Ah, I only mentioned a few of the parallels in the live feed before I got bored (and realised I was probably boring everyone else as well) and stopped. If it's anything in the Millibars (sounds better than 'skeets' doesn't it?) then I apologise.
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Ah, I only mentioned a few of the parallels in the live feed before I got bored (and realised I was probably boring everyone else as well) and stopped. If it's anything in the Millibars (sounds better than 'skeets' doesn't it?) then I apologise.
Who are you talking to - Abigail or me? Just for the sake of clarity!
Mother is nutty-puttying in her sleep
Great stuff! But also the name of the app: Procreate. LOL.
Go absolutely apeshit hyperbolically evil (assuming you haven't drafted that already)... like, oh I don't know, welding every door in a family home shut and let them starve to death? It's just an idea- take it or leave it- but the first half of my first sentence is actionable but not overweening.
Even writing verse is getting old for the time being.
I'm really bored now. Waiting on another writer to finish their draft of a novel before I exchange it for notes on my novella (and the same for them) - urgh, what do I do with myself? I could write a play or film but there's minimal opportunities for a writer of my standing.
*plays, films, TV shows and books, obviously. I missed one.
For now it's one of those things the public consciousness would rather erase from memory. Even plays, films and TV shows about it aren't doing too well. Give it time; people will come back to it when they're ready.
It’s hard to write Arsonist monologues for Philosophy Tube now that so much of what the character was designed to ape is mainstream. I remember when “arresting firemen” and “setting fire to refugee hotels” was the most extreme thing I could think to make him advocate for; now it’s the news
Floating in the water Free for a quarter of an hour No sight of brick and mortar Just you, water, Gaia's power
Feel kinda embarrassed now for mentioning all the parallels considering what you LITERALLY WROTE ON HERE a couple of hours prior to the premiere. Oh well. (In fairness I only use here for quick bursts of scansion and an occasional rant)
SPEED No, not the drug No half three am fug As in the hole I dug To only make it worse Another blasted verse
NOT POLITICS I get it's vital and important But this verse is a portent If you're reading this properly: (And if not, you need mockery) For at risk of looking like an ass Or arse, just please touch grass! Yanks: little tip there for your sanity Prior to more justified anger at Hannity
One of the great imponderables: wondering about plays by great contemporary writers that never happened for one reason or another. Case in point: Chris Bush's 'Cerberus', which was going to have a reading at the Bunker Theatre in March 2020.
I finished the first draft of my first novella after five years of fruitless scriptwriting a week ago and the two things I really missed was the smells and the weather! Fortunately these are fairly quick fixes as the rest was planned to hell and back.
SHARPENING THE MIND Oh please dabble in poetry: Please please please I beg you. It doesn't matter what medium But as far as literary Elysium Goes it's hard to beat. Small, complete and efficient: Any writer can get proficient In this. Whether plays, prose Films with production woes We need variety
BREAKING PROMISES An earlier poem went horribly wrong So allow me to bang on my gong Of my own scheduling failure (Hey, least I'm not impaling ya!) Kind of on hiatus now; other projects beckon No not going to say, what did you reckon?
Just read your most recent screenplay draft that you posted - excellent stuff! It may be a personal taste thing but I enjoyed that far more than the typical action blockbuster fayre. I suppose the main takeaway here is there needs to be more mid-budget films like that one being made.
FIRST DRAFT OF FIRST NOVELLA FINISHED! Outline began mid-Jan; writing began in Feb; first draft finished TODAY! 31k words, 134 pages!
Penultimate chapter of first draft started! This one might take one or two days to write, because bloody hell, it's a biggie!
@theabigailthorn.bsky.social - make this a recurring joke in a video ASAP, please!
Hey #uk #playwrights of BlueSky - how are we finding the whole getting-produced lark atm?
@jocallaghankat.bsky.social
Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus) In The Blink of an Eye (@jocallaghan) Forest of Wool and Steel (Natsu Miyashita) Yellowface (R. F. Kuang) Victorian Psycho (Virginia Feito) Caledonian Road (Andrew O'Hagan) Perfection (Vincenzo Latronico)
Excellent Q Storyswipe! Just seen your profile too - followed! It's taken some acclimatising but I've enjoyed it more as time goes on. Also means that in a couple of days I'd have written plays, films, poetry & longform prose. Honestly it depends what the story is. Crap answer but there we are.
Two chapters from the end of the first draft of my novella! Quite invigorating actually... and to my surprise the process of book writing is significantly more enjoyable than I thought! I might end up dabbling in #novellas more. Good practice for a #playwright. Also satiates perfectionist streak...
What the Hell is up with the #OnlineSafetyAct - it sets itself up for massive failure, both personal and political. Personal because it only takes one data breach and millions of people have their lives ruined for countless reasons. Political because Starmer will be forever known for Wank Licence.
Every UK petition is like this
DOING IT DAILY It's a neat little habit Lines leaping like rabbits To do a verse every day. Even though probably it may Be rubbish, it's good practise For... something, may impact us An arbitrary little string of words.
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS At this rate everything I write will be poetry A neat little witticism wrapped up in a pun When all is done, it's probably as fun, When you're trying for a light bit of escapism As the poetry equivalent of scaphism
META Tech-related poem are booming (Or my awareness is mushrooming In a great ball and gone and clean, Despite the reams and reams and reams Of crappy verse being sent into cyberspace As I hide deep in my carapace And add my dreck to the sinking wreck Hey, name of company related to tech!)
BLUE SKY WITH CLOUDS If anyone was on this platform An attempt to perform - (In words, obviously, what did you expect?) The slightest glimmer of great, the next Hopeful star somewhere out here. Unless they're out there having a beer And, oh I don't know, possibly, like Attending an open mic?
And the G, E, N, C, Y we presume will be lopped off the name next?
#YOU'RE #ALL #IDIOTS Anyone here? Anyone at all? Are you sententious tits having a ball? Is this platform so boring you want to log off? Or see a man chopping his c--- off? Listen here, you galumphing fools No-one thinks you're a rebel for the rules You can't name texts on here correctly Skeets???
Apparently not, Craig. I'm firing off poems insulting everyone here and I haven't had one angry comment. It's a ghost town here, sir. I'm afraid you've got fascists on one side and neckbeards on the other.
TWO O CLOCK POEMS Why am I doing this what am I doing? This is me verbally pooing All over your feed in the earliest morning Why are you reading? This is boring
ACTIVISM Shouting into the void Will leave senses devoid But hey! Now you lack sang froid
#anyonehere #blueskyverse #millibarsisbetterthanskeets NO-ONE IS HERE No-one is here On this godforsaken platform I can write what I want And say what I like You'd be delusional (I mean institutional) For anyone to read this And think it of quality Or read it at all; I'm having a ball!
#poetry Yes it's time To cash in on a trend Like Arthur Miller And hope time bends This abstract nonsense Will zap into the void This abstract nonsense Will get me eaten by a thargoid Oh who cares about verse? There's better stuff out there If your titchy fleshy melon Isn't shaped like a pear
I wrote a poem about #hashtags and bluesky generally on my profile. Hardly gonna earn me a laureate but hey, what is poetry but screaming thumbscrews out your throat and into the void?
#HASHTAG #thisisapoem #writteninhashtags #becauseeveryonehere #seemsuncreativehags #sosaysomethinginteresting #forcryingoutloud #saysomethinginteresting #beforeipulveriseintoacloud
VERSE OF SOMETHING You may wonder why In an attempt to be pure For a pie-in-the-sky Attempt to abase and demure I'd write a poem For anyone to see Cos it's know-en That my verse's shitty I'm typing anything Out into the void To see if it'll sing Or mention hyperboloid Will anyone care? No.
'Must be a Flymo', says man who lawnmower'd his own face off. Bystanders say he was sexually attracted to it. theonion.com/thisisnotareallink/imbored/noseriouslydontclickityoufools.com
Don't you just want to hug the cute little fuzzball of fiery death?
'I'm Millibaring', perhaps...? It might draw some attention from your partner if they think you're screwing Millie Barr but at least it doesn't sound like nails on a chalkboard like skeet does. (Yes this shall be my BlueSky crusade! Obviously there is nothing more important to do. Yes, sarcasm.)
Hey, @bsky.app - Why are BlueSky messages called 'Skeets'? I get it's a portmanteau of sky and tweet but a millibar sounds much better. 'I'm just posting a skeet to BlueSky' vs 'I'm just posting a millibar to BlueSky'
Why are BlueSky messages called 'Skeets'? I get it's a portmanteau of sky and tweet but a millibar sounds much better. 'I'm just posting a skeet to BlueSky' vs 'I'm just posting a millibar to BlueSky'
#isthereanyoneevenonblueskyanymoreitseemsprettydeadtome #thatdoesntbodewell
I quite like, 'Going for a millibar on Bluesky'. @bsky.app - what say you? #hashtag #needlessterms #stillbuggingmeanyway #meterology #letsgetanincoherentranttrending #meterology #weather #ihavenothingbettertodowithmylife #yesreally #whatsgrass
(2/??) The answer's probably in here anyway: www.weather.gov/otx/full_wea...
Why are BlueSky messages called, 'Skeets'? Is it a portmanteau of 'sky' and 'tweets'? Either way it sounds like a sexual act and I'm sure we can think of a better one. 'What are you doing?' 'Just going for a quick skeet.' '...' '...' Perhaps you could call them... 'droplets'? Nope, uh... (1/??)
Heck of a teaser, I must admit. The trick is it shows quite a bit and almost nothing at the same time - a very tricky balance.
Would be a mercy, though, considering [Gestures broadly at everything.]
Hey, saw your post about Contrapoints on the sub. May I just say... spectacularly well-written argument, Sir! You should treat yourself for writing that. Brilliant stuff!
Kind of stuck on the first draft of this novella... 21k words in out of an, I assume, 32k. This is why I confine myself to scripts. Or I'm a particularly crap writer. You choose (no, don't).
And his next one, Grace Pervades, will too!
Happy Shakespeare's birthday, everyone!
Obvious question, but not David Hare the playwright and screenwriter?
If memory serves that was pretty much an arrow to its mark.
I wish there were more middlebrows in Hollywood. Admittedly the only film I've seen this year is Mickey 17, however it would be nice to have some films without obnoxious amounts of guns in them. I'm not averse to a good action or war film, but they might lose their power if that's all film is.
@contrapoints.bsky.social - if my suspicion based on historical precedent is right, we could be looking at the slaughter of every minority in the US - about 100m people. That's the absolute worst-case scenario.
To clarify - that was for a worst-case based on historical precedents - those precedents being things like, 'The power of the institution overwhelming popular opinion by ignoring it', etc.
I'm not normally one to interact in politics, however - If we assume Trump's aim is to eradicate every minority out of existence in the States, we'd be looking at 100m people. For perspective, that's a bigger number than the entire UK, even if we go by the biggest estimates.
238 people sent to CECOT that we know of. There may be significantly more than that, just the family members are afraid to put identifying details online because they will go next.
@contrapoints.bsky.social - was there a cypher in the video, perchance? Also, yet another masterpiece. Take as long as you need over 'em. The rewatchability makes it all worth it.
Can we have a Bryony Lavery appreciation thread? Recently she's been the author of #MidnightCowboy, #SputnikSweetheart and #BookOfDust - La Belle Sauvage. She's a truly magnificent #playwright. And she got me interested in theatre seeing her Treasure Island at the Rep in Primary!
Just a heads-up: the CDC have sequenced some H5N1 doing the rounds and it ain't lookin' great, chief. I am *not a scientist in any way*, but I can relay - this: www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo... #H5N1 #Pandemic #HereWeGoAgain #Science
Final thing... 13k of first draft in a month according to previous posts on here. Considering it's my first even long-form piece of fiction, I'm quite pleased with that. Only 5 more blocks like that to go! (Aaargh, so many ideas, so little time). #AuthorsOfBlueSky
Pro-tip from an amateur Blueskier - If you want to begin building the book community algorithm on here, start with the great @jocallaghankat.bsky.social and go from there.
...is the powerhouse of the cell.
And now would be the time of all times to play 'Little Dark Age' by MGMT. Shame it ended up being co-opted by the same sort of people with the ideas the song was against a couple of years back.
This was a great double-bill! It's nice to see video essays increasingly resemble plays, whether they be in monologue with props, or filmed in one take, or with an interval.
How the hell is this the only reference for Brotherless Night on this whole site?
Speaking of... can you direct me to a few Big Cheeses? Many thanks!
Does anybody know any good #BookSky authors? Or just authors on BlueSky full stop...?
The great thing about BlueSky is you can just type in 'societal collapse' and get amazing quips like that one.
Hey @theabigailthorn.bsky.social - I loved the pacing on this. Fast, theatrical and fun. More, please!
Waiting for the new, @sparksofficial.bsky.social album, Edgar. Oh, and outlining a novel as of the moment I write this.
Outline, roughly, finished! More changes to come... then we begin in earnest. #Author #BooksOfBlueSky #Anticipation #HashtagDogging
You took the words right out of my mouth, Sonja. I hope Ron and Russell release more BTS stuff like this clip.
Been a screenwriter for five years. I'm bored of that, so I'm going to try and write a novel. It could go wonderfully; it could go horribly. I'm currently in the outlining stage so we'll have to see what happens. I'll keep you updated on progress, I guess...? If only for myself.
Thank you for this series. And what a tremendous final video. Well done.
By that, what I mean is current affairs move so quickly now, we can look at the news and see examples developing right before your eyes. Amazing video, by the way. Well done to you and Abigail.
Oh, this has aged scarily well already, considering the social climate...
Massive spin-off one. Your best stuff normally tends towards the feature-length.