The mental work of a physical flareup is often understated and underestimated. It takes all my energy for the whole day (and honestly, sometimes the whole week).

If you’re a fellow chronically ill/disabled writer? I’m proud of you.

Because this shit is fucking hard.

Who else is up binge-reading !!! 💥💥💥

Oh boy as soon as finals are over ?? I’m going to race through my TBR

My personal reading preference is a ratio of minimum 15% nonfiction books against the 85% fiction books I constantly devour. The nonfiction keeps me aware, challenged, and sharp. I need it to survive.

Good writing day :) yay :)

Taking deep breaths and reminding myself that an arbitrary deadline set by me is okay to push back for reasons outside my control

The Secret History can be a meandering atmospheric piece bc the tension is established on pg 1. Richard is telling you how he killed a guy. Now he can say whatever & you’ll still pay attention.

My WIP is in an interview style for the same reason. You know what’s coming. Now I can take my time.

I have worked with an editor and the best thing I learned is that everyone NEEDS an editor.

Even the best of us need someone to (lovingly, constructively) rein them in & tell them no. There is a fine line between a complex vision & incomprehensible mush. It’s hard to know the difference alone.

There is always a good reason to critique an artist. But most of y’all are just being transphobic to Ethel Cain and deserve to be smacked around a little.

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This is why my query letter has a big fat “anti-AI” section in it tbh. I don’t want an agent that wouldn’t check a contract for this before it even gets to me.

Oh my goodness, this podcast is my exact niche. I’m so ready. I wonder if I knew some of these people lmao

Trying to up my creative stamina this spring. Wish me luck.

Idk man. At the end of the day, white people are still white. And they will act white, and move white, and look at the world as white. And it can cause some serious harmful blind spots. It’s a hard lesson that I keep relearning because I keep forgetting it somehow.

I promise there are no politics in my book about a mixed race person cut off from their cultural ties by their assimilating immigrant parents who tries to find God, faith, and family as a rejected queer person in all the wrong places and therefor ends up soul-bound to a genderfluid pious maniac.

The slow mourning process that comes from accepting that some of your idols are bad people….is agonizing. Bleh.

How do I explain to people that I enjoyed the book and don’t regret reading it and will totally recommend it to people but I still reviewed it at two stars???

I’m reading my first straight omegaverse beta x beta romance novel. Don’t know if it’s for me but I’m happy that so many straight people are also willing to play with fun gender dynamics and combos. This is progress to me.

My tolerance for scary stuff is so warped that I never think my writing actually fits into hardcore horror until a normal human person reads my work 😬 My husband who loves me very much officially can not read my manuscript anymore because the gore got too heavy lmao

Context: every year of my education from 3rd grade to 11th grade featured a book about the Holocaust in some form in literature/English class.

I’m glad it did, because it raised me right. But apparently this was not the norm for other people and that’s throwing me off

I thought a majority of school reading being Holocaust related was normal. Turns out it’s just a Christian school thing. Oops.

None of my reading tracker apps are actually helping me track how many books I’ve read this year because each app is like…missing a few books in their catalog somehow lmao

But I’m ahead of schedule and I’m proud all the same, even if I have no fancy proof to screencap and show off.

I just want all artists to succeed and make cool shit. I want a world where all artists could just make so much art that every story can find its audience and every audience can find its story. I just want to live in a world where we can all bask in the joy of getting to make and participate in art.

It seems like people either put it right near the opening like you do or at the very bottom! When it comes time to finally start sending out the letters, I’ll write both versions and see which pitch feels better :3

Hard to overstate how bad this is. This would be *national legislation to aid book banning*. The time to call your reps and say you are against HR 7661 is NOW.

Okay…this but at the bottom of the letter. Yes or no? I’m thinking yes since the book deals with heavy themes and I would rather be safe than sorry.

Any advice for how to format a TW/CW into a query letter? I write horror so it feels self-explanatory, but this is important to me anyway.

Right now, my plan is to put my warning text in italics under the letter. And obviously I won’t query any agents with material they explicitly don’t want.

I hate when a short story idea hits because I really hate writing short stories but I HAVE to write the short story or the idea will never leave my head. Ahhhh.

I didn’t get many words on pages today, but I finally found the missing piece of the puzzle to take my book from good to great. I’m so proud of myself and I’m excited to finish this draft.

Ooooo that sounds interesting. I’m trying to help some indie authors I know with ideas since so many of them are scared about the repeal of Section 230/scared of the KIDS act taking away all their income. I’ll add this to the list.