✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt

Upmarket fiction, grayscale moods, and the emotional physics of relationships. I write the quiet detonations. ✍️ kaygoodstadt.com 📸 Instagram.com/kaygoodstadt

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 15

✨Just #Lego‼️✍️✨ When you’re losing patience with structural edits and your inner critic decides to take a pickaxe to the entire plot…⛏️ #BookSky📚 #WritingLife💻 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WednesdayWords📝 #amediting✂️#gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social 🖊️💡👏

A Lego minifigure stands on top of a brown desk, violently smashing a black laptop with a black pickaxe. The meme text above reads, "Oh look! Lego has made an 'author on the 10th round of edits' figurine! 😆". Watermarked with "@ethicsinbricks", the scene features a detailed background with wood-paneled walls, windows showing pink flowers, a wall clock, and another retro computer station in the foreground

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 15

*The #Writing ✍️ #Vortex🌀💥 (*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Why?”😵‍💫) #BookSky📚 #WritingLife💻 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WednesdayWords📝 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

Writing tip:
When you’re stuck, ask: what would this character hide?
That’s usually where the next scene begins.

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 14

Didn’t realize Jabba had a twin.🤭

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 14

✨✍️ #TheWritingProcess ✨ A Handy-Dandy Guide to Decoding Professional Doublespeak…🗣️💬🤔 #BookSky📚 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #amquerying📧 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

An infographic titled "AGENT-TO-ENGLISH: A TRANSLATION DICTIONARY" styled as an open book.

The book displays a humorous translation guide for literary agents and recruiters, organized into two columns: "THE AGENT SAID..." on the left page and "WHAT THEY ACTUALLY MEANT" on the right page.

The translation entries are:
1. "We're looking for fresh voices in this genre." translates to "We're looking for a voice identical to an author who just sold a million copies."
2. "The market for this is a bit soft right now." translates to "I don't believe I can sell this to any publisher."
3. "I'd love to see your next project." translates to "I'm passing on this project, but trying to be polite."
4. "We need to get you on the festival circuit." translates to "I need to find a way to market this to a broader audience."
5. "Your prose is very lyrical." translates to "Your manuscript is over-written and needs a massive edit."
6. "I'm going to be very hands-on with this." (labeled Tech Recruiter) translates to "I will send you a single, vague editorial letter and then be impossible to reach until you finish the revisions."

At the bottom, a subtitle reads, "A GUIDE TO DECODING PROFESSIONAL DOUBLESPEAK."

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 13

✨✍️🔍 #FactChecked: True✔️✨ #BlueSky🦋 #BookSky📚 #WritingLife💻 #WriteSky📝 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting💻#gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #Polisky📰 #Skybrarian👩🏻‍🏫 @goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social💳👏

“The only BS I need in my life is bookstores.”
@GoodwillLibrarian

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 12

✨✍️ #TheWritingProcess🧐✨ Reminder for #seniors staring at a blank page today: your first draft doesn’t have to be a masterpiece, it just needs to exist.📝 #BookSky📚 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #upmarket #fiction🍷#gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

“If you think you’re running out of time, just remember…
Helen Garner published her acclaimed masterpiece, This House of Grief, at 72, followed by personal diaries and essays well into her 80s.”
@rebecca.watson.writes

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 10

✨ #Fiction… or #fact⁉️📖🤨✍️✨ #BlueSky🦋 #BookSky📚 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife💻 #grammar📓 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #art🎨 #merch🛍️🛒

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 9

<Sigh.> Another day of hopes dashed. Wish people wouldn’t make plans unless they intend to follow through.

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 9

But he cannot read at an adult level. He’s a functional illiterate.

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 9

*The #Writing ✍️ #Vortex🌀💥 (*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Why?”😵‍💫) #BookSky📚 #WritingLife💻 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WednesdayWords📝 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #MemeSky🖼️

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 8

✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Night 📖🌚✨ #BookSky📚#ReadingCommunity👀#WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #amediting✂️#art🎨#gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #ElieWiesel🖊️

Quote by Elie Wiesel:
“Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of 200 pages which is the result of an original 800 pages. The 600 pages are there. Only you don’t see them.”

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 7

✨ #BetweenTheCovers📖✍️✨ #Novel Pitching Method (for writers and devs)‼️ #BookSky📚#writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #amquerying📧 #WritingTips💡 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

A screenshot of a social media post explaining the "SPOOC" method for narrowing down a book plot for an elevator pitch:

“Try this method to narrow down the plot of your book for your elevator pitch 👇 SPOOC = Situation, Protagonist, Objective, Opponent, Climax 📖 Example: S: When China faces invasion. P: Mulan, a young woman struggling to find her identity and bring honor to her family, O: Disguises herself as a soldier and takes her father's place in the army, but can she keep her identity a secret and survive when O: Shan Yu and the Hun army C: Close in and threaten to overpower the emperor.
For my book, Miscreant, mine looks like this:When she is exiled for lacking powers, Nova Darkov, daughter of a powerful ruler, is given sixty days to learn her powers and return home to take her place as a ruler beside her brother, Denali. But can she succeed when creatures inhabiting the 'Island of exiles' hunt her down seeking to take revenge.This formula came from 'The Fantasy Fiction Formula' by Deborah Chester, and helps to narrow your complex story plot into a gripping pitch! 1 day ago • 🔍 SPOOC method for novel writing"

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 5

✨ #Word Up‼️✍️✨ #HeadHopping 👤🔁👤🔁👤 #BookSky📚 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingTips📋#amwriting📝 #fiction📕#storytelling💬 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

From writingdayworkshops.com/blog

Head Hopping:
Verb

Head hopping is usually considered a writing mistake, where an author jumps between multiple characters’ internal thoughts, feelings, or sensations within a scene, usually without warning or clear transitions.

This is different from a writer changing characters’ viewpoints at a scene or chapter break, which is considered acceptable.

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 5

Just in case…🤞🧻

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 5

That’s the way the cookie crumbles…💁🏻

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 4

#IndiePenDense Day Greetings🎆🇺🇸 Happy 4th to the writers and devs turning today's creative grind into tomorrow's masterpieces‼️ ☕️🔋💻🚀 #BookSky📚#writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife✍️#amwriting✍️#gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #art🎨 #webcomics🫟🖋️

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 4

More importantly— How can we get him out.🥾🍊🗑️

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 3

These tips from a prolific writer helped me immensely.🤔 #WritingCommunity

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 3

A poetic/artistic genius. Such a loss. I wore a mourning band to school and refused to remove it. Received detention for the first time in my life. My parents were horrified. But I was sixteen, devastated— And still grieve his death to this day. 😔

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 3

✨✍️ #TheWritingProcess🧐✨ Reminder for everyone staring at a blank page today: your first draft doesn’t have to be a masterpiece, it just needs to exist.📝 #BookSky📚 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #upmarket #fiction🍷#gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

An image with a solid black background features white text titled, "5 things to know before writing your FIRST NOVEL...".The five numbered points include:Borrow a Structure: Explains not starting from scratch and using a loved story structure as training wheels.Let Your Character Talk: Suggests writing a short monologue to discover a character's unique voice.Know Their Wants & Needs: Advises focusing on what characters want, need, and what obstacles stop them.Give Readers Progress: States every chapter should feel like movement toward a goal, clue, relationship, or discovery.Think Before You Write: Recommends using walks, workouts, or quiet moments to imagine the next scene.A final concluding note at the bottom reads: "Your first novel doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be finished." The social media handle "@theeonlywriters" is visible at the top and bottom of the image.

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 3

✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Day 📖🌞✨ #BookSky📚#ReadingCommunity👀#WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #art🎨#KidLit👧🏽#BeatrixPotter🐇#gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.” — Beatrix Potter

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 3

✨ #WritingModeMood ✨ Slow burn romance…🌹🔥 #BookSky📚#WritingCommunity✍️#amwriting📑 #WritingLife👩🏻‍💻 #Romancelandia🕯️#indiedev🛠️ #gamedev 🎮 #art🎨 #noir⚫️ #BlackAndWhite📸 #monochrome🌫️

✨#WritingModeMood🌹✨

Mini-scene by author Kay Goodstadt:

A high-contrast, black and white photograph of an intimate couple embracing and kissing deeply. The man on the left has short, dark, messy hair, a light beard stubble, and is wearing a dark leather jacket over a light-colored tee shirt. He holds the woman's face and jaw with both hands as they kiss. The woman on the right has long dark hair and is wearing a dark spaghetti-strap top, her head tilted up slightly with her eyes closed. The background is a soft, dark, and out-of-focus backdrop.
“Effortlessly sexy, he had that alluring, slightly unkempt look defined by his strong bone structure, unruly brown hair, intense blue eyes and six-pack abs beneath his tight white tee and faded black leather jacket. He was fire. So hot, she needed an extinguisher—fast. Because she wanted him. Wanted more. But he didn’t take more. Instead, he softened his kiss, gentling her, coaxing her until her eyes closed and her lips yielded to his.”

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jul 2

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jun 30

✨ #BoxedIn⁉️🧚‍♀️📦✨ Turns out finding inspiration is a lot more literal than you’d think…🧐💬 #BookSky📚#writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife✍️#amwriting✍️#gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #art🎨 #webcomics🫟🖋️

A four-panel black and white comic strip titled "Oddbox" by Bob Gonzalez. A cartoon writer sits at a desk with a pencil, speaking to a small package labeled "Dial a Muse" and "Fragile."Panel 1: The writer says, "Okay, Muse. Let's start writing."Panel 2: A voice from the shaking box replies, "You have to let me out, first."Panel 3: The writer looks confused and asks, "Why?"Panel 4: The box shakes as the muse answers, "I need to think outside the box."

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jun 30

✨ #CreativeAlchemy🪄✨ #BookSky📚#writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife✍️#amwriting📝 #motivation🌱#gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #art🎨#DarbyHudson🖋️

Quote by Darby Hudson: “There is no magic. You keep going. You stay weird. Eventually they call it art.”

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jun 30

He also bears a striking resemblance to R.M. Renfield.🐜🪳🕷️🧛‍♂️🩸

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jun 30

Hey, fascists gotta propagandize— Otherwise, how can they gaslight? (Johnson, Miller & Co need to go.) 🗳️🥾🐘🗑️

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jun 30

✨ #AlternativeEndings⁉️💃🏻🛍️🍷✨ #BookSky📚#writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife✍️#amwriting✍️#gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #art🎨 #FeministHumor👩🏻‍💼👑💼

A black and white meme template featuring a vintage photograph of a woman with styled hair reading a bedtime storybook to a child in bed. At the top, a large white speech bubble contains text that reads: "Once upon a time, a man asked a girl to marry him, the girl said “no!” And she lived happily ever after, and went shopping, dancing and drinking. She always had a clean house, never cooked and looked fabulous all the time. The end."

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jun 29

✨ #KeepAtIt‼️👍👩🏻‍💻🧰✨ #BookSky📚#writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife✍️#amwriting📝 #motivation🌱#gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #art🎨

I’m in love with this sentence:
“One but the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.” — @readswithravi

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨@kaygoodstadt· Jun 29

✨ #BetweenTheCovers🛏️📖✍️✨ We went from deploying #books as "weapons in the war of ideas" to treating them like hazardous material. The history is clear: censorship never ages well.📢 #BookSky📚#writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #FScottFitzgerald🖋️ #IReadBannedBooks👀#gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨#Skybrarians📕