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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.

I think the biggest hurdle for #witers w/ #ADHD is enduring the constant rejection…when you already struggle daily w/ #rejectionsensitivedysphoria.

On one hand, it’s handy bc you expect it, but it also makes maintaining hope a hell of a lot harder.

#amquerying #Neurodivergent

This sounds INCREDIBLE!!

I don’t want to leech on your post so I’ll dm you 😘

Also, I love this. Should have started with that.

🥹 I literally wrote a piece about a bowl the other day.

What if the only people who can teach you to control your powers are the ones your father died freeing you from & that your family spent their lives hiding you from.

And, what if you grew up shamefully suppressing said powers because “martyr” family told you they were a myth?

#DVPit #F #ND #CI #MH

Either Avery Black’s skin affliction went from nuisance to painful to paralyzing and now has decided to become blatantly & publicly murderous.

OR

It is no longer possible for her to suppress the ancestral power she’s been gaslit into believing was all myth and delusion.

😠😡🤬

#DVPit #F #CI #ND #MH

🐙 OctoFacts 🐙 for #worldoctopusday:

1. A group of #octopi is called a consortium.

2. The plural form of #octopus is #octopuses.

I think we can all agree, 2 is wrong. I propose the plural form of octopus be officially changed to octopees. As in:

“Look at the glorious consortium of octopees!”

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I assume you survived the ordeal with zero metal-monetary-projectiles in your hot bean water?

They Call Her Wicked

✨editor interest✨
A slow-seeping poison is infecting Appalachia, and Briar must stop it before shadow creatures are unleashed into her world. But on her journey to find help, buried secrets of her past are revealed, changing her life forever. #A #F #DVpit #ND #DIS

1 dead Dad.

1 wrongfully Asylum-ed Mom.

1 life forced into servitude & solitude by social-ladder-climbing family.

And one inherited power, suppressed for years, about to hit a tipping point—uncovering truths about her life she’d been led to believe were all in her head.

#DVPit #CI #MH #ND #F #A

Caelis is a failed sniper with broken augments. Serenya is a genetically engineered supersoldier who wants to bake cookies. Before they were enemies, now they're humanity's only hope to stop a signal erasing entire colonies.

Unless they kill each other first.

#DVpit #A #SF #MV

Mother of War = The Witcher X NieR Replicant

When Mya Kenorfield’s son, Wenru, is suddenly kidnapped, she has to save him before King Sorga realizes that Wenru is a powerful sorcerer in his own right and becomes even more tempted to drain Wenru’s power for his own.

#DVPit
#F
#A
#DIS
#LGBT

The Curse of Bethel Grove

✨Editor interest ✨
Charlie returns home and finds herself caught between her first love and a newcomer. But as sparks ignite, a curse awakens. To save the town, and the men she loves, she must finish a forgotten song before the curse claims them. #DVpit #A #PR #ND

🇸🇻An #ownVoices Nahua romantasy set in precolonial Latam🇸🇻

When Itotia’s ritual binds their lives together, deity Metztli grapples with mortality & Itotia learns the gods aren’t as benevolent as she thought

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+
❤️‍🔥 Enemies→Lovers
🤝🏼 Bargains

#DVpit #A #F #Latine #LGBTQ #Myth