Recently a young writer posted on Reddit about the advice from Stephen King to augment your writing journey by learning what not do via reading bad books. Alan
Back in the nineties, I was the Alternative Music editor for Radio & Records , an industry publication that was inluential with radio music directors and pr
Listening to some Stevie Ray Vaughn. What an extraordinary talent. Every time I talked to legendary Texas DJ Redbeard about Vaughn, I swear Redbeard would damn near tear up. That's how I feel these days.
Debating as to whether put different types of posts on Mastodon and Bluesky for different audiences, and then I realized I don't have an audience LOL. So everybody gets everything! Cross-posting it is.
Oldest daughter now managed by Fourth Wall. Middle daughter safely ensconced in her dorm at the University of North Texas. Youngest daughter banging the shit out of the drums. Been a good week!
I simply haven't found anything that works for me as well as Notion. I'd love to use an open source solution, but nothing is remotely as good. The good news is that, for me, Notion has been an organizational game changer.
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Was thinking of switching this thriller to first person, but then I remembered that my friend, the sorely missed and amazing Dawn Lee McKenna, wrote hers in third person. So let's keep this in third as a tribute to her.
Still processing Sinead O'Connor's death. She was disarmingly open. Stunningly brave. Seemingly fragile. Yet ferocious. She survived the dark side and decided to let her light shine. And how it shined!
A day of short fiction critiques and script notes for me. Script notes are done (LOVED the concept. Those are fun scripts to read.). On to the short fiction.
So let's try this out. I enabled the Friendica connection to Bluesky and am posting this from Friendica. It will be really cool to unify these two social networks. For those that don't know: Friendica is built on the same platform as Mastodon (ActivityPub), so I can post to Mastodon, too. Federated unity!
Oooh, thanks to @poliverso.bsky.social I learned that Friendica is (mostly) integrated with Bluesky via a plugin. So now I can incrementally at least consolidate my social media presence.
Have the tentative schedule for my participation at the Cascade Writers Workshop, and I'm on four panels, all of which sound extremely fun and educational. I can't wait!
This video is a fascinating deconstruction of genius. An extremely strong guitar player breaks down an Eddie Van Halen riff that is nearly impossible to play. Just when he succeeds, he looks deeper and discovers a level of virtuosity that seems unattainable to mortals.
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Just had an ambient track I created and went to upload to an album for distribution flagged for explicit lyrics. An instrumental track. Flagged for explicit lyrics. 🤦
Adapting this novel from a biopic screenplay I wrote shouldn't be as hard as this is turning out to be. Point-of-view is the real challenge. I just can't get a handle on how to approach it in novel form for this subject.
Bluesky's user name management is pretty cool. You can link it to a domain or subdomain that you own, so my user name is now @Jake.kerr.social. I love how my Bluesky handle is *owned* by me.
Just registered for Bluesky, which is essentially a clone of Twitter's UI. It looks very sharp. I like the open source federated content model, so I'm rooting for it.
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Holy shit! That SO AMAZING. YOU TOTALLY DESERVE THIS, TOO! OMIGOD. OMIGOD. So happy for your, Sarah!! Wait, you need more exclamation marks! Yes!!!!!! Go you!!!!
The finalists for Young Adult Novel for the Locus Awards are such a ridic good list of brilliant fantasy/sf YA. We are so lucky to be living in such a time of riches. And I’m so grateful that Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak is on the ballot.
After 14 years. After doing some deal connections with Ev WIlliams and Biz Stone. After being one of the earliest cheerleaders... I have deactivated my Twitter account.
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