Kate Hardie
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Kate Hardie
@ilovecupkates.bsky.social
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Bard of the juice box years. Occasionally funny, often tired. Science 🔬 sewing 🪡 momming ☕ laughing at memes 😂 television 📺 #IndieWriter #Romance #BluePit #Querying #Q
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🍁 After the End

A novel about grief, French toast, slow-burn healing, and intimacy that sneaks up on you, latte in hand.

Written by Kate Hardie, who is me.

In the meantime, please enjoy this totally legit movie poster.

#AmWriting
Submitted to both the #CBCShortStory contest and my first ever @writingbattle.bsky.social this weekend! Celebrating with a bowl of ice cream and an episode of Slow Horses. #AmWriting #ShortStory #WritersOfBluesky
Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation
Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?

Act 2, scene 1
Macbeth
#ShakespeareSunday #WritersOfBluesky
I only want to brag a tiiiiny bit. My first submission to McSweeney's was rejected, but I got a personalized email response. So that's basically a win.

#Rejections #WritersOfBluesky #CelebrateFailing
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Just leaving this here. No words.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
What's worse, being cursed or the paperwork?

My three remaining brain cells have had about 8 hours of sleep over the last two nights. Somewhere in the blur of laundry, doctor's visits, and delusion, I wrote a short story.

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#ThingsTheMoonToldMe #ShortStory
Paperwork
We’ve been in the midst of a Week at my house.
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"Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him?"
-Act 5, scene 1, Macbeth

Said by Lady M, in a sleepwalking episode. As she and the king come to terms with what they've done, sleep evades her.

They both need a nap and a hug.

#ShakespeareSunday #Macbeth #SpoookySeason
I wrote something. It’s weird. Hopefully at least a little funny.

“Iambic Pentameter” Was Not On The List of Essential Criteria in This Job Posting, a short story about a rather odd workplace.

#IambicPentameter #ThingsTheMoonToldMe
“Iambic Pentameter” Was Not On The List of Essential Criteria in This Job Posting
“Follow me, I’ll show you the printer room,” she says, her smile friendly, her tone polite.
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Ever been on a not-date that’s obviously a date? Gavin and Mel have, too. Come be a fly on the wall for their totally-not-a-date. #WIPSnips #AfterTheEnd 🍁☕️📖
Today’s #WIPSnips word is “outside”. This is a piece of a short story WIP, working title When the Moon is Heaviest.

#ShortStory #CanadaWrites #WriteSky #AmWriting #FromLuna
Feeling very much not okay in the world today. Anyone feel up to sharing something good?

I can share something good: I saw a monarch butterfly in the wild. It was pretty 🦋

#screamintothevoid #fuuuuuuuu-
How could you resist? Lovely! It makes me nostalgic for the time I spent in Edinburgh in 2016. What a beautiful city!
This is well and truly worth the read. #WaitForIt
It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
#ADHD in real-time: using an electric toothbrush that vibrates every 30 seconds to tell me when to change quadrants, forgetting where I started and which direction I'm going.

#neurodivergence
You had me in the first half 😂
That writing doesn't have to be one big chunk to be useful. I now keep a notebook that I think of as "The Composter" wher I stash lines, paragraphs, half-baked plots. Sometimes bits need to ripen or find their friends before they make sense. #LateNightWrite
The House Ran Away

My house ran away
In a strange turning of the tables
Abandoned its contents
Left from the stables

My house ran away
What the actual fuck?
Where do we go now?
I am no longer stuck

#PoetSky #WriterSky #WordSky #HashtagSky #Comedy
2/2
Sometimes you write beautiful, sweeping prose that brings a scene to life or gives voice to the unspoken.

And sometimes you write this.

#PoetSky #WriterSky #WordSky #HashtagSky #Comedy #Maybe 1/2
Crowley most definitely would with Aziraphale, you nailed the vibe 😂😈
Thank you Nikki! I would love to send you my query materials, please send me a link 💕
Thanks so much! I'm nearing the end of writing and plan to query over the fall. I'll keep this in mind as I approach the later stages! 💕
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🍁 After the End

A novel about grief, French toast, slow-burn healing, and intimacy that sneaks up on you, latte in hand.

Written by Kate Hardie, who is me.

In the meantime, please enjoy this totally legit movie poster.

#AmWriting
We can hope, at least. Amen.
Stuff my kids said:

2yo: my book!

4yo: that was MY book when I was a kid and now it's his.

2yo: my book!

Me: when you were a kid? You're not a kid now?

4yo: no, I'm a big boy.

#KidLogic