Having feelings over Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down right now. #music "Will you be there a-holding my hand?"

Sometimes I see a post go around from years ago made by someone who's boggled at the weirdest thing they've ever experienced. But it's the sort of thing I have kicking around in my garden. Odd feeling.

Damn, I was just putting them in a folder and forgetting about them. This is MUCH better.

I'm pretty sure I've had this feedback in a performance review, which in hindsight raises some questions.

Had an odd half-awake nightmare where a spider the size of my hand dropped from the ceiling over the bed. I apparently threw myself out of bed and turned on the lights before staring into space for a bit.

Once, I was told the amount of overthinking that a character was doing was very well done, and my friend doing the reading was glad they weren't the character. Me:

Listening to some Go! Child because Iove Ruinous so much and I bet they have some bangers. open.spotify.com/track/4VlfRv...

Alpha reader opinions on the narrator/protagonist of the current WIP appear polarized to either "Love them" or "Love to hate them" which... probably means I've done my job well?

I've been laughing at this for like 10 hours.

Ha, I love this!

Can't sleep. Thinking about how the most compelling-horrifying moral quandary I can remember reading came up in this book www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Viciou...

Rereading a scene I wrote recently, the question of "does 'frown' imply sadness or anger" is a little funny, because the context this character is frowning in should imply that it's neither (he is considering/thoughtful/perplexed).

Who could argue with that? :)

I have one Orpheus and Eurydice retelling on the go, and then I accidentally-sideways added an Orpheus and Eurydice itty bitty subplot to a thing. Creating things is some kind of forever-expanding spiral where you keep touching against the same points, huh?

I need to get moving for the day, or at least get another cup of tea, but... There is a cat. In my lap.

I'm taking notes on the replies. 👀

That stack looks absolutely delightful

Writing an antihero. One friend believes the character is a very fun almost-monster who is wrong about everything, and the other friend compares the character primarily to Superman (2025). ...go me?

Where do you even go to check your math on how quickly your villain can get through magically murdering a large number of enthralled human sacrifices?

When I was in high school, a teacher, in the middle of class, started going off about how teenagers wear band symbols they don't understand the history of, which is bad, like the "A" for anarchy. Anarchy is bad.

One of my favourite things to do, as a writer with writer friends, is hear someone's wistful idea for a story that they'd maybe like to write in an ideal world and egg them on until they write that story. Those are important to write.

That part of writing where you wrote a scene because it was SO CLEAR to you from the beginning, and now you're rewriting the scene from the beginning because the story surprised you in several ways by the time you got there.

#terrainvicta #microfic The aliens were bombarding Mars. They'd been bombarding Mars colonies for months now. The first few weeks, they'd lost four colonies and more lives than Kylie liked to think about, but then Command had accidentally found a strange, strange, solution. 1/8

This is the right way to approach loving things on the internet. 🥰

1. Impulse purchase 2. I love this book but it has been a long time since I read it 3. I have been wanting to argue with people about the moral of the story but I need to read it again before I do that 4. Serendipity!

From my character notes for a story: "Sometimes, you have to choose who to protect first. Even if it means you spend the rest of your life rewriting the game."

One of my favourite things to consider with supernatural characters, human or otherwise, is what it feels like to experience their sensory reality. Smell and taste are especially fun to play with, but so are the weirder ones. Like proprioception, outside of the usual boundaries of the human body.

Nothing could have made college-age me love this show more.

Saw the Les Mis show today. Thinking about the way Victor Hugo made a spectacularly controversial argument about how we are all the same. It has me wanting to read the book again and try to pick apart some of the religious/societal themes.

Discovering a character's backstory means writing the story: what connections do they have, what made them who they are, and what's going to make life very inconvenient now? I build backwards, making the past events of the character's life relevant to the story I want to tell.

I don't think a character's backstory is the most important thing about them. For me, building characters starts with what the tension looks like between a pair of characters, or how a character might respond to a situation. Then I tend to build backwards.

Hm... might be "The Horror and the Wild" by The Amazing Devil

Thinking again about Rakesfall (by Vajra Chandrasekara) again and the idea of becoming more of who/what you are.

The protagonist in this horror novel is way too relatable for comfort (complimentary). "So you might be wondering why, as a patient, I didn't ask more questions as I faced the overwhelming dread of checking into a medical institution..." Not at all. I would be right there with you, my friend.

In some of my private notes from early last year, I talked about increasing the amount that I wrote by writing whatever my mind's eye felt like catching on at the time, to the point that I didn't know what was going to happen next.

I figure it's always a free action when writing assassins that they can draw a knife on each other at any time.

my new story is in @foofarawpress.bsky.social ‘s Mindlessly Massive March issue! check it out if you love the speculative and surreal.

When talking about horror where children are (or might be) the villains, I'm always unsettled by how easily it seems that adults can be unsettled by child characters seeming a little bit "off".

I adored this story. Congrats on making the final ballot!

From Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher: "People were remarkably willing to dismiss their own sight. Marra thought perhaps that the world was so strange and vision so flawed that you soon realized that anything and everything could be a trick of the light." #bookquotes

This is soooooo Solas that I immediately laughed.

Important context while comparing Spartans and Athenians: the riches of Athens came from the city states that it exploited as the hegemon of the Delian League, and its art was really a statement of power maintained by its collection of massive war machines known as triremes.

I am deeply flattered to be in this Venn diagram.

everyone needs books. books are good.

I have had Discussions with people around which part of The Hollow Places would count as That One Part. It tends to come down to either the unstated horror of the empty school bus, or the... hair.

Pinterest has been cutting a swathe through my board of dark fantasy romance quotes. Feels like they're getting executed by the dozen.

Canadian authors. The PLR program is open. Don’t forget to register your new titles. publiclendingright.ca

It feels, sometimes, like being utterly betrayed by our bodies and then faced with doctors who believe that if we're suffering, we should just think our way to good health. Gynecological health especially.

I went to bed early last night and then woke up to a group chat absolutely filled to the brim with horse and flame emojis, which probably says a lot about me. Happy Lunar New Year! 🐴 🔥