I hate writing and myself. It's great, really.

It’s live!!! 🥰 yes it’s another dnd poem leave me alone lmao a millennial has to find joy somewhere

I’m in this issue, #25 from @smallwondersmag.com woohooooo! It’s my first publication in a spec fic journal - hopefully the first of many 🥰 please snag a copy of the ebook if you can!

If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

I usually love looking out at the Potomac when driving into DC but today was different.

Looking for: an indie press to submit a poetry microchap (10 poems at its current version but could be 11-12 if that’s the min) - genre is speculative/fantasy. I’ve done some research into spec presses but much of it is fiction or fuller length collections. Would love to hear your recs ❤️

every day I have to remind myself there's only so much astonishment I have each day and I cannot spend it all on The Horrors

I really want more writers to embrace “I don’t know.” You don’t have to know how all of your mythology perfectly fits. You don’t need to know how the magic works or how the lore all connects. Sometimes fantasy stories are just isolated little fables, best understood by the heart, not the head.

A rejection after waiting months. le sigh 😔

a poem should be at least as good as a ham & cheese sandwich

Dec 31st Dec 31st 2016 2024

the reason an MFA doesnt improve your writing is because it cant instill in you the single most important quality for a good writer to have: being an absolute weirdo who really wants to make people understand the perverse undulations of their gremlin brain

someone mentioned this is the last caturday of 2024 so

well brb im cryin tlth.co.uk/dearemerging...

I’ve said it once about fanfic schoolwork grant apps emails poems etc etc etc and I’ll say it again: when will the writing spring fully formed from my forehead onto the screen??????? Idc about jet packs that’s what I want from science

My new flash story, “Sailor Moon Is Tired Of Fighting Evil” is out today at @hexliterary.bsky.social! It's under 500 words and is for anyone who's ever wondered what it's really like to fight evil by moonlight.

now this is the kind of sky I’m talking about in that one poem about sunsets 😮‍💨

Square Enix has just released a playlist on Spotify/Apple with every song from every Final Fantasy I-XVI. 2,892 songs. 1,425 hours. open.spotify.com/playlist/3hF...

when someone says they like my poem

I don’t usually read books on craft but I learn best through actual examples vs just reading about concepts (bc that is so boring) and this is chock full of em. Also really fun if your favorite part of English class was ripping pieces apart for analysis

“anything worth doing is worth doing badly” The ending of this poem brings me to tears every time.

Had a poem come out today in BRAWL Lit (+ an interview) 🌅 This was such a dream - Martheaus and @taylorfthiel.bsky.social are putting some stellar work into the world and they give the BEST feedback. anyway here’s my poem, I’m 33 and the sky makes me cry!! www.brawllit.com/2024/melissa...

"Someone said/winter has broken windows...Today my heart wears you like curtains." Today's autumn poem... any other favorites? Feel free to add them to this thread.

“You came across my skyline” sound like some romantic shit lmao

Nothing like getting an update from a journal you submitted to and opening that message like

Excited to share my poem Faint Drum, which received a BOTN nomination this week from The Arkansas International:

look at my pantoum

Die más. Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix. tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...

my final reshare for now: an ode to my dnd character, originally published in @emergejournal.bsky.social. shoutout to my friend (also a poet) who asked “what HAPPENED to you, to write this?” and I said girl this is about an elf + and a matching cat

Here at SLM, we hope that this list of some of the beautiful and important work from our team and contributors in recent months can help us connect to our community and move forward. https://buff.ly/4emv0DC

writer: bop it! main character: *bops it* writer: twist it! main character: *twists it* writer: help me process years of personal trauma by shouldering it all under the guise of a silly magical adventure main character: what writer: pull it! main character: ha! *pulls it*

Starting a thread of blocklists to share (feel free to reply with your favorites)

We’re having a sale on select titles (up to 60% off)! Between purchasing inventory for festivals & returns, sometimes we just end up with too many of one book, & we need to make room. Link in the comments ✨

As promised 🙏✨️ the #Creatorshare & #Artshare - any craft&writing is welcome! ☺️ Rules: - like and repost this post - post your favorite work using alt text and tell us about yourself - please interact with other participants ❤️ - tag NSFW - No A/I, N/F/T I reply&share as much as possible. Enjoy!

Today is a beautiful day to send us some poems! Be one of our inaugural issue poets? 😘 #poetry #poems #Midwest #queer #trans #lgbtq

starter pack of everyone who stops to admire the moon

I don't do this a lot, but BLOCK THIS MAN. Block this man IMMEDIATELY. He is a long time known predator in the #WritingCommunity on Twitter. He does his stupid "boost" posts on women without consent and then gets creepy as fuck like they "owe" him, including a few minors. Block, spread the word.

Recent work in @rustandmoth.bsky.social

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

another old-ish poem, this one was in @eunoiareview.bsky.social. no matching cat because I for the life of me could not find a bagel that worked!! (also if you play genshin you should know this is a guiping poem)

An oddly apropos hopepoem from 3 years ago (!!!) in Delicate Friend. delicatefriend.com/cavar/

another old-ish poem + another matching cat. this one was in @beavermag.bsky.social and was a botn nominee 💕

another previously published poem (ppp) and matching cat “the moon is the ultimate dead girl,” @rustandmoth.bsky.social and a matching cat

I am here to re-share (though they are new to butterfly app so I guess just share) previously published poems (ppp) and also a cat that matches that poem “the bard remembers she has errands to run,” South Florida Poetry Journal and a matching cat

Kinda overwhelmed starting from scratch/figuring out how to use this app/finding people who've "made it" from that other place (so ominous). Anyway hiiii I'm Melissa, I write poetry, have been/will be published in some places, and wrote a chapbook based on my DND campaign that was pub'd last year ✌️

a cat to start things off right here