Slowly but surely building out my website 🫣😁 Moved over some already existing #flashfiction, and I didn't realize how many I'd written up last year. You can check it out here: authorkalibenson.com/kalis-kreati... #AmWriting #QueerAuthor #GenreWriter #WriterSky #WritingCommunity

Small Language Model. (Yes, I know these are already a real thing. Don't make me tap the sign.)

I'm sound sensitive. There's a droning in the background (outside) so steady that I can hear it even over my rain white-noise playlist. I cannot find the source. Concentration is now impossible. I cannot live, laugh, love in these conditions, dammit! #WriterProblems #QueerAuthor #WhyIsItSoLoud

Nothing quite like working on a chapter for three days wondering why it feels like I'm scraping my soul to get words on the page...only to realize that, oh, I'm starting it in the wrong place. *sigh* #WriterProblems #AmWriting #MMRomance #WriterSky #WriterCommunity #QueerAuthor

Support a queer author! Because someone out there needs to know they're not alone, and we're handwriting it into chapter seven 🌈✒️ 📚💙 #AuthorSky #WriterSky #WritingCommunity

I'm stoked to announce that the novella I've been steadily working on is for the Neurodivergence in Queer Romance BookFunnel Event! 28 original stories, 28 insights, 28 amazing authors! I'm humbled and grateful and terrified! #QueerRomance #NeurodivergenceRep #DebutAuthor #ISuckAtMarketing

Who's your favorite Jedi wrong answers only

I feel this in my spirit.

Wrote 1,000 words tonight. I'm counting it as a hell of a win today given I forced every single one of them out. But I've got a little over two months to get this manuscript written and edited, so... 1,000 > 0. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Journeyto35K #MMRomance #PublishingJourney

Almost completely done with MMC1's profile and I can't find where I came up with the core virtues and values of the MMC1 of another manuscript-in-progress. Literally spent hours yesterday reading through character trait craft books and nothing. #WriterProblems

This week's writing goals: ✒️ Character arc outlined for my primary protagonist ✅ ✒️ Character arc outlined for my secondary protagonist ✒️ Draft two new chapters #AmWriting #WritingGoals #PublishingJourney #MMRomance #WritingCommunity #Roadto35K

Spent over two hours tonight just on character profiles and brainstorming. Maybe I'll actually getting some writing done tomorrow... 🤞🏾😭🤞🏾 #WritingCommunity #MMRomance #PublishingJourney #DebutAuthor #AmIReallyDoingThis

I'm not exactly an outliner and not quite a pantser. I lie in that glorious in-between of plantsing. Give me my major plot events, my biggest turning points, then let me loose, and I'll churn out 32–37K words of what was supposed to be a 10–25K word story. #WriterProblems #AmWriting #WriterSky

Finished the third chapter of my novelette-in-progress last night. Steadily chipping away at it, and it's sitting at just about 6.5K words. With a self-imposed deadline of Nov. 30th to write 30–35K words? I'm on track. #AmWriting #MMRomance #WritingJourney #WritingCommunity

Figure if I'm going to do this #MMRomance writing thing, I should set up some socials. I've got a lot in the pipeline: short stories, flash fiction, even a novelette or two, all while trying to draft a full-length novel AND work a day job. Glad to be here! Website and newsletter coming soon!