Thank you Teresa 😭😭😭

Teresa@dimreaper.bsky.social · yesterday

7 YEARS goddamn does time fly! Can confirm this is a great book, be warned it'll get you right in the feels 😭

My debut is almost 7 years old! With rights reverting back to me at the end of this month, the book will no longer be available to buy as of 10/30 (in its current form, for now). So if you think you might care to read this story about a grouchy fortune-teller with a heart of gold, now's the time 🌟🌙

Before You Go: A heartbreaking page turner about love, loss and family

"I was hooked from page one... my heart was broken... So beautifully written... extremely beautiful and emotional!" Goodreads Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The bond between a mother and daughter is meant to be unbr...

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answers to this one are a joy to read, well done everybody 💗 since a good deal of my manuscript has higher emotional stakes I enjoyed imagining what it would be like to see my characters on the Great British Bake-Off. the meltdowns and tantrums would be hilarious. #lithodgepodge

Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 2d ago

#LitHodgepodge 2 Who doesn’t love a good crossover moment? Imagine your story’s cast of characters got sucked into a TV show or film. What comes to mind as a world where they’d mesh well? Or one where they’d wreak (delightful) havoc? #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

moonflowers really showing off this year. love a night-blooming flower

Remember: Darwin's note of "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything" was written on Oct 1 (1861). Thus we are free to celebrate Very Poorly And Very Stupid Hatred Day today.

#lithodgepodge I’m Kelly, I write upmarket contemporary that usually lands somewhere between women’s fiction (whatever that is) and southern gothic. I like ghosts and trees. I am heavily invested in the pathetic fallacy. I’ve got 4 published novels and working on a 5th (two chapters left in edits!)

Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 3d ago

#LitHodgepodge 1 Welcome #writingcommunity to 🌀📚 Literary Hodgepodge 📚🌀, an October #WritingPrompts game of miscellaneous proportions ✨ Writers, let’s meet! Tell us who you are and what you write—and what you like as a writer/reader by completing the This-or-That below. ⬇️

#5amwritersclub, I have just four chapters left to edit before I’m (almost) done with my manuscript. I will be scarce on here until it’s through because I am so easily distracted but the end to this project may actually, finally be in sight, let’s GO

please, distract me before I cause more emotional damage to myself by hyperfixating on finishing chapter 39 *collapses onto fainting sofa* ask me things about writing craft, books, music (or birds, you know I love birds) and I will do my best to answer ask.zyntaks.ca/ask/meankell...

I put dishwasher soap in the carpet shampooer and now the living room is just bubbles. I may be a mediocre novelist but I’m also a terrible housekeeper

ch38: No girl, no!!!! Go get your man! (I do think the moment when a certain type of hero finally chooses courage lands better when we have to wait for it, but it hurts watching her choose to be a coward when the stakes are what they are)

Once at preK dropoff, a mom said “you’re so sweet and kind, I bet you write love stories. Which one should I read first?” 😬 Okay, do you want the love story where the ghost tries to drown her sister in the swamp, or the one with the opium poppies and the talking stained glass window?

Disney Princess Ariel's Embarrassed Smile

ALT: Disney Princess Ariel's Embarrassed Smile

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Tammy Komoff@tammykomoff.bsky.social · 5d ago

I ❤️ being a horror writer, b/c nobody suspects it. At parties, I look like a Mom on a beach vacation-big curly hair/linen pants/bright tops. Then they inquire about what I do- Suddenly, I'm the predator in their midst looking for compelling ways to murder people. Fun way to spend a Friday night!

“I can adopt a rescue cat, as a treat? Just one?”—“Yeah sure thing if you stay on task for once in your life until the major plot action concludes”

Kelly Heard@meankellyjean.bsky.social · 6d ago

just eight more chapters to edit (okay, some of them need some light rewriting) and I’ll be done with this pass. the feral cat is in quarantine until the last chapter

just eight more chapters to edit (okay, some of them need some light rewriting) and I’ll be done with this pass. the feral cat is in quarantine until the last chapter

this protagonist is determined to adopt a feral cat

several years of bad choices and metaphorical deals with the devil

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨@cometkins.bsky.social · last wk.

What can your MC not escape? #WritingPrompt

I suppose when you get down to it we don’t need to talk about ghosts here in chapter 34. That’s me, killer of darlings. 800 words lighter and moving on

turns out if you play Joan Jett loud enough you can just forget you were in a weird mood to begin with

Kelly Heard@meankellyjean.bsky.social · last wk.

do you ever get so tired of feeling like a weathervane all the time that you just go on autopilot for three hours getting all the housework done and then suddenly snap to and find you’re crying into the dishes over all the orphaned subplots? good, me neither

do you ever get so tired of feeling like a weathervane all the time that you just go on autopilot for three hours getting all the housework done and then suddenly snap to and find you’re crying into the dishes over all the orphaned subplots? good, me neither

a woman’s place, etc

tonight is the first night it’s been temperate enough to sleep with the windows open since March. God bless Libra season

ch33 is a downer but thankfully it’s mostly fine as is, just needs polishing and a few copy editing tweaks, so I don’t need to spend much time in sadness world) then it’s on to 34 (and 35—I’d like to somehow reshape both of them into one singular chapter)

the gorgon at her day job (kidding, I’m working on my Halloween costume)

I’m late to this one, but easy answer—the backstory is sadder, harder, etc. She’s a post-ruin type of heroine. We’re emotionally post-apocalyptic. This isn’t even really a love story. It’s a regret story, as in: how will you leverage your regret for good, when it is all you can salvage?

💀🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊👻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters We've talked a lot about tragic backstories and happy endings here. Which makes me curious, from their perspective, is your character's saddest moment in their past, or still to come? Are they on an upswing? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I deleted a couple of dead-end false start subplots from my first few chapters, rewrote ch7, edited ch33, and then: woke up before 6, made breakfast, got the children off to school, and started the laundry. I may have only slept for four hours but I am extremely pleased with myself

today in 1923 an anonymous critic wrote of T S Eliot’s The Wasteland that “he can no longer refuse to recognize the limitations of his medium; he is sometimes walking very near the limits of coherency.” The occasional bad review really is part of the fun

i am absolutely inconsolable that i already used the line "go throw your jacket over a puddle for someone else" in my fourth novel because it is perfect for this scene

edited through ch32. those noises in the library? not ghosts. there is someone in the house. it’s not what she thinks. the rest of the story is maximum stakes and drama from here on out (maximum stakes in terms of my gentle, southern gothic, deeply-feeling stories) so, I think, the rest will be fun

just a former manic pixie dream girl and all-around tempestuous relationship haver, humming “called a problem child cause I got too wild, but now that’s how I’m gettin paid” every time I get a royalties check for my books about modern-day sirens and sailors and real life monsters

when I look back at my notes from grad school these days it’s no wonder I didn’t finish the program - my heart was really somewhere else entirely. Not somewhere completely unliterary but certainly not somewhere academic. Anyway, on this date in 2011:

is it even a camping trip if you don’t metaphorically limp home swearing you’ll never go camping again

Kelly Heard@meankellyjean.bsky.social · 2mo ago

planning an early autumn beach camping trip, feeling like clementine at the end of eternal sunshine: “surely this will be great and not stressful at all. after all i love the beach, i can’t think of anything i don’t like about facilitating family camping trips” the beach: “but you will”