Bailey

another queer 🏳️‍🌈 writer trying his best | writer of unpublished short fiction and unpublished novels | [email protected]

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

I really need to get back to writing, but the world continues conspiring against me.

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@brecht_dp Starting on the writer's path is less intimidating than the painter's or sculptor's. Your school years lend a sense of familiarity, of preparedness. It appears less steep than the others. Only after setting upon it do you discover it is a deceptively long and arduous road.

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@BethanyJarmul Congrats! Looking forward to it

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@Dean_James_1 @LeadingReport The tweet was about math scores, not literacy

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

It never is!
Oh. Wait. You mean *your* book.
In that case have more confidence in your work! All your dreams are achievable!

[Caroline Crews @carolinecrews25]

What if my book isn’t good enough?

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@TBQuarterly Thanks to grad school, horribly

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@goodreads Yes! I joined a work LGBT+ book club that started a few months ago. It's been uh... fun? Idk it's mostly virtual between different locations... and the election gave everyone a weird vibe... so...

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@XiranJayZhao Maybe translate as Heavenly Tyranny. Separate it from the individuals so it can apply to either

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

I really need help with this focusing thing

[Gabino Iglesias @Gabino_Iglesias]

This writing thing? It’s a war of attrition. Keep at it.

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@TBQuarterly Saving the date

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@ulriklykke I think history has already demonstrated corporate colonialism to extract a nation's wealth is bad, actually.

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@kctorawrites Yes, I do, but I am also not a character in a book.

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

This year I will finish my first novel! 😤
(Well, at least a rough draft of it)

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@LinardosAkis Still struggling with that second bear. Maybe a third one will be just right.

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@LinardosAkis How do people do this?!?! In 1 year?!? I'm lucky if I finish 1 story in a month? 😭😭😭

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

Seeing a book you love prominent on a store shelf is like running into an old friend at a bank: by the make of her handbag, you identify her promotion, reminisce in the queue - no time for coffee, you both have other engagements - but still, privately, you celebrate her success.

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

Finally realizing it is not that I cannot write but that I have been mentally abused into believing I cannot.

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@WearySky @TheLincoln Maybe my school system was just less Homer-phobic, but I recall we read parts of the Odyssey in at least 3 different years in school, watched a movie adaptation, and then another year watched "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

[Bailey @duryea_writes]

@TheLincoln People are not really treating the Odyssey as an esoteric piece of literature... are they?