julia

Tomorrow, Dawn by Sascha Stronach Terau Farm used to grow half the colony’s wheat. That’s what made it first an objective, then – as it changed hands again and again and again – a target. If it could not be held,…

alright it's here, the short story where I poured all my disappointments in 'hopepunk' as a concept, and tried to write what I thought when I first heard the term, which electrified me with its promise, a promise I found unfulfilled

cw for shitloads of gore

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CHAUCER WRITINGE ADVYCE

If you are tellinge a storye featuringe two younge knightes who speake and act exactlye the same and have the same personalitye, you kan helpe distinguish the characters by givinge them differente names. Followe me for more writinge tippes.

yaldi

*exits pages doc covered in blood, bruises, furiously trying to wipe away tears* you should see the other guy

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

“bluesky is an echo chamber” everywhere’s an echo chamber i’m going with the one without cybertruck guys

a man in a suit is dancing on a stage while holding a microphone . ALT: a man in a suit is dancing on a stage while holding a microphone .

hit 28,400 words tonight. freaking it sensitive style to celebrate

would you find delights like these if you only ever bought new books? little free libraries and charity shops are where it’s at

anyway, it got me thinking about my book purchasing habits, and how I should try and read more current books - but then I thought, no: secondhand books are where the heat’s at

i went to vote in the goodreads choice awards then realised i couldn't, because i've barely read any books published this year. this is a side effect of my stubborn refusal to read hardbacks and my strong preference for buying secondhand, even if it means waiting a while

everytime the 'remaining wordcount' number goes down I gain like +15hp

I don't talk to anyone besides my partner about writing because I am TERRIFIED of how it might feel if I never manage to publish anything - I figure I'll just tell people I write if I actually have a published work they can read - so here I am, screaming into the blue sky void: I HIT 25K!!!!!!

it's felt like a slog. I didn't anticipate how long it would take me to crank out 1667 words every day, but then a couple of days ago I got over 20,000, and my tracking spreadsheet said I only had 30,000 words left, and I was like oh shit maybe this is actually doable

anyway, I'm trying to write 50,000 words in november (no, there is no name or company associated with this challenge and never was) and last night I hit 25,000 words

I like to keep aspects of my online presence very siloed. instagram = too many real people I know, tumblr = where I go to be anonymously cringe about fandom stuff, facebook = somewhere I only visit once a year to sell stuff on marketplace

generally I think I need to stay off social media, but I'm in need of a place to dump about my writing a bit, and bluesky seems promising

The insistence on "likeable characters" has really messed up novels, which are obviously best when narrated by a weird little delusional freak