Write down a "thing you did the most" from every company that sent you their version of a year-end Unwrapped post, on separate slips of paper. Draw 2 at random and roll a D6. At the next social gathering you attend, you must....

1. This Christmas - Donny Hathaway 2. Silent Night - The Temptations 3. The Mistletoe Jam - Luther Vandross

I named my fists Rhythm and Blues, 'cause I'm always ready to dance.

Oh NFL, how I have missed you.

Talking about writing with smart people is such a freaking delight.

My desire to see fun people is currently winning out over my general fear of the internet, which is a long way of saying - hey y'all, I'm at Gen Con!

IT'S TIME! Here's the ConCurrent panel schedule, threaded. Schedule, registration, and donation links all at the end of the thread. Oh yeah, and registration is now open. 1/

What a night! My heart is full. Congratulations to all the Nebula winners, finalists, staff, and volunteers for creating an amazing moment, night, and story.

It's almost time, y'all! I can't wait to celebrate all of these incredible writers with you!

I still can't quite believe it, but it's true - I will be hosting the 60th(!) annual Nebula Awards!!

Hi there, tabletop RPG designers! I'm opening up the first Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant. I'm looking to award up to 5 designers $250 to help create their games and/or set up their businesses. Applications open today and run through the end of the month. Enter here! bannerless.games/grant

I had such a wonderful time reading and listening last night! Check out the recording for an hour of storytelling around a virtual campfire.

Breaking: Cory Booker has officially delivered the longest Senate floor speech in US history, surpassing Strom Thurmond’s filibuster against the Civil Rights Act.

Want to hear a story about art and isolation and many many (many) shades of gray? You're in luck! Wednesday night at 7 PM PDT I'll be making my Story Hour debut alongside the amazing Effie Seiberg and sharing a story that's out of print but still of my heart. Join us! www.storyhour2020.com

Want to know the difference between writing a character hiding the truth from the reader and one hiding the truth from themselves? Wondering how to let your readers know what's true when your narrator can't stop lying? Let's get into it this Monday with a deep dive on writing unreliable narrators!

Calling poets, prose writers, & essayists to submit to the AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic. Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.

Games I may one day make when I have time #247: The Creek Keeps Rising Gameplay: Struggling to get basic things done as the world goes downhill around you. You know it's the end(ish) times but you still gotta plan Davita's birthday. Genre: Mundane Survival

See a smile, quote a smile!

Heartfelt shout out to the amazing strangers and conductor on my DC to Philly train who helped as I tried to get my stuck bag out of the storage rack before the doors closed and the train headed to the next station. Pretty sure I lost my headphones in the process, but my heart is full.

It's almost time for #PaxUnplugged and I'm psyched to see everyone! Come by the Foundry booth (4310) to say hello, check out the demos, and maybe walk away with some swag! And if anyone knows of fun shenanigans going on in the evenings, lmk!

Hey y'all - did you know that Divine Mysteries is out from Pathfinder? I got to write for this book about the gods and worked on profiles for three of them - Embaral, Obari, and Norgorber - so here's a little thread with something I love about each one.

This is basically everything I want in a game. I cannot wait.

Finding the right balance between rhythm and story for one project and turning Mad Libs into game mechanics for another.

Within every career is a moment of kindness from someone who had nothing to gain in the doing. Remember to pay it forward when your turn comes.

We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀

Why do the Bengals hate my blood pressure so much?

One of my favorite things about being one of the @writingexcuses.bsky.social podcast hosts is that my co-hosts are willing to go along with so many of my shenanigans, like the time I somehow invented a completely new POV. (If you can figure out how it works, let me know!)

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they're dealing with.

Not sure what it says about my current mindset that my new solo journaling game idea has gone from "make your way through a fun holiday romcom" to "reckon with the feeling of being trapped in a narrative you never asked for but must live through" in about 24 hours.

Oh wow, new followers! Previously, on social media...I generally lurked, hid, and tried not to be perceived, but times are rough and connection is good, so instead, here's the ode to punctuation I wrote to the tune of Sound of Silence, as a very unpunctuated thread, because I can:

Today I taught myself how to play We Shall Overcome on the guitar. For the record, I am very very bad at playing guitar and it sounds pretty damn wretched. But I will keep going and I will get there, and I take some small comfort in that.

Living in that liminal space where it's the middle of the night and all my clocks are electronic and I have no idea whether I've saved daylight yet or not...

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now: - real-people casting for cable tv - afterschool program manager - database builder - event planner - soap opera gofer - NASA layabout - bodyguard for Malik Yoba for 1 hour