Nothing in the whole of creative world makes me struggle with resistance more than starting. Once I get going, I’m functionally unstoppable, but that initial inertia? Man.
In other, related news, I started a new spec script. Think Silent Hill 2 meets As Above, So Below in a dead mall.
In other, related news, I started a new spec script. Think Silent Hill 2 meets As Above, So Below in a dead mall.
Leave it to the great @chuckwendig, writer of the Penmonkey’s Paean, to give us the encouragement we need to keep telling stories in hard times. Hard times needs stories most of all, so we remember to keep fighting for the day to come:
terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
Please Promote Your Work In The Face Of Uninvited Nightmare
I’ve seen people say they don’t want to share their books, their art, their work right now because it seems trivial in the shadows of these dark times, and I thought, I should talk abou…
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March 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Leave it to the great @chuckwendig, writer of the Penmonkey’s Paean, to give us the encouragement we need to keep telling stories in hard times. Hard times needs stories most of all, so we remember to keep fighting for the day to come:
terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
Random question for the Writers who follow me - what are your actual writing schedules like?
That is - do you do a little hear and there throughout the day? Do you work regularly a few hours every day? Do you select days where you're doing nothing but churning out pages?
I'm curious.
That is - do you do a little hear and there throughout the day? Do you work regularly a few hours every day? Do you select days where you're doing nothing but churning out pages?
I'm curious.
March 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Random question for the Writers who follow me - what are your actual writing schedules like?
That is - do you do a little hear and there throughout the day? Do you work regularly a few hours every day? Do you select days where you're doing nothing but churning out pages?
I'm curious.
That is - do you do a little hear and there throughout the day? Do you work regularly a few hours every day? Do you select days where you're doing nothing but churning out pages?
I'm curious.
Open the circle
All creation in my veins
Transmute thought to flesh
All creation in my veins
Transmute thought to flesh
March 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Open the circle
All creation in my veins
Transmute thought to flesh
All creation in my veins
Transmute thought to flesh
I've taken to writing smaller pieces about the fictional megafauna I'm working on. Here's a poem about the feature I'm outlining, both on the allure and danger of nostalgia.
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February 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I've taken to writing smaller pieces about the fictional megafauna I'm working on. Here's a poem about the feature I'm outlining, both on the allure and danger of nostalgia.
There's so many great Gene Hackman performances out there, it's genuinely impossible to pick just one.
But if I HAD to, I'd pick his cameo in Young Frankenstein. He improv-ed his final line and reportedly made Mel Brooks laugh so hard, he ruined the take.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPl...
#RIP
But if I HAD to, I'd pick his cameo in Young Frankenstein. He improv-ed his final line and reportedly made Mel Brooks laugh so hard, he ruined the take.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPl...
#RIP
🔥 Remembering GENE HACKMAN in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) Dir. Mel Brooks
YouTube video by Darwin Pictures
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February 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
There's so many great Gene Hackman performances out there, it's genuinely impossible to pick just one.
But if I HAD to, I'd pick his cameo in Young Frankenstein. He improv-ed his final line and reportedly made Mel Brooks laugh so hard, he ruined the take.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPl...
#RIP
But if I HAD to, I'd pick his cameo in Young Frankenstein. He improv-ed his final line and reportedly made Mel Brooks laugh so hard, he ruined the take.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPl...
#RIP
Reposted by Patrick Regan
World's crazy right now, so let's get some fiction up in this nonsense.
Here's a free piece of horror flash fiction about taking action to stop family curses and cyclical trauma with you, even if it's terrifying. Hope you enjoy.
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/154856045/
Here's a free piece of horror flash fiction about taking action to stop family curses and cyclical trauma with you, even if it's terrifying. Hope you enjoy.
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/154856045/
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
World's crazy right now, so let's get some fiction up in this nonsense.
Here's a free piece of horror flash fiction about taking action to stop family curses and cyclical trauma with you, even if it's terrifying. Hope you enjoy.
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/154856045/
Here's a free piece of horror flash fiction about taking action to stop family curses and cyclical trauma with you, even if it's terrifying. Hope you enjoy.
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/154856045/
World's crazy right now, so let's get some fiction up in this nonsense.
Here's a free piece of horror flash fiction about taking action to stop family curses and cyclical trauma with you, even if it's terrifying. Hope you enjoy.
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/154856045/
Here's a free piece of horror flash fiction about taking action to stop family curses and cyclical trauma with you, even if it's terrifying. Hope you enjoy.
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/154856045/
patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
World's crazy right now, so let's get some fiction up in this nonsense.
Here's a free piece of horror flash fiction about taking action to stop family curses and cyclical trauma with you, even if it's terrifying. Hope you enjoy.
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/154856045/
Here's a free piece of horror flash fiction about taking action to stop family curses and cyclical trauma with you, even if it's terrifying. Hope you enjoy.
https://patrickreganwriter.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/154856045/