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neuroqueer (screen) writer
📍tio'tia:ke / montreal
I have so many stories to tell,
and I’ve only just gotten started.

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Celebrated my 28th birthday on May 12th. The rose was a gift from my neighbour. We lost the number 8 candle so my mom did a little math with my birthday pumpkin pie. Digging back into my TBR pile. by @rooney.writes

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Getting immersed into a novel project again feels so good. I’ve been taking advantage of the warm weather and sitting out on the balcony, working through the 57k words I wrote last November toward my WIP The Postcard, and writing pages and pages of notes. There were ladybugs galore keeping me company over several days, with all kinds of spots.

What a surprise, I actually like a lot of what I wrote, even got a little teary eyed, and I can make fun of myself for being really cliché with some parts.

I got some disposable fountain pens recently and wrote all these notes in pink bc I didn’t want to waste the “normaler” colours, but it ended up being a great idea bc I can write over the notes with a darker colour if it’s illegible.

After several days of writing my hand though, my right wrist is not happy with me. I’ve got another 30 in-story days to thoroughly outline to finish the story, and then I’m starting over from the beginning to implement all the ideas and revisions I made this week. I think I’m due for a brain-dump session because for the life of me I can’t find any notes I may have written about this WIP, but the fact that I came up with it in such short notice before Nanowrimo in 2023, I fear I may not have any more notes 😱

Can you believe I got a sandal tan in October?

#writersofinstagram #writer #writingcommunity #montrealwriters #montrealcreative # by @rooney.writes

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2 years ago

photo dump from the past few months!
1) my leather traveler’s notebook 💖
2) a breakfast in July
3) a friend found under a picnic table
4) Sandy my next door neighbour
5) messy desk mirror selfie
6-7) date pics
8) a poem template by @joseph.fasano
9) :) Bell
10) sunflower outside the clinic
11) press on nails my friend Aly made me by @rooney.writes

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2 years ago

Spent 18 days in Charlotte NC over my birthday. May has been pretty good. June came in bright and hot. These photos are not in chronological order!

- got a beet lemonade mocktail after being 40 mins early to a doctors this past week
- landing in Montreal after 9pm on the 18th
- Wella’s cat, Jelly, looking embarrassed to be caught licking her foot
- espresso martini enjoyed while celebrating Wella’s graduation 🥳
- belated birthday celebration with my fam (improvised candles and timbits)
- a shockingly nice selfie
- pretty flower from the rose garden in Charlotte
- recent shot while I was walking Sandy 🐕
- nature asmr from the tent on Wella’s balcony by @rooney.writes

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2 years ago

Little photo dump. Journal cover art courtesy of Helena, circa 2016. by @rooney.writes

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3 years ago

Cheers and applause from neighbours on my block during the #solareclipse2024 in Montreal by @rooney.writes

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3 years ago

In no particular order, some highlights from Christmas to now.
1) Easter selfie
2) Downtown MTL after a hospital test
3) tea in my favourite mug
4) the local rabbit
5) new shoes + chaotic setup
6) losing a chess game to my sibling
7) sunshine and my eye
8) the little book of quotes about kisses I’ve owned forever
9) laughing with my nana on Christmas
10) bears vs babies w/ my little cousin and his dad on Christmas by @rooney.writes

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And that’s a wrap on my 5th year of #nanowrimo in a row! Featured are the cover image I slapped together and some little avatars I made of my central characters. I’ll be writing the last 4 days of #nanowrimo2023 to get in all 30 days. Good luck to everyone else participating.

#writerscommunity #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram by @rooney.writes

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3 years ago

Featuring: heart shapes in the wild, grocery lists, gentle reminders, a picrew depiction of my chronic pain, Alfie looking very unimpressed with me, the best picture I’ve ever taken of my sibling, cake on top of lemon tart, my aunt with Alfie 😊 by @rooney.writes

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So excited to see the finished product on issue 3 of the Water Damaged Paper Anthology 😁

I submitted a prose poem last year and was very pleased to be accepted. This issue is focused on ableism and disability justice.

My poem is on page 20-21. The link will be on my highlight!

#wdpa #waterdamagedpaperanthology #litmag #poetry #disabilityjustice #anthology #literarymagazine #poetsofinstagram #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #poet #poetrycommunity by @rooney.writes

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October in the Earth is the first ARC I’ve ever received, and I sure am glad to have had the opportunity to read it when I did.

This story has a slow start that couldn’t be more vital to the reader’s understanding of its main character Del. Olivia Hawker has a unique talent for establishing narrative stakes at a very human level. The slow start may not suit some readers but I for one was transported on a journey with these characters, and Hawker’s skilled pacing kept me turning page after page because I just had to know how things ended up.

The titular line can be found nine chapters into the book, and reading it then I knew just how deep of an impression Louisa Trout would make on Del. Their journey together is vast and emotional, and yet I never could fully anticipate what would happen next. I began reading this book at noon on a Thursday and finished it Friday at 5pm with tears in my eyes during the last three chapters.

This is admittedly the first Olivia Hawker book I’ve read, besides her non fiction “Take Off Your Pants!” under the name Libbie Hawker that I found invaluable in my own writing practice. This may be somewhat of a spoiler, but the bond between Del and Louisa reminds me of Virginia Woolf’s writing, especially in the depth of love for and between women. It is bone-deep and unnamable and holds a certain kind of beauty that not many people can see.

PS. I still have tears on my lashes from the end of this book.

Readers can have their turn with October in the Earth on October 10, 2023.

#readersofinstagram #bookreview #bookstagram #historicalfiction #octoberintheearth #oliviahawker #readinglist #readersofig #bookblogger by @rooney.writes

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got my hands on a digital camera. we’ve been in a heat wave. might fuck around an try writing something weird. #photography #photographer #photographersofinstagram #digicam #digitalcamera by @rooney.writes

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