“The heat is so scorching it hurts even to breathe. You have to take the air in sips.” Read from Zuzana Říhová’s novel Playing Wolf, translated by Alex Zucker.

I was asked by @gqmagazine.bsky.social to write a little bit about just going bald in the age of widespread head-shaving and affordable, believable hair transplants...so I did!

Revision tip: check your manuscript for gasp, held breath, twisted guts, glanced, saw, felt, monitor, control, lighting strike, smiled, fringed, glared, sucked in, scrunched, blood stopped, ran cold, anything filtering emotions as bodily responses, especially ones which are involuntary in real life

The chaotic way I use commas in a first draft.👽

A lot of times I get asked questions about my writing and I have to come up with some bullshit, when the truth is, I just don't know. Not to say that these choices aren't intentional, but the intentionality isn't always above the surface, you know? Often enough, it's intuition that guides.

I started at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social in 2018. It changed my trajectory as a reader & writer. I'm beyond grateful to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social & Split Lip! I'm stepping down this month bc of work obligations. But: volunteer at litmags! The community&experience will change you in the best ways!

A Leni Zumas stan is happy today. New novel WOLF BELLS (how about that title!) out now!

What if you all came over and we watch movies instead

Getting more into ambient music. I know there is so much. I especially like sort of chilling or uneasy music. I already know Eno, but what else should I be listening to?

too many people think the answer to "I've written something, what now" is getting published when really the answer is cleaning your room, making a roast, refilling the bird feeder. writing is also the living we do. it's not a way to get recognition in the same way that flossing isn't.

I love when sex doesn't contribute to the plot of my life story, though!

Hi everyone! Some news! My @writingco-lab.bsky.social class, What We Found in the Forest is back October 4th! I've also joined Writing Co-Lab to offer my coaching services as well alongside some fabulous teachers and writers! www.writingco-lab.com/coaching-and...

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I was raptured but no one is here. Wait, is this a Wendy’s? A medium Frosty & fries, I guess, God. What do you mean, “the machine is down?”

Happy onsale day to the great @danchaon.bsky.social and One of Us!

Hi everyone! Some news! My @writingco-lab.bsky.social class, What We Found in the Forest is back October 4th! I've also joined Writing Co-Lab to offer my coaching services as well alongside some fabulous teachers and writers! www.writingco-lab.com/coaching-and...

"Celestial bodies transform to flesh And commune with the wedding's guests They twist and thrust and whine and grope As if under a microscope In hopes to catch small pox Equinox" - Cass McCombs

"Being 52 has really shone a spotlight on how much of my life was wasted in the tractor beam of the male gaze. I mourn that loss of time and experience and freedom like mourning the passing of a loved one." Neko Case took the Oldster Magazine Questionnaire!!! oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-52...

My friend just used the phrase, “When the world was normal bad.”

Making myself smile by remembering that Tumblr moment when people were posting totally fake Kafka quotes like "Be your authentic self every day, it's the best you can do for yourself" or some shit, and then they lost their minds when they found out he went to sex workers and sexual issues.

The drive to write is so powerful. I'm sort of blown away by it. The fact that I still want to write novels is pretty wild to me. 😆

Just as in the 1930s a whole lot of Germans learned, to their surprise, that they were “socialists” and millions of Chinese ppl in the 1960s learned they were “bourgeoisie,” so a bunch of Americans are about to discover, when the knock on the door comes, that they’re “Antifa,”

Freaking the fuck out every day is fun, huh?

When my agent sends me an email that proves he remembers I exist, even though it takes me 700 years to write a novel, it fills me with joy.

I just want to get dim sum with friends like one or two times a week, ok?

One thing I love about art is that you can come back to something that didn't engage you at first, and it can become important to you. I know we live in the "this wasn't made specifically for me, so it's bad" era, but what is a piece of art of any kind that you came back to after putting it aside?

Got into money, reaching readers, and what we would tell our pre-publication selves with five writers I admire so much: electricliterature.com/its-the-writ...

"During the intermission, I text my wife: The age of visionary outerwear is ending. She texts me back 'okay.'"

One thing I love about art is that you can come back to something that didn't engage you at first, and it can become important to you. I know we live in the "this wasn't made specifically for me, so it's bad" era, but what is a piece of art of any kind that you came back to after putting it aside?

www.writingco-lab.com/coaching-and... I am now offering writing coaching services through @writingco-lab.bsky.social! I've so enjoyed working with my clients, especially writers who are trying to get back into writing or are stuck on an ongoing project. Hit me up for some writing therapy!

After a lifetime on this planet, the question has to be asked: Why aren’t more boys kissing me?

Why didn't I get the life where you just bop around from residency to residency for years?

www.writingco-lab.com/coaching-and... I am now offering writing coaching services through @writingco-lab.bsky.social! I've so enjoyed working with my clients, especially writers who are trying to get back into writing or are stuck on an ongoing project. Hit me up for some writing therapy!

I've been waiting for this a long time. This novel has always deserved to be out in the world. Now, Nebraska by George Whitmore is available for you to discover if you haven't already. Thank you @thesongcave.bsky.social for making this happen. 🥰

The NBA Longlist is so good this year. JOY WILLIAMS! ANGELA FLOURNOY! KAREN RUSSELL!

I will never insult my own short sentences again.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Writing is amazing, but publishing is a different story. If you’re going to put yourself through publishing, make sure you write the stuff you love. Always.

Hi liberals, it's not like John McCain just died or something. This dude was a Nazi. 😶

Learning who Charlie Kirk was, basically a nazi activist for youth on campuses?! He was a whole 2020 Good Fight character come to life.He taught college kids that “black women do not have the brain power to be taken seriously”. The liberals of my youth would never “sorry for your loss” for a Nazi.

Bruh, I don't even KNOW.

Boop

God, I am so sick of Harry Potter shit. Enough already!

The image that inspired my most popular comic.

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

"I'm wiped. I'm so tired. Carry me for a little while! Carry me for a little while! Carry me for a little while!" -Kristin Hersh

I really don't know how this new novel happened. When I plan, it comes to nothing. When I sit down on a whim and start writing, suddenly I have this bonkers novel I never planned on.

I just passed a church sign advertising the “Blessing of the Backpacks.” Because, I guess, that’s how we’re protecting kids now.

I've been waiting for this a long time. This novel has always deserved to be out in the world. Now, Nebraska by George Whitmore is available for you to discover if you haven't already. Thank you @thesongcave.bsky.social for making this happen. 🥰