Sometimes you gotta take an edible, attempt some chaotic notes app poetry, and then say fuck it and send it (and a somewhat unhinged message) to @tacobellquarterly.org 😳 Because why the fuck not? The world is on fire, make the move

Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

I didn't know you were allowed to give away this secret.

I casually said “oh that sounds cool, can I get in on that” and I ended up in a book with Bill fucking Watterson somehow. Just go for it.

counterpoint: I know what I'm doing

This is 100% how I got my book deal

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

just write stuff that no one will ever care about, forever

I didn't know @tacobellquarterly.org had moved into Marina Abramovic-styled art.

It's not a career. It's not a calling. It's a terminal hobby. You will die doing this. Become a writer.

Are you even doing creative writing right if it's not damaging your psyche? The book will not save you. Nothing is salvageable in any of these piles of shit just like usual!

Hey, I'm doing drugs and reading subs. If you have something Literary and your process is last minute and chaotic and you missed the window, email it to me or shoot it through our secret TBQ8 Straggler submittable opening. We pay $150.

Who wants the scale to empire when you could just write silly love poems

🖤🌮Living Más Intensifies🌮🖤

Submitted something to @tacobellquarterly.org on a whim because sometimes, you gotta live más and Baja Blast your shot

Taking a mental week off and then writing each of you back personally telling you my favorite parts and lines in the next couple of months! Let's make TBQ8! If you have something you want to send for consideration and missed the window, who cares? There are no rules. email it to me. We pay $150!

Why is this so true

I turned my book in @scribnerbooks.bsky.social today, and I swear to whoever is running the account, you can add Taco Bell Quarterly next to Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Corporate at Simon and Schuster already said it was already okay to add me in the bio, totally legit

AS WE SPEAK my students are reading works from @angelluiscolon.com, @pauljgarth.bsky.social, @inauthenticity.bsky.social @tacobellquarterly.org @theptessadactyl.bsky.social @shotgunhoney.com @macarrick.bsky.social @melissaragsly.bsky.social and others!

I hate writing and myself. It's great, really.

This is a description of creative writing @theonion.com

Tonight: Unsealing the Taco Bell Tape An 8mm training video. Dated 1-96. English. Spanish. Possibly forbidden. We don’t know what’s on it. But it trained a generation of taco technicians. 9PM Eastern #TacoBell #TrainingTape #LostMedia #VHS @tacobellquarterly.org

My writing degree still advertises its flexible online classes to me in the sponsored section of Gmail is my villain origin story

My book is due in 14 days and then I'm responding to everyone personally telling you my favorite part in your piece

Slow down, you haven't run out of agents to query. Your agent hasn't even decided where they're getting their MFA, and you haven't had the crisis that your book is actually about yet!

You don't have to be cool in the literary world. Don't even worry about it. The ones that think they are cool are the biggest nerds of them all. You're doing fine

The fact that I haven't been sued by Taco Bell is how I know the literary world isn't real and you can do whatever you want. No one will ever hear of this in real life. It's only creative writing. It's fine. Write what you want and live más.

My original headline for this article would have been just “Fuck You” or “shut the fuck up, asshole” but I can’t get away with that unfortunately

This is the summer of writing with self-discipline and pain like taking medicine every day

This post single-handedly destroyed my entire family. Thanks TBQ. #livemàs

Why did TBQ just read me for filth?

I'm writing my long book!!!!!!!!

never seen something describe writing so perfectly.

Basically my vacation plans next week

We Have Always Been Writing The Long Book

its true, this is the summer of Long Book and Extreme Body Modification

If you're not writing your long book what are you even doing. It's the summer of writing your long book, not the summer of experiencing happiness

my head is bloody and i have a migraine but my long book is finally finished. 😵‍💫

This is the way

Just like a good board-break in karate, the key is to aim your head not at the brick wall itself, but the space *beyond* it. 🤜🧱

I wrote 4 long books using this method.

I'm going to tell you exactly how to write a book. Do you see that impenetrable brick wall ahead of you? You're going to ram your head into it until long book is long.

My favorite part of drafting is writing “then stuff happens” and continuing on to the next part I have figured out already. Sometimes the only way to know the middle is to write the ending. #WritingCommunity 💙📚📝

Good news: every clumsy embarrassing fumble forward counts towards writing

life is such a nightmare and you still have to write your book. by the way, if you haven't submitted something and you want to, you still can just email it, we're still very much in our reading period

TBQ putting me in my place. Closing all my shopping tabs and getting back to work. 💙📚📝

❌ Write your book for others. ❌ Write your book for yourself. ✅ Write your book because Taco Bell Quarterly told you to.

You don't have time for your bullshit! And yet you do your bullshit all day! Go write your book!

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