Lost my mom yesterday. I'm not sure what to feel, what to say, what to do. I've run the gamut of emotions over the course of the last year, especially this past week as I kept her comfortable in home hospice. As the saying goes, "Now what?"

Your body is already giving you information about your #wip. The first step in using emotional intelligence as a writer is simply learning to notice what it’s saying. emotethis.net/perceiving-e... #amwriting #WritingCommunity #authors #fiction

Have you ever used a thunderstorm in your writing to set the scene or even mimic the plot? emotethis.net/on-thunderst... #WriteSky #amwriting #WritingCommunity #WritingQ

Does it rain in your world? Snow? What does that feel like? On Precipitation & Emotion emotethis.net/on-precipita... #WriteSky #amwriting #WritingCommunity #WritingQ

Emotional Intelligence for Writers, in Manageable Sips. #Newsletter emotethis.net/newsletter/ #amwriting #writingcommunity #writer #writerslife

Do you use fictional towns in your work or incorporate towns you know well? Is it a mix of both? For me: it's a little of both (sci-fi on a different world vs. sci-fi here) #amwriting #writingcommunity #WritingQ #writer

What the movies and television want you to believe regarding the last days of a loved one is ridiculous. Watching my mother fade away for three straight days and dealing with some of the most bizarre shit is nothing like I expected. It is the hardest thing I've ever had to deal with...and I'm old.

I did a little study about weather and emotions. Here are some thoughts on what I found. bxwretlind.com/blog/2022/05... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writinglife #WritingQ #writingtip #writingtips

Maybe #authors could ask this instead of asking "Did you like it?" There might be a grain of something in there that's more useful and lands better. I might consider this approach the next time I send a manuscript to a #betareader hbs.edu/faculty/Page... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Amid the fireball juggle of life (my #WIP, taking care of my mother in hospice, finalizing my research plan, working full time), I'm building something to help writers turn real emotions into resonant stories. What if you could map emotional intelligence onto your characters? emotethis.net

Going down the rabbit hole of concordant action versus altruism. I could be napping, you know. #research #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Applies as well to non-scientific writing. Writing is thinking. Writing is feeling. Writing is thinking how to make readers feel what you’re feeling & understand what you’re thinking. #writing #writingcommunity

Writing is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Trying to get this first draft good enough that I can tack on "v1" at the end before other things take over my time. It's going better than I thought. Eventually, I'll have TL_v34_final_final_really_final_v12.docx ready to submit. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Are you an #author with a #newsletter? Would love to see what other folks do (and yes, subscribe). Share the details! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Today's reading... an 1895 version of The Iliad in Greek. One. Word. At. A. Time. #amreading

So last night's dream involved a biplane that crashed, a dinosaur, talking about my first job at Jack-in-the-Box, getting blood drawn for a heart test, and a newbie lab tech. Interpretations, please. There's gotta be a novel in there. #dream #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

End of Movement II. Yes, my #WIP has Movements, not Acts, not Chapters. I want to say there's a reason for this, but I haven't yet come up with anything other than "I like movements." Now I have some Madagascar song in my head. Great. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

It was 139°F in Houston yesterday. In my dream. On a weather map. It's great when your obsession with whatever #writing project you're working on leaks into your subconscious and colors dreams. #WritingCommunity #WIP

Cloud, Creek, Chateau - July 2020 - 24 x 24, acrylic on canvas Never was good at titles of anything. #art

I don't always wake up late, but when I do, I had to be up 2 hours earlier. I just hope to be able to calm my nervous system down enough by this afternoon to write. #WritingCommunity

Thanks to everyone who has signed up for the #newsletter. There's a lot coming in 2026, and I'd like you to be a part of it. It's all info without sales, the way a newsletter should be. emotethis.net/newsletter/ #WritingCommunity #writing #writers #newsletter #authors

A whisper uncaught Impossible to repeat A breeze in tall grass #haiku #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity

A paper that showed up in my Google Scholar feed the other day. Oof. "...literary creation in the age of #AI demands a reconfiguration of aesthetic and epistemic assumptions about what it means to 'create...'” research.adra.ac.id/index.php/hu... #WritingCommunity #writers #Creativity

#BluePit📖 Where Do All The Calculators Go: The Gospel According to #RedDwarf 🤖 Silicon heaven 😸 Cat religion ✝️ Deep theology ⏳️ Time travel ⚖️ Justice 🥪 State of the art sarnies 📚 Non fiction #BluePit #P #NF Ebook available everywhere books2read.com/u/49VPy8 Paperback available from the author

🔥WHAT will GROW from the ASHES? A young woman's quest across ruins of former US becomes larger than saving her village from raiders. It offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change. Nature will reclaim the land🌱We create anew #CliFi #Hopepunk #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #SP

“Humans. I’d seen them before: one or two here and there over the years, a small pack once. It was always the same: crowds silently parting to make way for a lone hunter, dock workers going out of their way to avoid a human ship’s berth. But this one wanted to talk to me.” #BluePit #Q #SF #LGBT #A

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads a tarot-themed odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a key to peace, using meditation powers, survival skills, and archaic tech in the race to save her people. #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A #SP #hopepunk #CliFi #witchsky

Arabian Nights x Bluebeard Makin can have whatever he wants - that’s the whole point of being a supreme ruler. But when he is consumed by a desire to be loved, he can crush or be crushed. Can his songbird slave girl live long enough to bring him redemption? #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #A novella #R #DIS

✨Magical Academia! 💜Disaster Sapphics! 🔥 Arson! 😭Misbegotten Curses struggling to do "the Right Thing™️" Lion Girl and the Ember Maiden is about being wrong, loving others, and fighting for your truth amidst the laws of a magic library! #BluePit #BluePit📖 #MG #YA #F #SP #W #OV #LGBT #POC #TR

THE DELUGE X THE WATER KNIFE X PARABLE OF THE SOWER A municipal engineer keeps a city’s water system “within tolerance” during an unbroken heat wave. Pressure drops. Adjustments hold. Until holding becomes a choice about who dies. #BluePit📖 #W #A #SF #ND

AN EDUCATION IN MALICE x PETER PAN A cranky immortal & a smug pirate are forced to work together in order to save their loved ones from their common enemy: Peter Pan. ⚔️Enemies to Lovers 💀Dark Reimaginings 👩‍❤️‍👩Bi FMC × Lesbian FMC 🫂Found family 🌶️Spicy Sapphics 🩸Pan-pires #BluePit📖 #A #W #F #H #LGBT

PlanetSide Consulting: The Possession Of Ares Murderbot x Firefly #Bluepit When terraforming stalls, you call in the consultants. The men and women of PlanetSide are guaranteed to get your planetary engineering moving again. A snarky, swashbuckling, gunslinging western-in-space 🚀 #SF #W #A #scifi

Bayle, the butler, needs to help turn his employer's antique orbital into an academy. Nora is determined to protect her cottage from a corporate land-grab. If they put their heads together, they could solve each other's problems.🥰 Unfortunately, it may also tear them apart.💔 #BluePit 📖 #A #R #SF #W

Commander Revera must recover valuable intel from a wrecked enemy warship found drifting in space. But her mission is sabotaged, and the dead ship’s secrets will force her to decide if fulfilling it is worth losing her honor or restarting a horrific war. #BluePit📖 #A #SF #Q #BluepitHype #amquerying

EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but should they help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? 📖 #Bluepit #W #YA #SF

NINTH HOUSE X BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN Healing magic belongs to the rich. Until now. When a healer turns up dead on their uni campus, fellow outsiders David & Zarrin must risk their lives & their friendship to protect an idea that could change magical medicine forever. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #F #LGTB

BUFFY x CARMILLA When vampire culture is threatened by humanity, the choice to save or damn their people rests on the shoulders of a pacifist nonbinary vamp who just wants to hibernate through depression and bad choices—until their bloodthirsty sister gets involved #BluePit #BluePit📖 #Q #LGBT #A #F

The Etheri Trilogy, a character-driven narrative with fun action sequences! FMC: I have no enemies 😇 Uh-oh 🫠 You have personally wronged me 🗡️ Are we the baddies? 🤔 Working together for a better tomorrow 💪 Choose your retailer: linktr.ee/sagetgreene #BluePit📖 #P #NA #Action #Adventure #F

"Our history was shaped by those unseen. Those living on the other side, fighting an unending battle with the horrors threatening to throw the world into chaos." 👹Spirits, gods, and eldritch ❄️Northern winter setting 😶Anxiety rep 🥰Gorgeous green flag #BluePit📖 #NA #F #R #W

GREY GARDENS in space, a novella: A documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station. He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience. #bluepit📖 #A #SF #LGBT #TR #novella

Dear Mom and Dad, Camp sucks! Why did you send me here? My counselor hates me if I breathe the wrong way. My roommate wakes me up at 6! It feels like I can't stop messing up. And something feels off about the returning campers.... GET ME OUT OF HERE! Some Love, Hannah #BluePit #MG #amquerying #MG

THE GAMES GODS PLAY X 12 KINGDOMS X A MAGICAL GIRL RETIRES Aurora yearns for belonging, but her dreams have become more horrific, eventually becoming true. When a group of strangers enters her home, she finds out the idea of 'fantasy' was walking here on Earth, all along... #BluePit📖 #NA #F #R #W

HALF LIFE x MINDWALKER Taylor’s not threatened by BOIS, androids made to be perfect BFs. The girl he 💘s, head of their BOIS' rights club, would never buy one When Taylor learns he's a BOIS-friend, he's 😡 at her hypocrisy & starts a revolution to prove he's > his programming #BluePit📖 #YA #Q #SF

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSub 2026!) Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe? #BluePit📖 #BluePit #YA #R #M #DIS #LGBT #OV #OS

HALF LIFE x MINDWALKER For sale: 🤖 One BOIS-friend, refurbished 😘 Good kisser 🧁 Sweet as sugar, but substance, too 🍿 Will gladly watch ‘90s movies w/ you 🤷‍♂️ Doesn't know he's an android 🪖 Has never been taken over by his soldier counterpart 😤 May rebel against his programming #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #SF

G'morning #Bluepit! For your consideration, I present to you an #Agentsguide to CAVERN CLIPPER (TREASURE PLANET x JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH x THE LAST EXILE) #Bluepit 📖 #A #SF #F #W

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky. Corado's about to break all three. 🤠 Vampire Cowboys 🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes 🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities Querying now! #A #F #Q #BluePit 📖 #amquerying

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #BluePit 📖 #A #D #F #H #W #DIS