Period Splice

words words words words punchline Writing, journalism and some creative bullshits

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I don't want to keep my headphones in. I want to hear the birds, the crunchy snow, my rhythmic steps, and the purring wind.

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I'd like to be friends with more animals.

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I'm of the opinion that we should really just drop the alphabet B.S. and just use the term "Queer" as the umbrella for the community.

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Sometimes accepting the chaos and being at peace with it is better than trying to control it.

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As a writer, I don't want any of my work to be used for training AI. Ever. Period.

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How to be less fucking awkward? Or at least not be so tense and be relaxed in conversation. Talking to people I don't know stresses me tf out, interviews can be so damn difficult.

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Evidently it won't be a tyrannical government or a new world order that cripples the free press. It will be that they cannot make money doing the work that is essential to democracy.

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And yes if you are wondering there were more layoffs announced from a big ol' news org.

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Evidently it won't be a tyrannical government or a new world order that cripples the free press. It will be that they cannot make money doing the work that is essential to democracy.

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

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"an individual was seen..." An individual?? An individual what?? An individual person? So a person, what you actually mean is a person. I hate PR language.

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Realising I need a place to vent more transparently about my thoughts on journalism, writing, and trying to hack it in this bullshit existence.

One of the biggest news orgs in my country just laid off another 11% of its editorial staff; now there are anecdotes left and right of empty newsrooms being sold off to the most mediocre bidder, and people venting about how hard this industry is becoming. It doesn't inspire a whole lot of enthusiasm for me as I'm trying to break into this dying profession.

"You either get funded by the government or bought out by a billionaire." A colleague had vented while at a media drinking night.

"At least Bezos has been pretty hands-off with the Washington Post," Another journalist retorted.

Meanwhile, local journalism is dead or without any teeth. So many papers are so terrified of being critical or covering difficult but necessary topics due to lawsuits or lack of resources. There needs to be a shift, a new way of doing this. We have been needing a functioning free press more than ever lately; we have been wading through pandemics and neo-fascisms with a crippled journalism that can't perform its primary function. Even the CBC and it's solid reputation can't seem to do what it should.

[spiralshells]

Deceptrode! A bug/ground type that mimics Electrode to protect itself from water and flying-type predators.

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Shiny boy wants a hugs :<

[snobgoblin]

happy new year! 🎊

[catchymemes]

[plaguedocboi]

“Keep descriptions short and don’t use poetic/flowery language in a novel” “if a scene doesn’t advance the plot cut it” “avoid complicated symbolism and hinting at things, just say what you mean” “too much worldbuilding is distracting” bites you bites you bites you bites you bites y

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Then classics like A Farewell to Arms won't even really start until the 5th or 6th chapter. Until then it's just detail and description and Italian dudes hanging out. Main guy goes on a whole vacation, comes back, nothing's changed except it's spring now and mayyyybe the conflict will start.

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Obsessed with this year's grand prize winner of the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest

2022 Grand Prize Winner

"I knew she was trouble the second she walked into my 24-hour deli, laundromat, and detective agency, and after dropping a load of unmentionables in one of the heavy-duty machines (a mistake that would soon turn deadly) she turned to me, asking for two things: find her missing husband and make her a salami on rye with spicy mustard, breaking into tears when I told her I couldn't help—I was fresh out of salami."

[mincedgirlic]

Anyone else feel the dread? Clap if you feel the dread

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