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Ellie Athersmith
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Internationally acclaimed narrative improvisor, award-winning theatre designer, amateur musician, aspiring author, former Jeopardy! contestant. Also, I read a lot. 🇺🇸 > 🇨🇦. linktr.ee/ellieabouttown
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Ahh, the unique, panicked feeling when you have ADHD when it's 10am and you're hungry.
Did I just spend all evening researching whether or not a coastal lagoon could've been anywhere near enough a volcano eruption that it would've gotten enough ash to make helenite for ~reasons~?

Apparently yes.

#writerproblems
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HEY it's Halloween on Friday and obvs you need some spooky reading to go with your candy

And HERE THERE ARE MONSTERS even begins on the night before Halloween... so!

🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇
BSky! Clearly you need some spooky books for the ides of spooky season! Well I GOTCHU

Ghosts and monsters and haunted Canadian landscapes, oh my 😱😱😱

...and hey look they're on sale!

🍁: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/...

B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/amelinda%2...

👿: www.amazon.com/stores/Ameli...
Currently working through the snowflake method to plot New Project, and it really, really works.

After 3 tries, I have a (very messy) 1-page summary that actually hangs together.

But I am so glad I'm doing this now and not after I've written 50k words of prose and realized the plot didn't work.
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If you like ace romance with wry humour, messy queers fighting for justice and epic worldbuilding, The Dragon Next Door is for you!
🐲 Sword lesbian (bi)
🐲 Secret baby (dragon)
🐲 Friends to lovers (ace)
🐲 Found family
🐲 Opposites attract
books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6
vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...
I am not a sportsball person and I don’t live in Toronto but GO JAYS KICK THEIR ASSES
Oooh, I just built myself a TBR of heist stories! What's on your list?
I think we *all* need more heist stories! :D
honestly I feel like the biggest sign we were lost as a nation was when everybody and their brother failed to understand one of the core messages of TLJ: no one is coming to save us, we have to pick up the mantle and fight evil ourselves.
New project!

Current working title: A Palace of Smoke & Mirrors.

A retired commedia dell'arte troupe gets blackmailed into doing a heist by the mob, with magical theatre tech.

[The Italian Job x Noises Off x The Mask of Mirrors]
I'm going back next month and am bringing an extra suitcase specifically to bring home tortillas and salsas for the deep freezer.
Not gonna lie, I saw the HEB branded PAM and the Fiesta brand spices and was immediately homesick and also incredibly hungry. Those look delicious!
Like Word and Notion, I get to a degree because writing fiction is not their primary use case. But PLOTTR? Come on, man.
Tyra Banks I Was Rooting For You GIF
ALT: Tyra Banks I Was Rooting For You GIF
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Dear writing software companies: if you keep pushing AI shit at me and keep talking about different ways to use your software with generative AI, I'm going to stop using your product. And I'm going to tell all my friends to stop using it, too.

Plottr: you're on notice.
I hadn't really realized how much I used the pad of my thumb until now and owwwwww
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Stolen from the Latin teacher FB group.
Managed to slice my thumb open while cutting up a cucumber for dinner. Ugh.