The problem with getting caught up on an unfinished series is that now I’m caught up and I have to wait for the next one. Again.

I feel like Smaug and this post is the black arrow.

Why did you have to come for me like that, bro?

I have two business trips lined up over the next two weeks. I should bring one of the many, many books on my TBR. I am, instead, downloading seasons 1-3 of Ted Lasso onto my iPad. (I am also bringing my kindle.)

I typically say in my dramaturgy classes that cinema has outpaced theatre in realism, because when you're watching a scene in a film, the actor is in a (mostly) real space, with real props, etc. Theatre can't do that, there's always some willing suspension of disbelief. (1/2)

I need more companies to understand that if you have an AI bot speaking to me on a training or a video, I'm going to just turn it off. If you couldn't get a real human being to make a connection with me, I'm not bothering with you.

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

This meeting could have been a veiled threat, communicated solely by floral bouquets being sent back and forth, utilizing the Victorian language of flowers.

Also in non-writing news, the improvised space western show I direct is premiering at @legrandyesand.bsky.social in Montreal on Friday! Tix are available at www.legrandyesand.com/tales-on-tap

Woohoo! I'm so pumped for @canconsffh.bsky.social! Will I see you there?

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

I just heard someone say "don't project your own competency onto others" and ma'am, I am SHOOK.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

It's so PRETTY. Also pre-order this book. Dark, emotional, magical, I love them all.

I am having a horrible day, so I am going to allow myself to be self indulgent and post again. I loved this scene also. #writesky #wipsnip

This year can SUCK IT

Fuck these losers

Some of my wishlisted virtual instruments are on sale right now. I don't have any sort of project (or time for a project) to use them on but I WANT THEM. Traditional viking instruments? Cinematic drums? Gothic horror textures?

I really liked this scene a lot.

This has happened FAR too many times in my life... #WritingCommunity

Gallery wall in progress!

Updated my lifetime words log for the first time in awhile. A writing acquaintance once said that if you want to learn to write, you need to write 1 million words. Happy to report that I'm currently sitting at 470k, 411k of which was done in the last 2.5 years. Not too shabby.

Couldn’t take my ADHD meds today due to pharmacy shenanigans so apparently that meant it was time to rearrange my office.

Apparently future!me has discovered time travel, went back to 1905, and managed to convince John William Waterhouse to make me character art.

Most of the time I like to think I present as pretty normal, but my neurodivergent-ness has been showing of late at work. Because what do you mean you want me to do something wrong on purpose bc other people find the right way too hard? You just said I was correct and the right way is working. 🤬🤬

Welp, sent off what I had to book coach for the month. Why is sending your writing out to people so hard???

Colbert did a shot of malort on live television. As a former Chicagoan, my hat is off to you, sir. That shit is awful and you have my respect.

Today in editing: apparently I really like the word "blessedly."

Praying for all the voice teachers who are about to have a lot of students beg to learn how to belt Golden from KPop Demon Hunters. JFC that song is HIGH.

Managed to edit some more tonight. Here's hoping that at the end of this, I find the momentum into the next section.

I mean... an SFF musical about robots falling in love did just win the Tony for best musical. My theatre company's improvised space western is one of our most beloved shows. People are definitely doing SFF theatre.

The true horror hear is that you know the real estate agent tried to talk them out of those photos and failed.

For all the writers who've felt this way over the past months:

i am indeed experiencing Authenticity

I always save up my Indigo points for my birthday and then use them (plus my 20% off coupon for my birthday) to pre-order books for the coming year, so it's like little surprise gifts throughout the year. This year it's mostly knight books. At least I'm on brand.

All this talk about how infodumping is a neurodivergent trait—listen, we grew up reading SFF in the Nineties, OF COURSE we infodump. Y’all are lucky we’re not a full on italicized prologue.

MOAR MURDERBOT 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Congratulations to @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social for being the site of the 2027 World Science Fiction Convention! Felicitation a nos amis en Quebec!

If you're a one or two person household in the #Ottawa area, please consider looking after this beautiful boy, even temporarily - I love him so much, but my place just doesn't work for him 💔 www.petfinder.com/dog/atticus-...

Daily walk pic.

Daily walk pic.

Oh I *hugely* recommend this book! I read it about 15 years ago and I think it rewired something in my brain.

Designing a faux cover for a book I haven't finished writing yet is still writing right??

Belated daily walk pic.

Daily walk pic.

Sent off Act 1 to a critique partner. Am a bundle of anxiety. I vacillate between daydreaming she comes back with "OMFG THIS IS AMAZING" and being utterly convinced it's terrible, awful and she's going to tell me it needs a complete re-write. Again. Blargh. Writing is hard.

Will this edit ever be over? A tale, written by me.

I think it was @ceemtaylor.com who told me (quite rightly) that ideally love interests in a romance should be each other's antagonists, and I love that for them. And also for me.