Timons Esaias

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

When I Set Out For Lyonnesse Timons Esaias

I am startled by, but rather love, the illustration.
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This is so, so true. Use the character's ignorance of the situation to add to their fear and conflict. Or their overconfidence.

Interview video at tinyurl.com/TIA294YT
Show notes at theindyauthor.com/sh...

YouTube video by The Indy Author Warfare for Writers with Timons Esaias - #294

Behold, another interview/podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZcz...

I’ll be teaching two half-day intensive in-person workshops for Pennwriters, the day before the Conference begins. That’s Thursday the 15th, and you don’t have to be a Pennwriter or attend the regular Conference to sign up for the intensives. pennwriters.org/content.aspx...

It seems that many folks who are in Pennwriters, and billions of people who aren't, are unaware of the Thursday Intensive workshops that take place the day BEFORE the Conference. Whole separate thing. I'm teaching two of them, and I promise to elevate your game. pennwriters.org/PreCon_Inten...

We did it. 🙌
It wasn’t easy.
Nothing worthwhile ever is.
We've made our choice. ✅
And we’re proud.
MANY thanks to all the nominees...
But there can be only one.
April 24, 2025, find out who wins. ♥️
🙏Editors: @allisonwrites.bsky.social @amandahurleynet.bsky.social @timonse.bsky.social & Calie

The elements, in haiku An interactive review of the periodic table -- composed of 119 haiku

On the writing front, Elemental Haiku, first published in Science, is now available in Russian!

Ivan Alekseev's translation: ivan-alekseev.tilda.ws/elementaryha...

N.B. There's also an interactive version online at Science (website design by Jia You):
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I have learned that RUNE is publishing my poem "Soldier, Missing" in this year's edition.

I was in Louisville, so missed announcing this when it came out: thebookendsreview.com/2025/03/17/o...

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It is by will alone I set my story in motion. It is by coffee that thoughts acquire speed, the pages acquire stains, the stains become a nuisance. It is by will alone I set my story in motion.

My short story "The Man in Front of It" is scheduled to appear in The Bookends Review on March 10.

My short story "A Whole Generation" has appeared in the current issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact. I'll admit, it's one of my favorites.

I am pleased to announce that my poem "Chaturanga" (for the game, not the yoga pose) has appeared in The Main Street Rag, Winter 2025.

Got the Bread Loaf Writer's Workshop flier, and thought, "I wonder if I'd get anything out of that?" I noted only one writer whose work I knew on the faculty, but I don't keep up on the Literary side anymore.

Then I saw the price.

Galley proofs from Analog. It makes the day better.