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Good morning #authors! How are we today? Always remember: anything you get down is something to celebrate. Even if you have to go back and change something, the fact that you sat down and tried is huge. Revisions are your friend, perfectionism is the enemy! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers

Just signed and sent back the contract for my short story "Sanguine" to appear in the next season of The Kaleidocast through @bsfwriters.bsky.social It's a bloody cosmic horror about the current state of rent and human connection. "We all have to make sacrifices." #writingcommunity

Had one of those stories that beats at the inside of your skull until you get it out last week. Now I'm lightly editing. Much feminist body horror and revenge. Rawr. #writingcommunity #horror

Always nice when the rejection is explicitly because the story wouldn't work with the other acceptances. While accepted is better, "This was a really good story, I wish the other stories worked with it." makes me happy because it means my work is unique and quality. #writingcommunity

Submission calls: Send us your most quintessential bespoke nuanced work. Shake us to our cores and cause our hearts to thrum with agony. Me, blowing dust off a story about a redcap torturing a serial killer: LET'S GOOOOOOOO! #writingcommunity

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SURPRISE~! I’ll be making my horror comic debut in HELLO DARKNESS #15 for @boom-studios.com with — RECONQUISTA (8 Pages) “A vengeful tale from an unspoken era. Forged by enslaved chains, a bloody ritual, and a maternal prayer.” Releasing (10/15) at your LCS!

My buddy's books! Get them! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSGKG3W...

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Kinda crazy that of the books I've read lately, the ones I've liked have been exclusively written by friends of mine. Not a thing young Liam would have believed if I told him. Very cool. #writingcommunity

No one feel bad. It's what he would have wanted.

Chewing on ideas like an everlasting gobstopper. Flavor keeps showing up and I gotta talk into my phone at the weirdest times like when I'm out for a run gasping out shit like: "Monster blood in machines, maybe that's what pisses off the vampires most." #writingcommunity

My new afrofantasy, Darnell and the Librarians: Journey Through Kuzimu, is available on discovery! @reedsy.bsky.social reedsy.com/discovery/bo... #bvm #blackbooksky #fantasybooksky #writingcommunity #indieauthor

Two authorly duties done today. Tomorrow, second crack at synopses. This time with the sauce. Not booze. .... Maybe booze. #writingcommunity

Writing is taking a shot every time you say "Now the REAL work begins..." until you're blackout drunk and forget the taste of bread. #writingcommunity

One task down, now for query letter. Rawr. #writingcommunity

"A Liam Beard is sleek and bloody." ~Me when talking with other horror writers. (Or really... Most people I don't work with. And some I do.) #writingcommunity

Hustle? Grind? Naw Nap. Plop. #writingcommunity

Blood is fascinating. Metaphorically, physically, symbolically, lots of ways. I don't have a special new take, so much as I occasionally think about it. It's unseen unless things have gone wrong for the most part. We attribute tons of meaning. Fascinating. #writingcommunity

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Used to rejection in the writing game, but man it sucks when you try and stack cards and none of them pay off. Ah well. Onward. #writingcommunity

I assure you all that I am doing writing related things. Lol. #writingcommunity

Been reading recently released horror. You know to get a feel for the landscape. Gotta do it once in a while if not continuously. Weirdly the last two books not much of real consequence has happened in either. Is that where we're at? Not much happening? Gonna have to read a few more books.

Good news: New flash story written. Bad news: the call I wrote it for came nowhere near their Kickstarter goal, so dear call. Well. Another for a self made collection I guess. #writingcommunity

Reading reading reading reading reading reading reading weeeeee!!!

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Time to get moving. First story, a liminal space short for a call. Next, my blood is my enemy short story. #writingcommunity #amwriting

Some people are just from Bad Idea Island and there's nothing you can really do about it.

Super excited to have the problem of what to write next. I got a list I just don't know which one to do first. #writingcommunity

Little out of order from my previous post but, my first Stokercon was amazing. Met a lot of my amazing peers, heard a lot of amazing reading, watched amazing short films, and had my mind blown by several panels in a class. STOKED for next year! #writingcommunity #horror #stokercon

Next year I should have something currently published to read at Stokercon, and Imma see about getting on a panel. Or starting one. Something about vampires, cuz that's the genre/monster/legend I know best. And love most. Still buzzing. Molecules vibrating sinisterly. #writingcommunity #horror

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces has breached containment! Thrilled to have my first collection out in the world. 18 tales for enjoyers of spider kisses, eerie grandparents, and endless whirling in trackless voids! Order from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social at www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...

Well, I write horror. And cyberpunk. And a lil fantasy sometimes. My familiar is likely a raccoon. We're alot alike. #writingcommunity #booksky #HorrorWritersChat

Yo. Amazing.

85k words in a paragraph. Send help. #writingcommunity #pitchparagraph #dothesehashtagsevenexistoramimakingthemupinanattempttoberelevantinaworldthatnolongervaluesthat?

Printed Remnants out today. See, back in college I had a 110k book about vampire hunting. It got lost somehow, as this was the early oughts of the millennium and tech was still wonky. I learned a painful lesson. Always have backups. Now I have a paper copy I can scan if needed. #writingcommunity

I got sad about what some folks said online today and, never being able to keep a thing to myself, wrote a blog post about it and made my friends help me: #writerscommunity #writersupport #writingblog #blogpost rebeccacuthbert.com/.../23/love-...

Third revision is done. First one was about 5-6 years ago. Second was last year. I'm getting faster. Better. Stronger. Lankier. My teeth shine and are long. My claws click-clack and leave gouges. Fear me book world. #writingcommunity #amwriting #horrorwriter

"Rowan chuckled, a grinding of children's bones between a mother's teeth." So how's your villain laugh? ;) #writingcommunity #amwriting

So on final pass on revision 3 I still get choked up at the parts I used to get choked up at. If nothing else, it still means this book means something to me. Specifically. #writingcommunity #amwriting

These bacl half chapters are flying by on my final pass. Probably because they're the most recent full rewrites, and that makes me happy. I did what I wanted to do in them. Hell yeah. #writingcommunity

Just trying to get this book done before I'm arrested and sent to another country. Like normal, you know?

AI artists are starting to follow me. So I've added that I think Generative AI is trash. In case y'all didn't know how I feel. Art should be made by humans. Any of it.

Back up to 83k. This is good practice for writing under a deadline but damn is it making me know that when I'm done I'm not gonna wanna look at this book again for like a month lol. #writingcommunity

The paradox of writing cool stuff, is never really knowing just how cool it is. Even if you're like "wow that scene that line that description is a real banger!" you can still never fully experience the entirety of the coolness. #writingcommunity #sufferingfromsuccess

Sometimes I really struggle with "Am I too early, or too late?" There's no punchline this time. Sorry.

I'm back. If you saw a post that sounded like a scam, it was. I got hacked. Gonna make sure to change my password regularly for a while. Apologies if whatever was posted was bad, I didn't get to see it.