Finally decided to open my novel draft back up. 31,500/60k as of today. Hopefully once I'm out of a job I can find the motivation to finish the rough draft. #writingcommunity

I feel like if you have to ask for a sample contract more than once and the publisher fails to deliver, when they're active on social media, that's a red flag. #writingcommunity

If I get a job handling money in the next few months, I'm going to insist these are counterfeit.

First short I got accepted, publisher flaked on the marketing push, royalties after the first payment, and basic communication before and after publication.
I tell myself that it's an anomaly. A demotivating one, but even places that reject my work are more professional than this place.

Pacing a hole in my rug waiting to hear back from three markets and a request for a sample contract. Why does being an author involve non-stop waiting?

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

It's insane how many hoops you have to jump through to apply for a job that will inevitably ghost you. Indeed is a fucking scam.

Looking through my email and I found something from a website that was meant to help you find jobs telling me to sell feet pics.

What the actual fuck?

What did people who had strokes before bread was invented smell instead of burnt toast?

Out of order, definitely. It may lead to complications down the line but it's easier for me to write when I don't have to care about linear time.

Backburner* thank you autocorrect for constantly being a custard.

Honestly I do parkour around my WIPs. I get blocked on one, I move to another.

That said, my "Flyover Country" project has been on the backbone for a few years at this point. Might be time to restart it.

43 pages before I put down a book and went "DNF". Gotta be a new record.

Trying to broaden my reading horizons some, as I'm going to have a lot of free time soon. Can anyone recommend a decent Romance novel for people who have avoided the genre like the plague? #writingcommunity #booksky

Publishers, I am begging you, set up some kind of system to confirm that you got a submission. I have four stories under review right now and I have no clue if any of them have actually been received by the publisher. #writingcommunity

Another thing: What's called 'eye dialect' (writing out accents). Editor friend of mine pointed out that it can be annoying and take folks out of the story, as well as portraying some characters unflatteringly by mistake.

Sci-fi harder than like a 5 on the Mohs scale. I struggled with every STEM class after junior year in high school and actually ended up flunking my Statistics class in college, so I'm really not good with hard sci-fi concepts. #writingcommunity

I can't even ge ta Master's because I have nobody willing to write letters of recommendation. I'm out of a job in two weeks.

Genuinely the fuck am I meant to do?

My former colleagues all have PhDs, published works, or are otherwise successful.

I can't even get someone to write me a fucking form rejection for a story I submitted almost six months ago.

Fellas, what's it mean if you have a nightmare that consists of your former colleagues mocking you?

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

1500 words before work. If I can keep this up, I might have something done for once. #writingcommunity

#WIPLash

I'm trying to get some old horror stories of mine-- think in the vein of classic creepypasta if folks actually tried to study the cursed media they kept tripping over--into a fix-up, but I keep running into blockages regarding what sort of framing device to use. #writingcommunity

My migraines always seem to be prefaced by really gnarly dreams. Wonder if there's a connection.

Please check your DMs when you get a chance. :)

Couple of short horror things, but I prefer writing fantasy.

Fantasy for this particular story. I think I'm under-describing a little but I want it under 5k for a particular market.

Cut a story down by 20% today. Now I have to make it make sense again. Lmao. #writingcommunity

Form reject again. Should I shelve this story or try to revise it into something folks actually want to read?

I don't know man I was pretty fucking excited about the linux-native Steam Cube until y'all's little racist parrot shitbots sucked up all the computer parts and now it's not even clear that we're even still in the computer gaming era much less the linux gaming one