I'm gonna blanket burrito and play video games today because, man, has it been a week!

Well, this is not a post I planned on writing. But life is funny that way- sometimes it doesn’t stick to the plan. I got a bit of bad news last night. Unfortunately, the indie press that picked up my debut fantasy is closing. That means Spellbound isn’t coming out this year.

Just getting absolutely bodied by anxiety today.

BBNO$

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what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

Sorry but my cats are very cute, please look at them.

The rule is that if my mutual posts about their niche hobby that I know nothing about, I must like the post to let them know I encourage the enrichment that’s been put in their enclosure

Happy Friday!! We made it! Alright, this one is for writers: What do you hope a reader feels when they reach the final page of your story? #WritingQ #booksky #writesky 🪐📚💙

writing fantasy books is so cool. Has to be my favourite form of escapism, because I can write about fascists paying for their crimes without appeasing fence-sitters through fruitless incrementalism along the way

it’s all i’ve got

Hey! I made a blog newsletter thingy. Gonna try and actually have updates on my author stuffs in the future. Link in the bio! Subscribe on my site if you wanna stay in the know… ya know? I’m not good at this. 😆 www.sarahsappanos.com/ramblings-he... #authorblog #writersofbluesky

easy to feel demoralised seeing all these game company CEOs talking about genAI but remember a bunch of rich people will lose a lot if we don’t suddenly develop an unquenchable appetite for slop so they’re actually the ones on the back foot and have every incentive to lie about everything

I’ve entitled this piece: Oops we summoned a demon

I wrote a thousand words today- can’t tell you how good that feels coming out of big writing slump. 😌

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

2026 is right around the corner! Fair warning: I’m gonna yap about baby’s first book nonstop 😆🤓🤩

I have to be efficient today. I want to be a lump on a log today. Terrible situation. Simply awful.

Me: Hope? What is hope? Hope is gone. Hope... is dead. Someone: I like that thing you wrote. Me: BROTHERS, THE SUN SHINES YET AGAIN! THE BIRDS ARE SINGING AND I SEE RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS!

Time for my monthly POV choice crisis. #writingcommunity which do you prefer to read for fantasy? 1st or 3rd?? I can never make up my mind and it’s such a big commitment 😫 #writing #writersofbluesky

Playing a lot of Diablo 😆

Hap ween!

Accountability post: I AM WRITING 50K THIS NOVEMBER. Thank you, that is all.

Is there any greater agony than having so much inspiration and motivation to write and instead being trapped pushing invoices at the day job?😩🥲

It was like riding out a fever but I think I finally ironed out the new plot. Killed some darlings and made a couple huge changes but I’m ready for rewrites- right in time for November writing challenges! And wouldn’t you know it I probably need about 50k new words. Serendipitous 😆

Doing some extensive plot surgery on my rewrite and I think my main villain is getting a total role reversal and falling back to misguided side antagonist. That closes several plot holes and opens an entirely new one. Just need to figure out how to sew the new one up… My brain hurts.

@mikebennettart.bsky.social needs to make more Halloween signs so I can expand my graveyard!

I always try to order my books from the local indie book store instead of Amazon and usually it’s not too bad a wait, but for whatever reason the horror book I ordered for book club is taking weeks! 😩 where are you mysterious tome??

Ooooh, Belle Époque France with blood magic and a slow-burn countess/governess romance!

TOMORROW ❗

Sat down and went through my old draft for my rewrite project. Of the 78k words I harvested about 35k. Of that 35k I have no idea how much I will salvage or totally rewrite but, hey, it's a start!

I’m not a nail biter but I’m definitely a cuticle picker. I can tell I’m stressed cause my fingers are destroyed 🥲

Work is so bad im actively having a panic attack for the first time in years 🙃🙃🙃

The day job is so draining right now. All I want to do is write! 😭

I think I wanna make a newsletter. 🤔

The Spellbound Alchemist: fresh-brewed tea, sea salt, and blackberry wine.

Trying to focus nervous energy on my WIPs and got a couple big plot kinks worked out. I think I might be ready to start drafting on this project again soon.

My brain is not nice to me when I’m waiting for stuff 😩

Success! I finished my first pass at my plot update. The bad news: I'm throwing out at least half of the story. The good news: this version of the plot actually benefits from staying in the original POV which makes it much easier to save at least some of the original work.

But before I can start that, I have a bigger decision to make: one POV or two? The first version was one… I feel like one is cleaner for this story but with the new changes to the plot I need to make sure I can still tell the whole tale that way. 🤔 hm hm hm

Taking a break from my sci fi project to have another look at my Dark Fantasy rewrite. Think I may have worked out the major plot changes enough to start drafting again.

mentally ill implies the existence of womenshorty healthy

I think this week is the week I get my writing mojo back.

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

It's been a long week. Rest here, weary creative. You deserve it.