Doc said she would've certainly diagnosed my cough as croup if I were under the age of three, but alas, so now we're both stumped and I feel like this cat

The best part about pet sitting is working my way through my TBR list all weekend. 2 books down, on to the next!

There's nothing that makes me flash back to my speech therapy days quite like re-reading the meeting transcripts at my corporate day job.

It's so nerve-wracking seeing your query position trickle downward after weeks without movement in the short story submission tracker.

Mark your calendars for December 2nd!!! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

"Hey, hey, are you finished writing yet? Can I read it yet?"

This was pretty awesome to see tonight

faking it works just fine when no one tries to get close enough to see what's underneath

A little bit of good news: "The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a long-shot attempt to overturn the landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide." www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

While it's relieving to hear that the Supreme Court denied the request to revisit same sex marriage, there's also an unsettled grief about it being raised to them in the first place.

Kill your darlings (use them in a different manuscript)

If you write while listening to music, does your music choice match the vibe of what you're writing?

Submit your stories despite the fear of rejection! You never know what could happen!

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

There are still 37 working days left in 2025 - 58 days total. There's still plenty of time to hit that writing goal & finish that script or book. 3 pages a day - just 750 words a weekday - and you can write a complete script. 4 pages a day - 1000 wds a day - and you can write a novel. You got this.

Cutting the synopsis down from 1200 to 1000 words was agonizing. Should I make a 500 word version or call it good enough?

Here's your reminder to embrace warmth and coziness as we head into the dark months 🧡

Someone said that from any Wikipedia article, if you click on the first blue text link of each page, eventually it'll lead to Philosophy, and I've been having a lovely time playing with it (Alchemy -> Philosophy in 15 clicks)

I like to get the hard stuff done and out of the way first, which is why I'm editing this novel synopsis at 8 in the morning.

My character to another character: "I'm going to have to take off my shirt. Can you handle this?" CAN I, AS THE WRITER, HANDLE THIS????

She thinks she is a book too

Happy Nevada Day or whatever 🎃

Someone on Facebook Marketplace is selling the exact same bookcase I have and I am over the moon to soon have a matching set 🥳🥳

Any horror or thriller book recs for the holiday season? Some recent favorites: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews

Finished a short story three days before the submission deadline! Excited to get back to writing my novel

Good writing day: over a thousand words down!

One of my favorite parts of writing a new story is curating a playlist for it: open.spotify.com/playlist/2UP...

This may be the first time I've cried over a story concept

Ahhhhh it's all coming together with this short story now 🙌🙌

Spot the cat

Anthology submission deadline is in 10 days, and I just abandoned one idea for a new one. Wish me luck...

I finally started watching Bones and wow I would have modeled my entire early career trajectory to follow Dr. Brennan if I had watched this in middle school or high school. Hello new interest!

At the end of the music video, Taylor is found half-sunken in the bathtub, which leads me to wonder if she actually did succumb to the fate of Ophelia after all...

My cat knocked a large jumping spider off the wall and under my bed. I'm never sleeping again.

I have a top round in the slow cooker overnight, but I somehow didn't realize that meant waking up at 2am to the smell of meat... I can't tell if I like that or hate that.

Finally back in my morning routine of waking up at dawn to listen to the birds before climbing up to my library in the eaves and writing for an hour before work. Perhaps I should add some tea to the routine.

These early sunsets are killing my motivation lately

It's always so wild to go back after drafting a novel and reread the very first scenes you wrote with a character, back when you didn't know them well at all. They really are people. They have personalities and you don't really know who they are at first, not until they reveal themselves to you.

Made a new friend today, and apparently her cat's name is "My F**king Cat". When she comes home from the metaphysical shop she runs, she shouts, "Where's My F**king Cat?!" and he comes running!

One way I've found to help deal with the stress of *waves hands around* all this is to start volunteering with the Red Cross. It's a good way to remind myself that people still care about others. There are ways to volunteer on a small or big level, and even remote opportunities for accessability!

Got a "this sounds like a compelling read" query rejection today. I know it's a rejection, but I'm feeling encouraged by it! Maybe I've hit the "delusional" phase of the query trenches?

Oh, so much this I LIKE being autistic, in the same way I LIKE being queer. I like myself, and the way my brain works The myriad structural and infrastructural pressures brought to bear on me by cultures hostile to both queer people and neurodivergence aren't my fault, and shouldn't be my problem

We should bring back Missed Connections. Is that still a thing? What do people do nowadays when they meet someone spontaneously but are too flustered to ask to exchange numbers??

BLUF: Don't clean your balcony windows because birds will fly into them. Context: My balcony glass door was slid open, with just the screen closed to keep my cats inside. A bald eagle (daily sight where I live) chased a pigeon onto my balcony...1/2

Okay okay I have some INCREDIBLY EXCITING news to share... my writing debut will be in Enter Here: An Anthology of Portals, edited by @cjsubko.bsky.social & @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social! Here's the full contributor list: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ent...

This is great. Now quit purging queer content from Pixar.

Seriously though: if you're a chemist, a medical professional or anyone purporting to work in the sciences and you're *not* loudly refuting this War On Autism thing... you are absolutely complicit in the dehumanisation and disenfranchisement of (yet another) group of people