Wait, let me add the last thing I made: a little prime rib. #kidlitchat

I know it's not kid lit and it's something people complained about it, but George RR Martin's food scenes are as epic as the battles. #kidlitchat

I think in a lot of ways it's manipulating the tropes: a character trying to be in two places at once is another one. I mean that's an oldie but goodie, right? #kidlitchat

The old Hitchcock thing about the bomb under the table, surprise is the bomb exploding, suspense is letting the audience know there's a bomb and that it'll go off in 10 minutes, is a useful tool #kidlitchat

Okay, much of my middle grade writing is directly inspired by the TV show Bob's Burgers. Especially the kidcentric episodes. I pay attention to what obsticles they face. #kidlitchat

Here's the thing about plot drama: you have to think about what your characters want and what things can you do to prevent them from achieving that? #kidlitchat

I prescribe to the “therefore…but” concept when thinking about plotting. So it’s this happens therefore this happens but this happens therefore that happens. #kidlitchat

Tuesday means one thing: #kidlitchat, right? I might be late but I’ll be there!

All the typical nerd sites (IGN, CBR, etc) are really playing to the choad crowd of Star Wars haters still mad about Han leaving the Falcon to a girl with their responses to the Mandalorian and Grogu Super Bowl spot. I really hate fandom.

Put some big boy pants on today and sent out some fresh queries….cause why not?

One more thing we learned last night, "real" Star Wars fans have great senses of humor.

The final score: Bad Bunny 137.5 million The Puppy Bowl 12 million TPUSA: 6.1 million

Here’s a thought….maybe Drake Maye sucks.

There’s the meaningless playoff yards from Diggs.

Did Tirico just have a stroke? Josh Allen had 130 more yards rushing than Maye this season.

There’s your Diggs meaningless 5 yard catch. He’ll make 2 or 3 more of those in garbage time like he always does in the playoffs.

Im a Roger Craig guy. The 49ers were the team of my youth but he’s not a Hall of Fame level running back.

That was kind of a cool way to do a Star Wars commercial.

It’s the time you’ve all been waiting for: your Uncle John’s Absolutely Wrong Super Bowl predictions: -Bet the under on the Anthem (116 seconds). -First commercial: Instacart -Final Score: Honeslty, do we really care? I think that the Seahawks win by a FG and don’t cover.

Grocery shopping at Wegmans on Super Bowl Sunday and they start playing “Eye of the Tiger.” I was born for this!

Jesus, Bob’s Burgers the last few seasons just hits all the emotional beats. There’s been three or four episodes where my allergies start acting up!

I’m listening to a new podcast that I’m digging but they are talking about the difference in YA and adult. It’s a good discussion but they are taking about “new adult.” I’ve always had an issue with that label. Isn’t it just ADULT at that point?

One of the hosts of the local NBC affiliate’s 11 o’clock news just said that Mariah Carey sang the Italian song “Voltaire,” which left me thinking…

This bums me out so much. Mass market paperbacks are so formative to me. Without them I am not a writer.

I am an unabashed fan of Prisencolinensinainciusol and love that they included it. #olympics #openingceremonies

Wait, is it Christmas again? Or did they just let Mariah out of stasis? Do you think she knows she’s in Italy? #olympics #openingceremonies

Confession time: I don’t quite get “litrpg”/ progression fantasy as a genre. I’m going to get Dungeon Crawler Carl but is there anything else I should be looking at? Do you need to be a gamer to understand the mechanics?

Some mornings I drive by my kids at the bus stop blaring music and singing to them. This morning was 25 to 6 to 4 by Chicago. I rolled down my window and played a phantom trumpet at the wrong part. My daughter texted me and said that I looked like a Charlie Brown character like that was an insult.

Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd

Pro wrestling fans get it.

I’m obsessing over an IG Reel from the wildly successful YA writer that I’ve griped about before. I feel like I have a rant in me but part of my brain is just saying to forget it and just write tonight. But I’m so incensed that there a part that just wants to go scorched earth.

While I appreciate closure, a form rejection after a year is not what I’m looking for. Rest assured, I long ago gave up the ghost.

After a while it just feels like you're beating a dead horse with revisions. You have to just decide enough is enough. The worst is when you have to "trunk" a project. #kidlitchat

I used to print out my MS and do actual physical edits but that's not working lately. It's easier to work on the screen. #kidlitchat

I try to take breaks between drafts. At least a month. Longer is better. #kidlitchat

I struggle with getting CP/betas. I'm a terrible CP because I am a writing teacher, so I'm reading dozens and dozens of papers/responses/rough draft/etc. over the course of a month. There's only so much energy. #kidlitchat

Revisions....always reminds me of the old DaVinici quote "Art is never finished only abandoned." #kidlitchat

It still blows my mind that Lloyd Alexander was from Philadelphia.

I've only really trunked one novel. It was my first attempt at writing a novel. It was a doorstopper epic fantasy and a heaping pile of dogshit. It's terrible. Comically, last year I tried reworking it and made some progress, but it collapsed under itself.

COOP KNOWS THE SCOOP X BOB’S BURGERS: #MG kids on bikes adventure in 2 timelines: 1995: Friends find out their parents were in a band together & search for their hit album. 2025: Their kids hear about said album & go on a quest to find the lost recordings. #miserypit #W #HM #CM

IT X THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD: Max finds 2 photos, taken years apart & quests to unravel the mystery of the girl in the pics & her link to 7 missing girls while tangling w/ the eldritch horror their crazed cult leader murderer unleashed on the world. #miserypit #YA #CT #Q #CM

THE FORTxBOBS BURGERS: 1988. Suburbia. 13 yo Vinny goes on an epic kids on bikes adventure w/ his friends to find a crashed UFO. Along the way they find an exact duplicate of their neighborhood, a secret mansion & uncover a conspiracy that threatens more than their neighborhood. #miserypit #MG #SFFT

I keep saying it and maybe I just need to read some but I just don’t “get” progression fantasy.

I think it's so embarrassing what the "Pro Bowl" has become. At least it was some kind of football game, not whatever this is.

SCHITT’S CREEK in a tollbooth. Newly unemployed, a gay diabetic divorcé moves back to Boston, takes a Mass Pike job for insurance, and gets pulled into a fight over automation that forces him to confront who he was and who he wants to be. TWO RIGHTS AND A LEFT – 74k #QuestPit #A #Q #U #LGBT

Hi! I’m Ben, author of Kinda Charming! Most fairytales have a prince. This one got Neil. (And he doesn't know what he's doing.) For fans of Percy Jackson & Land of Stories this book has: 🗡 Awkward heroes 🏰 Twisted tropes 😂 Laugh-out-loud mishaps #Q #amquerying #MG #Fantasy

𝗛𝗲𝗿🧭I came here to learn German. Not to inch closer to my disarming, bruised host with every word, every laugh. We’re just friends—until our nights turn sultry. Until Berlin, edgy and mellow, teases a different life, if only I'd stay. I can’t. I've planned my future... elsewhere. #Questpit #Q #A #R

NAUSICAÄ X FF7 Hana is sure she’s the chosen one, meant to save the world, even if her magic is resisting her and the previous chosen one insists she isn’t. Pursued by enemies, she must learn if this is her destiny or if it was a mystical mistake. #questpit #F #A #Q #agentguide

Grim Portents HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of 📖 #F #H #PN #A #P #OV #POC #questpit

I didn’t get to like as many #questpit posts as I wanted, I’m going to try now!