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Various writing tidbits with Sensei

13 Nov 2025 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

Spent an inordinate amount of time marking two students’ compositions, so I want to lock in the key learning takeaways I scribbled on their essays. pair a said verb with a mention of the eyes “Mum, could you buy this for me, please?” I pleaded, my...

Voltaire

10 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Will Jones

Voltaire One   ╰(*°▽°*)╯   Did Voltaire wear skinny boy jeans   They seem   to promote voluntary YouTube streams   Voluncel fantasies.   Plus, you bite when I squeeze   very tasty   Boston creams a spry strudel    cream cheese   muy lazy   kinda hazy...

VAGABONDS & DELINQUENTS

8 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Wopney

Bellamy's Crew   Men of feckless irresponsibility who scorned those with a home, preferring the flat horizons of seas than the cramped walls and cubicles of sedentary living. They neatly sidestepped whole generations that had been bound in chains, p...

Echoes in the Static

4 Nov 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Wopney

Echoes in the Static The flat was in the inner belt of Marseille, cheap and dim, the kind of place that exists to hide from time. A single window looks out on the port cranes and the dull shimmer of diesel light over the sea. Inside, the air swirls w...

Success is possible only if you keep trying.

3 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments nevlu123

Success is possible only if you keep trying. We all know that efforts never go in vain and if you try, you will definitely get something good, as has been said in the case of farmers. I have presented the farmer's story to you in the form of a video,...

The Feast of Retribution

31 Oct 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Exclsve Club

  The Feast of Retribution Written by LOK ADHITHYA G Chapter 1: The Animal Psycho Raghu’s appetite was unlike any other. What began as a child’s innocent curiosity soon twisted into something monstrous. By adulthood, he’d become infamous—a man whose...

Your favourite character traits

27 Oct 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Decluttering my worksheets. Thought I would conduct a thought experiment in the process. When you guys write, do you consciously think about the traits you want your characters to embody? Are there particular qualities that you have a soft spot for...

What's the shelf life of an article on Publish0x

27 Oct 2025 1 minute read 6 comments LeftFooted

When it comes to the 'shelf life' of a piece of content, most algorithms work the same way. Whatever you post takes a moment or two to pick up traffic, then it goes parabolic, then it dies down, then it nearly disappears. This is always true, but l...

Writing Clinic #1: Sadness

25 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I wrote previously about getting my students to memorise Show Not Tell phrases in a valiant attempt to boost their composition scores and beat the system.   Since then, I have reframed my intentions. *I’m not getting them to regurgitate stock phrases...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 41

24 Oct 2025 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Shaun excuses herself to pass out in one of the two bedrooms. Meanwhile Bob and Kristen continue pawing at each other on the couch. Theoretically one bed remains open, though it’s awfully difficult to imagine anything happening on this front, partic...