V. E. Marés
@vemares.co
I’m an author in remission from cancer, shit-posting to the point of tears for profile views. Substack is where I publish my short stories and essays, and where I’m serious:
https://www.worldasecstasy.com
https://www.worldasecstasy.com
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V. E. Marés
@vemares.co
· May 25
I'd say this is an example of why
"write what you know"
isn't always the best advice.
😒
I revere Hemingway's mastery of sentences, but his subject matter?
🤔
I just can't!
~
I tried "The Old Man and the Sea"
&
#DNF because I stopped to ask myself...
Who was I forcing this *slog* to impress?
"write what you know"
isn't always the best advice.
😒
I revere Hemingway's mastery of sentences, but his subject matter?
🤔
I just can't!
~
I tried "The Old Man and the Sea"
&
#DNF because I stopped to ask myself...
Who was I forcing this *slog* to impress?
An example of why a writer needs to hate their audience just little bit.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
Also an example of why writers shouldn’t reduce other writers’ work and their subject matter to vibes, especially when those “vibes” came from post-WWI PTSD and disillusionment.
Also an example of why writers shouldn’t reduce other writers’ work and their subject matter to vibes, especially when those “vibes” came from post-WWI PTSD and disillusionment.
I'd say this is an example of why
"write what you know"
isn't always the best advice.
😒
I revere Hemingway's mastery of sentences, but his subject matter?
🤔
I just can't!
~
I tried "The Old Man and the Sea"
&
#DNF because I stopped to ask myself...
Who was I forcing this *slog* to impress?
"write what you know"
isn't always the best advice.
😒
I revere Hemingway's mastery of sentences, but his subject matter?
🤔
I just can't!
~
I tried "The Old Man and the Sea"
&
#DNF because I stopped to ask myself...
Who was I forcing this *slog* to impress?
An example of why a writer needs to hate their audience just little bit.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
May 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Also an example of why writers shouldn’t reduce other writers’ work and their subject matter to vibes, especially when those “vibes” came from post-WWI PTSD and disillusionment.
Likewise! I’ve followed you back. I’m looking forward to reading your work.
May 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Likewise! I’ve followed you back. I’m looking forward to reading your work.
Thank you! I hope you’re having a great day.
May 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Thank you! I hope you’re having a great day.
My half-assed attempt at marketing.
I had a lot of fun writing this short story.
www.worldasecstasy.com/p/last-dance
#book #shortstory #indieauthors #mustread #amreading #booklovers #bookworm
I had a lot of fun writing this short story.
www.worldasecstasy.com/p/last-dance
#book #shortstory #indieauthors #mustread #amreading #booklovers #bookworm
May 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
My half-assed attempt at marketing.
I had a lot of fun writing this short story.
www.worldasecstasy.com/p/last-dance
#book #shortstory #indieauthors #mustread #amreading #booklovers #bookworm
I had a lot of fun writing this short story.
www.worldasecstasy.com/p/last-dance
#book #shortstory #indieauthors #mustread #amreading #booklovers #bookworm
I was going to spend the day creating “content” for marketing.
Then I remembered my time working at a NY publishing house, seeing some of the “famous” writers not making any money despite marketing, and realized it doesn’t matter.
I worked on a new novel instead.
#indieauthor #writingcommunity
Then I remembered my time working at a NY publishing house, seeing some of the “famous” writers not making any money despite marketing, and realized it doesn’t matter.
I worked on a new novel instead.
#indieauthor #writingcommunity
May 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I was going to spend the day creating “content” for marketing.
Then I remembered my time working at a NY publishing house, seeing some of the “famous” writers not making any money despite marketing, and realized it doesn’t matter.
I worked on a new novel instead.
#indieauthor #writingcommunity
Then I remembered my time working at a NY publishing house, seeing some of the “famous” writers not making any money despite marketing, and realized it doesn’t matter.
I worked on a new novel instead.
#indieauthor #writingcommunity
May 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It’s true so why complain; just accept.
Accept it all.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity #poetry
Accept it all.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity #poetry
May 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It’s true so why complain; just accept.
Accept it all.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity #poetry
Accept it all.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity #poetry
Stop trying to make family and friends your beta readers, and stop expecting them to read what you published.
That’s like a family member or friend pulling you aside to tell you about their long, intricate dream.
You’d zone out, too.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
That’s like a family member or friend pulling you aside to tell you about their long, intricate dream.
You’d zone out, too.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
May 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Stop trying to make family and friends your beta readers, and stop expecting them to read what you published.
That’s like a family member or friend pulling you aside to tell you about their long, intricate dream.
You’d zone out, too.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
That’s like a family member or friend pulling you aside to tell you about their long, intricate dream.
You’d zone out, too.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
May 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Another example of why a writer needs to hate their audience just a little bit, and also clown on people who post shit like this on Goodreads.
Sorry his way of coping with combat PTSD by writing this novel was a buzzkill.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
Sorry his way of coping with combat PTSD by writing this novel was a buzzkill.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
May 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Another example of why a writer needs to hate their audience just a little bit, and also clown on people who post shit like this on Goodreads.
Sorry his way of coping with combat PTSD by writing this novel was a buzzkill.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
Sorry his way of coping with combat PTSD by writing this novel was a buzzkill.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
An example of why a writer needs to hate their audience just little bit.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
May 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
An example of why a writer needs to hate their audience just little bit.
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
#booksky #indieauthor #writingcommunity
Authors trying to use social media to sell their books don’t get it.
It’s like standing on a street corner, shouting, “Buy my book.”
The normal response would be, “Why should I? I don’t even know you.”
The normal thing to do would be to ignore them and keep walking.
So, to here and anywhere else
It’s like standing on a street corner, shouting, “Buy my book.”
The normal response would be, “Why should I? I don’t even know you.”
The normal thing to do would be to ignore them and keep walking.
So, to here and anywhere else
May 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Authors trying to use social media to sell their books don’t get it.
It’s like standing on a street corner, shouting, “Buy my book.”
The normal response would be, “Why should I? I don’t even know you.”
The normal thing to do would be to ignore them and keep walking.
So, to here and anywhere else
It’s like standing on a street corner, shouting, “Buy my book.”
The normal response would be, “Why should I? I don’t even know you.”
The normal thing to do would be to ignore them and keep walking.
So, to here and anywhere else
I can imagine you’re going to try to fund raise off this while Elon Musk is rampaging through the government like a cancer.
Do something!!
Do something!!
February 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I can imagine you’re going to try to fund raise off this while Elon Musk is rampaging through the government like a cancer.
Do something!!
Do something!!
You’re arguing with someone who has anime profile pic.
That’s a sign you’re arguing with someone who drinks their urine
That’s a sign you’re arguing with someone who drinks their urine
January 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
You’re arguing with someone who has anime profile pic.
That’s a sign you’re arguing with someone who drinks their urine
That’s a sign you’re arguing with someone who drinks their urine
All this started because some BPD chick decided to bang some gaming journalist for good reviews, triggering “leftover” men into a rampage.
Australian Far-right racist/neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell was caught on camera by the BBC saying that the "most effective" way to deal with Black Australians is to skin them and lynch them. He also says they were happy under slavery.
At a Patriot Alternative (UK) conference.
At a Patriot Alternative (UK) conference.
January 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
All this started because some BPD chick decided to bang some gaming journalist for good reviews, triggering “leftover” men into a rampage.
Comedy gold
Love that the article slips in this banger of an observation: "...alongside other complaints from people who said they were in the middle of coding or writing essays and now had to do the work themselves."
January 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Comedy gold
Reposted by V. E. Marés
The US govt trying to get everyone ready for a war vs. China in ~10 years:
a man with a beard wearing a pink shirt is looking at the camera .
ALT: a man with a beard wearing a pink shirt is looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The US govt trying to get everyone ready for a war vs. China in ~10 years:
Meanwhile, I’m here doomscrolling, passing it off as reading.
December 31, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Meanwhile, I’m here doomscrolling, passing it off as reading.
At least you’re reading.
This is me.
This is me.
December 9, 2024 at 11:40 PM
At least you’re reading.
This is me.
This is me.
At what point will people realize WW3 is underway?
December 8, 2024 at 11:35 PM
At what point will people realize WW3 is underway?
Reposted by V. E. Marés
Willem Dafoe speaking truth in this interview with @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/will...
December 5, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Willem Dafoe speaking truth in this interview with @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/will...
AOC removing the pronouns from her Twitter bio is an example of Law 35: Master the Art of Timing at play.
Good for her.
Spotting trends in order to get ahead of them is how any smart politician, like her $ Joseph Fouché , survives.
Good for her.
Spotting trends in order to get ahead of them is how any smart politician, like her $ Joseph Fouché , survives.
November 16, 2024 at 3:27 PM
AOC removing the pronouns from her Twitter bio is an example of Law 35: Master the Art of Timing at play.
Good for her.
Spotting trends in order to get ahead of them is how any smart politician, like her $ Joseph Fouché , survives.
Good for her.
Spotting trends in order to get ahead of them is how any smart politician, like her $ Joseph Fouché , survives.
I’ve been writing my novel since 1972.
November 16, 2024 at 2:39 AM
I’ve been writing my novel since 1972.