Ian is Writing and Publishing

How do you discern truth from fiction if thinking itself is augmented by AI? The Keyes Protocol explores this from a spiritual and technical perspective in the setting of an action sci-fi thriller. a.co/d/07R19yGE

@tod_1992 Oh but I want to do the first stressful thing to avoid the worse stressful thing in another 30 years

@PyresMagicka My vote would be to ditch the first stressful thing (which is unpleasant) for the second, blessed thing. 🤣 But that would be my vote and we both already know that you're the more impressive of the two of us. 🤣

Day 4: My former love looked at me this morning from across the table. “We had such good times together, babe. How can you just leave us behind?” I tried to explain, it’s not you it’s me. I just need a break. My heart can’t handle the tension. From behind me, my wife asks sleepily, “Hun, why are you talking to the coffee pot?”

@BWoostersauce (Taking notes)

@PyresMagicka I’m waiting for Day 7 when you yank the cord of the coffee maker out of the wall, then hold the plug high in the air and say in Mel Gib-sian: “Freedom!”

@JRLarriba “Coffee”

@PyresMagicka He felt your withdrawal hallucinations may cause unintended marital issues, especially if you start speaking your ex's name aloud.

@tod_1992 Hear me out: so in order to get better at this one thing that is stressful and hurts (running) I need to do this other thing that also is stressful and hurts (quitting caffeine) so that I can increase my endurance to do the first stressful thing longer.

@PyresMagicka I’m confident you can do this! I have no idea why you’re doing this, of course.

@JRLarriba Your laugh emoji looks intimidated, like he didn’t get the joke.

@PyresMagicka 😬

@AdamLVEllis It happened to me for sure. Even showed up in my dreams for a while. The soul is a funny thing.

@PyresMagicka I'm actually using that phenomenon for one of my characters after he experiences one of the most traumatic things he ever could

Interestingly enough, the same thing happens with unresolved trauma. We stuff it deep and compartmentalize in order to muscle through and function. Then we do something that isn’t busy distracting work and suddenly– PTSD!! The memories surface, the anxieties recycle. It doesn’t ask permission to present itself; it demands your undivided attention until you get back to your stoic grit, or do the healthy thing and discuss it with God. Somehow these are related. The trauma response and the creative process. I don’t understand it. But there’s something here that is awesome and inspiring.

@Chikaimaaa I love friends!

@PyresMagicka Dude! Can we be friends? 🔥

@DanNEO_SS Definitely. There’s something about the pressure-release cycle in those experiences.

@PyresMagicka Real life, experience, fuels your fiction engine.

I remember reading Einstein saying some of his best conceptual breakthroughs happened when he played his violin. There’s something about intermittent pressure and play that benefits imagination. Visualize a stock pot on the stove. It’s at a low simmer. The ingredients are cooking, softening, mixing. Then you take the lid off and a wonderful steaming aroma fills your nose. I think these times we step away from the page to reflect gives us these delicious flavors of imagination precisely because we took the lid off of our pressure focus. So that’s WHY it happens. For the “OK but how do I capture it on the page?” question. If your aromatic imaginings are like mine, they’re mostly a short scene or image, with a lot of emotional gravitas. I start by roughly describing what I saw or heard, rather than draft a perfect step by step recreation. What detail stood out? Unfurl it.

@JasonWMizer Not as nice as she’s treating Dodge, frankly. Even with all the asides. I’m beginning to suspect I’m not her favorite.

@PyresMagicka How is KON-f-dence treating you?

Blarg! Make the politics stop. Twitter, I want book related stuff, not politics.

@BWoostersauce @bestofStarTrek @joeroganhq “A winter of severe illness and death…”

@bestofStarTrek @joeroganhq Dark era of climate denial. Lmao. When global warming first hit the headlines in the 80s, my colleagues and I had a good look at the science. As soon as we saw the politicians and activists take over the narrative (often for personal gain, right Mr. Gore?), we were done.

Hannah Einbinder: "We are on the brink of a really dark era of climate denial... This isn't super eloquent, I had the facts on my phone but yeah... It's humanity that is in trouble."

@DanNEO_SS I’m going with A30 for me, but there are flecks of yellow-brown near the iris.

I just stole this cool image for us to play an engagement game(I promise I'm not going to propose to anyone). 🤫 What color are your eyes? Mine are a boring light brown. I've marked it below, I'll leave the original image in the comments for anyone who wants to use it.

@BWoostersauce @SweetNovember48 We aim to please. You aim too please!

@SweetNovember48 @PyresMagicka “We are here until Thursday. Try the veal.” - every Catskills comedian

I’m weaning myself off of the coffee. Day 1: it’s not so bad. I have made a very nice (and very large) cup of tea. I drank that most of the day and felt fine. Barely touched my one cup of coffee. This is going to be easy! Day 2: Another very large cup of tea. Half a cup of coffee leftover from yesterday’s pot. Felt annoyed at 4pm. Went to bed at 8:30pm, suddenly exhausted. Day 3: Woke up with brain cramps, sore eyes, no desire for tea at all. My running buddy says quitting coffee is physically harder than quitting painkillers. I wonder if I should try them instead. Through the haze I am making my tea anyway. Wife put on a pot of coffee. The temptress seduces!!

@BWoostersauce @SweetNovember48 No you can’t just say savory

@PyresMagicka @SweetNovember48 WTH is umami? I’m such a chef that I don’t know this. Sounds like a cross between a Singapore noodle and Italian meat.

@BWoostersauce @SweetNovember48 Is the sauce…

@PyresMagicka @SweetNovember48 Salty, I should expect. We will have to get a ruling from Denna.

@BWoostersauce @SweetNovember48 Wait until you hear about the sauce I make from woosters (I have a lisp).

@PyresMagicka @SweetNovember48 You’re killing me…