Brought in a patient who ended up tearing up the ER a bit & needed to be sedated. On the way out I was talking to the trainee nurse & her RN goes "You know what she said right before you guys got here?" No! I reply, aghast, knowing the answer "Yeah! 'Is It aLwAys So QUIET iN HeRe?'" #EMS #MedSky

Watching Terminator 1 with my partner except we paused it for like twenty minutes after theh muttered "this is very similar to how I met that guy from the future" and we had to immediately explain that story

I'm done arguing. The use of AI corrupts the soul. It is bad for everyone on a spiritual level. I don't care about whatever bullshit "actually in this context it's quite helpful" thing is being parroted. It chips away at the soul when used for anything. Poison.

I really really want to take my nutrition professor out for a drink after finals and hear her war stories about teaching this class because today someone raised their hand at the food pyramid slide and asked "what's dairy?"

This game only uses six-sided dice because polyhedrons are a bourgeois indulgence.

It is early on but I have become some sort of genius benevolent god to my organic chemistry classmates because I can count carbons and can explain how to count carbons I suspect they are struggling cause AI can't read the line-angle structures cause this is literally just counting carbons right now

This teenager in my building is apprenticing as a plumber and was showing me pics of some of the ancient plumbing contraptions he is working on in NYC basements with his master and it would fuckin WHIP as an Instagram. This one boiler was installed by Nicola Tesla??

I showed my partner Fargo for the first time tonight and about twenty minutes in they go, "is this movie just about how Midwesterners are too nice?"

Now do spiral staircases.

I guess people dont know about Does The Dog Die. FYI the website covers more triggers than just animal deaths. Ive used it to double check trigger warnings for things I am recommending to people.

It's a comma-splice, not comma-spice. Stop using punctuation like seasoning.

I'm taking a lit class for fun this semester and not to brag but I actually have very basic opinions about Frankenstein already

Because of a terrible, AI-generated text book from last semester, I decided to make my notes aesthetic instead. I think I might keep it up if I can for this semester because washi tape has been a revelation (and I just ordered some more flavors 😂)

classes starting again for my nursing prereqs, so posting less about writing and more about funny things the young people in my classes do and believe

One thing about the copious amounts of lingering snow is the emphasis on just how much dog piss New Yorkers are surrounded by at literally all times

I helped a woman with long, dark hair Put an injured pigeon in a box And when she smiled at me and said thank you I felt as if I had flown into the windowpane Temporarily stunned And she should take me home with her, too Until I recover Or die happy

I need a good "forensics for writers" book because, in classic author fashion, I cannot keep googling spooky stuff I know what stuff looks like from my job 🚑 , but I really would like something that's like "here's what happens to someone week-by-week submerged in a swamp, in a shallow grave, etc"

I attended (was anointed by) the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop. I didn't truly write again for 10 years. There's a reluctance to criticize the model because of the sheer quality of the networking opportunity I made amazing connections there despite the questionable ethics

"AI Companion", no thank you Go back to Hell and be the devil's companion

Some tough love, #writesky, World building isn't writing I know, I know, I procrastinate with it, too. But story on the page is writing. Pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, word after word. "World building" isn't a step of the writing process, it is a thing the writing does for the reader.

Someone last night who said they would "love to game but every video game out there worth playing is a massive time commitment" I said thats not true there's a ton of indie games out there with different play styles that are only 10 hours "That's too much time" Okay I don't think you want to game

🚑 talking to a coworker about why he only does transport ambo instead of the higher-adrenaline 9-1-1 response units and he said "I dunno I was responding to a car crash once and I just thought, 'Man... I dont want to be in this situation anymore'" Which is honestly a valid reason not to do 9-1-1 😂

#writesky, I see a lot of people talk about a "dream agent". To me, the dream agent is the agent that signs your work. What does "dream agent" mean to folks? Is it just a compliment to pay to agents as you query them? How do agents feel about being addressed as someone's dream agent?

The MTA doesn't want me to smooch people on the escalator this is discrimination against people in love with a cutie

Tor Publishing Group Announces Commercial Fiction Imprint share.google/aAUMt6PV8Qjv... #Booksky

baba yaga was an efficiency queen, her home doubled as her means of transportation. even the glampiest van life people are gonna avoid a mortar & pestle as a single-use kitchen implement

I am seriously considering learning to mod Stardew Valley if someone does not make Marnie romancable Seriously! Y'all are some of the horniest on Nexus mods and no one wants to steal Marnie from Lewis? If I can't date her, why does she look like this??

I'm curious why sci-fi romance (romanta-sci?) hasn't taken off like romantasy has. What's fantasy got that science fiction doesn't?? #booksky

Oh nice! This does not at all seem like a trap!

Hi! If you follow me and I can see that you use gen AI in any way, I will block you! If I see you posting gen AI on your page or in my discover feed, I will block you! Book covers, memes, animal photos, "art"...I'm blocking you <3 Don't use gen AI. It's harmful to your soul. Butlerian Jihad, now!

Comps are the part of the query letter we all love to hate but I have two tips for dealing with them: 1) think about comps as a recipe for your manuscript, not as representatives 2) pretend you're playing a party game #Writing #WritingCommunity #Querying #author #booksky #writesky

🐦Organizing and streamlining queries! In these linked threads I threaten a couple times to unveil my *spreadsheet*. In THIS thread, I finally do! 🧵 Here's what I did to make my querying process efficient and organized! #Writing #WritingCommunity #Querying #author #booksky #writesky 1/16

Just heard some disappointing news about a favorite TTRPG creator. Not mad, just disappointed, and interested to hear what this creator says about the situation.

I'm working on my sapphic thriller novel and I'm thinking about introducing a detective. I see its usefulness as a plot device, but I want to keep this in the thriller genre and avoid sliding into detective fiction. Thinking of ways to keep the detective from pulling focus.

I saw a woman who looked like Eartha Kitt On the L train back to Brooklyn I saw a woman who looked just like Eartha Kitt On the L train back to Brooklyn Awooooo Divas on the Subway Awoooo

I have finally flown too close to the sun with having no spare set of eye glasses, and in the most bizarre way. I was flicking (I don't know why) a piece of lint off the lens and it flew out and spun away and for 24 hours I have had no idea where it is. Literally me:

I can't say how much I love hand writing my stuff before typing up a draft. I wrote my first novel (currently on sub) in between patients on the ambulance I love being able to write whatever I have a moment to focus on: plot notes, arc outlines, scenes... I use a blank sketchbook and scribble away

I was telling my sister how dental procedures usually take longer for me because I keep having to stop them when the pain medication wears off and this is how we found out she has the same genetic trait as me and also that she didn't know you could ask for more medication when it wears off! 😭😭😭

In the somewhat cursed position of being the friend who owns Twilight Imperium but not the friend with a space or table big enough to play it on, and thusly forced to lug this behemoth about on weekend public transit.

The dentist was talking about how once the streaming playlist started playing heavy metal during a procedure and it was super awkward and I said Well at least it didn't start playing SEX MUSIC Which was definitely more awkward

I am begging the current administration to find a way to keep Adams on like let him give a proclamation quarterly for funsies Commissioner of Funsies

The paramedic I was working with today wears a kippah and one of the cops on the scene was like "Oh hey! I saw it was, like, Jewish Christmas today!" and everyone just stopped and went ?????!!!!????? And she doubled down that "her calendar" told her it was "Jewish Christmas today"

Conceptualizing "6-7" as meaningless and therefore funny vs. where it actually came from...yeah I guess that's where we're at!! Thank you for writing this

Me: I was thinking about writing this morning but you are planning to be home all day? Romantic Partner: Yes, but remember how you wrote your first novel literally in between patients in the ambulance? Me: ... Me: You're right. I am probably capable of ignoring you. #writesky #writing #AmWriting

I know I need to be building a *~ Following ~* but I'm not quite ready to put my social media under my real name. I intend to publish under my real name, but I have a public-facing job (🚑 EMS) and I'm not quite ready to worry if my patients are googling me... #EMS #writesky #publishing #writing

We upgraded our record player recently and not to be Like That, but the difference between a "just okay" record player and a "pretty good" record player is WILD. I get it now. I love writing to vinyl. The record flips are a little built-in productivity timer. #writesky #writing

Turns out if you're a woman and you walk into the hipster record store and ask for "dark ambient industrial" recommendations, you get A LOT of attention from the nerds who work there

Got a piece of writing / querying advice that I think is good: While waiting for news about a project, start working on the next project. Stop working on sequels & start something new so no matter what, the next thing will be ready, or almost ready, to go #writing #writesky #AmWriting #publishing

Definitely in the Top Five most important writing tools: - Electric mug warmer - (brought to you by Chilly, Grey Day with Vinyl Record in Headphones while Romantic Partner Sleeps) #writesky #writing #AmWriting

Put on the Matrix DVD in, like 2001 to watch it for the first time as a family and someone knocks on Neo's door and Mom goes "wait, who is that??" and my father just turns to her and goes "you know, honey, I don't think you're going to like this movie." And you know what she didn't