Stephanie Gunn
@stephaniegunn.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writer, Aurealis and Norma K Hemming Award winner. Chronically ill, neurodivergent. She/her
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Really needed this podcast episode right now. (Hat tip to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social who linked to this podcast elsewhere)
162. Increasing Your Creative Capacity
The Author Burnout Cure · Episode
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April 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Really needed this podcast episode right now. (Hat tip to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social who linked to this podcast elsewhere)
Last day of school holidays today. So looking forward to some peace and quiet to write tomorrow.
February 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Last day of school holidays today. So looking forward to some peace and quiet to write tomorrow.
So thankful for writer friends who put up with my constant crises about my process and what I hate about it today.
January 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So thankful for writer friends who put up with my constant crises about my process and what I hate about it today.
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Film school bestie & I are texting as if a member of our family died. May his weird consciousness merge with weird particles and keep the universe weird
January 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Film school bestie & I are texting as if a member of our family died. May his weird consciousness merge with weird particles and keep the universe weird
Can't bring myself to do more than skim the Gaiman article. I think the thing that guts me the most is that this kind of shit is happening all the time and people get away with it *all the time*.
January 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Can't bring myself to do more than skim the Gaiman article. I think the thing that guts me the most is that this kind of shit is happening all the time and people get away with it *all the time*.
Goddamn, trying to write with kids home on the school holidays is *hard*. I am tempted not to even try, but I am even more loathe to lose all of those weeks of the year.
January 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Goddamn, trying to write with kids home on the school holidays is *hard*. I am tempted not to even try, but I am even more loathe to lose all of those weeks of the year.
There are no words for how disappointed I am with how meh Dune: Prophecy is. Do not care about a single character, so many good actors wasted.
December 10, 2024 at 8:54 AM
There are no words for how disappointed I am with how meh Dune: Prophecy is. Do not care about a single character, so many good actors wasted.
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🎉 Writers, it’s here! The Six-Step Revision Process Online Class is now on Thinkific.
Make revising your story simple, structured & fun with videos, lessons, & exercises designed to boost your confidence & refine your craft.
Enroll now: miranda-s-site-8129.thinkific.com/courses/the-...
#6SRP
Make revising your story simple, structured & fun with videos, lessons, & exercises designed to boost your confidence & refine your craft.
Enroll now: miranda-s-site-8129.thinkific.com/courses/the-...
#6SRP
December 8, 2024 at 12:02 PM
🎉 Writers, it’s here! The Six-Step Revision Process Online Class is now on Thinkific.
Make revising your story simple, structured & fun with videos, lessons, & exercises designed to boost your confidence & refine your craft.
Enroll now: miranda-s-site-8129.thinkific.com/courses/the-...
#6SRP
Make revising your story simple, structured & fun with videos, lessons, & exercises designed to boost your confidence & refine your craft.
Enroll now: miranda-s-site-8129.thinkific.com/courses/the-...
#6SRP
Also will be starting shiny new migraine preventative which may even get more of my brain back. I am almost scared to hope.
November 27, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Also will be starting shiny new migraine preventative which may even get more of my brain back. I am almost scared to hope.
Starting to plan my 2025 writing year. Tentatively hopeful for having more time and space to finish things and get back to publishing again. Quietly excited
November 27, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Starting to plan my 2025 writing year. Tentatively hopeful for having more time and space to finish things and get back to publishing again. Quietly excited
I am in that void where I've finished* a project and feel like I might never write again and I hate it.
*Where finished = an intended novella length sequel to Icefall that has become a 165k behemoth that I think might become two books of a trilogy. Sigh.
*Where finished = an intended novella length sequel to Icefall that has become a 165k behemoth that I think might become two books of a trilogy. Sigh.
November 23, 2024 at 11:51 PM
I am in that void where I've finished* a project and feel like I might never write again and I hate it.
*Where finished = an intended novella length sequel to Icefall that has become a 165k behemoth that I think might become two books of a trilogy. Sigh.
*Where finished = an intended novella length sequel to Icefall that has become a 165k behemoth that I think might become two books of a trilogy. Sigh.
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5 days left in the Claws & Contrivances Kickstarter, & we're over 85% funded. Can we reach 100% in time?
Bring on tiny dragons, fake betrothals, loving, eccentric families, & a most determined heroine! It's time to create a comfort-listen of an audiobook edition. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...
Bring on tiny dragons, fake betrothals, loving, eccentric families, & a most determined heroine! It's time to create a comfort-listen of an audiobook edition. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...
September 30, 2023 at 9:51 AM
5 days left in the Claws & Contrivances Kickstarter, & we're over 85% funded. Can we reach 100% in time?
Bring on tiny dragons, fake betrothals, loving, eccentric families, & a most determined heroine! It's time to create a comfort-listen of an audiobook edition. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...
Bring on tiny dragons, fake betrothals, loving, eccentric families, & a most determined heroine! It's time to create a comfort-listen of an audiobook edition. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...
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Nick Cave, again, on using ChatGPT to create art.
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #248 - I work in the music industry and there is a lot of exc...
Dear Leon and Charlie, In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests...
www.theredhandfiles.com
August 10, 2023 at 1:48 PM
Nick Cave, again, on using ChatGPT to create art.
I don't know why I keep on trying to outline books before I write them. It never works.
August 10, 2023 at 12:52 PM
I don't know why I keep on trying to outline books before I write them. It never works.
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I tell my students that success doesn't happen because of what you don't do wrong. It happens because of what you do right.
I think a lot of unforced errors in writing advice come from subtractive approaches. Get rid of what’s “bad” then we have something good, right?
Good writing doesn’t come from extracting mistakes but from having interesting things. A diamond gets cut into an amazing gem. A turd can be polished but…
Good writing doesn’t come from extracting mistakes but from having interesting things. A diamond gets cut into an amazing gem. A turd can be polished but…
August 7, 2023 at 11:51 PM
I tell my students that success doesn't happen because of what you don't do wrong. It happens because of what you do right.
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100% this.
My advice--don't worry too much about being "original." Worry about whether the thing you're doing is interesting and fun to you. There will always be someone to say your work isn't sufficiently new. They are obviously not your audience. 5/5
August 8, 2023 at 9:59 AM
100% this.
My favourite thing today: one of the ways that my 5yo's teacher is getting her students to engage with reading is to have them yell any word with exclamation marks. The kids are having so much fun. Progress from my childhood of rote learning and Dick and Dora books
August 8, 2023 at 12:26 PM
My favourite thing today: one of the ways that my 5yo's teacher is getting her students to engage with reading is to have them yell any word with exclamation marks. The kids are having so much fun. Progress from my childhood of rote learning and Dick and Dora books
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This is all you need to know about being a “real writer.” It really is. I promise.
July 29, 2023 at 8:13 PM
This is all you need to know about being a “real writer.” It really is. I promise.
Okay, so the Strange New Worlds musical episode was the best thing ever.
August 6, 2023 at 12:52 PM
Okay, so the Strange New Worlds musical episode was the best thing ever.
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stolen from twitter, but it’s too important to leave over there
August 4, 2023 at 1:47 AM
stolen from twitter, but it’s too important to leave over there
In the weird between place where I have one project shoved in a drawer to give me some space before I tackle the next draft, and am just beginning to worldbuild something new. It feels like I'm not working much, but my brain is mush by the end of the day.
July 26, 2023 at 3:49 AM
In the weird between place where I have one project shoved in a drawer to give me some space before I tackle the next draft, and am just beginning to worldbuild something new. It feels like I'm not working much, but my brain is mush by the end of the day.