Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

Screeeeeeeeeming and kicking my feet bc LOOK at the glorious author portrait @heymonsterboy.bsky.social made for my Enchanting Alter Ego what writes romantasy!! 💃💃💃 Going to have all kinds of fun setting this persona up with some social medias in the new year 😎

Help my friend Frank become the best version of themselves by sharing and donating to their top surgery fund! gofund.me/bdde34b40

Some days it’s hard to believe this dog ever spent the first three years of her life in Texas.

I had time to write for what feels like the first time in forever, so of course I cannot focus worth a damn. Ugh.

Realized today as I was trying to put a Christmas list together that the thing I want most is more time.

I gasped out loud.

Ivy dog has just had the best day of her entire life.

lol friend posts pic of my dog & it goes viral. Ivy is a very good dog though.

"As mentioned above, Scrivener cannot exclude these tools from the app. But you can turn off Apple Intelligence on a Mac running macOS 15 Sequoia or macOS 26 Tahoe, or on an iPhone or iPad running versions 18 or 26 of iOS or iPadOS."

Why is it that no one seems to know how basic project management works when working on projects with other people?

Cold but pretty.

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol

Landed in Austin. Immediately ordered tacos because #priorities.

Started watching MURDERBOT and now I don't wanna go to work, I just want to watch MURDERBOT, which is pretty much the plot of MURDERBOT.

No panic attack quite like the one where you can’t find your passport the night before an international flight.

Mumford & Sons and Hozier wrote a song produced by Aaron Dessner with these lyrics and it's somehow *not* written especially for me? It's like they heard I was having writing motivation problems and said "We can fix that".

It’s been a shitty fucking week but I managed to hit my word goal today. Please clap.

New to the world of my A.G. Slatter Sourdough novels? Y'all can taste test with No Good Deed - get the ebook for free or order the physical chapbook over at @brainjarpress 🙂 brainjarpress.com

My main contract gig is being cut, and my family responsibilities are less demanding than a few years ago. So please get in touch if you know of writing/editing/research/workshop positions, any hours, ideally remote or Ottawa. Extra points for good causes. I know it's rough out there for everyone.

Trigger warning for pet death. . . . . Something went wrong during our new kitten Astrid’s spay procedure this morning and she didn’t make it. We are devastated. We didn’t have her for long but she was such a good cat. My poor sweet baby. I love you and miss you so much.

2025 can honestly, well and truly go fuck itself.

Exhausted today, but pushed through to 1,156 words. Woo.

Today was a really weird day. Got some not-great personal news. Got some good professional-ish news. And I wrote 4k+ words on my zero draft for new project. I am vast. I contain multitudes.

Doing #thirtyin30 as my writing project this month and today's word count is 1,456. Not too shabby.

I cooked nine meals today, all for the freezer. I’m gonna go collapse now.

I am CACKLING

Ahh, the unique, panicked feeling when you have ADHD when it's 10am and you're hungry.

Walk photos from yesterday.

Did I just spend all evening researching whether or not a coastal lagoon could've been anywhere near enough a volcano eruption that it would've gotten enough ash to make helenite for ~reasons~? Apparently yes. #writerproblems

This is such a good joke. 😂

HEY it's Halloween on Friday and obvs you need some spooky reading to go with your candy And HERE THERE ARE MONSTERS even begins on the night before Halloween... so! 🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇

Currently working through the snowflake method to plot New Project, and it really, really works. After 3 tries, I have a (very messy) 1-page summary that actually hangs together. But I am so glad I'm doing this now and not after I've written 50k words of prose and realized the plot didn't work.

If you like ace romance with wry humour, messy queers fighting for justice and epic worldbuilding, The Dragon Next Door is for you! 🐲 Sword lesbian (bi) 🐲 Secret baby (dragon) 🐲 Friends to lovers (ace) 🐲 Found family 🐲 Opposites attract books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6 vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...

I am not a sportsball person and I don’t live in Toronto but GO JAYS KICK THEIR ASSES

New project! Current working title: A Palace of Smoke & Mirrors. A retired commedia dell'arte troupe gets blackmailed into doing a heist by the mob, with magical theatre tech. [The Italian Job x Noises Off x The Mask of Mirrors]

Dear writing software companies: if you keep pushing AI shit at me and keep talking about different ways to use your software with generative AI, I'm going to stop using your product. And I'm going to tell all my friends to stop using it, too. Plottr: you're on notice.

Excuse me. When did Behind the Name get *place* names?? places.behindthename.com

Stolen from the Latin teacher FB group.

Managed to slice my thumb open while cutting up a cucumber for dinner. Ugh.

Also if there's one thing I need techbros to understand it's that "move fast and break things" only works if no one actually depends on your product.

Oh to be a dog and nap all day.

But somehow Palpatine returned and addressed us all in Fortnite. 🙄🙄🙄

HELLO ALSO! If you are in Ottawa, we would love to see you tonight at Perfect Books for the launch of the final novella in the trilogy, THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES! The brilliant @kateheartfield.com and I will be talking research, eco-fiction, bears (bears?) and more!

Very pleased with my #cancon2025 book haul.

Reposting from threads bc it made me laugh.

Had a great #cancon2025! I met so many wonderful people, plus I got to wax poetic about how romantasy and romantic fantasy are not the same thing on saturday, and today about dramaturgy and aesthetic distance when writing music for the stage. Already looking forward to next year!

Last day of #cancon2025 and I’m so excited for my panel on Speculative Songwriting that I’m bringing my mini keyboard to demonstrate how you can write music even if you can’t play anything (like me!). Check us out!

Last day of #CanCon2025 and I can’t believe it’s almost over!! I’ll be on a panel for THE TASTE OF SADNESS: WRITING EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION 🥀🥺🌊🍂 Come by to discover what makes people cry and all the ways we embody sadness for writing the feels 🫶