Kate 🛋️📚✍️
@stillunderthelamp.bsky.social
yup, still under the lamp - writing & reading...
#WIP: “THE SHAPE OF LEAVING” - literary speculative fiction | first manuscript complete, & amid edits (2025)
🌗: 🌈, 🧠🌶️, & 🌻/💚🩵🤍💛♥️
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#WIP: “THE SHAPE OF LEAVING” - literary speculative fiction | first manuscript complete, & amid edits (2025)
🌗: 🌈, 🧠🌶️, & 🌻/💚🩵🤍💛♥️
Instagram: @StillUnderTheLamp
*Fabulous* book on Scottish folklore, magic, mythologies, and culture. Especially if you have Scottish ancestors/heritage that you’re seeking to (re)connect with: snag this one for yer library. So so good. 📚
October 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
*Fabulous* book on Scottish folklore, magic, mythologies, and culture. Especially if you have Scottish ancestors/heritage that you’re seeking to (re)connect with: snag this one for yer library. So so good. 📚
SOLID spooky (and any) season read! A keeper. Thank you to the Witches of Scotland campaign! 🙏 🧙
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
SOLID spooky (and any) season read! A keeper. Thank you to the Witches of Scotland campaign! 🙏 🧙
Latest read: ✅
(And while much has changed since it was first written in 1962, too many themes still echo with us in today’s America . . . sigh. Solid read, though. Thank you as always, Mr. Baldwin) 📚
(And while much has changed since it was first written in 1962, too many themes still echo with us in today’s America . . . sigh. Solid read, though. Thank you as always, Mr. Baldwin) 📚
August 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Latest read: ✅
(And while much has changed since it was first written in 1962, too many themes still echo with us in today’s America . . . sigh. Solid read, though. Thank you as always, Mr. Baldwin) 📚
(And while much has changed since it was first written in 1962, too many themes still echo with us in today’s America . . . sigh. Solid read, though. Thank you as always, Mr. Baldwin) 📚
Bater-wottle sticker wisdom... 📚
July 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Bater-wottle sticker wisdom... 📚
“There are certain qualities of light that betray how even silence is stratified...”
In celebration of edits season beginning this week 👀 🎉 here is a sneak peek from a moment of grief in my debut manuscript, THE SHAPE OF LEAVING. ✍️ 📚
In celebration of edits season beginning this week 👀 🎉 here is a sneak peek from a moment of grief in my debut manuscript, THE SHAPE OF LEAVING. ✍️ 📚
July 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“There are certain qualities of light that betray how even silence is stratified...”
In celebration of edits season beginning this week 👀 🎉 here is a sneak peek from a moment of grief in my debut manuscript, THE SHAPE OF LEAVING. ✍️ 📚
In celebration of edits season beginning this week 👀 🎉 here is a sneak peek from a moment of grief in my debut manuscript, THE SHAPE OF LEAVING. ✍️ 📚
Latest read - quite good! Solid mix of facts and feelings, without being dismissive of the state we’re in… Would recommend. Thank you, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social & its contributors!! 📚
July 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Latest read - quite good! Solid mix of facts and feelings, without being dismissive of the state we’re in… Would recommend. Thank you, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social & its contributors!! 📚
I’m savoring the creative rest - and, keep seeing reminders of my book! Stumbled on this lil hero outside our apartment, which reminds me of the Celtic proverb: “Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine”/“We all live in the shelter of each other.”
Wishing you all are well and taking good care. 💜
Wishing you all are well and taking good care. 💜
July 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’m savoring the creative rest - and, keep seeing reminders of my book! Stumbled on this lil hero outside our apartment, which reminds me of the Celtic proverb: “Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine”/“We all live in the shelter of each other.”
Wishing you all are well and taking good care. 💜
Wishing you all are well and taking good care. 💜
🧵 1/7: And lo, it is time . . . ✨The first teaser for my debut novel, THE SHAPE OF LEAVING✨:
July 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🧵 1/7: And lo, it is time . . . ✨The first teaser for my debut novel, THE SHAPE OF LEAVING✨:
✨If any of these are your vibe, we should be friends ✨
Here’s a peak at some of the research I’ve been absorbing over the last year in prep for my upcoming manuscript THE SHAPE OF LEAVING (completion set for summer 2025).
Have you read/enjoyed any of these? Any similar ones I should add? 👀 📚
Here’s a peak at some of the research I’ve been absorbing over the last year in prep for my upcoming manuscript THE SHAPE OF LEAVING (completion set for summer 2025).
Have you read/enjoyed any of these? Any similar ones I should add? 👀 📚
July 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
✨If any of these are your vibe, we should be friends ✨
Here’s a peak at some of the research I’ve been absorbing over the last year in prep for my upcoming manuscript THE SHAPE OF LEAVING (completion set for summer 2025).
Have you read/enjoyed any of these? Any similar ones I should add? 👀 📚
Here’s a peak at some of the research I’ve been absorbing over the last year in prep for my upcoming manuscript THE SHAPE OF LEAVING (completion set for summer 2025).
Have you read/enjoyed any of these? Any similar ones I should add? 👀 📚
1/5: How do you write multiple POV timelines without losing your mind?
(I didn’t. Here’s what helps.) 🧵 🪡
(I didn’t. Here’s what helps.) 🧵 🪡
June 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
1/5: How do you write multiple POV timelines without losing your mind?
(I didn’t. Here’s what helps.) 🧵 🪡
(I didn’t. Here’s what helps.) 🧵 🪡
🧵 1/4:
Something’s taking shape.
It began with a question I couldn’t stop circling, and turned into a story that had to be written. Now it’s a novel (or the beginnings of one) woven from memory, broken time, and the people who carry them...
Something’s taking shape.
It began with a question I couldn’t stop circling, and turned into a story that had to be written. Now it’s a novel (or the beginnings of one) woven from memory, broken time, and the people who carry them...
June 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🧵 1/4:
Something’s taking shape.
It began with a question I couldn’t stop circling, and turned into a story that had to be written. Now it’s a novel (or the beginnings of one) woven from memory, broken time, and the people who carry them...
Something’s taking shape.
It began with a question I couldn’t stop circling, and turned into a story that had to be written. Now it’s a novel (or the beginnings of one) woven from memory, broken time, and the people who carry them...
File on in for a wee tip, my fellow newbies . . . a handy guide to consider adding to your toolbelt is “Save the Cat! Writes a Novel” by Jessica Brody. It’s full of guidance for new, & seasoned, writers across genres. Can rec. Thank you Jessica for helping democratize storytelling! 📚
June 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
File on in for a wee tip, my fellow newbies . . . a handy guide to consider adding to your toolbelt is “Save the Cat! Writes a Novel” by Jessica Brody. It’s full of guidance for new, & seasoned, writers across genres. Can rec. Thank you Jessica for helping democratize storytelling! 📚
67,485 words.
93 degrees, w/ all the fans going.
Still writing. ☀️✍🏼
A bit over halfway through my manuscript and I am sweating in more ways than one! This novel is stretching me, surprising me, and really starting to sound like the story I can’t stop thinking about.
93 degrees, w/ all the fans going.
Still writing. ☀️✍🏼
A bit over halfway through my manuscript and I am sweating in more ways than one! This novel is stretching me, surprising me, and really starting to sound like the story I can’t stop thinking about.
June 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
67,485 words.
93 degrees, w/ all the fans going.
Still writing. ☀️✍🏼
A bit over halfway through my manuscript and I am sweating in more ways than one! This novel is stretching me, surprising me, and really starting to sound like the story I can’t stop thinking about.
93 degrees, w/ all the fans going.
Still writing. ☀️✍🏼
A bit over halfway through my manuscript and I am sweating in more ways than one! This novel is stretching me, surprising me, and really starting to sound like the story I can’t stop thinking about.
Welcome to the first teaser of my upcoming manuscript, The Shape of Leaving: ✨moodboard edition✨
June 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Welcome to the first teaser of my upcoming manuscript, The Shape of Leaving: ✨moodboard edition✨
Alrighty: I’m done with clients for the day, so we got some more writing time. Got the candle burning at both ends - ha - and the playlist is pumping. Let’s goooooooo! ✍️📚
June 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Alrighty: I’m done with clients for the day, so we got some more writing time. Got the candle burning at both ends - ha - and the playlist is pumping. Let’s goooooooo! ✍️📚
This is . . . timely, *and* is something us healthcare workers have been (((screaming))) would happen if he got reelected. 🤦♀️ @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
January 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is . . . timely, *and* is something us healthcare workers have been (((screaming))) would happen if he got reelected. 🤦♀️ @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Got a screenshot of the last TikTok I got to see before features stopped working (left), & then the final banner that came on the screen (right) five minutes later.
It’s dark out now, but remember it never stays that way forever. Ground yourselves, continue to reach for one another, & be kind. 🕯️📱
It’s dark out now, but remember it never stays that way forever. Ground yourselves, continue to reach for one another, & be kind. 🕯️📱
January 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Got a screenshot of the last TikTok I got to see before features stopped working (left), & then the final banner that came on the screen (right) five minutes later.
It’s dark out now, but remember it never stays that way forever. Ground yourselves, continue to reach for one another, & be kind. 🕯️📱
It’s dark out now, but remember it never stays that way forever. Ground yourselves, continue to reach for one another, & be kind. 🕯️📱