Author J. Dunn

@authorjdunn.bsky.social

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Indy author of fantasy/romantasy and science fantasy. D&D addict. Miniature painter. Horsegirl. She/they. I write about people fighting for freedom and survival.

Tiny kitty stickers! So cute!
Andor the kitten, "helping" me write a novel on my laptop.
Kitten on my laptop keyboard
Anime drawing of a girl pouring water from 2 watering cans over a model bus station while recording the action on her cell phone.
"I start a book... knowing just two things: the basic situation and that the story will create its own patterns naturally and organically if I follow it fairly.. and by fairly I mean never forcing characters to do things they wouldn't do in real life." ~ Stephen King ~
Collage of aliens, a UFO, books, sushi, a t-rex, an atom, and a pegasus
Image of a big battle robot standing in the ocean watching a girl surf past
by @corvuscallosum5079, 3 years ago. 296 years and nobody's come up with a better drop than Vivaldi's Winter.
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient, and shrewd parts of one's being to take over the work from time to time. ~ John Gardner
Screenshot of today's word count of 6,269 and the word count for this manuscript, which is 80,138 total. Go me!
Writing is never one thing. It's like running a marathon, juggling balls, cracking walnuts, and playing fifteen instruments. ~ Peter Carey
Picture of Maya Angelou that says "When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serous and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come'."
"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw." ~ from Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. - JRR Tolkien
In fairy tales, power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather, the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness - from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old womem who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis. From The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
It'sike the long winters of the past, when the granaries would slowly empty and people started to fear spring would never come again: during the dark days, you do things. You repair your tools. You enjoy each other's company. You sing old songs and write new ones. You make ropes and nets and weave blankets and do anything yoi don't have time for in the summer. And it's hard to do it and hard to stay hopeful, but that way, when spring comes - and spring dies come, spring will come - yoi can start working in the fields with a brand- new plow and good boots and a head full of songs.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
Screenshot of google search for white phosphorus grenade. What can I say? I'm writing about space marines in the year 2533.
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Photo of a covered wagon on the side of the highway with a couple of farm animals (mules?). Posted by the sheriff on Facebook letting everyone know it's legal to do this.
A day may come when the.cpurage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wilves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down! But this is not that day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, men of the West! ~ Aragorn, son of Arathorn, King of Gondor
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity. James Baldwin
Jumanji meme that has been modified to say What Month Is It instead of What month is it.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Tony Robbins