see the problem is I am really good at coming up with a banging cast of characters but the minute you mention "plot" and "structure" I run screaming into the woods

I hurt myself today (came up with a new WIP idea)

writing historical romantasy really has me asking the big questions, such as: what is the sexiest title (duke, earl, viscount, or baron) (marquess is out by default there is nothing sexy about that word)

😔😔😔 oops...

An LLM does not "help you write your books". An LLM prevents you from writing*your* books, while you are helping the LLM generate its books.

thinking of doing a Plotting June and then Zero Draft July (in the style of NaNo) if anyone wants to join me?

older people and especially librarians defaulting to supporting any and all AI tool bc they don’t want to be considered “out of touch” is embarrassingly pathetic

singlehandedly changing the faerie romantasy landscape

love how I told myself I'd work on this new WIP as a distraction from the complex and difficult worldbuilding of cipherWIP. you know! something soft! something easy! .............and then I immediately tumbled headfirst into complex and difficult worlbuilding for this new project brain, why

hm. Perhaps

Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many

the entire Oppenheimer soundtrack by Ludwig Göransson, but especially Gravity Swallows Light

👀 #cipherwip: the wartime codebreaking of Bletchley Park meets the steampunk-industrial vibes of ARCANE and BLADES IN THE DARK...

Lachlan: human abjuration wizard, lawful good Alys: drow battle smith artificer, true neutral

my characters in another life ⚡️ #cipherwip edition (all credit for this concept to @realgmorrow.bsky.social, I think!)

thinking of making a Slow Writers Support Group discord or something lmfao I need other people who understand the struggle of slow development on their work

Dimension 20 are doing steampunk ... #cipherwip is steampunk ... the amount of serotonin my brain is about to be INJECTED with ......

made like 0.005% progress on the WIP and immediately got hammered with a new idea. will my brain please stop lol

words happened today, I guess

happy Monday! curious to hear from writer friends: what project(s) are you working on at the minute? 🤲 (WIP, outline, fanfiction, etc... anything is valid!)

Something I've been calling #PaladinInPinkWIP — a burnt-out college grad, a hot archfey, a world built on game rules, a quest to find a sibling long thought gone for good, and a flirtatious bard full of secrets guiding the way. I have been having a BLAST, your honours 🫡

happy Monday! curious to hear from writer friends: what project(s) are you working on at the minute? 🤲 (WIP, outline, fanfiction, etc... anything is valid!)

Isildur, turning away from the fires of Mount Doom:

chewing on the drywall abt my beloved war criminals........ Lachlan, who sundered a country, and Lys, who betrays her morality for academic and professional success ♥️

Between Nathaniel and Arsenia lie three corpses, a curse that spans generations, and the love that ruined both their lives. When she dies married to someone else, he steals her back from death. Only, she’d found peace in her grave—and now she wants revenge. #QuestPit #WIP

#questpit and the official MSWL event being on the same day is my thirteenth reason I fear ... that's So Many Graphics to make

The Coyote gets drunk on the moon

Guys, WIRED has been scooping every other publication and has been bravely covering this assault on our government, our Constitution, and on the rule of law. They are worth your attention and support.

finally made a Notion page for #cipherwip as well and we're cooking with gas, folks

been working on a Notion database/digital notebook for our Bloodborne-meets-nuclear-wasteland D&D campaign (DMed by @shinraalpha.bsky.social!) and like ... I absolutely cooked, look how cute this is

Our Soulslike, roguelike story TTRPG is currently at 80%. It’s a weird little game, so we’d really appreciate help spreading the word so that it might find its weird little audience. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Good news, everyone: March 2020 is finally over. It will now be January 2025 for the next fifteen years.

If anyone who has read Dragonfall wouldn't mind leaving a Google review to help offset the transphobia, I'd be much obliged. It's only got 3 reviews total.

my ocs one of the only things keeping me going on this bitch of an earth

and if I say this Vatican/Borgias-coded political fantasy (feat. blood magic and romantic entanglements) concept has me in its clutches what then

Here's some of my older watercolour paintings.

#meetmymcs aleida wakes from death in the dark devoid of her memories. whilst dealing with a ghost who haunts her and a husband who keeps secrets from her, she reckons with the one thing she knows about herself: she was murdered. and now she has to find out who killed her art by @alamangoes

#meetmymcs trapped by a life she doesn’t want to live and spurned by a man she doesn’t even want to love, arsenia finds solace in death. but after she’s resurrected by the one who spurned her, she seeks revenge, and in doing so awakens an ancient curse art by nicoledealart

#meetmymcs Shin Eunji is more than just a girl. Talented, suppressed by the patriarchy and seething with fury over her people's colonial oppression, she becomes a legend of Gyeongseong's streets– and a target of the divine empire that wants her silenced.

Huntress & Godling Cosima loves her band of women discarded by their realm & Goddess's shining regime. Duty calls her back from her woodland haven when Goddess's preferred consort - Cosima's stepmother - entrusts her with the worst responsibility she can imagine. #meetmyMCs

Meet Sorcha Lennox - Heavy Lies the Head What remains of the royal family of Galwin is blood on a ballroom floor. From Princess to murderer, to General, to something all together unnatural, Sorcha finds herself lost in a world she no longer recognizes, and can shape with her bare hands. #MeetMyMCs

#meetmyMCs Stubborn beyond all reason and chronically ill, Eden made it to the ballet audition of a lifetime. Now she just has to survive long enough to win it—a task complicated by her totally minor obsession-crush on her idol and the shifting, deadly architecture of a haunted house.

#MeetMyMCs A ghost-hunter with a stubborn streak and a failing memory, desperate to find and destroy the ghost that killed her partner before it kills again, Blair Martin is the Jonathan Sims kinnie of your dreams; a fugitive who wonders, every time she looks in the mirror: "did I do it?"

Fount Marzanna loves one thing: Fount Fiammetta. When an accidental fatal Miracle draws the attention of the God of Greed's High Priest in the church she unwillingly serves, Marzanna's cold heart begins to stir with more than simple loathing. #meetmyMCs

𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗟𝗔𝗡 𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗦𝗛, consultant in the Theoretical Division at Catherine Quay. a working-class prodigy whose early research led to the creation of a devastating war tool. now dealing with PTSD, he is polite, studious, quiet. our long-suffering autistic king. #MeetMyMCs #cipherwip

this is frances, my newborn vampire with an odd appetite. she's childhood best friends with a hunter and has to navigate the afterlife with the church hellbent on staking her! #meetmymcs #WritingCommunity

#meetmymcs #circuswip A Spanish-Maghrebi acrobat with schizophrenia, Nabil runs away from more than his demons when he joins a British circus infamous for a terrifying Freakshow & a slew of unproven murders. He must distinguish between fact & falsity as he navigates Britain’s festering underbelly.

Katniss X Agnieszka X Alice (Alice in Wonderland) Marzanna offers herself as the twenty-first sacrificial bride of winter, in hopes of freeing her sisters from an inescapable reality. Though she receives far more than she bargained for when she becomes the very monster she fears most #MeetMyMCs

Wynnifred is an occult society prodigy & the only one daring enough to summon the most powerful demon ever called to Earth. Not just to avoid marrying a husband she doesn't want - her intentions are to conquer the world. Who she becomes when the demon refuses to obey, though... #meetmyMCs

Saint Bettina is beloved by Goddess. Yet she was a mother before Goddess ever chose her. Her grown mortal son has not been granted eternal life, & her divine daughter by Goddess is caught in a web of her own. With the help of a constructed Archivist, Bettina plans to save them both. #meetmyMCs