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J.D. Cunegan

@jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social

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Storyteller. Fiction is the weapon I wield against an unjust world I am powerless to change. Bi/pan. He/Him/His. jdcuneganbooks.com

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · Jul 25

#IndieAuthors I write about superheroes and prophecies and assassins and corrupt billionaires getting what they deserve. Oh, and my books are queer as hell. 👇

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 8h

How to use fiction to process existential dread. The power of story to help authors and readers alike deal with the things about life and society they are powerless to actually change.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 10h

Okay #WritingCommunity...

You've recruited as a teacher at a new writing school. You get to choose a custom class to teach.

What are you teaching?

Mine? How to develop interesting quirky characters that readers will love.

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 8h

Baseball owners who refuse to invest in player payroll and even ✨️attempt✨️ to be competitive bother me far more than the teams that seemingly throw money at every good player available. We need a salary floor more than we need a cap.

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 9h

#WritingCommunity

Are yours? 👇

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 9h

Define your music taste in eight artists.

-System of a Down
-Jinjer
-Spiritbox
-Evanescence
-Scars on Broadway
-Unleash the Archers
-Gojira
-Weird Al Yankovic

❤️🏳️‍🌈🐾Ember Darkpaw🐾🏳️‍🌈❤️ @prowlingpaws.bsky.social · 9h

Define your music taste in eight artists. (It's everything and anything just so long as I like the song/music. I'm not picky at all and can like any genre.)

-Evanescence
-Linkin Park
-Halestorm
-Within Temptation
-Elton John
-Hozier
-Ariana Grande
-Barry Manilow

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists.

The National (Matt Berninger)
Josh Ritter
Gregory Alan Isakov
Sam Tinnesz
Anais Mitchell
Angus and Julia Stone
Breaking Benjamin (Benjamin Burnley)
Green Day (Billie Joe Armstrong)

Your turn! 🎶🎧

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 9h

#WritingCommunity

"Why are your books so violent?"

Because I'm tired of living in a world where the wicked are allowed to get away with their cruelty, and this is the only way to enact proper punishment without ending up, you know, in prison.

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 9h

I've long thought conservative projection was little more than an acknowledgement that they behave that way, so of course everyone else does, right?

...Right?

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 10h

There's a lot of really shitty things going on right now, and I don't know what to do about... well, just about all of them. But being alive to watch Shohei Ohtani play baseball is just... I don't care what team you root for, you have to admit it's ungodly special what he's doing.

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 4d

#NASCAR Charging $60 for a video game where you don't even get a physical copy, on machines that are currently north of $500, should be criminal. Especially with DLC and "season packs" that are, on day one, a combined $45.

This is why I've given up on gaming, outside of the classics.

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 4d

I'm over policing Democrats' behavior when we're just letting Republicans get away with anything and everything. If you have a problem with that, you know where the goddamn block button is.

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Besides, who among us ✨️hasn't✨️ texted someone in private to bitch about fucked-up co-workers? The Second Amendment, fuck-your-feelings crowd is awfully sensitive sometimes...

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 5d

This thing in Virginia where Republicans are running on "ZOMG Jay Jones said mean things about us in text messages!!1!11!" when they've said and done far, far worse, in public and private, for decades, is just further proof that in America, consequences are only for liberals and the marginalized.

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 5d

ADULTING WIN: I've figured out a way to reliably take my blood pressure and cholesterol pills!

I'm a real adult now!

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 20d

Hard pill to swallow:

All of them. Can we get more liquids and injectables, please?

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to it!

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 6d

I'm a natural pantser. Planning feels too much like paint by numbers for me, makes writing less... magical, I guess?

BUT!

Check out the book Take Off Your Pants! by @thelibbiegrant.bsky.social -- it lays out an outlining method that works well for pantsers. #WritingCommunity

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 7d

Okay #WritingCommunity

Planners and Pantsers. Have you ever tried the opposite approach? Planners, have you ever just writtem with no plan? What happened. Pantsers, have you ever tried outlining? What happened?

Was there anything you kept from this experiment.

I switched from pantser to planner.

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 7d

A grave tragedy has occurred this morning.

I spilled my coffee. 😫

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 8d

I'd love for you to read my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book during the Halloween season.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 9d

#WeeknightWriters When I realize (and so do they) that character development isn't a linear thing. What looks like regression is often just as relatable as whatever change they're trying to make in the first place.

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 9d

Q3: What aspects of character development do you enjoy most? What goes into making a character? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters What aspects of character development do you enjoy most?"

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 9d

I used to travel for work, and spend a lot of time in hotels for work, and I still think hotels = sex.

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 10d

I've been at this for 10 years, and it still gets really disheartening. Like shouting at the void, and I'm often faced with whether it's still worth it (it is, but the question won't go away).

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 10d

Two? That many? 😅

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J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 10d

I grew up on Jim Lee's X-Men, and when I still fashioned myself as a comic book artist, I tried to emulate his style. I'm glad to hear him stand up for creativity like this, even as he now sits as an exec.

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 10d

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

comicbookclublive.com

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 10d

I love how utterly ridiculous ICE looks here. I mean, they look ridiculous on their own, but meeting them with absurdity and humor just amplifies their ineptitude and makes it harder to fear them.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 12d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 10d

This is one thing that pisses me off about the left (even though I'm on the left): not all ignorance is malevolent. Not all silence is complicity. Too many of us are just trying to get through the damn day to even think of speaking out or fighting back. We're exhausted.

J.D. Cunegan @jdcuneganbooks.bsky.social · 11d

Reason No. 4,328 why I could never run for office: The first time a Republican runs an attack ad on me, lying outright or misrepresenting something I said/did, they'd get smacked with a defamation lawsuit. The candidate, the PAC, the state party, the national party. And any news outlet that airs it.