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welltemperedwriter.wordpress.comObligatory where to get my stuff postI’ve got a Publications page, but some of the books there are out of print, and I don’t expect people to shell out for single issues of a magazine just because I’ve got a story in…

27 Nov 2025

Yeah, I got stories. Here's the books they're in and links to get 'em: welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/o...

The CDS keeps sending me tabbies, it is what it is

Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social

My idea files have more in them than I could possibly live long enough to turn into finished work. There's a reason they call it the grind...

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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Cary Elwes also broke his toe, while filming The Princess Bride, which is why he both sits down and stands up the way he does in this scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=niul...

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

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My other one is that Morgan Freeman’s character in Robin Hood existed because of the character Nasir in the TV show Robin of Sherwood; prior to that, there had not been a Muslim character in the stories m.youtube.com/watch?v=F434...

Genuinely wondering if Shulman was traumatized at some point in his life by the idea that you have to be really good at music, maybe even prodigiously talented at an instrument, in order for it to be fun.

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Another was a Rush concert last Monday. I'm not saying that it's the absence of tech as such that makes music worthwhile. But AI seems to take over all the parts that are fun.

I play Hardanger fiddle. It's a difficult instrument. My cats flee the room when I take it out to practice--I'm not exaggerating, they really do. I am unlikely to ever be especially good at it, though I've improved from where I started. But when I have a good practice session, it feels great.

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Because I know people that's happened to, and it's mind-blowing that we can be persuaded to not do this very human thing that way.

One of the most sublime musical experiences I've had in the last few years was in the middle of a desert, miles from the nearest power outlet or cell tower, with nothing more available to us than voices and maybe a few things that rattled.

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Life Inside a Legend: @rimrunner.bsky.social reviews Julie Salmon Kelleher’s THE SEA-GLASS SHORE (@forestavenuepress.bsky.social)

11 Sept

After living in Washington State for 30 years, today I finally did the Puyallup.

4 Sept

Apparently growing up in the D.C. suburbs to parents from Massachusetts and Louisiana, followed by 4 years in western Massachusetts and 30 in Seattle makes me sound like...a Mainer.

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Raging Sciatica #middleagedbandnames

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3 Aug

It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and We’re Not Fine: @rimrunner.bsky.social reviews Temi Oh's NOT WITH A BANG (@sagapressbooks.bsky.social)

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29 July

Loving this thread; it's been just long enough since I read the poem that I've forgotten quite a few details. As a theme, this would have made for a more entertaining movie, by my lights.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net

At this point in the narrative, the message of the poem doesn't seem to me to be "the gods are watching: don't commit atrocities." It seems to be more like "the gods are watching: don't be a fucking jackass." Two very different things, ha ha!

29 July

Here's the top of the thread so you can start from the beginning. bsky.app/profile/greg...

Greg Pak@gregpak.net

Okay, Emily Wilson, you pulled me in! I'm reading your translation of the ODYSSEY, first time I've read this poem since college. Let's see how it goes...

28 July

I think the proper way to do The Odyssey is as a TV series where you keep everything in. Drop episodes once a week like the broadcast network days so that people can argue about characterization inconsistencies and plot holes.

27 July

Who are they to say What the truth is anyway? 'Cause the ones who tell the lies Are the solemnest to swear And the ones who load the dice Always say the toss is fair And the ones who deal the cards Are the ones who take the tricks With their hands over their hearts While we play the game they fix

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Micah

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22 July

I have been rereading Pride and Prejudice to follow along with the amazing @trungles.com thread and my favorite thing about the Elizabeth/Darcy romance is that it’s not a case of “I can fix him” but more “if he’s worth it, he’ll fix himself”

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

'i can fix him' no my love you can't. no one ever has

24 July

PLOT TWIST

23 July

When I don't know what to make for food, I sauté some garlic and find something to put it on.

continuum.fas.harvard.eduHeroesX - Classical ContinuumAbout HeroesX HeroesX, also known as The Ancient Greek Hero, is an intergenerational, open-access course (though we prefer to call it a learning project) created by Professor Gregory Nagy and first la...

22 July

Though I don’t think it’s currently running as an interactive class, the online course HeroesX helped me understand what Aliette is talking about here—not just through Homer but other stories, myths, and poems. The course content is freely available online: continuum.fas.harvard.edu/heroesx/

Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com

I studied the history of heroism sometime in my (misspent) youth. The Iliad and odyssey were directed at a very specific warrior class who ruled in Greece back then. Much of what they do was acceptable at the time--but their ideas of heroic are those of a basically alien culture (1/?)

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shaunt

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20 July

of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it

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20 July

Excedrin, take me away…

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Janel Comeau 🍁

19 July

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

rollingstone.comJennifer Finch, L7 Bassist, Dead at 59Jennifer Finch, the longtime bassist for influential rock group L7, has died at age 59.

19 July

Well, shit.

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L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has died at 59 following a battle with brain cancer. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

19 July

…you know what I can see it

troyliss@troyliss.bsky.social

The only good thing to come out of the dipshit Odyssey discourse is that at one point I commented “if we’re worried about accuracy, then Jason Mantzoukas should be playing Odysseus,” and now I can’t get it out of my head 😄

18 July

In the hour of our greatest need, Jimothy appeared

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18 July

Meant to share this...uh, last month, but anyway I have an essay in the June issue of Wayfarer Magazine with an awesome photo from Noah Buscher so here you go: www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/seeds-plan...

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11 July

welltemperedwriter.wordpress.comYesteryear, Ramtha, Unholy Anorexia, Dementia, CzarinaI’m in a neighborhood book club, and we recently read Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear. I had decidedly mixed feelings about it, though truth be told I’m not sure whether it’s because, as a nerd who …

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10 July

welltemperedwriter.wordpress.comIn gratitude: a 2007 Toyota PriusI believe our things have a part in shaping us. I also believe that we shape those things in ways that might well be called their spirits. Our use of things makes them individual exemplars of…

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Trung Le Nguyen

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28 May

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

9 July

We didn't have any collections, but we did have a WaPo subscription which ran Doonesbury (in the editorial section, if memory serves). There was a lot I didn't get, but it did set me up to recognize Ramtha's School of Enlightenment when I randomly drove past it about 15 years later. IOW: fair cop.

Lizzie O'Leary@lizzieohreally.bsky.social

Furthering my theory that this entire website is for people who owned Doonesbury collections as children and understood about a third of it.

2 July

I'm just the top two squares pinging back and forth

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2 July

Replying to @shiftkicker.bsky.social

We too have definitely done many crimes, and she will let us know as soon as she decides what they are