Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Literary magazines will come back 3 years later to tell you they didn’t want your story. Like bitch why. What story. Who the fuck are you 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 030 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2025One thing about living in NYC is that the dog barking:man barking ratio is not as lopsided as you might hope 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Writing is like stand-up comedy with a much longer lead time 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 110 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Make sure you get two friends to beta read your manuscript so that you can hear completely opposite things about every part of it 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 030 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Just got my copy of @jacobinmag.bsky.social so I’m officially a Socially Conscious Intellectual now. Catch me on NPR next week if it still exists 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Writing is fun cause sometimes you spend 18 hours sweating over a terrible story and sometimes you crank out something great in 45 minutes 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 010 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Heyyy girl. Are you one of those handy dykes. Cause you can move my box 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2025After 8 hours of day job: I still have energy left for drinks After 30 min of writing: time for bed 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2025They say there’s no such thing as a synonym but idk the words all seem pretty similar to me after 2 hours of staring at them 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 030 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I think I should have a podcast with the voices in my head. We’re pretty funny together 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2025New Story_DRAFT (1) (2) Beta/Chapter 6 Edits ver 2.docx really do be hitting different rn 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 110 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2025It feels scary to give someone a manuscript to beta read, but don’t worry! Nothing they’ll say will possibly be as cruel and crushing as what you’ve already told yourself about it 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 270 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Sometimes instead of editing I like to ram my head repeatedly into a wall. It’s the same effect 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 151 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Sometimes I take a break from fiction to read nonfiction books about the state of the world. Then I remember why I don’t do that 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 120 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2025It’s very defeating when you type up 30 pages of handwriting and it turns out to be 1 paragraph of print 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 030 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 12/07/2025One thing I’ve been surprised by this month is the bromance between my 2 shut in roommates who never go outside. They’ve become besties #nyc 010 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Writing is like dentistry: sometimes you gotta keep going even if there’s a little blood 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 041 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2025What if you wrote a 700 page Ulysses-style tome but the middle third was just a bunch of stuff copied from the dictionary. How many agents would you have to submit it to for someone to figure it out 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 300 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Finding inspiration as an author is easy. Just wait for a time to come when it’s absolutely impossible for you to write anything down 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 210 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Living in New York really broadens your horizons. I’ve learned that no matter what someone’s race, gender, class, or creed, they are equally capable of behaving like an absolute mouth-breather in the subway #nyc 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I love the song Yesterday, but the lyric “why she had to go I don’t know, she wouldn’t say/I said something wrong/now I long for yesterday” makes me think that Paul McCartney DEFINITELY knows what he said wrong and is denying it #music #beatles 010 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Sometimes I like to write by hand in a spiral notebook because then I can pretend my story is some kind of insane political manifesto 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 060 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Dating apps be like the ugliest person in a 5 mile radius wants to suck yo toes 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Breaking: the sticker that stuck to the bottom of your shoe 2 miles ago and then stuck to your hand when you tried to get it off has endorsed Andrew Cuomo 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 22/06/2025It’s important for kids to be digitally literate so that’s why I’m naming my son Lincoln Bio 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 21/06/2025I have a comedy show coming up at The Woods in NYC! Tuesday at 8 :) #nyc #comedy #lgbt www.instagram.com/p/DLAduc4ue_...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 010 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Desire to finish the old project is no match for the urge to start the next one 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 281 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Authors write books with a lot of pages so that readers will assume some of them must be good 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 020 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2025You should be able to post dumb things on BlueSky but then they should charge you money 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Wish I had a real intellectual sounding last name but it is hard to spell which is the next best thing 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Rip Charles Dickens you would have been absolutely incapable of cutting anything down into a Bluesky post 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 030 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2025I wish I could channel the misanthropic rizz of a classic modernist author 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I’ve gotten into stand up because something about the idea of doing a performing art that no one would ever want to see appeals to me #comedy 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I was just at a poetry reading and I gotta say it is INCREDIBLE that as a society we aren't paying these people more 💙📚 #books #poetry #booksky 020 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Dating while gay is just like dating while straight except that sometimes you have to use different pronouns when you’re talking about how they ghosted you #pride 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Buying a book for a dollar feels like stealing. Something that gives me this much joy for this cheap? Get outta here 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 0101 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Hardback books must have more than 4 corners cause one is always jabbing me when I’m carrying them in a backpack 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 030 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Playing Fantasy Life i right now and I gotta say I've never been so happy to do chores #games #gaming 010 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025It’s Pride Month so nobody is allowed to disagree with me on the Internet. Y’all are on notice #pride 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Things that smell better as they get older: -Books -Wine -??? 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 020 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2025The eternal struggle of getting back home real late and having to pick between reading a book and just going to bed already 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 050 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Y’all ever read a book and be like GET OUT OF MY HEAD 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 061 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I'm convinced that fantasy publishers use the books they put out to bludgeon their enemies. That's the only reason they could want them so big and heavy 💙📚 #books #writing #booksky 050 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Percy Fawcett disappeared in the Amazon in 1925 searching for the mythical Flavortown. Pour one out for him 000 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Oh ho ho! When we were kids, you thought that I was a bespectacled loser with my nose buried in a book. But look at me now: a bespectacled loser posting about books on the Internet! 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 071 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 27/05/2025As a recovering gifted kid from Seattle, Where'd You Go Bernadette is everything to me rn 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 040 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Getting an overstock book with the cover torn off feels like buying illegal goods. Like hey buddy you got any Jane Austen 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 020 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Good book hangover is a real thing. Sometimes I don’t want to get out of bed after finishing a real masterpiece. Pls raise awareness of this problem 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 071 0
Alyssa W. @akwwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I love reading classic books because you think it’s just gonna be fancy people sipping tea and then there’s ghosts? Bigamy? People getting stabbed and poisoned? Love it 💙📚 #books #reading #booksky 0121 0