Nancy Koziol
@nancykz.bsky.social
Author of what slips between the cracks.
The messy, magical, coming-of-age wreckage.
Come for the secrets. Stay for the unraveling. 🖤
The messy, magical, coming-of-age wreckage.
Come for the secrets. Stay for the unraveling. 🖤
My Round 1 entry for The Flash Fiction Challenge 2025 by @nycmidnight.bsky.social ranked 1st in its group. Results for round 2 come out in a week. I figured it's about time I share this. (Image of three officials with a ghostly spectre in a labcoat in the background created by ChatGPT just for fun.)
Kurchatov’s Final Stand
In a series of near-catastrophic nuclear events spanning decades, a ghostly figure appears to those on the brink of launching global war. In the year 2027, a reckless refusal seals humanity’s fate.
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
My Round 1 entry for The Flash Fiction Challenge 2025 by @nycmidnight.bsky.social ranked 1st in its group. Results for round 2 come out in a week. I figured it's about time I share this. (Image of three officials with a ghostly spectre in a labcoat in the background created by ChatGPT just for fun.)
September 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Looking for critique partners for the 2nd Round of @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge - I'm in group 14 (drama/hotel fitness center/pacifier). #amwriting #amediting
August 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Looking for critique partners for the 2nd Round of @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge - I'm in group 14 (drama/hotel fitness center/pacifier). #amwriting #amediting
A powerful message from my deck this morning.
Asked a question and the Ace of Cups leapt out of my deck. So I wrote. Who am I to argue with the Tarot? #tarot #amwriting
Asked a question and the Ace of Cups leapt out of my deck. So I wrote. Who am I to argue with the Tarot? #tarot #amwriting
July 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A powerful message from my deck this morning.
Asked a question and the Ace of Cups leapt out of my deck. So I wrote. Who am I to argue with the Tarot? #tarot #amwriting
Asked a question and the Ace of Cups leapt out of my deck. So I wrote. Who am I to argue with the Tarot? #tarot #amwriting
🖊️✍️ What’s your writing mood today? #amwriting
July 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🖊️✍️ What’s your writing mood today? #amwriting
Woke up full of love, writing with my whole eyeballs, and spiraling gently through thoughts of work, work, and also… work. Heavy on “I” energy today. Sight-led. Present-tethered. And just uncertain enough to feel alive in the process. #amwrting
July 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Woke up full of love, writing with my whole eyeballs, and spiraling gently through thoughts of work, work, and also… work. Heavy on “I” energy today. Sight-led. Present-tethered. And just uncertain enough to feel alive in the process. #amwrting
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Scary Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Scary Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create scary short stories based on assigned prompts in 48 hours.
www.nycmidnight.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR EMAIL?!
Randomly came across this 100-word writing from 7/4/15. Does anyone else love finding their old entries from www.100words.com on the front page and then digging back though old batches? #amwriting #100words
July 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Randomly came across this 100-word writing from 7/4/15. Does anyone else love finding their old entries from www.100words.com on the front page and then digging back though old batches? #amwriting #100words
I'm my own worst enemy. #750words #journaling
June 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm my own worst enemy. #750words #journaling
Joy! Growth! I'll take it.
June 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Joy! Growth! I'll take it.
The sun is finally shining here in Southern VT. Good for mutts, tough for moody wannabe novelists.
June 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The sun is finally shining here in Southern VT. Good for mutts, tough for moody wannabe novelists.
Do I wish that every time I wrote there were candles or a gorgeous view or a beautiful chair in a warm, cozy room.
No! Because then I'd be even more ridiculous about what I "need" to get it done.
Here's proof that the process can be a mess. How do I know? Because I finished my outline today.
No! Because then I'd be even more ridiculous about what I "need" to get it done.
Here's proof that the process can be a mess. How do I know? Because I finished my outline today.
June 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Do I wish that every time I wrote there were candles or a gorgeous view or a beautiful chair in a warm, cozy room.
No! Because then I'd be even more ridiculous about what I "need" to get it done.
Here's proof that the process can be a mess. How do I know? Because I finished my outline today.
No! Because then I'd be even more ridiculous about what I "need" to get it done.
Here's proof that the process can be a mess. How do I know? Because I finished my outline today.
Anyone else doing @nycmidnight.bsky.social ’s current challenge? #amwriting
June 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Anyone else doing @nycmidnight.bsky.social ’s current challenge? #amwriting
Fueling up for a busy day. #amwriting
May 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Fueling up for a busy day. #amwriting
Dispatch #2 from the liminal place of finding your perfect novel-writing formula dropping tomorrow, have you subscribed?
The Liminal Report | Nancy Koziol | Substack
Unfolding. Unfinished. Click to read The Liminal Report, by Nancy Koziol, a Substack publication. Launched 8 days ago.
nancykz.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Dispatch #2 from the liminal place of finding your perfect novel-writing formula dropping tomorrow, have you subscribed?
Wrote my first two index cards today 📝 it feels incredible to be putting this puzzle together.
May 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Wrote my first two index cards today 📝 it feels incredible to be putting this puzzle together.
Sometimes I slow it down and enjoy the building blocks of writing.
May 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Sometimes I slow it down and enjoy the building blocks of writing.
Happy World Goth Day to all of you spooooooooky celebrants. Let's grab a slushie, turn up the pre-Violator Depeche Mode and write some poems about despair. We'll celebrate by dancing to an extended-remix of Fascination Street.
May 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Happy World Goth Day to all of you spooooooooky celebrants. Let's grab a slushie, turn up the pre-Violator Depeche Mode and write some poems about despair. We'll celebrate by dancing to an extended-remix of Fascination Street.
Cleared some significant headspace this morning thanks to a breakthrough and let me tell you: it doesn't matter your age or where you are personally or professionally, if you keep doing the work, you get to keep reaping the rewards.
May 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Cleared some significant headspace this morning thanks to a breakthrough and let me tell you: it doesn't matter your age or where you are personally or professionally, if you keep doing the work, you get to keep reaping the rewards.
There’s always a then.
Before the decision.
Before the unraveling.
Before you realize you’ve already crossed the line.
The best stories take you there before you even notice.
Before the decision.
Before the unraveling.
Before you realize you’ve already crossed the line.
The best stories take you there before you even notice.
May 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There’s always a then.
Before the decision.
Before the unraveling.
Before you realize you’ve already crossed the line.
The best stories take you there before you even notice.
Before the decision.
Before the unraveling.
Before you realize you’ve already crossed the line.
The best stories take you there before you even notice.
I get my best ideas just sitting and letting my brain trace plots and possibilities.
May 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I get my best ideas just sitting and letting my brain trace plots and possibilities.
May 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Today’s writing nook.
May 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Today’s writing nook.