Re: Frankenstein, an audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel, is crowdfunding!
We're less than $400 from our next stretch goal (releasing a bonus episode on the main feed)!
We're also nearly at 200 backers!
igg.me/at/refrank
New week, new episode.
I used to use Amelia Bedelia to teach deconstruction theory.
The crowdfund is going live in 6 days! Ahhhh!
The weather has turned. Waking’s kissing. Yes.
That’s gorgeous!
Writing outside today.
I’ve always thought “Baby Can You Dig Your Man” was somehow connected to/inspired by “Don’t Fear the Reaper.” “Baby, I’m your man…”
As someone who saw this shit happen in audio fiction podcasting, LISTEN when people say this.
Every smug podcaster I saw make a comment about other podcasts being 'the competition' is no longer a going concern in the industry. None of them lasted or had a scrap of community to work with.
I just had an epiphany that solved the thing I couldn’t figure out about my current WIP. It deepens all three main characters, ties together two disparate plot threads, explains a later event, and has real emotional heft. It just fell into place after months of trying to figure it out.
Sad to hear of the death of Dave Cousins of Strawbs. I’m in the midst of writing a new show heavily influenced by the sound of their Hero And Heroine album, a record that is permanently etched in my brain. His idiosyncratic voice and songwriting were important pieces of my musical history. RIP.
So cool! Congrats, Clay!
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...
Let’s catch up soon! I’ll give you the report.
Just read a passage in House of Bone and Rain that made me flinch so hard I dropped my lit cigar on the book, then leapt up blowing ash off me and the book, yelling “fuck” so loud the dog came to check on me. That’s how good @gabino.bsky.social is. 😂
I’m about to pitch our new show to our agent. It’s just a test run to see how to package it. But I’m hells nervous, y’all.
If you look around at everything and all you have to complain about is Zohran Mamdani, you’re probably an asshole.
If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
1000 words today. Actually writing on this thing now.
Thank you!🙏
Hey! My story “Dark Gonna Catch Me Here,” (originally published in Mirror Dance) just got accepted into an anthology raising fund for reproductive rights, called Midnight at the Crossroads. Very cool.
Sending all positive vibes. I endorse doughnuts as self-care.
I hate that "AIs" (aka people-pleasing hallucinating plagiarism engines) are trained on work stolen from writers, incl. all my books. I hate more that it's eroding our ability or even desire to think. I get it. Thinking is hard. It's ALSO the work. It's the whole point. It's what makes us human.
Tho I did buy a eucalyptus and mint bath bomb yesterday and used it, so all is not bleak. Also WNC is glorious right now.
Just finished my last week of fulltime teaching, which coincided with working alongside my freshly ex-wife to put on a garage sale of many of the things we amassed in our life. Feeling kind of broken at the moment.
New painting by Chloe Gilmore. I love it a very lot.
