Writing a sex scene in a coffee shop is such a power trip. 😂

brains should be built like video game cartridges so when they aren't working, we can eject it, blow into it, pop it back in, and boom, boots up just fine with coherent thoughts

10/10, nothing to add

Have discovered that most any dramatic musical number will work to transcribe what I believe my cat is saying when I leave the house "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" (Phantom) "Do You Hear the People Sing" (Les Mis) "You'll Be Back" (Hamilton) "Ruthlessness" (Epic the Musical)

Questions my husband has asked this week that are grounds for divorce: "Wait, why are you editing your book again? Didn't you just finish that?" "When will the book be ready to publish?" "Are you excited to finally let other people read it?" "Did you finish the other books yet?"

#authorsky #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #writer

Book haul, y'all!!

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Natural Flavor was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Flavor, to control all others.

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The meaning? Going on Even after you Get there

Frodo is way stronger than I am for many reasons, but one of them being I'd be pretending to be too tired to walk after a bit, so Aragorn or Boromir could carry me

Publishing industry should pay living wages.

NEW PODCAST ALERT! City Grown From Seed by @dianadima.com read by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social ! Listen to the story at the link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

publishing's focus on debuts is *terrible* for the art. whose best book was their very first?

A thread of all seven parts of my new story up on @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social : "To Those Who Change" Part 1: To Those Who Change Like the Tides dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/to-those-w...

laughing, crying at this.

The next installment of my story is up!

Happy New Story Sunday! This week, we have a really original, really lovely story by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social. It's a bold experiment, somehow locating an island of stability in the space of stories past the viable, beyond the epistolary and magical-realist, yet somehow surviving out there.

So excited to share that my story "To Those Who Change" found a home with The Daily Tomorrow! This first part is up now to read 🥰🥰🥰

So I'm started playing Hollow Knight for the first time. WHY IS POGOING SO HARD?? #hollowknight

Try out my romantasy series! A slow-burn, epic fantasy romance! (Plus, the second novel in the trilogy just released!!) #romantasy books2read.com/b/4jdeNY

Oh my deer GOD I love this art!!! So freaking happy to have this flash fiction out in Plott Hound!!

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

My next poem is out in Disabled Tales! "Sleeping Defiant" is one of my favorites I've ever written. Inside the dead of winter / Curls a fiery soul / A little bear that sleeps defiant / Waiting out the cold / www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/sleep...

Pedro’s poetry is outstanding and you should definitely get yourself a copy of Mexicans on the Moon. Congrats @pedroiniguez.bsky.social! So proud of you!

Apparently on Christian tiktok they're predicting a rapture on Tuesday. So I'm going in to work early, laying out an outfit of clothing in my office and pretending it got me.

Read this as drink books and read coffee, and you know what, that sounds AMAZING

Pro tips from a woman. If you are a man who says "actually," whenever a woman talks, stop doing that. No, really. STOP IT.

Do not go complicit into that old fight. Parody the next part of the poem below.

The primary diff between writing fiction and nonfiction is when you write nonfic, you research a topic for 2 weeks and then write 1000 words on it and when you write fiction you research a topic for 2 weeks and get one sentence out of it.

I have a poem out in Disabled Tales today. If you feel like expressing an existential crisis, this poem will help you get those feelings out. "Re-Runs of an Eerie Sun" www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry #poetry

i am once again asking if you know that if you routinely sing to a cat while they're curled up on your chest they will learn that singing means cuddle time and come trotting over from wherever they are when you do. it's important that we get this message out to those who need it most

Does anyone else randomly check social media in the middle of the night just to be sure the zombie apocalypse hasn't started? No? Just me? Haha, jk who does that

Is there a church for atheists I can attend where we all recite science and donate to our local food shelter? I miss seeing people every week. #exvangelical

anybody know how i turn off my brain’s notifications for the night

New Podcast Alert! 'Of Flowing Stone, of Liquid Gold, of Justice, Ash, and Battle' by Malda Marlys @aardwyrm.bsky.social read by Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social Listen at the link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #fiction #speculativefiction #specfic #fantasy #sff #podcast

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Important: a group of orange cats is called an Affection

I've got two little creative imps dancing around in my head chanting: "Is this too weird?" and "make it fucking weirder"

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

Unclenching my jaw isn't enough anymore, I need to figure out how to unhinge it like a snake

one of my favorite stories I've penned gorgeously read, rich and wry, if you're in the mood for a slow exploration of the inevitable results of aspiring to both justice and power

When going viral fails And you have no demon luck, When nothing else avails How do writers make a buck? When videos of dances Infest your social feed, And your best advances Are thin enough for clouds to read

The new issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social is out! on the Podcast we have @emmiechristie33.bsky.social reading @aardwyrm.bsky.social 'Of Flowing Stone, of Liquid Gold, of Justice, Ash, and Battle'. Go listen on your preferred podcast app. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

It’s not too late to chip in. If you can’t right now, that’s okay, just share the post so more people can see it.

So proud to have my horror flash in this issue, "Who Is Wrong When They Are Hungry?" If you like parasitic deer cryptids, this one's for you!! #flashfiction #horror

One of my favorite flash fictions I've ever had published is now hosted on @inkfoundry.bsky.social! Have you ever wondered what apartments would say about their residents? Find out here in "If Apartments Could Talk" inkfoundry.net/hostedstory/...

September newsletter just dropped! In which I discuss some contract woes and take a deep dive into an AI nightmare. (Aside from the usual updates). open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

My Sept newsletter is out, shouting about my book release!! Also, and of course most importantly, the latest pictures for my Orange-ish Series, where I take photos of my two ginger cats next to a random orange thing. #orangeish #bookrelease mailchi.mp/a9317a3426b4...