Jonathan Lachance

Granted my #Greek vocabulary is μικρός but so far my favorite word is εφημερίδα (newspaper), pronounced ephemerida. Any object whose name acknowledges its fleeting existence is on some self aware stuff

What's your favorite word in your second or third language?
#polyglot
#languages

Today's #writing challenge(s):
- Find the weirdest ways to describe mundane things. Distill the psychedelic from the everyday.
- Leave out the bits readers expect and put the odd parts back. Offal over filet.
- Ban boring bits of business, bust into bedlam
#fiction
#authorsky
#booksky

A few blocks from my house, I passed by a wide alley framed by two brick hulks. Ragged tents and lean-tos spanned its breadth and ruffled with the morning stirrings of its residents. These kinds of encampments were as common in my city as in any other, as far as I knew.
#wipsnips
#fiction

Good luck! You know you've cracked it when the rewrite feels thrilling.

Today's #writing challenge: Two parts:
- Editing WIP: Hunt and destroy adjectives, replace with verbs
- Newness: I'm experimenting with opening scenes, trying to find that perfect fit
#authorsky
#fiction
#folkhorror
#thrillers

"You’ve started a new chapter with us. We are here, together, for a common cause. To stick a shiv in the kidney of this exploitative system. To excise the livers of the dark triad monsters grinding the rest of us to pulp for their own enrichment."
#wipsnips
#fiction
#thrillers
#authorsky

Describe your plot in five words or fewer if you dare:
kill boss or be killed

Once I was exposed, I wouldn’t have much time to live, much less act. Then they’d put the screws to me, turn me inside out, make me drink bleach. Since it was my last day on earth, I decided I would allow myself an hour or two to luxuriate in the house’s extravagances.
#wipsnips
#booksky
#writersky

Today’s #writing challenge: rewriting with an eye toward propulsive action.
#booksky
#writersky
#fiction
#folkhorror
#noir

Haruki Murakami
Annika Norlin

#writing challenge of the day: back to editing the book I #amquerying. Never be finished! Hunt and destroy adjectives. Beef up verbs.
#fiction
#authorsky
#booksky

"Like the US, Russia was a failed state, a massive expanse of corruption and violence, but also rife with ancient maladies that emerged as the permafrost in its inner arboreal regions melted: airborne plague, long dormant strains of yaws, and brain-melting fungus."
#wipsnips
#authors
#booksky

It implies that this FPS games are a “useful application”
Has anybody clocked how long new tech takes to be repurposed for sex and violence?

I dig your transubstantiation of Mad magazine satire into full on prose. Is this in the pipeline?

I hope this is Tackleberry from Police Academy. He’d definitely be in the drumpf assministration

Love these #wipsnips ! I definitely want to read this.

The #book I #amquerying is pretty friggin violent. Some of it's pretty funny, a lot of it is pretty graphic. Art imitates life tho, right?
Curious if other #writers have been told to tone it down or if there's still a robust market for blood and guts. #fiction #thrillers #horror #noir

NYT has a mango pie recipe that I think about often.

What's a #movie that changed your brain - for the worse or better?
Mine's The Road. Can't unsee the people in the basement. Definitely made me reconsider humanity.
#movies
#won'twatchagain

#writing challenge of the day: filling out backstory for an important character. She's a shady one. Skeletons in that closet. But the MC has those, too. Everybody's their own secret monster.
#fiction
#authorsky
#booksky
#noir
#folkhorror

Lars rolled his eyes. “What a lame fucking question. But, okay, a fair one. No. We don’t engage in illegal activities, per se. At least nothing a prosecutor would have the resources to pursue.”

“Well, what do you do?”

#wipsnips
#booksky
#amquerying
#authorsky
#fiction
#thrillers

You seen Meet The Feebles?

#drivers mind your stop signs. Look for pedestrians. I am weaponizing bags of dogshit

This one’s early days. I’ve got a complete one I’m querying for too.

Folk horror + noir mashup

#writing challenge of the day is shaking this damn cold. The congestion is impinging the writing part of my brain. Dreams have been lit though, often about making emergency trips to the bathroom through shifting hallways. Don't love that.
#Editing then.
#authorsky
#booksky

"There’s little more uncanny and sickening than a corpse without a face. There’s also a certain indignity in having your head caved in or destroyed. It’s an insult to the victim - the complete destruction of their mind’s home, an erasure of their identity."
#WIPsnips
#booksky
#authorsky
#fiction

"I detect incredulity in your silence. If you want to check the veracity of my statements, wait for the news to come in. The local media will eagerly report on this shocking event, but they will hedge on whether it’s an act of terrorism, or simply a conflagration caused by a gas leak."
#wipsnips

#writing challenge of the day: getting back in the saddle after two deeply unproductive cold days. I need to slow the flow a bit and focus on the details of #plotting and #backstory for some key characters. #fiction #authorsky #writersky

A sweet Belgian Malinois bites my sweatshirt

#writing challenge of the day: Stay focused while being ravaged by a cold and this terrifying monster. #writersky #booksky #belgianmalinois