I would love it if I had a few fellow writers following me here on Bluesky! I'm longing for more writing community, and looking to make friends, so I will follow you back! #WeeknightWriters

It has not been a great week for writing. Have been mildly sick and my college student kiddo came home for spring break on Saturday, then got dumped by BF over the phone on Monday. #WeeknightWriters

I'm Laurie & I'm working on a novel that started w/the idea of a 40-year-old woman who survives an apocalyptic pandemic & decides that having another child is the best way to guarantee her family’s safety. However! It's been veering on & off track so we'll see what I end up with when it's done.

Went to a new writers' space at a local arts center yesterday. #writing #fascism

MT CAT: meow ME: really? CAT: meow ME: and then what? CAT: mrrowwww ME: well sometimes it be like that I don’t know what to tell you

.𖥔 ݁ ˖🪐.𖥔 ݁ ˖ i have friends everywhere

Hmm maybe in September?

Pssst. Are you on here when you should be writing?? ⏳

are you an introvert or are you the kind of introvert who stays home alone for fourteen days while your spouse is out of town and it's amazing* because that's the kind I am *I do miss him, I just don't miss People.

Age verification? I voted for Jimmy Carter in my kindergarten presidential election because he seemed like a nice old grandfather type.

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but finish that first draft. Seriously.

Black Cat Friday! Zelda would like to know why no one is petting her even though she has flopped onto her side for pets.

feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea

This is who runs this account

Look, it’s time to write.

Shout out to everyone who feels like their soul has low tire pressure. We’ll get through this. Tomorrow’s another day. You got this.

#LifeWithNorm #ASD #Neurodivergent #Comic #Comics #Library

I feel like I picked a good week to go on vacation and not read much news.

A reminder that the key to writing is getting the very best out of your brain, but in order to get the best out of it you have to take care of your mental health. Stress, concern, and depression will take a toll on your work. So always make sure to take care of YOU and you'll get your best work.

Spent the day with my 21-yr-old comp sci & photography major kid, who kept checking her phone and then complaining about people who wrote stuff (email etc) using chatgpt. Maybe we'll be ok

Become ungovernable

Nobody cares yet but me but next year’s 1000 Words of Summer will be May 30-June 12.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Sometimes I wished I lived closer to family and then I visit and this happens.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Another great novel I read this year. Horror is thriving.

It's a dark time for artists. Many are struggling! It's easy to buy gifts online. When you buy from *artists*, you're supporting working people, instead of making rich jerks richer. This fall, send your present $$ to an artist's shop! Artists! Drop your shop links! & check out SquidFacts.net 😘

It Was Her House First was one of my favorite books this year--grab this deal!

Guess times are tough for everyone these days.

a thing I would love to change about the anxious brain is that twenty people can say something nice to you and ONE person says something mean and that one mean thing will stick in your mind for the rest of your goddamn life but the twenty nice things? gone immediately.

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The Republican County Executive in my county got re-elected, BUT in the last election he got around 64% of the vote and this time it was 54%. Maybe next time....

Okay let's just put an end to this AI nonsense now. #startrek #doctorwho

Is this normal in Nashville or is it because of Halloween? #bobafett

Poe near death as food bowls were being cleaned tonight. #cats

In the face of AI grinding out all sort of fictional dross... I believe all writers should stress the fact we're doing the work on our own. From now on all my work will be known as "hand-crafted, artisanal fiction for the discerning and intelligent reader."

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Glens Falls, NY shows up strong to say #FightHate #DemandJustice #DefendDemocracy #NoKings ❌👑

"Damn right," he behemothed hoarsely.

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/

About to attend my first gymnastics class in about 40 years. This will either be awesome or a very big mistake.

I absolutely loved this book as a teen and Barbara Hambly shaped a lot of my reading (and writing) preferences.

Saturday in Saratoga!

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

Went to the weekly write-in at my local Denny's and saw this as I was checking out and now I can't sleep. #amwriting #scotchtape #dennys #albany

Someone in comments (and now I can't find the actual comment, sorry) said the best Star Wars trilogy is now Andor, Rogue One and Star Wars Ep 4, and you know what, I'm here for that argument, call it the "Death Star Trilogy"

This is not a joke: I’ve started opening my drafts with “The woman wondered what she had gotten herself into” and writing about whatever from there, and it’s honestly been nuking my writer’s block