tobadzistsini

7. How do you contend with the hubris of thinking anyone has or should have any interest in what you have to say about anything? #writercirclejerk

I never had this thought. At least seriously.

6. What craft elements do you think are your strong suit, and what would you like to be better at? #writercirclejerk

I think I write well enough and I have been paid to write, just not fiction. And not paid a lot. I could be descriptions, describing settings, and going on interesting tangents than slavishly following a plot like train tracks.

5. If you could choose a career besides writing (irrespective of schooling requirements and/or talent) what would it be? #writercirclejerk

Real paying career? Accounting-adjacent and I'd start earlier than I did. Dream career with dream money but pays nothing irl? Something with taking care of cats. Maybe open a brewery and have brewery cats.

4. What are some words you despise that have been used to describe your writing by readers and/or reviewers? #writercirclejerk

Jesus, I haven't the foggiest. Not notable enough yet.

3. Without using complete sentences, can you describe what was going on in your life as you wrote this book? #writercirclejerk

Depression. Losing four cats. Job change. Rise of American fascism.

2. Without explaining why and without naming other authors or books, can you discuss the various influences on your book? #writercirclejerk

Personal trauma. Isolation. Wanting to belong. Being othered.

1. Without summarizing it in any way, what would you say your book is about? #writercirclejerk

Friendship.

With a few suspicious glances, Jim dared open Kinki on his phone to check for memes and any activity among his friends.
An image of some woman in scrubs spreading her #gape greeted him and he scrolled down to a text post, something in Dutch, and reset his feed. Typically commercial accounts, like titsy and bangbang, were straight-up porn. Worse they were always a bunch of Stacys making low-effort cash being thirst traps.
A red notification for a message caught his attention. 1/x
#wss366

#WritersCoffeeClub How informal is your prose?

Depends.

Kial ĉiuj mensogigas?

la rinocero dancas malrapide en la ĝardeno

saluton

mi estas la verda stelo

mi estas ĉi tie juĝi vin

sed vi ne kulpas

danku min malfrue

mi revenigos denove

kie estas la arbo violkolora?

mia kato estas granda

la dikulo manĝis la belan bebon en la parko

la ŝafo bruis bele tra la nokt'

Jesus, I'm so glad I had such a thorough poop.

Arrived in Cape May a few minutes ago and I am now pooping a well-deserved and timely poop.

Throughout the twentieth century people were promised the next century would bring about remarkable changes with even greater increases in quality of life.
Rather everyone's strung out on their phones to ease the pain of isolation. Minds once content to meditate upon a book and enter those printed realms now lacked the necessary attention.
The same attention which gave people agency when the world needed intervention.
But no.
Scroll, scroll, scroll.
- an addict

RE: @bruces@mastodon.social

I gave up at 1200 a.d.

HOORAY MY SHORT STORY 'No One Has Written Anything Like This Before: A Cozy Isekai, But Like with Star Wars'. IS GETTING PUBLISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111

Suntory time!

I am touching grass today. Plentiful sunshine spills across New Jersey's lawns and parking lots for tomorrow is haunted by prognostications of a dread late winter storm to bury the lands known as 'the shore' among locals. My heart's lightness matches the outdoor brilliance yet I must confess how I dread tomorrow's humor and gloom consuming this meager joy with the keenest rapacity rivalled by midwinter melancholies.

Since it's Ramadan I can't drink until after sunset?

@stevendbrewer@wandering.shop
Cheap Writing Deck Eschews Distractions | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/cheap-writing-deck-eschews-distractions/

#WritersCoffeeClub How has a setting surprised you.

Plots should surprise. Stories should surprise. Settings merely enhance what you wrote. Saying a setting surprised you is akin to saying 'Paprika really satiated my appetite.'

Bruh, the paprika made the meal tastier but it wasn't the meal.

#WordWeavers What tropes are in your current project? I'm sure there are fun names for some of the elements my story, but it doesn't have any of the common ones I see people talk about.

Write stories to plot, not tropes. Dostoyevsky didn't think, "omg Character Filibuster trope would be peak here!" or "hehehe i'm clever subverting Talking The Monster To Death lmao" when writing The Brothers Karamazov.

Everything else is meatslop.

AI makes you boring | marginalia.nu
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_132_ai_bores/

"You don’t get build muscle using an excavator to lift weights. You don’t produce interesting thoughts using a GPU to think."

#WritersCoffeeClub How unique is the setting of your current WIP?

Kolomboi Station? Clever BDO idea but basically a space opera so not original. The nature of the BDO doesn't even play into the storyline. Dinosaur cycle? Dinosaurs back in the 21st century by unknown means. Goes from the brink of global warming then returning to a reasonable climate much later. Jurassic Park. Gynoids? Our Earth except Russia's been t-bombed scattering 96% of Russia through time. Also robots and martian microbes.

@stevendbrewer@wandering.shop wss list has 366 days in 2026? 2026 is not a leap year.

jesus
fucking
christ

SEGGS

Haven't been feeling like writing of late. I'm very distracted in the wake of massive anxiety.

Communities are not fungible
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/communities-are-not-fungible/

osage no onna sukidesu!

#ScribesAndMakers Aside from the official birthday song and the ubiquitous Beatles song, is there a song about birthdays you like?

Question requires a TW. Jesus Christ, some people have PTSD.