Z. Zinnia Jane
@zzinniajane.bsky.social
Author in her mid 20s. Poetry, science fiction, horror, and creative nonfiction. She/her/it/its. 🏳️🌈☪️ http://z.zinniajane.com
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I say this very gently and with much love, and I say it not only as a writer myself but as someone who has been privy to many 'but how can they not know that work is amazing! 1 love it! I gushed about it to every friend I have and recced in x, y, z servers and [...]'
The writer or artist doesn't know this.
They have no way of knowing that you found their work beautiful and lifechanging or even just a bright spot on a bad day or that you think about it every day or that you told all your friends about it, and those things are great but we have no way of knowing them! You may not be doing it intentionally, but you're excluding the writer or artist from the community feeling of fandom that you are carrying on (that is so great! fandom is a community! continue to talk and play!) even with their work.
Please, please just drop a line even that is "oh gosh I absolutely love this work, I screamed to every one of my
friends about it when I first read/saw it!" even if you don't
have the spoons to share more of the specifics that made you flail at your friends or what you said in private. (Though if you do, we will love you forever for it.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:avvpb4ypfttlslmobsjqt7qq/bafkreibc6zd4nfz77j3teab5leeumgh3dttk5j7vv33e3agrspts7n23pe)
I really want to make command line interactive fiction, where the stories are written as shell scripts w/ "read" and "echo". Has anyone done this yet?
We’re simultaneously desperate for new ideas and too afraid of the risk they entail to let go of the proven seller. I always wonder how many people just aren’t getting to be seen in general because of that dichotomy. I hope we can figure this out.
I really want the protagonist of my next book to be bedbound, and for the novel to take place entirely in their bed... I'll call it "Bottle Episode" 🤣 In all seriousness, does anyone know of a book with bedbound disability representation? I'm housebound, and bedbound sometimes.
omg yes. also request the books at your library. there's often a purchase suggestion form right on the library website
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Hi, #writesky #writingcommunity! I'm Z. Zinnia Jane, a queer, disabled, auDHD writer from the Midwestern US. I don't have a lot published so far, but I like to write #PsychologicalHorror, #ScienceFiction, and #CreativeNonFiction. I'd love to make some writer friends and followings! z.zinniajane.com