I think the biggest hurdle for #witers w/ #ADHD is enduring the constant rejection…when you already struggle daily w/ #rejectionsensitivedysphoria. On one hand, it’s handy bc you expect it, but it also makes maintaining hope a hell of a lot harder. #amquerying #Neurodivergent

What if the only people who can teach you to control your powers are the ones your father died freeing you from & that your family spent their lives hiding you from. And, what if you grew up shamefully suppressing said powers because “martyr” family told you they were a myth? #DVPit #F #ND #CI #MH

Either Avery Black’s skin affliction went from nuisance to painful to paralyzing and now has decided to become blatantly & publicly murderous. OR It is no longer possible for her to suppress the ancestral power she’s been gaslit into believing was all myth and delusion. 😠😡🤬 #DVPit #F #CI #ND #MH

🐙 OctoFacts 🐙 for #worldoctopusday: 1. A group of #octopi is called a consortium. 2. The plural form of #octopus is #octopuses. I think we can all agree, 2 is wrong. I propose the plural form of octopus be officially changed to octopees. As in: “Look at the glorious consortium of octopees!” 🐙🐙🐙

They Call Her Wicked ✨editor interest✨ A slow-seeping poison is infecting Appalachia, and Briar must stop it before shadow creatures are unleashed into her world. But on her journey to find help, buried secrets of her past are revealed, changing her life forever. #A #F #DVpit #ND #DIS

1 dead Dad. 1 wrongfully Asylum-ed Mom. 1 life forced into servitude & solitude by social-ladder-climbing family. And one inherited power, suppressed for years, about to hit a tipping point—uncovering truths about her life she’d been led to believe were all in her head. #DVPit #CI #MH #ND #F #A

Caelis is a failed sniper with broken augments. Serenya is a genetically engineered supersoldier who wants to bake cookies. Before they were enemies, now they're humanity's only hope to stop a signal erasing entire colonies. Unless they kill each other first. #DVpit #A #SF #MV

Mother of War = The Witcher X NieR Replicant When Mya Kenorfield’s son, Wenru, is suddenly kidnapped, she has to save him before King Sorga realizes that Wenru is a powerful sorcerer in his own right and becomes even more tempted to drain Wenru’s power for his own. #DVPit #F #A #DIS #LGBT

The Curse of Bethel Grove ✨Editor interest ✨ Charlie returns home and finds herself caught between her first love and a newcomer. But as sparks ignite, a curse awakens. To save the town, and the men she loves, she must finish a forgotten song before the curse claims them. #DVpit #A #PR #ND

🇸🇻An #ownVoices Nahua romantasy set in precolonial Latam🇸🇻 When Itotia’s ritual binds their lives together, deity Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she thought 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ ❤️‍🔥 Enemies→Lovers 🤝🏼 Bargains #DVpit #A #F #Latine #LGBTQ #Myth

Avery Black’s skin affliction went from painful to paralyzing by age 4; on the eve of her 17th its chosen to become blatantly & publicly murderous. OR It’s now harder to hold in the ancestral power she’s been gaslit into believing was myth after 17yrs of suppressing reality. #DVPit #F #CI #ND #MH

Fresh off the brain after a week brewing in the back of it. This is for all those still learning they don't need to empty themselves to hold space for others. #prose #poetry #cptsd #writingcommunity #writesky #familysystemstheory #emotionalcaretaking #overfunctioning medium.com/@pounceswith...

In case anyone wants to see what was happening at the ICE facility in #Portland/#PDX the last few nights. So war zone. Much fire. Very disaster. youtu.be/BQt9Jev2c14?...

#Fantasy and #Speculative #Booksky people. How do you take your books? Actual or Audio? Bought or Borrowed? Series or Singles? Vetted or Vibes? Cover or Content? Lyrical or Literal? I must know. #writerslife #writesky #fictionbooks #WritingCommunity #whatyawantfromme

Woot! Finally have the next chapter of #PollyOllyOxenFree for you all 🥰 #Fantasy #Fiction #NeurodivergentNovelist #AuDHDAuthor #WritingCommunity #SerialFiction #Booksky #Writesky open.substack.com/pub/cayseshu...

As a lifelong #PNW -er, I am unphased by pumpkin spice lattes, flannel, and cozy and/or damp outdoorsy vibes. This👇is MY first sign of #fall. #McSweeney’s Classics: It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

Oh, never posted this: Just discovered I have NOT missed the event and have 45min to make an #unhingedpit post based on the DemonBox interview or slap together something less logistically challenging… I choose…slap together. Seems more unhinged-pit-worthy anyway. Stay tuned. #TheCopperCanary

Here you go #unhingedpit. 45minutes. #YA #F #ComingofRage #amquerying #TheCopperCanary #PokemonPitched

For #UnhingedPit, I had every author’s enemy ChatGPT interview me about why I wrote my book The Copper Canary. Realized I missed the event & decided to post the interview anyway because #unhingedwithouttrying. #YA #AuDHD #TimeBlind #writing #amquerying #writesky open.substack.com/pub/cayseshu...

Apparently, I'm a sucker for punishment and ridicule. Enjoy: #amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky #neurodivergence #whyiwrite #interviewedbytheenemy open.substack.com/pub/cayseshu...

My story nerd brain is so damn relieved to know that someone else has done this to preserve their sanity. 🤓😂 #amwriting #amoutlining #writingcommunity #storystructure #stoleitfromreddit www.reddit.com/r/writing/s/...

I feel bad for all the Alberts who used the nickname Al in their emails and usernames a decade ago. #weirdthoughts #fontfail #writingcommunity

Thank you! And an update, I did reach out to the real Evie Woods via her website and she confirmed that it is not her (she is not on BlueSky). She also mentioned that happens via Facebook and TikTok. It sucks that authors are dealing with this from both sides!

🚨AUTHOR SCAM🚨 We got another impersonator. Please report @eviewoods14.bsky.social & block 😡 Then go give Aiko some love after reading her attached thread 🫂 #amwriting #amediting #amquerying #editors #authors #developmentalediting #writingcommunity #writesky

Hey, yo, writer-targeted scambots. If you are going to slap your writer-bait under a writer’s post, here’s a list of steps to follow: 1. Read the linked piece. 2. Like it. 3. Make sure it ISN’T about them grieving someone they love, then 4. Don’t. Thanks. 🖕 #writingcommunity

Today feels like a good day to bring this one out of the archives. I fear people might miss the reason “why” but maybe it can still light a bit of a 🔥 open.substack.com/pub/cayseshu... #writingcommunity #shortstory #ghoststory #fiction #writesky #paranormal #readsky #neurodivergence #grief #resist

Sometimes you wake up happy, other times you wake up plotting to take down authoritarian regime policy through cleverly crafted vlogs. #amwriting #orami #jkiam #butiftherewaseveratime #justsaying

The Motherload accepted my personal essay “Something Wasn’t Right.” 🥹💕 #amwriting #mediumwriter #motherhood #chronicillness #neurodiversity #writesky #writingcommunity medium.com/the-motherlo...

Doot. Doot. Doot. Another query bites the dust Do-Doo, Doot. Doot. Doot. Another one bites the dust Yes another hope’s gone, another form pwn Another one bites the dust! Hey, gotta pay your dues, another query bites the dust! HeyEeyaaEeeyaAaEeeAaEeeYaaaEeAYyaaAaaoo #amquerying

I noticed today that my most popular posts are always the ones about me getting gut-punch-annihilated by agent rejections. So, you know, at least I got that going for me. #amquerying #silverlining

A friend of a friend's #debut is on pre-order! Plz support Alexandra & indie trade pub @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social & @alcovepress.bsky.social by sharing!🥰 "The search for King Arthur's Excalibur invites danger…and potentially love" #sapphic #HistoricalRomance #WritingCommunity #SapphicSeptember

Full request submission rejection today from one of my dream agents. She was really really nice. Just a subjective thing. So. It’s okay. I’m fine. Totally fine. This is just…character building. *sniffle* #amquerying

I posted an image a while back highlighting all the stories that impacted my inspiration, #writing, and/or the unending structural edits of The Copper Canary. Scroll through to see why I now consider them “The Copper Canary’s Common-core” 🥰 #amquerying #Fantasy #writingcommunity

#1stLinePit is over on Insta rn. Therefore. “Oh, how I implore thee, gracious #writesky and wondrous word wizards of the #writingcommunity, wouldst thou go forth and support those in #amquerying anguish so we may all be blessed-eth with agent angels?” 😜🥰 www.instagram.com/p/DN_5woxgZS...

#amwriting I swear. But. Last night my kids brought home the: SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR PAMPHLET. #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity #bestpartofbacktoschool

[shakes out hands, cracks neck] Alright. Hitting my max on “be on socials” mode of #writerlife. ‘Tis time for this #AuDHDAuthor brain to enter “Hermit like a hobbit and write like a honey-badger wot’s been possessed by trixy bagginses” mode. #writingcommunity #spoonlifebalance

I have an 8 & 10 year old. My heart is sick, broken, & screaming in grief about today. If you are still hesitant about basic #guncontrol, want to solely blame mental health, or get the urge to send thoughts & prayers but not change, read Paul Crenshaw first: theamericanscholar.org/jeremy-spoke...

New Rule: I will not post my thoughts or vent my writerly angst publicly between the hours of 11pm and 7am. I will leave said thoughts and angst in my head for the betterment of society. You are welcome, society. #writingcommunity #AuDHD #amwriting #NoMoreBlurtyMcBlabbermouth

I wrote this for my mom who loved writing children’s books. I shared it in a blog post a while back but over the last month I edited it and mocked up a proper-ish kids book on Canva. I’m going to surprise my kids with after their first day of school today. 😊 #amwriting #kidlit #pb #writingcommunity

[clears throat] So, say someone impulsively decided to send their maybe-piled queries all nudges about their "first in planned trilogy" book having an "alternative-duology structure" option with 2nd book done? & also sent one to the pending FR. How... How screwed are they? 🤦‍♀️ #amquerying #AuDHD

Woohoo!! Lit Up posted my short story this morning! #writingcommunity #writesky #nostalgia #shortstory medium.com/lit-up/the-b...

LOL! I just found something I wrote during my last ER visit. Read it to the tune of “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon 😂 #chronicillness #endo #writingcommunity #adhesivedisease #chronicpain #spoonies #writesky

Got a rejection today from an agency that already rejected me. My First Thought: Double-rejection all the way 😂 Reality: Forgot I had agreed to their "second look" option where they send your query packet to the whole agency to see if anyone wants it. The entire agency rejected me 💀 #amquerying

It was accepted 😅 #writingcommunity #anxiety #takethatselfcriticismgremlin

Sent off a new short piece to the editors at Lit Up this morning. Immediately second guessing myself. Posting this so I don’t retract it. Thank the gawds writer-ego-whiplash isn’t a thing or my vertigo would have laid me out by now. #amwriting #writingcommunity #spoonies

There are a myriad of ways that my maladies and writing worlds collide—but I never would have guessed my hatred for the phrase “Not Specified” would be one of them. Lookin’ at you, Data Explorer of Query Tracker and Lab Results of MyChart. #spoonies #amquerying #chronicillness #writingcommunity

I highly recommend starting your zero fucks* forties as soon as possible. Other than the joint pain and the fact that your body suddenly tells you when bad weather is coming, it's pretty great *all the fucks you gave about people's *opinions* become fucks you give about *people*

Following all the peeps I met through #PosterPit, not just on here but on all of errbodys other social medias, is a task-&-a-half. Totally worth it tho 🥰 Y’all were so supportive, & awesome, & I lurv you, & we are all now best friends forever & ever no take-backsies🐦🦅 #writesky #birdiebookbrethren

One of a million reasons to love Sherwood Smith.

Most brains Monday night: “One day down!” My brains Monday night: “Over-analysis of weekend’s extrapolated speculations complete. Total lack of counterfactual events by EOD noted. I thusly conclude: no agent likes us, querytracker hates us, we should go eat worms.” #amquerying #writesky 😝😅🙃