mikediamond.bsky.social
✍️ Writing YA Sci-Fi “Brilliance of Earth—Tangle and Tether” (sapphic and STEM)
📘 Nonfiction book on ethical phishing “Swim Like a Phish” (under consideration).
🤲 Excited to help build community! Especially in the arts 💖✨
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Skirting blame, yes!
It’s a funny dichotomy:
If he punishes someone, it’s admission that it was a flop 🤣
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Good tip, thanks!
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Every time a bell curves, an angle gets its rays
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Bought a car last year in Little Rock, everyone there was so awesome. I just knew 💖✨
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Touché
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Obscene throwing bricks— solid idea 🤓
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Bigots will die eventually. Why not just extend the dinner portion?
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Me too! A lot of them align with my own.
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Cool way of putting it… Experiences
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Even just one ✨
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Living your own advice for your kids, that’s better than most…
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Dreams and scribbles is how it starts 💖✨
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Yes, please 😅
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That will have to be a future endeavor, I’m about a third done on my second draft 😅
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And as a writer of YA, it’s even more challenging to present complex themes of loss and grief and danger in ways that are still realistic but through the lens of the genre 🤓
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Um…😳
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Rationalize that it’s a good place.
Is hell really so bad?
Maybe heaven is better at PR.
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I’ll second that.
It’s like a painting that could always use one more stroke 🤷♀️
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May the Schwartz be with you ✨
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And today 🫠
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Very clever!
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Amen!
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Funny thing, I searched “riddle“ in my phone journals and found that among my scribblings.
I thought the answer might be hunger? 🤷♀️
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The statistic I’ve seen once, so definitely questionable, is that we are 10 to 12 times as likely to hang out with each other as other folks. I’m assuming that influences the 🧬 pool, especially when I learned a lot of these things from my neurodivergent kids 😹
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Safety first, semantics second
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As a pantser, I am here for the surprise, just like the readers?
Also, I try to laugh at myself when I’ve set up too many secondary stories early on that didn’t pay out or were forgotten by the end 😂😅
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It’s tricky, going back and revisiting without adult brain spoiling the magic. Hope you were successful preserving that feeling.
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Also, you have to make up one riddle that is really hard so you can win the riddle battle.
In case you don’t have one:
What makes the bat scream in silence and the cat see in darkness?
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Yes! Plus statistically, ADHD hangs with ADHD.
In my WIP, many of my primaries are ND coded (drawn to each other), I often debate how much they should talk about it if at all. Because of the YA audience, I try to make things have terms and labels where it doesn’t break the flow.
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Yes! I reward my characters with food all the time, why deny them one of the greatest gifts of all 😅
Plus, it’s fun to describe the aroma, the taste, the hunger itself.
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Thanks, me too. It’s weird to say the quiet part out loud ✨
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Here’s a very timely version of that…💖✨
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Dream invasion might just be the best version of barging past the secretary into the office 😂