being a writer feels slightly insane right now. "oh time to hallucinate a bit and write it down in a document in case we're still publishing books about chaotic bisexuals in 2026" 🤣 just told the group chat that this job requires the relentless belief that anything will matter in 12-18 months. - ThreadSky

mostlybree.kitrocha.com • 9 hours ago

being a writer feels slightly insane right now. "oh time to hallucinate a bit and write it down in a document in case we're still publishing books about chaotic bisexuals in 2026" 🤣

just told the group chat that this job requires the relentless belief that anything will matter in 12-18 months.

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operationriskyou.bsky.social•9 hours ago

They can jail me or shoot me but it's too late to silence me. My records all over world & my books and poems are too.

mollyrperkins.bsky.social•8 hours ago

One of the ways I look forward these days is by putting book release dates in my calendar so I can enjoy the anticipation. Thank you for creating the unpromised future.

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•8 hours ago

This is the sweetest thing and exactly what I needed to hear. 💓

juliettewade.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I’m definitely feeling this right now.

amandabryana.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Somehow, the insanity of doing it has made me more determined to keep going and finally finish. It's my little bit of hope. I'm not entirely confident about the shape of the world by the time my books are ready, but stories are always important.

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•8 hours ago

They ARE, and I'm so glad you are doing it!!!!

amandabryana.bsky.social•8 hours ago

💜

tevinterspy.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Unrelated to chaotic bisexuals, I thought of you today when I opened TikTok today and saw Eloisa James. You guys really gotta do it all these days...

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•9 hours ago

Ha! Is she on tiktok??

I could never get the hang of tiktok, which is probably for the best. I cause enough chaos over here. 🤣 But yeah, a lot of people (even famous people!) are getting marketing plans that are basically "go viral, k?"

tevinterspy.bsky.social•9 hours ago

NO PRESSURE OR ANYTHING lmao I wondered if traditional book marketing wasn't...uh...doing much these days?

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•9 hours ago

I will say that (ironically, given... EVERYTHING) we actually get a lot of marketing support from Amazon Publishing, but they are just a very very different place and also can just send people push notifications on their phone to buy our book or put us on their kindle lock screens. lol

tevinterspy.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I've been thinking a lot about publishing these days as I get closer to finishing things I'd want to query, but honestly it all seems so stressful! But then again, what isn't these days?

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•9 hours ago

I mean, it is a tough way to make a living, I never lie about that. But it can also be magical to dream up stories and know they're living beyond you! If you love it, do it!!!

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•9 hours ago

and I KNOW VERY WELL from how deeply I am stringing my own mental health together with the cathartic bubble wrap of lovingly crafted media that stories are always going to be vital. I believe deeply in the concept of what we're doing.

doing it still feels just absolutely bonkers. lol

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•9 hours ago

I'm still leaving primary source documentation in our acknowledgements for some future historians about how bananas it was to write aggressively hopeful romance in this time. Manifesting that someone cites the Horny Dragon Book in a thesis.

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•8 hours ago

(since this has begun to somewhat leave my direct orbit, I do want to stress that for those who do not know me: hope is my whole thing. I'm a god damn dragon of hope, who will burn her enemies and eat their hearts (metaphorically) because I hope at Olympic levels.)

ethanclsn.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I could see it tbh

jessaslade.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Hope. Rage. Stumble. Snack. Get back up. Donate. Hope some more. Castigate reps. Looks for glimmers... It's just circuit training in ridiculousness at this point. Write on!

lilymeade.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Revising has felt like pulling teeth because of this.

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•8 hours ago

It is really hard sometimes to say "yes this is the most important thing I need to be doing right now" no matter how much I feel that other people's art is what is saving me. 😭

lilymeade.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Yes! I’ve literally been using other books/forms of media to distract me, but my own creations? Nah…

niais.bsky.social•9 hours ago

So many things I'm writing right now start with "So who knows if this will matter in two weeks but..." and "Some day someone might want to know..."

leannareneehieber.bsky.social•9 hours ago

GOD, same, friend. I have contracts that *say* I have future books out and I know there's work that needs to be done on them, I mean, these Gothic novels won't run from houses on their own, but LORD I am having a hard time drafting new material right now.

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•9 hours ago

It feels like both the best and worst time to be doing this somehow??

leannareneehieber.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Truly! I write a lot about existential questions and liminal spaces in my ghost-lore work, in both my fiction and my non-fiction, but kid-me who dreamed of being a writer and storyteller didn't think I'd end up BECOMING the liminal space but, well, write what you know... *flickers in temporality*

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