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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15h

There's scarcely been a day's writing when I've not had cause to recall my favourite ever quote from an author about their own work, from a Paris Review interview with John Banville in 2009.

John Banville, speaking to Belina McKeon for The Paris Review in 2009:

INTERVIEWER

Do you really hate your own novels?

BANVILLE

Yes! I hate them. I mean that. Nobody believes me, but it’s true. They’re an embarrassment and a deep source of shame. They’re better than everybody else’s, of course, but not good enough for me. There is a great deal more pain than pleasure in writing fiction. It’s only now and then, maybe once every three or four days, that I manage to write a sentence in which I hear that wonderful harmonic chime that you get when, say, you flick the edge of a wine glass with a fingernail. That’s what keeps me going. When I read the proofs of a new novel—which is the last time I will read or even glance at it—I approach it with one eye closed, so to speak, thinking, God, what am I going to find here? And I find horrors, horrors that can’t be fixed. Everything in the text now seems hopelessly flat and deadened. Where I imagined a dancing rhythm, I find clumping and stumbling.

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Leon "Used to Be Cat" Richardson @catlinggun.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Lexember Day 5 (Not near my laptop to make lexicon screenies today) Theme: "Something to cook with" /ambɹaçðad/ "A reagent vessel for potioneering" Originally this meant a type of large roast pot that you buried in the ground, but the meaning shifted. #lexember #conlang

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Lexember Day 3 Today's theme is a "dish for eating", which led to a few new additions to the lexicon, to arrive at: Thidmaro "unrisen seedbread" Lit. "meadow bread" There is also risen bread, and I have ideas for that (it's not quite our yeast culture method) but more on that later #lexember

A ictionary entry for "thidmaro", meaning "unrisen seedbread"

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Lexember Day 2 Theme: "a way to make food for eating" This one goes all the way back to the ancient proto-language, propagating to all daughter languages including UrbaniLang: Shüadsvaun "to boil" #lexember #conlang

A dictionary entry for "shüadsvaun", with the meaning of "boil"

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Lexember Day 1 (a bit late) Second time joining this, making a word for my conlang each day of December. Today's theme: "a way to prepare food" And I went a bit overboard with the worldbuilding, inventing a whole culinary tradition for my speakers of UrbaniLang (true name pending) #lexember

A dictionary entry for "ruhzjibau", with the meaning "The act of cutting pieces of food in exact ways; a cultural tradition held in esteem"

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

That took quite a turn. This game and its random rolls really generated the spy thriller :O

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Wondrous insight from my 4 year old: Trees can't talk. Because trees are houses for squirrels and owls, and houses can't talk. Checks out. No notes

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This one lives in my brain to be remembered when it becomes very relevant

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Finn @finncullen.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

With considerable pride and anxiety I've just published my first rpg on itch - a cosy pbta engine game of post-war boarding school adventures inspired by Enid Blyton's Malory Towers & St Clares novels. It's PWYW so feel free to take a look! #rpg #malorytowers finncullen.itch.io/blaydon-gran...

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Blaydon Grange - boarding school ttrpg by finncullen

Cosy boarding school stories, powered by the apocalypse, inspired by Blyton

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I showed my (young) child a video of the Apollo 11 launch. Now she's decided the whole house is our rocket going to the moon. I am so pleased :D But I have to also bite my tongue not to correct her on "misconceptions", shall we say

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Who are the (top) five writers who made you? Andy Weir JK Rowling Stephanie Meyer (odd choice, but I can explain) Aaron Sorkin (technically a screenwriter of course) Guus Kuijer

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

1. D&D 3.5e 2. D&D 5e 3. That's hard to say between Fate, Night's Black Agents and D&D. We mix it up 4. D&D 5e 5. Gonna be Night's Black Agents, for its cherry mechanic and tactical variety 6. Savage Worlds 7. Fate Core

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Rogier v. D. @klappertjes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This looks like it could be promising. Love the idea of playing a cast of characters over the generations

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