Joshua Norstein (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈

As a longtime Transformers Prime fan, there are few things more annoying than other fans who act like TFP was some flawlessly executed masterpiece to justify their obsession with hating RID2015.

Tell me this pitch wouldn't make a spectacular 3-part miniseries, at the very least. #Transformers #AU #Toonami #Robotsindisguise

🚨REPOSTING!!🚨 If you're an #author of #scififantasy, #romantasy, or the like: let's see if we're creatively compatible!

#fictioneditor #freelanceeditor #writingcommunity #EFA

🚨BOOSTING!!🚨
#writingcommunity #bvm #indieauthor #editing

Sam Altman's AI Short Story Sucks, and He Doesn't Know Why ChatGPT can put words in front of other words, but it can't add meaning to them without intent.

ChatGPT won't be writing the next great sci-fi novel. https://gizmodo.com/openais-sam-altman-thinks-this-chatgpt-short-story-is-beautiful-but-its-just-trash-2000574939

Yes! Their silencing must also be our writing.
How many listed words can you include in a statement, essay, social post or story submission? Let's not divide over this but stay together encouraging awareness + community. #WritingCommunity #Booksky #WritersChallenge

Hi #authors! Are you looking for an #editor to review your manuscript? I'm running an introductory promo with discounted rates through May 15! Send over a sample edit up to 5,000 words to see if we can work together! DM for details
✏️🖤 💙📚 #writingcommunity #romantasy #paranormal #scififantasy #bvm

Hi #writingcommunity! As an introductory promo, from now thru May 15, I'm offering my #EFA editing services at a discounted rate. 📝✍️🏾
The first 5,000 words are FREE, then $0.01/word up to 50,000.
#EFA #developmentaledit #lineedit #copyedit #proofread #betaread
DM me for info/inquiries!

Apparently, ocelots are not dyslexic. Thanks, #googleAI

Post 5 of ?? of Weird names and titles that pop into my head when I'm not actively thinking:

"Introducing
Ur'chionsev Sprundtlinktnoorglr, humble peddlar of extraneous consonants!"

#writingcommunity #booksky #indieauthor #ideadump #random #writersprompt #writersky

Post 4 of ?? of Weird names and titles that pop into my head when I'm not actively thinking:

"Introducing the Ostensis Vegamath Simulacrum, greatest thing to hit the wide world of McGuffins since the Quantum Hyperbole Generator!"

#writingcommunity #indieauthor #ideadump #writersprompt #writersky

If I do have to expatriate in the next four years, I'd like to move to a country with a monarchy ruled by a dolphin. That way my citizenship can actually serve a porpoise.

Hi #writingcommunity,
So, I'm just starting out as an #EFA certified freelance editor. I have the credentials, but what I need is to build experience.
I want to work in #scifi, #fantasy, #YA and #romance. Feel free to DM me for more details or a free sample edit!
I look forward to working with you!

Fanart of Usagi from Sailor Moon wearing a long gown with fluffy clouds at the bottom hem. She’s holding an umbrella with night sky pattern on it.

sky umbrella 🌙

making money moves

If you don't know, I took a five-year hiatus from writing because I was so frustrated trying to write with severe dyslexia. And when I came back to it in 2018, I made the effort to write consistently and to read consistently.

This is why I am a good writer. I practice, practice, practice!

In print (or rather ebook), I've got Up Jumps the Devil by Matthew Poore, Of Things Gone Astray by Jenina Matthewson, and Sourcery by Sir Terry Pratchett. Also I regularly visit several dozen ongoing Webtoon series. And I just finished listening to Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.

All excellent! I'm currently listening to the audiobook of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, a lecture series on werewolves, and Somebody's Fool by Richard Russo...

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

Fuck you, google maps.
#GulfofMexico

I'm usually juggling around three print titles (fiction of various genres), two to four audiobooks, a short story collection and a literary podcast, give or take a title or two depending on how much life I'm also juggling at the same time. What are you reading atm??

Post 3 of ?? of Weird names and titles that pop into my head when I'm not actively thinking:

"Introducing
Eidarr Tofuleg, Vegan Raider!"

#writingcommunity #booksky #indieauthor #ideadump #random #writersprompt #writersky

Post 2 of ?? of Weird names and titles that pop into my head when I'm not actively thinking:

"Introducing
Greengrouse the Addlepated, Fourth of his name, Esteemed Oligarch of the Nuovo-Upsalan Empire"

#writingcommunity #booksky #indieauthor #ideadump #random #writersprompt

Debut post (1 of ??) of Weird names and titles that pop into my head when I'm not actively thinking:

"Introducing
Nycptolemy Scrapplehammer, Convoluter-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Royal Kerfufflenauts!"

#writingcommunity #booksky #indieauthor #ideadump #random #writersprompt

Question for #WritingCommunity #WriteSky folks:

What's your process? (I wish we had polls but also I don't want to limit replies...)

Are you a:

- Jigsaw Writer
- Discovery Writer
- Pantser
- Plotter
- Outliner
- Flashcards and string writer
- Something else?? 👀

Now more than ever.

7. Free friday or common themes in your book

#FantasyIndiesFebruary Found family, exploration of mental health/neurodivergence, and bad guys getting what’s coming to them are found throughout all my books.

Looking for something to do this weekend? Try one of these bookish events! 📚

Savannah Book Festival: Feb. 6–9
San Francisco Writers Conference: Feb. 6–9
California International Antiquarian Book Fair: Feb. 7–9
Fort Collins Book Fest: Feb. 7–17
#BookLovers #LiteraryEvents #BookFair #ReadingCommunity