I have so many short story ideas, but I write only the first paragraph and just can't continue, yet the entire story is sitting there in my head anxious to come out. Because I've thought so much about the story that I know how it starts, how it ends, who the main characters are, but I can't get it out of my head..... Not sure how to get out of this state. It's been going for about a month now 😭
Its insomnia season so I'm looking for a new hobby. Perhaps night dancing.
Night dancers, in some places they are called night runners, are people who dance at midnight to bewitch others. They dance stark naked, sometimes covered in ash, at the door of the person they want to bewitch. They rub their naked butts on the door in the process, so one way to protect yourself is embed razor blades on the door.
I've been thinking of a film based on these people since 2009 but never gotten round to it.
While on the web I see a lot of posts on my timeline. But using @Tusky I don't see as much, just a handful from a few people over and over again. Or is it just me? Like the last five minutes, tried refreshing but no new posts come up. For 5 minutes?
Perhaps I'm missing something, or need to do something on the settings?
Is it just me or does everyone who works from home spend a lot of time in the kitchen, either cooking or washing dishes and cleaning stuff up? Its become annoying.
@dilmandila And shopping for groceries. A lot of stuff that somehow wasn’t required when I spent an hour and a half travelling to and from the office every day.
According to research by the Havard School of Futurism, by 2030 bananas will officially be called bananum, and strawberries will be strawberrum, because the Large Lying Models will make us believe these are the right words. The researchers quoted Aristotle who said "If you tell a lie three times while drinking a town's water supply, it will become the truth."
Author copies arrived of this bulky anthology of African ghost stories. Now I can say that my story was published in the same book as the legend, Amos Tutuola!
Ever since I quit Google I've stopped receiving junk emails, used to come about 10 a day and would end up in promotions folder, or updates, or socials, which google created. Now, I get nothing. Only newsletters, some of which are industry related so I don't mind them. #email#google#webdev
Yesterday, for supporting my robot film, #TheMetalPerson I rewarded patrons with a stylized wallpaper of a pied kingfisher sitting on a leafless branch (looks like a stick suspended in air). The foreground, bird and branch, is monochrome, the background is pale yellow. (Okay, alt-texting has taught me how to describe images, you get the picture?)
I have finally finished a novel that I have been writing since 2017 (I think I am now done!?) so wondering what the way forward is. Agent? Big Five/Four? But I would really prefer a reputable small press publisher (maybe Big Small Press😁), so going to knock on doors again. If there is any you know that is open for submissions, I'll appreciate the tip.
@evilcookies98 I keep thinking of it but I am not good at marketing and with self-pub you have to keep marketing to make sales. I would rather someone else worries about that side of things
@dilmandila i’m sure you could get help with marketing. I use this thing called smash words. They handle publishing and distribution, and they have special sales and such.
Looks like book submissions are becoming like movie pitches, with moodboards and character sketches and all that. I guess I should stick to working with indie press and small press publishers, just for a peace of mind, because the gatekeeperism of trad publishing is going up a notch....
I'm in the process of migrating from Google Workspace to Proton Mail, but I've hit a snag that might make me stick to Google. I have several email addresses for business, and yet Proton puts all emails in one inbox, which doesn't make any sense. So I'll get emails related to my writing in the same inbox as those for film, as personal emails, and as those for other work? I expected separate logins for each email.
@dilmandila oh, then, for what you want, you should be making separate users for each separate login/inbox that you want, and not adding them all as addresses to one user
I bet Hollywood scriptwriters are already plotting out stories of the traumatised Israeli soldier who goes into Gaza and shoots one armed person and saves a little girl from rubble and he has to live with the trauma of what he witnessed, but it will all be from Israeli military's point of view because, well, propaganda.