@thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Author blending scifi and fantasy with reckless abandon. Lurks in Brooklyn. Story in Scott's Planet available now! TTRPGs,Tea, and Fountain Pens. also at @writingabtwriting.bsky.social Blogs at writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com she/her. Opinions my own.
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Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
Someday I will actually be on at the right time... Someday.
Another one of my secrets is if it starts to feel like a job I take a break! Save yourself! Nothing else will!
Look the feed made a poem
I'm convinced that the technology of fiction has advanced dramatically in recent decades. The reason a lot of old pulp novels don't hold up (and could be written at astonishing speed) isn't just that tastes have changed—it's that there's WAY more competition now, so modern authors HAVE to be better.
So if you're a writer hearing stories of the "grand masters" who could take a bunch of amphetamines into a hotel room and come out two days later with a book that got published—it's not because they were so much better at this than you. It's that the bar was also way, way lower.
If you've read STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS or any book by any author, please leave a kind review somewhere in a proper review receptacle. Leaving these reviews helps the book, helps the bookish ecosystem, and also we are sustained by them as we sit in the corner and greedily gnaw on them like squirrels.
Managed to slip this into our kids book!
Also. It certainly says something that items 3-6 on this Google search pull articles on the "totally not an insurrection" capitol riot.
This seems like a good time to repost the ADL's Hate symbols database.
True Art
People treat rules like they are an active infringement on their life but even in rules lite games (and don't get me started on how troubled that phrase is) there are inherent rules (societal convention) that they are using to shore up the play of their games
Having inherent structure is good
Probably emerald of chivor or celadon cat? Not sure if I want to put something with shimmer in a new pen or not. I'll post whatever I decide tonight.
Okay there are a LOT of books coming out in March 2026. Let's start with the fantasy novels, including new Ilona Andrews, new Ava Reid, and new Jenn Lyons!! 🌳💀📖
#booksky
I'm excited to give it a try. It's such a pretty pen. Planning on filling it tonight.
One failed wisdom save later...
In my defense I have a -5 against demonstrators and just *look* at it. Plus it has a flex nib. I didn't have a flex nib.
And. And. And I didn't have a sport either. And it's teal and sparkly just like my other sparkly teal pens...
Thank you! Will do.
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
Ok, I need some happy books and that's not something I excel at picking out. Preference for SFF, but I'll take anything.
Should be a temporary shift, but at least I finished On Vicious Worlds yesterday (excellent book). I'm currently working on the first book in bobiverse (so far so good).
Occtis & Pin
#Sketch #Drawing #Doodle #Critters #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #DungeonsAndDragons #DnD #CampaignFour #CR4 #Occtis #Pin
Things that brought me joy in Feb included a baby slow loris, deep rock galactic survivor, and life advice from a decor blog.
Seriously, go read the decor blog. They have incredible things to say about what makes you happy.
📚💙🪐 #writingcommunity #author #writing #journal #books #joy #specfic
Trying a camphor wood scent puer for the first time. Not sure yet if it's my jam, but it's good company. 🫖 🍵
Ooh, that book was an instant pre-order.
Also, that teacup is beautiful.
Ah! That makes sense, lol. I'll look into fox down. Still learning my way around and figuring out what I like so it's good to get recommendations from people.
I have one of the snoozefest and it is already extremely good and will only get better!
Which tea has the dragon design on the package?
Check out Yazeba's bed and breakfast for an example of shared characters evolving over time. One of my favorite aspects of that game.
Today's tea is @white2tea.bsky.social's 2022 Veldt from their recent coin bag while I wait for the snow to arrive.
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This is why you do not comply in advance.
"If you're a writer—any sort of a writer, really—in search of an audience, you will find so much that's invaluable in this candid, spirited, and openhearted handbook." - @bcdreyer.social on #ThePublicScholar.
Which you can pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...