Tiny boar cooling off in tiny mud puddle pic.twitter.com/lSOra5hrPI
— Awkward Animals (@SoVeryAwkward) May 31, 2018
Today seems like the right time to do a thread I've been thinking about for a while on how to handle the seemingly never-ending deluge of depressing and disturbing news. My tips are based on my time as a CIA military analyst in which I dealt daily with disturbing content. (1/)
— Cindy Otis (@CindyOtis_) June 29, 2018
"How can I feel strong?" she said.
— A Small Fiction (@ASmallFiction) June 30, 2018
"This hate potion would do," the witch said.
"Oh. How can I BE strong?"
"Don't take the hate potion."
This is my advice for trying novels for the first time. https://t.co/6xagKWSSIt
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) July 11, 2018
PARMINDER NAGRA DID NOT HIDE HER FOOTBALL PLAYING FROM HER STRICT INDIAN PARENTS FOR THIS KIND OF DISRESPECT https://t.co/6UoRDsC6NL
— Alisha Rai (@AlishaRai) July 13, 2018
The five love languages:
— ᴄ ʀ ᴇ ᴇ ᴅ ᴏ (@Alonzo_Creed) July 10, 2018
Words of Affirmation: This is a good burrito.
Acts of Service: I made you a burrito.
Receiving Gifts: Here's a burrito.
Quality time: Let's go get some burritos together.
Physical touch: Arms around a person wrapped in a warm hug, like a burrito.
“So you working on anything writing related?”
— Athena Scalzi: ASDQ (@AScalzi98) July 17, 2018
Me: “Oh yeah been writing a novel for two years actually”
“Oh can I read some sometime?”
Me: “Yes you can read all 413 words I have of it”
This. #mainstream #media pic.twitter.com/6sYTVzJ0Dg
— Helen Austin (@helenaustin) July 18, 2018
Couldn't sleep last night. I kept thinking about how the Green Ranger had a dagger that was a flute that sounded like a synthesizer that's trying to sound like a trumpet. And he blew into it with his helmet on. pic.twitter.com/ji9EzWBB3v
— Chris Shehan_Art (@ChrisShehanArt) July 17, 2018
every time i get brushed. i have to take my collar off. the human always laughs. and says that i’m naked. but joke’s on them. i’m very confident in my body
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) September 1, 2018
Hullo Twitter, it's been a while: pic.twitter.com/YP4UbB6Zqx
— Guy Keverne Body (@GuyKeverneBody) August 12, 2018
Does anyone else worry that someday a fan is going to ask a detailed question about one of your books and you'll have no idea what they're talking about?
— Deidre J Owen (@deidrejowen) September 18, 2018
I mean, I straight up forgot a character's name half way through writing the thing. pic.twitter.com/lG8ZyE7Ran
Finally got to have coffee in NY with my Twitter buddy @scalzi. We’re already planning tea in London! pic.twitter.com/Pt2YnnBxEY
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 26, 2018
Captain Leif's Viking Tutorial! Learn how to:
— Fake Theme Park (@FakeThemePark) September 26, 2018
Fight
Fight dirty
Go berserk
Pillage
Sack
Loot
Salt the earth of your enemies
Drink
Overdrink
Sail
Row
Whip rowers for not rowing fast enough
Start to find manatees attractive
Miss a field goal in the 1998 NFC Championship Game
You can grow and change, even if what you’re doing right now is popular, and you feel like you can’t afford to switch gears. Your best work will be the work you want to do.
— Kate Beaton (@beatonna) October 11, 2018
NOTE TO JOURNALISTS:
— John Voelcker (@johnvoelcker) October 19, 2018
"If someone says it’s raining, and another says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the window and find out which is true."
First of all, this is offensive bullshit. Second of all, how much is it? https://t.co/qXVcfKJQre
— Anil Dash 🥭 (@anildash) October 21, 2018
Not today. https://t.co/Jg51mGHPO1
— Maisie Williams (@Maisie_Williams) November 2, 2018
I spent most of my young life learning the best writers were white men with addictions, and most of my adult life unlearning that.
— Justin Pierce 🥧 (@justinpie) November 11, 2018
The MasterMind game box people from 1972 reunited for an updated photo and it is awesome. pic.twitter.com/UaeDsjEvhl
— Andrew King (@twitandrewking) September 3, 2018
I was throwing out 10,000 Magic cards and the bag ripped LOL pic.twitter.com/aopPwXKil5
— John Markisch (@Real2KInsider) November 18, 2018
a plot point you don’t like ≠ a plot hole
— rey is gay (@saltandrockets) December 16, 2018
characters making choices you wouldn’t make yourself ≠ bad writing
a movie that doesn’t appeal to your personal taste or conform to your specific expectations and desires ≠ an inherently bad movie
I know Millennial humor is like "lol I have trouble making phone calls because of my anxiety" & "look at this cockatoo playing with plastic cup, it makes me not want to die for like half a minute" but I prefer that to fucking baby boomer jokes about how much they hate their wives
— 🌻Elle 🐈 "Gato"🌻Maruska (they/them) (@ellle_em) December 18, 2018
Remember THIS when writing first drafts today… #amwriting #writerslife #WednesdayWisdom #backtowork pic.twitter.com/zfIM5kD0wN
— Lacey London (@thelaceylondon) January 2, 2019
#OnThisDay in 2007, J.K. Rowling finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in an Edinburgh hotel room – the culmination of 17 years of writing. pic.twitter.com/8Zetpan3ZI
— Pottermore (@pottermore) January 11, 2019
