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MStewart
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Product of Southern Appalachia. (Meat Camp, NC)
writer, reader, a.k.a. ThinkingTooLoud
Too many projects not enough time.
#writer #author #WritingCommunity #querying #SFF #DVPit #neurodivergent #CPTSD #ComplexPTSD
I don't answer random DMs
#WritingCat is shocked that you haven't started work...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm |this| close to being done with the list of agencies to sift through.

Why does the last agency have to have 20 agents who do Literary Fiction?

So close, and yet so far.

#WritingCommunity #amWriting #amQuerying

Cat tax:
November 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The query letter is improving.
Yay!

And only 15 more agencies on my list to sift through for potential agent matches.

#WritingCommunity #amWriting #amQuerying

Obligatory cat:
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Breaking Point

Too much emotion under my skin,
Surface tension holds it in.
Scratch the surface, touch it, breathe
and it will escape in a rush.
The flood -- unstoppable.

#CPTSD #Healing #TtL
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A word on editing from M. Twain -

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete is and the writing will be just as it should be."

#WritingCommunity #AuthorQuotes
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
#WritingCat is lonely...
Miss Nut is waiting for you.
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A special message from #WritingCat -
Have a Happy and Magical Halloween.

Now, get to work!
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
From my #blackcat to yours, #HappyHalloween.
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
There are tools which will allow you to string a series of words together without thought or skill.

That doesn't make you a writer.

That makes you a plagiarist.

Generative AI is theft.
October 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Don't let the casual pose fool you...
#WritingCat is expecting you to make an appearance today.
October 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Huh. I just realized how weird it is to live with one foot nailed in the past when you can't remember any of it.

#CPTSD #Healing #TtL
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The #Future of the #American #Farmer

medium.com/@mstewart/th...

A look at the end point of #cattle ranching and #farming under the DT regime.

The American farmer is struggling - and that isn't an accident.
October 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Seeing as we are in spooky month
A reminder from the master of the macabre - Mr. King

"Kill your darlings,
kill your darlings,
even when it breaks your
egocentric little scribbler's heart,
kill your darlings."

#WritingCommunity #amEditing
October 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Please pass it on so we can open their eyes.

medium.com/@mstewart/th...

Written in 2015, as a warning to the #midwest about the future they faced. Based on the model of E.Europe and Soviet farming. But the collectives of the #UnitedStates will be owned by the #oligarchs.

#farming #future
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The East Wing.
You don’t think this is a metaphor for the US right now?
He’s not going to leave.
If you believe that- look at him destroying the White House- the Peoples’ House, our combined vision of America. Our history.
He’s never going to leave
October 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
ME: Oh, this is so hard I hate querying.
HUBS: Sweetie, Come on. You Wrote A BOOK.
ME: Yeah! That was the easy part!

#WritingCommunity #amQuerying

Gratuitous cat
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#WritingCat is on holiday... so here is a lovely relative standing in for today.
They aren't quite as understanding as Writing Cat... so ...

Kudos to the Sheldrake Wildlife Trust for the gorgeous photo.
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We were never meant to carry
the shame that goes bone deep
for any reason
for every reason
for no reason.

It is not ours to keep.

#CPTSD #Healing #TtL
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I ran across a group on Reddit the other day for writers using AI.

Surprised was a good word to describe my reaction... horrified would also work.

Should we tell them?

#WritingCommunity
October 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
#WritingCat version 1.0
My dear sweet Buddah boy.
That was a lifetime ago. 😢
October 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
So.... Friday October 10, 2025 is World Mental Health Day.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth #CPTSD

Complex PTSD is a challenge, not a sentence.
October 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
So.... Friday October 10, 2025 is World Mental Health Day.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth #CPTSD

You look at me and think I'm crazy.
What if I told you I wasn't. Where I am from, this isn't insanity, it's simply adaptation.
October 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
So.... Friday October 10, 2025 is World Mental Health Day.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth #CPTSD
October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yeah, I'm having one of those days...

#CPTSD #healing #TtL
October 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
So.... Friday October 10, 2025 is World Mental Health Day.

Well this is for all of us who live/struggle/fight with our mental health every day.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth #CPTSD
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM