i think i should be allowed to use Judas by Lady Gaga as a comp title cause I basically listened to it on repeat while for the last 1/4 of the book. #amwriting #amquerying

My synopsis was too easy to write (i did four drafts still), and the ease with which it came together makes me suspicious. #amwriting

In defiance against itself, my brain decides to ignore the happy chemicals #vss365

the unreliable narrator of memory maintains the illusion of tenderness, but in reality, that has long since vanished #vss365

I’ve finished the most drastic revision of Breath of Shadows. What started as a fun project led to an MFA, and after 10 years and six revisions, I’ve achieved the story I wanted to tell. It likely still needs work and more beta reads, but I finally feel ready to query. #amwriting #writesky

Nothing fills me with more nausea then when someone is like “so what kind of work do you do from home?” and I'm like “I'm a writer” and they go “oh what are working on right now and i go “ I'm currently on the last chapter of my novel.” #writesky #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the couple that climbed to the top of the Empire State Building were reckless and whatever but honestly, I love everything about it. It’s undeniably romantic and the perfect way for a couple of daredevils to get engaged. It fills me with joy for them. Perfect love story 10/10

a story written: an accomplishment with a side of apprehension of rejection. #vss365

the raptors of the platforms, feeding on the carrion of the algorithm #vss365

what the fuck?!?!? I can’t believe they didn’t kick Cavalli out too. He’s the one who ran his mouth. these umps suck. #redsox

woke up being like “oh god Monday… it’s the end of the month. i have deadlines… I need to get Breath of Shadows done… I need to start my revision of Cosmic Tailor…. I need to find some freelance work…” but then I remembered the Red Sox swept the Yankees! Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

‘What’s with the cape?’ ‘I’ve decided to become a math #villain.’ ‘What’s in your hands?’ ‘My torture tools. I have a protractor, ruler, calculator, & geometry compass.’ ‘Those are evil things for sure.’ ‘Totally devastating. They’re weapons of math instruction. #vss365

going against the grain — flossing quinoa from my teeth #vss365 #senryu

the red sox are so annoying. i’m still so mad about last night. has the bambino curse returned???

I thought about this for Mikhail Kahedin— Horatio Hornblower meets dark academia into a coming-of-age naval adventure about friendship, music, addiction & power's corruption. Forced into the Naval Academy, meets his BF/enemy, discovers poppy, becoming the tragic man we meet in Breath of Shadows

In the war against the lantern flies, who devour all our trees, there is no natural predator, just a campaign to stomp and squish every single fiend #vss365

going to a red sox game at fenway… should i wear my vault tech hat?

My story has romance, but it’s not focused around “romantic love.” It’s about obsession, trauma, addiction and the messiness and complexities of different kinds of romance from manipulation to unrequited and that love can be the most dangerous thing there is especially when it entangles with revenge

#7syllablesentence #insane when people ask how I am I just respond I’m insane but that’s an every day thing

accused of crimes, against my eroticism those forbidden fictions and fantasies, now starve for sunlight, imprisoned, stripped of names. all that remains is self-loathing, boredom and my visceral illness that comes from any thought or variation related to a 3-2-1 snap #vss365 #forbidden

Do not fear the night. Face it boldly. You and your comfortable oversized pants and general sense of cosmic dread belong to the darkness.

Submitted my first pitch for my long-form essay on the cultural changes in attitudes towards the space program and the myth of the American hero. Let the rejections begin. #Writesky #authorslife #writingcommunity #space #nasa

At dawn, the kitten prowls, up over comforters and pillows all, until her claws can ever so gently swat my jaw, wanting some breakfast tuna to feed her and her brother’s maws. #vss365 #dawn

It wasn't easy to tell his dad he'd decided to major in cartoon physics. Bugs Bunny had given a demonstration of an anvil #deadfall, and it had really resonated. His dad's protests about the economy were cut off by a giant hammer, & the sound of comically chirping birds. #vss365

Is a 13k essay too long? I feel like I've trimmed and tightened it a lot. Probably additional cuts I could do, but i like it. Not sure if any publications are even taking things this long anymore. Do people still read essays? 😅 #authorslife #WriteSky #writingcommunity

Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. Both are back because of this science denying administration.

SpaceX's Jessica Jensen just confirmed our scoop from earlier this year: SpaceX's Starship will be doing the translunar injection burn with Orion attached www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

clear-cutting the deadfall of a nation #vss365

wayside inn— rainwater drying on the luggage rack #haiku #poetry

Somewhere in the deadfall, my lost singular air bud plays music for the ants and fungal raves #deadfall #vss365

In my morning coffee, I stir in my midnight regrets #vss365

NASA didn’t wake up one day and decide billionaires should run spaceflight. I have a few thoughts on the trends I’ve been seeing and the misunderstanding of why Bezos and Friends are involved at all. This is a monster of our own design. open.substack.com/pub/mpgiddin...

Night Hunter by Vitali Skvorkin

explaining CDs and Walkmans and a time without cellphones my nephews think me primitive #vss365 #primitive

by calculating the stars, i can track the hours of my insomnia—a measurement by the billions #emoetry

going away for a few days and first time leaving the kittens (they are 1) on their own. i both miss them and concerned about what chaos they will get into while unsupervised.

wondrous New England summer 80 one day then snowy the next Seriously, what the heck? #vss365 #wondrous

confused by the the remnants of my cheese plate the cat washes her face happily #vss365 #remnants

Editing has been rough today. And it just gets worse as the page continues 🤦‍♀️ but could AI do this? #amwriting #writesky #editing

This is truly terrible for NASA & the public trust in the Artemis program. Rockets are going to explode. That’s just the bleak cost of engineering on this scale. Better this to happen in a test fire than with people on top of this unstable roman candle New Glenn prevails to be nothing but trouble

Mikhail is the Admiral of the Outer Fleet so on the outside, he's very disciplined and known for being reckless and bit of Casanova and man-about-town. On the inside, he's battling a very severe drug addiction and haunted by his actions as well as dark creatures of shadow that threaten his sanity.

omg i finally made it through these fracking two scenes that have been tripping me up for the last two months. They surely still need work, and the words were dragged out of my brain. But I know it was the right change for the story. Please clap. #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorslife

#vss365 #rift #emoetry #vivacious #poetry #blueskypoet My favorite mug has Snoopy on it. My bowls are in a different cabinet Here is a #poem...

As dawn breaks, a small chest full of ice and exotic fish appears on the wizard's doorstep. It's for the little cat.

*walks around my house looking for scissors while making the scissor motion with my fingers*

I've (at last) been binge watching For All Mankind, and I’ve recently done a bunch of research and am writing an essay on the early American space program, and gotta say the show is fucking with my head 😂

(A news on your passing) Sitting on some bench, Streets a steps monopoly of other people.. while I scribble your blue out. Our rift, gone, janky mem'ries. #vss365 #prompt #BlueSkyPoets #MPPrompt #writingprompt #Inkmine #5amwritersclub #tanka #短歌 #poetrycommunity

black water— the slow turn of a turtle’s thought #haiku #poetry

If this dumb war Would end today We still Ain’t felt the worst The sticker shock Is coming Our supply chain Has been cursed If life’s Like a commuter train Its track Has got a #rift And we’re bound For derailment All because of Mad King’s grift… #vss365 #NoKings

A rift in time sent me adrift Where am I? Who am I? What am I this time? #vss365 #rift