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I should clarify that #cozy a wee bit.

BCBB is a #fantasy set in today times but in the midst of a faeborn cold war.

It's got a coffee shop, bookshop, govmt controlled narratives, enemies to allies, messy coverups, fake dating, found fam, cPTSD rep, & plant magic.

So..."cozy."

Em & Mad were fated to wed long before birth & doomed the moment she blood-cursed him at age 8.

Now, their ill-advised reunion as lit agency interns brings them red-pen to page with the prophetic book that ruined their lives—and it has a bone to pick with them.

#amwriting #cozy

The house winks with a plywood eye and I wink back. I respect a lady who can lose a fight with gravity and keep flirting.

Children’s singing reaches me: ‘Terror Theresa, don’t you stare, wrapped her baby up in hair.’

I tug my jacket closed and smile. A house with baggage.

#Questpit #W #A #H #PR

It’s been a while since I did a pitch event and I forgot the most important hashtag #questpit

My Annual Over-Estimation of Capacity a.k.a. January Wishful Thinking Whiplash. Why January isn't the month to make dreams come true, what it IS good for, and why I missed my self-imposed deadline.

It’s time to come clean about the curse of January, #WritingCommmunity.

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Obligatory, “I’m still here,” post.

#amwriting

Here. Have a magazine. How Reaching Back Might Be Our Step Forward

Got cocky and posted this one all on my lonesome—no pubs.

We’ll see how that pans out 😂

#MediumWriters

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2026 is my year. I’m claiming it.

Consider it licked.
Tap-tapped.
Bagged.
Dibs’d.
Me-me-me-it’s-mine’d.

(Don’t worry. I hear we all get one.)

🥳 Happy New Year 🎊

Eeeeeeee!!!!! So stinking happy for you!!!!!!! And this is such a great HIGMA 🥹

I got to read some snippets and it is SO FREAKING GOOD!!! Victoria is one hell of a writer beast!!!

#writercommunity #amquerying #AuDHDAuthors

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That thing when people underestimate you because you no longer have a 9-5 job. But then they take a swing at your kid too many times and corporate-bitch-you taps in with an onslaught of logic, data, and time-stamped documentation.

#audhd #2E #chronicillness #mommabearactivated

Plot twist. Child sneezes while drinking hot cocoa within the general vicinity of device. Snot-snipes liquid directly into important port. Black screen of death. Device is out of commission and unrepairable. All saves lost for all games. Sibling civil war commences.

[based on painfully true events]

Change, change, change. It's time to shake things up and pull back the curtain. Or...maybe the other way around. With The Copper Canary's trench run nearly over, it's time to focus on the next phase in my writer's cycle: #am...

Someone's got a shiny new project and a whole lot of excuses for shaking things up.

Reasons, sorry. Reasons.

#amwriting #writingcommunity

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Question.

Let’s say I wanted to switch to a semi-private PEN NAME for, well …reasons.

How would one’s followers react to this? Would y’all even notice?

I assume you know me by my logo and handle because you are as bad with names as I am.

#WritingCommmunity #writesky

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Oh, shit. The social medias.

Wow. I should be updating those.

Sorry 👋😬

#amwriting.

A Novel Experiment: Episode 11 - In Which Project Burnout Strikes...HARD And I Write Two Chapter Braindumps out of Spite

What’s that? New pre-outlines for Chapters 6 and 7 of #PollyOllyOxenFree? Why, I shouldn’t have! 😜

I’d LOVE to hear any and all inklings and ideas before I write the drafts! 🥰

#fiction #YAFantasy #amwriting

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Fun facts:

I post something sincere here? Gain a follower.

I post the same sincere thing over on the angry place? Lose three.

Both of these results boost my spirits. The latter cracks me up 😂

#WritingCommunity #amquerying #amwriting

Thanks for the like @jjphillipsyo.bsky.social! The book you’re querying sounds awesome!!

Birdie book buddies for life ✌️👐

Hello @wottenmoss.bsky.social , you are definitely one of them that makes it worth it 🥰

If the only thing to come out of my attempt to be an author is that I became friends with a bunch of amazing authors, editors, and lit agents?

Yeah…I’ll consider that a win.

6 year old me definitely would 👭🏻

#writingcommunity #amquerying #amwriting #amediting

Ugh. I hate that 😡 So much time. So little pay off.

Just Don’t Care A rough-finished piece, from a cross-wired switch, about your well-meant but woefully ignorant advice

Sometimes weird pieces come out & decide they don’t need editing but totes belong on the main blog.

This is one of ‘em. Didn’t have the ❤️ or 🥄s to say no 😂😬

#fiction #shortstories #cPTSD #therapy #AuDHD #WritingCommunity #amwriting #neurospicy #2E

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The Exquisite Pain of an Unconditional Gift Embers from Past Flame Consume Again—and Again.

Found an old draft today. It hit hard. By law, I am now obligated to share 2022 me’s abandoned attempt at processing #feels in a timely manner.

#WritingCommmunity #amwriting #cptsd #audhd #traumarecovery #prose #poetry #couldbebetter

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I don’t do political posts often but I’ve been feeling feisty lately.

On a TOTALLY unrelated note, did you know that the mob used to use large-scale, rapid-construction, low-oversight projects to hide evidence of their crimes?

#releasethefiles #funfacts #remodeling #conspiracycanbefun

Genre Fiction: The Kitschy Box of Books A Totally Accurate Metaphor for Classic Literature’s Longstanding Beef with Genre Fiction

Genre Fiction: The Kitschy Box of Books

A totally accurate metaphorical explanation for classic literature’s longstanding beef with genre fiction.

#writing #genre #fiction #humor #WritingCommunity #itsokaytolaugh #itsajoke #mediumwriters #writesky #booksky #amwriting

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Can we PLEASE normalize finding someone new on social, deep scrolling their profile, and liking whatever the hell we want to like regardless of how long it has been since they posted it?

i.e., I’m not obsessed, I just discovered you & want to give past-you props for their portfolio of awesomeness.

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#NoKings ONLY FROG.

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What IS IT about putting pen to paper that turns all my “genius”ideas into illegible garbage?

#amwriting #amediting #totallythepapersfault

Thanks for the repost 🫶😊

YES, exactly. I honestly believe there are a TON of unpublished gems out there by ND authors who probably only got a few CNRs or form rejections but due to their RSD inbox being in a constant state of overwhelm they stopped writing in favor of mental health sustainability.