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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

If you are generating novels with AI, you are objectively NOT the author of those novels, and you ARE harming other writers. Garbage books flooding algorithms make it more difficult for good books to be seen.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

No worries. It actually happens frequently enough that I sometimes interact with him online over it, and people getting us confused with each other is a running joke.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

That's not me. My last name is Hostetler. Also... We look nothing alike.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Me later: What was that story idea I had? 🤔

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Yeah... Short story. Definitely Wait... Are you sure YOU thought of it and didn't just see it somewhere, and then forget you saw it? I think it was me. What if you're wrong and it's very recently been done? Better Google it. NO! Just write it! I'm hungry. What should I make for breakfast? 🤔

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Me to myself just now: 🧠💡 That's a great story idea! But is it a short story idea or a novel idea? 🤔 Short story... I think.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I have never identified with either party. If today, you are celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk, let me say the same thing to you that I said to those who celebrated the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You are an awful person. Please unfollow me.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C. § 1385)Prohibits use of U.S. Army and Air Force (and by extension, Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force) for domestic law enforcement unless expressly authorized by Congress.Applies to the National Guard only when federalized (i.e., under Title 10 status). GO READ IT!

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

No worries. And yes. I am. It happens all the time.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I'm NOT Steve Hoffstetter. I'm Steve Hostetler.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

It unfortunately happens frequently. You are not the first, and you will not be the last. No worries.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Wrong Steve. My last name is Hostetler. Not Hofstetler.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Agents and Editors, Should I mention my BA in Psychology or my MFA in Creative Writing in a query letter if the letter is strong without it? (I'm querying a YA/thiller that does involve mental illness.)

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Yes! 100%. I grew up in the 80's and 90's and there were a lot of knockoffs, but no one watched them.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Fellow mystery/thriller authors and horror folks, at this point, I think we can safely say that stabby is an adjective we all use. I think it should be in the dictionary. What say you?

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

youtube.com/shorts/ihlette… I don't know how it's possible for someone to be this old and this stupid at the same time. This person should not be allowed to vote. Ever. Not sorry.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Anyone else who grew up in the late 80's and 90's not know Gangster's Paradise sampled this: youtu.be/_H3Sv2zad6s?... Get outta here! My mind is blown right now!

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Stevie Wonder-Pastime Paradise

YouTube video by SpartanVc

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Let me get this straight... We basically lived through Contagion and every other apocalyptic pandemic movie ever made in 2020. Now, AI is running a muck and we're bringing back prehistoric wolves? Are we trying to live through Terminator and Jurassic Park next?

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Why do people who don't write think that writers view their undeveloped premise ideas as a valuable commodity? Having a story idea is NOT the hard part of writing. There aren't enough days left of my life to tell all the stories in my head. I don't need your ideas. None of us do.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Apparently, all it took to get rid of Musk was for Republicans to lose a State Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Who knew? 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I completed a graduate teaching certificate in online instruction and curriculum development today! #WritingCommunity

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The algorithm must think I enjoy the fact that our names are so similar that people either confuse me for you or think I'm using a fake name, because I keep running into your posts accidentally. At any rate, this one was worth a like. 🤣

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I thought you were joking. That's a serious proclamation?

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

If that is the job of a guardian angel, then mine is a lazy bum who's not good at his job, and he should have been tossed out on his ass years ago for napping at work.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So, I was singing along with Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston, and when I got to the "Suicidal... Suicidal ... 🎶" part, Alexa thought I summoned her, and she gave me the number to the suicide prevention hotline. Hahahahahahahaha! 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Aluminium was actually a misspelling by a reporter at The Quarterly Review in the September - December 1812 issue. To be fair, many Americans do butcher the language horribly and should be hanged for the crime, but Brits are likewise guilty.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The next time you hear a British person say we Americans speak English incorrectly, kindly inform them that they objectively pronounce many words incorrectly. Aluminum is not pronounced or spelled Aluminium. So sayeth the British chemist Humphry Davy who named it.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Next time someone tells you that Elon feeding social security numbers into an open source AI database isn't a problem because "smart people" know what they are doing, show them this article from 2023. People who work in IT see this ALL THE TIME. techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/m...

techcrunch.com

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of internal sensitive data | TechCrunch

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords, while publishing a storage bucket

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"I hate writing, but I love having written." -- Dorothy Parker I'm with you, Dorothy.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Musk is now claiming that a bunch of gold is missing from Ft. Knox. I'll take Pretext to Justify a Federal Crypto Currency for 1000, Alex.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

More than one person has told me there is too much exposition in my stories, but I can't help but wonder how many times Chuck Palahniuk has heard the same criticism.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#WritingCommunity Does anyone listen to the podcast Book Fight? It seems like they just stopped posting new episodes. I like Book Fight. Anyone know what the deal is or if it's ever coming back?

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Here it is... the secret formula for successfully marketing a self-published book: Step 1) Collect underpants Step 2) ??? Step 3) Profit!

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I'm still there because I was on Twitter before that nepo-baby man-child ever even had an account. My original account was made pretty early on in Twitter's existence, and I'm not leaving! It's an act of defiance as much as anything at this point.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Someone... Billy Shake-something-or-other, I believe, said it was the soul of wit.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Is it just me, or is writing cover copy and a pitch for a query letter harder than writing the actual book? #writerslife

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Has anyone ever stopped to think that it's extremely weird that Elon Musk has never been to space on a space X rocket? I'll tell you a secret... It's because his employees hate him, and he knows there's a 0% chance he would come back alive.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Tell the truth. If you’re my age, when she says the thing about power ups we're all thinking of the same DBZ move. Extremely accurate!😆🤣https://youtu.be/CbnpX90hg1g?si=H0uNPUVtSmBmNMzO

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#WritingCommunity What format do you prefer for podcasts? Video, audio only, or either?

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The puzzling thing about it is that recently, in the US, the "glottalized T" seems to have spread in such a way as to no longer be a regional aberration. It doesn't seem to be specific to any particular dialect(s). It's everywhere. I assume the internet caused it to be so universally pervasive.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

For the record, the word is important, not impor-ent. Why do so many Americans, from different dialectic regions, sound like Cockney chimney sweeps?

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm just gonna leave this here.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I'm reading two: Leather and Lark by Brynne Weaver and Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez Wallach. Both are ok, so far.

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Steve Hostetler @stevehostetler.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Dear spammers, Why bother at this point? Society's awareness of scams has progressed lightyears since the Nigerian princes emailed us needing help with international banking. We all see you. Who exactly is falling for it? Stop. It's just pathetic. Seriously.

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