Editing for the next round of beta reading continues (That is, I've been taking a machete to early chapters to help correct an early pacing issue) It's already paying off, and I know it desperately needed heavy editing, but damn I'm overhauling a lot Just gotta keep it cooking though

Tfw you find a typo and eventually realize it's got awesome and specific potential as a neologism for a later chunk of your WIP

Having been a femme-presenting kid diagnosed ~2001 for whom behavioral therapy proved insufficient so meds got added: Behavioral therapy sans medication is way less fucking useful than behavioral therapy *with* appropriate meds You can't therapize your way out of neurotransmitter defecits

Today is a very roll-my-face-across-the-keyboard writing day Started the day with oodles of word juice, so I started drafting the beginning of Part 2, then I'm gonna do more Part 1 edits after naptime Beta Round 2 (featuring the first ~2/3 of Part 1) is due to start next week

Moar beta feedback! I've also moved on from notepad files, at least for my master doc (I'll still likely do first drafts in notepad) I also have a much clearer idea of where I need to trim aggressively Wrangling a story is a freaking adventure

Sat down to write today Re-remembered that I left off with MC getting hit by Cat Distributiin Service into friend breakup combo I got like 500 words down, then blew off steam rewatching Ashes of Love (very good decision)

Shep why do they have all of the money. I need some of the money. Everyone I know needs some of the money. Why can't they rehome some money?

After a VERY long weekend, I finally got a pain management setup that has Nutsy back to his happy, chirpy self. Y’all, he hadn’t purred since Thursday. It was alarming

Me: I need the screwdriver to put these on the wall Me: where is the screwdriver argh oh no Me: okay this isn't funny Me: it's in my office in plain sight, cool, oh hey this is a sign that I need to take my Vyvanse Me: I'm taking my Vyvanse Me: wait what did I do with the screwdriver?

Last week was rough for writing SO of ~8 years broke up with me, but we're also kinda still chugging along in a queerplatonic kinda way, it's mostly just been taking a sec to figure out where I am atm, emotionally Doesn't help that I've gotta write what's basically a friend breakup scene 😬

Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

oh boy this made me cry

it's too bad I am not independently wealthy because I would be so good at being independently wealthy, but having to pay power bills and buy food is really interfering with all the stuff I want to do to help people lolcry money is wasted on rich people.

No one warned me that the Cat Distribution Service maintains branches in fictional settings While writing today, my MC literally ran face-first into getting adopted by a Rather Lorge Cat This was 100% unplanned So now I'm digesting the idea and fleshing it out, and I think it works, but wtf

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"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs

Inside me there are two wolves One hungers for the start of today's writing session The second is too busy appreciating a cute little catto snoring on the bed beside me to do anything else

Spite. It gets shit done.

Finally got to curl up with A Mouthful of Dust by @nghivo.bsky.social She's one of my favorite authors for damn good reason, holy fucking shit The Singing Hills Cycle is amazing, pick up whichever entry you can find first and just dig in, these novellas come with my highest recommendations

Home sweet home (My fluffernutters are a wee bit excited to see me) Anywho, naptime and then idk what, besides being supervised and inspected by my twin shadows

Man and a lieutenant governor in Virginia too, sorry guys the writers might be getting an Emmy nom

Her diagnosis is in another castle It's looking more and more like Long COVID (a suggestion I proposed a month or two ago :P)

(CW: Medical Fuckery) Okay, mom finally got her MRI and 2x angiogram last night, so hopefully we'll have a better characterization of The Fuckery by later today

if Teen Vogue as we know it dies today, I hope its team know in their hearts that they did more to champion democracy and freedom of speech and to mobilize citizens of all ages toward progressive causes than all the pundits at legacy outlets who sneered at the notion of wanting teens to be informed

Flipped this on earlier and holy god do some of you post a lot bsky.app/profile/stec...

"This technology is transformative!" So is cancer. Sometimes rapid changes are bad.

Body decided that energy crashing plus insomnia plus hives-all-over weren't enough fuckery So now one side of my neck has sprouted a lovely, rather painful rash that I don't think is hives (Please let this be something that's solved by throwing more benadryl at the problem <.<')

NYC, I don't want to make you collectively responsible for my mental health or anything, but it will give me such a big boost of hope if you elect Mamdani as your mayor.

No rest day for the weary traveller Driving around for appointments, appointments, appointments, with no good chance to nap until way too far into the day (nor time to write when my ADHD med's active) I'd hoped to make it to next week before flirting with an energy crash, but here we are

Aaaaaaand life said lul Mom's experiencing acute Medical Fuckery, meaning I'm dropping everything to travel ~6hrs tomorrow to be the sole driver serving her and my paternal grandparents for ~8-9 days (This would less stressful if we had a less complicated history and if I were less disabled)

In my experience, "writer's block" means your subconscious has identified a massive problem in the bits you've written so far and isn't letting you waste any more time charging forward until you figure out how to fix it, which is also not a thing the stochastic parrot can fix for you!

Monday morning starting off with purrs from baby Eggnog (sound on)

Been a sec since I've given a numeric WIP update 'Chunk 1' and 'Chunk 2' of Part 1 are drafted, and I'm sitting at ~70k words I'm hoping to finish drafting my first pass of 'Chunk 3' before the end of the month (mildly ambitious, but not impossible, and it's mostly running downhill)

Groggy + sluggish following a wild-ass night of dreams Three different time loop dreams, each a unique flavor of wtf Shared with my dingus over breakfast, he says my mind is fucking terrifying :P One was also a multilingual dream (english + mandarin chinese, which I notably don't speak)

WIP typo of the day: Amentitties

Shout out to this one intense serious guy that came up to me at my artist alley table to buy all my dvattra stuff and then looked me in the eye and said “I hope that whatever is wrong with you never gets fixed”

I adore my cattos However I do not adore having bruises all over my ribcage from Pharoah deciding I needed deep tissue massage there this morning

Very sluggish kinda day Opened the tablet to write, promptly dozed off Body is reminding me that rest and pacing myself is important

2nd top-tier writing day in a row Of course, the evening went a bit tits-up (embodiment was a mistake) But hey, beta round 1 edits have been made, now I need to carry a few points forward into the rest of the draft Current goal is part 1 fully compiled by end of the month, then it's part 2 ahoy

Just got a bunch of beta feedback on my WIP, and I am pumped as fuck This is 100% exactly what I needed, and I'm super goddamned excited to use this as a springboard

Sometimes, you look at a paragraph you just drafted and have to seriously contemplate what led you to *this moment * 'this moment' here meaning your casual, fluid usage of both quadriptych and polyptych, spelled correctly (I blame my high school's interdisciplinary humanities course)

Slowly gathering feedback from my first group of beta readers Iirc I'm now at ~57k words, of which ~38k are with beta readers atm (I've been sending ~3 chapters at a time) I've converted ~85% of v1 to first person, and both writing and editing have gotten more fluid by the day

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

The joys of waking up as your cat pukes ALL over the bed Having to launder linens at 6:30 am on far too little sleep isn't exactly how I'd hoped to start my day XP

I’ve learnt that only hyperfocus can keep me from disappointing others. Sometimes.

On the one hand, it's a little rough, having to go back and do a whole damn POV switch from 3rd to 1st person in my WIP On the other, it's going really smoothly (will cross 50% mark today), and I'm gaining momentum and the one block I had is unsticking

That terrible moment when tripping over your own foot, putting in your nightguard, and a surprise sneeze coincide (In other words, I just accidentally punched myself in the back of the mouth on one side) This is gonna be a *lovely* bruise, isn't it?