Author-ized L.J.4d ago
Started #freewriting and a lot of what was bottled up turned out to be anger. Second day in a row of freewriting, let's see how long it keeps up lol. #LJWrites
Author-ized L.J.Mar 16

- Fungi as equal partners? The only survivors? What did they do with the human colonists heh heh heh...

Me & my idea notes continuing to be totally normal

#writing #LjWrites

Author-ized L.J.Mar 3

I think my story is as polished as it's going to get for now, and I've found a magazine that fits really well

But I'm scared and so shyyyy 😩 What if it's too weird what if it's incomprehensible and my feels are too big what if I'M TOO MUCH

Like If I'm going to submit at all it's a good idea to do so early and I'll probably make myself do it tonight, I'm just.... I need a moment (stretches dramatically on the couch)

#LjWrites #amWriting

Author-ized L.J.Feb 18
Passing 800 words on this short and close to minimum word count, but I think I'm somewhat less than halfway done. Increasingly convinced that not only will this story be hated but that I've made MYSELF thoroughly hateable with the inhospitable choices in everything from orthography to exposition to the run-on sentences, which I'm trying to excuse by calling the piece an extended prose poem lol. But it's also a strangely relaxing perspective and way to write, for all I'm so new at it, and the kind of thing I've wanted to try for a while. #amWriting #LjWrites
Author-ized L.J.Feb 16
Got holiday travels & visits done ahead of the actual holiday this time. My plan to complete the current short story ahead of the new year is probably shot since New Year's is *checks time* tomorrow, but hey, I can try a running start xD Maybe I can get the bones of it down, at least. #amWriting #LjWrites
Author-ized L.J.Feb 10

Now that the official notice is out, I'm proud to announce that my short story Between One Word and the Next has been accepted for publication by Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast! https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-335-shelf-february-2026 It's based on the record of an enslaved maidservant couple in 15th century Korea split up by a predatory princess, an incident I guest-blogged about on LHMP (CW sexual violence and stalking): https://alpennia.com/lhmp/lhmp-449-lee-2024-sossang-and-danji-15th-century-korean-maidservants-love The story should appear in the podcast this year in audio and print versions.

#HistoricalFiction #WritingCommunity #LjWrites

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 335 - On the Shelf for February 2026 | Alpennia

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 335 - On the Shelf for February 2026 - Transcript (Originally aired 2026/02/09) Welcome to On the Shelf for February 2026.

Author-ized L.J.Feb 7
YES!! #AcceptanceLetter for a story I worked really hard on and at a market close to my heart! 🎉   #LjWrites
Author-ized L.J.Jan 26
The time has come to put a hard stop on the story I #amEditing and (gulp) send it off. The temptation is to scrutinize it endlessly for just one more thing to fix, but after 4-5 rounds of editing including in hard copy it's time to let go and move on. I'll be revisiting it anyway whether accepted or not, here goes nothing! 🤞 #LjWrites
Author-ized L.J.Jan 25
In that unironically fun phase of #historicalFiction where I'm fact-checking everything from family ancestry to door designs. And now I'm reading a paper on a single word used in a medieval song to make sure my translation of it in the story is at least defensible lol. #amWriting #LjWrites
Author-ized L.J.Jan 22

#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 21 – When writing about unpleasant feelings, how do you avoid alienating the reader entirely?

By making it bearable for me to write about while staying engaged. I did this with the short story draft I'm currently editing by using a third-person/communal perspective that pulls back from an abuse victim's immediate sensations and reactions for a broader vista in time and space. The story becomes not just a victim's sole story locked in her body, which I knew I couldn't emotionally stay with, but a story of the community she is part of and springs from. This contained the feelings in a bigger vessel, so to speak, and helped me hold them and examine them better rather than shy away. I hope it'll similarly help readers.

Another device I used was to play around with time so the narrative is not linear past → future from the time the character is happy with her girlfriend to the time she is preyed on by an abusive princess. Rather the story alternates between grim scenes and happy ones, also dipping into distant pasts and futures, to make room for hope. #amWriting #LjWrites