artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026All spiders are Pennywise until proven Otherwise. 010 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Definitely one of the greats. Now many are left with Post-Parton Depression. 040 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Art of Irony, nice to meet me. 040 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Stephen Colbert now has the opportunity to do the most hilarious thing in politics. 050 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
artofterm.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 0
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 0
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 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Romans: These tablets are turning our kids' minds to mush. #Chiseling #Writing #Writers 050 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Skydance's discount Vecna makes me even more glad it was nowhere near Netflix or the producers of Stranger Things. Or discount Andy Bernard? In that case, I'm even more glad that Skydance was nowhere near Peacock or The Office. Can't wait 'til Skydance is gone. Then I'll just be glad. 010 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 10/02/2026TBH, my Reddit-Onion headline was the first that some heard Pope Francis had died. 000 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2025The artist was not thinking about Luigi's neck when drawing his neck... 👀 150 0
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 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Apparently, so is the Flying Spaghetti Monster version of "The Creation of Adam"... 030 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 30/08/2025It's still my belief they picked JD to normalize somebody with a beard so Jr. would be palatable afterward. While Trump obviously hates Obama, he's had a grudge against the Bush Dynasty ever since he asked to be on H.W.'s ticket and got the response, "Who the hell's Donald Trump?" 010 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Trump himself said the other day, "Well, I guess JD would be the heir apparent to MAGA." 1242 0
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 0
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 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 27/08/2025"Nothing we can do to prevent this," says only country where this still regularly happens. (The Onion.) Works for RoboCop, too. 010 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 27/08/2025No, the last two posts are not contradictory. Read them again. 030 0
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 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 25/08/2025"Haz sum?" "Smell it ... ... LIKE FOOD???" 010 0
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 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I mean...yeah. The same wealth greases the wheels of both parties, and then both parties make as much theatre as possible about having only one option if you hate the one in charge. Reminds me that our only "Era of Good Feelings" is named for the only time without parties. Scrap them all. 030 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Simply the best advice. Also the mantra ("Just write!") of the parody writing subreddit (r/writingcirclejerk). I suppose: In comoedia, veritas. 020 0
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 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Seems easier to hack the software of an electronic voting machine, to activate at a specific date/time and flip the opposing party's votes after they cross a certain threshold. Bonus ease if your side has "eccentric" billionaire tech bros "inspect" the machines. No paper trail. #ElectionRigging101 041 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Stubborn calf. Once nudged. Forever cold. 060 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
artofterm.bsky.social @artofterm.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Great tip. Granted, I sometimes procrastinate more with this one, so I'll go for a run and start a new writing session when I get back, instead of letting life catch up throughout the day. 110 0
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 0
