Mary Rose Corcoran

a drawing of a girl with brown hair and a white collar ALT: a drawing of a girl with brown hair and a white collar

I'm at the worst part of the querying. Not sending queries. Not rejection. Waiting. Waiting for responses from agents I've queried. Waiting to hear back after a full request. Waiting for other agents to reopen. Interminable waiting.
#querytrenches #writinglife #writerslife #writingcommunity

I like cute, armored animals. What can I say?

In Styx, I haven't created goblins, per se, but put my personal spin on them. There are long tailed imps, kobolds that look like bipedal pangolins, and armored bugbears that resemble enormous pill bugs. There are also shape-shifting immortal beasts that can take many forms. #MarchWorldbuilders

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Someday, all will follow the way of Arizona and do away with DST, and all will be well.

Added to my TBR :3

Goblin Poetry Ask a goblin, ask a ghost,

Here is a silly little poems about how and why goblins write poetry.
open.substack.com/pub/maryrose...
#poetry #poem #goblin #goblins #writing #goblincore

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

Carmen Sandiego and Waldo, surreptitiously photographed by a guy in a Shaggy green t-shirt. Caption: "I finally found them, and I found them together no less..."

Well done, Shaggy!

Ask your friends to yell at them for you.

Looks like the gold things are growing on it like a fungus. This is some Dark Souls stuff right here.

This is me. Specifically when my parents are trying to find a movie that's only available for extra pay on streaming. Like, guys, the library has it. For free. And I work at the library and come to you house after work all the time! Give me a list of titles!!

Ah, well that clears that up :)

A photo of a Cheez-It Pizza, which is apparently a thing that exists.

Has science gone too far?

#Man-MadeHorrorsmBeyondYourComprehension
#pizza #cheezits #america

Bostwick got bitten by a mushroom once :\

I managed to recreate the chart (in an even better format) by using sent emails, Query Tracker "received" responses, and my internet history of the agents I hadn't yet queried because they were closed. Whew! And it's now on the cloud. All is well.

Love the title

In my first series, there are both carnivorous and cannibal mushrooms (the latter are only dangerous if you are also a mushroom.)

In Styx, they grow glowing flowers that transfer sunlight to underground pineapple fields.

And be sure to save a copy of it somewhere online and not just on you ancient computer that corrupted the file ;-;
#witerslife

Bostwick is excellent at magic. Although he doesn't brag about it, he also has a chip on his shoulder because he came from a family of (famous) servants and wants to be known as a magician rather than a Dogsbody (his family name). Unfortunately for him, he's forced to work as a butler for 100 years.

A parody of Gary Larson's The Far Side. Two riders leading a bunch of folks reading books. Caption: Book Drive.

#librarylife #libraries #thefarlibrary

Tempted to grab a WHOLE STACK of our bookmarks at #AWP but afraid of what we'll think? To paraphrase Moe Szyslak, we'll be doing a lot of things, but judging ain't one of them! See you at booth 845 in Baltimore! @awpwriter.org #AWP26 #booksky

If you love her, let her go (deeper into the mud pit)

SCREAMING

2nd person POV

Delilah has asked Bostwick if he is a mushroom, if he wants to wear Millicent's pink dress, and how good he is at juggling teapots. He pretty much sighs and takes it in stride.

On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization by Douglas Murray and No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon by Buddy Levy and Erik Weihenmayer.

Advice for those is the #querytrenches:
•Make a chart of agents to query.
•Use this chart to track which agents you've queried, on what date, if they have a response-time window, +notes (if they end up asking for samples, if you should query someone else at their agency if they reject you, etc).

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.