the ocean is probably full of dinosaur bones we'll never get to see (sea)

I hope you all have a safe April Fools Day.

Just saw a post where someone said that use of em dashes (—) was a giveaway that you're using AI for writing. Uh, no. It could just mean you like to use em dashes.

I have gotten my list of potential B&N preorders down from ~180 to ~50.

Now, to get it closer to ~10, so I actually have some hope of finishing them as they come in.

What is everyone else preordering for this year? #bookcollecting #booksky

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

Maybe I've seen too many shopping vlogs / haul vids promoted recently, but plz, people of the internet, take your claw clips OUT when you're driving!!!

Idk who is about to release a spooky story in which the bad guy has either scars or chronic pain but I know it’s somebody so consider: don’t.

Just put a note in my phone to ask Alpha Readers to try my first chapter of this book at the end of March.

Let's hope there's actually a book by then, or the lucky readers will be getting a lot of bracket notes, lol.

The way this plot idea just popped itself into my mind mostly formed, and unconnected to the genres or projects I'm CURRENTLY trying to work on. Like?? Hello??

Glad I'm not the only person who thinks the Meep looks like a Furby.

Only got 91 words done today for nano, because I spent most of my writing time researching food. (There's bar scenes later, so it's relevant ... ish?)

Ah. Better luck the rest of the week maybe.

If anyone is in any cool / chill writing group chats (general), or even ones just for preptober or nano, I'd love to hear about them!

I'm looking for some places to join to find a good writing motivation or writing buddies fit. Not too worried about critique options now, but maybe in a few months.

Opened the DVPit discord to see 962 new pitch posts.

Which is a lot!! And I feel like it really shows the sense of scale of DVPit, which when it ran on the formerly bird site, was harder to conceptualize since the feed would move SO FAST.

I wish everyone much luck if they participate today!!

Definitely starting to think I might have enough Lore Soup(tm) for preptober, now the next questions are:

- what about momentum?
- and the plot structure? (you do kind of still need one of those...)

Making another new social media feels strange. But, hello!

I used to be part of the writing community on the bird app a few years ago, and fell off bc ~panini~.

Hoping to get back into it for preptober to see if I have any more stories still in me. Looking forward to everyone's journeys!