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@mwl The comic (which I usually use as "canon timeline") doesn't even show him at the burning home, just returning to Ben, but the movie has a whole scene between there and back, and they've done a LOT of Jawa burning, so he's got time to bury them, be sure it's them first.Movie pacing is weird, what it has time to show and what it has to just <sad music> <wipe>

Thingy with migraines, or any chronic pain, is that your rational, critical thought goes to shit pretty quick, along with your temper, no matter how good natured or smart you normally are. Also, screws up your coordination. So if a character is in chronic or long term pain, but they're routinely chipper and always thinking clearly, and totally dextrous, I won't buy it. This comment brought to you courtesy of an ongoing migraine, multiple dropped dishes and spilled cups of coffee, bad decisions, and missed work due to an inability to think.#Writing #WritingLife #WritingDisabilities

I wish I had seen this lecture 11 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaMAs usual, the next best time is now.#writing

Writing productively is about recognizing rabbit holes and stepping around them to keep going. Most recent example from my WIP: I had a character requesting spikes made of cold iron within a matter of hours. Stopping to think whether that was possible in a medieval setting, I started on research and asking people about it; quickly came up with enough answers in the negative/ really complicated column that I stopped digging and said, fuck it, take out "cold iron", replace with "steel", and moved on. Writing achieved. Frustration bypassed. Happy writer. #writing #WritingLife #research

The Wandering Shop Stories #prompt for today, Thu-26-Mar — Ludwig van Beethoven Death, is #concert. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "concert" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concert Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @NaraMoore

@Ourladyofpoetics I never had an account there but I know how hard it is to get out of a major platform.Congrats !And thanks for sharing this marvellous picture of you.

@zordsdavini Thanks!

Daily Prompt [2026-03-25]: What is a 'feature' that is actually a bug, but everyone got used to it?https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-03-25/#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering

@DrOinFL I considered doing a similar thing during online developer interviews. Never got to try it out though.

On a whim, in June 2021 I wrote to a publisher about an advertised Lord Dunsany translation project of theirs that had stalled, and which I offered to take over.I had no idea that less than five years later, one of my most realistic paths for a professional way forward and some kind of recognition would come out of that contact. Not out of my ass ton of fieldwork and academic publications.#writing #translation #career

Scouse Recipe, Liverpool's SECRET Scouse Recipe They Don't Want You To Know! -Unlock Liverpool's MOST guarded culinary secret: the authentic Scouse recipe. Tourists are oblivious. Are you brave enough to try it? - #Fediverse #BlogPost #Journalism #Curation #Writing #flipboard #followforfollow #followforfollowback #follower -please click at least once on the ads for support, thanks!https://momvoyage.web.app/journal/liverpool-scouse-recipe-secret

Title - 2 PM Mountain StormThe smell of wet dirt is unmistakable. The wind shifts; a cold swift breeze intrudes through the tent flap. One by one, droplets make their presence known, mixing with the dirt and detritus on the canvas roof.Thunder, that was a low rumble mere minutes ago, booms in glorious percussion. The dome of the world is just waking up and opening its mouth.I'm just a small thing, powerless to the clashing extremes overhead.Puddles swell and homogeneously crawl. The streams pouring unbridled join the chorus of nature's raucous orchestra.And me, the aforementioned small thing, I watch and I wait. Peace wells up in me with each rumble and crash. This is is right. This is good.I am here and I am safe. ---Photo credit - https://unsplash.com/photos/green-grass-field-under-gray-clouds-0eyNoa4PblE#writing #nature #themindspaceseries #journaling

#ScribesAndMakers 22, Create a micro-story in six words.That left eyeball contained a forest.#writing

Daily Prompt [2026-03-21]: What is the digital equivalent of 'measure twice, cut once'?https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-03-21/#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering

#PennedPossibilities 962, If there was ever going to be a film or a series based upon your WIP, what do you imagine the soundtrack would be like? What genre?For my currently editing WIP (book 4) 'Death Echoes of Fire' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ArR6LQpP4Epic, cinematic classical piece, that perfectly suits the final scenes. The entire Ethereal series could likely stick with J.T. Peterson's Petrichor album.#writing #music

I initially said I wouldn't bother writing an abuse memoir. It's not as if there aren't loads of them out there already.But it occurs to me that there don't seem to be very many of them written by people whose abuse resulted from sheer ineptitude rather than actual malice. And the thing is, for years I didn't really believe it was abuse because it wasn't malicious. Oh, but it was; and it really helped to acknowledge it as such.So now I'm thinking, maybe there are other people in that situation. And if I write my own story, that could perhaps help them.#writing #ChildAbuse

@js @golgaloth Also, there are other search engines.Likehttps://noai.duckduckgo.com/.(But, as you mentioned, people are filling the internet with Generative AI slop. There's no easy way to avoid that problem.)

My GitHub sponsors are now live!This means if you want Mudpie pro, or pro versions of any future apps I release, you can sponsor to get them.This also supports me and my writing; times are much harder now I am not working full-time. I'd love to keep writing and developing add-free and useful applications, and writing articles that are informative and enjoyable, but unfortunately I can't do that without funding.If you like what I do and want to support my work, any amount is appreciated.https://github.com/sponsors/aaron-gh#GitHub #Sponsor #funding #blogging #writing #gamedev #accessibility

@golgaloth Delicious Soylent.

Cosmic voids may be driving the universe's expansion through dark energy. Even emptiness has power. Funny, I've been thinking about voids a lot recently. My novel "A Crimson Void" is out this spring. #science #space #scifi #writing #cosmology ziply.pk/cosmicvoids