I hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend! 🌷 If you’re in need of something light but thoughtful to read to wind down the night — I welcome you to check out the new article I put out this morning! 🤍

My latest piece explores the importance of the mundane within the practice of writing. This one’s for all the chronic observers who find meaning in everything. 📄🖋️

First ever substack post is officially live! Reads and shares mean the world to me — I plan on keeping all my work publicly available, I just want to get it out there! 🤍 open.substack.com/pub/olivelov...

one of my favorite writers sharing one of my favorite quotes:

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

This was such an amazing read that I wanted to share it here. This author managed to express the feelings that have been culminating in me for years, in better words than I could formulate on my own. brennanleemulligan.com/if-you-had-g...

This fall weather is doing wonders in bringing my writing spark back - expect some new work very soon! 🍁🍂

Saw this the other day - “If you ever worry that you don’t have what it takes to be a writer, you were born to be one. Normal people literally never think about writing.”. And that just made some things click.

Out: Write drunk edit sober In: think about writing to the point of obsession while drunk but be incapable of crafting a coherent sentence and then shut down after getting no work done and then wake up the next morning with no recollection of any ideas you had the night before

Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's fine. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to set myself on fire.

Looking for an escape from our current train wreck of reality? Here’s some hopeful, endearing sci-fi adventures with heart. Seeds from Ancient Earth jerryjdavis.com/books/seeds-...

If You Like Workplace Fatalities, You'll Love This GOP Plan To Kill OSHA! www.wonkette.com/p/if-you-lik... Too many Americans "did their own research"

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

Don’t be a sheep. Be a chupacabra in a field of goats.

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

Me 24/7:

merry christmas🎄🤍

Some will declare fealty publicly. Some privately. Make no mistake, they will all protect their own interests before defending the country that made them rich.

Kiss me passionately in the secluded corner of a used bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Prague during a raging thunderstorm, or kindly stop wasting my time.

If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.

If you’re buying my books for folks this holiday season, or any books, I hope you’ll use Bookshop. It is as easy as Amazon but it keeps the money local. It allows you to choose the indie store of your choice. Shipping is free today. #ShopLocal #SmallBusinessSaturday bookshop.org/search?keywo...

I've been a writer my whole life and I've learnt that those days you don't feel like writing, those weeks where you make no progress, those months where you haven't thought a single creative thought... they pass. Don't obsess. Have faith. It comes back. #WritingCommunity

I started being regularly published when I was 25. I didn't make my first dollar writing until I was 30. I didn't sell my first novel or screenplay until I was 35. Many of you hadn't even heard of anything I'd written until I was over 40. You have time. There is no expiration date on writers.

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?

Trying to clear space/raise some $$$, got some nice comics stuff on the old ebay including a signed Saga hardcover. Adding more stuff soon, have a look if that's your thing: www.ebay.com/itm/28618389...

one time, goodreads let me ramble on about my favorite dragon books, with emphasis on those that were BIPOC and queer, and i'm bringing that list back now because it's holiday season so give one of these to the dragon lover in your life!! www.goodreads.com/blog/show/27...

With so many people joining the #WritingCommunity, I feel like I'm missing fellow UK writers! I'm thinking of making a Starter Pack for UK writers so we can commiserate about the recent weather together. Let me know if you'd like to be added! And do share if you'd like! #Author #Booksky #Writing

Stop being the bad kind of weird. This place is for the good kind of weird only. 🦋

Some writers are planners and know what will happen every step of the way. Some writers are pantsers and discover the story as they go along. Some writers are feral demon herders, desperately hanging onto any thread of a story, covered in blood, screaming as it drags them along.

A brilliant starter pack of self published authors, if you want to get involved, message me :D go.bsky.app/S5iYkkG

This looks really good Finally Enjoy Just take a minute to stare

Goodmorning everyone! Today’s going to be busy, me and my cat feel the same about it. 🥱😂

Sometimes the words just come at the weirdest times, I set aside 4 hours to write yesterday and got nothing of use, tonight I just spontaneously dumped my brain into my notes app and created the most beautiful and poetic thing I’ve written so far.

"If someone else wrote your book and you read it, would you still think it was good?" I felt like I'd been punched through the chest

Flash fiction about coping after the election and how negativity spreads like cancer. Doing my best. Like the rest of us. open.substack.com/pub/paaneah/... #flashfiction #shortstory #fiction

when I say I’m writing but you see me looking out the window contemplating the past, that counts

funny how you can just eat a good dinner and put fresh linens on your bed and you suddenly feel like at least 50% less evil

Thinking about my book nonstop is the same as writing it, right? #WriterSky