Stories are like dough it's possible to overwork them.

my queer cozy horror THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in 10 days, and that's the book all the answers were from tonight! preorder, request it at your library, tell your friends, yell on socials, etc etc thank you #LateNightWrite bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

#LateNightWrite #CourtroomGhost eh, nobody really, but MC was dead for two years, so he gets it on a technicality.

##LateNightWrite #CourtroomGhost this is a good question. There's space for it before MC arrives on scene, but I wasn't terribly specific about it. It's character inaction, b/c Ravi &Orion are waiting for Kai to come back for two years. Revision material!

This is what I do at work while waiting for cues.

#LateNightWrite Q1 I take breaks or switch WIPs. Taking breaks is actually super important for me. I can't actually write everyday and I don't try to. There are just days I can't write. And switching WIPs always helps. That way I'm working on something different, not the same thing all the time.

##LateNightWrite #CourtroomGhost I throw something off the wall at the story when I feel burnout coming. And story is what I do to procrastinate against housework, lol.

#LateNightWrite I play a lot of video games, scroll social media, make websites ferally shouting about friends' books, talk to friends on Discord, take na-- OH COMBAT PROCRASTINATION

#LateNightWrite hi, I'm Liz, working on #CourtroomGhost I'm working on craft this week, instead of more story. I'm also at work, so limited responses.

Hello, #WriteSky ! I'm still fucking sick but I actually prepared this time, so... Here's your reminder that #LateNightWrite starts in one hour! Come join us and talk about your stories!

#LateNightWrite Starts in an hour, but I'm working, so I'll try to catch up when I can. #CourtroomGhost

#CourtroomGhost proof of not AI

#AwesomeCharacters ##CourtroomGhost My 3 mc's are all assassins. Who wins among them varies from fight to fight. But I wrote one short fight where Orion drags the other two apart. So Orion wins today.

HEY. HEY HEY HEY GO BID ON CHARITY BUNDLES TO SUPPORT A TRANS CHARITY. Please.

‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

July 10th's disabled writer is John Wiswell! Also known as @wiswell.bsky.social Deets at johnwiswell.blogspot.com Award-winning, wildly humorous & tear-jerking writer of novels/short stories. His book The Dragon Has Some Complaints is out in 4 days. More links in replies. #DisabilityPrideMonth

HERE'S MY BACKLIST novels AND novellas! standalones AND series! novels! books2read.com/ExitGhost authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/learn-to-h... books2read.com/burnupinvict... novellas! authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h... books2read.com/DrownedHeir books2read.com/BetweentheBl...

#PretendPanel Yes. I mean, why not both? Depends? If it’s well-crafted, I want what the lunchlady* gives me. (*You. The writer is the lunchlady. I want whatever soup you cooked up. I trust you.)

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips #CourtroomGhost "Attack" comes up fairly often in my work. Here's a fun bit.

🚨COMING SOON OMG🚨 this is basically TWO stories in one. you get TWICE THE BIG GAY ROMANCE! so i updated the trope card. this book is so good! go preorder now! #booksky 🌈📚️ www.elizmanderson.com/the-lord-of-...

Good grief. If your car's base is clearly audible in my second story radio studio, it's too loud.

Anyway, support actual human artists and creators because they need to eat, and Sam Altman, Elon Musk and everyone else profiting from the wholesale theft of creative work to churn out "AI" nonsense already have too much money

@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social Happy Birthday, Charlie!

IT’S OUR VERY OWN @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social’s BDAY!!! Party time! 🥳🎉🎈 Suggested gift: An exclusive tidbit about your OC. Nothing spoilery, just fun! Or tell her your favorite thing about one of her OCs. Or both! 🎁 Pls enjoy these special cupcakes @nushdeco.bsky.social & I made, Charlie 😁❤️

TW . . . . . . . . . My sister called last night. They had to put mom's dog down this morning. Kiddo and I went to say goodbye. I haven't cried that much in a year. I know all the reasons and the good thoughts and everything. But I'm not gonna be good company today.

Just need 5 people with $20 to spare to keep Sonia's utilities on.

Too hot to do marketing. I have many pendants. They're very pretty. oishiny.etsy.com Please buy a pendant. #HandmadeJewelry #ShopSmall #DisabledArtist

#JulyInterviewFic #CourtroomGhost MC: Well...that's a hard one. See, I'm haunted by my own ghost who wants me to right his wrongs, so I have lots of regrets. They're just not exactly...mine. Mine would be letting the pirate ghosts haunt me at once. Or maybe giving that explosive to Rachael. 😢

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips #CourtroomGhost "Keep"

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #AwesomeCharacters #CourtroomGhost MC likes a good puzzle most of the time; he's good at solving them. He doesn't like the one he's currently in, though. He's looking for help sorting it all out and we'll see what happens.

I'd say I'm doing laundry, barely, but truth is, I'm kind of obsessive with keeping up with the laundry, so it's all very much done. I'd say I'm more of a "trying to keep some mental health, barely" kinda girl.

I haven't received any help on this and I'd dearly appreciate some. Here's a snip of the receipt.

Hi these folks very kindly asked me to help guest-edit the one time and they let me write a deranged essay about parasites and symbionts and who else is going to do that? No one, that's who. Please support Khōréō and their important work!

#JulyInterviewFic #CourtroomGhost MC: I like plants. If I had an outdoor space of my own I'd definitely be a gardener of some sort.

Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files. Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.

Picard social tip: A Vulcan can laugh. A Klingon can soothe. A Ferengi can give. Your preconceptions are not facts.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #CourtroomGhost I've shared this bit before, but it's the closest thing to humidity I've got: a rainy day in summer.

I agree. People have NO respect or compassion for authors. And I'm not just talking about entitled readers. Everyone wants stories, but they don't care about the passion, hard work, care, endless hours, dedication & love that goes into creating stories/books. Most authors make very little money.

Just find a broke tax preparer willing to give you advice for five bucks (Hi, it's me)

Just a friendly reminder that you’re not being “unreasonable” if you wish to pull a book from a bookshelf and find that it opens a secret door. If anyone tells you otherwise, they were never your friend to begin with.

#WriteStuff Q7 ... no.

#WriteStuff Q6 #CourtroomGhost However it shows up at my door.

Glad you asked!!! Look for The Book of Notable Sandwiches: A Lunchtime History of the World next summer!!!

#WriteStuff Q5 #CourtroomGhost I might have trouble identifying satire when I'm looking at it, because the thing that comes to mind is Pratchett's "Guards, Guards!" and I'm not sure that that was satire, exactly.

#WriteStuff Q4 #CourtroomGhost Not really, no. It's an area that I need to work on.

#WriteStuff Q3 #CourtroomGhost Eh, yes. Can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but yeah.

#WriteStuff Q2 #CourtroomGhost I don't think satire is a genre the same way that comedy is a genre, because satire is poking at the holes in other genres. It's more of a tool imo.

#WriteStuff A1 #CourtroomGhost I'm kind of on the fence about it. Some things I love being satirized will make me angry (ie family members) but subjects I love being satirized is perfectly okay.

#WriteStuff Hi all! I'm Liz, writing #CourtroomGhost. I'm here for ideas about how to make my writing better, and to meet other writers, and because it's fun.