Wrote today. Hadn’t put pen to paper in yearly three weeks, since a few days before school started. With everything going on in the world right now, feels like bigger win than usual. Then again, the story I started was about societal collapse so…

On the 1st week of school, I told myself I hoped to make time for writing by the second week of school. 2nd week, was still catching up with other to-do’s. 3rd week, oldest kid got sick and husband had carpal tunnel surgery. Here’s hoping the 4th week is the charm.

I am a weirdo who just got really excited when I realized I have a bag of dried apricots to snack on.

I couldn’t remember what risotto was called so I just called it “rice cream.” Proof at his great I am with words. 😂 #writer

You know why I like Bluesky? When I come over here, it’s all writers and dogs and artists. When I go over to Threads, it’s all drama.

Woohoo! I am officially an associate member of the #SFWA Obvious next goal: sell enough stories (or write a book) and make it to full membership!

Subbed two stories today. Hoping to find time tomorrow to (a) type up/edit some finished pieces or (b) actually write. Both would be nice.

I hope you can subscribe or buy the issue and support Trollbreath, but if you can’t and want to read my weird little washing machine story, it will be free to read on November 14th.

Today I submitted my application for associate membership to the #SFWA and finally set up an author specific email so I can easily find my rejections/acceptances. Yay for writerly adulting!

COSTS OF LIVING is out today from #whisperhousepress. If you’ve ever had a job that was simultaneously nightmarish and numbing, go get a copy and read my story “I’m Not From Here.” Read the rest and feel a sudden, despairing desire to move far away from all things suburban. #horror #booksky

Aside from my story being in this TOC, every other author is amazing. @aimeeogdenwrites.com is a Nebula finalist, @bmorrisallen.com is the editor for @metaphorosis.com, the others all have more/bigger credits behind their names than I do. So grateful to be sharing space with such talented people.

My story SEA OF LAUNDRY drops today in Trollbreath. If you’ve ever been overwhelmed by domestic life, mental load or just a shitty partner, this one is for you.

It’s so nice today that I want to go do yard work, but I put on nice pants today and don’t want to change my pants.

Still alive. Just completely forgot Bluesky exists for most the summer. But Facebook reminded me by being absolutely terrible.

Went to my horror book club yesterday. Our July read I already own (WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME by @natcassidy.bsky.social ) so I’m adding it to my vacation stack for a reread. This will be the first time I’ve ever read a book 2x in a matter of months.

I’m never sure what to post as a writer, unless you want pictures of my notebooks and laptop screen. So, here is the art nearest my desk. Linocut print by Patterned, hanging altar by Wild Fancy Designs, witch hands by Rebecca Chaperon. #writer #art

Help! Was on the way to write but I got catted.

I miss having an actual keyboard on my phone. I am continually having to fix errors when I type because there is no tactile sensation to help guide me.

This is why I don’t use any AIs. They are stupuder than your weird neighbor who gets all his information from memes. That and the plagiarism from writers and artists like me.

Summer used to be my favorite season. Not so much anymore. It’s still technically spring but we’ve got a slew of 90 degree days. *sweats just thinking about it*

Back from a trip to the mountains. Time to buckle down, clean up, work out, and write.

Now that the contract is signed, I can officially say my short story “A Sea of Laundry” is forthcoming in the fall issue of @trollbreathmag.bsky.social 🥳🎉👏

Remember this? It got accepted! Details to come once co tract is signed! #shortfiction #writing #fantasy

I don’t need to read horror anymore. I woke up at 5 am to feel something plasticky and stiff skittering over my neck and up into my hair. It was a huge Palmetto bug. I have now lived my worst nightmare and nothing can scare me anymore. *shudders*

The giant praying mantis Kaiju 3D puzzles are up on #Etsy, feel free to order one! Check it out! #godzilla punchbunnydigidesign.etsy.com/listing/4314...

Yall I’ve been published before online, but I can’t even tell you how cool it is to hold a book—with my story inside it—in my hands. COSTS OF LIVING from @whisperhousepress.bsky.social comes out in September. Make sure you check it and then out!

I love Bsky because I log in and my feed is pretty much all writing and cats, but damn I wish I got more engagement. Maybe it’ll just take time.

Does anyone else have nonexistent locations that reoccur repeatedly in dreams? I have a lot of real locations that look different from real life in my dreams, and then there is a place I call the White Tower, a marble skyscraper that serves a lot of purposes.

Started writing a new story, soft sci-fi. I’m not going to say if it’s a short, novelette, or what, it will figure itself out later. When they say to write what you know, this one deals with overstimulation.

End up talking to a guy who had never read Stephen King before, yesterday at my local bookstore because, as soon as I walked in the door, the owner was like “This is just the person you need.” I ended up sending him off with a copy of Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption.

Anyone else end up with 4,000 open tabs when they use Submission Grinder?

Sometimes I wish I were one of those moms whose whole world revolved around taking care of my kids and running my house, so that it wouldn’t bother me so much when I finally have a plan/time to write and it gets sidetracked by other stuff.

Today I had to do a half a dozen loads of laundry, and I feel like I got hair my steps in today just going back and forth to the laundry room.

While I was gone afew days, I as operating heavy machinery (but not into power lines), eating soul food, seeing Les Mis with my kid and doing various and sundry other things.

Oh hey! I hit 200 followers!

After four years, today was the last day of volunteering at my kids’ elementary school, shelving books. There are some things I’m definitely going to miss (seeing the latest middle grade books). There are some things I’m not (the wet sound of small children coughing).

Watched the first episode of “Murderbot” with the fam. Now, in bed early, reading a book. Just the way it should be.

Gut a hold on a story! Yay! It’s been awhile. Publication crossed out so I don’t jinx myself.

Eating a fudgsicle and reading a horror novel because that’s how I do.

Bebiendo café y practicando mi español. Que haces esta mañana? (Drinking coffe and practicing Spanish. What are you doing this morning?)

Did I just order the 2006 Stephen King miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes on DVD? Yes, yes I did. For reasons.

Apparently, boxes from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social make perfect cat holders I had to fight her to get my copy of REST STOP out from under her.

Yo, hey, more people are following me now! Hi! I hope you’re not bots! 🙃

I wish, whenever you bought an ebook, they’d send you a cardboard replica to put on your shelf and remind you you’ve got that book to read. Mostly because I can’t even fathom what I’ve forgotten about on my digital TBR.

I want to write but it’s been a long day and my back hurts.

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

This is one of those weeks where I have appointments every day (perio today, PT and car tomorrow, then hair, then vet Friday). I despise it. It’s a lot of peopling and being placed on time (and waiting around to go those places) and I don’t wanna do it. But I will because I am an adult. Boo.

Really proud of myself today: wrote about 800 words of my WIP this morning, wrote up a blog post, and typed up about half of a story I wrote awhile back. #writing

Actually wrote again today before noon. Nearly 800 words. I’m just shy of hitting my word count goal for the year. I never hit that goal last year, so I’m pretty proud of myself. #writing #drafting