I wrote about Daniel Tam-Claiborne's novel, TRANSPLANTS and how intimacy and connection (and sex) can make fantastic things happen in fiction.

https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/transplants-and-change-through-intimacy

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I've got a class starting next week about Dialogue, Gesture, and Staging.

4 weeks, Thursdays, 9/18/25 - 10/9/25, 6pm-9pm (North American Central time), Zoom, $222/$200 (Loft member)

It covers a variety of tools to make dialogue come alive in your scenes—with specific techniques to make it realistic (if that's your thing), dynamic, compelling, resonant, and/or vibrant.

https://loft.org/classes/writing-fiction-4-weeks-dialogue-gesture-and-staging

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@troublewithwords

I've known people who talked about speeding tickets that way. Just what it costs to drive fast. Pay them and speed off again.

You're right. You shouldn't get to pay even an astronomical price to do whatever you want regardless of who it affects.

Still a few spots left in my flash class! Mondays 12-2pm (north american central) on zoom. Starts Sept. 8, goes 10 weeks. $200.

To keep it more accessible for folks with less time, we'll finish the sharing & feedback in the first 90 minutes. But if you have the time, you can stay for the last 30 minutes to go deeper.

Write a lot, share your work, get feedback, learn about craft, and find community:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaSPHJDa9rMmgFl0ZvQyy1jOapNJ8hRsbing_DgDK5axvEPw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=109553212956936077425

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I'm doing a fiction sampler for the Loft on Sept. 4, 6-7pm North American Central time. This is a cheap, low-stakes writing class with some group close reading, some writing prompts, some community, some fun:

https://loft.org/classes/fall-fiction-sampler-allison-wyss-0

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@colorblindcowboy

Is it a thing?

@colorblindcowboy

I have a sense of what you're saying. But I think a smear is kind of textural and spatial, as well as visual. I sense shapes inside my brain in a more spatial kind of I- _feel_-them-there sort of way. It makes perfect sense to me when you say time smears, but that doesn't necessarily mean my sensory image of it smearing is much like yours.

@colorblindcowboy

It both absolutely is AND feels weird. Depending. But you're a writing buddy, right? So that's fine. It's weird when your neighbor or kid's friend's parent gets some scary idea about you from a published bit of writing.

@colorblindcowboy @orionkidder

Do the different transitions into memory--or the abrupt shift into flashback--do something in line with the smears and skips?

@colorblindcowboy @orionkidder

Oh no! Now i regret saying that I probably just do fucked up things that don't make any sense or reveal embarrassing things about how my brain works!

@colorblindcowboy @orionkidder

I kind of wonder if time blindness (Is there a better term that people would recognize?) affects how I handle time in stories. It's something I know I struggle with so a I have a lot of systems in real life. I wonder if some of those translate into my storytelling. Maybe make me more deliberate in both screwing with and marking time.

@colorblindcowboy @orionkidder

Oh that's a great way to think about it!