Tim Barrus Blog
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Western Medicine is a Crock of Shit
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I want more space between me and them. I have written in the New York Times about this issue before. It usually gets a response.
By women.
They want me to join them in their doctor misery. I’m not a joiner.
The medical community loves to inflict pain. Humiliation. Death…
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Agents Are Looking For Humility okokok
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I will promise to be good, to be humble, and therefor teeny tiny and electromagnetic but I promise to tape my mouth shut. – tim barrus
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Timeline in 3parts
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Relativity in five-dimensional spacetime units (rather than four) where the math itself was running wild like rocks tumbling through one dimension to another. The fifth dimension is curled around itself not unlike a cylinder.
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Neurodivergence Put On a Stage
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The most prevalent reason many ideas do not make it from a stage into a book is because no one wants to write a book that no agent will even read. This is the Era of the Gatekeeper. I did make the mistake of thinking a long time ago, that…
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Name Change
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You will not read this. NYT will do whatever it can to prevent you from reading this. Because it’s about voice. There is no voice when you use a blacklist to punish writers. How do I prove my point. Like this: Hit submit. Wait 24 hours. No publication. Sell it…
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Blacklist
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The blacklist is such an old and tired idea. It’s kinda stupid, really.
Any publication that is so threatened, it blacklists the very kinds of writers it needs, is a media publication that is in big girl trouble. You are not a stable. And we not your horses.
I am…
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Hands Behind Your Head
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Hands Behind Your Head
tim barrus
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Free Speech
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There is no such thing as free speech. Or free anything. The entire dog and pony show is never free, there is a cost, usually duplicitous. To see the stars, you will pay the piper. – tim barrus
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DO NOT DO THIS NAKED
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DO NOT DO THIS NAKED
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Walk the Walk
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Morgan Entrekin, the publisher at Grove Atlantic, once sent me a letter laying out how a hero in a novel manuscript should appear page one. Okay, I get it. I had started out with a sweeping view of the Southwest. He’s right. I should have chopped that out.
And then,…