Guess I need to change it to “father of insane gnome folk”

Thinking I might do a follow-up with villanelles www.writeallalong.ink/super-sonnet...

www.writeallalong.ink/new-story-in... I’ve got a new story out today!!

Memory… that is the work of storytellers. It is the paint and it is the canvas.

Not that anyone’s asking but… I’ve read enough Asimov, Clarke, an Heinlein to conclude that while they were all sexist, all trying to be progressive about race and failing, Heinlein was the only real writer among them. Asimov was a scientist, Clarke a dreamer, and Heinlein a true storyteller.

Me: YES! I finally collected all the champions! Supercell: introducing…

68 must be having real middle-child syndrome

Stranded on a moon where electrical power is impossible, pursued by giants, and threatened by human colonists stranded a century ago, Sanika allies herself with aliens that live in near silence. Impeded by selective mutism, she must find a way home, or make this world into one. #posterpit #ya #sf

My picks for Best Novel and Best Short Story from the #hugoawards tonight www.writeallalong.ink/write-all-al...

Proportional representation would end gerrymandering altogether and break the two party system.

I’ve read 4/6 of both the novel and short story Hugo nominees. I’ve got 3 weeks till the awards, but preplanning begins Friday 😬

Go home, wordle. You’re drunk

Why’s that guy ravaging the paint swatches? Don’t mind him, he’s just a teacher.

I just got a rejection letter, while I was dealing with a rejection letter. 😩

“Out of Draconia” by @almaalexander.bsky.social in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is a masterful work of efficient world building and a mesmerizing fantasy story told at a human scale. Already recommended it to several friends and I think I’ll listen to it again with my kids next time we’re in the car

I’m one book away from finishing all the Hugo nominated novels

My friend Thomas absolutely crushed it with this short story. Beware of clowns near cliffs, everyone.

A Prayer for Owen Meany. The ‘80s reflecting on the ‘60s and still so true today.

The majority of my typos just sound like I have an Irish accent

I’m hoping to find a way to teach this story. What a brilliant idea and a well-deserved award

And now for a game of which door/corner did I abandon my shoes by/in

Just dropped a new blog. Short story summer is underway! www.writeallalong.ink/magic-not-ro...

Just found out a literacy study conducted through my classes will be featured in an academic journal. Love collaborating on stuff like this

In the moments leading up to creative writing semester exam: an impromptu dance party, a ceremonial rock-paper-scissor match, and some sort of chain high-five thing. What a good bunch of kids. 😊

An absolutely unhinged cover of my favorite novel 😳🙈

10 minutes into a family DnD game and the 12 y/o has done 4 lines of coke and started a bar fight

We have taken to calling, the sandhill cranes our “neighbors” as in “oh look, our neighbors are in our garden” or “I can’t hear you because the neighbors are screaming to each other”

The route I take to bring my youngest to school involves a street called Tobacco Rd. Whenever we turn onto it, she makes sure the windows are rolled up and then tries to hold her breath.

Sometime in the last day or so, my WIP - a totally ludicrous idea for a novel that somehow I keep working on - crested the 100k mark.

I just texted my daughter to take her medicine while she’s at her mom‘s house. She replied “I’m folding dishes”

Don't get excited. But maybe you can get a little excited about the possibility of getting excited. (Also, this is exactly the sort of stuff the current administration is planning to defund. Fuck those dudes.) Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

In writing a very intense, climatic scene of my WIP, an unexpected bit of writing advice leapt to mind: Women never really faint And villains always blink their eyes

This raises some really interesting questions in a post pandemic world, but I’m particularly angered at the use of what might be a private army that can’t be held accountable.

A student just told me I should grade first period most harshly and 7th period least harshly. “We’re tired,” she said. The logic is solid.

Saw wildflowers coming up in this patch of the lawn so I left it alone. I think I need to make this the whole backyard now.

Good job, Ze. As always this was both funny and informative.

The Trump right hates Zelenskyy because he exemplifies integrity and courage, and the price of following Trump is to abjure those qualities forever.

So the blog is coming ALONG www.writeallalong.ink/accessories-... I love Zelda and I really enjoyed the latest game, but there were… some questionable choices

Legislation that I passed and was funded by Congress, Solar for All, could reduce electric bills for working class families by 80%. The Trump Admin is refusing to release the money in order to protect the profits of fossil fuel billionaires. Unacceptable. Release the funds NOW.

I planted four trees today. Native, bald cypress where the hurricane took down three oaks

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-shee... New fiction out this month from yours truly. My story “The Attraction Problem” was originally titled “Why Aliens Don’t Wear Pants”

A last minute invitation to a party! But I don’t have time to stand in my closet, talking to imaginary versions of my friends, rehearsing social interactions!! 😫😫😫

And my new favorite eggcorn, from a student this morning, was saying they needed LAME man’s terms instead of layman’s terms

Lit agents twitters: this place is toxic, I’m leaving Lit agents sub form: bro, what’s your twitter???

I love Parks and Rec!

I’ve just written a killer closing line for a slam poem: “And never let them diagnose you… as anything more than human…” Too bad I haven’t written any other part of the poem

My wife and I often find kitchen implements in the wrong drawers and just blame it on the kids. I just put something in a random place because I didn’t know where it went, fully ready to frame them if she asks “why is this here?”

In trying to explain to my 8yo why the district can’t hire enough bus drivers, the conversation evolved into talking about how people think one job is more important than another but really all jobs are important, until finally she declared “why doesn’t everybody just make the same money!”

In the lamest version of “treat yo self,” I sometimes change my socks for no reason

Just ran by all time submission statistics in duotrope (since I started using them in 2010). For it’s worth, I land about 1 in 25 subs… 4%