1/ Cannonballs were fired and my heart skipped a beat: not for the crack of ammunition but for the shapely thrust of her invitation to battle, and possibly a light lunch afterwards.
my arm, it is twisted
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/published works
Bowl of vermicelli noodles with spring rolls, roast chicken, carrots, cucumber, chili, peanuts, mint and coriander. Paired with a mid-strength tinnie.
30c weather, officially noodle bowl season
A SHOT OF GRAND MARNIER = OH, FIND ANAGRAM SORTER
spotify wrapped screenshot saying I listened to 34 songs this year
and they were all bangers
Land of 1000 Danes
police now on the lookout for a six-fingered man
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
This is just to say
I have shattered
Your visage
Beside trunkless
Legs of stone
And which
You were hoping
I’d look on
In despair
Forgive me
Only sand remains
So level
And so lone
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio had a budget of $35 million and every single character was moved one frame at a time by a human being. What the fuck are we even doing!!!!!!!
Steph is ✨!!!!!!!!✨
Highlight of ABC election coverage so far is the Brisbane correspondent just not being able to find any Liberal supporters on the ground
ships ✅
no, the other kind of ships ✅
Accountability report: zero words, one Crowded House concert, many ideas percolating. #DecWritingChallenge
Gym night, but still managed 360 words for #DecWritingChallenge. Terrible, terrible words, but momentum is building and I’m really excited about where this is all going.
900 words today, in which our hero accomplished nothing of what I was hoping but just continued to make everything worse. #DecWritingChallenge
Favourite exchange from tonight’s session, from the Write What You Know camp of writing advice:
‘Empress, I have no idea what she sees in you.’
‘What?’ I ask, blinking. ‘Who?’
Let the accountability streak continue with another 600 words for #DecWritingChallenge 💪
before anyone asks, these words are all perfect (because they exist, not because they are necessarily very good)
3200 words so far today—not a typo!—taking us to the end of Chapter Two, in what is increasingly unlikely to end up a novella. I recommend not sleeping very well and taking the day off work. #DecWritingChallenge
390 words today. Gradual progress is better than no progress, and I’m enjoying the accountability … even though I picked the absolute worst month to start #DecWritingChallenge
YouTube Wrapped would be pretty amazing, though. “You spent 36hrs this year watching longform videos about 90s video games”
Back on track with 592 words for #DecWritingChallenge, taking me to the close of chapter one. Tomorrow, with any luck, our hero is about to have a very disappointing day.
Going increasingly downhill with only 72 words of actual progress today, but I did finish a 200 word blurb. I’m calling this a fantasy murder mystery novella, and I suspect one of those words is an outright lie. #DecWritingChallenge
#DecWritingChallenge only managed 151 today, but words are words.
ending the day on 1064 words 💪
today’s weird trick to keep the words going: if you don’t know what your characters need to do next, have them wonder aloud what they should do. and then have it be breakfast.
Starting the #DecWritingChallenge with a tidy 660 words before dinner (and our hero on her way to breakfast).
Repost with your 5 favourite reads of this year (in no particular order):
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (Nghi Vo)
Notorious Sorcerer* (Davinia Evans)
The Tainted Cup (Robert Jackson Bennett)
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Shannon Chakraborty)
The Sunforge (Sascha Stronach)
(*& sequel!)
