Austin Dewar

Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 12:01 UTC

I like a lot of Hemingway's stories, but the authors of BOTH writing workbooks I'm reading (Janet Burroway & John Gardner) keep roasting him in their examples and it's hilarious, like Jim and Pam dunking on Dwight, but it's these old writing textbooks holding a grudge across time and space.

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 01:03 UTC

This is awesome, feels so otherworldly and yet close to the heart in how it depicts the contradictions you can face as a worker, weighing short term and long term survival, the masochism that can come with coping mechanisms, deliberating over if and how to become an activist, etc.

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 20:41 UTC

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 20:39 UTC

Writing a fanfic of "A Memory Called Empire" for fun and practice :)

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 12:55 UTC

Sounds like a happy accident! I've got the opposite problem, trying to learn how to depict people falling in love so far feels like I'm just smashing two dolls together 😂

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 23:25 UTC

Just registered for the #ClarionWest flash fiction workshop! Been working hard on my own but nothing compares to learning with others and getting expert instruction, so here I come out of hermitage 😂 If you're also participating feel free to reach out, I'm excited to make writing friends!

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 02:13 UTC

Heard Ann Leckie bought a new dress... Nordstrom Radch

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 19:43 UTC

Short story I'm studying this week: "A Fine Balance" by Charlotte Ashley. Great action sequences, a main character whose one heroic quality is the rarely praised virtue of simply being a diligent helper, and a kickass iteration of Chekhov's gun.

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

Got to see the 1931 Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde at a local theater. I need to watch more older films cause this was a blast---deeply disturbing at certain parts, but possibly the biggest thrill was Hyde going full goblin mode and out of the blue doing a seriously impressive parkour vault over a wall.

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 16:03 UTC

I reviewed Aimee Lim's debut novel, The Spindle of Fate, which comes out June 4th. In this children's horror/fantasy, a vengeful girl descends into the Chinese underworld to save her mom, becoming something of a demon herself along the way. austindewar.com/2024/05/27/s...

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 04:36 UTC

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer: www.instagram.com/reel/C6ozslq...

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 13:29 UTC

That sounds incredible! I am the exact audience for that. Thanks for sharing your draft sonnets along the way, I appreciate seeing work in process

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 02:58 UTC

This is a cool concept, keep at it!

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 02:55 UTC

Ran into this friendly little guy today!

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

Visited the Ludlow mine worker massacre memorial in Colorado today. Loved this letter left by a young visitor -- YOUR LEGACY WILL LIVE ON FOR EVER AND EVER AND EVER LIKE 3 TRILLION YEARS ✊ 🔥

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

The horror of all the Libby books you've had on hold for months suddenly getting delivered at the same time

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 21:49 UTC

So we all have a "reader" voice in our head when we read, but Yoachim discovered how to DOUBLE IT!?!? I cannot even process this I feel like magic is real

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 21:47 UTC

I haven't even finished reading this and WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK!?!? This isn't a "story," this is a WRITTEN STEREOGRAM! Caroline M. Yoachim has literally (actually literally) discovered a new way to write!!! like the 3D chess of writing holy cow CAROLINE M. YOACHIM PUT VOICES IN MY HEAD!?!?

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

Cleaned up nature shelves today, before and after 💚

#books #bookselling #organization

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 09, 2024 at 02:21 UTC

Omg!!! 😍

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Austin Dewar @austindewar.bsky.social [ View ] May 08, 2024 at 01:07 UTC

Elegantly antlered litodonta 💚🐛 I wish you could post video on here, its weaving head movements are very cool very cute

#insects #bugs

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