WHEN I TELL YOU THE ADRENALINE RUSH I’M ON RIGHT NOW

All this NaNoWriMo stuff has got me good and angry, so here's a brief🧵on why I hate AI in writing. Like many authors, I had my brain utterly rewired by genre fiction in my teens, and from about the age of 12 I suffered the constant and urgent compulsion to write fiction.

Shoutout to Rings of Power for shooting night scenes where you can still see everything 🙌

Getting ready for the Wine Country Writers’ Festival! (Friendly reminder to please leave a review when you read an indie book!)

My people 🥹

When your book is “done”… it’s hard to tear holes in it to make it better Shoutout to those who are doing rewrites today 🫶

I’m in a zone where I could probably keep going with rewrites for hours and hours and hours if only I didn’t have to eat and sleep and do laundry and look after my kids and work my day job

It’s such a cool moment when you see your characters appear before your eyes 🥹 Thank you to Kelly Martin for your vision of Finn and Rory! I love them!

WHEN ONE OF YOUR WRITING BESTIES MAKES YOU A SHIRT 🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

My characters are eating constantly 😂 I dream of a tie-in recipe book one day!

You knew me before I was famous 😎

McDonald’s just charged me 25 cents to get my curbside pickup food in a bag I just

I have few problems in life that can’t be solved by a long striped cardigan

I can’t believe I have a book coming out with SMP next year Like that was the dream and it’s happening IT’S HAPPENING 🫠

An 11yo boy drew this and, in all seriousness, asked if I thought it looked like me

I'm not often compelled to speak out about things like this - but are companies like Google and OpenAI aware of the serious, permanent damage they've done? Not just to this - an admin can change this. But to *images on the internet as a whole*. You see Google Images lately?

I miss her