Scott Writes

Behold the wild potato.

A bear road.

That's an unbearable amount of sauce, Ted.

Someone posted one of their publised poems here. I read it three times trying to understand the meaning behind the imagery, turning my brain inside out but not quite wrapping one in the other.

Now, I read every post like it's a prose poem trying to reveal an inscrutable secret I'm falling to grasp.

Or some other doggle.

Advice My advice? To watch, and wait for the tide to turn - wait as the beached boat waits, without a thought for either its own waiting, or departure. As I put it so well myself: "The patient triumph since life is long, and art merely a toy.’ Well - okay - supposing life is short, and the sea never touches your little boat - just wait, and watch, and wait, for art is long; whatever. To be quite honest with you, none of this is terribly important.

‘Advice’ by Don Paterson (after Antonio Machado)

Coincidentally, the name of my glam rock band.

Sometimes you rip off the bandaid. Sometimes you wait for it to fall off.

a black and white photo of a kitten with the words stay back written below it Alt: a black and white gif of a kitten backing into a corner away from a cell phone with the words stay back written below it

The telephonophobia struggle is real.

430 days of Duo Lingo did not prepare me to understand much of Bad Bunny's halftime show, but the energy was off the charts.🐇⚡️

Why units a crucial part of story problems.

Livin' the dream.

Sex, drugs, and... oh.

Would i have to feed you? Any dietary restrictions?

It's the internet. Take care that the lemon chiffon you're contemplating isn't fleshed out into bangers and mash or ziti al forno or something with oreo cookies and canned fruit cocktail.

Thread—see the question that spurred this response, too. Stuff I did not know.

Wanna see me knot the stem?

Doc Aesop knows the current vibe of the world.

#QuestPit: Seven Days on Samarkand Filling readers in on my upmarket hard sci-fi novel

Want more info on my #QuestPit project? Follow below for the skinny on SEVEN DAYS ON SAMARKAND! #A #SF #U #Q michaeltkuester.com/2026/01/31/q...

An Agent's guide to: THE SHAPES WE TAKE IN THE FIRE!

✌️dual pov/dual timeline
🌶️ open door slow burn
🎶 moody and lyrical
❤️ he falls first
🫂 touch starved
LGBTQ friendly
BIPOC & minority voices

#questpit #Q #A #R #U

THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

MY SWEET UNBECOMING, an adult gothic romance with:

🕯️Forbidden Romance
🕯️High Society matchmaking
🕯️Black Swan-esque awakening
🕯️Obsessive yearning
🕯️European setting
🕯️Secret lake meetings

#W #A #R #questpit

"Hat" 84K cosmic horror. Join the beta. Querying soon. Pitch: Chris is cursed to see Shadow people since almost dying as a child. Now, as the new MILLENNIUM dawns they are INCREASING in FREQUENCY and GAINING power. His peers think he is psychotic, The Red Eyed God in the woods speak of a great change, and a HATEFUL shadow wearing a hat seeks to use him for his own ends. Tropes: 2000's setting Space and Nature WitchCraft Spooky New ENgland Stoner Goth kids Madness possession Vibe Comps: The Bababook, Donnie Darko, The Exorcist

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO

Chris is haunted by Shadows since almost dying.
They are increasing in power.
A Red Eyed God talks of change.
A Shadow with a hat seeks to use him for his dark purposes.

🍂 New England
💽 2000's nostalgia
🧹 Witchcraft
🌕️ Cosmic Horror

#Questpit #H #Agentsguide

What would it be like if you woke up autistic? It would be a lot like what happens to Sophia in JUST AS REAL. She discovers she is accidentally trapped in an alternate reality full of horrible noises & strange people she has a hard time understanding. How can she adapt?
#MG #SF #ND #OV #Q #QuestPit

Posting again for the later crew.

#QuestPit #Q #A #T #SP #SF #HF 🦋

THE BODIES WE SHARE

Pratchett X Tolkien X Atwood but queer&steamy

👨‍🎤sassy nonbinary spies
🧝pro-choice elves with special powers
🚫absolutely no kings
💖exes+enemies-to-lovers throuples
👩‍🎤badass femme leaders who know they’ll lose that election so they plan accordingly

#QuestPit #SFF #Q #LGBT #NA

Continuum: Disunion by JJ Robinson II A novel, about 88,000 words #QuestPit #Q #A #SF Fugitives from a massacre are pursued to an unexplored planet, where they must find a way to stop their conflict or face the extinction of the human species. A "concept board" for the story Continuum 1: DISUNION, a novel of ~88,000 words by JJ Robinson II. A matrix of murder, treachery, and betrayal on a blue-green field, a volcanic eruption piercing clouds above, a village and its fields along a canal, a frail aircraft over open ocean, a giant extinct pterodactyl, a nuclear explosion. In the center, a small, aerodynamic spacecraft approaches the edge of a terrifying abyss, with the planet's two suns beyond. Text: [-A revolution against tyranny is destroyed, hope is lost -An interstellar civilization on the brink of collapse -AI achieves sentience, with terrible consequences -An ~infinitely corrupt bureaucracy tries to cover up its crimes at any cost -Humanity faces extinction from events on an unknown world -Truth is learned, Redemption found, Love rediscovered]

Continuum: Disunion by JJ Robinson II
A novel, about 88,000 words

Fugitives from a massacre are pursued to an unexplored planet, where they must find a way to stop their conflict or face the extinction of the human species.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SF
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #writesky

If you like your #YA #SF a little more grounded and contemporary, maybe a little dystopian, my #QuestPit #Q post for Taylor-Made

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Editor’s Guide To: The Things We Run For YA Drama Mystery with Romance 94k Words Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996 Run. What a powerful instinct. Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after. The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know: -Runaway in Hiding -Fake Identity (turned real identity) -Mental Health Rep -Genderfluid and Pan Rep -Found Family -90s Small-Town Nostalgia At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996 “The Hills have Eyes” There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook. In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!)

Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe?

#QuestPit #YA #MY #R
#AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

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Dark stone well surrounded by overgrown ivy and moss, title WHERE ECHOES WAIT overlaid in white text.

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF

A woman restoring a remote Cornish manor slowly loses her sense of where her mind ends and the house begins.

The village knows the pattern. They just won't say it out loud.

Epistolary gothic horror.

#QUESTPIT