Xavier Roy @xavierroy.com · 19/08/2025Hell, mate! If you're not wearing a helmet… and there are cops nearby. Hell, mate! If you're wearing a helmet under a Virgo sky at noon in Chennai… 000
Xavier Roy @xavierroy.com · 06/08/2025Rewriting isn’t just editing. It’s a kind of time travel. And sometimes, the consequences are emotional. 000
Xavier Roy @xavierroy.com · 02/12/2024Just because you don’t know how to do something, that does not mean it’s impossible. It only means that you don’t know how it can be done. - Chainfire, Terry Goodkind 000
Xavier Roy @xavierroy.com · 29/11/2024Inbox is unpolished, notes is polished. Books go into refs. Outbox is notes updated for publication 010
Xavier Roy @xavierroy.com · 29/11/2024I was hoping to have a similar situation with Chennai weather today, but alas... 000
Xavier Roy @xavierroy.com · 28/11/2024“Work will always be work. Some people work doing what they love. Other people work so that they can do what they love when they’re not working. Neither is more noble.” - Anis Mojgani 001
Xavier Roy @xavierroy.com · 01/07/2024Authors have started adding the equivalent of the robots.txt file to books. From The Simulacrum by Peter Cawdron @pcawdron@aus.social 110
Xavier Roy @xavierroy.com · 20/06/2024"The starting point for becoming a good writer is to be a good reader. Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose." - Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style 011
Xavier Roy @xavierroy.com · 24/01/2024"Reading a book requires a good deal of attention—and with #attention becoming a rare commodity, fewer people are able to devote themselves to #reading without distraction." (Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus) 000
