Makena Metz
@makenametz.bsky.social
📝🎶 Writer & Songwriter for the Page, Screen, and Stage
📖 Rep’d by Alchemy Ink
📽️ scripts @coverfly red list
🎼 songs @disneytva
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📖 Rep’d by Alchemy Ink
📽️ scripts @coverfly red list
🎼 songs @disneytva
🥄🌈✨🎶
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Through My Marrow, by Makena Metz
Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. This chapbook is an autobiographical poetry collection about the author’s decade-long journey with illness and recovery. From becoming sick wi...
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I am over the moon to share that my debut chapbook “Through My Marrow” is available to order through @bottlecappress 🥹
Thank you for ordering a copy and supporting my work! 🙏🏻❤️
bottlecap.press/products/thr...
#poetry #poets #poetrycommunity #publication #press #poetrylovers
Thank you for ordering a copy and supporting my work! 🙏🏻❤️
bottlecap.press/products/thr...
#poetry #poets #poetrycommunity #publication #press #poetrylovers
Today I wrote and wrote and hit 55k words and sent my latest chunk to my agent!!! I’m at the halfway point and will def have to cut some stuff as I tend to be an overwriter, but it’s so nice revising this book (draft six for those wondering) and knowing it’s HALFWAY DONE 🥳🥳🥳
February 20, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Today I wrote and wrote and hit 55k words and sent my latest chunk to my agent!!! I’m at the halfway point and will def have to cut some stuff as I tend to be an overwriter, but it’s so nice revising this book (draft six for those wondering) and knowing it’s HALFWAY DONE 🥳🥳🥳
Getting better at throwing together rough demos to hand off to producers! An essential musical skill 🥲
February 19, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Getting better at throwing together rough demos to hand off to producers! An essential musical skill 🥲
Decided to lean into delusion and apply for something I'm 99.999% sure I won't get picked for, but hey! Better to shoot your shot then regret never taking it 🥲
February 18, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Decided to lean into delusion and apply for something I'm 99.999% sure I won't get picked for, but hey! Better to shoot your shot then regret never taking it 🥲
My debut poetry chapbook is now ouuuttt and people can read my work through an actual press! So today I feel like a Real Poet™️ which is kinda cool 🥹
February 12, 2026 at 12:47 AM
My debut poetry chapbook is now ouuuttt and people can read my work through an actual press! So today I feel like a Real Poet™️ which is kinda cool 🥹
I am over the moon to share that my debut chapbook “Through My Marrow” is available to order through @bottlecappress 🥹
Thank you for ordering a copy and supporting my work! 🙏🏻❤️
bottlecap.press/products/thr...
#poetry #poets #poetrycommunity #publication #press #poetrylovers
Thank you for ordering a copy and supporting my work! 🙏🏻❤️
bottlecap.press/products/thr...
#poetry #poets #poetrycommunity #publication #press #poetrylovers
Through My Marrow, by Makena Metz
Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. This chapbook is an autobiographical poetry collection about the author’s decade-long journey with illness and recovery. From becoming sick wi...
bottlecap.press
February 10, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I am over the moon to share that my debut chapbook “Through My Marrow” is available to order through @bottlecappress 🥹
Thank you for ordering a copy and supporting my work! 🙏🏻❤️
bottlecap.press/products/thr...
#poetry #poets #poetrycommunity #publication #press #poetrylovers
Thank you for ordering a copy and supporting my work! 🙏🏻❤️
bottlecap.press/products/thr...
#poetry #poets #poetrycommunity #publication #press #poetrylovers
Had to apply to a writer match thing and they asked “anything else you want your potential match to know” so of course I put “I am a silly goose and an old soul” 🪿 like, hope that helps 🤷🏼♀️
February 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Had to apply to a writer match thing and they asked “anything else you want your potential match to know” so of course I put “I am a silly goose and an old soul” 🪿 like, hope that helps 🤷🏼♀️
I just got to approve the layout of my debut poetry chapbook - and the cover looks AMAZING 🤩 I can't wait to shout about it once I know the release date!! #poetry
February 9, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I just got to approve the layout of my debut poetry chapbook - and the cover looks AMAZING 🤩 I can't wait to shout about it once I know the release date!! #poetry
If you’re using AI to write books, you’re not an author 😒
I write books the way the ancients did 🤷🏼♀️ internal pressure from a weird combination of confident delusion, impostery self doubt, and the voices in my head
I write books the way the ancients did 🤷🏼♀️ internal pressure from a weird combination of confident delusion, impostery self doubt, and the voices in my head
February 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
If you’re using AI to write books, you’re not an author 😒
I write books the way the ancients did 🤷🏼♀️ internal pressure from a weird combination of confident delusion, impostery self doubt, and the voices in my head
I write books the way the ancients did 🤷🏼♀️ internal pressure from a weird combination of confident delusion, impostery self doubt, and the voices in my head
Devastated to report that walking my dog outside and smelling the grass and feeling the sun helped me feel better after being on my laptop all morning 😭
February 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Devastated to report that walking my dog outside and smelling the grass and feeling the sun helped me feel better after being on my laptop all morning 😭
The time has come again to lead a Women in Animation mentorship circle! 🔥 Spend the spring with me chatting about writing songs for animation! Apply at the link below. Looking forward to your application! 🥳🎶
wearewia.org/become-a-men...
#wia #wearewia #womeninanimation #songwriting #mentee
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#wia #wearewia #womeninanimation #songwriting #mentee
CrowdHandler Waiting Room
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February 3, 2026 at 12:22 AM
The time has come again to lead a Women in Animation mentorship circle! 🔥 Spend the spring with me chatting about writing songs for animation! Apply at the link below. Looking forward to your application! 🥳🎶
wearewia.org/become-a-men...
#wia #wearewia #womeninanimation #songwriting #mentee
wearewia.org/become-a-men...
#wia #wearewia #womeninanimation #songwriting #mentee
Tonight I finished line and copy editing a behemoth fantasy novel for the imprint I edit for and finishing a project like this is soooo satisfying, esp since genre fiction is my specialty. I really feel like I pushed the author to make the book the best it could be 🥰
January 31, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Tonight I finished line and copy editing a behemoth fantasy novel for the imprint I edit for and finishing a project like this is soooo satisfying, esp since genre fiction is my specialty. I really feel like I pushed the author to make the book the best it could be 🥰
Today I am 31 years old and can confidently say my 30s are already 100x better than my 20s 🥰
January 28, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Today I am 31 years old and can confidently say my 30s are already 100x better than my 20s 🥰
Tonight I wrote a ch of my book where the friend group uses seagulls to attack their way into a marketing studio and if that’s not the most LA thing ever, I don’t know what is 🤷🏼♀️
January 28, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Tonight I wrote a ch of my book where the friend group uses seagulls to attack their way into a marketing studio and if that’s not the most LA thing ever, I don’t know what is 🤷🏼♀️
Thank you @thekismetmag for publishing my short story! This one’s pretty dystopian, so take care when reading since it hits close to home 🙏🏻
CW: eugenics, fascism, death of an animal
thekismetmagazine.com/2026/01/23/t...
#shortstory #publication #dystopian #sciencefiction #literarymagazine
CW: eugenics, fascism, death of an animal
thekismetmagazine.com/2026/01/23/t...
#shortstory #publication #dystopian #sciencefiction #literarymagazine
The Flowering of Nightmares and Dreams
I eyed his gun and followed him inside. This was all wrong—the fate I’d been avoiding for months. I resented the baby for it. My stomach cramped, and I welcomed the pain.
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January 23, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Thank you @thekismetmag for publishing my short story! This one’s pretty dystopian, so take care when reading since it hits close to home 🙏🏻
CW: eugenics, fascism, death of an animal
thekismetmagazine.com/2026/01/23/t...
#shortstory #publication #dystopian #sciencefiction #literarymagazine
CW: eugenics, fascism, death of an animal
thekismetmagazine.com/2026/01/23/t...
#shortstory #publication #dystopian #sciencefiction #literarymagazine
Oh yay my dystopian short story is getting published tomorrow! 🥳
January 23, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Oh yay my dystopian short story is getting published tomorrow! 🥳
I actually finished my editing work within my alloted time today YAY! 😅 This is the problem with part time work, you have to be super aware of how much energy you're putting into a project, manage the time and be aware of the due date, all while giving the author 110%.
an opossum laying in a bathtub next to a yellow rubber duck that says i 'm trying
ALT: an opossum laying in a bathtub next to a yellow rubber duck that says i 'm trying
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January 22, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I actually finished my editing work within my alloted time today YAY! 😅 This is the problem with part time work, you have to be super aware of how much energy you're putting into a project, manage the time and be aware of the due date, all while giving the author 110%.
I'm in a weird limbo now where I don't know what I'm doing work wise for the spring until mid-February and aaaaall of the opps I'm waiting to hear back on collide with my part time job's deadline then 😵💫 I just wanna get paid to write or read/edit books, ya know?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 AM
I'm in a weird limbo now where I don't know what I'm doing work wise for the spring until mid-February and aaaaall of the opps I'm waiting to hear back on collide with my part time job's deadline then 😵💫 I just wanna get paid to write or read/edit books, ya know?
I don’t write for me. No, I write to shut up the voices in my head AND for my unhinged friends who I expect to gasp out loud while beta reading my book 🙂↕️
January 17, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I don’t write for me. No, I write to shut up the voices in my head AND for my unhinged friends who I expect to gasp out loud while beta reading my book 🙂↕️
I just read the first acknowledgements where I got thanked as an editor and yeah, I think I love working in publishing 🥰
January 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
I just read the first acknowledgements where I got thanked as an editor and yeah, I think I love working in publishing 🥰
I know I’m getting better from this flu because last night I fleshed out an idea for a book I had and it’s really funny and I’m really stoked to write it after the next book is done 😍
January 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
I know I’m getting better from this flu because last night I fleshed out an idea for a book I had and it’s really funny and I’m really stoked to write it after the next book is done 😍
Uggghhhhh spent like an hour working on a submission, then read the fine print, and if you have an advanced degree, you can't apply 😭 The sad thing is it's like, perfect for me because they want disabled applicants and it's PAID and I am sad 😭
January 14, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Uggghhhhh spent like an hour working on a submission, then read the fine print, and if you have an advanced degree, you can't apply 😭 The sad thing is it's like, perfect for me because they want disabled applicants and it's PAID and I am sad 😭
I updated my website for 2026! If you're looking to hire a #writer, #teacher, or #editor, check out my link here www.makenametz.com ☺️
Writer | Makena Metz
Makena Metz is a writer for the page, screen, and stage. Find my writing portfolio, teaching experience, and editing rates!
www.makenametz.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I updated my website for 2026! If you're looking to hire a #writer, #teacher, or #editor, check out my link here www.makenametz.com ☺️
I’m sorry but are you even a tea drinker if you don’t keep your spoon in your cup to draw out the heat and then get whacked in the face by it when you take a sip 🤨
January 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I’m sorry but are you even a tea drinker if you don’t keep your spoon in your cup to draw out the heat and then get whacked in the face by it when you take a sip 🤨
Being sick with the flu is like…
Day 1: I feel a lil tickle in my throat ☹️
Day 5: I have sweat more in the last few days than my entire life. This fever will not break 🤧
Day 7: I feel so much better! 😙
Day 10: Death’s cold grip has come to drag me under a la coughing
Day ???: must. purge. mucus 🥴
Day 1: I feel a lil tickle in my throat ☹️
Day 5: I have sweat more in the last few days than my entire life. This fever will not break 🤧
Day 7: I feel so much better! 😙
Day 10: Death’s cold grip has come to drag me under a la coughing
Day ???: must. purge. mucus 🥴
January 6, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Being sick with the flu is like…
Day 1: I feel a lil tickle in my throat ☹️
Day 5: I have sweat more in the last few days than my entire life. This fever will not break 🤧
Day 7: I feel so much better! 😙
Day 10: Death’s cold grip has come to drag me under a la coughing
Day ???: must. purge. mucus 🥴
Day 1: I feel a lil tickle in my throat ☹️
Day 5: I have sweat more in the last few days than my entire life. This fever will not break 🤧
Day 7: I feel so much better! 😙
Day 10: Death’s cold grip has come to drag me under a la coughing
Day ???: must. purge. mucus 🥴
Back to the editing grind today for this publisher but not feeling up to my own pages… this flu is horrible. I have just enough brain power to edit this memoir but that’s it for now 😵💫
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Back to the editing grind today for this publisher but not feeling up to my own pages… this flu is horrible. I have just enough brain power to edit this memoir but that’s it for now 😵💫
