“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

The views these days cannot be bested.

PSA: Everyone, remember that today we are one day closer to the November release of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein film. I am waiting in AGONY!!! 🖤 @realgdt.bsky.social

So STOKED to have a new flash fiction piece out in the excellent @major7mag ! 🎧❤️‍🔥💿

L O L arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Check the beauty of the 414.

Fact one: fairies are real. Fact two: fairies are bugs. Hummingbird clearwing moth in my garden!

The Passion of Creation - Leonid Pasternak, 19th Century

Do not give up your ability to reason. Do not give away your need to struggle. Do not atrophy your capacity to decide. Do not confuse efficiency for goodness. Do not monochrome the colors of your voice. Do not devalue your body. Do not hand over your mind. Do not make a machine a god.

Today's one-word five star review: Discoveries THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS by Steve Brusatte ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

If only every margarita could hit like the airport salvation marg does when your flight is delayed.

Something I love about older women is how they are relentlessly and adorably on theme. Is it fall? She's going with the pumpkin sweatshirt. Home team playing on TV tonight? Packers pin is on and prominent. Valentine's Day? You best believe she's wearing pink and red.

Poet @meghanor.bsky.social nails it. Full article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o... The novel I am currently querying grapples with these ideas. I wrote most of it on a typewriter. #amquerying

Summer in Wisconsin is so damn lovely.

Y'all have no idea how much self-control it is taking to not let my Jurassic Park meme game to eke out onto the Bluesky account. But do rest assured, I am having a Jurassic July.

I dare you to write a piece with a structure inspired by nature. Snail shell template. Fiddlehead template. Birch bark template. Wasp nest template. #amwriting

In 2019, I was forever changed by hearing the luminous Andrea Gibson perform in a little theater in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Rest in peace, bright bright soul. ✨️ @andreagibson.bsky.social

Art cannot be separated from bodies. Something to remember.

Today's one-word five star book review: Intent THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula K. LeGuin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

When your queries all still exist in the world of possibility:

There's a reason the videogame hearts go to green when you heal.

Also, why waste earth's actual resources of water and energy for an army of bot academic assistants to provide feedback on essays students are "writing" with ChatGPT? We are literally feeding the machine. Bring back bean bag chairs in discussion sections instead. It will have better results.

There's nothing nightmarish about having the receipts on your own thought process. This is the new dream as far as I'm concerned.

PSA: If you do a Google search, you can type -ai in your search to prevent it from serving you AI results you never asked for. 👍

Another reason so many authors on your feed are furious about that A.I. generated summer reading article, is that in a media landscape where coverage for books is shrinking absolutely everywhere… this is what we get.

What. The. Hell. The thing about AI is we still have time to stop it from replacing human thinking. Will we?

My god. I think this is the best thing I’ve ever read on the art of trying to get life down on paper. From Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.

Signing books for new readers at WordHaven BookHouse this past weekend! 🥰

So what? The literary world is always in the first detonation blast zone. Run towards the searing light. You don't want to live in the world without the arts. Become a writer.

Less building data centers, more searching for spring ephemerals on the forest floor.

Revision by hand looks so beautiful on the page. I love seeing the evidence of the emerging, reordering, deletion as we consider what to keep, change, what this says about ourselves, what we can bear to say and what we can't, scratching the map into the page leading to the thought we're thinking.

With fingernails that shine like justice and a voice that is dark like tinted glass, she's fast and thorough and sharp as a tack. She's touring the facility and picking up slack... Since my first listen in 2001, has never stopped being who I wanna be. Short Skirt/Long Jacket, CAKE

Sometimes when I'm singing to myself in the mirror while I'm getting ready for the day, and I think "odds are, someone else or multiple someone elses in the world are also singing this song, right now" and it makes me happy to think about us singing together.

Today's one-word five star book review: Tidal WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #booksky

In the creative process & in one's own relationship with self & the earth, an important part of it is watching for signs of life. The signs may be tiny & improbable & fragile, but when we notice them, they work through us in inevitable & sacred ways. Remain receptive, observant, & ready. #writersky

Do you ever work on something for years and suddenly it hits you like, WOW, some people are really going to hate this and a beat later, go "hahahahaha" and just keep going ? #writersky

13 years of my life were spent teaching in public schools. Today, I had an urgent feeling that I should type out a list of the books I taught during that time. I don't want to forget them, or that teaching them happened. I remain grateful for what these works gave me, & allowed me to give to others.

One-word five star review of the day: Fae ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by @amalelmohtar.com #booksky

Ohhhhh, I am proud to live in Wisconsin right now.

I've never had the right means or timing to make it to AWP, but I hope that one day I will! (And I hope it's somewhere warm that year.)

"Writing a novel is easy [...] To do it, the author simply has to remember that it can't be done, that the ideal edifice that exists in the mind may not be, cannot be, and will never be communicated, but something will." -Jane Smiley, 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

Facts: King Kong is a Bigfoot kaiju

Me writing in third person omniscient: I AM A GOD Me revising my head-hopping mess of a draft: I AM AN IDIOT #writing

The Decemberists understand the writing process. Opening lyrics from "Joan in the Garden." In a book I found Joan in the garden I will write this down I will lay her heart in mine For a time Write a line Erase a line

One-word five star review of the day: Prescient ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ WE ARE DREAMS IN THE ETERNAL MACHINE by @denibechard.bsky.social from @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Great list of action items. Because yes: even my independent press published, short print run, weird little literary monster story got thieved.

My book reviews on online platforms are very much an "Oops! All Four & Five Stars" kind of affair. I'm just not going to slam an artist, not in this era. It's my strong belief that the best conversations about art are not for an evaluative purpose. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #booksky #bookreviews #bookrecommendations

Do you think I should try putting more witty quips here so my inevitable AI replica in the future is suitably funny? What am I doing. Why are there so many social medias. I want to listen to CDs in my room.

I always read contemporary and debut titles because I gotta know what's hot and happening in art, but lately classics have been calling to me. To prepare for the unlikely but never impossible chance of time travel if nothing else. #booksky #reading #classics #tbr

A sweet little look at my debut novel as a feed placeholder while I figure out what Bluesky is all about. It might take me a minute. You can also find me on Instagram and the cursed app for the time being... but I have a feeling it won't be for long. :) #writingcommunity #booksky