On one hand, I fear subbing this story to TBQ would be TOO on the nose……on the other, I very much want it to find a home and can’t think of a better place for it haha

New post. How experimental should experimental fiction be? www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2024/10/...

Hi! I had no idea my Maudlin House poem was posted last week! Give it a read. It's another one of my ekphrastic prose poems from the new manuscript (which is totally ready to be published if anyone wants it!).

I think we're going to see a HUGE proliferation of #horror over the next four years. We will need the catharsis, and of all sorts: splatterpunk, weird, cosmic/eldritch, folk/cult, Gothic, and bubblegum, to name a few. Horror contains multitudes. Horror can heal. Horror lets us know we aren't alone.

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

I’ve noticed this, too. There are def things still generating heat serially (Worm comes to mind off the bat) but it definitely ends up contained in pretty niche communities, so isn’t… Super viable. :’)

i should write something about a rotting home town you can't escape [looks at what I'm currently writing] ....OH

This is so real. I actually do have like, a concept for a couple of OCs that is TOTALLY different from their canon iterations… like technically I guess it isn’t fan fiction, but it certainly is an AU haha

My "reading as a writer" formula that hasn't failed me yet is this:

Read fiction to improve story.
Read poetry to improve style.
Read non-fiction to improve ideas.

Well hi there Cas 😂 We should start a club

At some point I’ll make a proper introduction post, but I’m bad at social media. So for the time being: hi, I’m Cas, I write things. I’ll be trying to post “”official”” updates here, at least.