idk but the coin cell batteries that just arrived have a bitter coating for safety and it's left me with a powerful compulsion to put them in my mouth I would not have otherwise had

Rowend Hunter is on sale for 99¢ (ebook) on Amazon for a week: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPGH6Z71 It's a love story, and it's a journey story, though they don't know where to or how to get there. No royals, no swords, no made up words. A sequel is coming this Fall.

Rip Samuel Beckett, you would have hated social media in a way most people couldnt comprehend

project runway but it's writing and Tim Gunn is over my shoulder stressed about my comma usage

I like to think of brunch as the purest form of anarchy. Want a burger between 2 waffles? Go for it. Scrambled eggs on a brownie? Heck yeah! Toss some onion rings in those Froot Loops, you are ungovernable. For 90 glorious minutes, all rules of polite society have been suspended.

Book 2 cover art concept sketches have left me giddy and impatient for the final thing. I want to get this book in front of eyeballs!

Enjoy your inability to write when the subsidized LLMs go away 💅

I spoke your true name. It's not what I thought it would be. And I don't feel easy about it. As if I'd left something unfinished. But it is your name. If it betrays you, then that's the truth of it.

“Do you know how to read?” “No. It is one of the black arts.” He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.

I wrote the first words of book 3 in the series. I'm terrified about living up to the standard I set for myself, but I will make this and every other book in the series exist if it kills me. #amwriting

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

You're going to die one day. Literally the apocalypse of your body is coming and you still have to write your book

My book's got true love, strange worlds, a car chase, and a little fox dude who talks like he grew up being told he was the chosen one (because he did.)

turns out having enough food is key to my writing process

editing makes the words shiny

airbnbs that come with hens and thus eggs really make the first few breakfasts afterwards lackluster

Always keep a ripe avocado in one pocket and a lime in the other because you'll never know when you'll be feeling salty enough to whip up some pocket guacamole to go with the chip on your shoulder

wife appreciation post.

2026 will be full of a variety of mosses to lay your hand against and go “oh yes that’s a good one” or “hm this one is not for me”

DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.

wees neak. smalms petty. spoms maghetti.

and Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, sealed inside his sarcophagus, undead for all of eternity. The Medjai would never allow him to be released, for he would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind, an unholy flesh eater with the strength of ages, power over the sand, and the glory of invincibility

RIP Herman Melville, you woulda loved unethical non monogamy with an evil whaling polycule

over the moon to have gone searching for a lost GBA game and instead discovered some extremely sentimental earbuds I lost years ago. what is the hugging yourself out of happiness emoji

to criticize media is to love media, because good faith criticism requires both engagement and vulnerability

Eating grapes in the liminal spaces of #MFF

Rowend Hunter = weird lil fox dude x scary sexy wolf lady. It's amazing you should read it. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPGH6Z71

Sipping espresso, listening to Tom Waits, working on my novel, AND eating a Christmas-tree shaped peep???

pudding is basically nutrient paste

Arena/Daggerfall: can't eat. Morrowind/Starfield: no dogs. Oblivion: dogs inedible. Skyrim/Fallout: dogs edible. TES VI: *only* dogs edible (???)

Sam watching helplessly as Frodo starts to identify with Gollum, a weird, transparently insane bald freak in a diaper who eats live birds and mutters about murdering Sam and Frodo all the time, was a mood without a strong modern parallel until people started falling for AI.

Combat wheelchair rulesets in ttrpgs are a great way to filter out the type of guy who gets really mad about combat wheelchair rulesets, who's typically going to be a pain in the ass to have at the table anyway

Thanks to modern generative AI we now know sci fi was wrong: computers talk humans into killing themselves WAY MORE than visa versa.

I also think there's plenty of Great Literature that's also genre/trash/smut and those are some of my favorites. Will always be grateful to my mom for telling me Macbeth as a bedtime story as a kid so that when I finally encountered the play I was, like, ooooooh, the one with blood!

"Jimmy Buffett is the King in Yellow to Margaritaville's Carcosa" I thought, causing all of my past therapists to sit bolt upright in bed not knowing why they suddenly felt ashamed of themselves.

I wanted my book to exist and so I wrote it and if I do that three to four more times I will have a whole series and I am so excited about that. The arc from my first writing ("Can I write a book?") to here ("Okay, but how about a REALLY GOOD book?") makes me so proud of myself omg.

I really like writing books.

gah I always feel so bad when I typo misgender my characters in a draft... I brought them into this world, they shouldn't have to take this from their creator.

As cost of living increases, as wages stagnate, as housing becomes more precarious, it becomes harder and harder to be able to spend all your time doing weird shit. Whole ecosystems reliant on people doing weird shit, dry up as their habitat is burned for a billionaire's profit.

My book, Rowend Hunter, is available now on Amazon/Kindle. See my website (emeryparks.com) or got to www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPGH6Z71. More formats, etc. coming soon! (Cover art by sixthleafclover.com)

Ohmelette

Today's programmers? They were raised by finance grifters. They would sit there for 5 hours manually doing a bullshit task that 5 minutes in a terminal would automate away forever. They seize on LLM's because they never learned awk. Awk has been around since 1977.

I like the tiny spoons that come in the tiny ice creams.

maybe this is a me problem but the tax setup tools for Google's Play books thing feel a lot more like they are yelling at me than Shopify, B&N, or Amazon/KDPs ever have

Willoughby Tucker, though. holy shit.

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

Cover reveal for my upcoming book Rowend Hunter. Art by SixthLeafClover (sixthleafclover.com). I am excited. I am very excited. ❤️

Tomorrow I should make a cake. I would have a cake then.

running out of flat places in the apartment to put my important stacks of stuff