My favorite line item I've encountered on a QueryManager submission page asked for a description of what the book is about without talking about plot. I am CONSTANTLY asking this of all media I consume and am frustrated when it cannot be answered #writing #themes #author #fantasy

It's hard to supercede the foundational belief that you will not be understood to keep putting yourself out there.

Did they just make light reference to Godard's "Weekend" in this little Olympic torch lightning video? #Olympics

Live pitching agents today for the first time at a Writing Day Workshops (Writers Conferences), wish me luck! #author #fantasy

Feeling kinda over the internet lately. Maybe it's time to get back into magazines.

I'm rewatching Rings of Power S1 for the third time and I have to say I'm enjoying it even more than before. Something about knowing everything that happens already and just watching it unfold kinda works for the sort of methodical, extended-editions-esque pacing of the show.

Made some major cuts to a portion of my book that I kinda always knew had to go but I was hanging onto anyway. Listen, I have a lot to say about the highly specific materials and processes involved in constructing tree homes in my imaginary world. #author #worldbuilding #fantasy

I can't recommend enough renting a weird old house upstate and planning an impromptu interactive escape room for your friends using only the available supplies.

this was the first pokemon

When I see a HIDDEN DRIVE sign I know it's for safety, but also it makes me feel like I'm on a scavenger hunt, like I gotta find that drive. Which I think actually makes my driving less safe. I was driving very carefully before I started looking around frantically for the drive.

Seeking a creative partner to help me revive a game design I had for a card-based tabletop adventure system. I can't work on these things without talking about them at length with other humans. 😖

Someone at the cafe rocking a "John Barleycorn Must Die" shirt. Bravo.

For the last time, The Nightmare Before Christmas is a CHRISTMAS movie. A Halloween-themed Christmas movie. Watch it whenever you want, but the action begins AFTER Halloween night. The height of the action takes place on Christmas, like ever other Christmas movie. 😤

American democracy in a nutshell

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

I just finished season 4 of For All Mankind, a show which I've largely enjoyed, but did a protagonist just accidentally imply the Nazis were right? Like, I honestly don't think they were trying to do that, but they may have done it no less out of sheer script clumsiness.

I can't think of Lynch without thinking of seeing my favorite movie, Mullholland Drive in the theater at Museum of the Moving Image and at the dramatic final moment, when the blue haired lady whispers "silencio" then cut to black, an old lady in front says loudly "what'd she say?" 🤣 Iconic

I love when people at the cafe aspirationally place a book on the table next to their laptop. And by people I mean me.