Scratch Night at the Durham book festival was lovely this year, and I was given a lovely book reccomedation during my visit to Book Wyrm books in the Durham market. Happy to support independent queer book shops! #writing #reading #creativewriting #fantasy bookwyrm.co.uk

Thrilled to be reading R.F. Kuang's Katabasis. I've been waiting for months (after finishing Babel and loving it). It’s finally here!🍷 🌧 📖 #writing #reading #creativewriting #fantasy

Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

Ready to cozy up with book three of a fantastic series. Pheby is really bringing it to the genre. Shout out to Books-A-Million for being prepared for the Waterblack release today. ❤️ @alexpheby.bsky.social @booksamillion.bsky.social #reading #writing #creativewriting #fantasy

Day one of my teaching degree and the algorithm is already showing me corded cardigans with apples for buttons. I feel so seen. #teaching

If your new year's resolution is to write, I believe in you! #writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror

"Worldbuild against the grain, and worldbuild to challenge." -Seth Dickinson #writing #creativewriting #fantasy

You get a six month residential workshop for your novel. Pick up to seven authors to tear your manuscript apart. Who is in the dream team? #writing #creativewriting #fantasy #horror

I was found reading The Last Slaughter, and my partner rushed me to open an early gift. "So you don't go buying more Ford before Christmas." I'm so excited! @douglasford.bsky.social

I've always enjoyed Terry's sense of humour, and his work was so influential for me as a young writer. This interview was a good bit of fun.

Eventually, you will have exhausted all the "how to write" books. There will be nothing left but to write. It will be terrifying & freeing. You'll e-mail that submission feeling like you've released a mess into the world. They will publish it, & that print copy will feel like treasure. Write it.

If you read one thing today, make it this: briankeene.substack.com/p/letters-fr...

I cannot even tell you how much it means to me when I hear that my book helped someone feel better for a little while when they were stressed or sick or hurting. For me, this is one of the highest and most powerful magics stories posess, and one of my own greatest aims as a writer. ❤️

Joy is clocking out from your day job and writing that part of your novel that has been creating fireworks in your brain all day. #writing #creativewriting #fantasy

Stop worrying that the pages aren't good enough. If they aren't good enough, you'll make them good enough when you edit. Sometimes, you have to see a thing on the page before you know exactly what it is supposed to be. The rights words often only come after the wrong ones.

In my 20s, I stood outside of Mircea Tomus' classroom. He asked me what I was writing for. I told him I wanted to take the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and it would be the hardest thing I'd ever do. "It is not some insurmountable olympus," he said, and told me we are all closer to success than we think.

I knew best how to write before I knew "how to write." Sometimes it's a journey of tapping into one's childhood, before the moments that educated you out of your creativity. #writing #creativewriting #fantasy

“As shall be the language, so shall be the man, and so shall be the nation. Good language promotes civilisation, and poor language, or language that is not used well, hinders it.” -Emrys ap Iwan (Robert Ambrose Jones)

Don't worry about breaking "rules" in your writing. Broken rules are the sum of genre. #writing #creativewriting #fiction #fantasy

"To say there is no worth in learning a language that isn’t economically useful is like saying there’s no point in being friends with somebody unless they’re going to help you get a better job. It’s a spectacular, cynical miss of the point." -Rhona NicDhùghaill

What are you doing with that wonderful story you wrote, the one you're proud of but haven't yet found a home for? Send it to the Bristol Short Story Prize! Full details: bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

I recently assured a family friend that I am indeed old enough to "remember Pizza Hut," but that I also remember Book It. I shared the delicious details of my childhood racketeering scheme to go infinite on carbs and Terry Brooks novels. @terrybrooks.bsky.social

Everyone starts off thinking they want writing advice but slowly finds out what they're really looking for is writing _confidence_ to get in the chair and do the work.

I'm so excited for Alex Pheby's Waterblack. @alexpheby.bsky.social January can't come soon enough for this reader. If you like dark fantasy and haven't read the Cities of the Weft trilogy, start with Mordew and thank me later.

Stuck in a scene? Do what the pros do: use brackets. Write what the story beat is: [Our hero gets out of the fight through clever means] Then just keep writing what happens after. Maintaining momentum is key to getting the most words on the page. Meanwhile solutions often present themselves later.

"Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall." -Antonio de Nebrija

I'm writing. What are you doing right now?

I think we're going to see a HUGE proliferation of #horror over the next four years. We will need the catharsis, and of all sorts: splatterpunk, weird, cosmic/eldritch, folk/cult, Gothic, and bubblegum, to name a few. Horror contains multitudes. Horror can heal. Horror lets us know we aren't alone.

There is a chapter in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur titled, "Yet of the same battle." Following that, "Yet more of the same battle." Don't be precious, just write the darn thing. #writing #creativewriting #fantasy

It is worth learning indigenous and endangered languages, even if they aren’t “useful.” We don’t make art because it’s “useful.” We don’t meet a friend for coffee because it’s “useful.” We do these things because they enrich our lives. #Gaeilge #LanguageRevitalization #linguistics

Some of you may be interested in my first, single-author publication! 😱 Complex intersections of #language and #culture: The importance of an #ethnographic lens for research within #transnational communities It's freely available here: tinyurl.com/bdcsprna #multilingualism #langsky #linguistics

If you'd like to send yourself into a linguistics-based existential crisis, almost all languages appear to follow Zipf's law and we have no idea why www.iflscience.com/almost-all-l...