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Adam Lane Smith

@TheBrometheus

28 Jan

GME stock is only the beginning.

I worked corrections. When you lock 100+ inmates into a pod and deny them freedom, they become problem-solving machines.

They get their dopamine fix by finding ways to screw over the authority holding them captive.

Our society is such a prison.

This is what 1984 got wrong. People don't fall into line when every scrap of hope is ripped away from them. People get angry. Especially people saturated with dopamine addiction.

When you shut off that dopamine drip and cramp their freedom, your pain becomes their new addiction.

The best part of this GME spectacle is seeing the hope in people again

It's like our society came back to life, from the grave to the feast hall

Everyone needed to feel like they can win

That feeling has been missing for a long time

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Adam Lane Smith

@TheBrometheus

27 Jan

@BrianNiemeier

When I first started writing novels I’d obsess over every line edit my personal editor @BrianNiemeier suggested

He’d make about 4,000 line edits per book

Now I just pay him to make the changes and accept 99% of what he says because I know he’s good at his job

Be THAT reliable.

“But Adam, if your editor is rewriting part of your book and fixing up lines, isn’t that HIS book now? What about your ARISTIC VISION?”

Please. Do singers cease to be singers because recording studio workers and sound guys improve their vocal qualities to the max?

Artists suck.

I pay an editor to take my raw material and give me THE BEST POSSIBLE VERSION of the vision I’ve laid out.

I could spend 60 hours pouring over his every punctuation suggestion, or I could trust the professional I’m paying and WRITE A SECOND BOOK in that same time

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Adam Lane Smith

@TheBrometheus

2 Jan

My father had it incredibly rough growing up.

Before he was born his mother left his father in the middle of the night and fled across the US, 3,000 miles. Took away his legal name. Got married and gave him his stepdad’s name.

No one could predict how bad it would get.

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She told him his stepdad was his real father. His stepdad was violent and abusive.

When my father was 15 he was tiny and thin, so his stepdad tried to sell him to the mafia who owned the nearby race track. Stepdad died before the deal went through.

My grandmother told my father “Don’t cry over him, he wasn’t your real dad anyway.”

Told him his dad was a violent drug addict who committed suicide and his family was evil, and she was all he had so he shouldn’t go looking.

Being a kid, he listened and obeyed her.

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Adam Lane Smith

@TheBrometheus

2 Nov 20

I’m not usually a breastfeeding account 🤣 But I want to call this out

VERY FEW hospitals, even lactation experts, teach new moms the difference between foremilk (left) and hindmilk (right) and their impact on baby’s gas problems, crying, etc

New moms, please educate yourself

MANY differences. Among them: Prebiotic in the foremilk, extra fat in the hindmilk. Hindmilk makes baby grow fast. Foremilk helps them digest easier. Too much foremilk and not enough hindmilk gets painful gas and colicky babies who don’t gain as much weight.

Do your research.

One accumulates in the front and is the first the baby drinks, the other accumulates in the back. Thus the names. It’s a natural distribution that breasts automatically arrange.

Most moms pump and feed mostly foremilk, back and forth on each, and don’t drain the whole breast.

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Adam Lane Smith

@TheBrometheus

9 Sep 20

So many marketers write their copy with the wrong side of the brain. Most try to lay things out in a detailed way to appeal to the calculating left side.

You want to let rip a primal howl into your audience’s right brain.

A marketing thread illustrated with books:

@RealNickCole

Most of what I learned from studying @RealNickCole’s method was to stop convincing people to look at my books and start marketing like magazines do to teenage boys.

“THERE’S DEATH. AND A GUN. IT’S DEATHGUN. EVERYTHING IS EXPLODING. WHO’S THAT CHICK? PROBABLY A CYBORG GUN LADY.”

Most authors take their work too seriously, or they’re afraid of looking like they’re pandering.

What ads do you click on? What makes you giddy with stupid anticipation?

Write copy like that.

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Adam Lane Smith

@TheBrometheus

20 Jun 20

Classic superhero designs have been much maligned since a throwaway joke in The Incredibles convinced people they’re clever to decry capes as impractical.

This misses the point of superhero costumes: Intimidating enemies to surrender or be less effective once the fighting starts

Remember that superheroes embody an ideal, and that ideal typically involves the ability to physically manifest justice through violence.

Violence is a masculine aspect, and traditional masculine fashion is design to portray status and power, and to end battles before they begin

Are you likely to want to fight Batman in his tactical armor without his cape? Probably not. But he’s just strong, he’s not exuding fear.

Wrapped in a thick black cape that obscures his hands, his hidden weapons, and that makes him appear three times his size? Horrifying.

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