K. T. Matthews

I have a limited number of spoons per day to spend on interacting with strangers. Having to do phone calls for medical appointments is... not what I would choose to use them on.

Me to medical assistant: Is there an email-only option?
M.A.: No, but let me give you the phone number to complain!

Submission status tracking is the world's slowest roller coaster

Gyozasaurus Rex here makes me wonder what other foods could be dino’d…

Anyways, my compliments to the chef for remembering what the internet is for.

Seven-year-old critics are BRUTAL

Followed by a critique of first lines:

{Opening A Wrinkle in Time}: "It was a dark and stormy night..."

Kid: Nope, that sounds *common*

My kid, literally judging a pile of books by their covers:

"Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!"

I honestly have soooo many scripts and systems for interacting with neurotypical people, like... they seem kind of rigid and inflexible about communication patterns, no?

Yeah I've been thinking about how to incorporate more rewards into my life; the waiting/rejection cycle is so brutal. Thanks for the idea!

I love this idea!

I feel like regular loneliness can be physical but DEEP loneliness is that "all alone in a crowded room" loneliness

So much of modern U.S. society is constructed to be isolating & since that's the norm we tend to call others (or ourselves) lonely when we attempt to counteract that

As someone who's been deeply lonely for most of my adult life I feel like just about all of the quotes miss the mark; most are signs someone has trauma, lacks community, or has attachment issues but DEEPLY LONELY is something else all together...

Me, spending this week on the same place in the same scene (while other pieces around get put in a new order bc that is what will make sense to the overall arc)

Omg I wasn't expecting the America's Sweethearts salary negotiation subplot!

I really want someone with a linguistics background to do a deep dive on the ways that these women are navigating the feminine norms expected of them, while also challenging the paycheck status quo--I need better words!

The encouragement I give writers is this:

If you love it, if it completes you, never stop.

Otherwise, feel no guilt about not doing it. The world will turn just fine. Do something that makes you happier.

The "I'm more of an ideas guy" exists in startups AND fiction...

Seriously can we please have this??

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

same, but coffee

BBC classic books TV series have the most "I am reading this book out loud to you" energy

I am revisiting the 1987 Northanger Abbey and I forgot about the saxophone track!

Seeing each decade's take on Austen is fun

With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/

Also, I REALLY want to see the Inside Out characters version of this

The perfect example of AI madness does not ex--

(Wiki of known responses was here last time I checked: www.rejectionwiki.com/index.php?ti...)

My spouse, after I explained about Reject-Plus and Reject-Minus form letters from literary journals:

"Wait, so in a Reject-Minus situation, do they like add a custom insult to the auto-rejection form?"

Writing the high-tension parts of a novel is wild, because of the time difference--what the author spends hours stewing in will only take a few minutes to read. Sometimes I accidentally pick lower stakes situations just because I'M stressed after so much time dealing with the tension.

I have a high level of annoyance at the Geico lizard "eye-contact" commercial--feels bad in real life, feels much much worse coming from a fake cartoon character with no actual emotions

same!

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