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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 3609: If ever you feel discouraged, know this. Every day you get up to write is an act of courage. Every word you manage to write is a light against the darkness. You may not see it from where you are now, but it's there. It's shining.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.

You guys. I'm so tired of AI. So very, very tired. Tired of questioning everything I see, tired of trying to find ways to disable whats pushed on me, tired of finding ways to get around it to protect my art. I just wish this was all over already.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 96: If you write, you’re a writer. If you ask AI to write for you, no matter how many thousands of pages it slops out on your behalf, you’re not.

Gross.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260: Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.

I'm rewatching Signs tonight for the first time since it's release. As someone who is now living in a small town again where there are many corn fields, the atmosphere they created is perfection. It really is that quiet, which really is terrifying.

To the cutie who was working check out at the bookstore yesterday: I am sorry I am terrible at flirting. QT: Alright you can make like a tree and get outta here. Me (deadpan, The Most Serious I Have Ever Been): Trees don't move unless you're an Ent. 🫣🙃🫠

Woke up this morning to a happy little surprise. My most anxious and aloof and orange boy, Cheeto, had curled up in bed with me at some point. All hail spooky season.

Five more days to go!! #SleepersInTheSnow #TisTheSeason

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 710: In this, as in everything worthwhile, remember: No one ever promised you it was going to be easy.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2600: Write what you feel. Research what you don't know. Read critically. Edit ruthlessly. Take advice without ego.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6104: You won’t always feel like doing it. That’s when it gets even more important to keep doing it anyway.

Got my annual medical stuff taken care of recently. Had my very first boobie press. Not a fan. Terrible invention.

2 days in a row of 900+ words in less than 2 hours. Feeling good about my writing, too. Working on my radical, unhinged, everything will work out for the best attitude. Because what if 😊✨️🫶🥳🎂😎🙌

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 24: Don't worry whether it will be any good. Whatever it is, write it first. You can always fix it later.

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Y'all I love Indian food. Paneer? Banger. Lentils? Banger. Naan? Banger. Spice level? Risky. You say you want mild you get something that would make a fae romantasy author blush. My colon may disagree but the rest of me put it in a trunk in the basement.

Just because this dude has the mental capacity of a handbag filled with dogshit doesn't mean other people can't figure this stuff out, the "AI" dudes aren't THAT smart, they're just horny accelerationist nerds who don't see what the problem killing off 90% of the population is, they can be stopped

Also on sale on Kobo right now!

"The larger effect is creating a society where we monetize kindness, exploit the goodwill of strangers, and destroy the right to privacy in public."

It doesn't look like much now but after a year of not having a cork board I finally got a new one and I'm already feeling more inspired! Bonus: put the map for my current WIP on it for easy reference and my to do items for the week. #amwriting

It has taken me YEARS of trial and error but I think I may have finally perfected my outline process so I can write my first draft in such a way that I don't want to melt my computer and give up on my dreams of being published when I re-read it.

aside from everything else, it's very funny to pretend that hiring "GHOST writers" ever made you, yourself, an author. you are simply describing two types of guys who did not write a book

I have made potatoes! Boil em mash em stick em in a stew!