A picture of a living room, with my laptop on a dining room table.
Doing my thing
A picture of a living room, with my laptop on a dining room table.
Doing my thing
Picture of my feet on a snowy ground. There are paw prints in the snow. I'm wearing sandals
I rebel against the snow.
T-minus 20 hours to world travel excursion #1!
Please observe my descent into plant motherhood
Wow, this trilogy by Megan O'Keefe impressed the shit out of me. The tension, the characters, the romance. Chefs kiss
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, βChalchiuhtlicueyecatlβ. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
Reading today instead of writing after work.
The hard days with writing are when the motivation is there, the words are there, but the body and the brain are sandblasted to heck because of allergies. π€
Book 5 goal: 150,000
Current wc: 31,111
Challenges:
-writing a satisfying ending to a 5 book series.
-pacing pacing pacing
Also I love having so many writer friends now π₯²π₯°
I recently got diagnosed and I was a hyper intelligent kid with good grades. I'm inattentive type ADHD and presentation in women is quite a bit different from standard criteria. Check out "How to ADHD" and "Dr Tracey Marks" on YouTube. π
Writing with buds the other day
Picture of my cat Bagel, annoyed looking, and leaning on my leg.
Picture of my cat Bagel, annoyed looking, and leaning on my leg
Picture of my cat Bagel, annoyed looking, and leaning on my leg
The stages of annoyance while she tries to nap on me but I make too much noise. #cat
Most of the people reading this have a sense of how bad things are right now.
So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
Are you a writer or writer adjacent? Join my writing club! @silentwritingclub.bsky.social
19k/150k on book 5
And yet here they are walking through the section dedicated to "superheroes" and browsing like its going out of style. Is it a mating dance? A "I'm too cool for this, and you should be impressed"? I enjoy joking and word play, but this isn't it. I will continue to observe until I have an answer.
My favorite part of working retail is people watching and people eavesdropping. Because of that I have come to be aware of "The Fakery" where two people will walk through my section and one of them will openly insult random stuff (ugh superheroes) and the other will follow along and chuckle
Theππ½π° chart the super-rich donβt want you to see β taxing the very top (like we used to) could erase our debt in a heartbeat, if anyone was really serious about it.
They arenβt. They just want to use it as an excuse to cut programs and cut their taxes more.
Is it #booksky? Here's my stuff
Picture of my laptop with the text of my fifth book on it. In Panera. It's a pretty day out if a bit cold
Goof morning and have a happy day
It feels like everything is broken. And I'm not sure how to fix it except to keep on trucking on the path I'm on. Create community - stand up for people - live my best life
It's just a photo of my laptop against a backdrop of a beautifully lit marketplace
How many coffees does it take to get to the end of an audiobook?
If you throw in some money I'll email you the mp3s of the first two audiobooks!
#audiobooks #writingcommunity
This shows my word count on this project. I am at 11,529 out of 100,000. 12% completed. I wrote 4870 words according to the book goal tracker in Atticus.
Kinetics book 4 word count update.
11,529 out of a projected 100,000. Aiming to write anywhere from 8,000-10,000 words a week on the high end. This may end up being lower if I have planning or revamping to do.
#writingcommunity #author #writing
Dude, I really like it! Very good
Here I am, once again. This book ain't gonna write itself! Victory or Hope is in the hands of alpha readers and while I spend some time ignoring it, I'm all in on book 4 of Kinetics.
#writingcommunity #author #writing
Ok I made a serious book trailer. I figure I might do some shortie character trailers.
Do you have book trailers that you love? Yours or others? I would love to see what other people do.
#writingcommunity
Which is the best/or fave of the flash fiction you've written?
The stories I've heard is that people start with shorts (on their own dime usually) and after a proof of concept or proof of quality pieces running the film festival curcuit are able to make a case for feature length. π€·ββοΈ that's anecdotal at best tho.