R.L. Meza

a bro by any other name would still be a good hang, dude.

🤐

second pass finished at ~5100 words (fleshed out). third pass will be shaving and polishing. then probably a fourth pass for extra polishing because I want this thing shiny.

It is 4:30. I put on a pain relieving patch. I probe nearby. another patch.

It is 4:40. I am all patches. only my eyes are visible.

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

a hardback novel titled ABOUT A PLACE IN THE KINKI REGION by author Sesuji. The cover is a black and grey photo beneath a red sky, the view from the bushes looking across a body of water at a bridge and road bordered by forested hills.

so excited to read this! ahhhhh!!!

sometimes you just need to get everything out before you can recognize the shape of it. idk I say push through. you got this

totally get that feeling. taking a walk or something to let it unravel a bit is a good idea. with pantsing first drafts for longer fiction, it helps me to remember that the end result will be a mess to sort later for draft 2, and that I mostly need all the ideas in one place, not perfection.

idk if this helps, but when I get stuck, I backtrack to the last place I remember things working/making sense, then try to write around the dead end (usually cut it once I have a new direction)

Remember that when AI stole your shit, Big Publishing did not fight for your copyright.

This should cause an immense shift in author/publisher dynamics because it's huge.

And yet...

Submissions ​Apocalypse Party is seeking novels, novellas, and short story collections of 20,000 to 100,000 words. We are seeking imaginative and challenging books that push boundaries.

www.apocalypse-party.com/submissions....

gotta be HELLRAISER (by an inch, because the dog scene from THE THING bums me out)

me: THE THING!
me, half a second later: shit, no, shit, sorry

I am having so much fun with this sci-fi horror bird story. nice to escape for a few hours each morning while I slowly work through the second pass (rewriting and editing).

remonstrating the cat: what if we didn't treat me as furniture though
cat: i'm sorry i don't talk to furniture

me: ooh, oatmeal raisin
fresh cookies: oatmeal chocolate chips ‘n’ grave dirt
me: ew chocolate chips

Donnie darko therapist meme Your order has shipped Has it really shipped or just shipping label Shipping label

I made this to express my feelings

moon go wheeeeeee

Had an amazing time working on this!

We Are Here To Hurt Each Other Amazon.com: We Are Here To Hurt Each Other eBook : Ashe, Paula, Books, Nictitating: Kindle Store

This collection will mess you up and it should be on the list of every reader who celebrates Women in Horror Month: WE ARE HERE TO HURT EACH OTHER by Paula D. Ashe. Winner of the 2022 Shirley Jackson Award and finalist for a Bram Stoker Award.

Here’s your teaser:

all-timer book, I love this one so very much

not sexual innuendo from my main character, a bird. (I do love a line that makes me go haha wtf about my own writing though.)

Thanks to editor @lenemacleod.bsky.social and the rest of the Frost Zone team for including my story "Path of Totality" in the new volume of Frost Zone Stories!

you will be no help to yourself or others if your brain turns to liquid from witnessing one horror after another. it's ok to step away from the internet temporarily. it's okay to focus on small-scale community building and support irl.

A meme of Principal Skinner looking pensive in the top panel with the text, "Am I just not good enough as a writer?" and a bottom panel featuring Principal Skinner staring ahead with the text, "No, it's the hundreds of rejections that are wrong."

Some days you just gotta let yourself be a little delulu after receiving another "Thank you for sending us your story, but..." 🤪

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

Billy Joel reveals piano man is about a revolting, Cronenberg esque piano human driven by primitive uncontrollable impulses

Touching

A pre-kindergarten girl with dark blonde pigtails wearing blue overalls, a yellow t-shirt, and roller skates sits sulking on the ground. An older girl wearing roller skates, a burgundy shirt, and red checkered bell bottoms with red patches on the knees stands next to her, with the photo cut off at shoulder height. Text on the image reads: This is who writes your New Weird sad-girl grief horror *Split Scream vol. 7 out now

📚 If I’m ever NOT late on a social media trend, you’ll know I’ve been kidnapped and replaced w/ some sort of doppelgänger. SPEAKING OF, have you read my novelette “Sequoia Point” yet?🌲🌊 It’s the second half of Split Scream vol. 7 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ❗️ #ecohorror

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*chanting* shining mini series