Under Construction/Hiatus

a long-running concern of mine regarding my series is that a hypothetical fandom will ignore the entire cast of characters in favor of the cishet white male villain. i have figured out how to stop this. i have to make him bald

waiter waiter more depictions of traumatised malnourished characters putting on some weight postcanon to show their recovery from the horrors please !!!!!!!!!!!

The reason most indie novels are written like the author is terrified of doing something wrong is because the overwhelming majority of indie novelists get their start by networking in the violent panopticon of the social media indie publishing community, which favours the people who are able to win at the social policing game.

sometimes artists worry if their art is actually capable of making the world a better place, or if its all just wasted effort. what you need to remember is: all art is evil, and the sole aspiration of the artist should be to maim as many onlookers as possible.

truly breathtaking just how many series would be massively improved if the author gave a shit about women

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

it is always narratively correct to make your characters sleep together before they sort through the hundreds of lies and misdirections between them. make things worse make things worse make things worse #i love betrayal #i love lying #i love people feeling bad about themselves

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

Nobody knows if writing a story is possible

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland