Aleta B // Writer
@thealetab.bsky.social
all-terrain novelist, freelance writer, very cool outdoorsmom, beauty obsessive
I can’t do Last Week Tonight anymore. I care very deeply about John Oliver’s well-being and our idiocy is torturing him. I can’t continue to watch the pain and disappointment in this sweet man’s eyes. @lastweektonight1.bsky.social
Ten days of wondering if the new administration is going to ask us to move or if they’re going to shitcan my spouse or both, and honestly it feels like it’s been ten months.
@nytimes.com they’re not, for the love of your copy and FC departments please fix this language. It’s not a payout if you’re expected to work the next eight months and then depart without severance. It’s literally just deferred shitcanning.
@jaymesmansfield.bsky.social what’s the best cheap wig to buy for, say, Karen-ing ~las migras~ while holding a giant Stanley cup and pointing an iPhone camera? A big dumb hat could be involved too
this is my family’s life right now ☹️ @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...
Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion
Agencies are gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the blizzard of new policies as workers frantically try to assess the impact on their lives.
nytimes.com
I feel like I’m going to crack in half. Anyway, here’s a picture of some ravens in the Trader Joe’s parking lot
It’s, like, truly difficult to get into fantasy writing this week 🫤
“We’re leaving the planet and you can’t come” —every Aquarius today #chappellroan #astrology
It’s 6 degrees in Santa Fe, NM, and I’m imagining how much George R R Martin is haaaating it
Mountains are incredibly important in my fantasy wip, and this is what I’ve got in my backyard: the Sangre de Cristos, in the New Mexico Rockies
Hi, I’m Aleta and I’ve been writing new scenes as I claw thru my adult fantasy manuscript revise. Plot: A widow returns home to help her family set the course of their island’s future, but disaster forces her to put politics aside and confront a celestial serpent bent on devouring the world.
Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2y agoHello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going! Or not going, that's valid too
Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going! Or not going, that's valid too
Today we’re oscillating wildly between crippling anxiety that this manuscript revision is going to fail, and utter delight at how brilliantly it’s going 🩷🧙♂️⚔️
This article is fascinating for a lot of reasons but the main thing I’ve gotten from it is that I’m definitely not querying my fantasy wip manuscript as romantasy because the tropes are slim to nil www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story?
Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.
newyorker.com
This is pretty legit: New FREE contest for writers of Adult Sci-Fi and Fantasy — tinyurl.com/2025wdwcon3%... — Judged by agent Kesia Lupo, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
tinyurl.com
Wait so in Encanto, Mirabel asks for a miracle and things proceed to be kind of the opposite of a miracle until Casa is rebuilt…. so did the first Encanto have to end so that Mirabel could have her own Encanto? Encantos are non transferable? #disney
We would both prefer to be at my writing desk right now 🫤
I’m sitting down to do the gnarliest revision of my life, let’s gooooooo
Ok fellow fantasy writers, how are we getting ourselves stoked and focused to do a big, gnarly chunk of manuscript revision? The kind where we’re cutting characters and untangling them from the plot momentum and we’re about to lose our minds.
