Part of being a fiction author is experiencing life. Whether you do that vicariously by reading other books or watching TV, or if you go out and try new things on a regular basis, what you experience informs your writing. Step away from the keyboard regularly and refuel. #LianaEdits #SkyWriters

What do you do when you meet a bunch of people living in the woods and you're SURE they're a vampire coven, but you can't prove it? You make an excuse to come back later so you can interrogate them some more, of course! (Spoiler alert: it works.) #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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Strongman competitions hunted them to extinction.

I strongly suggest focusing on your neighborhood when it comes to political action/mutual aid because 1. Actual tangible change happens on the local level and 2. If you look at this from a national perspective, if you absorb every evil currently happening on a mass scale, you will fry your brain

I absolutely loved this. A fantastic read!

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

The Peckish Games

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#WritingCommunity A cishet love story at the forefront. There's SO MUCH of it out there and I just don't personally enjoy it 99% of the time. I'm also not much for writing sexuality/gender crisis as part of the story and I almost never write homo/transphobia (WIPs are all queernorm). Same reason.

To be a writer, you only have to do one thing: write. Not break into a big magazine. Not publish a bestseller. Not get an extravagant book tour. Struggling with discouragement? Rejection? Bad reviews? These are normal. They don't disqualify us. If you put words to the page, then we are peers.

Pre-orders for Songs of Broken Bells e-books everywhere you buy books and paperbacks from my direct store are now live! (paperbacks from other vendors coming soon) Universal link: books2read.com/songsofbroke... Itch: voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/songs-of-bro... [💙📚] [📚 🌈] [📚🪐]

#WritingCommunity I keep exploring human-adjacent beings (dog-human hybrids, vampires, magic users reviled as subhuman) and exploring what it means to be human through them. What makes a monster and what makes a man? Oh, and everybody is bi. All of them. Idk how that keeps happening, but it does.

Timeline cleanse

man, even when writing sucks it's still the absolute best

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity Silas (who is equal parts vampire-obsessed and hemophobic) having to give blood to the coven he's living with for the first time is the *definition* of pressure. :')

Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #WriteSky #BookSky

“We have to accept generative AI eventually!” Honey, I will write my books in increments as zines if I have to. The only AI I will accept is an artificially sentient robot author who suffers from imposter syndrome and cries about hating their draft.

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky Other writers: if my protagonist appeared to me in a dream they'd tell me that they want to hurry up and kiss their love interest! Or they'd tell me that they need to figure out this mystery sooner! My protagonist appearing in my dream:

Hit 60k on The King in The Mountain! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

Another snippet from the first draft of The King in the Mountain. #WritingCommunity #WeeknightWriters

Y'all ever feel like your life is one big juggling act and you have one too many balls in the air at any given time? And then as soon as you start to get things MOSTLY together, you immediately drop one of them? 🫠

Somewhere in Iceland.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

Just throwing out a quick scene from The King In The Mountain. I honestly love these two so much. (Nicholas is the titular King, being a 700 year old vampire. Silas is the vampire-obsessed autistic enby who stumbles on the coven. They're in love, your honor.) #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

I'm screaming because WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE FIRST TIME I PET THE FERAL CAT WE RESCUED WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

"Being autistic isn't even hard" Imagine having absolutely NO natural capability for any of this and having to pick it up in the wild, in real time, by observing (and screwing up) conversations over and over. That's my life. 🫠 youtube.com/shorts/d1jH9...

Dude the ending of King In The Mountain is going to be DOPE to write. Human-ish was extremely predictable ("are they going to escape the center?" why yes, yes they are, otherwise it's kind of a crap story) but I'm super hoping that the end of KitM will be a gasp moment in the best way. 👀

(me chanting to myself the past few days) it's okay you can write tomorrow, it's okay you can write tomorrow, it's okay you can write tomorrow, it's okay you can write tomorrow... (I'm so busy I haven't had time to fart and the writing has not happened)

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

Say three positive things about your writing. 1. Weird (complimentary) 2. Sometimes I get a really pretty flow in my sentences and it's nice 3. Emotions are so rich they should pay more in taxes Your turn!! #WritingCommunity

Yes of course, my beloved home state of New Jefst 🥹

I've been making GREAT progress on two different projects this week and it has made me so happy! Working on a revamp for Human-ish and the first draft of The King In The Mountain has kept me BUSY. 😂 #WeeknightWriters #WritingCommunity

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

King in the Mountain: - That discovery on the tip of your pen, almost complete. - Your interviewee changing the subject with every difficult question you ask. - Soft summer nights spent among fireflies looking out over the mountains. - The thrill of seeing sharp canine teeth in someone's smile.

Human-ish: - A file you aren't supposed to have, full of redacted information. - An invisible line you know you cannot cross. - The comfort you find dozing off beside your closest friend on the couch. - That first wild bit of hope, like sunlight cresting the horizon. #WritingPrompt

Of course you're a real writer if you don't write every day or do things differently. There's no one set way to do this, bro. This shit is hard. Take breaks, take your time, find your own process that works by learning from others. But your writer license never expires. You're in for good, bozo.

Heard we’re discussing re-drawing districts so I wanted to drop an idea

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reading an Andrew Joseph White book when I am brutally attacked out of NOWHERE

My Minneapolis friend: omg your power was out for 12 HOURS??? that's horrible!!! I'm so sorry!! Me, a former Texan who once was without power for 8 full days in the middle of summer, and also lost power during the 2021 freeze: ... yeah... 🥴

Creatives across all mediums will be forever bound together by the "AHHHHHHHHH?????" of it all

Sitting in a diner in Minneapolis really be like "omg is that Tim Walz-- no, no that's just a Midwestern dad. ... Omg is that--" There are Tim Walzes everywhere for those with eyes to see them

Got one of those enormous bean bags that you can just lay on and sink into. The pros: ridiculously comfortable. The cons: I may never get up again

I prefer internal strongly 😂 if I had my way I'd write ten pages of internal BS before anything external actually happens. I think I'm getting a knack for external conflict slowly but surely though! Learning how to weave it in with the inner conflict has helped me a lot - they should be linked.

For Human-ish: Little Dark Age by MGMT. youtu.be/BoatSoGva_I?... Another candidate might be Eat Your Young by Hozier.