STEP 1: make a little birdhouse in your soul STEP 2: ??? STEP 3: profit

Exciting announcement over at my steamy account, @solaraflair.bsky.social! If you're 18+ and into well spiced aliens, please go have a look ;D

Is it horrible that I actually HOPE I run out? I kinda want to be free of the writing bug. 😅

Today's writing progress so far has been... 1. Reverse outlined 2/3 of Audacity 4 so I can remember what the hell happened. 2. Edited 1 chapter for Audacity 3 audiobook. 3. Recorded 2 chapters for same. 4. Stared, horrified, at my contradictory notes and partially written scenes for Audacity 5.

For #WIPSnips today a real treat! Something I've been working on for The Audacity 5. What exactly happened to May's dad...

I'm re-reading The Audacity 4 in order to write The Audacity 5 and how on earth did I make this shit up? Man, I love this weird book. www.amazon.com/Audacity-4-S...

#AwesomeCharacters May: Pets fed, plants watered (probably), door locked. Xan: Takes a million pictures of your pets and sends them to you. Talks to the plants. Forgets to lock the door. Aimz: Brings your pets on adventures, feeds them trash. Door is left OPEN. Plants dead.

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This kind of stuff propagates fake niceness in our communities and takes us backwards. Managers can instead learn how to demonstrate genuine kindness to their employees and teach them how to offer that to customers. It’s about valuing human lives, which can be done smiling or not.

Good luck little buddy

One of my employees had their car mirror broken off and I know how to fix that and I want SO BAD to do this and earn my Handy Lesbian Aunt Badge but I also can’t let them know how badly I want to help 🤣

I'm going to be annoying this week, so please bear with me. 😅 Letters from the Void ends Friday night and we need everyone's help to reach our goal by then! Any likes, shares, or pledges (even for a few dollars) helps immensely. 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/luk...

I’ve owned my own washing machine for 5 years now and just learned there’s a filter you’re supposed to clean monthly. I knew about the dishwasher filter but not the washing machine. How did I get this far without ever being taught these things? 🥲🥲🥲

I often feel like I’m the only one who thinks comics are WAY harder to read than books. Constantly flipping between word comprehension and visual comprehension is hard for me 🤣 I usually end up glossing over the visuals and missing half of what’s going on.

PSA

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

I’m watching Twilight Zone right now and this comic has a real Twilight Zone vibe, so I’m going for it!

Literally burned my animation diploma tonight to free myself from the obsessive desire to make money on my art. If it comes, it comes, but I’m not chasing it anymore. I’m just going to make art, put it out there, and let the rest go.

Cracking open one cold fella: grumpy/sunshine romance

I wrote a little over 1k today and it’s all really stream of consciousness ness disconnected big picture notes so far but eventually if I keep doing this maybe scenes will form around it? Hopefully?

So....I thought I couldn't get any weirder than The Audacity 4: Significantly Other. It's bonkers. Then I wrote Aliens in New Florida which is actually weirder. Now...now The Audacity 5. I can barely comprehend what I'm writing here. It always eventually makes sense but woof, this is strange 😂

I’m such a freaking Hindaboo. I saw a bunch of people gathering for a wedding in traditional Indian clothing and it took much strength to not wedding crash and ask if anyone wanted to gush about Devon ke Dev Mahadev or the upcoming Ramayana movie 😂

If any trick or treaters show up tonight to my dark, undecorated, overgrown bungalow four lots down from an abandoned cemetery at a dead end, they will be rewarded with a single, sorta past its prime mandarine.

Not letting yourself hope for the future because you’re scared to get disappointed is played out. Disappointment isn’t nearly as painful as hopelessness. Better to have loved and lost than to never love at all!

Re: Frankenstein’s monster. The monster is never named, and Victor Frankenstein is, one might argue, his father. Children typically take on the last names of their father, and so I posit that the monsters full name is, in fact, Monster Frankenstein or, perhaps, Victor Jr.

Writing Tip: As a writing exercise, open up a word document, clear your mind, and just write top-of-mind for 60 seconds. Literally anything that pops into your head. It can be harder than it sounds. When you hit 60 seconds, see if there was anything interesting. #writing #writingtips #Booksky

Commander! The hot singles have breached the perimeter, they're within the fortress walls!

*sees picture* aw, I love this move *reads first line* ugh, so sweet. I always tear up a little at—*reads final line* oh. No. No that is not how that goes. 🫣

It shouldn’t be this hard to get coffee after 4pm. Late night cafes need to make a comeback

I was accused of toxic positivity many years back and yeah it sent me on a journey of discovering my shadow and facing the darkness but you know what? I still like being positive and think it’s helpful. So horrors be damned, what’s something you’re grateful for today?

You! Yeah you. Say something nice and uplifting to yourself right now. You deserve to enjoy your own kindness.

Finding it hard to get up the motivation to go vote? Do what I do. Play the Suffragette song from Mary Poppins loudly on repeat until you’re jazzed.

At book conventions, I’m often asked what genre I read by the people trying to sell me books. Who reads genres though? Don’t you just read books that have an interesting premise or interesting writing? This question always genuinely confuses me 😅

Watching The Blob tonight because I’m really into all things blob related. Goops, goos, and, most especially, slimes. Stay tuned.

In better news, my cat is quietly snoring

Look!! Rare treat! A day in late November with nothing on the schedule 🤣

A lot of good writing is about adding interesting details! That starts with observing your world. My local cafe has fun seasonal drinks and food. Every city needs a quirky local owned cafe where everybody knows your name. I got to sponsor their opening so I have a menu item named after me.

Fantasy and I could only do it if it was allowed to be funny. I don’t think I could write dark gritty serious fantasy romance even for a million 😝

Ghostbusters 2016 (extended cut) is so underrated ghaaaaa. Holtzman affects me. The theatrical release cut so many important scenes it feels like an intentional sabotage 🫠

Tiny Tim would like a word

I want to make more online friends, but my genuine interests are so weird I can't find other people who are into them to strike up conversations with 😅 Would anyone like to discuss the true meaning of freedom or like...what we can learn from experiences of different states of consciousness?

When I write a post here, I feel like all my hundreds of followers are standing around in a big room and I just grabbed the mic and that's horrifying. How do you people not have stage fright about posting stuff here?

I think like...1 online maybe but I'm going to say 4 in person. I'm friendly but like...maybe too friendly, you know? Aggressively friendly.

Shhh can you hear it? The empty hole in your daily soundscape that can only be filled by listening to The Audacity as an audiobook? www.audible.com/series/The-A...

Poltergeist is always one of my absolute favorite Halloween watches. I don’t really like horror as a genre, but that movie is so freaking gooood. What’s your favorite spooky watch?

Happy #aceweek everyone!! I don’t identify as anything in particular beyond a Carmen, but I’m somewhere on that ace spectrum for sure. I can have and enjoy sex, but honestly I never really cared that much. Sex, take it or leave it. I’ve had better orgasms through meditating ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Madam Clandestina is the first to speak in Aliens in New Florida! Her line is “I think I’ll die in a few days time, Rawrzwold." She's a trip, I love her. Very much the old wise mentor archetype, but a little tricksy, too. Her death kicks off the whole adventure, but her story unfolds throughout!

My internal concept of gender is severely broken, so I need YOUR help! If you like to read Monster/Alien Queer Romance books, please vote on your favorite pairing out of these options... A) F/F Monster/Human B) F/NB Monster/Human C) F/NB Human/Monster D) NB/NB Monster/Human

Yay, I didn't miss it!! Please enjoy a wide variety of Aces! May, from The Audacity, is aro/ace in a universe where *drum roll* that's totally okay to be! She forms a meaningful but romance and sex-free partnership over the series.