Do folks think the TV series 'From' qualifies as cozy horror? It has elements of it-- a bucolic setting with a close-knit community-- but I'm not sure if it fully qualifies. #writingcommunity

I know two Chicago-based Catholics. This seems accurate.

One of my shorts is in this collection. Consider giving it a read?

Human minds were not made to feel grief constantly. I'm not okay.

Can my life stop being a series of non-stop tragedies for two minutes.

Main character in my current draft would probably be a raven: inquisitive, haunted, too curious for his own good, kinda obsessed with death.

My 'main' project's MC is definitely a fox, because they're already a fox-person who is totally not based off of an adoptable that a friend got for me.

A scrivener window for a project titled Corpus, with approximately 22,000 words out of a 40,000 word goal achieved under "Manuscript Target", and a session target showing a total of 3840 words have been written this session.

Fix-up I'm attempting is going *very* well. Just have to find someone willing to read it once it's done. #writingcommunity

If Dante were alive today, do you think he'd reserve a circle of Hell for people on Indeed who post entry level positions that require five years of experience, or is Hell too good of a punishment for these motherfuckers?

I've finished two novel drafts with Scrivener and am currently working on two more. The fact that I can jump around and write the draft out of order really helps.

I hate how wild this weather has been. Almost 80 one day, below twenty the next. It's robbing me of basically all my energy.

It's a sign of a healthy economy when 988 is plastered everywhere in your small town, right?

My congressman office just hung up on me without taking my info.
Bob Latta is a disgrace.

I get that conferences and conventions have to make money somehow, but $200 for a *day pass* is an absurd amount, especially for a writer's conference. #writingcommunity

New pet peeve: local writing groups that don't update their social medias or websites on a consistent basis.

DEAR BLUESKY:

WE DON'T WANT ATTIE, WE WANT AN EDIT BUTTON

WE DON'T WANT ATTIE - WE REVILE AI & "VIBE-CODING" AND REALIZE ALL "AI" / LLM TECH IS BUILT ON THEFT AND DEPLETES RESOURCES

WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO DISCOVER THINGS HERE ORGANICALLY WITH *HUMAN,* NOT MACHINE-ASSISTED LLM INTERACTIONS

Today's research topic: brewing mead. #writingcommunity

Even disregarding that the person who created the franchise is a literal monster who wants most of my friends dead for the crime of existing, the Harry Potter show looks like it was lit with a scented candle and shot with gasoline smeared on the lens.

"but i grew up with harry potter! i can't NOT watch it" hey thats really pathetic 👍

“Pain is comfortable. You’re so used to things being bad, you’re not sure if they can ever get better. And the idea that they can get better, the idea that you’re wrong about things having to be this way… scary, isn’t it?”

After playing Deadlock for six hours, I have come to the conclusion that I love everything about the game except playing it.

The setting, the aesthetics, the character design, the lore, all 10/10, no notes.

Unfortunately to experience it you have to play a MOBA with third-person aiming.

I get that small presses often can't handle the volume of submissions they get, but I shouldn't have to check Facebook to know that they've sent out acceptances and won't be sending out rejections. #writingcommunity

I need to actually finish one of my WIPs before starting on another.

Every time I pause for writing the rough draft, the wordcount has to end in 00. Doesn't matter if it's awkward or if I have to write another 80 words to get to that point. I like having a nice round word count.

Finally decided to open my novel draft back up. 31,500/60k as of today. Hopefully once I'm out of a job I can find the motivation to finish the rough draft. #writingcommunity

If I get a job handling money in the next few months, I'm going to insist these are counterfeit.

Pacing a hole in my rug waiting to hear back from three markets and a request for a sample contract. Why does being an author involve non-stop waiting?

It's insane how many hoops you have to jump through to apply for a job that will inevitably ghost you. Indeed is a fucking scam.

Looking through my email and I found something from a website that was meant to help you find jobs telling me to sell feet pics.

What the actual fuck?

What did people who had strokes before bread was invented smell instead of burnt toast?