Kameron Hurley
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I was going to say: I hear this same thing a lot from people who give birth, including my mom. That you blank out just how painful and sometimes traumatic the actual process is, which is how you get hookwinked into doing it again 😆
Sounds like childbirth.
January 15, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I was going to say: I hear this same thing a lot from people who give birth, including my mom. That you blank out just how painful and sometimes traumatic the actual process is, which is how you get hookwinked into doing it again 😆
As much as I appreciate this iterative process where the world I'm building gets clearer as I go over the same scene for the twentieth time, it can feel very ouroboros if I think about it too long. There is this desperate feeling I'm not going fast enough, but like fast enough to WHERE?? 😆
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January 15, 2026 at 1:44 AM
As much as I appreciate this iterative process where the world I'm building gets clearer as I go over the same scene for the twentieth time, it can feel very ouroboros if I think about it too long. There is this desperate feeling I'm not going fast enough, but like fast enough to WHERE?? 😆
I found a new murder show!
Bookish on PBS.
Murder! Books!
It's WWII Britain, even!
Bookish on PBS.
Murder! Books!
It's WWII Britain, even!
January 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
I found a new murder show!
Bookish on PBS.
Murder! Books!
It's WWII Britain, even!
Bookish on PBS.
Murder! Books!
It's WWII Britain, even!
By the end of a day with new routine where I start with reading, then exercising, do my fiction writing, then full day at day job with meetings and strategy work and corp writing and... THEN done, it feels like I've lived three days in one day 🙃
I do sleep well, tho.
I do sleep well, tho.
January 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
By the end of a day with new routine where I start with reading, then exercising, do my fiction writing, then full day at day job with meetings and strategy work and corp writing and... THEN done, it feels like I've lived three days in one day 🙃
I do sleep well, tho.
I do sleep well, tho.
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Your brain is a hallucination engine. Feed it a steady diet of shit, and it will build you a shit world. So what happens when you change what you feed it? www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-...
"We’re Fucked" Feels Like a Profound Insight. It’s Actually a Trap. - Kameron Hurley
I recently watched a documentary about that reaffirmed many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books the last few years). Brains are hallucination engines. If th...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Your brain is a hallucination engine. Feed it a steady diet of shit, and it will build you a shit world. So what happens when you change what you feed it? www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-...
Your brain is a hallucination engine. Feed it a steady diet of shit, and it will build you a shit world. So what happens when you change what you feed it? www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-...
"We’re Fucked" Feels Like a Profound Insight. It’s Actually a Trap. - Kameron Hurley
I recently watched a documentary about that reaffirmed many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books the last few years). Brains are hallucination engines. If th...
www.kameronhurley.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Your brain is a hallucination engine. Feed it a steady diet of shit, and it will build you a shit world. So what happens when you change what you feed it? www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-...
"We’re fucked" is the laziest narrative of our time. Humans don't live in reality. We live in stories. Choose yours accordingly. www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-...
We’re Fucked’ Feels Like a Profound Insight. It’s Actually a Trap. - Kameron Hurley
I recently watched a documentary about that reaffirmed many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books the last few years). Brains are hallucination engines. If th...
www.kameronhurley.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM
"We’re fucked" is the laziest narrative of our time. Humans don't live in reality. We live in stories. Choose yours accordingly. www.kameronhurley.com/were-fucked-...
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This is a good thread (and not the kind of thing I'd normally consider)
Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down
January 14, 2026 at 11:24 AM
This is a good thread (and not the kind of thing I'd normally consider)
Dying 😂
Today I get to unveil the UK cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS!
The art is by the legendary Stephen Player, who has done art for Barker and Pratchett. I adore how he shows off the different personalities of Garrodigh's heads!
It comes out in the UK from @arcadiabooks.bsky.social this July!
The art is by the legendary Stephen Player, who has done art for Barker and Pratchett. I adore how he shows off the different personalities of Garrodigh's heads!
It comes out in the UK from @arcadiabooks.bsky.social this July!
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Dying 😂
Library book haul.
I love that you can just... Walk into a library and pick up 30 books and just... Walk out.
That's civilization, right there.
I love that you can just... Walk into a library and pick up 30 books and just... Walk out.
That's civilization, right there.
January 13, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Library book haul.
I love that you can just... Walk into a library and pick up 30 books and just... Walk out.
That's civilization, right there.
I love that you can just... Walk into a library and pick up 30 books and just... Walk out.
That's civilization, right there.
I mean it could also be that
Misread as "found someone in the gutters" at first and was mighty confused.
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I mean it could also be that
Found someone to do the gutters on Friday in only three calls.
Basically winning adulting today.
Basically winning adulting today.
January 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Found someone to do the gutters on Friday in only three calls.
Basically winning adulting today.
Basically winning adulting today.
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So much good work in here:
New issue of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is here from @gavingrant.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social! Look at that cover weightlessbooks.com/lady-churchi...
January 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
So much good work in here:
Biggest writing challenge I've had to overcome last few years is regaining confidence in myself: confidence that I can fix shitty series of first attempts. I started last book over like 50 times. This one,I'm keeping scene bones I know are good and going over it again, and again, til it gets clearer
January 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Biggest writing challenge I've had to overcome last few years is regaining confidence in myself: confidence that I can fix shitty series of first attempts. I started last book over like 50 times. This one,I'm keeping scene bones I know are good and going over it again, and again, til it gets clearer
I mean technically I've done her a few times, most famously here:
www.amazon.com/Gods-War-Bel...
But what's one more???
www.amazon.com/Gods-War-Bel...
But what's one more???
January 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I mean technically I've done her a few times, most famously here:
www.amazon.com/Gods-War-Bel...
But what's one more???
www.amazon.com/Gods-War-Bel...
But what's one more???
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I think from here on out, whenever my internal editor or an actual person says "Murder your darlings," my response will be "Fuck it, I don't need growth."
After 15 years of publishing novels, I find myself continuing to return to same salty Conan female heroine types. This time around, instead of saying, "Can't you come up with something ELSE Kameron?" I went, "Fuck it. This is just what it is and what I want to write about. I don't need growth." 😆
January 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I think from here on out, whenever my internal editor or an actual person says "Murder your darlings," my response will be "Fuck it, I don't need growth."
Wowwowwowo
Someone called the police on my 9 year old when she was at the park in our neighborhood by herself. The officer told me she’s not allowed to go until she’s 11… I called the non-emergency number and that officer told me there is no such rule. 🙄
January 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Wowwowwowo
Pretty happy with morning pages this week. Slow going, as ever, but working on the #wip regularly is admittedly great for my mental health.
At the end of the day I'm not sitting around shrieking, "What am I even DOING with my life???" 😆
At the end of the day I'm not sitting around shrieking, "What am I even DOING with my life???" 😆
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Pretty happy with morning pages this week. Slow going, as ever, but working on the #wip regularly is admittedly great for my mental health.
At the end of the day I'm not sitting around shrieking, "What am I even DOING with my life???" 😆
At the end of the day I'm not sitting around shrieking, "What am I even DOING with my life???" 😆
I'm trying to identify the moment when people started calling the police when kids under 18 went out unescorted. We had a group of tweens here during pandemic who lasted a couple weeks roaming around actually playing like old school latch key kids before the first cop showed up.
I had been taking myself to school for 3 years at this point and would regular get a bus into town with friends! I also had my own house key.
Blows my mind.
Blows my mind.
January 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
I'm trying to identify the moment when people started calling the police when kids under 18 went out unescorted. We had a group of tweens here during pandemic who lasted a couple weeks roaming around actually playing like old school latch key kids before the first cop showed up.
Look at these troublemakers!
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January 13, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Look at these troublemakers!
My parents put me on a plane to Seattle by myself at 10!
In those days you could escort your kid to the gate and have them picked up right at the gate on other side tho
In those days you could escort your kid to the gate and have them picked up right at the gate on other side tho
I rode a greyhound for a seven hour trip by myself at 10.
My mother did give the driver a sting lecture about keeping an eye on me.
So.
My mother did give the driver a sting lecture about keeping an eye on me.
So.
January 13, 2026 at 12:48 PM
My parents put me on a plane to Seattle by myself at 10!
In those days you could escort your kid to the gate and have them picked up right at the gate on other side tho
In those days you could escort your kid to the gate and have them picked up right at the gate on other side tho
A little light reading tonight 😆
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 AM
A little light reading tonight 😆