Jdarling
@jdarlingmagic.bsky.social
Writer, Magician, Rascal & Romantic. Experienced daydreamer. Trying to rassle down this novel!
With a 7 yr old Narrator/muse… We have to go on adventures. We entered the Lodge to find answers.
Came out with red velvet plans, a mug of black coffee, and one very judgmental log.
#Writerlife #TwinPeaksVibes #LogLadySeesAll #muse
Came out with red velvet plans, a mug of black coffee, and one very judgmental log.
#Writerlife #TwinPeaksVibes #LogLadySeesAll #muse
April 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
With a 7 yr old Narrator/muse… We have to go on adventures. We entered the Lodge to find answers.
Came out with red velvet plans, a mug of black coffee, and one very judgmental log.
#Writerlife #TwinPeaksVibes #LogLadySeesAll #muse
Came out with red velvet plans, a mug of black coffee, and one very judgmental log.
#Writerlife #TwinPeaksVibes #LogLadySeesAll #muse
Telling two stories about tenderness this week: one about the soft healing kind that transforms through play, one about learning to live with unhealed places & tender spots. Sometimes transformation comes through change, sometimes through understanding.
#amwriting #storytelling
#amwriting #storytelling
February 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Telling two stories about tenderness this week: one about the soft healing kind that transforms through play, one about learning to live with unhealed places & tender spots. Sometimes transformation comes through change, sometimes through understanding.
#amwriting #storytelling
#amwriting #storytelling
Rejected again? I'm starting to think my story is allergic to acceptance letters! 😂 Time to slather on some revision ointment and try a different market. The submission saga continues! #rejectionclub #writerwoes #keepingitreal
February 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Rejected again? I'm starting to think my story is allergic to acceptance letters! 😂 Time to slather on some revision ointment and try a different market. The submission saga continues! #rejectionclub #writerwoes #keepingitreal
Just found out my play 'Ma Heart' made Best of Fest at FronteraFest! From writing this to memorization to set building... tech rehearsal nerves to seeing the laughter & tears — grateful to have this one land. Two more sold-out shows! 🎭✨
February 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just found out my play 'Ma Heart' made Best of Fest at FronteraFest! From writing this to memorization to set building... tech rehearsal nerves to seeing the laughter & tears — grateful to have this one land. Two more sold-out shows! 🎭✨
Non-writer Friend: Who's Erica?
Me: Oh, my character. She's been pretty vocal about adding a dance number to the scene.
Friend: 😳
Me: This is normal writer behavior.
Me: Stop looking at me like that. 😂
#amwriting
Me: Oh, my character. She's been pretty vocal about adding a dance number to the scene.
Friend: 😳
Me: This is normal writer behavior.
Me: Stop looking at me like that. 😂
#amwriting
January 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Non-writer Friend: Who's Erica?
Me: Oh, my character. She's been pretty vocal about adding a dance number to the scene.
Friend: 😳
Me: This is normal writer behavior.
Me: Stop looking at me like that. 😂
#amwriting
Me: Oh, my character. She's been pretty vocal about adding a dance number to the scene.
Friend: 😳
Me: This is normal writer behavior.
Me: Stop looking at me like that. 😂
#amwriting
When people say 'You've been performing forever, you must not get nervous anymore'
Me after tech:
Rethinking entire life
Planning to cancel show
Move to another country
Questioning why I create things
Also me: Shows up: heart of fast beats. When lights come up:
Let's do this thing 🎭 #amwriting
Me after tech:
Rethinking entire life
Planning to cancel show
Move to another country
Questioning why I create things
Also me: Shows up: heart of fast beats. When lights come up:
Let's do this thing 🎭 #amwriting
January 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
When people say 'You've been performing forever, you must not get nervous anymore'
Me after tech:
Rethinking entire life
Planning to cancel show
Move to another country
Questioning why I create things
Also me: Shows up: heart of fast beats. When lights come up:
Let's do this thing 🎭 #amwriting
Me after tech:
Rethinking entire life
Planning to cancel show
Move to another country
Questioning why I create things
Also me: Shows up: heart of fast beats. When lights come up:
Let's do this thing 🎭 #amwriting
Show week status:
Imagined the thing ✓
Wrote the thing ✓
Memorized the thing ✓
Survived tech week ✓
Now just watching my stomach do backflips before opening
Hope stage lighting hides my panic sweats 😉 🎭 #Theater #amwriting
Imagined the thing ✓
Wrote the thing ✓
Memorized the thing ✓
Survived tech week ✓
Now just watching my stomach do backflips before opening
Hope stage lighting hides my panic sweats 😉 🎭 #Theater #amwriting
January 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Show week status:
Imagined the thing ✓
Wrote the thing ✓
Memorized the thing ✓
Survived tech week ✓
Now just watching my stomach do backflips before opening
Hope stage lighting hides my panic sweats 😉 🎭 #Theater #amwriting
Imagined the thing ✓
Wrote the thing ✓
Memorized the thing ✓
Survived tech week ✓
Now just watching my stomach do backflips before opening
Hope stage lighting hides my panic sweats 😉 🎭 #Theater #amwriting
Not trying to start a fight here but Flavored coffee is just beans cosplaying as dessert. And not well. That smell alone is a crime scene. #Coffee
January 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Not trying to start a fight here but Flavored coffee is just beans cosplaying as dessert. And not well. That smell alone is a crime scene. #Coffee
Writing comes fast, slow or dead stop. But breakthroughs? Show up in the oddest moments. Like when you're stuck in a chapter for weeks. Frustrated. Go on walk & help some stuck truck driver get unstuck and then boom you instantly see how to move your chapter forward. 🙌 #WritingCommunity
January 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Writing comes fast, slow or dead stop. But breakthroughs? Show up in the oddest moments. Like when you're stuck in a chapter for weeks. Frustrated. Go on walk & help some stuck truck driver get unstuck and then boom you instantly see how to move your chapter forward. 🙌 #WritingCommunity
How the writing is going:
Me: Ready to address this plot hole?
Character: What would you ever do without me!
Me: Wow! Really!
Character: Don’t cry.
Me: This isn't productive.
Character: Neither is your outline but here we are.
Me: I don’t have an outline.
Character: Exactly!
#AmWriting"
Me: Ready to address this plot hole?
Character: What would you ever do without me!
Me: Wow! Really!
Character: Don’t cry.
Me: This isn't productive.
Character: Neither is your outline but here we are.
Me: I don’t have an outline.
Character: Exactly!
#AmWriting"
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
How the writing is going:
Me: Ready to address this plot hole?
Character: What would you ever do without me!
Me: Wow! Really!
Character: Don’t cry.
Me: This isn't productive.
Character: Neither is your outline but here we are.
Me: I don’t have an outline.
Character: Exactly!
#AmWriting"
Me: Ready to address this plot hole?
Character: What would you ever do without me!
Me: Wow! Really!
Character: Don’t cry.
Me: This isn't productive.
Character: Neither is your outline but here we are.
Me: I don’t have an outline.
Character: Exactly!
#AmWriting"
Glimmering in my thoughts. The feeling? Like holding your breath underwater while watching fireworks through the ripples - everything is transformed, just out of reach, but so intensely present at the same time. There's this ache of longing throughout, but also moments of pure magic
#amwriting
#amwriting
January 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Glimmering in my thoughts. The feeling? Like holding your breath underwater while watching fireworks through the ripples - everything is transformed, just out of reach, but so intensely present at the same time. There's this ache of longing throughout, but also moments of pure magic
#amwriting
#amwriting
Sometimes when stuck in my writing… I just sit with my characters and ask them questions:
What are you worried about?
What lights you up?
What aren't you telling me?
Simple conversations. Sometimes Surprising answers. Usually leading to insight & understanding. Story magic. #AmWriting
What are you worried about?
What lights you up?
What aren't you telling me?
Simple conversations. Sometimes Surprising answers. Usually leading to insight & understanding. Story magic. #AmWriting
January 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Sometimes when stuck in my writing… I just sit with my characters and ask them questions:
What are you worried about?
What lights you up?
What aren't you telling me?
Simple conversations. Sometimes Surprising answers. Usually leading to insight & understanding. Story magic. #AmWriting
What are you worried about?
What lights you up?
What aren't you telling me?
Simple conversations. Sometimes Surprising answers. Usually leading to insight & understanding. Story magic. #AmWriting
BREAKING NEWS: Reality Show Host Attempts to Rename Reality Itself…
EPISODE GUIDE:
The Great Renaming:
Where a man who put his name on buildings now wants to rename mountains, gulfs, and apparently reality itself.
Coming up: Attempt to trademark the word "America"
EPISODE GUIDE:
The Great Renaming:
Where a man who put his name on buildings now wants to rename mountains, gulfs, and apparently reality itself.
Coming up: Attempt to trademark the word "America"
January 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Reality Show Host Attempts to Rename Reality Itself…
EPISODE GUIDE:
The Great Renaming:
Where a man who put his name on buildings now wants to rename mountains, gulfs, and apparently reality itself.
Coming up: Attempt to trademark the word "America"
EPISODE GUIDE:
The Great Renaming:
Where a man who put his name on buildings now wants to rename mountains, gulfs, and apparently reality itself.
Coming up: Attempt to trademark the word "America"
Dear guys asking magicians to make their wives disappear:
~ That's called murder
~ I do card tricks
~ Maybe try couples therapy
#MagicianLife
~ That's called murder
~ I do card tricks
~ Maybe try couples therapy
#MagicianLife
January 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Dear guys asking magicians to make their wives disappear:
~ That's called murder
~ I do card tricks
~ Maybe try couples therapy
#MagicianLife
~ That's called murder
~ I do card tricks
~ Maybe try couples therapy
#MagicianLife
Things that lasted longer than the TikTok ban:
My writer's block
My 'this is the final draft' lies
My 'just one more episode' lie
This blank page's staring contest
#AmWriting
My writer's block
My 'this is the final draft' lies
My 'just one more episode' lie
This blank page's staring contest
#AmWriting
January 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Things that lasted longer than the TikTok ban:
My writer's block
My 'this is the final draft' lies
My 'just one more episode' lie
This blank page's staring contest
#AmWriting
My writer's block
My 'this is the final draft' lies
My 'just one more episode' lie
This blank page's staring contest
#AmWriting
Things that took less time than my novel:
Building the Panama Canal
My entire high school education
Several NASA missions
Me: I'm just being thorough 😅😑
#WriterLife
Building the Panama Canal
My entire high school education
Several NASA missions
Me: I'm just being thorough 😅😑
#WriterLife
January 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Things that took less time than my novel:
Building the Panama Canal
My entire high school education
Several NASA missions
Me: I'm just being thorough 😅😑
#WriterLife
Building the Panama Canal
My entire high school education
Several NASA missions
Me: I'm just being thorough 😅😑
#WriterLife
Characters when I'm busy: silent
Characters when I'm falling asleep:
'So about that plot hole...'
'What if we changed EVERYTHING?'
'Also why aren't you writing this down?'
#WriterLife
Characters when I'm falling asleep:
'So about that plot hole...'
'What if we changed EVERYTHING?'
'Also why aren't you writing this down?'
#WriterLife
January 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Characters when I'm busy: silent
Characters when I'm falling asleep:
'So about that plot hole...'
'What if we changed EVERYTHING?'
'Also why aren't you writing this down?'
#WriterLife
Characters when I'm falling asleep:
'So about that plot hole...'
'What if we changed EVERYTHING?'
'Also why aren't you writing this down?'
#WriterLife
Me: has theater show in the soon—
Also me: Clearly this is the perfect time to reorganize my sock drawer, learn everything about penguins, and contemplate if fish feel lonely.
Lines? What lines? 🎭
#ActorLife #WriterLife
Also me: Clearly this is the perfect time to reorganize my sock drawer, learn everything about penguins, and contemplate if fish feel lonely.
Lines? What lines? 🎭
#ActorLife #WriterLife
January 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Me: has theater show in the soon—
Also me: Clearly this is the perfect time to reorganize my sock drawer, learn everything about penguins, and contemplate if fish feel lonely.
Lines? What lines? 🎭
#ActorLife #WriterLife
Also me: Clearly this is the perfect time to reorganize my sock drawer, learn everything about penguins, and contemplate if fish feel lonely.
Lines? What lines? 🎭
#ActorLife #WriterLife
Watching Twin Peaks as a kid in a trailer park was like finding a familiar dream. Lynch knew: reality is stranger than surreal. He made art from the shadows/some pretend not to see. The misfits, the lost, the ones living in spaces between normal -recognizing selves in his strange light #DavidLynch
January 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Watching Twin Peaks as a kid in a trailer park was like finding a familiar dream. Lynch knew: reality is stranger than surreal. He made art from the shadows/some pretend not to see. The misfits, the lost, the ones living in spaces between normal -recognizing selves in his strange light #DavidLynch
January 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Writing a kid who prefers Friday the 13th to fairy tales. Sometimes Jason makes more sense than grown-ups. #WritingCommunity
January 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Writing a kid who prefers Friday the 13th to fairy tales. Sometimes Jason makes more sense than grown-ups. #WritingCommunity
Started life running circles on tracks, trying to outrun a chaotic home life. Now I'm walking circles with a notebook, writing about a kid trying to survive chaos. The path's different but the rhythm's the same. #AmWriting
January 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Started life running circles on tracks, trying to outrun a chaotic home life. Now I'm walking circles with a notebook, writing about a kid trying to survive chaos. The path's different but the rhythm's the same. #AmWriting
Meet your neighborhood walk-writer: Armed with a tiny 3.5x5 notebook, writing a novel one step at a time. 4 yrs spent collecting strange looks, dodging concerned joggers, & avoiding chatty neighbors who don't understand that yes, I'm actually writing while walking. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
January 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Meet your neighborhood walk-writer: Armed with a tiny 3.5x5 notebook, writing a novel one step at a time. 4 yrs spent collecting strange looks, dodging concerned joggers, & avoiding chatty neighbors who don't understand that yes, I'm actually writing while walking. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
Dear Novel: Are we in a toxic relationship? You keep me up at night, make me talk to imaginary people, and I can't quit you. Also, I love you.
January 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Dear Novel: Are we in a toxic relationship? You keep me up at night, make me talk to imaginary people, and I can't quit you. Also, I love you.
Training for a novel is like training for a marathon. Except instead of carb-loading, you word-load, and your only running partner is your own doubt trying to keep pace. 🙃🏃
January 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Training for a novel is like training for a marathon. Except instead of carb-loading, you word-load, and your only running partner is your own doubt trying to keep pace. 🙃🏃