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QAF. NB. Double MFA in MSU (Making Shit Up) & GSD (Getting Shit Done). DGAF (Do Give A Fuck). Always writing about reluctant gods & heros. Rinzai Zen. Oregon coast.
#goodmorning Island is to continent as planetesimal is to planet. If you squinch up your eyes just right.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#goodmorning Island is to continent as planetesimal is to planet. If you squinch up your eyes just right.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "moist" from Bonus Story 1, Who Lived Here?:
A prickly suede of black hair-dots has already sprung up, enough to hold some moisture, although she shaved yesterday. Her fingers enjoy the roughness and the smoothness, the moisture and the clearing away of moisture. #writingcommunity
A prickly suede of black hair-dots has already sprung up, enough to hold some moisture, although she shaved yesterday. Her fingers enjoy the roughness and the smoothness, the moisture and the clearing away of moisture. #writingcommunity
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#WIPsnips "moist" from Bonus Story 1, Who Lived Here?:
A prickly suede of black hair-dots has already sprung up, enough to hold some moisture, although she shaved yesterday. Her fingers enjoy the roughness and the smoothness, the moisture and the clearing away of moisture. #writingcommunity
A prickly suede of black hair-dots has already sprung up, enough to hold some moisture, although she shaved yesterday. Her fingers enjoy the roughness and the smoothness, the moisture and the clearing away of moisture. #writingcommunity
TW: authorial whinging
All set to give up on zine construction for the themed call because my experiments are creating only sad messes BUT Bitchmuse brought me a whole new direction to try. I have so much other (similarly frustrating) stuff to work on. Which child should I kill? #amwriting #writer
All set to give up on zine construction for the themed call because my experiments are creating only sad messes BUT Bitchmuse brought me a whole new direction to try. I have so much other (similarly frustrating) stuff to work on. Which child should I kill? #amwriting #writer
a man is drawing a pear on a piece of paper with a pencil .
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December 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
TW: authorial whinging
All set to give up on zine construction for the themed call because my experiments are creating only sad messes BUT Bitchmuse brought me a whole new direction to try. I have so much other (similarly frustrating) stuff to work on. Which child should I kill? #amwriting #writer
All set to give up on zine construction for the themed call because my experiments are creating only sad messes BUT Bitchmuse brought me a whole new direction to try. I have so much other (similarly frustrating) stuff to work on. Which child should I kill? #amwriting #writer
#goodmorning Your life is a series of miniature health disasters, which never rise to the level of an emergency or even a doctor visit, but do prevent making plans anyone should expect you to fulfill.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
#goodmorning Your life is a series of miniature health disasters, which never rise to the level of an emergency or even a doctor visit, but do prevent making plans anyone should expect you to fulfill.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "blanket" from Chapter 2, What Infra-Bet-E Knows:
Fang also hands her several clean pelts, ready for her to make into blankets and capes and hoods for the winter. #writersky #writingcommunity
Fang also hands her several clean pelts, ready for her to make into blankets and capes and hoods for the winter. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#WIPsnips "blanket" from Chapter 2, What Infra-Bet-E Knows:
Fang also hands her several clean pelts, ready for her to make into blankets and capes and hoods for the winter. #writersky #writingcommunity
Fang also hands her several clean pelts, ready for her to make into blankets and capes and hoods for the winter. #writersky #writingcommunity
Q FOR ARTISTS: You can put chemicals in a campfire to change the colors of flames. With fumage, you use a torch or soot from a flame to "paint" on surfaces. But DOES FIRE ART AS SUCH EXIST? Can you build a specific shape of fire that burns in specific ways in specific patterns/ colors?*
a close up of a fire with the word fire written on it
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December 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Q FOR ARTISTS: You can put chemicals in a campfire to change the colors of flames. With fumage, you use a torch or soot from a flame to "paint" on surfaces. But DOES FIRE ART AS SUCH EXIST? Can you build a specific shape of fire that burns in specific ways in specific patterns/ colors?*
#goodmorning If it is possible to fail at zazen, what does that look like? And/or what does success look like? (If you are tempted to give your smart or smartass response, please do not — unless you have years of practice under your belt.)* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
#goodmorning If it is possible to fail at zazen, what does that look like? And/or what does success look like? (If you are tempted to give your smart or smartass response, please do not — unless you have years of practice under your belt.)* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "line" from Chapter 21, Promises, Promises:
Hermes and I both howl with laughter. "Oh, honey," Hermes says. "We will. Harm or not, we always do what we will. Trust." Then he takes a big stompy step over the salt line that supposedly confines us. #writersky #writingcommunity
Hermes and I both howl with laughter. "Oh, honey," Hermes says. "We will. Harm or not, we always do what we will. Trust." Then he takes a big stompy step over the salt line that supposedly confines us. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#WIPsnips "line" from Chapter 21, Promises, Promises:
Hermes and I both howl with laughter. "Oh, honey," Hermes says. "We will. Harm or not, we always do what we will. Trust." Then he takes a big stompy step over the salt line that supposedly confines us. #writersky #writingcommunity
Hermes and I both howl with laughter. "Oh, honey," Hermes says. "We will. Harm or not, we always do what we will. Trust." Then he takes a big stompy step over the salt line that supposedly confines us. #writersky #writingcommunity
#goodmorning Would you rather fall as snow and build into banks OR be tossed as rain against loose windowpanes OR float just above the ground and mingle with trees as mist in the valleys?* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#goodmorning Would you rather fall as snow and build into banks OR be tossed as rain against loose windowpanes OR float just above the ground and mingle with trees as mist in the valleys?* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "control" from 'Guideline: How to Write a Suicide Note' in What the Dead Know:
Control is beyond us except to the extent that we dare to offer help. We cling to the idea that we might contribute some tiny stitch to the fraying fabric of our humanity. #writersky #writingcommunity
Control is beyond us except to the extent that we dare to offer help. We cling to the idea that we might contribute some tiny stitch to the fraying fabric of our humanity. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
#WIPsnips "control" from 'Guideline: How to Write a Suicide Note' in What the Dead Know:
Control is beyond us except to the extent that we dare to offer help. We cling to the idea that we might contribute some tiny stitch to the fraying fabric of our humanity. #writersky #writingcommunity
Control is beyond us except to the extent that we dare to offer help. We cling to the idea that we might contribute some tiny stitch to the fraying fabric of our humanity. #writersky #writingcommunity
#goodmorning Civilization has not even officially fallen yet and already your pets run in packs and look at you as a source of food that does not come in cans or bags; food on the hoof; fun food.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#goodmorning Civilization has not even officially fallen yet and already your pets run in packs and look at you as a source of food that does not come in cans or bags; food on the hoof; fun food.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "smash" => "crush" from Ch. 17, First There Is a Wall:
Of the uncomfortable crush of tourists + newlydeads near the now-sealed Rift, Walter is the first to give up waiting for a psychopomp. Instead, he wanders in search of Fang or any of his other lovers. #writersky #writingcommunity
Of the uncomfortable crush of tourists + newlydeads near the now-sealed Rift, Walter is the first to give up waiting for a psychopomp. Instead, he wanders in search of Fang or any of his other lovers. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
#WIPsnips "smash" => "crush" from Ch. 17, First There Is a Wall:
Of the uncomfortable crush of tourists + newlydeads near the now-sealed Rift, Walter is the first to give up waiting for a psychopomp. Instead, he wanders in search of Fang or any of his other lovers. #writersky #writingcommunity
Of the uncomfortable crush of tourists + newlydeads near the now-sealed Rift, Walter is the first to give up waiting for a psychopomp. Instead, he wanders in search of Fang or any of his other lovers. #writersky #writingcommunity
#goodmorning What is the word for when she puts her hands into hot water — almost too hot — on the saddest day of her life so far?* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#goodmorning What is the word for when she puts her hands into hot water — almost too hot — on the saddest day of her life so far?* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "full" from Chapter 9, Five-Star Resorts in the Bardo:
The flames flicker out, but Hugo keeps screeching. It takes him a full five minutes — or what would be five minutes in the land of the living — to notice he is no longer on fire and shut up. #writersky #writingcommunity
The flames flicker out, but Hugo keeps screeching. It takes him a full five minutes — or what would be five minutes in the land of the living — to notice he is no longer on fire and shut up. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#WIPsnips "full" from Chapter 9, Five-Star Resorts in the Bardo:
The flames flicker out, but Hugo keeps screeching. It takes him a full five minutes — or what would be five minutes in the land of the living — to notice he is no longer on fire and shut up. #writersky #writingcommunity
The flames flicker out, but Hugo keeps screeching. It takes him a full five minutes — or what would be five minutes in the land of the living — to notice he is no longer on fire and shut up. #writersky #writingcommunity
#WIPsnips "pipe" from Chapter 3, What Fang Knows:
Fang is never easily ignored. Fang is an angry pounding of pipes, a crashing storm surf of anxiety and restlessness even while he is still in Infra-Bet-E's womb. #writersky #writingcommunity
Fang is never easily ignored. Fang is an angry pounding of pipes, a crashing storm surf of anxiety and restlessness even while he is still in Infra-Bet-E's womb. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#WIPsnips "pipe" from Chapter 3, What Fang Knows:
Fang is never easily ignored. Fang is an angry pounding of pipes, a crashing storm surf of anxiety and restlessness even while he is still in Infra-Bet-E's womb. #writersky #writingcommunity
Fang is never easily ignored. Fang is an angry pounding of pipes, a crashing storm surf of anxiety and restlessness even while he is still in Infra-Bet-E's womb. #writersky #writingcommunity
#WIPsnips "design" from Chapter 13, Eurydice Shrugged:
Each of Infra-Bet-E's beloved punks has their own design ideas, based upon what body parts are available. Say, mermaid from the waist down plus kangaroo from the waist up plus the antlers of a moose. #writersky #writingcommunity
Each of Infra-Bet-E's beloved punks has their own design ideas, based upon what body parts are available. Say, mermaid from the waist down plus kangaroo from the waist up plus the antlers of a moose. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#WIPsnips "design" from Chapter 13, Eurydice Shrugged:
Each of Infra-Bet-E's beloved punks has their own design ideas, based upon what body parts are available. Say, mermaid from the waist down plus kangaroo from the waist up plus the antlers of a moose. #writersky #writingcommunity
Each of Infra-Bet-E's beloved punks has their own design ideas, based upon what body parts are available. Say, mermaid from the waist down plus kangaroo from the waist up plus the antlers of a moose. #writersky #writingcommunity
#goodmorning One of the many perks of living with chronic anxiety is that a thing is pretty much never as bad as you expect it to be.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
#goodmorning One of the many perks of living with chronic anxiety is that a thing is pretty much never as bad as you expect it to be.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "fourth" => "third" from Chapter 15, Friendzoned by God:
Revenants are freaking out the predeads. Some of them murdered, some driven to a second or third suicide, they come back to us in pieces. #writersky #writingcommunity
Revenants are freaking out the predeads. Some of them murdered, some driven to a second or third suicide, they come back to us in pieces. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
#WIPsnips "fourth" => "third" from Chapter 15, Friendzoned by God:
Revenants are freaking out the predeads. Some of them murdered, some driven to a second or third suicide, they come back to us in pieces. #writersky #writingcommunity
Revenants are freaking out the predeads. Some of them murdered, some driven to a second or third suicide, they come back to us in pieces. #writersky #writingcommunity
#goodmorning What is the word for the relationship people have with their gods, such as: Must they go through an intermediary i.e. priests, shamans, royalty? Is tribute required to buy them access?* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#goodmorning What is the word for the relationship people have with their gods, such as: Must they go through an intermediary i.e. priests, shamans, royalty? Is tribute required to buy them access?* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "hook" from Chapter 4, What Doom Pony Knows:
When he first hears about it, Fang is too awash in his own misery and his endless cycle of semelparous hook-ups to notice, much less properly grieve Greta's death. #writersky #writingcommunity
When he first hears about it, Fang is too awash in his own misery and his endless cycle of semelparous hook-ups to notice, much less properly grieve Greta's death. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#WIPsnips "hook" from Chapter 4, What Doom Pony Knows:
When he first hears about it, Fang is too awash in his own misery and his endless cycle of semelparous hook-ups to notice, much less properly grieve Greta's death. #writersky #writingcommunity
When he first hears about it, Fang is too awash in his own misery and his endless cycle of semelparous hook-ups to notice, much less properly grieve Greta's death. #writersky #writingcommunity
#goodmorning In typical Bitchmuse behavior, She wants me to conform to a poetic form - except with rogue lines that escape from the short metric feet and gallop unshod all over the page.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#goodmorning In typical Bitchmuse behavior, She wants me to conform to a poetic form - except with rogue lines that escape from the short metric feet and gallop unshod all over the page.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "screen" => "device" from What the Dead Know:
Pro Vivos can keep in touch with each other, but only because they manage to collect the hardened devices after Doom Pony murder crows dispose of their Spood owners. #writersky #writingcommunity
Pro Vivos can keep in touch with each other, but only because they manage to collect the hardened devices after Doom Pony murder crows dispose of their Spood owners. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#WIPsnips "screen" => "device" from What the Dead Know:
Pro Vivos can keep in touch with each other, but only because they manage to collect the hardened devices after Doom Pony murder crows dispose of their Spood owners. #writersky #writingcommunity
Pro Vivos can keep in touch with each other, but only because they manage to collect the hardened devices after Doom Pony murder crows dispose of their Spood owners. #writersky #writingcommunity
#goodmorning I intend to live and thrive for a long time — but not long enough to become an endling.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#goodmorning I intend to live and thrive for a long time — but not long enough to become an endling.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
#WIPsnips "city" from Chapter 10, Where Did All These Ghosts Come From?:
Tsunamis wipe out landmarks and small towns in the high deserts. Tsunamis in Phoenix, tsunamis in Salt Lake City. Nobody knows where the water is coming from, much less what to do with it. #writersky #writingcommunity
Tsunamis wipe out landmarks and small towns in the high deserts. Tsunamis in Phoenix, tsunamis in Salt Lake City. Nobody knows where the water is coming from, much less what to do with it. #writersky #writingcommunity
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
#WIPsnips "city" from Chapter 10, Where Did All These Ghosts Come From?:
Tsunamis wipe out landmarks and small towns in the high deserts. Tsunamis in Phoenix, tsunamis in Salt Lake City. Nobody knows where the water is coming from, much less what to do with it. #writersky #writingcommunity
Tsunamis wipe out landmarks and small towns in the high deserts. Tsunamis in Phoenix, tsunamis in Salt Lake City. Nobody knows where the water is coming from, much less what to do with it. #writersky #writingcommunity
#goodmorning They choose to operate out of a truth so selective it amounts to lying.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#goodmorning They choose to operate out of a truth so selective it amounts to lying.* #writersky #booksky #amwriting