I know I will be 300% more effective if I just give in and learn how to do video content but have you considered I DO NOT WANT TO. My voice is annoying. My face is not aesthetically pleasing. I have nowhere pretty to record. I don’t have the first clue how to make content-only reels. Helpppp

1726 words for the day

Cordie is wrong JUSTICE FOR MINT CHIP

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

How long should chapters be uuuuugh

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I wrote 1,046 words on yarn shop story please clap

I don't want much. Just a little pocket-sized dragon familiar I can take everywhere with me.

OKAY SO. I'm starting Wound Up in earnest today (I think). I need to make some decisions.

WOE! Newsletter be upon ye! buttondown.com/lucymasonwri...

Writing a newsletter and being ~extra vulnerable~ so keep an eye out for that buttondown.com/lucymasonwri...

TW: fatphobia I am seeing the needle move in the right direction on fat representation in books, but I am frustrated that it’s not moving far enough or fast enough.

Someday I'm gonna write a queer contemporary set in a library so I have an excuse to yap about how libraries are, when done correctly, the great equalizer and an important third space where people can exist for free, and how they provide support and information and services to people who need it.

“Libraries are one of the best creations in all human history”—my daughter just now but also anyone who reads.

Just a friendly reminder that, while I do write queer stories, none of them will ever be "spicy," so if that's a deal breaker for you, I'm sorry, but I cannot and will not change who I am. Queerness runs the gamut and reducing it solely to who you sleep with is a disservice to everybody involved.

Me, a person with an almost pathological hatred of being perceived and an equal but opposite pathological need for approval: ah yes I think I will be a writer and invite every single human on Beyoncé’s Internet to perceive me, judge me, and find me lacking in every way.

Thinking about how cool it would be to sell enough books to take a month or three off to write the next one 👀

Working on a project tentatively titled Wound Up, in which a high-strung, extremely catty long-established yarn shop owner clashes with the charismatic, cheeky owner of a brand new local yarn and coffee bar. This town isn’t big enough for the two of them…or is it?

Twitter brought me so many knitters, writers, readers, and fandom friends. It brought me most of the people I treasure in my life and I will always be grateful for it and I will always curse that fucker for ruining it.

A thing I am begging: you can promote YOUR book without shitting on other books. You don’t have to say “are you tired of [x]?” JUST SAY “try [y]!” and promote what you do well rather than disparaging other popular books or tropes.

Sword of Avalon is very eligible *waggles eyebrows*

Okay drop your soundtrack recs for Wound Up (shoutout to Bronwen for coming up with a temporary title!), my contemporary annoyances to lovers ace achillean yarn shop story. Already on it: - Happy by MARINA - A Pearl by Mitski - The World Without by A Fine Frenzy

To reference that one post that floats around “he falls harder” is not about the amount of love. The amounts are equal.

Not rivals/enemies to lovers but something worse (Remember that post about the kid who didn't know how to deal with a crush so they passed a mean note that said "get out of my school"? Same vibes)

(The last scream I will scream tonight but it is so goddamn hard feeling like I am peering through the window watching real humans and not understanding how they feel or function even a little bit)

I’m also feeling some kind of way because I’m not self pubbed or big 5 trad pubbed but a secret third thing (small indie press I love) and I feel like I do not fit in anywhere ☠️

Hugo nominations close soon! I would be honored if you would consider my novelette, "Phantom View." It's about the unfulfilled needs of disabled people--and disabled ghosts--and trying to be better.

Two things are true. 1. One of the two point of view characters in this story is allosexual. 2. I do not know how allosexual people experience attraction because I experience absolutely no attraction.

We are NOT gonna unpack why I am drawn to stories featuring a character who knows they are very difficult and unlovable and another character carrying the burden they present willingly, with enthusiasm even, and letting them know that loving them is the easiest thing in the world.

What if. A pathetic wet cat man who is incredibly neurodivergent owns a yarn shop and a charming, charismatic, infuriating trans man opens a rival yarn shop and coffee bar.

Kara Jorgensen is great! I really love their Reanimator Mysteries

I made a Grown Up Author Insta because my personal insta IS personal and it’s where I shitpost and meme. If you wanna follow my author insta, where I WILL yap about writing and promote my stuff: www.instagram.com/lucymasonwri...

After seeing the news of a new comic called Junk Punch that makes light of compulsions, here's a gentle reminder that OCD isn't a joke. If you want GOOD rep, follow my campaign (pinned) to help bring Guariare: Worrier to life. Stephan has such bad OCD he destroys a couch with cleaning products.

Unlearn all the shitty things adults said to you that made you feel bad about yourself or like you couldn’t do something because they didn’t approve.

“AI is the future, you might as well use it!” With all due respect (which is none), fuck off.

Boy imposter syndrome sure is a bitch.

Me, sowing (planning two novels that feature online friendships): :) Me, reaping (having to come up with six hundred different handles and keep track of time zones): THIS SUCKS WHAT THE FUCK

You know what to do

Rubbing my grubby little hands together gleefully plotting this story.

Y'all KNOW about my affinity for pedantic, serious, stuffy, academic, pathetic wet cat men. What if rival yarn shop owners. Pathetic asshole runs his shop like a well-oiled machine operating off data and spreadsheets and long-term trends.

Someday, I'm gonna write a pathetic wet cat of a man who's also a huge bitch (my favorite type of character)

None of my characters are self-inserts but do ALL of my characters have facets of me? Yes. Absolutely. Anyway unto Hesper I bestowed my asexuality, mental illness, insecurity, sharp emotional edges that accidentally cut people, librarianship and general belief that I am a super low-quality human lol

fun fact: [guttural screaming]

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ME: I can't deal with this shit for much longer man NARRATOR: *big sigh* He did, in fact...

Also let the record reflect that I am writing a queer contemporary (DON'T 🔪 call it "women's fiction" 🔪) fiction novel featuring the joy of online friendships, the grief of losing a sibling, and the cathartic act of creating through fiber arts. And the love interest is a roller derby lesbian.

SCREAMING CRYING HOLLERING (I will have a THING to share on April 7th and I WILL HAVE CHARACTER ART TO GO WITH IT)

My favorite spider man/autism crossover post of all time

I'm so sorry to all of you who already know this and are tired of my nonsense but DID YOU KNOW I wrote a new adult romance featuring a sex-repulsed anxious, depressed, asexual libarian, her pun-loving himbo best friend turned husband-of-convenience, and her new universe assigned extrovert friend?

Cannot believe I have to tell people I have a book out in order for people to know I have a book out. Rude.