when one of the most beneficial things you've learned via sound design is how to cut remixes so you only get the parts that won't drive you up the wall... literally tightened it from 5:17 to 2:45. In another I cut a scream, because I listen to it on repeat for hours. No more stress every 3 minutes 💀

spies??? in MY cosmic horror romance novel? it's more likely than you think

Last night I told my partner I figured out the solution to so many things for my book and he was ready for something mind blowing and I just said, "Birthday party. It solves *everything*" btw it's a horror novel

trying to describe one of my MC's mundane lives living in a cosmic horror entity and... Finally pinned it down. "It's like a middle manager working in FiDi, commuting in NYC, but in hell."

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YUP I'm really into the audio drama spinoff of the novel I've been working on. As in, the making playlists kind of "into it". TMC's season 1 finale will come out eventually, but I haven't been able to find my PC parts since moving. So that's the hold up on that one.

Wouldn't be me if I didn't get 90% into a project and went "what if I adapted this to another medium?" Book's nearly there and I'm out here wanting to make a pilot episode for tv for a series about of the main antagonist's arrival in "Hell" and his descent I love the idea though

Sup y'all, finally throwing something TMC related on here! If you follow or have followed the show elsewhere, just be aware that any updates that are meant for social media will be on bsky and tumblr at the most. Still considering removing TMC from a certain platform.

okay BUT the wild thing is, splitting this up means I'll have written three novels. Holy smokes. Kind of cool. This includes my cyberpunk novel from 2012. I didn't finish it until 2017 but it HAS been beta read and I've worked on it a tad over the years, including last month. Hot damn

ugh there's no way anyone's going to go for a duology so I just have to forget telling Nate and Nila's perspectives. Which means giving up rep for Nate being demi and minimizing my focus on GAD. Damian's identity might need to be rewritten if I cut out everything in part two

Cut around 3k down today and placed pivotal backstory sooner so that it feels less like "plot twist, tragic past!" It's so much nicer in this chapter! It's better thematically too ahhhhh

More book stuff, it's now less Inferno and more so a twisty cosmic horror katabasis And it's looking like it has to be split in two 😭

YO I just realized you can add IMAGES to your Spotify playlists?! WHAT today's time sink had been unlocked 👍

also my favorite recurring joke is the love interest walking into the middle of a serious discussion between two characters and immediately sneezing idk WHY that's so funny to me, but every time I edit, it makes me bust out laughing and have to explain to my partner that someone sneezed again

in typical chaotic evil writer fashion, I've been stuck with my current project, so decided to switch to writing the sequel 👍 Been trying to get my last few chapters finished but instead I've been spending my time editing finished ones instead. Here's to the new year, time to get things done 🎉💜

I'm going to die I'm another 7k up from my last update, and there's still major beats to hit I'm sure I'll be able to get it down... It's not like it's PERFECT right now. But that feels so crazy, I'm going to have to be ruthless about killing my darlings when I'm done and I am not ready for this 😭

AH out of curiosity over my own writing style's evolution, I opened up my 1st finished novel which was critiqued and fully beta read *7 years* ago. Never edited it bc I'm a scaredy cat. Guess what my new fixation is. I DID work on Minos in Momo's Inferno today like I mentioned, though!

I've been struggling with what to do about these DANG mythological figures Dante put in because they're good conflict/plot devices in the OG. I've just been writing them in as is, but I thought of the silliest solution to rework the small nods I have and I'm kind of excited to give them another go 🎉

writing scripts for 2 years shows in how much dialogue I use 💀 one of my fav things to write is my cinnamon roll decimating people. So Lamb coded. The dream of one day hearing these monologues performed ahhhh HONESTLY, I feel all of the MCs are cinnamon roles. Opposite of my usual writing

I'm at 128k in the novel and I've been trying to cut it down and refine it but it's so tough! I hope something comes of this. I know it's tooting my own horn but I think it's a really sweet love story (I wouldn't still be writing it if I didn't love it, after all) and I'd be so happy to share it 😭

Focused on fixing telling and nuance in the first four chapters and trying to slash the word count today, and I've jumped in wc working on a new chapter. Ultimately, numbers don't mean a whole lot! It's just a question of finishing and gutting what doesn't work. I'm glad I wrote at all today tho 😵

daily crisis over how I have 114k words, and this monster isn't done, and it's going to be so hard to pitch if I can't edit it down to sub-110 must focus on finishing, do not look at pubtips, do not play with query letters 💀 Listening to "Write Your Novel from the Middle" though 👍

so, like, here's what 80k words looks like in 25 days (i got the wrist brace for drawing last month, multipurpose tools hell yeah)

now that I'm here and it feels like a little bit of a reboot from using twitter, I may post a little bit of my writing celebrations even if they're not TMC related I hit 76k words in this surreal horror romance novel I'm writing, during a big edit session! p cool, v much left to do off i go again

Guess what's coming soon 🌚 open.spotify.com/episode/0Q3E...

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You better believe I'm bringing all of my bird app posts to this here site. I'm not even to the bulk of the sfx yet, and so so far away from the modulation. I love sound design but the more blocks I highlight to make time for scenes in the middle, the more terror I feel

Since they're not here, I'm giving a shout-out to the Twin Stranger Production's Syntax IndieGoGo! I love the show so much. The worldbuilding is fantastic and I adore the characters, so I'm scared out of my mind every ep. release https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/syntax-season-three/x/31595813#/

While I'm here, guess who's been listening to death screams and compiling bloopers. I don't think I'll be getting pure chaos from all of the 20+ cast members in the finale, but what I do have is *giving me life*

I'm stoked for this new avenue to shoot shower thoughts into the void, which means I should add it to my social media timer fr though I'm working on the finale, when I am not working on code about to throw my computer out of the window (it's 7 pm, and... back to work)

I can't tell what's more dangerous, TVTropes or Wikipedia, but that's okay because I just dual wield them and rip through time and space I mean it's not as cool as it sounds, but also I'm collecting useful(?) facts along the way so it's fine

anyway, please consider joining the Patreon for NIGHTLIGHT, or for my work because Patreon fucked up and we’re down a couple of hundred bucks on NL and $10 or so on my personal one. patreon.com/nightlightpod patreon.com/toniaransom

I'm currently crowdfunding the second season of my show! it's mythic sci-fi and season 2 being *very* political and *super* weird https://rb.gy/mkgu2 and my recommendation is The Great Chameleon War, its just so weird and out there and gorgeous and I always beg people to listen to it

✨so tired✨

Also... I'm still doing the whole edit the beginning and end, work back and forth through the middle, thing. But, I'm so stoked over these recent little moments of brand new inspiration!

I've been editing sound all day, and researching. I really like sharing tabs: useful phrases in old english, taawi, transcription tips for historical documents, "do archaelogists really lick bones?" The verdict on that one is still out. Some say it's hazing, others, "look, it's the fastest way-"