Added 553 words to the pile. Probably a bit more as I expanded a previous section. 7,267/10,000+ words total so far.

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

Should I watch clips of the Charlie Kirk funeral, or wait till Leni Riefenstahl edits it all together?

Added 635 words to the pile. 11 days. 6,596/10,000+ done. Thought I wasn't going to make my 500 word quota today. Spent a lot of time outlining the next sequence. But caught a tailwind.

You will be required to listen to this while reading my current WIP when published. youtu.be/aArkIaPqV3c?...

I feel like the real trolley problem is that people are rooting for the trolley because it took out some immigrants and trans people—but the pro-trolley people are standing on the same damned track as everyone else. They aren't even tied down.

Added 649 words to the pile today. 5,937/10,000(?) words. Bad news. I might be writing a novella.

Woke up today to find I am a cockroach. What a relief.

Wrote 776 words today. Blew way past my quota. 5,250/10,000 words total. Though, it's looking like this might go longer than 10K words.

Same, Firefox. Same. Relationships are fraught. But I keep trying.

If you are an HWA member please DM me for a free code for my audiobook The Tower, eligible for first novel and middle grade novel. Adults love it too!

Why do we say "head over heels" to mean "upside down? Isn't head over heels how we are usually oriented? Shouldn't it be "heels over head"?

Do people really think your/you're typos happen because people don't know what they mean? It's a typo. A TYPO. It's not intentional. Fingers fuck up sometimes. Get over yourselves.

503 words today. Just a toe over the quota finish line. 8 days, 4,471/10,000 words total.

In 1983 Howard Hesseman mooned the President of the United States live on Saturday Night and encouraged others to do so. Nobody got cancelled. youtu.be/1BXPwFcvp1U?...

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.

Added 529 words to the pile. 4,089/10,000 words done. This is my first full week of writing on this story. Made my 500 word minimum quota every day. I have a feeling, though, I'm going to blow right past my estimated 10K-word total.

Important context that I'm not seeing widely reported in Nexstar's leap to cancel Jimmy Kimmel and appease the FCC and the US authoritarian Administration -- Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2 billion merger. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/c...

Struggling to make my writing quota today. Anyone have a spare 200 words I can borrow?

Republicans doing all they can to destroy democracy that the Democrats were afraid to do to stop fascism. You know what you get when you play nice with fascists? Fascism.

On my third round pausing my work because "I need to look up the thing on the Internet" and coming back to what I was doing and realizing I never looked up the thing on the Internet.

Added 504 words to the word pile today. 3,236/10,000 words done.

Added 537 words to the world pile. 2,578/10,000 words total.

No now, Internet. I'm writing!

Added 509 words to the word pile. 2,033/10,000 words done.

Well it's a good thing he didn't say anything bad about Charlie Kirk or he'd be fired.

The important takeaway here is don't speak ill of the dead do it when they are alive all the time tell everyone.

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

Well. I met my writing quota early today and have absolutely no idea what to do with myself.

An important anecdote to the valorizing of a terrible person. "He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. He had children, as do many vile people."

A moment of silence for our moon, lost this day in 1999.

Drafting. 960 words today. 9,000 more to go. Give or take.

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

White Guy = Rogue, Mentally Ill, Acting on Their Own, We'll Just Never Know Why Everyone Else = Representative of their entire race, kind, gender, orientation, creed, religion, etc.

I have officially removed Microsoft Word from my dock. My toolchain is now Obsidian.md (notes in markdown) -> Typora (draft in markdown) -> pandoc (convert to .docx or other formats as needed) All notes and drafts are now plain text markdown files, readable by any vanilla text editor forever.

And talking to other writers is so important. Publishers trying to push poor terms like to deal with writers in isolation and they assume writers dont talk to each other. Talk to each other.

The Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was gunned down in her home and slaughtered along with her husband and dog, and Trump didn't say a thing. Half-mast, my ass.

I would rather live in a world without guns and have Charlie Kirk alive. Which tells you how much I *really* want to live in a world without guns.

Never had a problem with guns before says the man whose father and uncle were both violently murdered with guns.

More outlining. I'm not a writer any more. I'm an outliner. Look for my next story—all bullet-points.

Outlining. (for those that say I already posted this I KNOW!!!)

Happening in DC right now vs and what @washingtonpost.com is covering.

One good thing about the internet is I no longer have to dial a 1-900 number and pay for a video game hint.

And what if I want you to also take my work the fuck out of your billion dollar plagiarism machine after you pay me this pittance? Because thieves don't get to keep what they steal.

If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.

There are some incredibly vital issues at this moment in time that go beyond like, oh we disagree on marginal tax rates but we can still be friendly. Trans rights are one of those issues. Trans rights are human rights and those are not negotiable. (see also: genocide; fascism. not unrelated!)

Outlining.

It's the Third of September which means, if my math is right, we're already a third of the way through September. Wow.

I have vanquished my inbox! Now. NOBODY EMAIL ME AGAIN EVER!