Lil M Hoffman
@lilmhoffman.bsky.social
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Portrait of Anne of Austria https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/portrait-of-anne-of-austria-1622
February 7, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Portrait of Anne of Austria https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-paul-rubens/portrait-of-anne-of-austria-1622
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generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
February 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
February 7, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Because we are teaching water colors at work today I thought I would try painting Bruce. I’ll draw him in my usual media later. #Watercolors #OC #Art
February 7, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Because we are teaching water colors at work today I thought I would try painting Bruce. I’ll draw him in my usual media later. #Watercolors #OC #Art
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Inspired by @garethlpowell.bsky.social, good rules for writing.
1- read what you write
2- write what you love
3- don't be too precious about your words or your characters
4- feedback is your friend
5- so is revision
6- and time away so you can come back with fresh eyes
1- read what you write
2- write what you love
3- don't be too precious about your words or your characters
4- feedback is your friend
5- so is revision
6- and time away so you can come back with fresh eyes
February 3, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Inspired by @garethlpowell.bsky.social, good rules for writing.
1- read what you write
2- write what you love
3- don't be too precious about your words or your characters
4- feedback is your friend
5- so is revision
6- and time away so you can come back with fresh eyes
1- read what you write
2- write what you love
3- don't be too precious about your words or your characters
4- feedback is your friend
5- so is revision
6- and time away so you can come back with fresh eyes
February 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Last night I dreamed about my old town’s children’s library. These are the books that come to mind when I think of its shelves. What a brilliant thing a library is. What an absolutely fabulous thing a children’s library is!
February 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Last night I dreamed about my old town’s children’s library. These are the books that come to mind when I think of its shelves. What a brilliant thing a library is. What an absolutely fabulous thing a children’s library is!
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"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."
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*screams pitifully like Vader at the end of the prequels*
Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing
January 30, 2026 at 2:05 AM
*screams pitifully like Vader at the end of the prequels*
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You aren't going to fail if you don't make a NYT bestselling novel before you're 30. No, listen to me, look in my eyes: not publishing/not having a smash hit in your 20s is normal. You aren't dead if you don't. Fucking relax
January 25, 2026 at 11:25 PM
You aren't going to fail if you don't make a NYT bestselling novel before you're 30. No, listen to me, look in my eyes: not publishing/not having a smash hit in your 20s is normal. You aren't dead if you don't. Fucking relax
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Can I just say something...? 🧣
January 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Can I just say something...? 🧣
Post a female character you love
Who doesn’t love Sarah Jane Smith
Who doesn’t love Sarah Jane Smith
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Post a female character you love
Who doesn’t love Sarah Jane Smith
Who doesn’t love Sarah Jane Smith
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Storyboard art for The Secret of NIMH (1982), dir. Don Bluth, Don Bluth Productions
Sketches by Don Bluth, color by unknown artists
Sketches by Don Bluth, color by unknown artists
January 21, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Storyboard art for The Secret of NIMH (1982), dir. Don Bluth, Don Bluth Productions
Sketches by Don Bluth, color by unknown artists
Sketches by Don Bluth, color by unknown artists
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RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
January 21, 2026 at 8:18 PM
RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab
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museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go
January 20, 2026 at 3:03 AM
museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go
Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube
Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube
Welcome (back) to the neighborhood.
buff.ly
January 16, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though
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Good thing to remember when signing book contracts. Esp. since for most academic presses this doesn’t directly affect their bottom line at all so they’re likely to say yes w/o much pushback. (They make their money by selling off the rights to a foreign publisher who is commissioning the translation)
Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.
January 14, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Good thing to remember when signing book contracts. Esp. since for most academic presses this doesn’t directly affect their bottom line at all so they’re likely to say yes w/o much pushback. (They make their money by selling off the rights to a foreign publisher who is commissioning the translation)
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The New York Public Library is offering a very cool creative writing opportunity for NYC teens: www.nypl.org/spotlight/us...
www.nypl.org
January 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
The New York Public Library is offering a very cool creative writing opportunity for NYC teens: www.nypl.org/spotlight/us...
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Things in publishing are taking longer than ever, and I updated my post on when to follow up with agents accordingly. But you should still follow up, unless otherwise specified:
How often to follow up with a literary agent
Most literary agents appreciate a timely and extremely polite nudge. But when do you follow up with a literary agent and how often? In this post I'll give you some guidelines on when and when not to f...
nathanbransford.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Things in publishing are taking longer than ever, and I updated my post on when to follow up with agents accordingly. But you should still follow up, unless otherwise specified:
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
publishing PTSD nightmare (two years after departure):
Finding out as finished copies arrive that there's a massive honking typo on the back cover plus no one cleared any of the rights for a book's hundreds of illustrations.
Finding out as finished copies arrive that there's a massive honking typo on the back cover plus no one cleared any of the rights for a book's hundreds of illustrations.
January 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
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Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM