#WIPSnips …then to avenge the ones who’d already died trying to kill him. Or perhaps because killing him would be an accomplishment, something they could point to and say it wasn’t all for nothing. “All for nothing”—the three dumbest, deadliest words in every language beneath the arch.

A shapeshifting trickster is putting together a crew to steal the world’s largest hoard of a dangerous magical substance. #booksky

#MayWorldbuilders In Grand Harbor, you can mostly trust the local papers… as long as they're not talking about anything to do with the Grand Coalition or the United Republic of Kuvra. There they toe the line, not of the government, but of the Azure Order.

#WIPSnips To the south was a spectacular view of the arch of heaven, dominating the horizon like a grooved wall of pale light. Beneath it was… nothing. The Great Rift was a kama deep, and so wide that the other side was hidden by the curvature of the planet.

#TimeTravelAuthors The portal doesn't so much undo things as push the world onto a different track. That is definitely the goal of my characters.

#TimeTravelAuthors Words. A screen. This could be it. The secret of what had happened to the human race could be hidden on the underside of this giant stone. Lock wished there were another big vine or something that he could get his feet under, so he could lift it faster.

#TimeTravelAuthors “We’re his attorneys,” said one of them, a fat, shaved-headed man whose suit was much too small for him. He sat down on the couch, and there was a distinct sound of ripping fabric. “Yeah. Attorneys. We’re from… like… a big… D.C. law firm. Real big.”

#WIPSnips There was no substitute for water. And while it didn’t have to be drinkable, if there was more than a little dirt or salt in it, the residue would build up inside the boiler and ruin it. And in much of the Vastlands, water was at a premium.

#TimeTravelAuthors There's a short scene at the Lincoln Memorial, and a long sequence where Lock explores the Washington Monument in the future.

#MayWorldbuilders Yüttüi is the word the Wa'ao of Khür use for the slate gray nevi on the sides of their faces. Other words are, well… Nestback - domesticated flightless bird that carries its eggs on its back Archstruck - nuts Vishál, or giant rakefish - bigass filter-feeding fish And archstone.

#MayWorldbuilders The most formal greeting of the Cosmic School is "Greetings in the name of the Great Unknown."/"And of whatever gods may be." It only gets used when people are being seriously ceremonial.

#MayWorldbuilders Kuvran, Zocheian, Inamese, Aulmish, Khürish. I can't possibly conlang them all before I die—I'm trying to get their phonetic inventories done so they don't all sound the same.

#TimeTravelAuthors Search the overgrown ruins of the future. Find out what happened to humanity. Stop it from happening. www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3315STN

#TimeTravelAuthors Don't be afraid to ask for help, and don't be afraid to go it alone. (Look, I never claimed to be a fountain of wisdom.)

I’m having the same problem. It seems to work in other browsers.

I have been testing the theoretical limits of how many chips can be put in a batch of cookies.

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

#WIPSnips “So what did you do with then?” “I wanted to get a look at it in good light, but of course the lights were all out and—this was the one thing I overlooked—I didn’t have a lantern handy. So I thought, ‘What could be better than seeing the actual arch through it?‘”

#WIPSnips Arkhöa began frantically struggling, the rope chafing her skin. Murenzi stood there watching, his face invisible. “Um… do you need anything?” “Thanks, but I got this.” Her life had definitely taken a turn for the strange since a week ago last Starsday…

#ConlangApril I once got started on a conlang for a setting for a novel still in limbo. It did have a rule that syllables start with a consonant, and end with either a vowel/diphthong or one of a select group of consonants. There were 931 possible syllables.

#TimeTravelAuthors They're serious, but not always cautious. One of the first things Gary does is try to force a paradox just to see what happens.

The only people who get to say “we didn’t vote for this” are the ones who voted for Kamala … end of story

#AprilWorldbuilders Good news—Grand Harbor has sewers and street cleaners. Bad news—Grand Harbor has many draft animals of several species, few of which can be trained to hold it in until they get to a rest area. So the street cleaners are always sort of playing catch-up.

#AprilWorldbuilders To our eyes, the architecture of Grand Harbor would appear to be an eclectic mix of East, South, and Southeast Asian styles, along with a dour, high-ceilinged, obsessively symmetrical style that doesn't quite look like anything we'd recognize.

#TimeTravelAuthors Gary plays video games, but it doesn't come up much. Lock is into track and field, especially any event that involves sprinting.

#TimeTravelAuthors Lock usually drinks Coke or Pepsi. Lucy drinks her coffee with enough sugar and creamer to make it technically a dessert.

#WIPSnips “By the seven empty thrones. By the maidenhead of Queen Mhenggaw. By the pike orchards of the east. By the tainted temples of the south. By the princely banners of the west. By the cruel camps of the north. By the flames that torched a thousand ships. By Kahran and the beach of bones.”

#AprilWorldbuilders 1. Rainwater collected in barrels. This won't last you the whole year. 2. Waxy purple starheart leaves can be woven into mats that crystallize out salt from seawater. Time-consuming. 3. The Aqueduct, a marvel of modern engineering. It cost a lot to build, so the water isn't free.

#AprilWorldbuilders First, there's the Republic, that governs the cities that make up Grand Harbor and the surrounding archipelago. It's not very strong. There's the city governments, which are stronger but have to compete against each other. Then there's the Azure Order, which is really in charge.

#AprilWorldbuilders Gotta go with Grand Harbor. At 2.5 million people, it's the greatest and most diverse city beneath the arch. It's actually a city-state with several municipalities. It is the headquarters of the Grand Coalition, a multinational alliance opposed to the Black Banner.

#WIPSnips “This is a peaceful expedition!” “He just dropped a flare practically on top of us!” “Those aren’t weapons, fool,” said the doctor. “Anyway, you might as well put that away. He’s gone.” “You don’t understand, doctor. That was a signal, to let them know where we are. This is a trap.”

#TimeTravelAuthors "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Noah, Buddy…" "Noah who?" … "And Buddy who?" … "Hello?" … "Hey, Gary, could you come over here? I need your help figuring something out again."

Explain your OC's power with a GIF!

#TimeTravelAuthors Lock - light brown, like his mother Gary - light blue Brandon - dark brown, can't remember if I specified Tara - green Lucy - green-brown Rikki - electric blue

8 million No Kings protesters Zero police officers beaten Zero police officers killed Zero feces smeared on walls.

Who could have guessed that Sandra Huller singing Harry Styles would be one of the most poignant film scenes of the year so far?

I cannot stress enough how these are PTA moms and soccer coach dads and I can best describe the vibe as “festively bloodthirsty”

#MarchWorldbuilders One of my characters, Lonotun, is gay. This isn't a problem for him in his country until after the war, when the aristocracy of which he is a part has been almost wiped out, and people are like, "Look, I know it's not how you swing, but we really need some upper-caste babies."

#TimeTravelAuthors There are several alternate timelines mentioned in Books 1 and 2, though we never actually get to see them.

FELLOW AUTHORS: the deadline to file a claim in the Anthropic settlement for stealing all our work is MONDAY. The settlement provides for $3000 per work. GO GET YOUR MONEY. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

So, I actually think this is a complicated question, because "canon" is just "do events have ramifications?" and at a certain level, you can't do long-form storytelling if you're not willing to let actions have consequences and the passage of time make an impact on characters and their development.

Well the good news is all of the troops they were supposedly going to use to cancel the midterms will be in the Middle East, so you have one less excuse to not vote.

#WIPSnips There were a dozen men here. Ten of them were wearing No. 6 uniforms, white spattered with dark brown and darker green—well-suited for blending into a taiga forest in winter, useless in this rocky landscape.

#MarchWorldbuilders The pre-Revolution Kuvran kingdoms all had their totemic animals—Bear-Kuvra, Eagle-Kuvra, Leopard-Kuvra, Tiger-Kuvra, Wolf-Kuvra—which their surviving dynasties in exile still cling to.

If you see this, post a rabbit 🐰

#MarchWorldbuilders As I look at the Sea of Trade islands, I realized they were the perfect place for some breeds of island-dwarf elephant to survive long enough to get domesticated. There's also the nestback, a large flightless bird that carries its eggs on its back.

#TimeTravelAuthors “You know something?” said Gary. “These glasses look kind of… recent. Like the flags.” “You think they might have been his?” Lock glanced around the vines and leaf litter, looking for more clues.

#TimeTravelAuthors The first trailer I ever made for Locksmith's Closet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OriX...

#FebruaryWorldbuilders A lot of smaller nations are in an alliance, the Grand Coalition, against a superpower which they call "the Black Banner" - the United Republic of Kuvra. The GC and URK are about to go to war, and what my characters are about to steal is a potential military resource.