🎶this is how we do it🎶

And now we are in the bookstore as Nolan intended

bionic eye achieved! my neurons are very confused.

me: “we can each get one book at the used bookstore” us:

Some authors get to go to residencies. Some authors have at-home spouses. Some authors write on monitor #2 while the kiddo sits on your lap and watches Swiftie videos on monitor #1 because your spouse is working & you still have to do 3k today before midnight or you will not make your deadline.

Did a Bob Ross follow-along with washable school tempera and printer paper. Absolutely delighted that my mountains look decent and the trees look happy. And now /I/ am happy. The process is always as important as the result.

me, 2015: ✨she's in pigtails because she's re-discovering the child she never was✨ me, post-epstein: ^%&$&# *&&^&#@ %**#*$#

The anonymous person on my work whiteboard knows what’s up

It’s snowing #upstatevibes

If you’re wondering how the circus has modernized, the ringmaster is now called a content creator, and he unicycles around with a phone on a gimbal

FFS

If you’re wondering what the buyers are buying, there are two bays of SF (and one of Star Wars) as opposed to six bays of fantasy. Ray gun writers gotta hold on tight.

I just got this one and it was so well done that I was like, oooh! It even had a link to something that looked real! And then I noticed it mentioned the title as it appears on Amazon and B&N, not the title as it would appear to REAL HUMANS. See below:

I would like to establish that this line has been present in my book since way before Andor (I'm doing the final look. eeeeeeee)

You can get ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY at the B&N in Hamilton, NJ! Woo!

Move back to upstate New York, I said. It’ll be great, I said.

Edits DONE. Now I leave it for a few days to curdle, read it one more time, and kick it back to the publisher. This book is a BANGER

Road trip fun: ate here b/c I never did and there’s always a first time; am now up w/ food poisoning in a hotel. Happy new year lol

Happy new year from what is hopefully the last two days of this edit Also I have finally been to a buc-ee’s, that is definitely a place that exists

Oops we stumbled on a used bookstore, RIP my wallet

Making friends with this grumpy face

Marry the guy that drives the whole way so you can do your edits

Exactly what you expected!

I did a search on Adobe stock for a thing I'm doing for work. That little star icon denotes a graphic made with AI. I screen-shotted it for you. There's more of them now than otherwise.

It's just scams all the way down, isn't it.

4am cat definitely wants to help

4am cat is being very cute tbh

4am cat cares not for your novel edits

This is how you get what you want when you’re a writer with a dayjob and a family. No residencies, no grants, no sabbaticals. Just four ayem, your half-hour lunch, and a little too much caffeine.