arlen ren ✨

"pet cats" is an excellent goal 😺

hello #queerwriters ⛅

I've started outlining chapters 13&14 of Shark WIP draft 2, so...

...my goals this week are to write chapters 13&14 of Shark WIP draft 2 🤓

I hopefully have a writing session planned with friends this weekend, so I just have to get through the week (he says, on Monday) 😮‍💨

sometimes keeping it vague is best for the brain 🧠 less pressure that way!

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

I need to slow down so that I don't misread things 😮‍💨 (I tell myself this every week but alas)

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 9th 2026 (Easy), in 02:08
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I have gone straight from cold season into hayfever season with NO RESPITE and I am NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT 😤

I am very emotionally drained today. it's making me physically exhausted.

and tomorrow, the work week begins again...

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

thank you Sam for a puzzle that clicked in my brain today 🥹

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 8th 2026 (Hard), in less than 7 minutes
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as someone who's caffeine intolerant ordering (decaf) coffee is always a fraught experience, I feel you 😭

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

what an absolute mess 😭 couldn't understand why I wasn't getting it right...then realised I'd mixed up right and left 😵

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 7th 2026 (Hard), in less than 12 minutes
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it's now lessened slightly so it's no longer painful to breathe 🥲 looks like I'm taking things easy today

I have somehow managed to completely destroy my back whilst sleeping 😭 I can't bend at all and even standing still hurts. wtaf

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

I STRUGGLED today 😭

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 6th 2026 (Hard), in less than 23 minutes
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Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

annoyed at this mistake because I don't see how I was supposed to tell between the two, argh!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 5th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 9 minutes
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having them DURING THE HEELWORK PERFORMANCES AT CRUFTS is particularly egregious!!!!

this new trend of adverts showing DURING live events is the actual worst.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

misread which row and made a silly mistake 😭

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 4th 2026 (Medium), in less than 7 minutes
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the struggle is real 😭

I keep on staying up really late and then being like "why am I too tired to write in the morning?"

🙃

"Drag Race meets gay Game of Thrones" I am THERE!!!

good luck!!! 🍀

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 3rd 2026 (Medium), in 02:45
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Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

easy indeed 😎

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 2nd 2026 (Easy), in 02:22
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up at just gone 5am today and decided to give the whole 5am writers thing a go...can report that it's not for me. wrote for maybe 20mins before falling asleep and then overslept past my first alarm this morning 🥲

how many times will I have to look up spun vs span before I finally remember the answer

Two posts from altnps.bsky.social: Amazing work, everyone the OpenAI boycott is working! And thank you to our international supporters who are joining us. Sam Altman is in panic mode he went on X tonight telling users to ask him anything about OpenAI’s Pentagon deal as the boycott of ChatGPT grows. We know a lot of people are choosing to boycott AI overall, and we support that. AI is terrible on the environment! At the same time, we understand many people still use AI tools. If you’re going use AI please delete the ChatGPT app, and switch to Claude by Anthropic instead.

If you give a shit about:

* Books
* Art
* Fresh water
* Food
* Breathing

an account with over 890,000 followers shilling for Anthropic is a HUGE red flag.

This account was sus for a long time, but this is the icing on the fucking cake.

Block these absolute lying arseholes now.

I hope you feel better soon!

I think around 40ish chapters, and word count I don't care so long as it's under 100k 😅

thank you!!

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

that was a tough one 😮‍💨

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 1st 2026 (Evil), in less than 11 minutes
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just planned out the perfect heartbreaking full circle moment character death for the third book in a trilogy I haven't started writing yet

writers truly do run on delusion 🤪