Ada Hoffmann

Teaching takes a lot of energy!! It gets easier and you get smarter about it with experience, but it never stops being an Intense Thing.

Me! I'm going

Zhaleh is DMing. She has a whole intricate plot worked out already.
Rowan is the murder hobo, Leroy Jenkinsing his way into every encounter.
Kelli anxiously tries to method act her way through the RP and has an intense experience but barely says anything.
Ting is joking around and eating the snacks.

I always have said I am a "plantser" - I need a plan, but I also need the plan to be flexible.

For a few years I started to lean toward the pantser side and it helped me take interesting chances, but it caused problems with the books not having plots, so now I'm more serious about planning again.

Back end of several university buildings, with a tree in the foreground.

A cement mixer and tractor in front of a house.

Martello Tower with trees and traffic lights in the foreground.

A trailer full of cows in a parking lot.

And a few from closer to where I normally live.

Back view of several buildings in Barcelona.

A pedestrian street in downtown Barcelona.

Outside of a building.

Comic shops on a street in Barcelnoa, with pillars and balconies.

Here are a few from Barcelona!

A drawing of a black cat resting under a blanket. The caption reads, "please be patient with yourself; it all feels overwhelming because it IS overwhelming"

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Meet me at Can*Con! (And other news) Let’s get to the good part first: here’s my schedule for Can*Con in Ottawa, less than two weeks from now. This is my first time making promo graphics in...

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Meet me at Can*Con 2025! Sat Oct 18, 10:00 am Slow Fiction Sat Oct 18, 5:30 pm Navigating Social Communication Sun Oct 19, 10:00 am He's Babygirl: Reclaiming the Queercoded Villain @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social

One thing I am determined to do before IGNORE comes out is get used to making those cute promo graphics in Canva that everyone's making now. This is my first attempt 😅

Also hi! In just 10 days you can meet me at @canconsffh.bsky.social !

Yo, writers - it's not too late to look up your works on this page about the Anthropic settlement, and to submit a claim form if your works are eligible. Claim forms will be accepted until March 26. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

For reals though, I have seen the final cover art and it is SO CUTE #IgnoreThisBook

Just had my publicity meeting today with @tachyonpub.bsky.social and I am SO excited for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS. Can't wait to be able to share more about it with you in the new year - plus a cover reveal, and a couple of other goodies soon? #IgnoreThisBook

Thank you!

Yes, exactly. Hope can show up in so many forms.

And to be clear, people who write & critique hopepunk and other hopeful types of story often *are* engaging with this question very deeply - I am not attempting to claim that they aren't, or that no one is. This is more just a response to quick takes that are floating around in the discourse.

Because there are so many *interesting* varieties of hope - and varieties that are thought provoking enough to be useful, even if they're maybe not 100% how it would work in real life - and there are also toxic varieties, which can be toxic in more than one way.

I think one of the other things about the call for "hopeful fiction" - and the question of whether hopeful fiction is what we need now - is that it's paradoxically not specific enough.

Like, what kind of hope? What kind of future is hopeful? What does the author imagine about how we can get there?

And as long as it's not actively harmful, I feel a writer's first responsibility should be to write what's in their own unique heart. Do that with skill, and it will reach readers in helpful ways that the writer might never have anticipated.

I feel this so hard. I would not call my own writing nihilistic, but I do feel a knee-jerk exasperation/opposition to anyone saying there's only one way for writing to meet a historical moment. There are always going to be a multitude of readers with a multitude of needs.

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I have been so busy at work this month, it has been hard to notice the news - but just to be clear, I second everything in ASAN's statement here. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/09/asan...

Nobody is going to "end" me or the way that my brain works, thanks.

I have decided that "polarization" is a useless word.

If people sharply disagree about something, why?

"Because some mechanism rewards/encourages sharp disagreements" could be part of the answer, but is rarely the whole one, and can obscure what is actually at stake in the disagreement.

Fistbump!

Oh boy. I guess that one is more timely now than ever, huh.

Oh lol. Which tweet?

Although, I'm not really sure how they're supposed to hold elections in 2026 if they're still being bombed at that time?

About time. I'm pretty mad at Carney rn about a lot of things, but I'm glad he at least did this one.

Hello! I'm a Can*Con panelist :D

Write what you want.
Embrace who you are.
Forget everything else.
Get lost in the art.

Okay, the word I cannot spell correctly is "milieu."

That is wild. I had no idea.