So much talent sitting next to me at the Broadleaf Writers Conference today!!!! From left to right: Robert Gwaltney, Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Lisa Harrison, and me #livingthedream

Takeaway from a Broadleaf conference panel: realized there are more uncomfortable elements in my upcoming novel, Where the Roots Tangle, than I thought when I was writing it. B/c I wrote what was normal for me. Sometimes what's a regular Tuesday for you is nightmare fuel for others. #writerslife

Excited to be back for another Broadleaf Writers Conference! Some of my favorite people are here. Can't wait to meet new favorite people. I've been a writer all my life, but my journey as an author and filmmaker started at a Broadleaf conference three years ago. #writersky #booksky

Kind of want to devise a Tamarian like language. For example: Bolton, trumped in his halls Could mean being retaliated against for childish reasons with excessive abuses of power

Have another awkward bathroom selfie. As a treat. 🤣 Can I get some crossed fingers and well wishes? 🤞 Award ceremony for Cobb International Film Festival is this evening. I'm not expecting anything, but it'd be fantastic if we earned a little something with And the Moon Sees Me. #writersky #film

So I went to a film festival today. Enjoyed several of the films. What I did NOT enjoy were the ones that used being gay or non-consent assault as the punchline. Not cool. #DoBetter

I'm at the Strand in Marietta, GA for the Cobb International Film Festival. Our short film, And the Moon Sees Me, will be screened later. It's based on an original short story I wrote. I figured it was a good time to do my first bathroom selfie. Bask in the awkward. #WriterSky

This was such a bizarre day full of people who will probably never know the characters and situations they've inspired in my future writing. 😅🙃🤫

I'm very early for Lo Patrick's pub event Poe & Company Bookstore for her novel Fast Boys and Pretty Girls. It goes from 6:30-8:00pm this evening in Milton, GA, so there is still plenty of time for you to join me! #books #booksky

If life is what you make it and all the world's a stage, the audience that must temper their reviews knowing I did all I could with the materials I had.

+2100 words on Blood of the Dearest. Hoping to finish the first draft by July 31. Taking all forms of motivation, including coffee. #WriterSky #Books

Last night, I went to my very first storytelling event put on by The Moth, but it definitely won't be my last. Eventually, I'm going to throw my hat in and see if I get a chance to tell a story. 😍😍😍 #storytelling #writerlife #authorlife

I accidentally scratched the stone drink coaster with my finger nail and other things that made me say bad words today. An anthology by me. #WhyAmILikeThis Guest writers welcome. 🤣🤣🤣

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When you thought you were recording a video for work ... but you accidentally take a selfie instead ... and it looks both good and somehow a little angry #selfie #writerslife

We don't have to worry about the zombie apocalypse anymore. There aren't enough brains to feed them. They'd starve. 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️🧠🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️

I don't often Zodiac, but when I do, it's extra awesome with cats and ice cream.

I was invited to deliver a performance story at the Reinhardt University summer residency program. We also screened And the Moon Sees Me, the short film based on a performance story. Plus was the first time my fam saw me perform. 😁 Wonderful time! Appreciated the opportunity! ✨✨✨ #WriterSky

I decided who I wanted to be. I'm working on it.

I do love a good Writerly Meetup and these are some of the bestest folks. Featuring @dzgrizzle.bsky.social @billbridges.bsky.social @marcmonroe.bsky.social Jessica Nettles Derek Phillips C. Adam Volle #WriterSky

Not for nothing but if Biden had done this it would be a 2 week story.

Y'all the number of times a fat person has tried to insult me by calling me fat. Honey, we both out here living that double cheeseburger life. 🍔🤣🍔🤣🍔🤣🍔 #GetBetterInsults

Y'all check on your perimenopausal friends. We are not ok. 🥵🥵🥵 #HotFlashSeason #WomenSky

Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):

On Juneteenth and forever… Honor, don’t bury or whitewash the history of our ancestors who were lynched. (National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama)

We have zero business sticking our nose in another military conflict, that includes arming genocide junkies. #NoKings #NoWars

If you haven't read The Lamb by Lucy Rose, it's fantastic. But fair warning, not for the faint of heart.

Whatever happens in the coming days/weeks, just remember that these sociopaths claimed up and down they’d never drag America into another war.

I mean ... I'll also bring snacks to share. 😅 #booksky

Audiobook: The Lamb by Lucy Rose Physical book: Filterworld by Kyle Chayka HBU?

#books #booksky 📚

Tackling writers block with flash fiction that probably doubles as trauma dumping. You're welcome? #writersky #storytelling #flashfiction odessablaine.substack.com/p/flash-fict...

Pickles just wanted to check in and see how everyone is doing. Life has been heckin' stressful for a lot of folks. 💜💜💜 #doggo #mentalhealth #selfcare #checkin

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If we wanted a King, we'd still be British.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

Are the lemons haunted? #lifeadvice #whenlifegivesyoulemons

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

I found a pretty thing in the woods and I thought I'd show you. Do you have a cool rock to share? 💜💜💜

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ICE isn’t rounding up migrants at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ meatpacking plants. They're provoking riots in Los Angeles. I wonder, is this provocation laying the groundwork for a pretext to declare martial law? And then I remember all those many tanks shipped to DC, the home of so many protests.

Perks of my job: sometimes I can go by Huck's in Blue Ridge and grab a Birch Beer. I'm not a big soda drinker, but I absolutely love these. 💜💜💜

I don't know who needs to hear this, but I sure did: 😬 Yes, you have tons of To-Do's. 🫠 No, you won't finish them all today. 🙃 BUT you can get several of them done. 😘 So do what you can & don't beat yourself up for not doing all the things. Take a breath. Refill your coffee. & Carpe them Diems.

Fresh off the presses: My new tattoo. I promised myself when I signed my first publishing contract, I'd get this one. I created the concept, my niece designed it, and my friend James Tuck did the ink. It'll need a touchup. There are a lot of details.

I just remembered that I promised myself an awesome tattoo after I signed my first publishing contract. Already have the design. Maybe I'l get it in time for my birthday in June. So it'd be a goal reward/birthday gift to myself. 😁😁😁

Current Status: Badly playing a new instrument and being absolutely thrilled with the experience #FindingJoy #TreatYourself

They say never meet your idols, but I was thrilled to meet Aughra. #DarkCrystalLife #AughraCanBarelyControlAughra ✨💜✨

Y'all catch that latest episode of Dante's New South? I was one of the guests! 😁 open.spotify.com/episode/1c23... #WriterSky #Storytelling #Southern