Melissa Goodrich
@goodmel.bsky.social
Author of THE CLASSROOM and DAUGHTERS OF MONSTERS. Currently at work on a novel about the end of the world. She/her.
melissa-goodrich.com
melissa-goodrich.com
nothing could have prepared me for how unraveling postpartum depression would be. in birthing my daughter, did i also (re?)birth a girl I thought I wasn't anymore, a girl I left in Iowa?
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
nothing could have prepared me for how unraveling postpartum depression would be. in birthing my daughter, did i also (re?)birth a girl I thought I wasn't anymore, a girl I left in Iowa?
Bummed as I'm always bummed that they didn't get raptured.
September 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Bummed as I'm always bummed that they didn't get raptured.
The thing I like about dark mode is its easier on the eyes when a fresh new horror appears
September 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The thing I like about dark mode is its easier on the eyes when a fresh new horror appears
Happy Silksong, y'all
a cartoon drawing of a butterfly flying around a stone pillar
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a butterfly flying around a stone pillar
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September 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy Silksong, y'all
Loved the latest substack from @mdbell79.bsky.social on putting title chapters to work: inspired me to mess around with the idea of including some clearly demarcated 3rd person passages in my novel so I can tell more stories of people in space...
mattbell.substack.com/p/54-putting...
mattbell.substack.com/p/54-putting...
#54: Putting Your Chapter Titles to Work
Karen Russell, Brian Evenson, Danya Kukafka, Chuck Palahniuk, Diane Williams
mattbell.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Loved the latest substack from @mdbell79.bsky.social on putting title chapters to work: inspired me to mess around with the idea of including some clearly demarcated 3rd person passages in my novel so I can tell more stories of people in space...
mattbell.substack.com/p/54-putting...
mattbell.substack.com/p/54-putting...
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August 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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oh my gosh their arguments against this being a class action lawsuit are so goofy. its bad because "seven million claimants would kill the company" and "it would be difficult to figure out the rights and compensation for each of the 7 million" so whyd you steal from 7 million people??? dingus!
August 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
oh my gosh their arguments against this being a class action lawsuit are so goofy. its bad because "seven million claimants would kill the company" and "it would be difficult to figure out the rights and compensation for each of the 7 million" so whyd you steal from 7 million people??? dingus!
In undergrad, it was especially hard for me to move on in writing a story if each sentence, each word, wasn't *just* right.
A college professor told me to stop finessing and keep going, just sit down and don't get up until the story has an ending.
I think this is novel advice too.
A college professor told me to stop finessing and keep going, just sit down and don't get up until the story has an ending.
I think this is novel advice too.
July 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In undergrad, it was especially hard for me to move on in writing a story if each sentence, each word, wasn't *just* right.
A college professor told me to stop finessing and keep going, just sit down and don't get up until the story has an ending.
I think this is novel advice too.
A college professor told me to stop finessing and keep going, just sit down and don't get up until the story has an ending.
I think this is novel advice too.
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"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."
July 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."
"Why does the myth of upward movement persist so stubbornly? Why do we measure greatness by vertical gain?
...Somehow, we believe that ‘up there’ where it’s bright, that's where life is truly happening."
Really appreciate this perspective from Nadia Meli.
substack.com/@nadiameli/p...
...Somehow, we believe that ‘up there’ where it’s bright, that's where life is truly happening."
Really appreciate this perspective from Nadia Meli.
substack.com/@nadiameli/p...
Your life is not a ladder.
The capitalist fever dream of greatness only has two directions. But life has more.
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July 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"Why does the myth of upward movement persist so stubbornly? Why do we measure greatness by vertical gain?
...Somehow, we believe that ‘up there’ where it’s bright, that's where life is truly happening."
Really appreciate this perspective from Nadia Meli.
substack.com/@nadiameli/p...
...Somehow, we believe that ‘up there’ where it’s bright, that's where life is truly happening."
Really appreciate this perspective from Nadia Meli.
substack.com/@nadiameli/p...
I haven’t drawn in years, but I was thinking about how little kids draw all the time—and how much unabashed joy they have—and I want to too
July 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I haven’t drawn in years, but I was thinking about how little kids draw all the time—and how much unabashed joy they have—and I want to too
Who else is notebooks deep in Blue Prince? This game rules.
May 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Who else is notebooks deep in Blue Prince? This game rules.
“I was busy…but I always have time to worry.”
This Miranda July quote (from ALL FOURS) hitting a little too close to home.
This Miranda July quote (from ALL FOURS) hitting a little too close to home.
May 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
“I was busy…but I always have time to worry.”
This Miranda July quote (from ALL FOURS) hitting a little too close to home.
This Miranda July quote (from ALL FOURS) hitting a little too close to home.
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Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-
May 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-
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babe are you ok you’ve barely written about your characters sighing, looking, or nodding & you’ve only typed the word “just” 40 times
May 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
babe are you ok you’ve barely written about your characters sighing, looking, or nodding & you’ve only typed the word “just” 40 times
For those interested in a more unhinged severance bingo
March 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
For those interested in a more unhinged severance bingo
Building a severance season finale bingo card if anyone wants to play along.
March 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Building a severance season finale bingo card if anyone wants to play along.
Woke up from a nap with this small rattling poem
March 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Woke up from a nap with this small rattling poem
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us? the nation who ate Tide Pods? has resurrected measles??? I don’t believe it.
March 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
us? the nation who ate Tide Pods? has resurrected measles??? I don’t believe it.
Phenomenal piece by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social :
“I’ve come very far in ignoring advice like this—the kind that suggests my writing is only of value if I demonstrate how far away from my disability I have managed to escape.”
“I’ve come very far in ignoring advice like this—the kind that suggests my writing is only of value if I demonstrate how far away from my disability I have managed to escape.”
For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE.
electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...
electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...
To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques - Electric Literature
I masked in workshop and on the page, even as it invalidated my lived experience
electricliterature.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Phenomenal piece by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social :
“I’ve come very far in ignoring advice like this—the kind that suggests my writing is only of value if I demonstrate how far away from my disability I have managed to escape.”
“I’ve come very far in ignoring advice like this—the kind that suggests my writing is only of value if I demonstrate how far away from my disability I have managed to escape.”
Sometimes to counter the worry that robots are taking over I think about how a printer literally stops working if the paper is wrinkled.
March 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Sometimes to counter the worry that robots are taking over I think about how a printer literally stops working if the paper is wrinkled.
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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
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Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
February 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
“Tender, crumbly, crunchy, buttery, creamy, crispy, velvety. You eat and weep at the glorious textures.”
Devastating and timely and beautifully horrifying @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
Devastating and timely and beautifully horrifying @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
New OPEN Finalist by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social "Your best friend, Meg, is scared for you. She wants to accompany you to the lake, but you need to be alone, so you drive there and wander the aspen grove, leaves trembling in the light wind."
fracturedlit.com/the-touch-fo...
fracturedlit.com/the-touch-fo...
The Touch Forecast – Fractured
fracturedlit.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“Tender, crumbly, crunchy, buttery, creamy, crispy, velvety. You eat and weep at the glorious textures.”
Devastating and timely and beautifully horrifying @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
Devastating and timely and beautifully horrifying @claudiamonpere.bsky.social
YES. I feel like fiction is my way of telling the truth, of taking some stimuli from real life and kaleidoscoping it into something stranger (and, somehow, truer)
open.substack.com/pub/etgarker...
open.substack.com/pub/etgarker...
February 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
YES. I feel like fiction is my way of telling the truth, of taking some stimuli from real life and kaleidoscoping it into something stranger (and, somehow, truer)
open.substack.com/pub/etgarker...
open.substack.com/pub/etgarker...