G.S. Brouwer
@gsbrouwer.bsky.social
Greg. A writer lost in a wilderness of words that are so clever, they're probably lilac.
; haver, — lover
IG: g.s.brouwer
https://gsbrouwerauthor.wixsite.com/home
; haver, — lover
IG: g.s.brouwer
https://gsbrouwerauthor.wixsite.com/home
Sometimes reading critically acclaimed books/watching critically acclaimed movies makes me feel like a total philistine. I'm 1/3 of the way through and, while I know what the general theme is, I barely feel like I've scratched the surface of what are supposed to its serious depths.
1/3 #💙📚 #booksky
1/3 #💙📚 #booksky
July 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
July 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This one's about being loved for who we are in the deepest parts of ourselves, the places we don't know about ourselves sometimes, let alone show other people. Not everyone will love what they find there, and not everyone is lucky enough to be admitted into our Secret Gardens.
#poetry #poem
#poetry #poem
July 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I think a lot about the process of aging. Bodies don't work the same way, recovery takes longer, everything moves slower and aches. Wrinkles form and we go grey. But there is still so much beauty in that, and not just in the glow of youth.
And thus, a #poem called Greying.
#poetry
And thus, a #poem called Greying.
#poetry
July 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I wrote out a nice paper query letter with special touches and everything, and I... have no idea where I put it for safe keeping to come back to after my vacation.
#booksky #writingcommunity #💙📚
#booksky #writingcommunity #💙📚
July 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I wrote out a nice paper query letter with special touches and everything, and I... have no idea where I put it for safe keeping to come back to after my vacation.
#booksky #writingcommunity #💙📚
#booksky #writingcommunity #💙📚
I was getting ready to do something new and exciting: my first paper query! I typed it all out on my typewriter and went to print out my pages and whoops! There's a giant line across one side of every printed page. So it goes.
#📚💙
#📚💙
June 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I was getting ready to do something new and exciting: my first paper query! I typed it all out on my typewriter and went to print out my pages and whoops! There's a giant line across one side of every printed page. So it goes.
#📚💙
#📚💙
This is the summer I fell in love with writing again. After surviving my first year full-time teaching math with no mental space to write, the book I'm working on is messy (like life) and WAY too long to pitch, but I live for it. It matters when people are being told who they can and can't be. #📚💙
June 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is the summer I fell in love with writing again. After surviving my first year full-time teaching math with no mental space to write, the book I'm working on is messy (like life) and WAY too long to pitch, but I live for it. It matters when people are being told who they can and can't be. #📚💙
The em-dash is considered a tell of AI writing, but I was loving my em-dash before it was cool. I somehow discovered it as a HS freshman and used it CONSTANTLY in spite of only having half an idea of its purpose, and I've never stopped. Don't get me started on semicolons...
#booksky 💙📚
#booksky 💙📚
June 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The em-dash is considered a tell of AI writing, but I was loving my em-dash before it was cool. I somehow discovered it as a HS freshman and used it CONSTANTLY in spite of only having half an idea of its purpose, and I've never stopped. Don't get me started on semicolons...
#booksky 💙📚
#booksky 💙📚
Nosy #askanagent question for @jsinsheim.bsky.social: what's the longest non-SFF fiction debut you've ever agreed to rep?
June 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Nosy #askanagent question for @jsinsheim.bsky.social: what's the longest non-SFF fiction debut you've ever agreed to rep?
Really, @cnn.com, the Garden State Highway? Do you employ no one to research that it's called the Garden State Parkway? Was looking at Google Maps too hard?
April 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Really, @cnn.com, the Garden State Highway? Do you employ no one to research that it's called the Garden State Parkway? Was looking at Google Maps too hard?
Auto-drip<pour over<<<<<French press with me hand-grinding the beans
Every time.
Welcome to Saturday.
Every time.
Welcome to Saturday.
March 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Auto-drip<pour over<<<<<French press with me hand-grinding the beans
Every time.
Welcome to Saturday.
Every time.
Welcome to Saturday.
I've never had that feeling of I MUST KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS PERSON AND CONSUME EVERYTHING THEY'VE EVER DONE. Even for my favorite artistic people, I've never been a completist or anything.
... I think I'm defective.
... I think I'm defective.
February 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I've never had that feeling of I MUST KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS PERSON AND CONSUME EVERYTHING THEY'VE EVER DONE. Even for my favorite artistic people, I've never been a completist or anything.
... I think I'm defective.
... I think I'm defective.
#writingcommunity, writing isn't always easy, so what's the joy (big or small) you find in the process of writing? Is it purely the act of creation? Is it knowing you'll get to share it with the world?
What keeps your fire stoked?
What keeps your fire stoked?
February 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#writingcommunity, writing isn't always easy, so what's the joy (big or small) you find in the process of writing? Is it purely the act of creation? Is it knowing you'll get to share it with the world?
What keeps your fire stoked?
What keeps your fire stoked?
To everybody who replied today to my throw-it-into-the-world post after I got dressed this morning: thanks. It's nice to see the #writingcommunity again, and boy did you all blow up my phone while I was teaching today. I can't even imagine what it's like when a post truly goes viral.
February 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
To everybody who replied today to my throw-it-into-the-world post after I got dressed this morning: thanks. It's nice to see the #writingcommunity again, and boy did you all blow up my phone while I was teaching today. I can't even imagine what it's like when a post truly goes viral.
#writingcommunity, if you write a book that no one wants to read, does it still matter to you? Would you still write it?
February 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#writingcommunity, if you write a book that no one wants to read, does it still matter to you? Would you still write it?
#writingcommunity, this is your friendly reminder to read widely, especially outside your genre. As a lit fic/upmarket writer, I just learned plenty from the excellent way @rebeccayarros.bsky.social ends her chapters in the Fourth Wing books.
1/2
1/2
January 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
#writingcommunity, this is your friendly reminder to read widely, especially outside your genre. As a lit fic/upmarket writer, I just learned plenty from the excellent way @rebeccayarros.bsky.social ends her chapters in the Fourth Wing books.
1/2
1/2
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. #14151:
You don't need to write for publication, or for money, or for an audience, or for anyone but yourself. Joy is a worthwhile objective. Joy doesn't need a reason.
You don't need to write for publication, or for money, or for an audience, or for anyone but yourself. Joy is a worthwhile objective. Joy doesn't need a reason.
January 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #14151:
You don't need to write for publication, or for money, or for an audience, or for anyone but yourself. Joy is a worthwhile objective. Joy doesn't need a reason.
You don't need to write for publication, or for money, or for an audience, or for anyone but yourself. Joy is a worthwhile objective. Joy doesn't need a reason.
It's wild following someone on socials for a while and then seeing them post a video for the first time and make you realize: I DIDN'T KNOW THEY SOUNDED LIKE THAT. Doesn't matter what their accent is, it's always a shock to my system. Like, I'm not sure what I expected, but it's somehow never THAT.
January 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's wild following someone on socials for a while and then seeing them post a video for the first time and make you realize: I DIDN'T KNOW THEY SOUNDED LIKE THAT. Doesn't matter what their accent is, it's always a shock to my system. Like, I'm not sure what I expected, but it's somehow never THAT.
I'm all for protecting copyright, but I'm sorry, 95 years is insane. This year, the public domain gets The Sound and the Fury, A Farewell to Arms, and A Room of One's Own. Their creators died in 1962, 1961, and 1941, respectively. So what, exactly, are we protecting 60+ years after their deaths? #💙📚
January 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I'm all for protecting copyright, but I'm sorry, 95 years is insane. This year, the public domain gets The Sound and the Fury, A Farewell to Arms, and A Room of One's Own. Their creators died in 1962, 1961, and 1941, respectively. So what, exactly, are we protecting 60+ years after their deaths? #💙📚
Finally, a quiet day to sit with coffee and enjoy reading this book cover to cover. What's every artist afraid of, according to Thomas Mann? Running out of time. No wonder I picked up my many-months-cold story and figured out what else it needs! Death brings rebirth.
#BookSky #💙📚 #WritingCommunity
#BookSky #💙📚 #WritingCommunity
December 31, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Finally, a quiet day to sit with coffee and enjoy reading this book cover to cover. What's every artist afraid of, according to Thomas Mann? Running out of time. No wonder I picked up my many-months-cold story and figured out what else it needs! Death brings rebirth.
#BookSky #💙📚 #WritingCommunity
#BookSky #💙📚 #WritingCommunity
Having a very retro vibes day, and only now, months after I've sent my query to @jsinsheim.bsky.social, do I recall that I was going to ask to send it via snail mail like the old days. Darn.
December 31, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Having a very retro vibes day, and only now, months after I've sent my query to @jsinsheim.bsky.social, do I recall that I was going to ask to send it via snail mail like the old days. Darn.
I just watched a video of a cow being bathed, and you know what? It might be time to log off Instagram for a bit.
December 27, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I just watched a video of a cow being bathed, and you know what? It might be time to log off Instagram for a bit.
Recently got called out about my stress—mostly, it turns out, because I was being a perfectionist. I can work really hard at teaching but can't MAKE students work if they don't want to. Once I let go of that, it got a whole lot easier on me. So: what are you stressing about that you can't control?
December 23, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Recently got called out about my stress—mostly, it turns out, because I was being a perfectionist. I can work really hard at teaching but can't MAKE students work if they don't want to. Once I let go of that, it got a whole lot easier on me. So: what are you stressing about that you can't control?