Michael Pogach
@MichaelPogach
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Professor. Author. Dad. Adds whiskey to everything I cook. EVERYTHING! Author of the new Gothic thriller SLIP, from Crossroad Press. Rep'd by @books4kimberly
Bucks County, PA
Joined June 2013
Ok world, I see your writer's block & I raise you: Writing a one shot Victorian haunted house mystery RPG to run in my fiction writing class in the spring.
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Part of my writing playlist this morning https://t.co/aIO2S7TAhH
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Seems like a good time to revive this 6 year old article I wrote (graciously posted by Chuck Wendig on his blog: Writing Dystopias in the Age of Trump https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2018/08/23/michael-pogach-five-things-i-learned-writing-dystopias-in-the-age-of-trump/
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For my students: Whatever official policy the college offers or not, my classroom and my office and wherever I am on campus will always be a safe place for you.
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Since we're all sharing poems today, I will offer an excerpt from the Venerable Jay and his hetero life mate Silent Bob: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Mother mother fuck. Mother mother fuck fuck. Mother fuck mother fuck.
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I have a new poem in the most recent issue of @platypuspress wrestling with why I’ve become increasingly uncomfortable hearing people say “we have made it through worse before” in response to our current political moment. https://t.co/yC10oT7XzG
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Rules for #FuckAIWriMO: 1) Try to write every day this month, even just a few words 2) But it's totally ok if you miss some days 3) No pressure for total month wordcount 4) Be proud of any and all writing you do 5) Support your author friends with likes & RTs 6) You got this!
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According to the cell phone plan I had in 2004 with 10 cent texts, I've received $4372.80 worth of political texts this month.
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Sometimes I need to remind myself that Poe wrote a poem called "The Bells" and the chorus just goes "Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells—" Like 5 times. And I feel better about what I'm writing.
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This morning's writing playlist begins with Wolf Alice. Dont know why but this song always works to help me get started writing. https://t.co/2p9lw5LWDB
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Two years ago I was 50k words into the Viking novel and decided to rewrite it, changing from 1st person to 3rd person. Today, at 6k words into the new novel, I think I need to change it from 3rd person to 1st person. Why do I do this to myself?
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Tomorrow I'll find time to write, he said. But tomorrow just laughed and laughed...
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Character names and titles. Sometimes they come to me. Most times I agonize over them and end up hating what I invent. Love this current book's title that I'm working on. Hate the two main characters' names. So it goes...
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Guillermo del Toro gives his thoughts on AI and the value of art: “AI has demonstrated that it can do semi-compelling screensavers. That’s essentially that. The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires, it’s how much would you risk to be in its
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The amount of time I spend fixing problems made by people who didn't properly do the jobs I paid them to do is going to be what finally breaks me.
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Tomorrow. Year 21 teaching. Year 16 as a professor at NCC. The start of long pants season. Ugh, long pants.
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Who's got two thumbs and really wanted to go to sleep semi early but got an idea and grabbed a laptop to make a couple notes and now it's two hours later and there's two chapters drafted and more ideas coming? This guy! #amwriting #dystopian #mystery
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