"I'm innocent, buy my new book!" is a choice.

Ugh, been awake from midnight to 6am...this sucks big time

Any advice or info from anyone (UK based) who went through the Right to Choose process for ADHD? OFC I'm struggling to get started...

I’ve only just heard the sad news that Jonathan Telfer, former editor of Writing Magazine, passed away in December. He was a genuinely lovely person. Such a joy to work with and to chat to. Absolutely gutted.

1/3 My 2025 walking challenge didn't go as expected...or it did if you're a pessimist! I wanted to walk the distance from ‘The Shire to Mount Doom’ (around 2,897 km or 1,800 mi) as EXTRA walking (no nipping to shops or school run), but after a year of INTERFERENCE and LIFE STUFF

Out on a lovely evening walk and got an inkling it's going to snow tomorrow. The inkling being a shotgun scatter of grit to the back of my legs from a passing gritting lorry...ouch!

Remember, if a present under the tree this year says it's from S.C, it's from me, not that other fat jolly man.

If I wasn't feeling self conscious before...

Oh thank god, the Easter chocs are here...thought I'd missed them!

I forgot how agonising waiting for submission news was...ugh.

Feeling energetic, might go caving this weekend.

Something broke in my brain and now I can only read "diced onions" as "dick 'ed onions"...

No time, no materials, no appropriate clothing bits...time to ADHD the shit out of this Halloween costume! And yes, I know it's been and gone :P

One of our 'Happy Halloween' signs broke and now reads 'Happy Hallowee', so it has been relocated to the bathroom!

To everyone heading to, or already at, World Fantasy, I miss you all so much! I hope I get to see you all somewhere else, sometime soon, in somewhat writery circumstances 💚✍️

Playing Wolfenstein: New Order and it's extra cathartic nowadays for some strange reason...

New glue gun and craft knives...*happy noises mixed with new cuts and burn screams*

To clarify my last post, those are payments from the "nice" publishing people, who don't just expect you to write stuff for exposure...gee thanks! I will never be this cheap :p

£15 for 7,000 words, £2.44 for 5,000 words, £7.50 for 6,000 words...I'm at a loss for (very cheap) words.

Is anyone on any decent writing forums anymore? I used to be on Writing Magazine's TalkBack, many moons ago, but I don't know if it exists at the moment (it could just be down due to the current internet fuckery)

Trying real hard to just scan the 'payment' info and not the 'theme' of anthologies, lest I be tempted to follow up on an intriguing idea with only a 'contributor's copy' and fiver to show for it.

From not writing in years to a 2,000 word story submitted to a library competition, a 4,000 word story almost ready to be submitted to an antho, and a 2,000 word magazine competition entry WIP...nae bad!

Well, that explains today! So I...succeeded in failing?

The worst thing about new meds is the week of 'you might feel even worse'...bleargh

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

2/2 Half the anthos are "Yeah, we'll wang a 50p coin at your head if you're lucky enough to give us everlasting rights to your hard work", and the others are "Oh, a new submission? That's loads of money...which you'll pay us to submit your work".

1/2 Any of my horror peeps know of any open anthos? Writing for this comp has ignited...well, less 'ignited the flame' and more 'rummaged around in a junk drawer, found that weird blocky, half broken candle you keep for emergencies, and whipped it out thinking I might use this soon'.

We took Monster to the park yesterday, and she ended up playing with a few kids she'd never met before. I dadded and joked and pushed swings, and when the other kids left I got a "Bye, funny man!" from the one Monster's age. Even my cynical heart melted a little bit.

41 so far has been watching messed up horror films and figuring out what exercise to do so that sitting on the floor doesn't destroy my bones...

Thank you for being the reason I say thank you!

1000km so far...but I should be on 1,507km by now, so it's a bittersweet woo. Job hunting and life got in the way :/

To avoid fainting keep repeating, It's only ragebait. ...only ragebait ...only ragebait ...only ragebait ...only ragebait

RE9, babbbbyyyy!!

It's barely 90 mins past midnight, and I can already tell it's going to be CBA day today.

What kind of gaslighting is this, Adobe? "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading an AI summary" It's six pages long!

An instant message instantly after adding as a contact, a book description that comes up as 100% AI generated, a profile picture created by thispersondoesnotexist.com (with a badly cropped watermark); and a publishing company famous for scams...I'm out.

Am I feeling meh and that's why my mileage dropped, or do I feel meh because I'm not walking as much?

Misread a bumper sticker as "Bonk if you're horny" and honestly, that makes a lot more sense.

It's been a while, so this thousand words feels like a hundred thousand! #amwriting

This, but with posts about me having not written in forever and promising to start writing again... ...also the fat thing

The Venn diagram of writer friends who oppose AI and writer friends sharing cutesified AI photos of themselves is fast approaching a circle...

Agree with them or not, I always enjoyed watching the bill go down when you scanned your supermarket loyalty card. Now it's "Oh, you spent £40, have 6p off." ...gee, thanks!

Whatever wires that are crossed in my brain that require me to stuff info into my noodle likes it's going out of fashion really need snipping right about now.

*reads any headline* Not the best time to be looking for a job...

It's gotten to the point now whenever she's trending I just sigh and shovel the clickbait into my eyes as quick as possible to get it over and done with.

Got to love the irony of NaNoWriMo shutting down and saying the reason was “Too many members of a very large, very engaged community let themselves believe the service to be provided was free.” when they were in support of AI...