artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026All spiders are Pennywise until proven Otherwise. 010
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Definitely one of the greats. Now many are left with Post-Parton Depression. 040
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Art of Irony, nice to meet me. 040
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Stephen Colbert now has the opportunity to do the most hilarious thing in politics. 050
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Well, my next #Writing project was going to be a Skeet-by-Skeet novel to amuse you all. But the idea I found was too good *not* to make money off of. I'll find a new one eventually. 070
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Found my #Writing idea from way back. Tyrannical president has to complete a 60-days-or-less war against one country at a time to avoid seeking permission from Congress to try taking over the world. Glad to see the disapproval ratings--I clearly didn't miss out on any sales. 050
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Asked: #Writing the "sloppy kiss". Forget anatomy. Write chaos. Think, two malfunctioning vacuum cleaners trying to devour the same spaghetti noodle while emotionally spiraling. Lips don't "meet", but collide like poorly parked shopping carts. Breath? No. Atmospheric collapse. Dignified = Failure. 040
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 11/04/2026My most cancellable #Writing opinion is that every manuscript should be legally required to survive being read aloud by a chainsmoking uncle in a collapsing Olive Garden. If it can't hold, its ashes must be buried at sea. 060
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 08/04/2026To improve your writing, buy books until your shelves achieve sentience and start critiquing your prose in the night. If you can still see the walls, you’re basically illiterate. Real writers don’t read books, they absorb literary talent through aggressive square footage. 090
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 08/04/2026#Writers play chess for every decision. Fight versus flight? Easy, white (or black) wins, you fight; otherwise, flight. Character who dies next? Name your pieces after your characters. Synonyms? Same as characters. If you're lucky, you might gets some actual writing in for the day. 151
Reposted by @artofterm.bsky.socialartofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Maybe it's that life saw us first, and waits for us to notice it breathing behind the walls. Or crawling out of our fingernails at 3:00 a.m., just to name our houseplants after our childhood fears. Alright, apart from finding life itself, maybe I had other bad habits. 171
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Picking a genre is just a gussied-up way of telling. You really want to show your story so readers guess what genre it fits. #Writing #Writers #ShowDon'tTell 080
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026#Writing challenge of the day. Do not read posts. Do not understand them. Simply arrive, drop a comment like a confused raccoon knocking over a trash can, and sprint to the next. 2101
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Romans: These tablets are turning our kids' minds to mush. #Chiseling #Writing #Writers 050
Reposted by @artofterm.bsky.socialBoss Best @realbossbest.bsky.social · 14/03/2026It's absolutely disgusting that DOGE's deposition videos were banned on YouTube. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW HOW ENTIRELY DUMB LITTLE TYRANT MUSK AND HIS MINIONS WERE IN STEALING AND DESTROYING U.S. DATA AND PROGRAMS!! It's time for our Great American Internet to do what it does BEST!!! 21610
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Cats are such jerks that, when someone mentioned dogs and horses as two of the three big human companion animals, I couldn't for the life of me think of the third. 020
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The next time you're thinking of hitting writer's block, ask whether you've simply closed your eyes, spun in a circle, and pointed at a random noun. Boom. Toaster. Divorce. Meteor. Lawn chair with a secret. The world is full of things that aren't blue-eyed war boyfriends. Release them. 050
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 01/02/2026If you really want to thinly veil your secret pleasure or unpopular opinion, write your self-insert without it and then give it to a different character. 020
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Especially with writing, the answer may frequently be: You can't learn that from any explanation. Accept it. Try. Fail. Learn. (Repeat as necessary.) 020
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Also, looking for more sixth person POV. For those unfamiliar, the narrator is an entity that does not exist yet but is already disappointed by the choices being made. 030
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Remember all: letting your characters live is cliche for two more weeks. When the next flood of "everybody dies" books hits stores, you may resume happy endings. 020
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 06/12/2025When unsure of how to kill off a character, pick your favorite die. Based on the number of sides, list that number-minus-one (n-1) of your favorite execution methods. Make the last side (the one we set aside earlier) a "reroll" for dramatic effect. And from there, just roll. 030
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2025The artist was not thinking about Luigi's neck when drawing his neck... 👀 150
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Teaching fact-based classes with AI is easy to get right. Tell the students to generate an AI essay; they only get credit for correctly marking up what the AI got wrong/right. Fiction is tougher, unless they can't tell you the meaning of half of the words they used. 040
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 30/08/2025D.C., September 1, 2025, almost 3 years after Queen Elizabeth II dies, the White House admits on Labor Day that Trump's been dead for an entire weekend and they wanted to limit the celebration time before people went back to the office.media.tenor.comtwo older women are sitting at a table talking to each other and the words picture this are on the screen .ALT: two older women are sitting at a table talking to each other and the words picture this are on the screen . 040
Reposted by @artofterm.bsky.socialBoss Best @realbossbest.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Whereas, the former GOP is the sole Party of protecting guns while blaming all other "causes" of these tragedies, and wields all three branches of Government, I, the Omega and Future Inevitable 48th POTUS, approve, until further notice: "mass shooting" shall be called "Republican Endorsed Killings". 15428
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 27/08/2025No, the last two posts are not contradictory. Read them again. 030
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Loving more authors = Deeper pool of ripping each other off = Impossibility of anyone claiming that you've ripped off any one person ("Spartacus Effect") "Good authors copy, great authors steal." -- Unknown (and suspected stolen by T.S. Eliot) 030
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Never worry about originality. Nobody's had an original thought since at least 1948, maybe longer. That's why some people have such a strong existential crisis over "needing" to be original that "AI" becomes the scapegoat. Still, don't outright steal... 050
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Samuel "Foghorn Leghorn" Clemens may have trolled and he may have done it very well for the 19th Century, but the OG American troll was Benjamin Franklin. You cannot read "A Letter to a Royal Academy: Fart Proudly" and tell me any different. 040
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Reaching a reader's heart depends on character strength. If you're not using a strong enough character--and the movies ignore this when making chest holes--you may need a rib spreader. 040
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 18/08/2025#Writers, think beyond just retelling Animal Farm. Are you doing it because you have a "What if..." scenario or because you want to inject your own political message? Or do you just want to write about talking animals? 050
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Don't worry about having a portfolio. Some authors have bibliographies that could wrap around the world but only have one piece that's any good. I'd say you can't ask Bram Stoker anymore, but you might catch him after the sun goes down--take garlic. 030
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Artificial Intelligence won't replace #writers. Ever. Not because it can’t write, that's not the point. #AI simply doesn’t understand the crushing guilt of opening a WIP for the first time in six months and realizing it still hates Chapter 3. That's what leads to progress - only you can make that. 092
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 02/08/2025The focus on "plot" risks you "telling" me what's going on. Say it with me, "There is no such thing as plot." Great. Now go show me the characters interacting in scenes pulled from a hat - seeking advice from a mentor, getting information from an unseen figure, failing with the love interest, etc. 030
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 15/07/2025"Unless you ask, the answer is always 100% no." The same goes for publishing, which means that you have to write whatever it is, down and out. Maybe you love it. Maybe it disappoints you. But what's considered garbage by everyone you know today may be the next generation's spark of enlightenment. 060
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Bold and italics have come up (together) a lot in the past week, and as one who gets the opposite of your intent from it, let me tell you: I'm inattentive to the information. Really, it was so underwhelming that you needed to gussy it up twice? C'mon.... 050
Reposted by @artofterm.bsky.socialBoss Best @realbossbest.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Our Great American People AND ALLIES all get to VOTE BELOW on the TOP cap to #Unite and Make America Joke Again (MAJA)! Even #BlueCrew has two FABULOUS blues to vote on--some may want red wearable again, plus MANY, MANY more! Please REPOST on #BlueSky and wherever to spread the BIG, BEAUTIFUL WORD! 132511
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 06/07/2025They did not let the People go. Instead, the Fourth Reich built a camp in Florida, named "Alligator Alcatraz". So he called on God, who spread the floodwaters as far west as Texas, where they turned to blood. But the Fourth Reich said, "People died under Biden, too." Thus was the first plague. 1145
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Most important rule for this type of villain: Nobody ever wakes up thinking, "What evil will I do today?" I know what you're going to say, but for purposes of having a complex villain, you have to imagine those one-dimensional evil people don't exist. 0100
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 05/07/2025I know it took a long time for RBG, but it shouldn't matter how long it took for a title to be created in the first place. And it was a *really good* dissent. 14449100
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025For appropriate ghostwriting without being ostracized, two things are important. First, ask permission to be on the haunted property. Second, don't be the cause of the ghost. 070
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I get the professionalism of abbreviating "AF," but let's really consider abbreviating the whole phrase: WAF. And yes, democracy means that we don't have to make WAF happen if people want to stick with saying "Woke AF" ... ... but consider it. Strongly. Better question: Why not WAF? 3190
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 29/06/2025For your questions that others might deem "judgment calls," if it can be answered by a number, you have an Ultimate Question by default. Refer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which gives you an answer of 42. 060
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025#Writers of the #WritingCommunity, can we get in the same lane for advising that some aspiring writers need to "go outside and touch the grass"? I know: ambiguity makes for good diversity of outcomes. BUT having both the smell outside my window AND a bunch of kneeling writers to trip over... 050
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Definitely support on Reddit for just #writing with or without "kill[ing] your darlings" ... not so much in the BlueSky #writingcommunity. But #writers (prepares shielding from thrown objects), what about gaining #exposure? 040
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025One of the greatest treasures is a book that just writes itself. While it's doing that, move onto a project that is having trouble writing itself. 050
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Question today: creating names that don't match real life. Chances are, they don't exist anymore - don't worry. Otherwise, use the "pokemon method": Slam your keyboard twice, add vowels until pronounceable. Other-otherwise, every character is an anagram of your name. #Writing #WritingCommunity 040
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Wild twist for the series finale of Humanity - we really were created to write and, because somebody finally created the perfect novel ever written for our creators' culture, humanity is no longer necessary. 030
