Eric Avedissian
@scribe.bsky.social
Author, English Professor & Word Slinger.
Associate Member @sfwa.bsky.social & @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social
Opinions expressed are my own.
Associate Member @sfwa.bsky.social & @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social
Opinions expressed are my own.
Hey. New cryptid just dropped.
September 17, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Hey. New cryptid just dropped.
I need more readers. More wild-eyed devoted fans who like horror and fantasy and weird stuff. More bizarre dreamers and fantastic fabulists. Anyway, give us a follow then.
#horror #fiction #books #weirdness
#horror #fiction #books #weirdness
September 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I need more readers. More wild-eyed devoted fans who like horror and fantasy and weird stuff. More bizarre dreamers and fantastic fabulists. Anyway, give us a follow then.
#horror #fiction #books #weirdness
#horror #fiction #books #weirdness
The worst thing to be in America now is an intellectual. What a horrible feeling to know the house is burning while those around you are oblivious and stoke the flames.
August 7, 2026 at 12:32 PM
The worst thing to be in America now is an intellectual. What a horrible feeling to know the house is burning while those around you are oblivious and stoke the flames.
Write the story you need to read.
Draw the picture you need to see.
Compose the song you need to hear.
Art is a feeling, a compulsion towards creation. Be courageous and make art today. #writing
Draw the picture you need to see.
Compose the song you need to hear.
Art is a feeling, a compulsion towards creation. Be courageous and make art today. #writing
July 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Write the story you need to read.
Draw the picture you need to see.
Compose the song you need to hear.
Art is a feeling, a compulsion towards creation. Be courageous and make art today. #writing
Draw the picture you need to see.
Compose the song you need to hear.
Art is a feeling, a compulsion towards creation. Be courageous and make art today. #writing
Happy 250th Birthday, America! You don’t look a day over 200. Eat barbecue, smash tyranny, live free. #America250
July 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Happy 250th Birthday, America! You don’t look a day over 200. Eat barbecue, smash tyranny, live free. #America250
What do you call it where you feel washed-up but you were never anything to begin with?
June 22, 2026 at 12:18 PM
What do you call it where you feel washed-up but you were never anything to begin with?
Accountability Report: Wrote 1,100 words today. Are they all keepers? Probably not, but the manuscript is now 19,000 words. That’s something at least. #writing
June 21, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Accountability Report: Wrote 1,100 words today. Are they all keepers? Probably not, but the manuscript is now 19,000 words. That’s something at least. #writing
Accountability Report: Wrote 1,900 words today, a whole chapter. The manuscript is roughly 18,000 words. Not slowing down. Onward! #writing
June 20, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Accountability Report: Wrote 1,900 words today, a whole chapter. The manuscript is roughly 18,000 words. Not slowing down. Onward! #writing
If you like Widow’s Bay and you want something to read between seasons, I recommend my folk horror novel The Ocean Hugs Hard. Something sinister lurks amid the dunes and cottages: a string of murders, a secret cult, and a history the locals don’t talk about. #books
Purchase links in comments
Purchase links in comments
June 18, 2026 at 7:29 PM
If you like Widow’s Bay and you want something to read between seasons, I recommend my folk horror novel The Ocean Hugs Hard. Something sinister lurks amid the dunes and cottages: a string of murders, a secret cult, and a history the locals don’t talk about. #books
Purchase links in comments
Purchase links in comments
Write the stories that make you uncomfortable, the stories that challenge you, the stories that drag you out of bed at 2 a.m. Find that idea and nourish it into existence. Throw that little bastard kicking and screaming onto the page. #5amwritersclub
June 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Write the stories that make you uncomfortable, the stories that challenge you, the stories that drag you out of bed at 2 a.m. Find that idea and nourish it into existence. Throw that little bastard kicking and screaming onto the page. #5amwritersclub
If you’ve had a teacher in your life who left a positive impact or opened the world of possibilities to you in any way, please let them know. Life is short and our old teachers won’t be around forever.
June 10, 2026 at 4:40 PM
If you’ve had a teacher in your life who left a positive impact or opened the world of possibilities to you in any way, please let them know. Life is short and our old teachers won’t be around forever.
Writers are powerful beings. You choose what stories to tell, you choose how, you function on a creative wave few mortals understand. There’s pain. There’s loneliness. But there’s also a sense that your words are powerful convictions. #5amwritersclub
June 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Writers are powerful beings. You choose what stories to tell, you choose how, you function on a creative wave few mortals understand. There’s pain. There’s loneliness. But there’s also a sense that your words are powerful convictions. #5amwritersclub
Yes, I’ll be going to StokerCon. Yes, I’ll have books to sign. Yes, there will be custom bookmarks. May even squeeze in some writing, too. ✍️
June 2, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Yes, I’ll be going to StokerCon. Yes, I’ll have books to sign. Yes, there will be custom bookmarks. May even squeeze in some writing, too. ✍️
As the world collapses and society unraveles like a mothballed sweater, I can now say that I received five years of positive feedback from my students. Every semester they’ve enjoyed my teaching style, even the ones who hated English and writing said they liked my class. Yay teaching! #teaching
June 1, 2026 at 1:25 PM
As the world collapses and society unraveles like a mothballed sweater, I can now say that I received five years of positive feedback from my students. Every semester they’ve enjoyed my teaching style, even the ones who hated English and writing said they liked my class. Yay teaching! #teaching
That feeling you get when you think of a better ending to your short story AFTER you submitted it. 😫
June 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
That feeling you get when you think of a better ending to your short story AFTER you submitted it. 😫
I don’t know what’s more disturbing, that I wrote a story about a serial killer or that the serial killer eats granola bars.
May 28, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I don’t know what’s more disturbing, that I wrote a story about a serial killer or that the serial killer eats granola bars.
Final edits on my story for the Villains anthology, then editing two stories that will be submitted Friday! StokerCon next week! #writing
May 25, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Final edits on my story for the Villains anthology, then editing two stories that will be submitted Friday! StokerCon next week! #writing
I wrote 3,300 words today, a brand new short story!
May 22, 2026 at 3:56 AM
I wrote 3,300 words today, a brand new short story!
Okay, writers! Let’s do this!
*screaming myself awake*
*consulting hastily-scribbled notes*
*brewing mug of wakey bean juice*
*slapping imagination in the face with a dead haddock*
*mining all that repressed trauma*
*primal screaming in front of open Word doc*
#5amwritersclub
*screaming myself awake*
*consulting hastily-scribbled notes*
*brewing mug of wakey bean juice*
*slapping imagination in the face with a dead haddock*
*mining all that repressed trauma*
*primal screaming in front of open Word doc*
#5amwritersclub
May 20, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Okay, writers! Let’s do this!
*screaming myself awake*
*consulting hastily-scribbled notes*
*brewing mug of wakey bean juice*
*slapping imagination in the face with a dead haddock*
*mining all that repressed trauma*
*primal screaming in front of open Word doc*
#5amwritersclub
*screaming myself awake*
*consulting hastily-scribbled notes*
*brewing mug of wakey bean juice*
*slapping imagination in the face with a dead haddock*
*mining all that repressed trauma*
*primal screaming in front of open Word doc*
#5amwritersclub
What’s the point of writing anymore? If some mediocrity craps out an AI-generated novel and sells it, what’s the point of sacrificing time and energy improving your writing through discipline and skill? When the AI slop sells better than a novel that took the writer time to write, why bother?
May 19, 2026 at 8:17 PM
What’s the point of writing anymore? If some mediocrity craps out an AI-generated novel and sells it, what’s the point of sacrificing time and energy improving your writing through discipline and skill? When the AI slop sells better than a novel that took the writer time to write, why bother?
Write what you want even if others aren’t reading it. The void taunts you like your worst schoolyard bully. Most of the time you’ll fight for relevance in a world that doesn’t want your stories. And this indifference gnaws at your soul. #5amwritersclub
May 18, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Write what you want even if others aren’t reading it. The void taunts you like your worst schoolyard bully. Most of the time you’ll fight for relevance in a world that doesn’t want your stories. And this indifference gnaws at your soul. #5amwritersclub
Word of the day: Antidisestablishmentarianism.
If that’s your safe word, you’re probably gonna die.
If that’s your safe word, you’re probably gonna die.
May 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Word of the day: Antidisestablishmentarianism.
If that’s your safe word, you’re probably gonna die.
If that’s your safe word, you’re probably gonna die.