Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Neal Stephenson has had a similar page for a long time. nealstephenson.com/why-i-am-a-b...nealstephenson.comNeal Stephenson - Why I Am a Bad Correspondent 020
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have questions! (And I don't expect an answer here.😄) Do you take notes? (I find myself keeping a list of characters.) Are you tracking character and plot arcs (meta level) or just lost in the story? How often do you flip back to check what's gone on before? 110
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'd love to hear a talk or read an essay on how you read. Both when reading casually (for fun) and seriously (to understand the work at a deeper level). (In your copious spare time.😄) 111
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What's the Bsky term for Vaguebooking?😄 000
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The blurb on the back of my "Photographic Collections in Texas" is an account of "100,000 photographs." Closer to 100,000,000. But the book had been printed and bound before I saw the copy. 000
Reposted by Richard Pearce MosesElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)youtu.beModern Day Typographer - Elle CordovaYouTube video by Elle Cordova 701861420
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@mdbell79.bsky.social On the unlikely chance you haven't seen this article. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...scientificamerican.comHow apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruitAnd how they might have helped save the future of American apples 010
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Definitely need to try this place. I love good bbq brisket 010
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have just learned the phrase 'felix culpa' and worked it into my novel. Mostly, because it's fun. But in part as evidence it's not AI (which I've been told likes relies on common (predictable) words, avoids weird words). #Writing 020
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I learn something new—and interesting!—from you most every day. Thanks! Now: Can I work an anagrammatic phrase into my novel? 000
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Missed the assumption that AI companies would pay for and do all the work. Right there with you: Nope! 010
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I used to share an estimate of how much it would cost to digitize everything. And then ask for a contribution. 100
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 21/09/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blo...en.wikipedia.orgThe Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide - Wikipedia 000
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 21/09/2026See also, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Garry Bass. Reports the machinations of supplying Pakistan weapons in a genocide in East Pakistan (Bangledesh), fascinating to see Nixon and Kissinger each thing they're using and outsmarting the other. 100
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 21/09/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blo...en.wikipedia.orgThe Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide - Wikipedia 061
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 21/09/2026See also, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Garry Bass. Reports the machinations of supplying Pakistan weapons in a genocide in East Pakistan (Bangledesh), fascinating to see Nixon and Kissinger each thing they're using and outsmarting the other. 180
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When I moved to Phoenix in 1988, several of the major roads that crossed the Salt River went through the riverbed. They'd be closed when water was released from dams upstream, and the roads would be closed during rush hour. Finally, they built bridges. 001
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Weather service reports about three inches of rain at Falcon Field in the past three hours! Street flooding when I lived in the Coronado District about 1990. Which is amazing when you think how flat that area is. 010
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Print arrived today. Tell your mom I love it. And also, thanks for the postcard of the rabbit! 000
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Similar to @darby, one of the few reasons I'd consider moving back to Phoenix. (For about two seconds. Our high will be 30°F cooler than Phoenix today.) 000
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ordering vol 1 of Spec Fic for Newbies series today (from my local bookstore, of course). Really looking forward to these. #Bluesky #Sells #Books 030
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Use mother-in-law's tongue (snake plant) and rename her Medusa! leafyplace.com/mother-in-la...leafyplace.comHow to Care For Mother in Law Tongue PlantMother-in-Law’s Tongue (Snake Plant): Care and Growing Guide (Sansevieria Trifasciata) 000
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'll give you two! Cyrl shouldered through the Nev Group’s massive doors, lights still dim at this hour. He grumbled through the maze of halls, focused on getting to his office before anyone else so he could be alone when he got the news. 110
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Wikipedia got better AND, given its reputation, people approached the information with some critical thinking rather than just accepting it at face value. 020
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Olympia Dukakis as Mrs Madrigal in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City. (Both the original and the reboot.) 001
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026That's Scalzi's Hugo Award, isn't it? 😄 0161
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Wound up getting the North Wind print. (The squirrel wasn't available.) Appropriate for us. Our house in Bellingham WA routinely gets sustained 40-50 mph winds out of the north, gusts in the 60s. BTW, love your characterization of your shouty father in 21st-Century Village Yokel! 100
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Well, I have the book. In fact, I have the e-edition and audio version. I love your mom's lithos. Any chance I could buy prints of this rabbit and the squirrel? (Shipping to the US could be a challenge, although a friend will be traveling to London and might be able to bring them back.) 200
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 02/09/2026How many times do I have to learn the lesson: A few edits won't fix the problem; you need to rethink and rewrite than damn scene? #writing #editing 120
Reposted by Richard Pearce MosesPhillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026One of the best books I've ever read on the process of writing/editing. I've been putting pen to paper for decades, but this book provided a very useful mental reset of how to go about it. Well worth a place on your shelf. 631963
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Birthday surprise! Unexpectedly got my author copy of an anthology with one of my shorts. Beautifully printed, and most profits going to the Bellingham Food Bank. #writing #booksky #ShortStories 170
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 29/08/2026All the best on your next trip around the sun! 010
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I've been worrying about the past tense of 'to comm' (to send a message by sci-fi style communicator). M-W has the form commed, but it looks wrong to me. I've toyed with comm'ed and comm'd. Following your styling, I'll go with the latter. 000
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Just started listening to 21st Century Yokel by Tom Cox (@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social). Really looking forward to this after listening to and reading his Everything Will Swallow You. Nice to hear his distinctive voice! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...libro.fm21st Century Yokel Audiobook on Libro.fm21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It's not quite a nature book, not quite a humour book, no... 172
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"Gesturing at the impossibility of ever perfectly knowing the trusth is not the same thing as proving there’s no such thing." — Sam Leith, “Does it matter that Jason Arday’s memoir is made up?,” The Spectator (28 Aug 2026). spectator.com/article/does... #archivesspectator.comDoes it matter that Jason Arday’s memoir is made up?Bloomsbury’s former editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle popped up on British television this week to argue that the late Jason Arday’s publisher could not have been expected to fact-check his book Great... 010
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Thanks! Today's adventure as I read through it, carefully: another problem with story logic/consistency. 110
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Out of morbid curiosity, I checked Goodreads: I'd never thought to look for reviews. Of my five books, only one has a review. "Useful but it is after all a dictionary." So now I know: the best and the worst. 150
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I started writing a Sci-Fi novel about six years ago, around 65. I'm close to finishing it, and who knows if it'll get published. For me, it was about the process of learning to write fiction. And it's been a fantastic journal. (And, happy to say, the novel doesn't suck.) 040
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026That John Oliver is getting parts on soap operas means there's hope for you! 050
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 23/08/2026And why are so many addicted to sentence fragments? Commas are free, and appending those fragments together can make a lovely sentence. (Sometimes, fragments are wonderful. And disclosure: I am guilty of overusing fragments in the past.) 110
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'd say chocolate ice cream, but you said "Wrong answers only." 010
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A condensed version of the novel was published in serial form in Boys' Life magazine (August, September, October, November 1950), under the title "Satellite Scout". (Wikipedia) 020
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Knopf was noted for always including a colophon. (Yeah!) But I wonder if Del Rey had a different attitude towards book aesthetics, maybe focused on economy. Note: Del Rey wasn't established till 1977. 1st ed, Charles Scribner 1950 notes other Heinlein works. (Can't see the whole book in Archive.org)archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine 110
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Research in archives can be magic. You go in with a question, start sorting through the records, and discover connections you'd never expect--and a better question with a more interesting answer. 061
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Sing it, Sister! youtu.be/pvhYqeGp_Do?...youtu.beTom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - fabulous version - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel 220
Reposted by Richard Pearce MosesTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I don't write books to tell people what I think about stuff. I write books to find out what I think about stuff. 1031224
Richard Pearce Moses @pearcemoses.bsky.social · 18/08/2026For me, Michael Toliver Lives, by Armistead Maupin. Brought back memories of all the friends I lost to AIDS. 110