Finished reading Fight Club. If you're one of those weirdoes who enjoy their sanity, I would not recommend. Otherwise ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.goodreads.com/book/show/36... #booksky

So, how do I find critique partners? (I'm not even going to mention the β word, to avoid the onslaught of AI assisted paid readers). #writingcommunity

Hello fellow #RevPit er's. Is #ABCPit happening? Is it a thing?

Looking for beta readers and critique partners for The Idun Variant: • Adult speculative medical thriller • Single POV • Domestic drama + ethical horror • Near-future biotech • 80,000 words #A #SF #T #M #ABCPit

I honestly don't know. Writing has always been a hobby for me, and (forgive my arrogance) I surprised myself with a book I believe is worthy of publishing. I don't know how and how well I fit in the publishing eco-system, if at all. #CampRevPit #CRPfireflies

#ShoutOut to everyone who participated in #CampRevPit, and a warm thank you to my #CRPfireflies counselor @arumiwrites.bsky.social and the crew.

Well, it's more or less this. #CRPfireflies #CampRevPit #MoodboardTwist

1. Like my previous speculative books, the technology was published in a scientific journal while I was still revising. 2. The sexy self centered yoga instructor character is based on a real person, whom I no longer speak with. 3. I Fully understand the science in the story. #CampRevPit

Agent’s guide to THE IDUN VARIANT: • Adult speculative medical thriller • Single POV • Domestic drama + ethical horror • Near-future (almost here) biotech • 80,000 words • Standalone with series potential #CampRevPit #CRPfireflies

When it's time to act, Adrian does... Nothing... At least until his back is against the wall. #CampRevPit #CharacterFlaw

Well, it's definitely a moment: #CRPBeeMine #CampRevPit #CRPCabinRaids

Immortality with no catch and no strings attached! Scientists respecting rules and regulations down to the letter! Mentor and protégé totally respecting each other's boundries and acting professionally! #CRPCabinRaids #CampRevPit #CRPSparkleSkunks #CRPfireflies

Well, #CRPCabinRaids #CRPFantasyFoxes

As Adrian, probably Idris Elba. As old Tessa, Dame Judi Dench. As young Tessa... That's a tough one. Maybe Sydney Sweeney? #CRPCabinRaids #CRPNightcrawlers

Adrian has the patience of a saint. Tessa, on the other hand, would snap like a twig even before the elevator stopped. Professor Magnus is not one for wasted time. #CRPfireflies

I forced myself to return to my WIP. Literally forced myself. For multiple reasons, I didn't have the energy to write for a while now. Since this morning, I revised two chapters.

Adrian is alarmed when Tessa doesn't remember her wife Dawn. He's horrified that she doesn't care Dawn killed herself, and is more horrified still when Tessa dives straight back into their research with the ambulance still parked in their back yard.

"Are your childhood memories so important? Who cares about your honeymoon, the birth of your child, or their graduation ceremony? You live now. Strive for perfection now. And if someone cares for you, and they matter, they matter now. They have to." #VillainVoices #CampRevPit #CRPfireflies

Oh, the generations gaps are starting to show... I'll give it a shot anyway. Story: 👵🏽💉🏥🤒💔❤️‍🩹✝️👩‍🦽💪🚶‍♀️☕🧘‍♀️🔬💰📚👱‍♀️⚰️💋👩‍❤️‍👨💀 MC: 💉😨🏥💀🦆🦆📚🔨🧘‍♀️☕⚱️💋❤️🧪☠️👼 #CampRevPit, #CRPfireflies!

“The virus is working! It’s saving her! That’s why her fever was up!” Adrian growled at her as he persisted in his efforts. “Help me. You’re her doctor for crying out loud! You swore a fucking oath!” #OneLineMC

Adrian's greatest strength is his heart. He fosters hope when all seems lost. He believes in the people surrounding him and their good intentions. He genuinely wants to help, and it shows. Adrian's greatest weakness is, well, his heart. He's easily manipulated and lets others get to him.

I mean, I think it's fully cooked, but my readers don't agree...

I didn't choose my genre. My genre chose me. I wanted to write science fiction and fantasy. That was what I read since I was a kid, climbing on the shelves of my father's library, picking Asimov from all the way up. But when I started writing, it was just today with a twist. What if... #CRPfireflies

As a data guy, I know the inherent issues of working with partial data. There are inherent biases, flawed relations and false assumptions. Still, this is the best I've got (I'd love more data). Here is my #RevPit winners analysis:

It's not that I feel bad about losing (not winning) #RevPit, it's about belonging. Or rather, not belonging. Goodbye, fellow revpitters, and congrats to the winners.

A weird thank you. I started writing a few years ago and the most supportive community I've found was on Twitter. We had writing rooms. We did sprints. We read each other's premature stuff. About three years ago, they all scattered to the wind. Gone in a single day. Thanks guys, wherever you are.

Writing well never came easy to me (arguably it still doesn't). Out of the books on writing I've read (quite a few, most fairly good) this one stands out. Clear, concise, and down to earth, a perfect mix of theory and practice. I couldn't recommend it enough. www.ursulakleguin.com/steering-the...

It depends on my stress levels. If I'm relatively stress free - I'm pantsing the hell out of my book. Lately I've only been plotting 🥹

My protagonist's flaw is that he has no agency. Let's see how we'll that goes through edits... #writingcommunity

#revpitwaiting My watering hole / writing place:

This is Dawn. She passed away so suddenly. Me and my characters miss her sorely.

I know how to make my novel more publishable: 1. Remove the gray areas and make it fit on a shelf. 2. Lay on some genre specific tropes. 3. Revise to 1st person, present tense (for the book-tokers). The problem is that it's really, REALLY, not the book I want to write. #writingcommunity

I suspect it all ends with cultural fit.

Just started the actual writing, and I'm getting excited!

I'll let you guess my favorite genre as a child, but I grew up on Asimov, Heinlein, C. Clark, Silverberg, and Zelazny. Of late, my favorite writer is Ursula K. Le Guin, and I can't recommend 'Steering the Craft' enough.

2/ beta is free, but we're keeping the group small so we can support everyone properly. once it fills up, it closes. join the waitlist → silentasistant.com/waitlist @shy-alon.bsky.social

Well, I've been too stressed to write these last three weeks. I tried the "it's just a draft" thing but I can't turn a blind eye to lackluster prose. Let's hope better days are coming.

This will expose my age. My favorite book is The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg. It was the first sci-fi book I read where the heroes are not all good, the villains are not that bad. The "bad guy" wants to save the human race. The "good guy" just wants to die in peace. A masterpiece.

I think I've found the opposite of inspiration. Knock knock.

Well, it's not the climax, but it's close...

I'm not very good at mood-boarding... #RevPitWaiting

I'm doing my best to stay positive today, but it's hard. It's really hard.

👵🏻 Tessa, an aged scientist suffering from a terminal disease, wants another chance at life. 👤 Adrian, her teaching assistant turned nurse, is willing to risk everything to give her that chance.

Professor Tessa Magnus has one last chance hope of staying by her wife's side - the experimental Idun virus, a therapeutic promise of radical rejuvenation. Adrian, Tessa's dedicated teaching assistant, administers the cure, bracing for the onslaught of repercussions. #RevPitWaiting #RevPit

I have no idea why...

It's always the "what if". What if a universal cure would rob you of who you are? (The Idun Variant) What if our descendants in the far distant future would want to learn about us? (sudo) What if an ex terrorist would become the world's best hope to defeat a deadly pandemic (The Pain)

But... But what if I don't like romantasy?

So *obviously* today I wrote the first chapter of a new sci-fi book that's been brewing in my mind because why the hell not.

I think I'm unlikely to sell my book because it doesn't really belong on any single shelf. Genre-bending is probably better left to the veteran writers.

Life is a series of rejections with a a few successes sprinkled on top. (Got a couple of form rejections just now).