Two days into my self-induced writing retreat and 4,000 words into what has become a rewrite of my first 100 pages !!!! Plenty to go (most of this is new content) but I’m feeling the draft rolling along for the first time since I started 🙏✨

When you realize you need to change the POV and tense of your whole book because it comes alive a completely different way and oh god—

Any other ex-academics find Katabasis to be a smidge reactivating for all those old wounds I’m excavating a former self over here, covered in dust and full of ivory tower dread 🫣😰 And I’ve been free for a decade !!!

I am convinced the pair of socks you don in the morning sets the tone for the rest of your day

We’re so honoured to be BACK as an Ontario Arts Council Recommender for grants this year! 🎊 We’re interested in receiving applications for various lengths of SFF & dreamy realism projects, including: ⭐️ fiction ⭐️ poetry ⭐️ short fiction

I need to source a reality tv friend

As a writer who is in writer forums but who also is a Publisher for two mags, I must disclose a terrible secret…. Yes, subs platforms will tell you what number your piece is at in the queue 👍 No, that does not mean it hasn’t been read 🫣 It is just a number 🥸 More info to come 🧵

You never notice how many friends have moved out of the city until you hold an annual holiday party and realize the long list of people too far to invite Getting older is a bummer

Forcing myself to write a short story with No SFF Elements At All I AM UNCOMFORTABLE BUT I THINK IT IS GOOD FOR ME

I’m spending too much time watching TikToks, today I casually used “I’ll let you cook” in a work meeting as a middle millennial The Gen Z I was speaking to was stunned

Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

commissions are open ! 🌟 dm, or email jadezzq(@)gmail.com jadezhang.art/comms

Ok but this Osmanthus Coffee—

Nonfiction and reprint submissions open in ONE WEEK! MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 @ 12:01am ET! No need to rush to the front of the line: we're currently planning to stay open to reprints/nonfiction year-round. Spread the word! We can't wait to read your work! 📝Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

The essay I could write about del Toro’s Frankenstein and autism parents—

Who can believe my train tism ass did NOT buy the $100 CHRISTMAS TRAIN (Not me) (It’s still there) (I could go back)

NEW OFFICE MUG !!!!!!! So educated

Looking for something to curl up with this fall? Check out our newly released Augur Issue 8.2! ✨ Also, you can find 2 FREE samples on our site! 📚💫 🔗 Link in bio!

sure sex is great but have you ever supported your artist friends during the holidays by buying their lovely work?

The sudden reveal that wheel of time is sci-fi, I-

Very Positive on Steam for Act One of Ambrosia Sky!!!!

In case you missed it earlier, I've started collecting links for my annual eligibility and recommendation links post. I added several earlier and will update again soon, so please spread the word and keep sending your links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

✨ AWARDS ELIGIBILITY POST TIME! ✨ I published ONE story in 2025: LAST TRAIN FROM DEADWALL is my Weird novelette about diesel-powered skeletons, dinosaur bone trains, warring gods, & capitalist horror. It's wacky fun! It's Locus recommended! I'd be honoured if you considered it in your nominations!

I do fear we’re starting to see the end of physical, subscription-based SFF magazines. Which means there’ll be nothing left behind but a digital footprint. I don’t think we can let that happen. Not after what we’ve seen this year.

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

What do you mean that to have time to write you need to not only make time to write but also make time to rest so when you need to start writing you actually have a brain to write with Sounds rude

This is my work visibility post! I had one original story published in 2025 and I love it. It's "There Be Monsters" in Sunday Morning Transport. A big thanks to @franwilde.bsky.social and the team for publishing it. It's about mermaid murder thoughts! www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/there-be-m...

Some people are audhd with one of the dials turned up I fear I am audhd with BOTH of the dials turned up 🙀

Red alert: I changed my profile pic I AM STILL ME THO (Commissioned from the incredible @yellghoul.bsky.social)

An A/B gender test as someone gender fluid who’s looked mid-late twenties for the last ten years: When you’re skinny and femme, you get “miss” When you’re skinny and masc you get “he/him’d” When you’re mid-size and femme you get “nice lady” When you’re mid-size and masc you get “ma’am”

In this newsletter, I talk about other things about the INCREDIBLE Kickstarter for @siennatristen.bsky.social 's Orchestrated Audiobook for HERETIC'S GUIDE TO HOMECOMING. To the KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie... This is where I gush about it: XD (scroll down) buttondown.com/ClaudieArsen...

Delightful time launching Year’s Best Canadian SFF today at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social !! Many thanks to @ourmankoto.bsky.social for the work put into bringing this antho to life, and congrats to my fellow TOC members ✨ Always love an excuse to read a little slice of a tale 🪞

Being a middle millennial is wild because you can remember when businesses had to cater to consumers but you came up in a time when customers became no more than amalgamated data for capitalism

75 physical ARCs of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA are up for grabs in my #goodreadsgiveaway! there's a long-lost generation ship and a depressed monk. come and get it! ends November 15th

Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!

I fear I have unlocked a new psychosomatic stress symptom I deeply wish I had not: ITCHING 🙀😭

So honoured to see my story “Of Blood and Pomegranates” published in Issue 8.2 in @augursociety.bsky.social. Please do take a look!

Why is everyone SO bad on this season of Love is Blind

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Discover... 🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair 🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction 🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain & so much more! 🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

I thought as I aged I’d get more sophisticated but instead I just want to be comfy all the time

A hill I’ll die on: “Criticism” has leaned too far into finding/fixing fault without acknowledging/enforcing merit, & this impacts some editing for the worse. Positive feedback provides confidence & directional guidance towards strengths. It is CRITICAL (ha!) to a functional critical partnership.

I went to Spirit Halloween and all I got was overstimulated

Tonight: Death Becomes Her watch party, ft. Halloween bloody sangria & charcuterie for days! More importantly: HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE?!

I always knew that my anxiety could increase how anxious people around me were What I didn’t expect, tho 👀 Was that as I became a more regulated, generous, centred person, I would see that show up in the people around me, too And what a gift that is 💜

The degree to which I’d love to publish something like this glorious movie It is so completely my shit

Frothy hot chocolate to go with my annual rewatch of Practical Magic ✨🧙‍♀️

Dream that woke me up at 6:30 — Isekai. You (& your cat) are dropped into an apocalypse where cybernetic terrors conquered superhero-mecha ‘boyfriends’ meant to beat off the terrors and maintain morale of the people. Now long gone, you charge & don their protective gear, & enter the abyss.

Do I buy a kobo with which to mark up press manuscripts or do I save my money and work just ever so slightly more slowly An eternal question

Absolute peak Ontario fall weather out there today 😭