My acknowledgements for the next one: “Thanks to @dorianmaffei.bsky.social, @viengsamai.bsky.social, @erewhonbooks.bsky.social, and the thousand screaming children of the REDACTED TOWN Billy Beez”
Anyway, 1,486 words today

@karenosborne.bsky.social
Velocity girl. Honey badger. A/V hooligan. Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon finalist. Violin & theremin. Author: THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN from Erewhon ('27), ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY & ENGINES OF OBLIVION from Tor. Ad astra via caffeine. Rep: Dorian Maffei, LGLM
This is as hard as it feels.
This was my initial thought as well.
This is one of the reasons I like being behind the camera. All black! All the time!
THIS IS WHY I WRITE. This feeling, right here, where my brain does something I didn't think it could do. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I've been working on this book for... a year? A little less? And tonight was the night I /finally/ figured out what it was doing. And I really need to go to bed, but holy shit you guys
Yay! It's so useful. I still refer to my dog-eared copy from college.
Right! I highly recommend reading THE NON-DESIGNER'S DESIGN BOOK by Robin Williams (not the actor). It teaches you all the basics and it's all stuff you can do easily in Word or Canva or whatever. $20 for a paperback, cheap cheap cheap
I could have planned better, yeah. ☠️ I'm pulling myself through!
I got my Covid jab last night, not thinking that I would have to be outside in 39-degree weather for most of the workday
I have to admit that I am not the target audience for this, though
I finally saw the Wuthering Heights movie and boy was that certainly a movie that exists
They showed it to us at DAYCARE (growing up in the '80s, man)
I'm going to bed early tonight because tomorrow starts Writing The Third Draft, in which I just throw away everything I've ever done and start over. Deadline in 60 days yay
(re: this morning, why would Panasonic /not/ put a playlist function on their Viera TV USB interface? my god. MY GOD.)
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na I’ll be your detonator (I’m in my work parking lot at 7:35 on a Sunday morning psyching myself up to go to work on a Sunday morning)
My acknowledgements for the next one: “Thanks to @dorianmaffei.bsky.social, @viengsamai.bsky.social, @erewhonbooks.bsky.social, and the thousand screaming children of the REDACTED TOWN Billy Beez”
Anyway, 1,486 words today
Did I tell you how they scan your child’s wristband and match it with your own so they can’t leave? And that there are tables here you can write at? Why have a nice writing desk at home when you can just work from the Billy Beez….?
Please buy THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN so I don’t have to work from a Billy Beez for the foreseeable future
I think Billy Beez is how I’m going to finish THE SPLINTERED GATE