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I'm launching a weekly Substack newsletter! I started writing silly, darkly humored, fictional news stories as a way to cope with my anxieties about EVERYTHING, and I just kept going until I had enough for several months of publication. Now I'm sharing it. Check it out! #amwriting #writingcommunity

Neville is jealous that he couldn't go to the sidewalk sale at Watermark with me today, but he also can't read.

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The other day, I made the conscious decision to take a break from writing my dystopian novel to instead finish drafting my campy murder mystery novel because, well... *looks around* mental health reasons. #skywriters #writingcommunity

Me: I'm making really good progress on this section of my novel, but I'm still struggling to tie things together. My brain: Here's an AMAZING idea that will solve all of the problems! Me: Yay!! My brain: ...but it requires a complete rewrite of the 10k words you have in the section so far! Me: 😐

I wrote* over 1,000 words in my WIP today! *including a 700-word passage I copied over from a previous draft (I'm still counting it!) #skywriters

I have been STRUGGLING with one of the narrators in my novel in progress for over a month, and yesterday I had an epiphany: make it horror.

This is the best that I have made choux buns since the first time I made dairy-free cream puffs, when I had beginner's luck and thought to myself "cream puffs aren't so hard." It took a year and eventually adding another egg to the choux dough to get back here. But I did it! #foodsky

I'm thinking about reading War and Peace. I calculated that if I read 30 pages a day, I can finish it in a month. I did that with Anna Karenina and it worked, but it was also 2018 and I was much more motivated back then. O, to be young and pre-pandemic...

Anyone else feel like screaming today or is it just me? And by today, I mean constantly.

I finished the 2nd draft of my novel!!! Now onto the 3rd draft 😂😭📝 #writingcommunity #skywriters #writersofbluesky

Good news for fellow authors disheartened by your books being illegally used to train AI; "If your book was used by Meta, you’re automatically included in the Kadrey v. Meta class action in Northern California..." And @authorsguild.bsky.social has some practical steps you can take.

Hey, an occasional reminder: Should you be fighting fascism here in the US? Yes, you should! Are you the one who decides how best you can do that? Yes, you are! Should the people who decide that you're not doing it right (i.e., the way they want you to) fuck off into the sun? Yes, they should!

I got a copy of Kindscher's Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie, and I'm happy to report that my two favorite plant names in the book are Bastard Toadflax and Panic Grass. Both of them grow throughout most of the U.S. That is all.

I had to write a brand-new section of my novel, and once I finish it I'll be finished with this draft of the whole thing. I have been half a chapter away from finishing it for like 2 weeks 😂 I know exactly what needs to happen but I keep trying to do everything else except write it. Like clean.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

LAST DAY TO REGISTER!!! #skywriters #writingcommunity

I think this period of American history should henceforth be known as the Reign of Error.

Our online fiction critique group starts NEXT WEEK! All experience levels welcome. Check out writepittsburgh.com/events for more information on the workshop and your instructor (me!). #skywriters #writersofbluesky #writingcommunity #amwriting #fiction #amwritingfiction #writingworkshop #writinggroup

4 spots left! Join our online fiction critique group to get feedback on your work. Starts Feb 23rd. #skywriters #amwriting #writingcommunity #fiction Also, I'm a speculative author myself, as well as classically educated in literary fiction, so you'll get plenty of well-rounded feedback from me.

Trump was so mad last night, he stormed out after the halftime show and cancelled the penny. Seriously. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I guess it's good that my WIP is a dystopian novel because I can cathartically dump all my terror and existential dread onto the page. #skywriters

Join the Write Pittsburgh online #Fiction Critique Group! Bring your work to get feedback (including from me!) and give feedback to your fellow writers. Advanced writing knowledge isn't necessary; your opinion is more important than you think! writepittsburgh.com/events #skywriters #writingcommunity

If you're a government worker, just dropping this here for you: www.404media.co/declassified...

If you’re in a particular kind of mood, you can call your reps from the otherwise quiet waiting area while the kids are at their activity, so all the other parents get to listen to your opinions

FINAL CAMPAIGN WEEK: “Our Dust Earth" a hybrid "Dying Earth" SF anthology & mini TTRPG is 81% base and 67% stretch goal funded. We could use your help to reach our goals this week and fund the project. More info at www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sf #sff #rpg #kickstarter

In less than a month, I'll be leading our NEW fiction critique group for @writepittsburgh.bsky.social. Bring your work, get feedback, and give feedback to your fellow writers on their work. It's a win-win! Check out writepittsburgh.com/events for this and all of our upcoming workshops. #skywriters

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts

Another doodle.

Today's doodle/mood.

Tomorrow, Donald Trump Becomes a Lame Duck President | This reality limits Trump’s political capital and will be limited further should voters do the usual course correction in the next midterm elections, writes @melissaryan.bsky.social.

Tell your friends! Acquaintances! People you just tolerate! This workshop is solely focused on participant work; you'll be able to get feedback on multiple submissions. New & experienced writers welcome! Check writepittsburgh.com/events for this & all of our workshops #writingcommunity #skywriters

Friends! Writers! Countryfolk! We have some amazing @writepittsburgh.bsky.social workshops scheduled for the winter term. Join @mchristinebd.bsky.social on January 25th for Scaffolding Your Novel! Only 4 spots left! #writingcommunity #skywriters #amwriting #novel #wip www.writepittsburgh.com/events

Anyway I was bored during a Zoom call this afternoon and doodled some possums.

My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.

We have a great list of upcoming @writepittsburgh.bsky.social workshops for the winter term, but we just announced my online fiction critique group today!!! Get feedback on your work! Give your opinions on peers' pieces! Join us! #writingcommunity #amwriting #fiction www.writepittsburgh.com/events

"New Year's Nightmare" is by the youngest Holiday Spirit(s) adult workshop participant, Tahlia Smith. If you like rich people being haunted at the holidays, this story's for you! Read the anthology for free here: www.writepittsburgh.com/holiday-spir... #booksky #ghoststories #writingcommunity

I reached "The Apocalyptic Rock Fight" in It yesterday, and last night I dreamed that my friends and I had a rock fight on an old wooden castle playground. We won because we had the biggest rocks. I'm not sure how those correlate, but it's probably not good. #booksky Bonus: Neville #catsofbluesky

From "A Grilled Cheese Ghost Story" by Laine Wilson in our FREE @writepittsburgh.bsky.social Holiday Spirit(s) anthology! For a ghost story collection, we got a lot of heartwarming stories. Ghosts don't HAVE to be scary😉 www.writepittsburgh.com/holiday-spir... #writingcommunity #ghoststory #booksky

An excerpt from Stacy Keene's "Bleak Midwinter: A Story To Be Read On A Long Cold Night" in our own @writepittsburgh.bsky.social Holiday Spirit(s) ghost story anthology. Which you can read for free! On our website! Which is here: www.writepittsburgh.com/holiday-spir... #writingcommunity #booksky

Delighted to have a story in Write Pittsburgh’s Holiday Spirits Anthology! My story is ‘Magpie and Jay’ and it’s my first publication in 6 years. I’m proud to share space with such talented writers and very grateful to @writepittsburgh.bsky.social and @slbarrett87.bsky.social for their support!

This Jolabokaflod, please enjoy our just-released-today Write Pittsburgh Holiday Spirit(s) ghost story anthology!!! You can download it for free on our website! Happy reading 👻🎄❄️ #writingcommunity #booksky www.writepittsburgh.com/holiday-spir...

Neville "helping" wrap gifts. Funnily enough, I was wrapping his presents to the dogs. #catsofbluesky #merrychristmas

My parents when I was a teen: Why are you so into medieval weaponry? That's so morbid. We raised you better than that. My parents 20 years later, watching Wolf Hall: Why didn't they kill Thomas More with a guillotine? They also got a mini lecture about how executioners were often drunk & missed 🪓🤷‍♀️

I emailed responses to two different students who asked for clarification on revision advice today which said that, if they disagree with me, they should stand up for themselves because "it's not my writing. It's your writing. My writing currently has a lot of cyborgs in it." #writingcommunity