the publishing industry can feel so demoralizing but when i look around at sff books right now there is SO MUCH to be excited about. what a thrilling time to be working in the genre.

i've never slammed subscribe so fast in my life

getting WAY too familiar with my vet's hold music

"i used it to edit bcs i didn't have anyone else to look at my work" ok so u are not ready for either an editorial relationship or the grind of publishing. go get practice getting feedback + develop a yearslong groupchat of people in the trenches with u and THEN we can talk

"oh i just used chatgpt to smooth out my sentences" what do you think a novel is. it's sentences babe, that's the whole thing

the number of potential client inquiries i have gotten lately that mention they used AI to help write or edit their work--i'm going to scream

watching everyone from the right to the centre to the moderate left fingerwag about political violence after two solid years of palestinians kids being bombed shot in the street is so utterly deranging. i feel like my grip on reality is slipping.

the biggest adjustment to living in the country has actually nothing to do with being visibly queer and absolutely everything to do with being A Guy Who Schedules Things

ok ok ok

living in the woods has made me an insufferable fantasy reader. that man did NOT quickly fell a tree with a hand axe. he just didn't.

finished THE INCANDESCENT by @emilytesh.net and gosh i loved it. Walden sucks SO BAD and I deeply love her and identify with her.

It is easy to feel this way but I truly think, for trans writers at least, writing books now is urgent. Write good books about your friends, get them printed, get them widely distributed, get them in the world. There has never before been an opportunity like the one we currently possess to do this.

I think for me "turn off your inner editor" advice for drafting is not about never going back over sentences. it's about bottom-up feeling through a text to find its emotional heart, rather than top-down trying to create meaning through craft choices.

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

there truly is no sentence more damning than "well I don't want to speak ill of someone in a small town."

#questpit #q #f IWTV x LOCKED TOMB w/ all-trans cast A woman goes missing; to save her, her friends will have to harrow hell—and history. Dante’s Inferno meets Orpheus and Eurydice, but Virgil and Dante are catastrophic exes, and Eurydice isn’t sure she wants to be saved.

oh this questpit thing looks fun as hell. one thing i LOVED on xitter was pitchfests, always such a fun parade of creativity.

been thinking a lot lately about how writers don't have lessons or teachers the way other art forms do. even if you do an MFA, your professors teach you for a relatively short amount of time.

"It's just fields and fields of gray ash." www.instagram.com/reel/DM8H5L2...

Did I say soon? I meant SOON- the Bellwether family is pleased to launch mirabellwether.com - your place to not only purchase FTW, but browse a collation of articles & interviews about Mira & FTW, get in contact with us directly, and more. Tell a friend, tell yr sister, tell yr roommate etc

watching we are ladyparts and it absolutely fuckin rips

personally I do find it helpful to be occasionally reminded that basically everything I love in modern genre is the equivalent of the strange life that flourishes around a particular set of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor

I tried to write about it

Introducing Dolls – A Lilly Wachowski-produced sci-fi thriller with an all-trans-women cast

writing is a mix of type 1 and type 2 fun. revising is type 2 fun. and querying is type 3, the type of fun that makes you want to cave your skull in with a big rock

hitting submit on a query and immediately realizing there's a devastating formatting error 🤦‍♂️

push notifications? you rly let your phone talk to you like that??

at the revision stage where i'm just like oooohhhh myyy godddd who caresssssss

i owe an enormous creative debt to tenet, a film I have never seen, because the soundtrack is the best i've ever tried for locking in on revisions

the same people who 6-7 yrs ago were posting "reminder: you don't owe anyone anything" are now posting "community is SO important 💖"

I love when gay people learn i'm a SFF writer and they're like "oh, have you read Ursula K Le Guin?" like...yeah man, i have read one of the foundational luminaries of the genre...?

read my work today at a little queer writing open mic at my local library; a reminder that I didn't give up the possibility of intellectual or creative community when i moved to the woods

finally watched Wicked last night. released from the constraints of broadway voice, i finally get what all of you have been on about for twenty years

it's too bad the only way to prevent skin cancer is sunscreen because it really is the most vile disgusting substance on planet earth

of all of chatgpts evils this one is minor, but i cannot believe the robot has poisoned the em dash well. hideous. why would you do this to my beloved em dash. now everyone things it's robot generated when it's just that i can't finish a thought.

googling "rhinestone hearing aids" "can i bedazzle hearing aids" "how to add glitter to hearing aids" "hearing aid accessories"

excited to expand my palette of cybernetic enhancements. bit of a ship of theseus situation here but we stay sexy with it.

turns out the "auditory processing problems" i've been experiencing are actually just uhh straight up hearing loss

god i love dense genre fiction

SINNERS ‼️‼️

the fact of the matter is that more people want the intellectual superiority of being a hater than are actually willing to commit to high-quality haterism

sometimes a productive writing session is writing several paragraphs, sometimes it's struggling thru 1 sentence. and sometimes it's sitting down, having a delightfully fucked up revelation, and leaving it to cook for a bit.

i'm fairly convinced that what these spicy romantasy girlies want is a submissive man, but they are so trapped in gender role nonsense that they don't know that yet

i am a horribly picky and judgemental reader, it's not enough if the characters are gay the book also has to be good, im sorry

living in the woods is turning me into an elite hunter of mosquitoes. i can snatch those bitches clean out of the air.

My tiny-ass town hosted a showing of No Other Land. I expected it to be the same twenty people, but it was absolutely packed.

has anyone written about IWTV and Octavia Butler's Fledgling? they feel very in conversation around the way they use vampirism to explore white supremacy, racism, and misogynoir.

after not writing for a while starting work on a new story is like ohhhh right life does have meaning and i am a person. right. of course.

Every time I see Ari's heaving ribcage in the wicked trailer i become more convinced of my belief that all women actors should get to kill 1 casting director of their choice.

Is there a word processing software on this bitch of an earth that doesn't start to choke and slow down at 200+ pages with comments? Pages and Libre Office have both betrayed me.