Paper Ryder

YEAH LMAO I'm trying speechify because I was looking for something that would do text to speech, and it's a free trial but it was like, "Here are some random robot voices or!! Robot Gwyneth Paltrow, Robot Snoop Dogg or Robot Mr. Beast!!"

I'm not sure which is weirder:
- Re-reading my novel and not hating it (not in a serious way but a 'no man I'm going to cringe so bad my body is going to rapidly decompress')
OR
- Listening to Gwyneth Paltrow read it to me

Alright, writers. Take a cue from Lynch: go be your weird damn selves and leave some fucking art in this world before you're gone.

The way I've been writing this weekend has been really interesting, because for a long time I've focused my goals in terms of word counts. Right now, I've been writing in scenes and chapters, because I'm at a point where I'm focused on finishing the story beats themselves. Kind of a cool shift.

Claiming audiobooks "don't count" is ableist and stupid. Consume your content in the fashion most enjoyable and convenient. #booksky

If I never get anything back, at least I have this one piece of cinema.

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace.

If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

Can’t tell you how often I think about this page from Keep Going by @austinkleon.bsky.social.

“I’m planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead.” -Leonard Woolf

GASP WHO!!

Me: writing descriptions of body horror
Me: oh time for a break, look at my little helper hanging out with me uwu

I'm also using Spirit City: Lofi Sessions to help stay on task with timers/breaks and it's really good stuff. Fantasy dress-up game with cute creatures you collect, combined with productivity tools like lo-fi music, soundscape generators and a lot of other great features.

Also, if you got a follow from this account, yes it's THAT Paper. In secret.

(This year a possum has been my mascot animal but I learned that bombastic side eyes are not common in these animals but evidently are in capybara, so enjoy this lofi image of Cheesecake the Capybara)

Cheesecake the capybara giving bombastic side eye, dubious to my claims.

You know a writer is down to serious business when they change their status message to show they are working on their writing. That obviously means it's all they are doing, you know.

YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.

God it feels amazing having gone from not writing to writing and then having written.
This is the profound shit you'll only find here, btw.

Me:
Me:
Me:
Me: OH MY GOD I JUST THOUGHT OF A NEW CHARACTER FOR MY BOOK

A SKLETON DYING ON A DESERT PLANNET AND DA TEXT SAYS "A TRUE FREIND WONT ASK IF YOU NEED HELP, THELL LET YOU HANDLE YOUR PROBLEMS BY YOUR SELF AND COME BACK WHEN YOUR NOT BUMMING THEM OUT " - AT THE END OF THE DAY THE SKELATEN LOVES TO WALK ON EGG SHELLS AND FEARS ABANDOMENT, WELL I DONT REALLY KNOW THAT BUT THATS THE TYPE SHYT EVERY ONE SAYS, MY INSURANCE DOSENT COVER THERAPY SO I JUST TRY TO READ ONLINE THE STUFF THEY WOULD TELL YOU THERE ,ACTUALLY INSURANCE WORKS THE SAME WAY AS FREINDS, HAPPY TO TAKE YA MONEY EVERY MONTH BUT IF SOME THING HAPPENS THEIR LIKE "IM BROKE CANT HELP YOU NOW GL" SO MAYBE I SHOLD CALL A MEDICAL CLAIMS ADJUSTER AND ASK EM WHAT THEIR DOING LATER ,MAYBE THIS IS "HOW TO MAKE FREINDS AS AN ADULT" THE MYSTERY WE ALL STUDY AND CAN NEVER SOLVE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

FREINDS ROCK - dashare.zone ADMIN

FATHER, The Genius of Evil @MummyMaster420 harsh writing advice: dracula is public domain so he should be in what you're writing

THIS IS LITERALLY IT.
"Oh yeah, I'll finish this chapter in no time."
And suddenly we are plunged into ALL TIME, THE OPPOSITE OF NO TIME

A post from the account heywriters on tumblr that reads: every time i read books again and then suddenly start writing i'm like "wow, does anyone know about this one simple trick?"

I feel called out.

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

[i got to meet you] i'm glad i exist

A photograph of an opossum sitting in front of a laptop staring at the screen motionless. There is no thought in that american marsupial's head. Just like me, for real.

Writing is magical, you sit down and just make something out of nothing at all, it's hard, beautiful work!
Also me:

Can I be Chuck Tingle when I grow up?

handsome big bird sitting in an office tryin his best to blend in with the human buckaroos at a conference table

human. human. human. pink-masked dinosaur erotica author with 'love is real' written across his forehead. human. human.

Get out of your house and write, they said.
It's good to change up your creative environment! they said
Okay, but what about when I'm trying not to weep openly at the Panera? WHAT THEN?

It's Sunday. Are you resting? Are you working on something? I'm trying for both!
That said, i'm posting this from bed though, so...

"hey so how's that book you're writing coming along?"

how it's coming along:

A drawing of a smiling capybara with a little jack o' lantern on its head. The caption reads, ""Good enough" IS good enough today."