Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Every book I have at least one chapter that gets edited down from 4Kish words to, “After two days hard travel they arrived in the town.” 030 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025My 10” battery Stihl is just outstanding for trail work. Have a much larger gas Stihl for firewood. Great combo. 010 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The snow is thin, but the sunsets are solid. 060 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I knew this diner had its shit together the moment I saw the jam bowl. 090 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I tried the first couple episodes of Foundation and found it utterly baffling! Glad it’s hitting the spot for other folks! 000 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 21/12/2024The standard fantasy language problem. Presumably none of these characters are speaking English. The whole script is translated for whatever they speak. How do you translate idiom. Etc. 000 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Oh that’s a lovely poem. Thanks for reminding me of it—hadn’t read it in quite a few years! 010 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Always carry the strap, Brian. It’s winter. Just always bring the strap. 050 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024If the forecast is lying I will be *quite* displeased. 030 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024My kingdom for anyone who can diagnose what’s wrong with my boiler. It only does this very intermittently and smells acrid, like something bad smoldering, when it does so. Thoughts? 100 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Justin, my UPS guy, just came knocking, not because he had a package, but because he’s partway through my first trilogy and the library DOESN’T HAVE THE NEXT BOOK. I was able to hook him up. Made my morning. 1190 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Having seen other people’s houses and how there’s nothing on the counters or the table or the bed, I’m pretty sure entropy is just higher in my house. 010 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Just finished George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo. I generally like his stuff and this was no exception. Found it quite moving, but couldn’t decide by the end whether he hit the hard questions straight on or managed to slide past them. Would definitely recommend! 000 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Cruised right by the profile. Thanks for nudging me back for a listen! In a vein that’s both different and similar: Recomposed by Max Richter is an interesting take on the Four Seasons that I keep going back to… 030 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024The good news is that his teacher, who is great, has definitely filed this away as something to suggest to future students… 100 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024My 12 year old just spent a month learning a piano piece from Hollow Knight. His piano teacher was surprised that games have such great musical scores. 120 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 07/11/2024I would like to sit in on this conversation. 010 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 26/09/2024And that’s leaving aside aspirations for actual improvement, like learning to properly jump on a mountain bike, or make good tele turns, or any of the other shit I thought I’d have figured out by now. At this rate I’m gonna still be learning to roll a kayak when I’m 85. 020 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 26/09/2024The game keeps changing and I feel like they keep adding things! I’m at the point where I’ve got, like, 40 different things on the list just to stay in place. 120 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 10/09/2024Neither my publisher nor my agent is thrilled about me moving all my social media to Strava. 020 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 29/08/2024I vote for the most important information simply being stapled to my kid’s shirt. 110 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 12/05/2024So, you think less than 1 out of 100 people, fully funded for ten years, would produce an interesting book? I’d believe that! Just don’t have any conviction about that figure… 100 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 12/05/2024What do you think: if 100 random folks were given 10 years (paid stipend, didn’t need to work another job) to write/revise a book, how many of those would finish books that you would find interesting? I have a hard time even guessing at an answer to this question. 110 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 10/04/2024Oh cool! I’ll check it out. Thank you! Actually the more I think about Keegan the more I think he might have been saying that the long-term psychological ramifications of modern war are worse. Not that it’s necessarily more frightening in the moment. I guess I could look! 010 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 09/04/2024Congratulations, Max! Also, awesome cover! 000 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Interesting! It’s exactly the opposite thesis of Keegan’s Face of Battle, if I’m remembering that book correctly… 100 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 25/02/2024Do you sortof need to know what it says or nah? I think I’d need to look… 000 0
Brian Staveley @brianstaveley.bsky.social · 03/02/2024This is my area I will find it or die trying. 010 0