There is something underneath the ocean. It has lingered there for countless aeons. It has laid, writhing in the deepest, darkest, endless expanse of the umbral depths. When it shifts on the seabed, it carves mountains and valleys in its wake. Its scales are caked with the salty grime and slit of untold millennia, each one having lived through the rise and fall of empires.

💙📚👀📢📚😱

Just wrote one of my favorite pieces ever! A prosaic, descriptive piece that speaks to the horrors underneath the waves, and the gospel that its priests preach to the damned.
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Across the 25K mark in my current WIP. Almost done with Act 1 which means that I'm on target for the book overall.

Getting gud.

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“The pencil moved with remarkable accuracy and speed, and the drawings were of a professional quality.”
The Cartoonist by Sean Costello - Art horror
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To be fair though the nice reply of no was super duper expected. So wasn't really badly stunned or anything.

Actively trying to be traditionally published can be wild. Today I had a nice pass from an agent email directly above an email where I'm arranging an author interview for a podcast episode coming up. What a rollercoaster lol.

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I like to think the replies where agents/assistants say they carefully considered my project are one of a couple stock replies. The others being "Never talk to me again" and "What else you got?"

Middle answer is fine for now I think.

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If an agency is regretfully turning my project down because they don't have time, would it be crazy to say "It's cool I'll wait."?

Or did they just not want to say "No we don't want it"?

Lol

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I’m the co-creator of the horror anthology podcast Uncommon Commons. I write a bit of everything but I love existential and body horror.

With imprisonment, I like the idea of being a witness to, but having no say over the things happening outside of yourself.

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Great, now I have(get) to think about if a Victorian inspired vampire setting would love, or hate photos. Which means deciding how/if they show up in them.

Poor me, I have to think about vampires.

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Well hello all. I'm Liam Burke, and I like body horror, and action horror best.

The thing I love most about the first is how relatable it is, and the second I love for the idea of fighting back. Even if it's hopeless.

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If you want:
- fucked up ace rep
- English middle class monstrosities
- soap opera drama in a decaying Home Counties seaside town
- British Gothic tropes in a blender
- paranormal entities just hanging out

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Positivity is hawt.

... joined the ink of his mother’s veins, creeped to merge with the edges of his sight. Vatesh could hear and see Ariadne speaking in hurried, awed tones as if underwater and through a thick wall. Only the pain kept him present.
This is how I die, he thought. Killed by your damned faith.

His life passed in flashes as his vision darkened and the pain burned through his body, a surgical exploration of his mind, his soul, his veins. Ulandrin took the whole of Vatesh into himself with terrible, inevitable pulls. The blackness of the window seeped out...

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*Literally* making new friends I hope?

if you share this and comment on it in the next 72 hours, I will write you 1-2 free pages of whatever the fuck you want I'm not even kidding

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Write about the moment before a CEO gets killed by the sci-fi monster they didn't take seriously, please.

Love ending a chapter with the POV's throat being bitten painfully by what they would consider a Saint.

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At 20. Every batch I get like, 1 agent I'm super excited about. So that's cool. Got some very nice rejections. So that's also cool. Going really well so far.

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19% towards WIP word count goal being met. Awkward because I'm at 16% of the number of chapters. So... Maybe I make this one into two.

Or maybe I just figure it out in editing later. For now I should just enjoy the word vomit phase.

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part of a well drawn horse labelled "the one specific scene I came up with" the rest of the horse is crudely and labelled "building a whole story around it"

I have one scene written of my MC when she's in her early 30s. And then I've backtracked all the way to her teenage years to fill out the story and the worldbuilding. 🤣💀

Saw this meme and "ahaha... I do that"

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Unless you pay extra.

Shout out to my great critique group for giving me the idea for addicts called Drainers. I love their addition, and I got to write the dialogue line:

"I can bleed *so good* for you m'lord!"

So. Feeling pretty great.

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Got carried away last night on the terrible night my MC had while his mother struggles with a horrific affliction that corrupts the mind, body and soul over time. And yet I could STILL fit more detail in if I wasn't trying to stay lean. Good times.

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So far I'd say five if you count very brief POV chapters for a couple very influential characters with the book I'm querying an agent with. I try and keep my cast tight but we'll see what happens with my current WIP.

Five more agents queried. Twenty more to get to 30 which is my initial batch goal. Then three more times. 1 out of 90's gotta want to rep me right?

Right? Lol.

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Right?! Super high praise. :)

Stokercon room reserved. W00t!

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Pal of mine took my short horror stories on a family camping trip. She said they scared the crap out of her kid. Never been so proud.

Almost just went with "agent" as a hashtag and realized it might attract AI shit and then changed it and now I'm kinda mad.