K. T. Matthews
@ktmatthewswrites.bsky.social
Writes, reads, here to get inspiration. And to post/repost funny things between drafts :-) Overly sincere, Elder Millennial/Oregon Trail generation, Seattleite, Tech/STEM/Education background, Aromantic/Demisexual, ND. She/her
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Finally joining Bluesky, mostly here to observe/read while avoiding putting more words on a page.
I love writing, reading, crafting, and I have a couple of fish (and a lot of snails!)
I love writing, reading, crafting, and I have a couple of fish (and a lot of snails!)
I have a limited number of spoons per day to spend on interacting with strangers. Having to do phone calls for medical appointments is... not what I would choose to use them on.
Me to medical assistant: Is there an email-only option?
M.A.: No, but let me give you the phone number to complain!
Me to medical assistant: Is there an email-only option?
M.A.: No, but let me give you the phone number to complain!
August 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I have a limited number of spoons per day to spend on interacting with strangers. Having to do phone calls for medical appointments is... not what I would choose to use them on.
Me to medical assistant: Is there an email-only option?
M.A.: No, but let me give you the phone number to complain!
Me to medical assistant: Is there an email-only option?
M.A.: No, but let me give you the phone number to complain!
Submission status tracking is the world's slowest roller coaster
August 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Submission status tracking is the world's slowest roller coaster
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Gyozasaurus Rex here makes me wonder what other foods could be dino’d…
Anyways, my compliments to the chef for remembering what the internet is for.
Anyways, my compliments to the chef for remembering what the internet is for.
August 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Gyozasaurus Rex here makes me wonder what other foods could be dino’d…
Anyways, my compliments to the chef for remembering what the internet is for.
Anyways, my compliments to the chef for remembering what the internet is for.
My kid, literally judging a pile of books by their covers:
"Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!"
"Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!"
July 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
My kid, literally judging a pile of books by their covers:
"Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!"
"Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!"
I honestly have soooo many scripts and systems for interacting with neurotypical people, like... they seem kind of rigid and inflexible about communication patterns, no?
July 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I honestly have soooo many scripts and systems for interacting with neurotypical people, like... they seem kind of rigid and inflexible about communication patterns, no?
I love this idea!
who is testing the fire alarm!")
Anyway, what's the Sushi Rejection Project? If I can get to 100 rejections in a row, I get to go to Toronto's best sushi restaurant. Sound like fun? Why not make your own? (4/??)
Anyway, what's the Sushi Rejection Project? If I can get to 100 rejections in a row, I get to go to Toronto's best sushi restaurant. Sound like fun? Why not make your own? (4/??)
July 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I love this idea!
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I feel like regular loneliness can be physical but DEEP loneliness is that "all alone in a crowded room" loneliness
So much of modern U.S. society is constructed to be isolating & since that's the norm we tend to call others (or ourselves) lonely when we attempt to counteract that
So much of modern U.S. society is constructed to be isolating & since that's the norm we tend to call others (or ourselves) lonely when we attempt to counteract that
July 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I feel like regular loneliness can be physical but DEEP loneliness is that "all alone in a crowded room" loneliness
So much of modern U.S. society is constructed to be isolating & since that's the norm we tend to call others (or ourselves) lonely when we attempt to counteract that
So much of modern U.S. society is constructed to be isolating & since that's the norm we tend to call others (or ourselves) lonely when we attempt to counteract that
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As someone who's been deeply lonely for most of my adult life I feel like just about all of the quotes miss the mark; most are signs someone has trauma, lacks community, or has attachment issues but DEEPLY LONELY is something else all together...
12. What is a sign that someone is deeply lonely?
July 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
As someone who's been deeply lonely for most of my adult life I feel like just about all of the quotes miss the mark; most are signs someone has trauma, lacks community, or has attachment issues but DEEPLY LONELY is something else all together...
Me, spending this week on the same place in the same scene (while other pieces around get put in a new order bc that is what will make sense to the overall arc)
This definitely, but also, sometimes you're stuck because you've done something wrong somewhere, and your writer brain knows it even if you don't. You need to find the reason for the stuckness.
Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.
July 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Me, spending this week on the same place in the same scene (while other pieces around get put in a new order bc that is what will make sense to the overall arc)
Omg I wasn't expecting the America's Sweethearts salary negotiation subplot!
I really want someone with a linguistics background to do a deep dive on the ways that these women are navigating the feminine norms expected of them, while also challenging the paycheck status quo--I need better words!
I really want someone with a linguistics background to do a deep dive on the ways that these women are navigating the feminine norms expected of them, while also challenging the paycheck status quo--I need better words!
June 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Omg I wasn't expecting the America's Sweethearts salary negotiation subplot!
I really want someone with a linguistics background to do a deep dive on the ways that these women are navigating the feminine norms expected of them, while also challenging the paycheck status quo--I need better words!
I really want someone with a linguistics background to do a deep dive on the ways that these women are navigating the feminine norms expected of them, while also challenging the paycheck status quo--I need better words!
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The encouragement I give writers is this:
If you love it, if it completes you, never stop.
Otherwise, feel no guilt about not doing it. The world will turn just fine. Do something that makes you happier.
If you love it, if it completes you, never stop.
Otherwise, feel no guilt about not doing it. The world will turn just fine. Do something that makes you happier.
June 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The encouragement I give writers is this:
If you love it, if it completes you, never stop.
Otherwise, feel no guilt about not doing it. The world will turn just fine. Do something that makes you happier.
If you love it, if it completes you, never stop.
Otherwise, feel no guilt about not doing it. The world will turn just fine. Do something that makes you happier.
The "I'm more of an ideas guy" exists in startups AND fiction...
I've heard this complaint a lot from writers who are convinced their work is great at the architecture level and think the carpentry can be fixed in editing.
But editors aren't buying blueprints. They want a move-in-ready building—well designed and well BUILT with quality craftsmanship.
But editors aren't buying blueprints. They want a move-in-ready building—well designed and well BUILT with quality craftsmanship.
Controversial opinion:
Editors/agents/studios do not have to read your whole story/script to know they don't want it.
You want your thing read. But *they* want to be blown away. It does not take that long to know you aren't blown away.
(My goal in writing is to FORCE people to keep reading. 😈)
Editors/agents/studios do not have to read your whole story/script to know they don't want it.
You want your thing read. But *they* want to be blown away. It does not take that long to know you aren't blown away.
(My goal in writing is to FORCE people to keep reading. 😈)
June 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The "I'm more of an ideas guy" exists in startups AND fiction...
Seriously can we please have this??
legitimately I do not understand why more billionaires don't fund media passion projects
if I had eleventy billion dollars I would absolutely be doing shit like "I will give you people a hundred million bucks to give me a world class KOTOR remake" or funding romcoms based off my fav romance novels
if I had eleventy billion dollars I would absolutely be doing shit like "I will give you people a hundred million bucks to give me a world class KOTOR remake" or funding romcoms based off my fav romance novels
bastard could have just funded the Bloodborne remake for like 0.01% of that and been a national hero
June 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Seriously can we please have this??
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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same, but coffee
How to be a writer, #36899:
Open WIP
Think: this looks okay
Edit WIP
Think: actually this sucks
Re-read WIP
Watch as WIP spontaneously combusts and disintegrates into radioactive dust which blows away on nuclear wind
Gently close WIP
Tea.
Open WIP
Think: this looks okay
Edit WIP
Think: actually this sucks
Re-read WIP
Watch as WIP spontaneously combusts and disintegrates into radioactive dust which blows away on nuclear wind
Gently close WIP
Tea.
June 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
same, but coffee
BBC classic books TV series have the most "I am reading this book out loud to you" energy
June 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
BBC classic books TV series have the most "I am reading this book out loud to you" energy
I am revisiting the 1987 Northanger Abbey and I forgot about the saxophone track!
Seeing each decade's take on Austen is fun
Seeing each decade's take on Austen is fun
June 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am revisiting the 1987 Northanger Abbey and I forgot about the saxophone track!
Seeing each decade's take on Austen is fun
Seeing each decade's take on Austen is fun
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With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/
June 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/
The perfect example of AI madness does not ex--
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
June 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
The perfect example of AI madness does not ex--
My spouse, after I explained about Reject-Plus and Reject-Minus form letters from literary journals:
"Wait, so in a Reject-Minus situation, do they like add a custom insult to the auto-rejection form?"
"Wait, so in a Reject-Minus situation, do they like add a custom insult to the auto-rejection form?"
June 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
My spouse, after I explained about Reject-Plus and Reject-Minus form letters from literary journals:
"Wait, so in a Reject-Minus situation, do they like add a custom insult to the auto-rejection form?"
"Wait, so in a Reject-Minus situation, do they like add a custom insult to the auto-rejection form?"
Writing the high-tension parts of a novel is wild, because of the time difference--what the author spends hours stewing in will only take a few minutes to read. Sometimes I accidentally pick lower stakes situations just because I'M stressed after so much time dealing with the tension.
June 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Writing the high-tension parts of a novel is wild, because of the time difference--what the author spends hours stewing in will only take a few minutes to read. Sometimes I accidentally pick lower stakes situations just because I'M stressed after so much time dealing with the tension.
I have a high level of annoyance at the Geico lizard "eye-contact" commercial--feels bad in real life, feels much much worse coming from a fake cartoon character with no actual emotions
June 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I have a high level of annoyance at the Geico lizard "eye-contact" commercial--feels bad in real life, feels much much worse coming from a fake cartoon character with no actual emotions
same!
I don’t want main character energy. That seems exhausting. It’s just one emergency, giant problem, & existential meltdown after another.
I want to be a side character. I want to the one who shows up as support, brings snacks, and then goes back to my chill little life and say, “woo, that was wild.”
I want to be a side character. I want to the one who shows up as support, brings snacks, and then goes back to my chill little life and say, “woo, that was wild.”
June 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
same!
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In the words of C. S. Lewis: “I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
May 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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