Rory @Rorywrite

🖊 Writer. Sci-fi, fantasy, philosophy, and more. Aerospace engineer by day 🚀 medium.com/@rory.veguilla Cape Canaveral, FL Joined February 2019

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Rory @Rorywrite

23 hours ago

At what point in their journey would you consider newer writers ready to take on a big, complex novel or series?

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Why haven't we gone back to the moon since the early 70s? The reason why people ask the question at all is more interesting to me. The fact that we haven't been back is proof that technology does not always advance linearly. Technology can decline, it requires constant focus…

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Rory @Rorywrite

2 days ago

How many times have you heard someone say that they just need to get around to it? Or find the right time, or that they don't have time at all? They have a passion or a desire, they want to write that book, make that movie, they want to create something or make some progress.…

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Rory @Rorywrite

3 days ago

People talk about work-life balance as if the two should be opposed to each other. A better outcome is what @JeffBezos calls work-life harmony. If your work is not in harmony with relaxation, hobbies, social life and love then maybe you're doing the wrong thing. Maybe you…

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Rory @Rorywrite

5 days ago

It's so easy to get distracted by the good enough. Entertainment that's great but isn't so profound you revere the experience. So you indulge too much, wasting time. Jobs that interest you but aren't what you're meant to do. People who keep you company but don't challenge…

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Rory @Rorywrite

6 days ago

"We're gonna screw up, let's just admit that. Let's not be afraid of that. But let's do it as fast as we can so we can get to the answer." - Andrew Stanton Be wrong fast. You're not gonna get it right the first time. Writing is iterative, follow the process: - Write a…

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Rory @Rorywrite

7 days ago

Some people don't even have quiet desperation because they're not yearning for anything anymore. What is that? Did they never have fire or did it fade? What child never dreamed? Are there people who have never had any vision of freedom or greatness, of adventure or anything…

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Rory @Rorywrite

a week ago

"The first draft of anything is shit" - Ernest Hemingway Just make it work, get the ideas down. Focus on creating something. Don't kill efficiency by trying to combine creating and perfecting. They require separate parts of the brain and physically cannot be combined.

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Rory @Rorywrite

a week ago

Doing research does not make you more intelligent. No matter how many facts you know, they're useless if your reasoning skills suck, if you can only recite surface level facts and don't delve into deep analysis, if you can't sort through information and choose the meaningful…

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Rory @Rorywrite

a week ago

Ben Franklin said to "either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." But the best path is both Live fully, experience, create, love, seek adventure Good fiction is concentrated truth. Truth comes from discerning patterns across remarkable experiences

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2 weeks ago

Blessed are the stubborn, for they shall inherit the earth when the clever ones give up. The first shall be last and the last shall grind forward until the world mistakes their persistence for brilliance. What looks like genius is just refusal to die, and refusal to die is the…

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Rory @Rorywrite

2 weeks ago

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov Asimov was a genius in the truest sense of the word, one of the highest IQs measured by the army at the time. Geniuses have a way of encapsulating human nature in such concise statements.

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Rory @Rorywrite

2 weeks ago

Any harm you feel from someone else's words doesn't come from them, it comes from what you let the words do to you. If they're unjust, that's on them. If you lose your temper that's on you

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Rory @Rorywrite

2 weeks ago

I've taken some time to gather my thoughts on everything that has happened recently. For what it's worth, here they are: What we're seeing is a degradation of culture. Similar things have happened throughout history. There are fundamental concepts driving this that are deeper…

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Rory @Rorywrite

2 weeks ago

Who else here is not a fan of falling action? It depends on the story but oftentimes I just want creators to end it and leave me thinking. My favorite endings are usually ambiguous. A lot of stories go on too long and kill that effect

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Rory @Rorywrite

3 weeks ago

Don't over explain If you over write in the first draft, cut in the second

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3 weeks ago

Don't over explain If you over write in the first draft, cut in the second

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Naval @naval

3 weeks ago

The purest reason to make something is not to make money and not even to make the thing. It’s to have the experience of making the thing - and no one can take that from you.