DM Owens
dmowens.bsky.social
DM Owens
@dmowens.bsky.social
Author-in-principle, working on the first novel. Anti burning people at the stake.
- Finish copy edits on The Book
- press button on KDP
- panic?????
- realise, with the dolorous clang of inevitability, that this project has seen a pandemic, mental health breakdowns cancer diagnosis, deaths in the family, another cancer diagnosis and I have no idea what to do without it
January 17, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I've been bogged down all week with edits and art work and am feeling the guilt of not working on the drafting project(s)...
January 11, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Like this might be the point where it's no longer possible to pretend that the whole thing has just been a silly little exercise in creative writing and could be abandoned without any emotional cost.
January 11, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Transitions - moving pieces around, always with the risk of overdoing it and forgetting that time on the page =/= time in the story.

Easiest is fights, as long as they're the preffered kind - short, kinetic, descriptive.
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Same.
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's like what they say about why D&D is a fantasy; because you travel the world with your chosen family and get 8hrs of sleep a night.
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Guys it's fine for her reasoning to be understandable but the actions to be questionable no one said she was a good person
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
But telling people 'holds you to account'/s
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM