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EllieAboutTown
@ellieabouttown.bsky.social
Internationally acclaimed narrative improvisor, award-winning theatre designer, amateur musician, aspiring author, former Jeopardy! contestant.

Also, I read a lot. 🇺🇸 > 🇨🇦.

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Why is it that no one seems to know how basic project management works when working on projects with other people?
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Cold but pretty.
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Landed in Austin. Immediately ordered tacos because #priorities.
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Started watching MURDERBOT and now I don't wanna go to work, I just want to watch MURDERBOT, which is pretty much the plot of MURDERBOT.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
No panic attack quite like the one where you can’t find your passport the night before an international flight.
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Mumford & Sons and Hozier wrote a song produced by Aaron Dessner with these lyrics and it's somehow *not* written especially for me? It's like they heard I was having writing motivation problems and said "We can fix that".
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It’s been a shitty fucking week but I managed to hit my word goal today. Please clap.
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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New to the world of my A.G. Slatter Sourdough novels?

Y'all can taste test with No Good Deed - get the ebook for free or order the physical chapbook over at @brainjarpress 🙂

brainjarpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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My main contract gig is being cut, and my family responsibilities are less demanding than a few years ago. So please get in touch if you know of writing/editing/research/workshop positions, any hours, ideally remote or Ottawa. Extra points for good causes. I know it's rough out there for everyone.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Trigger warning for pet death.
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Something went wrong during our new kitten Astrid’s spay procedure this morning and she didn’t make it. We are devastated. We didn’t have her for long but she was such a good cat.

My poor sweet baby. I love you and miss you so much.
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
2025 can honestly, well and truly go fuck itself.
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Exhausted today, but pushed through to 1,156 words. Woo.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Today was a really weird day. Got some not-great personal news. Got some good professional-ish news. And I wrote 4k+ words on my zero draft for new project.

I am vast. I contain multitudes.
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Doing #thirtyin30 as my writing project this month and today's word count is 1,456. Not too shabby.
November 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I cooked nine meals today, all for the freezer. I’m gonna go collapse now.
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I am CACKLING
These three MCsa from an antique LAND
Said hey there's a place with lots of SAND
Where two vast and trunkless legs of STONE
Stand in the desert all aLONE
Ozymandias, no disreSPECT
But sure looks like all your works got WRECKED
my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Ahh, the unique, panicked feeling when you have ADHD when it's 10am and you're hungry.
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Walk photos from yesterday.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Did I just spend all evening researching whether or not a coastal lagoon could've been anywhere near enough a volcano eruption that it would've gotten enough ash to make helenite for ~reasons~?

Apparently yes.

#writerproblems
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is such a good joke. 😂
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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HEY it's Halloween on Friday and obvs you need some spooky reading to go with your candy

And HERE THERE ARE MONSTERS even begins on the night before Halloween... so!

🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇🎃🦇
BSky! Clearly you need some spooky books for the ides of spooky season! Well I GOTCHU

Ghosts and monsters and haunted Canadian landscapes, oh my 😱😱😱

...and hey look they're on sale!

🍁: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/...

B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/amelinda%2...

👿: www.amazon.com/stores/Ameli...
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Currently working through the snowflake method to plot New Project, and it really, really works.

After 3 tries, I have a (very messy) 1-page summary that actually hangs together.

But I am so glad I'm doing this now and not after I've written 50k words of prose and realized the plot didn't work.
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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If you like ace romance with wry humour, messy queers fighting for justice and epic worldbuilding, The Dragon Next Door is for you!
🐲 Sword lesbian (bi)
🐲 Secret baby (dragon)
🐲 Friends to lovers (ace)
🐲 Found family
🐲 Opposites attract
books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6
vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...
October 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM