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“I think the most challenging thing about writing an unreliable narrator—and writing in general, really—can be when you're too worried about being misinterpreted. [...] Trust is the crux of it—you have to trust yourself as an artist to effectively share your vision, and you have to trust your reader's intelligence. That takes practice.” -zanny stohl

author interview with @znnys.bsky.social is live on the (s)crawl blog ✍️

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learn more about the inspiration behind their piece “i always liked blueberries the best” and the importance of trust when it comes to the relationship between writers and readers.

that's a lot of words to say you're too stupid to use other words

id argue that quite a few different substances are important to him.

recently adopted a cat named velvet and we watched blue velvet together. even though she is too young for that movie.

I always recommend this book to friends when they want to read a werewolf book. It's SO fantastic. Thank you for writing it.

I think a bit of the "AI is democratizing art" argument is trying to avoid the ugly truth that to get good at anything you have to do a lot of it. I grew up "knowing" I was a good writer, but I really wasn't until about 700k words, and it took reading hours of scripts to really have a voice

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

hate those book review blurbs where it just has little arrows pointing out of the cover with random phrases. like ok. im glad there's a found family here somewhere. what's the plot. what's actually going on.

A man says "turns out my favourite director was a domestic abuser." Another man puts his hand on the other guy's shoulder and says "sucks for you man." He then effusively states "every piece of media I've ever enjoyed was made by a good person..." He then smugly points to him self. He continues "...and thus, I am a good person."

using the sims like interior planning software to try and improve my apartment's feng shui

yeah i did get baby fever from eraserhead.

I keep hearing great things about Indika. need to finally check it out.

3 different women at the goodwill complimented me on finding this $8 corner shelf and they didn't even mention you

now that you spoke this into existence there's gonna be a cozy found family retelling of macbeth or something coming out

Daily Mail, Saturday, August 13, 1983 VIOLENCE LUST DEGRDATION SADISM GOBE BLOOD its an illustration of the human head with a TV and VCR in front of the face. Basically it's a fear mongering image from the daily mail of what movies do to people DRAWING by DAVID O'CONNOR "Hooking of the video junkies"

logging on

Gotta get back to only drawing vampires. That is the goal.

YESS

a little glass vial!

So many new people here so i feel like i should introduce myself properly, i’m todd howard and i invented video games.

so wheres the starter pack for freaks and sickos. where's the starter pack for fans of crash 1996.

been getting a lot of book related posts recommended to me and so help me god if any of you on here start to say that percy jackson is praxis or whatever. so help me god.

Harpy's Hollow #pixelart

Finally got caught up in my reading and am ready to vote in the 1998 Hugo Awards.

painting my dnd character, ashes-to-ashes, that @polterghoster.bsky.social kindly printed for me. progress so far.

claudiaaaa #iwtv

alright i do need to get a recommended page that's a little less corny.

beckoning you with my erotic ct siren call

A sign reading “no clothing allowed in the library.”

hoopla my beloved