David Dvorkin @DavidDvorkin@qoto.org
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Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.
Joined Nov 2022
@atheistaddiction I see. The one I'm working (and working and working) on is fiction. Much needs to be added for purposes of character relationships, character development, and plot. I probably won't be cutting much. It could end up at 250,000 words, or close, which would make it more than twice as long as the longest book I've written before this.
@atheistaddiction That's quite a cull!
181,000 words, and still a long way to go. That may not sound like much to those who have written long books, but it's humongous by my standards. I wonder how long it will be when it's done. I wonder when it will be done. I'm trying not to wonder whether it will be done.
#writing #ScienceFiction #WritingCommunity
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@RPGlover Except that I'm an idle thing instead of an idle king.
Now that I'm an old far-- guy, I write much more slowly than when I was young and the words poured out of me. However, the words that creep out of me so slowly now are better chosen, and the result needs far less rewriting to be good.
Or possibly I'm deluding myself about that.
Inevitably, after the mass murders at Club Q in Colorado Springs, newsreaders are telling us solemnly that the city is in mourning. It should be, but we all know that there are many in that city and across the country who are delighted and gleefully anticipating more murders of gays, trans people, Jews, blacks, Asians, and on and on -- and that will happen, thanks to the twin evils of hatred and the proliferation of guns.
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The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.
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This is a mug from 1674. Doesn’t it look like something you could buy at Starbucks?
Coffee shops were common in bigger British cities in the 1670s, and according to Pepys, they shouted out your name when your drink was ready. People sometimes gave hilarious fake names for a laugh. Very little truly changes ☕️
@darksidedeb@mastodon.social That's a brilliant idea.
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Twitter right now be like the last day of summer camp with everyone crying and exchanging contact info
@obi The author finally lost all interest.
@georgetakei Perhaps the kind of man who says that leaves the disaster behind him thinking that he really did fix it.
It seems to me that, strictly speaking, you can't write your autobiography because you don't know how it ends until you're at the end, at which point you're unlikely to feel like writing or to be able to if the end is sudden and unexpected. Even if you could write the end, it would be something like this: And now, my friends, as I reach my end, I want to sum up everything I've learned in my long and eventful life in the form of this vitally important messa
Hmm. I could swear I've seen you somewhere before.
New account. I’m trying to fly a little lower nowadays. Not under the radar but not so much in the radar’s face.
@mitchwagner Best to stick to simple smilies, then.
These replies are quite telling.
(I have no idea what I mean by that.)
- Website
- http://www.dvorkin.com/
Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.
Joined Nov 2022
