"Reformed rakes make the best husbands" by Judith McNaught was just the regency's version of "I can fix him!"

Almost out of the revision hell! Is it good for the book that I'm sharper at noticing and removing my fanficcy bad habits? YES! Also me @ that thirteenth scene of the MCs gratuitously loving on each other, knowing it reads as superfluous, knowing I should cut it. #writesky #writingcommunity

I've added a new blog post, called "An Ode to the Hare." The tortoise and the hare story hits different if you have ADHD, like me, so maybe it's time to reimagine the story. #writingcommunity #writesky #adhd #adhdsky #neurospicy kathrynthornwood.com/blog/an-ode-...

Maybe idolizing the economic model of perpetual exponential growth was a bad idea. That's how cancer operates. Even the universe has a speed limit.

JEEZY CREEZY, Larry Ellison is daydreaming of a 1984-like surveillance state future? And he's the one they're letting buy TikTok?!? Guess my thoughts of joining TikTok are out the window. Do any of you have decent alts to TikTok? (Nothing X, and NOTHING Meta.)

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users. nyti.ms/3ILwCNo

New blog post from me! #tumblr asked if people would be okay being immortal, and the answer? With so many books and stories in the world? A resounding YES. #musing #immortality kathrynthornwood.com/blog/immorta...

I wrote a book about dragons, but that book about dragons ended up being so much more. #writesky #writingcommunity #fantasywriter kathrynthornwood.com/blog/a-book-...

🖖 #bivisibilityday

The thing about the Disney and Paramount decisions? It lets someone who has a passive subscription go "do I really need this?" and finding how simple it is to say "nope, I don't!" I've not missed Paramount+ and I doubt I am going to miss Disney or Hulu. Don't bow to fascists, kids!

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again. Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads. It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

In case anyone wonders why I stay away from ALL the Meta platforms. #antimeta youtu.be/2XlCJVPCIqU

<Speaking in late night infomercial voice> Looking for something to replace certain streaming services? Look no further than... you local library! Kanopy and Hoopla have a ton of good movies and shows, and many you get access to their catalogs with nothing but your library card 📚 #libraries

The Horrors are running rampant right now, but I hope you'll check out this #flashfic to remind you what (actually WHO) matter. #writesky #writingcommunity #TheHorrors #originalstory kathrynthornwood.com/blog/sea-of-...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

The Horrors are running rampant right now, but I hope you'll check out this #flashfic to remind you what (actually WHO) matter. #writesky #writingcommunity #TheHorrors #originalstory kathrynthornwood.com/blog/sea-of-...

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

New blog post up from me. Thinking about and remembering my grandmother and her remarkable intelligence in the exact arenas that have been traditionally underappreciated. #writesky #writingcommunity #blogsky #gettoknowanauthor kathrynthornwood.com/blog/organiz...

Holding Off Despair in the Face of "The Horrors", my new blog on what I do to find respite in these trying times. kathrynthornwood.com/blog/holding...

I'm going to sign off of social media and let my block filters catch up with the things flying around from today. >40,000 people a year die of gun violence. There have been almost 50 school shootings ALREADY this year. If you pretend THIS ONE matters, it's not because you care about gun violence.

A microstory by ME! "Take My Hand". Prompt: character hits rock bottom Please check out the story, newly posted on my blog! #writesky #writingcommunity #microfic #flashfiction #promptfic kathrynthornwood.com/blog/take-my...

1: foot traffic is what benefits libraries, so coming in and signing up is a net POSITIVE 2: this state is beautiful and fun to explore, so you should do it. 3: every new card is extra access to the Libby catalog, so smaller wait times for digital media! #LibraryCardSignUpMonth

Things I'm learning on the fly when building my author website. It's hard to prove you're not spam in this day and age, and having a privacy policy if you collect email addresses is a GOOD IDEA (but also work you didn't think about!) #writesky #writingcommunity #buildingawebsite

People are not great at following the alarm bells our bodies sometimes throw at us and we are even worse at doing that for our minds. This is a blog about mental health. #mentalhealthawareness #brainsarebodypartstoo kathrynthornwood.com/blog/just-li...

Because it seems that it needs to be said out loud with our full throat... I stand with trans people.

"Yo, they’ve got the latest computerized catalog system—just roll right up to a terminal, type in your search terms, and it gives you a list of titles and call numbers, plus a little map to show you where they all are. Dewey Decimal, man. It’s tight."

Random thought. Dystopian futures with uber-surveillance technology that plucky heroes manage to thwart is not very realistic. Make that technology more like GenAI that gets things wrong and lies and hallucinates and frustrates the villains. Much more realistic. #weareinadystopia #writesky

I get audiobooks with my library card, use their meeting room for writers meetings, access their free courses, watch movies on kanopy with their free credits, can check out a sewing machine! Truly amazing.

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

The Beast that Devoured the Internet, an anti-LLM story written by me. #antiAI #antiLLM #writersky #writingcommunity kathrynthornwood.com/blog/the-bea...

The Beast that Devoured the Internet, an anti-LLM story written by me. #antiAI #antiLLM #writersky #writingcommunity kathrynthornwood.com/blog/the-bea...

I finally found a video about the Audra Winter situation that spoke the right words to me. As an ADHDer, watching this go down hit close to home and I think Joely Black hits the nail on the head. #booksky #adhd #audrawinter www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLj6...

I'm the type of reader who first gets the book from the library, then if I like it enough, I look for a special edition or extremely high quality version to buy. Not sure what that makes me market demographic. "Bougie librarian" maybe? #ilovebooks #booksky

Things I learned today. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are... Famine, Death, War and... Conquest? Pestilence was the revised version. So only 3 are unique. And honestly only Famine and War really make sense Death happens to everyone. #writesky #writingcommunity #til

I think it needs to be said that there might be no greater character reference place than The National Gallery. Public domain portraits from the 1800s so your character looks attractive and unique? YES. #writesky #writingcommunity #publicdomain www.nga.gov/artworks/215...

I remember studying vocabulary for the verbal GRE before grad school. Those words stuck with me and I still use them in my writing. I wonder if using the word 'sanguine' makes me sus too 🥷🏻 FOLKS, these models trained on US. Of course they sound like us. #antiai #writesky #writingcommunity

Book bans have never been about morality, they have always been about power and pathetic little people trying to grab at it. #antibookban #booksky www.salon.com/2025/06/26/b...

I'm currently attending the Chesapeake Writing Workshop. One of the speakers didn't think pen names were a good idea, and recommended we use them only if we're worried about safety or write something so spicy you don't want family and friends to read. 1/4 #writingcommunity #writesky

Snuggly cats are definitely in the top ten balms for the soul.

I always wonder if people scream as often in real life as they seem to in books.

"I asked ChatGPT" Yeah? Well I asked Lady Catherine de Bourgh and not only did she give me the wrong answer so authoritatively I was struck silent, she criticized the precise color of the red in my bonnet and invited me to dine at Rosings Park but only after I fixed it. #janeausten #antiAI #p&p

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

No, I will NOT be "asking" ChatGPT for writing inspo. Not when all of this glorious swag exists to tickle my creativity bone! #writingcommunity #writesky #antiAI #creatorsky

#BluePit📖 #A #F #Q #ND #LGBT Daya was always told dragons were violent & Caliban was the worst of them. Then she was assigned to guard him, and instead of trying to kill her (save for once), he invited her to breakfast. How do you react when everything you know is a lie? You spark a revolution.

LEGENDBORN x STRANGER THINGS x ATLANTIS A girl and her maddeningly charming childhood friend shelter a young star who falls to their sinking hometown while also trying to solve a string of disappearances surrounding a local lab. #bluepit #bluepit📖 #agentsguide #YA #F #R #SF #M #SP #Q #OV #POC #ND

I keep trying to figure out what the unpeeling onion trope is actually called. From things like Soylent Green or Logan's Run, where slowly you realize that this utopia is a dystopia, until the day you realize "soylent green is people!" What is that trope called?

#BluePit📖 #A #F #Q #ND #LGBT Daya was always told dragons were violent & Caliban was the worst of them. Then she was assigned to guard him, and instead of trying to kill her (save for once), he invited her to breakfast. How do you react when everything you know is a lie? You spark a revolution.