aw man remember what a big fucking deal it was when [redacted] parlayed their fandom popularity into a sub-$100k book deal for their original fiction, and there was discourse about whether this counted as indirectly profiting off someone else's IP (no one remembers this, it was 20 years ago)

this is how I found out lmao

Cow

I did not generate any words today but I did compile what exists of the second half to make Ollie read it

I've been thinking about this post for days and I think S is onto something

goal for this morning is "don't go back to bed"

WHY IS IT SNOWING

How common knowledge is it that Soviet Jews who left the USSR largely did it by "making aliyah" and then (if they did not actually want to make aliyah) bouncing immediately to whatever country they actually wanted to move to?

@ the online registrant who listed their first name as the disco ball emoji: the database did not like that, but I did 🪩

it has sometimes been enough to stop a neurosis spiral just to think "if you keep this up you're going to have to find a therapist"

continually refreshing my email for two (2) separate reasons

I did not in fact lock in, I went back to bed

"time to lock in," I say, burrowing into a blanket

I envy more successful writers for many reasons, but having to sign 2,000 tip-ins is not one of them

a small dog grumbles and oinks like a tiny pig as she gets comfortable on the sofa

I have not been "in fandom" in over twenty years but I am socially proximate enough to it to have opinions when fandom people show their ass

CONSIDER: if you as a reader actually bother to seek out and read LGBT original fiction, publishers will acquire more of it and the "original fiction isn't queer enough" problem will be addressed

every time I see the take that fanfiction is superior + there's no point in reading original fiction because none of it is queer, I want to pick up the OP and yeet them into a lake

windstorm knocked out our power, now I gotta sleep without a cpap machine like an animal

emerging from my cave after doing manual cleanup on 600 records

I need someone to give me a better task to do at work because right now it's important-but-excruciatingly-boring data cleanup hours

stole my jacket >:(

heard a fuss in the living room; came in to see Tillie all by herself, staring at the biscuit box and harrumphing

600 words, setting up for some characters misbehavin'

gotta get amped, it's Scrivener time

the hike scene seems to make readers exactly as mortified reading it as I was writing it

Ollie must suffer the curse of being Tillie's favorite, which means that sometimes she will just Decide that it is Time for Snuggling and god help you if you have other shit you need to do

dropped half of my "bagel" and it landed cream cheese side down. it was just a Seattle grocery store "bagel" and not a real bagel but I'm still sad about it. Rip #mybagel

an annoying-but-hopefully-fixable book business embuggerance to begin this lovely Tuesday 🙃

IT WENT OKAY I THINK

now THAT was some GOD DAMN WRITING

remembering how one of my followers on the old website was an older gay man who was both A) earnestly and effusively supportive of my book and B) DEEP into far right conspiracy theories. I hope he's gotten some help because oof

describe your plot in five words or fewer: homeschooling scheme ruined by homosexual

got a few hours to try and write before we have to leave for the anxiety-inducing Thing *slaps brain like the hood of a car* let's see how much this baby can compartmentalize

just learned the name of the dude who bred the first golden retrievers and I am HOLLERING

I have an anxiety inducing Thing this afternoon, crossing fingers that it doesn't make me sad

did manage a little writing today but I would love to get, like, any flow whatsoever

would love to know if this is how my brain naturally chooses to address stress or if it's, like, my thyroid

GET 🗣️ AMPED 🗣️

Please enjoy this brief clip of the late, great children's author Maurice Sendak expressing disappointment that he never killed anyone with his bare hands

The fact that I can't write shorter pieces on demand, honestly. I'd be so much better at getting my name out there if I were able to contribute short stories or essays periodically in between novel projects. I've been invited to contribute several times and just can't do it.

just snapped and posted this on LinkedIn, I couldn’t take it anymore

Playground Bussey, IA

what I am trying to do now is accept that a jump between chapters is going to be kind of abrupt until someone can help me with it editorially, because it is impossible to pry a fully edited publication-quality draft out of your head in isolation. HOWEVER, it should be possible for Me Specifically

the problem with fiction is that everything needs to flow logically / nothing can be truly arbitrary, unlike in real life, where arbitrary shit happens all the time. I can't just be like "he is doing X thing because he has been rawdogging his Bipolar-I for 20 years." there has to be a Story Reason™

this was Seattle Opera and I want to buy their marketing person a fruit basket

I asked my mom for ideas starting with the same letter as my birth name, and I picked the one I liked best ❤️

what if "work on book" means "FIGHT BOOK WITH MY HANDS"

trying to get hyped to Work On Book

we are getting a (very small) refund, hell yes, thank you for thought-and-prayer-ing