I don't really post here much anymore. I'm on "freds" now, but 50k words on my WIP! Yahoo. Yipee.

Gandalf is in his Barbie era #LordOfTheRings

Figured out how book 1 of Sinner Academy ends 😇 If I've done my job right, then hopefully the reader will be clawing at their own face needing book 2 🥰 #writesky

*Camera pans to me furiously tapping on my computer screen because it has been 1 hour and the ABC live federal election results page hasn't updated* #auspol

Ok, so I do my best plot development as I lay in bed trying to sleep. HERE'S THE PROBLEM THOUGH: Both of my WIPs are up to scary parts?? Like... I end up scaring myself and then can't sleep (because I'm a big baby) and I end up having nightmares... lmao uh oh. #writesky

I DON'T NEED SLEEP I NEED AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION RESULTS

It irritates me that the NYT mini crossword doesn't update at the same time as Wordle and Connections. I have no right to be irritated, I play for free, and STILL

AU where Severus Snape ends up in Fourth Wing and Xaden keeps getting annoyed by Violet (this is extremely niche I am so sorry)

Sinner Academy is now at 11,500 words. Mermaids With An S is at 18,000. Between them, that's like... 1/3 of a book. Wild. #Writesky

Finally threw out my emotional support Bang energy drink that expired in 2022 because they cost $5 and its the best flavour but once I drink it, then I won't have it, so I never drank it, even though it's my favourite flavour, but once I drink it I won't have it, so I never drank it, even though it'

Students using ChatGPT to write their papers are missing the best part of uni: Being in the library at 3am, serenaded by the "clickclickclick" of LoL players, on your 4th Redbull, freezing, at least 25 tabs open, telling yourself you'll ABSOLUTELY start sooner next time with no intention to change.

"What do they call it, Keith?" #goodfriday #JustARegularSupperWithTheFellas

Someone called my baby ugly today 😳 - a thread Baby and I go for lunch in the local food court once a week since she started solids. I use a splat mat and some time in our first few visits, the cleaner stopped by to thank me. (1/?)

Pro: Casually wrote 2800 words tonight, so that's pretty good. Con: Probably wrote one of the most ambitious chapters I've ever written and it may end up backing me into a bit of a corner but I HAVE to see how it plays out

This was wild Wordle 1,395 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Someone told me I look "at peace with motherhood" --- My husband took this photo at a party, and I'm pretty sure the peace they saw was actually just 💃dissociation💃 #parenting #mentalhealth

Worked on both Mermaids With An S and Sinner Academy today! Not much, because it was baby rhyme time at the library day... but about 1000 words between them. One is in 1st POV past tense, one is 1st POV present tense... and MAN

Today was long and hard. Don't.

The fact no one answers me when I ask "Does Fourth Wing get good as it goes?" does not give me high hopes

WIP progress: Mermaids With An S (nautical conspiracy horror): 16380 words Sinner Academy (new adult, dystopian, college setting): 1509 words Not bad for a month of writing, with a baby just starting solids and sleeping roughly negative three hours a night!

Shout out to me Wordle 1,386 2/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Last night I had a dream that I was signing copies of Sinner Academy for people Maybe it's a sign, I reckon it has a good chance of tradpub interest. One day 🥲

Anything you can do, I can do with 7kgs of baby strapped to me 💪

FOURTH WING SPOILERS Violet got her dragon and I hated the outcome less than I thought I would. Like, obviously she was going to get the black one, because Yarros doesn't do foreshadowing so much as she throws a brick with the outcome through your living room window... but I liked the twist.

Mums will be like "ahhhh, I needed this" and "this" will be referring to a pineapple donut (defrosted 5 days ago) and a can of V, scarfed down as fast as possible while the baby naps

Xaden Riorson canonically smells like toothpaste and belts

~☆The first rule of worshipping Slaanesh is be urself and have fun!!☆~ (˶◕‿◕˶✿)

Everything I learned about that Reddit comic elf that makes the faces, I learned against my will.

Just so we are clear: @bookspotlight.bsky.social = WAHOO! YIPEE!! ⭐💃💖 We LOVE 💕☀️🙏😌 Let Rebecca smooch your cat 🐱🐈🐈‍⬛🧡💙💛 indiebookspotlight (.com) = Booo 🍅🍅🍅 tomato tomato 👎👎👎 they are pretending to be Rebecca and asking for money 🦨🦨🦨 stinky life choices 🍅🍅🚫it costs $0 to not be this way🚷❌❌

Cool Fresh Writing Tip From Me To You: Don't get the stomach flu it really sucks and you won't be able to concentrate enough to read or write for a whole week.

On a car ride and my husband is listening to a Warhammer audio book. Interestingly, it has mild spice but I've never heard Warhammer handwaved away condescendingly as "not real fiction" or "porn using fantasy as a trenchcoat" And I ♀️ just ♀️ can't ♀️ figure ♀️ out ♀️ the ♀️ difference ♀️

I've been telling my husband about Mermaids With An S and he said "Woah, don't spoil it!" Babe, I'm a pantser. I'm 16k words in. *I* don't even know how it's going to end.

Me: Man, Fantasy names get so weird and complex, like... it's completely OK to use actual names, it won't be weird Duncan Idaho:

Snailed it Wordle 1,363 2/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

You know that meme of "Men writing women"? Well, I feel like I'm going the other way. Working on a first draft and I just wrote the sentence: "I figured that if whoever saved me did turn out to be nefarious, it was better to have at least one layer between a ne’er-do-well and my testicles."

I am Jack's inability to grow an audience on social media.

It finally happened. My baby has chosen a random retail employee to be obsessed with. She's definitely my child, because she's chosen the lady at the book store we stop at each week after baby rhyme time at the library (who was delighted when I told her that Baby thinks she's her best friend 😅)

I've noticed more authors are taking the advice "start in the action" but now I keep starting books that have given absolutely no context to the characters or setting, but fighting or explosions or monsters are here, and my little passenger princess brain is going

I was an enjoyer of The League long before becoming a parent. Now I've got a kid, I know TWO Raffis in pop culture, and somehow the one with pocket dogs isn't the worst one.

2 days of cyclone reading while I waited for the internet to come back #Bridgerton #booksky

We survived the cyclone in our little valley and now getting hit with rain and wind that feels stronger than the actual cyclone wind! This WOULD be great writing weather, but I've been watching the suburbs around me start losing power one by one. I don't want my PC to fry. Bridgerton Book 4 it is!

FORGET ABOUT THE CYCLONE LINGERING OMINOUSLY OFF THE COAST, I JUST DID THIS: Wordle 1,356 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Cyclone (non) Update: Today was meant to be landfall, but it's been pushed back to Friday now. The sky is blue, and all the leaves are green. The sun's as warm as a baked potato.

#TCAlfred update: Have secured Gabapentin (anti-anxiety meds) for the kitties in case we have to evac

In non-cyclone news, Grandma let her (librarian) neighbour borrow her copy of Uptown Sun Feedback echoed other non-Christian readers: Liked it, read it in 2 sittings, felt that the portrayal of the small town was spot on. ALSO SHE CRIED AT THE ENDING! My job here is done ✨

#booksky wins: Cyclone will be reaching us within the next 48-72 hours. Everywhere was out of torches, but you know what was still in stock at the book store? ... Book reading lights. Basically a clip on torch! Let's get ready to be ✨AMBIENT✨

Went to library rhyme time for the first time ever. Bubba was tired (late bus messed up nap time) so, while she loved some bits like scarves and zoom zoom rocket to the moon, she sat there like "😑 don't patronise me" through old mcdonald and twinkle twinkle little star which was very funny 🤣

So, uhhh, there's a cyclone forecast for Thursday, so... That's... kewwwl.

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