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Joe Colacrai

@ageofuprising.bsky.social

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Walt Disney Imagineer, Singer/Songwriter, Aspiring Author

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hello, new followers!

I'm Joe. I'm a mechanical designer for Disney and an aspiring author.

The book series I'm working on is called "Age of Uprising."

In my spare time I'm a singer/songwriter/guitarist.

In my past life I pursued the visual arts, sculpting, costuming, etc.

Nice to meet you all!

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 7h

"Groceries are down."

pinocchio is making a funny face with his hands

Alt: Pinocchio's nose grows from telling a lie.

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 9h

Bit the inside of my lip while eating. 🥹
You'll never guess what I did next...
Bit it again. 😭

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 13h

So glad it rained today. My car's never looked better!

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 17h

The number of people in LA who simply refuse to buy an umbrella has always been hilarious to me. 😆

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

The makers of Cheez Whiz should make a dragon-shaped dispenser. I wanna make it breathe cheese all over my crackers.
Not enough whimsy in this world.

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I think I look like an author now. 😆

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

"I wrote a movie about watching paint dry. It's 3-1/2 hours long."
"Love it."
"I wrote a book that's—"
"You need to tighten that shit up."

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

What's even crazier is we also remembered how to get places before GPS.

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

Semicolons are good, actually.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

Just imagine if we had an emergency right now—a pandemic of epic proportions, like airborne ebola, and these idiots just got done firing everybody at the CDC.
The amount of irresponsibility is fucking staggering.

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

It's a bacon border! 😉

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting perspective!

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

My birthday's this Wednesday, and I don't want anything except for a heaping dose of accountability for the assholes who've made my country unrecognizable.
Not too much to ask, is it?

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like they're gonna be proven very, very wrong. The vibe-shift in this country is palpable right now.

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

No thought that they could lose it all though. No foresight.

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

"The Party of Now" No foresight about likely losing said cash and power. No wisdom.

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

When people in the future study the current time we're living through, it'll be quite obvious who the bad guys were.
You'd think this would make current said bad guys think twice about what they're doing, but no—not an ounce of foresight or self-reflection.

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 1d

Any tips for making characters who will only have a few lines more interesting for readers? I feel like it's a bag of tricks, and I shouldn't approach them all in the same way.
This one uses biting dialogue.
This one has a unique description.
Another seems to be full of contradictions.
etc... 🤔

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 2d

Made great progress plotting today. It almost feels like I'll eventually get done. 😁

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 2d

I can't wait to read Peter Thiel's treatise on Strawberry Shortcake, and how the Purple Pieman was a representative of the Antichrist, and how the berries he longed for were not unlike Morgoth and the Silmarils.

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 2d

That's what happens when I skim. *sigh*

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like his seat to me. 🤷

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 2d

Do some worldbuilding, but don't go down any rabbit holes.
...is my impossible task of the day. 😆

Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 2d

Title of the last study I did for the chapter I'm working on:
"Looking Ahead to See the Present"
I'm insufferable. 😆

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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social · 3d

If we keep the government shut down long enough, eventually they'll have to fire themselves.

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