After fleeing inside an inconspicuous tunnel, Luca and Cody fall from the sky and find themselves in a world unlike anything they’ve seen before. Flying whales, monstrous cats, and a certain green rabbit to help our heroes face danger.
Chapter 3 of Moonlight Blade is live. Chapter 4 debuts on December 29th, 2023.
Nostalgia tastes like toffee. Like butterscotch. Like caramel. And that’s the danger of it. It’s confection. It’s empty calories. All sugar and no substance. The longing for something that isn’t real.
Book sales are slumping and if you're not a celebrity author, your publisher won't do much to promote your work. For The Walrus, Tajjia Isen writes about how "the finicky labour of trying to bottle hype is largely offloaded onto writers," and how all this affects the kind of titles publishers acquire, and the books readers end up buying.
Spent all weekend working on a project that failed. Today’s newsletter almost didn’t happen. It’s hasty and haphzard. When it comes to luster, it’s lacking. But…it’s here…
Voice recognition errors of the day from my dictated notes:
Cheyenne nuts. What's your feet tigers.
(Cheyenne nods. Watch her feed tigers.) @bookstodon#books#amWriting#humor
A few days ago, Ykril finally woke up from his coma. Unfortunately, he seemed to have lost his memory and couldn't even remember me. Over the last few days, I often sat crying next to his bed while he slept and wondered why we were being punished like this.\nThe responsible priestess said that a so-called retrograde amnesia, whatever that is, was to be expected with his head injuries and tried to reassure me that she was sure it was only temporary. But she couldn't explain why he had forgotten almost two years.\nShe also assured me that I could...
Chapter 3 of Moonlight Blade is live. After falling through a strange portal, Luca and Cody stumble upon a world unlike anything they’ve seen before. On top of strange entities like a flying whale, Luca reunites with a certain green bunny.
It’s a fine line between a healthy obsession, and toxicity. Between frustration, drive, spite, desperation, and apathy. Between giving up, falling apart, figuring it out, breaking through, and continually spinning. Relapse, recovery, and sobriety, one or all of the above I’m told comes into play. But, maybe that’s just me...
#WritingCommunity: Have you ever pondered the legality of using trademarked brand names in your fiction? Well, check out this helpful article via Sidebar Saturdays for the expert opinion of an intellectual property lawyer. @bookstodon
We aim for self-knowledge, to have some level of self-assuredness. A degree of certainty. But is that more of a hindrance than an aid? When we tie ourselves to static identities, what happens when we confront the reality of the way things change? When like everything else we cease to be the same? We are an event rather than a name.
Now that I'm back on the writing track, realizing I'm 12K into a story I was thinking about aiming toward Kindle #vella On one hand, that still might be a good idea to try and introduce more readers to my Musimagium world. On the other... maybe I should just release it normally when it gets longer.
I did just get a bonus though and I can't tell if I had any reads at all or not.
I’ve dusted off an old abandoned #WIP that’s I’ve had sitting for years (ok decades). I started this story when I was in high school, forgot about it till I found the original papers about 10 years ago. Since then I’ve slowly added to it, but was never my primary focus. I think it’s finally time to finish this story. #writingcommunity#bookstodon#author#AuthorLife#authorsofmastodon#amwriting@bookstodon
Slight delays with Chapters 3 and 4. They'll both air Friday, December 15th and December 29th, respectively. Then we resume our usual schedule to round out January.
You can read Chapters 1 and 2 NOW on via the link below.
A PhD student at the U of Kansas is doing research on "The Darcy Dilemma" which asks the question: what version of Darcy do you like better: Firth or MacFayden AND why did you choose that particular Darcy. You can find the research survey here: https://forms.gle/JpBDswCqy5EzyeMc7
Voice recognition mistake of the day: "Itchy tentacle back?"
(Is she tempted to go back?) Now I'm getting creepy crawlies up my spine. Is there a cream for this? @bookstodon#amWriting
Somedays we push, and pull, and pry. Most days we blister and ache. We feel the weight of every failed attempt like sediment. Like coarse conglomerate. Immovable granite and bouldering clay. It's heavy. It's hard to carry. It's hard to move, but even a little bit goes a long way...
The seventeenth chapter of my hard sci-fi space opera is released! The crew escapes the glubb-enn crossfire, and enters a system property of the Yectkogg corporate empire. The consequences of seeking help from rabid capitalists ensue.
This really is the last of this spurt of releases. We are going back to weekly releases (on Saturdays). The spam is over. Sorry yall for hammering the hashtags.
Repression is a rite of passage, they tell us. It’s called being an adult, they say. It’s all part of becoming a semi-well-adjusted member of a society. Smile. Nod. Stay in your lane. Dress for the job you want. Do as you're told. Pay your taxes and your rent. And, most importantly, stuff all your otherness way the fuck down so no one knows, and no one sees...
We talk about achievement. About goals. Setting them. Reaching them. About getting somewhere, becoming something. But what happens the morning after? What happens the next day? After the parade, the party. After they sweep the confetti away. What happens when the big moment fades? Maybe it's never been greatness we were after, but a baseline standard of enoughness brought to our days.