Reposted by JoeThe Writing Club Reliquary @wclubreliquary.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Writing Club Tip #116 "Writing flash fiction based off trash prompts with 0 expectations can be great!" @carwrex.bsky.social #writing #writingcommunity #writingtips 041
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Easy tip because I've found that you tend to write like what you read. So if you want to write in a genre, read in that genre! 040
Reposted by JoeThe Writing Club Reliquary @wclubreliquary.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Writing Club Tip #78 "Read books in the genre you’re writing, steal your way to victory" @carwrex.bsky.social #writing #writingtips #writingcommunity 151
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 25/02/2025started reading again, it's been a while turns out if you wanna inspire yourself to write, engaging with the medium is a great first step! #writingcommunity 060
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 12/02/2025History doesn't repeat itself, it doesn't even rhyme. But it gives you a pretty damn clear view of what happens when states fight. 110
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 12/02/2025We cede occupied Ukrainian territory now in exchange for a 'deal,' we legitimize land grabs as a viable form of foreign policy. Welcome back multi-polar world. Can't wait for state competition to lead to multi-million+ casualty events on a regular basis. 110
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Same day job app rejection. Sure, it's great to know that I'm not wanted for that position, but it also means someone today opened up my app, looked it over, and tossed it all within the span of a shift. Yea, not a great feeling. 000
Reposted by JoeMatt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages 608176152916
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 29/01/2025It's a simple tip, but a good one. The more you do anything, the better you get. Even if that more doing is incremental, you're still getting better. Plus the idea of writing as practice is underappreciated. We're all hobbyists at heart, and hobbyists practice their craft! 020
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Thanks! I've noticed that the work has changed the more drafts I've done. More analysis and tweaks, less just putting words on a page In some ways that seems easier, but it also seems a little scary! Suddenly I have to step back and make this all work 010
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Finished a reread of draft 2. Got some good notes. Now that the easy part is done, time to make sense of them all and actually write draft 3 😭 #writing #writingcommunity 130
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I find it's great for all pieces of writing, not just dialogue. You pick up on super weird sentences real fast if you're forced to say them aloud 020
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 16/01/2025note to recruiters out there, never never NEVER make me apply to a job through a chatbot i cannot stress enough how much i don't want to do that 020
Reposted by JoeDan @thedanlines.bsky.social · 13/01/2025GIDEON THE NINTH x GODKILLER DOWNDRAFT Valandra is a legend - the only delver to reach the bottom of the Abyss and return. But few know the costs that came with it. Decades later, as new threats form in the shadows, she must retell her story or finally face the consequences. #BluePit #W #A #F 📖 35625
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 14/01/2025despite what you think, everyone else is usually right and you're usually wrong all I want to do is smash-cut scene transition mid-chapter with NO break 010
Reposted by JoeHayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 09/01/2025"Our cities are full" Our cities: 1748974
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 09/01/2025And I wonder if that religious revivalism is in part informed by the social isolation outlined in this article? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comThe Anti-Social CenturyAmericans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality. 010
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I feel like I've personally felt a slow and steady religious revivalism creeping into greater society, but I haven't see the scope of it captured well until this article #theatlantic www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comThe Army of God Comes Out of the ShadowsTens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state. 030
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Recently discovered @zen-browser.app recently, and as a longtime Firefox fan, I have to say, I'm in love 100
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Most discourse around this (or other future projections) tends towards some sort of catastrophism. 000
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Especially interesting is his framing: "The problems this dynamic raises, however, are not necessarily tantamount to a catastrophe. Depopulation is not a grave sentence; rather, it is a difficult new context, one in which countries can still find ways to thrive." 100
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Listened to a podcast recently on @foreignaffairs.com with Nicholas Eberstadt, and I thought it worth a re-read of his fantastic article on depopulation. www.foreignaffairs.com/world/age-de...foreignaffairs.comThe Age of DepopulationSurviving a world gone gray. 110
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Done. Two fifteen minute sprints. Sprints never feel like much, but they do add up over time. Significantly. 030
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Ok, with the holidays grand slam over, it's time to get back to writing. Luckily I'm in the process of reading my second draft, couldn't ask for an easier way to get back on the wagon. Chapter 7 here we go! 130
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 04/01/2025It's small, it's efficient, and after a crash you can recycle the wreck into a cobbler 010
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 31/12/2024It's a great one, I forgot about it but at the same time I really wanna give it a try 000
Joe @carwrex.bsky.social · 29/12/2024The idea behind this tip is that, ultimately, your friends are your most accessible audience. If other people like your writing, great! If not, at least you and your friends had a great time reading something that was designed entirely, and specifically, for them. 010