Rowan E. Madden
@rowan-no.bsky.social
NI author, poet, and king of cups.
Queer, quare, and querying. Proofreader for Wolfram & Hart.
Here to liveblog my own writing process and probably the Iliad.
(She/they/anything)
Queer, quare, and querying. Proofreader for Wolfram & Hart.
Here to liveblog my own writing process and probably the Iliad.
(She/they/anything)
I love you Publius Vergilius Maro but your underworld design fucks so hard it is an actual inconvenience.
January 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
I love you Publius Vergilius Maro but your underworld design fucks so hard it is an actual inconvenience.
I love you sophomore albums even the artists say are their least favourite. I love you especially sophomore break up albums everyone thinks are weak. Something something condensed emotional earnestness with no chance to second guess. Sorry it almost wrecked your career but it fucks severely.
December 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I love you sophomore albums even the artists say are their least favourite. I love you especially sophomore break up albums everyone thinks are weak. Something something condensed emotional earnestness with no chance to second guess. Sorry it almost wrecked your career but it fucks severely.
Came joint second! Lost to my father. Madden on Madden violence.
Practised reciting for next month's slam so hard I gave myself a headache 👍
December 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Came joint second! Lost to my father. Madden on Madden violence.
Practised reciting for next month's slam so hard I gave myself a headache 👍
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Practised reciting for next month's slam so hard I gave myself a headache 👍
All it took was writing the wrong fecking book, about 4 false starts/abandoned drafts, multiple bullet outlines I forgot to refer to, abandoning it to work on a brand new idea, abandoning it AGAIN to redraft its prequel, then going a little insane for a month, but I THINK I do now have ITK cracked
November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
All it took was writing the wrong fecking book, about 4 false starts/abandoned drafts, multiple bullet outlines I forgot to refer to, abandoning it to work on a brand new idea, abandoning it AGAIN to redraft its prequel, then going a little insane for a month, but I THINK I do now have ITK cracked
Big week for people who remember me from mibba
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Big week for people who remember me from mibba
One of these days I'll rock up to a reading with happy poems, but it's probably not today
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One of these days I'll rock up to a reading with happy poems, but it's probably not today
The ghosts of my past have released me (external hard drive cable got eaten)
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The ghosts of my past have released me (external hard drive cable got eaten)
I hate my fucking notes app bitch what the fuck does half of this mean none of this is what I was looking for
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I hate my fucking notes app bitch what the fuck does half of this mean none of this is what I was looking for
Love is stored in articles about your dad's singing and your mum's salsa from 22 years ago that you never knew about and stumbled on doing research at don't-worry-about-it o'clock in the morning.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/coffee-...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/coffee-...
Coffee break: Coffee going for a song
ARCADIA. A dictionary definition: scene of simple pleasure and quiet, the typical setting of pastoral poetry.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Love is stored in articles about your dad's singing and your mum's salsa from 22 years ago that you never knew about and stumbled on doing research at don't-worry-about-it o'clock in the morning.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/coffee-...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/coffee-...
Had to go through three migraines and a long, dark tea-time of the soul (old DMs and working on SB&A), but I might actually make ITK work this time.
(Sorry Greenroom I love you Greenroom I will do, like, Greenroom Thursdays or something idk.)
(Sorry Greenroom I love you Greenroom I will do, like, Greenroom Thursdays or something idk.)
November 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Had to go through three migraines and a long, dark tea-time of the soul (old DMs and working on SB&A), but I might actually make ITK work this time.
(Sorry Greenroom I love you Greenroom I will do, like, Greenroom Thursdays or something idk.)
(Sorry Greenroom I love you Greenroom I will do, like, Greenroom Thursdays or something idk.)
Reposted by Rowan E. Madden
2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads:
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
May 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads:
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
Emotional about lore that might never make it to the page
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Emotional about lore that might never make it to the page
Super simple and normal writing process:
Write ITF when meant to write ITK
Redraft ITD when meant to write ITK
Rewrite first half of ITK when meant to write second half
Restructure quarter into duology just for the fuck of it one day
Start NEW duology when meant to edit ITD
Cannot name new duology
Write ITF when meant to write ITK
Redraft ITD when meant to write ITK
Rewrite first half of ITK when meant to write second half
Restructure quarter into duology just for the fuck of it one day
Start NEW duology when meant to edit ITD
Cannot name new duology
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Super simple and normal writing process:
Write ITF when meant to write ITK
Redraft ITD when meant to write ITK
Rewrite first half of ITK when meant to write second half
Restructure quarter into duology just for the fuck of it one day
Start NEW duology when meant to edit ITD
Cannot name new duology
Write ITF when meant to write ITK
Redraft ITD when meant to write ITK
Rewrite first half of ITK when meant to write second half
Restructure quarter into duology just for the fuck of it one day
Start NEW duology when meant to edit ITD
Cannot name new duology
Gotta get up in 4 hours but there is a plot in my head and also very possibly a spider in my bed and how's a bitch meant to sleep in these conditions?
October 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Gotta get up in 4 hours but there is a plot in my head and also very possibly a spider in my bed and how's a bitch meant to sleep in these conditions?
Went into a 3 day dissociation and might have to write the trilogy now idk I miss Lee and Sera
October 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Went into a 3 day dissociation and might have to write the trilogy now idk I miss Lee and Sera
Hey, what up Stringer 👋 Book XIX: The Feud Ends
This is a relatively short book, which is good, because it's about my two least favourite war criminals.
(Sorry, this is an Achilles hate page (Achilles Hades Game excluded). I hope we can all find unity in hating Agamemnon.)
This is a relatively short book, which is good, because it's about my two least favourite war criminals.
(Sorry, this is an Achilles hate page (Achilles Hades Game excluded). I hope we can all find unity in hating Agamemnon.)
September 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hey, what up Stringer 👋 Book XIX: The Feud Ends
This is a relatively short book, which is good, because it's about my two least favourite war criminals.
(Sorry, this is an Achilles hate page (Achilles Hades Game excluded). I hope we can all find unity in hating Agamemnon.)
This is a relatively short book, which is good, because it's about my two least favourite war criminals.
(Sorry, this is an Achilles hate page (Achilles Hades Game excluded). I hope we can all find unity in hating Agamemnon.)
Back by absolutely zero demand, Book XVIII: Achilles' Decision.
The summary note in my edition reads "The shield is described in detail." This is a gross understatement of what's about to happen.
The summary note in my edition reads "The shield is described in detail." This is a gross understatement of what's about to happen.
September 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Back by absolutely zero demand, Book XVIII: Achilles' Decision.
The summary note in my edition reads "The shield is described in detail." This is a gross understatement of what's about to happen.
The summary note in my edition reads "The shield is described in detail." This is a gross understatement of what's about to happen.
I'm going to be
✨INSUFFERABLE ✨
✨INSUFFERABLE ✨
September 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I'm going to be
✨INSUFFERABLE ✨
✨INSUFFERABLE ✨
Back on my bullshit (thinking about Aeneas). Anyone up for live Iliad shitposting?
I'm carrying on from where I left off on Twitter eons ago, so here we go, Book XVII: The Struggle Over Patroclus.
I'm carrying on from where I left off on Twitter eons ago, so here we go, Book XVII: The Struggle Over Patroclus.
August 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Back on my bullshit (thinking about Aeneas). Anyone up for live Iliad shitposting?
I'm carrying on from where I left off on Twitter eons ago, so here we go, Book XVII: The Struggle Over Patroclus.
I'm carrying on from where I left off on Twitter eons ago, so here we go, Book XVII: The Struggle Over Patroclus.
Picking out poems for a reading tonight and found one I'd forgotten writing. Not my best, not my worst, certainly not a candidate for tonight, especially after realising I fucking ended it with the line "Every time we touch."
August 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Picking out poems for a reading tonight and found one I'd forgotten writing. Not my best, not my worst, certainly not a candidate for tonight, especially after realising I fucking ended it with the line "Every time we touch."
68,450 as of finishing (this draft of) Part 1. It is simultaneously too long and also 550 words too short.
50k into the current draft of the WIP! Why is this motherfucker so long
August 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
68,450 as of finishing (this draft of) Part 1. It is simultaneously too long and also 550 words too short.
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@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
August 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
First I lean into my widow's peak. THEN I let my white temple streak grow in. Then I become the morally grey* love interest!
*morally grey actions TBD, got told I was going to hell this week though so this might be enough
*morally grey actions TBD, got told I was going to hell this week though so this might be enough
August 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
First I lean into my widow's peak. THEN I let my white temple streak grow in. Then I become the morally grey* love interest!
*morally grey actions TBD, got told I was going to hell this week though so this might be enough
*morally grey actions TBD, got told I was going to hell this week though so this might be enough