Kelsi Jo

Some panels with some different tree textures.

Finding new ways to stylize trees has become one of my life's great joys.

You ever think about how keeping the minimum wage below the livable wage perpetuates racism and domestic violence?

Yeah, me neither. Maybe we should.

masc women are still women.

and IDK, anyone who finds butches attractive is a little fruity regardless of gender!

I deserve it for what I've written, tbh.

How are children meant to learn to process their emotions if you don't help them!!?

You're HELPING CHILDREN.

Make it even sadder 👀

A creative page from my graphic Novel, HEARTACHE

Sometimes comics is fun.

none of this is being sent to the void, but it is sitting in a sad 'cut scenes' folder. 😢

CORRECT!

<140k**

I cut out one of my favorite characters, forgive me for how difficult I'm finding this to type out. My brain is FRIED.

I'm not mad, but I am jealous.

Ive gotten it to <40k, and ideally it should be around 100k for publishers.

Ideally for ME, though, I want it around 120k. That is the length I set out to write, and what I would like to send out into the world.

Hey, 3k is an EXCELLENT size for a short story! And a lot more work than people realize.

The absolute PRIVILEGE of being a #1 best seller 😭😭😭

Meanwhile SJM is like "lol I wrote something SO big"

like, idk girl, I've read some of your books and I don't know if all of those scenes were truly adding to the story.

But she can do it bc people adore the world she built so whaddo I know?

I have cut nearly 20,000 words from this draft, and ideally we should cut 20,000 MORE. And then even more ideally another 15k from there (though that last bit I'd deeply unlikely.)

That's an entire novella chopped away from my CHILD. 😭😭😭

♥️

I hate bsky for a lot of reasons but at least there isn't a Nazi robot running the place 🤷‍♀️

11k flowers, thank you 🥺 this humble space continues to grow.

A poorly drawn horse.

I’m a middle child of a large family—the third of four from one parent, the second of five from the other, with six children split across two decades between them. I won’t explain that further; it’s irrelevant here. The point being, I come with all the stereotypical particularities of my birth order: I hunger for attention and tend to be bad at receiving it. I’m shy by nature—Not necessarily quiet, though I have been accused of such. But, shy. It competes with the aforementioned need for attention in strange ways, showing up as anxiety that stops up my throat in one-on-one conversations, but lets me perform public Karaoke with abandon. I was an easy baby and a quiet toddler, to hear my parents tell it. Though, knowing myself now, I wonder if I was truly ‘quiet’ or if I just failed to raise my voice above my brother’s. My brother is just a year and a half younger than me, which means he was small at the same time I was, and an immediate competitor for my parent’s time and energy. He was louder, and younger—a difficult baby where I was easy. My solution to this deficit is not one I would recommend to other toddlers. Though, from the way my mom

NEWSLETTER IS UP.

(It is free)

This month I talk about Why I'm Like This.

www.patreon.com/posts/152157...

Nancy 3/4/26 💅

A poorly drawn horse.

I’m a middle child of a large family—the third of four from one parent, the second of five from the other, with six children split across two decades between them. I won’t explain that further; it’s irrelevant here. The point being, I come with all the stereotypical particularities of my birth order: I hunger for attention and tend to be bad at receiving it. I’m shy by nature—Not necessarily quiet, though I have been accused of such. But, shy. It competes with the aforementioned need for attention in strange ways, showing up as anxiety that stops up my throat in one-on-one conversations, but lets me perform public Karaoke with abandon. I was an easy baby and a quiet toddler, to hear my parents tell it. Though, knowing myself now, I wonder if I was truly ‘quiet’ or if I just failed to raise my voice above my brother’s. My brother is just a year and a half younger than me, which means he was small at the same time I was, and an immediate competitor for my parent’s time and energy. He was louder, and younger—a difficult baby where I was easy. My solution to this deficit is not one I would recommend to other toddlers. Though, from the way my mom

NEWSLETTER IS UP.

(It is free)

This month I talk about Why I'm Like This.

www.patreon.com/posts/152157...

I knew learning to juggle would someday make me cool with the kids 😌

My time has come.

Like cleaning someone else's house!

Everyone said writing is the hardest part but they were LYING.

I feel like I'm looking in one of those magnifying mirrors that really shows all of your pores.

You aren't supposed to look at yourself that closely.

There was bound to be part of this process that ground on me :(

I like writing. I like having-written.

Folks, I think I hate editing.

(mostly this means that if no one reads it I WILL be devastated 🙈)