Feels like a pen & notebook kinda morning. Go get em #5amwritersclub ☕

Good news: Got books coming out Bad news: Considering a new author photo

🧵 1/5 Agents and editors aren't asking writers to describe or summarize their 80,000-word book in one sentence. The word summarize is the problem. The logline or the 1 sentence pitch, is the hook! It's to show that the story occasion is unique!

Time to jump into this ending. Best of luck #5amwritersclub ☕

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Starting the week w/a little #5amworkoutclub. Best of luck #5amwritersclub 🌤

weekly ukulele video 🥰❤️ youtu.be/gjxAcm1RC8Q?...

Tomorrow's Monday? Are you SH-TTING me

First one up, chilly morning. Laundry started, now to prep breakfast before we head to the 9-yo's soccer tournament 🌤

"'Ever since July. Like every night after nine,' I go on, picturing my neighbors pulling out basement stashes of Roman candles, lighting a few each night, now that we’re all talking about the end of the world." This one hits hard.

Gold stars for making #5amwritersclub on Saturday. Let's do this ☕

Just scribbling away in my notebook on another bright September afternoon in this Orwellian hellscape

I'd be grateful if you can send links for flash stories where climate change plays a role. I'd like my students to write these kinds of stories for an assignment, but I don't have many models. Thanks!

First one up, quiet house. Roadtrip later, but first coffee & a little reading 🌤

"But we respectfully find the analogy absurd." @kimmagowan.bsky.social in Milk Candy Review ⚡⚡

make a little art today. read a story, enjoy a painting, appreciate and escape into a little art today. look back at something you've made and let yourself feel proud of it today. reach out and tell a few people how much you love something they made today...

Tell three writers how much their work means to you.

Funny how a dalliance w/ your side projects helps you appreciate your main project that much more

“They’re halfway back down the hill when she answers. ‘We’re stronger than you think, my man.’” @tcboudreau.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

Made it to #5amwritersclub. Question is, into which project shall I jump?

Way past #5amwritersclub, but I've got a couple side flashes simmering ✍

Always look forward to Mondettes!

Happy Tuesday to everyone, especially the roof guy belting REO Speedwagon as he fires his nail gun

Did NOT want to get out of bed, but I made it. Let's do this #5amwritersclub ☕

in the spirit of "WTF Lets Do This"... wtf lets do this ⚡ this Wed (17th) 7pm EST, join me for a virtual, one-time generative fiction workshop called WereReaders ... as in, "where are folks reading these days?" & "why does that matter?" & horror stuff :) if you wanna join, that's awesome! +

Back to work, back to #5amwritersclub. Let's sift through these notes & see what's what ☕

A must buy ⚡⚡

First one up, sunny morning. Oatmeal, laundry, & a peek at the wip ahead 🌤

"...now, she wants Amy to feel shitty. To confront her rigidity and selfishness. To brim with impossible regrets." @kimmagowan.bsky.social + @xraylitmag.bsky.social = ⚡⚡

<registers for #awp26, digs hole to hide in>

Breakfast eaten, car packed, last leg of the trip coming up 🚗

Travel day, but first breakfast in Old Town 🌤

It's been a good week 🌤

Second one up, beautiful morning. Flying out tomorrow, but first another day of adventures 🌤

America's Future, baby! Get yours at @wwph.bsky.social www.washingtonwriters.org/americas-fut...

“The bottle of Remy Martin I’d charged at the corner store looked cruel, wildly out of place besides Moisés’s medications and half-eaten bowl of cereal on the table.” @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social | @literaryruby.bsky.social rubyliterarypress.com/issue-six-is...

First one up, calm after the storm. A few thoughts to scribble before the day's adventures begin 🌤

First one up in the New Mexico hills. Hummingbirds are fired up already. Looks like another beautiful day ahead 🌤

⚡️Fast Flash Review: Morsels of Purple by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar. Such moving and vivid stories of migration, change and discovery. @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

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Second one up in the New Mexico hills. Bright warm day on the way ☕

First one up in the New Mexico hills. Walk to town soon for breakfast 🌤

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Second one up in the New Mexico hills. Coffee, then the day's adventures begin 🌤

Travel day. One flight down, one to go ✈

"...the babies needed a way to call poison control at their own leisure." @ezhang77.bsky.social + @xraylitmag.bsky.social =🔥🔥

<spends 45 minutes updating website, collapses>

Likely my last #5amwritersclub for a bit. Best of luck everyone! ☕

"What Monica’s husband doesn’t understand is that when he’s an asshole, it takes a while for Monica to bounce back." A couple of corkers by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social

"...in a very real way, I didn’t know him at all." Loove this one by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @literaryruby.bsky.social