Alex has his entire life on lock: he’s the biggest streamer in the game, has a $5 million contract in the works, and his team can’t be beaten. All he has to do is win this tournament, and his career is set. Just ask anybody. Enter Theo, head-on at 30MPH. #Q #A #RF #questpit

For #UnhingedPit I present: a selection of reviews from the fanfic version of my adult gay contemporary romance. Because it WAS a fanfiction first, with a great audience who’ve flooded my DMs for the last year asking about the novel release. ❤️ #A #Q #LGBT #R

Why an #UnhingedPit agent shouldn’t sign my #A #LGBT #R #Q contemporary novel: 🫥 the readers in my DMs who miss the fic want instant gratification and pub is slow 🫩 it made my betas cry a lot. don’t we have enough heartache? 😮‍💨 the MCs are gay and slutty (in THIS environment???)

Writing a novel right now feels like I'm doing it on the deck of the Titanic as a comet is headed to Earth and also I'm covered in fire ants. I'm sure it's fine. Just don't blame me if every fifth paragraph is something like WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS THIS HAPPENING IS ANYBODY EVEN READING THIS OH GOD

"Since when are books political?!" - A person who has never understood a single book they've read including the history textbooks

Wife and I have collabed on something truly great Beef stew 😌

An #agentsguide to TRUE NORTH: a voicey bi-awakening romance between a megafamous Twitch streamer concealing his identity from a disaster gay who CANNOT learn he’s dating the one guy he hates. 92k. #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #agentguide

An #agentsguide to TRUE NORTH: a voicey bi-awakening romance between a megafamous Twitch streamer concealing his identity from a disaster gay who CANNOT learn he’s dating the one guy he hates. 92k. #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #agentguide

Who’s out here thinking too much on a Monday afternoon 💅🏻

albether wip wednesday is whenever i want it to be. Elysium 2.0 snippet be upon ye 🫵🏻

Title: Call of the Void Rating: idk, M? Tags: AU, Deity Aether Pair: #Albether My Secret Santa gift for Ada on Twitter 🫶 His eyes, the sun’s own fire. He is the very soul of art and music, a perfect creature through and through. This is a god. archiveofourown.org/works/62479318

Personally I just think that one of my full requests should turn into an agent call/offer today. I think that would give my gay ass a little hope for the future.

Read Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Jewelle Gomez, Pat Parker, Nikki Giovanni, and Jacqueline Woodson. Watch films by Marlon Riggs and Dee Rees. Listen to Sylvester, Bessie Smith, Luther Vandross, Big Freedia, Brittany Howard, and Janelle Monae. We've always been here. We will always be here.

I’ve been having some ❤️ scares after going off a medication. It freaked me out enough to get a cardiology consult, which resulted in 2 follow-ups: an echo and event monitoring. I went for the echo today. The secretary told me that United Healthcare won’t pay for any more appointments. EXCUSE ME?

Another week in the trenches. I’m waiting to hear back on several fulls that have me oscillating between hope and complete despair. How can I be convinced that a book is both perfect for an agent and best used as kindling? I never have such weird self-esteem issues over my work. #amquerying

When I finished editing the manuscript I’m querying, I set it down and haven’t looked at it again. It’s been a month, and I feel like I’ve completely forgotten what’s in there 🫣 #amquerying

Happy new year!! In 2025, I’m shooting for: 👾 Illness recovery (and clean screenings in January) 📖 Signing with a lit agent and selling the H&R novel 🔏 Locking in on writing—I want to finish two books this year! 🤷 Caring less about work 🎮 Actually enjoying my hobbies

a little late BUT! @juleswrites.bsky.social santa's serving you filth, just as requested 🫡 🎁HAPPY NEW YEAR FILLED WITH AEBETHER!!!🎁@aebether.bsky.social #Aebetherss #NsfwAebetherss

Cashed in on my free pizza from 15 days ago and guess what email I just got :) I didn’t even complain. We move on to the next round.

Wife made me heart carrot soup thank u wife

I’m going to sit down and read a classic this week. Gonna take in something gay so I can make it somehow gayer.

All pleasures are guilty pleasures if you have high enough anxiety

Seriously. I don’t think readers—and especially other writers—realize how effective we are at selling *other* people’s cool projects just by talking about how much we love them. Signal boost the things you love!

I’m just gonna fill the ones out that apply to me for funsies…🧵

What do you mean querytracker is closed over Christmas? What do you mean I have to spend my vacation doing something other than refreshing???

Please stop pity selling your books and art. Hype it up. Make people WANT to buy it. Make loyal fans instead of just sales.

Fanart for Elysium written by @amarettiiii.bsky.social & @juleswrites.bsky.social ✨🌻 #Albether

Thinking about the mood board my wife made for my manuscript 🥰 #amquerying #writingcommunity

Failed. 91k it is. I think it might be edited down as much as possible without negatively affecting B plot. It’s still within genre expectation for contemporary romance though. 🥲

Editing task today: get it under 90.

Thinking about that recent post about getting caught in a dominos free pizza loop. I ordered pizza using my free emergency pizza and they forgot my coke AND the buffalo sauce on my buffalo chicken pizza. The loop has begun.

Two scene rewrites to do today and I cannot bring myself to start ughhh

Hi, new followers! Thanks for joining me ❤️

This is so awful. A romance-specific, queer and women-owned bookstore opens and boom, gone four days later. They are very near their Gofundme target, so consider helping them out if you can.

I think we need "the good the bad and the ugly" of queer stories because that's the real representation when all kinds of shit have space to exist. Because that's how it is with cishet stories. Perfectly "wholesome" and polished "queer rep" is in fact an artificial vitrine, not real culture.

Taking poison damage (workers are laying carpet glue outside our apartment and we can’t fully seal the door so it’s stimky)

There is no better feeling as a writer than reaching a final showdown scene, realizing you have a gaping plot issue, then subsequently realizing you can fix it by introducing a spaceship dildo back in chapter 24 and it will work *perfectly* No, I will not be taking questions at this time.

Your writing process will change on a daily basis with every project, because every project is different. Whatever gets you to the final product is the way that that book needed to be written. So I need you to stop scrolling and say this aloud right now. "My writing process is not broken."

Finished line edits. 91.6k. Tomorrow, I’m prioritizing final edits by weight then preparing to start making them to be finished by the end of the month. Part of this will be editing my synopsis as well. On track to have a query package sparkling by Dec 1.

Up to 83k. 3 more chapters to line edit before final implementation. I’m on track to have redrafted, fully edited, and beta’d with a revised query letter and synopsis all in the space of 6 weeks. 🥳 So glad to finally be wrapping this stage, after so many drafts and agonizing and traveling.

Hi, I’m Jules, and I may as well give up on Pre-Calculus, since I already have a B in the first semester so I’ll definitely get a C in the second one. Also the same teacher recommends I eat a sandwich every day. Because I’m too skinny. (Oops I’m an engineer oops I have a high metabolism)

you’re only ever one good fic from getting into a trope/ship you said you’d never be into

What if I did something crazy and applied for NYU’s Creative Writing MFA in Paris 🤔

Gonna make a memeboard for the book and right now it’s got exactly one meme on it

me, staring down another day of doomspiralling: i need to make a spreadsheet

Gm friend and #writingcommunity. I am struggling on line edits for my novel’s second half! That’s because I’m completely messing with it. So my 20 page goal last night hit…9. But I’m proud of those 9. I’m up to the gamertag reveal, so it’s a tough scene. Iykyk. I think it might be good though.

Turns out that gay crisis is a little more involved than you’d expect. Or want. DTMFA #UnhingedPit #R #A #LGBT

Recipe for gay crisis: 1 lb. car crash 1/2 c. suicidal college dropout 1 c. famously straight Twitch streamer $5,000,000 USD 2/3 c. Strawberries 1 TBSP ….cream 😬 Stir vigorously in penthouse for 3 months. Pour onto the world stage, bake at 500F until golden brown. #UnhingedPit #LGBT #R

I’ve been seeing posts with “Pitch your book based on why it would be banned” While I understand why someone thought this was a cute marketing idea, don’t give bigots a reason to put your actual book on an actual ban list. Not when they’re revving up to intensify their efforts.

Struggling on line edits tonight, but I’m at 50k of 87. I’ve given myself some pretty sharp deadlines to have it all ready to go by the end of November but 🥲 some nights are easy and the others are long. Think I’ll chill the rest of the night and do something else. Brain break.