/2 The official policy of Trump supporters is that they support anything this government does. Treat them accordingly.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

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You’re doing it. Thank you. Best writing community I’ve ever been a part of. Also, really excited for the editing roundtable in March. I want to get back to Ania’s story. #weeknightwriters

Keep up with grading. Not having that particular axe blade hanging over my head makes everything more cheerful. And it keeps my evenings freer. More writing time! Catch up on some projects with friends that I’ve let lag for too long. They deserve better from me. #weeknightwriters

Hm. A nice day of errands with the wife. A new shirt. A fascinating rabbit hole doing research for a class lecture. Students who actually ask questions. Lots of little things! #weeknightwriters

Same thing I always struggle with at the start of a new project. Developing the main character. Or maybe more convincing myself that I develop my main character best when I start writing, now that I think about it. Huh. Maybe I just talked myself around my problem. 🤦‍♀️ #weeknightwriters

Oh, you know. New semester. World falling apart. But some good things on a personal level. I wish the writing was going better, but I’m sure it’ll come eventually. #weeknightwriters

Hi, I’m Julia and I’m working on outlining a (gasp) new WIP that I summarize as “what happens when BBEG decides it’s time for an extended vacation?”. It’s been kicking around my head for years and years. Now it’s finally time to write it. Sadly, the outlining is going slooooooowly. #weeknightwriters

I started listening to audiobooks on my drive to & from work about 5 years ago. I've had to pull over due to tears in my eyes for 2 books in that time. The first was Becky Chambers' To Be Taught If Fortunate. Today I added @alixeharrow.bsky.social's The Everlasting. I will now rave about it.

People don’t appreciate how much academics are motivated by free food. It doesn’t even have to be good.

I've been making this rant for decades, just not nearly as well.

It would be so fucking easy to pay ALL their employees a living wage. So Fucking Easy

RT this with your home river. Tough one. There are a lot near where I grew up. Spent a lot of summer days on the Columbia River around here though. stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do...

Let's go morning neurons! I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Jan 10th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Have a finished draft of my current WIP. Have a new WIP outlined to take into #firstdraftfall 2026. Submit a short story. That… might be a lot under the circumstances. #weeknightwriters

A few things I think. Starting the hard work of knowing myself better is big, but the biggest is finishing(-ish) my first ever novel draft after stalling out several times on this particular one over the last 3-4 years. Knowing I have the ability to do it is a huge accomplishment. #weeknightwriters

#weeknightwriters Oof, that's a loaded question. Gonna stick to writing struggles because otherwise... yeesh. I had a hugely successful summer (thank you, summer break) but hit the Midpoint Wall hard. Took months to realize I could move past it. Took a few fits and starts, but I broke through.

Hi #weeknightwriters, I'm Julia. Thanks to the unwholesome (complimentary) influence of friends and family, my WIP is now either a duology or a trilogy, but the zero draft is done so now it's editing time! Do I know how to do that? No! Have I ever done it before? Also no! Am I flailing? Yes!

Why do they not make gloveless fingers, since fingerless gloves exist

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

setting an intention for SFF publishers in 2026 that they will put a "previously on" page at the front of the book when they are publishing sequels IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR TOLKIEN IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU

of the many consistent throughlines of bari weiss' work, one I keep getting hung up on is that she's constantly doing a book report for a book she didn't actually read

Hi, I am studying library science, the thing everyone claims LLMs are good for. Spoiler: they aren’t. I’ll start with a hypothetical based on a thing I have dealt with a thousand times. Person comes in and says, “I don’t remember the title or the author but I know it’s about vampires.”

Some books you start reading (or listening to) and bounce right off. Lots are interesting enough to keep going. Then, like @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s The Everlasting, there are some very rare few that take your breath away within the first few pages/minutes. I am utterly entranced.

Fantastic thread up and down, but this really hit hard.

Also we have now run the "if we throw trans people under the bus will it protect the cis people" experiment (SADLY) and the answer is NO IT DOES NOT WORK AND ALSO YOU'RE A GENOCIDAL ASSHOLE So in 2026 PROTECT TRANS PEOPLE TRANS LIVES ARE PRECIOUS Hill you should be willing to die on

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

Whew. Really didn't think I was going to get this one. Took me a while, but it was worth it. I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 31st 2025 (Tricky), in less than 32 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Where's the lie?

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I finished my first full first draft recently and I was shocked by how much I learned about writing, especially about how I write and how I can be successful at it. I know I’ll learn entirely different things next time, but the sense of accomplishment (that I wouldn’t get with AI) is so worth it.

Tough call between two or three, but I’m going to have to say The Incandescent, @emilytesh.net.

Every ballpark should offer a scorecard and a pencil for less than $2. It's the best souvenir in the park and it's wild to me that a lot of MLB teams either don't sell a standalone scorecard or force you to buy a $15-20 program for it.

2025: America watches Canadian bootlegs of journalism about US concentration camps. Nothing is for sale, everything is for rent. Computers will take your job but will be worse than you at it. You make less than ever but can gamble on your credit balance. One racist ket addict gets paid $1 trillion.

This time of year is fucking hard. The holidays are a fertile ground for dark thoughts. Loneliness can drown you, even when you're surrounded by people. Take care of yourself. If you feel like you're drowning in darkness, please talk to someone. Friend, family, stranger. Anyone. You deserve love.

Oh wow. This is a great deal on book 1 of one of my favorite series of the last few years. If I didn’t already own it, I’d be all over this.

I don’t know how to identify a bad parent anymore. But sweeties, you’re doing great!

It’s absolutely true. Just saw this yesterday. Use your library! It’s good for authors, it’s good for your community!

STORY TIME! (1/5)

I remember talking to a guy who was elevated from a managerial position to a VP position. I had chewed his ass out on the warehouse floor when he blamed the staff he had assembled for missing key deadlines we had warned over a year ago he would miss because of a combo of understaffing and 300% work.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19 "Poinsot's Dancing Cones", 2025 Physics of the gyroscope, tribute to Louis Poinsot's work. #SciArt #MathArt Traditional geometrical constrtuction (axonometry), watercolor pencils and markers on gessoed canvas board.

Never forget the entire anti-trans hype machine is built on lies. It's not "cruel truths" or "two sides." It is blatant, deliberately cruel lies. They are liars. Never give them the benefit of the doubt, because they are proven, deliberate, malicious liars.

THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in July, but in the meantime you can buy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS or download my short stories free on Itchio! #WeeknightWriters www.elizmanderson.com

Working on the end. I have the pieces all stacked up and now it's just time to pull out that one wonky Jenga block and see the whole thing collapse on my poor MC. Then I gotta figure out how it all goes back together again, soooooo... we'll see how it goes when I get *there*... #weeknightwriters

I'm good, honestly. Take time to help yourself too. You've done a lot for all of us! #weeknightwriters

Make sure to take a little bit of quiet time when it's available. All five of us are home, which is lots of fun -- everyone gets along really well -- but definitely not quiet. I'll probably still get up earliest and do some weekmorning writing. #weeknightwriters

Made it to 100K words! I didn't have pie, but I did have... 100K soft peanut brittle? It's something! #weeknightwriters

All things close and personal, it's been a good week. Good time spent with family, a lot of writing, grades turned in a smidge early even. I've been taking more social media breaks and that's helped. #weeknightwriters