New fiction! "On the Effects and Efficiency of Birdsong: A Meta-Analysis" by F.T. Berner @ftberner.bsky.social www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

day 10 of my residency at neimënster abbey is done: so far doing the writing in the morning trying to catch my wave of fatigue when it’s profound enough that all little dreamlike fiction things are possible (good) but not so profound that the core machinery starts to falter . maybe 45 good minutes

Writing a book isn't about competition, it isn't about winning or getting rich, it's about sitting down with your fucked-up thoughts and weird ideas and putting them on paper to traumatize people who read them. AI will never get that part right.

The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign is 95% base goal funded (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 81% to SG1 & 71% to SG2. 10 more backers to base goal funding. A little more caffeine in our mugs today and we’ll be there. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

Cover illustration for Passing By, the upcoming solo journaling RPG by @thelostbaystudio.com.

utterly hilarious piece of short fiction here, rides an absurd visual over a steep cliff, nice wink at (you know) societal demise, perfect pacing etc – please take a moment for INCLEMENT WEATHER by @johnchrostek.com in @hexliterary.bsky.social 👌 hexliterary.com?p=2870

Here are some of my more sparkly works! 😁✨️

ok I will stop fiddling with this now

The world runs on music, from percussion battalions to water purification concertos. Layers of song, discord & harmony in equal measure. But at its most basic: the working tunes passed from parent to child to aid you through the day. What power does your song hold? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

Anyway one thing that I have found gets me past the brain revolt is to just really lean into a sentence. Write one weird and beautiful sentence. I am sure there's a psychological explanation for why, but I don't know what it is. Maybe it's being present, forgetting about progress. +

me [70k words into the novel draft]: if this narrator guy does just one thing that isn’t outrageously bizarre i will END HIM before all my bored imaginary readers smash tomato pulp into my favorite clothes the narrator: I woke up and brushed my teeth. The sun was shining outside . I

Gonna construct a village on my workspace wall with these perfect and lovely small abodes from @anineillustration.com which by the miracle of the post I have lately received

One year ago my short story BODY MUSIC was published in Andromeda Spaceways ••• issues of body composition ••• the journeys art makes through stages of the world ••• a guy trying to save a life andromedaspaceways.com/product/asm-...

"As a morale-boosting exercise, the Tri-County Board had all been watching a gritty motorcycle drama together on Wednesday nights and decided what we really needed was more of an outlaw spirit to up our street cred..." 🏍️ from Robert John Miller! https://www.havehashad.com/cceg2

Yes in thunder. My syllabus statement:

Really enjoyed BELLY FULL OF EYES by @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social in @3lobedmag.com. i mean there’s a character called Kkkkgggg www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

thanks to AI taking so much stuff off my plate I can finally focus on the important things: the whirring void of my own consciousness

Fantastic sense of the eerie – of presence – in THE STARS YOU CAN'T SEE BY LOOKING DIRECTLY by @samanthamurray.bsky.social. Puts you at once closer to and further from yourself. Really artfully done . So go read it clarkesworldmagazine.com/murray_01_26/ @clarkesworldmagazine.com

A brand new year goes well with a brand new story! My latest story, “The Stars You Can’t See by Looking Directly,” is out now at Clarkesworld! ✨❄️🌨️🌏

Day two of my residency is complete and my total word count is now up to zero BUT I did expand my notes code with a new color (purple) so still a win . Anyway here’s a roof ceiling

[taking a photograph of the tv] slow down you bastard

Very happy and proud to have started a 12-week writer’s residency at Neimënster Abbey today. The goal is to invent a few speculative instruments and write some weird fiction with them. Off I go

Hello I'm Anine! I draw pictures for a living #PortfolioDay 💻https://www.anineillustration.com/ 🌻represented by The Loud Cloud agency

Hey #portfolioday! I'm Laura, a fantasy abstract fine artist that sometimes does illustrations! Huge fan of stories, whether they're a single line or pages upon pages. I work in watercolor, graphite powder, and gouache My style vibes with what I need it to do [email protected] fallenlights.net

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“Dear editor, I asked an algorithm designed to mimic patterns it had learned through the plagiarism of billionaires if it could spit out something that looked convincingly like the stories it had stolen, and it burned through an ocean to deliver whatever this is. Thank you for your consideration.”

Thus begins the story of the Shepherdess, one of the protagonists of my new comic, Ekphrasis.

A full double rainbow in Edinburgh before the storm earlier, taking it as at least a good sign of something to come 🌈🌈✨️

My illustration for Body Music, a short story by @freypalm.bsky.social.

Introducing some FANTASTIC cover art for my story "Body Music," published 263 days ago in Andromeda Spaceways! Hats off to the inimitable @lurnoise.bsky.social for the illustration 👀 ••• synthetic meat! ••• jazz beasts! ••• climate doom! ••• Read the story in ASM issue 97: tinyurl.com/p7rh5kfv

Rana temporaria: a poem.

[manages content clean over a cliff]

My review of @lyndseycroal.bsky.social’s wonderful collection LIMELIGHT AND OTHER STORIES is up! Incredibly fun reading: motivated characters, great pace, plenty of doomsday tech and voyaging through space… Read it on the @shoreinf.bsky.social website: tinyurl.com/3spfzkwp

i know many authors are experiencing this but it is so unsettling to create something complex, personal, inextricably interwoven into your own truth, and then see the thing only you could have made being fed into the playdough spaghetti factory of gray meaningless slop

An explorer 🛸 Another of the illustrations I did for @devindecibel.bsky.social's new TTRPG, Pale Dot.

Takeoff! Here's one of the illustrations I did for @devindecibel.bsky.social new TTRPG, Pale Dot.

The Saros #5 reading period has arrived and the submission gates have been opened! Send us your 500-2500 words speculative fiction stories focused on sound/silence! We'll stay open until we've reached 111 stories submitted. sarossf.com/submissions/

magazines are a soulslike experience for the algorithm

[washing up on the beach after 227 days floating on a splint of wood] and now to check on my pending story submission ah yes I see no news as yet

just found an old flash fiction draft of mine from circa 2022 and [miming an epic 3-point shot] i must say it was galactic cringe

it’s quite a lot of GIRLS IN SCIENCE! which is nice but I’m looking for a counterweight of BOYS IN POETRY! and it’s just not there

I just love “to catch hoarseness that claims your voice low” – fantastic piece of flash here

these are worth the click!

me my first day teaching music: [grabbing some kid’s clarinet and using it to point at a giant page of sheet music i’ve had specially printed] ok i say we hit em right here

"The Confessor" my story exploring the ways and means humanity might confront and constrain ASI is now available in Andromeda Spaceways #97. Bonus 7 Rules designed to guarantee Alignment. Sample in the reply...

Maybe if I lie face down all my work will do itself.

!!! don’t forget to put a typo into those last tweaks and edits you make before submitting !!!

It’s out! My new story “Body Music” is in issue 97 of Andromeda Spaceways 🪐🎺 …where you record music with your own flesh ••• where you build living, breathing beasts from synthetic meat ••• where the trees are dying out and disease is coming… andromedaspaceways.com/product/asm-...