🐛Bug Heaven🌌

here it is. if you can hear me, i hope you hate it. linktr.ee/bugheaven

@orsonscottcard hey man are you still a homophobic loser just wondering

You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts.  My short story “Ender's Game” was rejected by Ben Bova at Analog back when that was the top market for a sci-fi story. Ben gave me feedback. He thought the title should be “Professional Soldier” and he said to “cut it in half.” But I knew he was wrong on both points and submitted it to Jim Baen at Galaxy. He sat on it for a year, and responded to my query with a rejection. There was some kind of explanation, but I don't remember what it was. I concluded at the time that Baen's comments showed that he had barely glanced at the story. So … I got feedback both times, but it was not helpful. I looked at Ben's rejection again. What was it about the story that made him think it should, let alone COULD, be cut in half? Apparently it FELT long. What made it feel long? Now, post-Harry Potter, I would call it the quidditch problem. I had too many battles in which the details became tedious. So I cut two battles entirely, merely reporting the outcomes, and shortened another. In retyping the whole manuscript (pre-word-processor, that was the only way to get a clean manuscript), I added new point-of-view material to the point that I had cut only one page in length. So much for “in half.” But I already knew that my manuscripts did not need cutting — if it wasn't needed, it wouldn't be there in the first place. Even the battles were still there, but instead of showing them, I merely told what happened (so much for the usually asinine advice “show don't tell”), which kept the pace going. Those changes made, I sent it to Ben again. I did not remind him of what he had advised me to do. I merely told him I liked my title, and said, “I have addressed your other concerns,” which was true. I figured he wouldn't remember what his exact words had been. My answer was a check. That revised story was the basis for my winning the Campbell Award for best new writer. Did Ben's feedback help? Yes — but his specific advice was not right, and I knew it. On my next two submissions, Ben hated my endings, and I revised as suggested. The fourth submission he rejected outright, and the fifth, and I thought, Am I a one-story writer? I went back to Ender's Game and tried to analyze why it worked. Then, deliberately imitating myself, I wrote “Mikal's Songbird.” Ben bought it, and it received favorable mentions. I was afraid then that I had consigned myself to writing stories about children in jeopardy. But in fact I was writing character stories rather than idea stories. And THAT was how I built a career, not by self-imitation, and not by following editorial suggestions. I did get wise counsel from David Hartwell on my novel Wyrms, but that was on a book that was already under contract, and it was story feedback, not style. I got wise counsel from Beth Meacham, too, on various books over the years — but again, only on books that were under contract. I also received appallingly stupid advice from the editor of my novel Saints, which temporarily destroyed the book's marketability; after that, I was allowed to go back to my original structure and save the book — now it's one of my best. Editors don't know more than you about your story. They especially don't know why they decide to accept or reject stories. YOU have to know what your story needs to be, and take only advice that you believe in. Your best counselor on a story nobody bought is TIME. Let some time pass and then reread the story. Don't even think about why it Didn't Work. Instead, think about what DOES work, and then write it again, a complete rewrite, keeping nothing from the previous draft. Find the right protagonist and begin at the beginning — the point where the protagonist first gets involved with the events of the story. Be inventive — the failed first draft no longer exists, so you're not bound by any of your earlier decisions. THAT is how you resurrect a good idea you did not succeed with on your first try.

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They should keep adding screens and dates until Speed Racer is playing constantly in every IMAX in the world

i always thought my dream was to have people write good reviews of our records but now my dream is that someone will write an absolutely scathing review but really dig deep into hating it

i just realized the whole “elder emo” thing is just the millennial version of “classic rock”

@eatthebologna no i’ve listened to new bands since high school

@bugheaven_ hbd. is this what they mean by elder emo ?

you thought a 36 year old dude with an emo band was washed up well how about a 37 year old dude with an emo band? what then?

please wait 3-4 weeks before and after a show before wearing that band’s t-shirt.

PSA to newer/younger bands: play 10 minutes over your allotted set time. dont go to shows your not playing. hell dont even stay and watch the other bands at shows you do play. develop a callous and standoffish demeanor. all this in tandem will make you look super cool to everyone

“Harry Styles” is not the name of a man. that is a name for a barber

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eagles: perpetual championship contenders with constant internal discord flyers: young team on the upswing, vaguely evil coach sixers: crypto ponzi scheme funding the owner's football team phillies: a red 1993 Plymouth Voyager with peeling paint and 2 missing hubcaps

typed 2 separate tweets about l*cal b*nds this morning and deleted them

@keroseneheights @kristyninety5 you earn the stomach tattoo by getting the stomach tattoo

@kristyninety5 it’s 2026, earning tattoo placement is OUT

i want my stomach tattoed so bad but i feel like i havent earned it yet

Its like watching every possible imagined futuristic evil from the last 50 years rapidly come into being

Probably the best song to come out in the last 4 years and it’s underplayed and under appreciated. Go listen to @iambirthdaydad open.spotify.com/track/4IBlxmr4…

What's so important abt the Strokes performance is that in less than 5 mins they made crystal clear that the US/Israeli war against Iran is not just happening because of Trump/Bibi. Its happening bcz this is what the US does. This is what it stands for. x.com/guldaar/status…

@quartzmorrigan damn you beat me to it

anyway i always look hot

They can arrest a college student for a joke aimed at Netanyahu but none of the 70,000 men in a group rape chat have been arrested. No one involved with Epstein has been arrested. No one from the online rape academy has been arrested.