Mads G. Alaine

Trying an experiment to reignite/jumpstart my passion for writing and I just crash outlined/plotted an entire novel in 3 days…

I have never done that. Not once. Mayhaps, this experiment might pay off 👀

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The summer was awful and stressful and gross but I survived and it’s autumn now so it’s officially time to screech into the blue void again about my various projects and novels and elaborate dreams of writing

Today is weird and gross and overwhelming for so many people. To everyone who is at risk because of this bs please know I see you, I hear you, I stand with you, and I will do everything in my power to help you through the next four years and into infinity!

Take care of yourselves and each other ❤️

Update on this goal: have yet to write anything for the short story but I did write a decent chunk for the unhinged WIP so that’s something!

Hoping I can settle into this new routine quickly so that I can get back to writing because I am brimming with ideas! 🤞🤞🤞

The goal for this weekend is to write the bones of a short story that’s been bouncing around in my head since New Years.

Studying up on Thomas Cromwell for personal interest reasons, and suddenly the primary antagonist in my current WIP is making a whole lot more sense 😲

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Me with Dragon Age Origins the first time I played it. Also with Cyberpunk 2077.

I have to specify which wife because there is the actual wife (aka my best friend who I’ve lived with for the past 6 years), the bar-wife (aka my fav coworker from my side gig), and the literary-wife (aka my longtime writing bestie who keeps me accountable)

Female friendship is weird sometimes idk

Foaming at the mouth because my literary wife is sending me her beautiful words as soon as she’s done editing so I can devour them with my eyeballs and probably cry because it’s so good!

How this woman doesn’t have an agent yet is beyond me…

Corporations seem to really not get that “cyberpunk” is a literary genre about anti-corporate rebellion in a dystopian wasteland of extreme disparity between the wealthy elites and the common folk, between the empowered and the powerless…

…and not just “when stuff is cool, but in a tech way”

Random Life Update: overworked my wrist at my bartending side gig two weeks ago, and it /still/ hurts! I cannot yet tell if this is a new disability symptom or just a sustained injury/sprain, but I’m over it.

A Ballad of Storms and Horror

Literally just the title of my life 🙃😂

Hollow HOLLOW, coming from Peachtree Teen in Fall 2025, is a Y…

This is your reminder that I wrote a #book coming out in 2025!!

HOLLOW is a cottagecore folk horror featuring an autistic girl who gets separated from her friends & ends up in an off-the-grid compound with a kind but mysterious and secretive boy 👀

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

So freaking proud of you!!!!!

Write because you are going to run out of everything else: time, money, fucks to give. But you will never run out of your own bullshit. You could live forever on this unlimited fuel of emotional damage and charm. Plus people think you're funny. You're such a good writer. Live más.

I should probably pop my little gopher head in here to squawk about my books, huh?

Sometimes writing is realizing a secondary character is actually just a background character who might gain more story footing later. And I just think that’s neat…

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Alrighty internet friends, I’m building my classroom library list out some more and I’d love some recs! What books did you love as a teen? Doesn’t matter the type, length, or genre! I want to make sure my classroom has a little something for everyone!

#booksky

I don't wanna work I wanna go hang out with the crows

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

Best part, the liquor storage is literally where the morgue/body storage used to be, and we transport the kegs on an elevator once used to bring caskets up into the main space.

Working in a funeral home turned bar is all fun and games until the ghosts start tapping on the pipes when you’re in the basement alone.

Literally hate the essay I’m writing right now. Luckily it’s just a rough draft so it doesn’t need to be good. It just needs to be submitted…

It’s weird to want to write 3 very different novels at the same time. It basically amounts to the vibes in my mind being on constant shuffle.

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Truth be told, I’m even more solidly dug into my writer dream of writing a story about the rise/reign of the Evanuris, the world of the ancient elvhen, and Fen’Harel’s rebellion.

(Please BioWare let me do this! I know it’ll never happen probably but please I promise to do good!)

Finally finished Veilguard… I have so many thoughts/feelings. I’ve waited for this game for so long, it’s hard to think that wait is completely over. I finally know the end (so far).

And I’m going to need a solid 24-48 hours to process that ending. #dragonage #datv #veilguard

If you don’t want to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein together by the fireplace whilst sharing a vintage bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in an abandoned château in the French countryside during a raging snowstorm, then please don’t tell me you’re “down for a good time”.

Love the plan!!! Summer solstice is a perfect goal too! Beginning of a new cycle, end of an old.

What’s everybody up to in the #writingcommunity this week? How are those wips coming along? How’s querying going?

Give me a snapshot of your journey right now! ❤️

If I ever manage to write a contemporary/specfic novel, trust that at least one character will have my habit of stress baking to avoid their problems

📢 For all querying writers 📢

Let’s connect ❤️

If I’ve missed you, drop a comment below and I’ll add you to the list.

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