“Take The Bumble, for example: A man designed for his job, as if his creator had known all along.”
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@jeffsomers.bsky.social“Take The Bumble, for example: A man designed for his job, as if his creator had known all along.”
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialOne thing that absolutely has paid off is the power calibration: The show handles this very well, and does a few very smart things that make a grown man with a magic ring a lot easier to suspend disbelief for.
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialZines are a fantastic place to find weird stuff... and to earn your writing chops.
Read all about it on Thoughts from the Writer's Desk in Jeff Somer's "Everything I Learned About Writing I Learned by Publishing a Zine."
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialI started posting novels one chapter at a time in 2021, starting with “Detained.”
“She heard her father’s voice, warm and amused. You’ll figure out, sweetheart. In due time.”
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialPublished 2 years ago, this remains one of my favorite recent stories:
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialLucky for you, the desires of this mediocre white man largely center on whiskey and naps.
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialPublished 13 years ago, this story is one of several featuring my character Philip K. Marks, who’s never met a weird situation he can’t make weirder.
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialObsession does a lot of things very, very right. But it does one thing very, very wrong.
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialOne of my earliest published stories has been on the Internet for 27 years (!): webdelsol.com/Del_So...
@jeffsomers.bsky.social“have been writing since I was about nine when I crafted a ninety page exercise in Tolkien plagiarism titled The War of the Gem; married above my station in life and am living peacefully with stronger-than-she-looks wife”
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialI have also been described as “aggressively bland” and its accuracy does not take away from its hurtfulness.
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialThe Way We Were: How to use pop culture as an unexpected research vehicle.
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialThe places in the “real” world that we see are just as disturbing and liminal as the Backrooms. It’s one great trick that really makes this movie slap.
@jeffsomers.bsky.socialIs "Indignities and Failures" the title of my memoir? That’s just mean. But also yes.