j.m. avants
@jmavants.bsky.social
Writer, lit and specfic | Words in Snowflake Magazine | papa to 2 young kiddos
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Defining genre is tough. But in the hearts of Ruarnon Trilogy's main characters lives hope, kindness, gentleness & optimism. This is the story of a bunch of misfits throwing themselves into danger to make the world a better place, and its Hopepunk af. (+ epic & portal YA Fantasy 😉)
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Tradition ensures survival, but Tarlah's first nonbinary heir is about to defy it so their continent can live. In an age of abductions & betrayal, Ruarnon will risk everything to end cycles of war & death.
Lost, irreverent Aussies are their perfect allies.
♠️🌈📚🪐📚💙: elisecarlson.com/ruarnon-tril.
Lost, irreverent Aussies are their perfect allies.
♠️🌈📚🪐📚💙: elisecarlson.com/ruarnon-tril.
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Defining genre is tough. But in the hearts of Ruarnon Trilogy's main characters lives hope, kindness, gentleness & optimism. This is the story of a bunch of misfits throwing themselves into danger to make the world a better place, and its Hopepunk af. (+ epic & portal YA Fantasy 😉)
♠️🌈📚🪐📚💙💕
♠️🌈📚🪐📚💙💕
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Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
My #WIPSnips for tonight is a little scene when Sav's father prepares to depart for somewhere dangerous, and tries to instill some faith in his daughter. From a previous draft, about three years old.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
My #WIPSnips for tonight is a little scene when Sav's father prepares to depart for somewhere dangerous, and tries to instill some faith in his daughter. From a previous draft, about three years old.
My protagonist's small-ish pet companion. He's a creature stigmatized in the country my protag must venture into, but she needs him (even more than she realizes), and won't let him come to any harm.
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:
What's something (someone!?) your character(s) love that nobody else around them does?
What's something (someone!?) your character(s) love that nobody else around them does?
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
My protagonist's small-ish pet companion. He's a creature stigmatized in the country my protag must venture into, but she needs him (even more than she realizes), and won't let him come to any harm.
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I’M NOT AS MERE AS I LOOK
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I’M NOT AS MERE AS I LOOK
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My super effective, professional process for addressing editing notes to my future self is..
Highlighting random sentences and passages as a shorthand for "dun like it, please fix"
Highlighting random sentences and passages as a shorthand for "dun like it, please fix"
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
My super effective, professional process for addressing editing notes to my future self is..
Highlighting random sentences and passages as a shorthand for "dun like it, please fix"
Highlighting random sentences and passages as a shorthand for "dun like it, please fix"
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
1200+ new words drafted, 33.4k total word count. Will try to reach 35k by the end of today. Time to juggle day job/kids/chores/etc etc, yikes. But I'll do it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
1200+ new words drafted, 33.4k total word count. Will try to reach 35k by the end of today. Time to juggle day job/kids/chores/etc etc, yikes. But I'll do it.
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Forget calling in sick. As an artist, we should be allowed to call in creative.
Sorry boss. Can't come in today. The muse has called me and I must listen.
Sorry boss. Can't come in today. The muse has called me and I must listen.
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Forget calling in sick. As an artist, we should be allowed to call in creative.
Sorry boss. Can't come in today. The muse has called me and I must listen.
Sorry boss. Can't come in today. The muse has called me and I must listen.
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Updating my query spreadsheet and mistyped "rejection" as "rejectino." This made it sound small and cute, like aw, just a lil rejectino, they always come and go! A cappuccino or a glass of vino and the rejectino will be forgotten. 😎
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Updating my query spreadsheet and mistyped "rejection" as "rejectino." This made it sound small and cute, like aw, just a lil rejectino, they always come and go! A cappuccino or a glass of vino and the rejectino will be forgotten. 😎
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If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
32k+ word count reached. Had to backpedal a bit to add a necessary scene, and need to add two or three more too, and then can reconnect with what I drafted before. Doing work. 💪
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
32k+ word count reached. Had to backpedal a bit to add a necessary scene, and need to add two or three more too, and then can reconnect with what I drafted before. Doing work. 💪
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Put the power bank to charge and it lost all remaining battery so basically I charged the power grid
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Put the power bank to charge and it lost all remaining battery so basically I charged the power grid
I am really impressed by how alive the text is in the book I'm currently, slowly reading. It's not a style like my own at all, but I find it invaluable to experience nonetheless. So interesting that my obsession with my own wip dragged back along with it my reading habit. Books are good.
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I am really impressed by how alive the text is in the book I'm currently, slowly reading. It's not a style like my own at all, but I find it invaluable to experience nonetheless. So interesting that my obsession with my own wip dragged back along with it my reading habit. Books are good.
How much I long to get to editing. But I've got to finish this rewrite draft first. 31k, baby. In four weeks. At this rate I will have it done, DONE, by just after new year's. And then next year is the year I make it readable. 🫡
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
How much I long to get to editing. But I've got to finish this rewrite draft first. 31k, baby. In four weeks. At this rate I will have it done, DONE, by just after new year's. And then next year is the year I make it readable. 🫡
My book has two, effectively, one for the protagonist and one for the deuteragonist.
But I can't do more than one gif per post, so...D-'s fursona would be...something that is mean, persistent, yet oddly likeable (and then maims you when you get close enough)...
But I can't do more than one gif per post, so...D-'s fursona would be...something that is mean, persistent, yet oddly likeable (and then maims you when you get close enough)...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My book has two, effectively, one for the protagonist and one for the deuteragonist.
But I can't do more than one gif per post, so...D-'s fursona would be...something that is mean, persistent, yet oddly likeable (and then maims you when you get close enough)...
But I can't do more than one gif per post, so...D-'s fursona would be...something that is mean, persistent, yet oddly likeable (and then maims you when you get close enough)...
In older drafts, Sav had neck-length blonde hair. For the new rewrite draft, I’ve lengthened it just past her shoulders. Though I haven’t drafted the scene yet, she may cut it short, in a moment where her identity shifts.
G- has long, chestnut brown hair. She usually wears it in a braid w/ ribbons.
G- has long, chestnut brown hair. She usually wears it in a braid w/ ribbons.
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
Here's an appearance one that I don't think we've talked about yet: What does your character's hair look like?
Do they have hair? Long or short? What color? How do they usually wear it? Is it important to them?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Here's an appearance one that I don't think we've talked about yet: What does your character's hair look like?
Do they have hair? Long or short? What color? How do they usually wear it? Is it important to them?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In older drafts, Sav had neck-length blonde hair. For the new rewrite draft, I’ve lengthened it just past her shoulders. Though I haven’t drafted the scene yet, she may cut it short, in a moment where her identity shifts.
G- has long, chestnut brown hair. She usually wears it in a braid w/ ribbons.
G- has long, chestnut brown hair. She usually wears it in a braid w/ ribbons.
I love my used m4 iPad, but I don’t love apple’s ipad OS. I still have the annoying bug where bluetoothing a mouse to it causes my home screens to become hard to flip between. Argh. What has Apple been doing over the past year? Why isn’t this bug fixed? 🙂↔️
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I love my used m4 iPad, but I don’t love apple’s ipad OS. I still have the annoying bug where bluetoothing a mouse to it causes my home screens to become hard to flip between. Argh. What has Apple been doing over the past year? Why isn’t this bug fixed? 🙂↔️
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The muse wants literary brilliance. My mental health wants to stay in bed. My deadline wants 3000 words by Friday. We compromised: I wrote 500 words in bed while the muse read them disapprovingly over my shoulder.
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The muse wants literary brilliance. My mental health wants to stay in bed. My deadline wants 3000 words by Friday. We compromised: I wrote 500 words in bed while the muse read them disapprovingly over my shoulder.
1k+ words drafted this morning, 31k total reached. Forgot to read again. Sorry cool book I meant to finish months ago. I am figuring out why act 2 is so challenging to draft - I have many great scenes but their best order isn’t obvious, and that stresses me out. No matter. Forging on anyway.
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
1k+ words drafted this morning, 31k total reached. Forgot to read again. Sorry cool book I meant to finish months ago. I am figuring out why act 2 is so challenging to draft - I have many great scenes but their best order isn’t obvious, and that stresses me out. No matter. Forging on anyway.
I’m sorry. OCD is working really hard to derail me. Just sharing for accountability. I get so stuck in obstructive thoughts and actions. Brain freezes me in a cycle of reorganization. Frustrating as hell. I’ll be fine. Drafting the WIP in the morning.
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I’m sorry. OCD is working really hard to derail me. Just sharing for accountability. I get so stuck in obstructive thoughts and actions. Brain freezes me in a cycle of reorganization. Frustrating as hell. I’ll be fine. Drafting the WIP in the morning.
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On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
🕯 Eternal memory to all victims of Holodomor. A moment of silence.
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household.
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day
Crossed 30k in total word count this early morning, with plans to draft more this afternoon.
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Crossed 30k in total word count this early morning, with plans to draft more this afternoon.
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Incredible
I saw this AI image shared in a Discord I'm in & was inspired to make the real thing. There are a LOT of fake crochet patterns out there, I wanted to give (especially beginners) a real pattern instead. Support real artists making real work, not AI.
Get it FREE: ko-fi.com/s/cdf844790c
#noai #art
Get it FREE: ko-fi.com/s/cdf844790c
#noai #art
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Incredible
Mother in law still despises Zelensky. Still spends all her waking hours baking food and making camo nets for her people at the front. It’s not about one man. Men are imperfect, often vile beasts. It’s about a cause. Being the rock that breaks the imperials in their corner of the world for good.
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Mother in law still despises Zelensky. Still spends all her waking hours baking food and making camo nets for her people at the front. It’s not about one man. Men are imperfect, often vile beasts. It’s about a cause. Being the rock that breaks the imperials in their corner of the world for good.