I added the app back on my phone, so a step in the right direction 😊

I would like to be more active on here this year. So hopefully I will connect with out writers and creatives!

Welcome to 2024 — Brittany J. Smith

I'm walking into 2024 with several writing projects and high hopes that I will complete most of them. There is a new post on my website where I talk about my creative plans for the year:

brittanyjsmithwrites.com/writers-diary/welcome-to-2024

Spooky Season Scholarship Drive - Writing the Other Will you help us raise enough for our scholarship fund to cover these last few students in financial need?

Writing the Other is facing a big challenge: lack of sufficient scholarship funds for the last of this year's classes.

Due to Patreon shenanigans & social media chaos, the fund is almost tapped out.

Will you help us cover the remainder needed for this year by donating and/or boosting the signal?

Precious the dog seated on the edge of the bed next to a tray with an open laptop.

Hard to write when our dog is determined to sit in my lap

An update: I learned that doing something creative in small chunks is a lot more manageable and a lot less stressful than trying to carve out an hour in my daily schedule

I’m actually looking forward to this week’s bite-sized creative sessions

Will check back in on Sunday or Monday to see how I did this past week

School & work suck up most of my time and energy every day, which means my creative projects have been collecting dust for days and weeks at a time.

But this week I'm going to commit to 30 minutes per project each night (so an hour total) because small progress is better than nothing

Have I started my poster? No...

But I should have something prepared by the end of the month

I finally registered for Virginia Library Association's 2023 Annual Conference and it's starting to hit that I'll be presenting a poster in roughly one month

I haven’t written a short story since the beginning of the year. But I have two ideas that I am actually excited to explore. This has been a slow year in terms of output, so having something to work on makes me so happy

Kat Howard — Editing Kat Howard's goal as a freelance editor is to help writers get closer to the book that they want to be writing. She works with writers at all career stages and in various genres and covers things li...

I have space in my editing calendar for new projects. I work with novellas and novels, and offer two tiers of edits. More info here: https://www.kathowardbooks.com/editing Always happy to answer questions.

Any signal boosting is very much appreciated, thanks!

It’s the start of a new month so I’m going to set a small writing goal to ease back into my different projects. For August, I’m going to commit to working on my sci-fi novel at least twice a week which feels manageable

Time to get started

I think there’s over 800 episodes (and counting!) so I’ll definitely be busy for a while 😂

I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you’re surrounded by comforting energy!

Hello! Thanks to my friend @livelygold.bsky.social for the invite!

I figured I'll give another platform a try. I'm Brittany, a SF/F author based near DC. I mainly post updates about my current WIPs, library school, books I'm reading and anime I'm watching (just started One Piece today)