Maya Tassarin

Maya, she/her, queer. If I'm unreachable, I probably #amreading or #amwriting. Favorite genre: Fantasy. Favorite types of fantasy: Slice-of-life, Hopepunk.

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

Me, intentionally trying to write a dramatic, angsty scene: Accidentally hits some comedy gold.

Me, intentionally trying to write humor: Hits the character where it hurts and makes herself sob.

This writing thing is kinda counterintuitive, isn't it?

[Leah Johnson @byleahjohnson]

Y'all gotta quit lying to young writers and telling them they need to write everyday. Nah, y'all need to go watch a movie. Listen to folklore. Talk to your friends. That's what's going to make the work sing. I think we forget that being a human is central to being an artist too.

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

@sethpuertoluna First the Farseer trilogy (starts with Assassin's Apprentice), then you make a detour to read the Liveship one, then it's Tawny Man trilogy, then another detour to Rainwild, and then Fitz and the Fool.

There's also Soldier's Son trilogy, but it's 100% its own separate thing.

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

Me, once upon a time: My crappy laptop won't let me run this cool new game everyone's playing. Woe is me.
Me, now: My crappy laptop won't let me run this game. Thank you laptop. I'll have more time for writing and other useful things.

Am I growing up or growing boring? 😂

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

@GoodwinVianna These colors are amazing!

[Chris B 🐻 🏳️‍🌈 loottheroom.bsky @pangalactic]

A thread of games that

A) will do dungeon crawling and overland exploration and give you that D&D experience
B) Don't involve reading 500 pages of rules (or even 50 pages in most cases)
C) are free

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

@akilahgreen If the source of the strange noise really needs something from me, it can just come closer and politely say so.

[Latesha Byrd @Latesha_Byrd]

You cannot “succeed” yourself out of depression.

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

@e_stavs Furrow, and raise, and knit together, and so those eyebrows can shoot up... 😂

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

That feeling when you listen to a short story on Podcastle and the magic system there is eerily similar to the one you've been painstakingly creating for your novel. 🙄 Telling myself it's a "great minds think alike" situation, not an "I can't ever create anything original" one.

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

Being back to my usual word counts is so refreshing.

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

@darklordjournal Nah, that's just my zombie cat.

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

I just finished a short story, and now I'm metaphorically slapping my wrists to keep myself from beginning to fix it immediately. It can be so much better!
But I know I should let it rest a bit first, so I can see the good parts and not just the problems when I revise.

[Sophie Gonzales @sgonzalesauthor]

I'm about to pass out from tiredness, but before I do, my sophomore novel PERFECT ON PAPER is out today!

I'm so excited for everyone to get their hands on my enemies to lovers bi rom-com ❤️❤️❤️

Buy now! https://t.co/0WDIBHbIZd

[Hourly Lynxes @HourlyLynxes]

HourlyLynxes presents:

[THE SWAG 🥶 @returnofswagnft]

Me: i have a headache

WebMD: and it’ll be your last

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

@andrewtekken There's a small chance all of this makes a bit more sense in my head.😂

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

I just accidentally came up with the most tragically doomed pairing ever, and now I need to write their story to figure out a way for them to earn their happy ending.

[Maya Tassarin @MTassarin]

@andrewtekken So one of them is a god who has to occasionally come live among mortals for "maintaining world order" reasons, and the other is a human who is destined to become a vessel for that god the next time he shows up among mortals (and the moment that happens, the human ceases to exist)