On the other hand, even if you're the most social butterfly but haven't actually written anything... it ain't gonna happen. I am bad at all of this FWIW.

TBF I am also a social awkward potato - Alasdair actually acknowledged that many in the writer space ARE of a more introverted tendency, but the point is that you have to do the work, and then just being at Cons, becoming slowly known will happen and at that point, it's luck.

On way into Fantasycon. Very excited and nervous. Looking forward to seeing folks maybe learning a thing or two.

Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings?

nobody finishes a book and concludes “that was great; now I shall never read another one.” other writers are your teammates and coworkers, not your competition.

I am so excited for this. Please come along!

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

*Excited noises* I'm wildly happy and somewhat awed to be included in this anthology with so many talented writers and awesome human beings. You should come to our launch at Fantasycon...

My 7 stages of novel writing: 5K: Oh man, this idea is awesome. 15K: Hmmm, I need to do some in depth worldbuilding. 30K: Map, pencilled out nations/races 50K: Religions, history 90K: Civil wars, lineages, pre-history, cosmology, magic systems... 100K: What was the story again?

Chesus H Christ wow.