Jonathon T. Cross

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@SusanSavageLee1 Hitting flow state and getting out of my head

How would you describe a productive writing day? If I get a chance to write, then it’s productive 😂 #writingq #WritingCommunity

Finished my latest book, and all of my students canceled for today - prom. So I can read all day. Kindle: "Sorry, bruh, I'm not feeling up to loading right now."

This is an awesome example of a book reaching its perfect audience👌 And congrats on your sobriety if you so happen to see this! - Valley of the Spun

@Anna_zatanna @Dearme2_ 🍌

@Dearme2_ @JonathonTCross 🍌

Banana of luck, don't ignore it. You'll get good news before March ends.

@forallcurious NOFX published their theory nearly a decade before Dr. Crabtree 🤔 🎵Darwin's rolling over in his coffin. The fittest are surviving much less often. Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening. Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool...🎵

🚨: A Stanford geneticist warns that humans are getting dumber, and genetic mutations are the reason

It's always awesome to see feedback like this! If you enjoyed Breaking Bad, and can handle Jesse Pinkman level profanity, give this one a spin 😉

@Anna_zatanna Just bill me for the therapy sessions 🤣 This may be the only time I'll manage to make a fruit play a pivotal role in a serious story 🍌

@JonathonTCross I just finished reading Valley of the Spun. The banana is our savior!!!

@MathterWorks That's about where I'm at, excited to see how it alters the writing!

@JonathonTCross I tend to have a beginning and ending thought out but pants the rest.

I'm 4k words into my new book, and "pantsing" it for the first time 🖋 This is f*cking terrifying! I have no idea what's going to happen next. How do people do this???

@playbymail That was one hell of a deep dive! Thank you for the words of encouragement

And what, exactly and specifically, about it do you find to be so terrifying? That you don't know what is going to happen next is no different than every moment of everyday life. Beyond that, in an interview that you did with Michael Parkes not so very long ago (February 26th, 2026), you stated, "I write modern cosmic horror books with an archaic flair." You also said, "But it’s not all doom and gloom; I’ve been known to shine a light at the end of a tunnel or two. Life isn’t all or nothing, and neither is my fiction." How can one who is versed and well-practiced in the art of writing and exploring cosmic horror, and whom simultaneously perceives that it's not all doom and gloom, but to the contrary, there is sometimes light at the end of the tunnel, be terrified of something as basic as having no idea what is going to happen next? You, yourself, have said, "The unspoken advice is don’t give up." That strikes me as rather sound advice to yourself. Even if you're terrified, your own words might serve you well in the present instance. They are, "The most important thing any author can do is write. Don’t let fear or doubt stop you. Push forward, even when it feels pointless." Indeed, on that spooky beach that is a digital abode of yours, you list fears as one of the sources of ideas that you draw from for your writing. Your musical dream died, that your writing might live. Carl Fisher wrote of your book, Madness From the Sea: Cthulhu’s Lure, "It’s short read at 114 pages, but that just means Cross has to throw the reader in the deep end immediately." How very ironic, then, Jonathan Cross, that here you now find yourself in the deep end of having no idea what's going to happen next. What's good for the goose (the reader) is apparently good for the gander (the writer), after all. In a book review of Something Here From Somewhere Else, Joseph Sale had this to say, "What enfolds is a story that centres around perception." Indeed, he even went on to say, "Where Jonathon T. Cross diverts from Lovecraft is his interest in perspective and truth." Thus, your current perspective is that where you find yourself is terrifying. But that is only one perspective of several, perhaps even just one perspective out of many competing perspectives. I don't write books, but I do write. And from my perspective, there is nothing, whatsoever, that is terrifying about having no idea what is going to happen, next, in what I am going to write. To the contrary, in fact, your thoughts get set loose upon an infinite frontier of possibilities. That's quite a liberating feeling, actually. And all the while, somewhere in the back of your mind, you already know that the world isn't really going to end, no matter what you end up writing. Being cognizant of that can provide a degree of comfort to the wary that lives within you. When I write, I am invariably always talking to myself, no matter whom my words might be addressed to at the surface level. And who is easier to talk to than your own self, Mister Cross? Your greatest literary work hasn't been written, yet. So, it's out there, just waiting on you. And the beauty of it is that you don't have to know what it looks like, know what it sounds like, or know what it feels like, in order to find it, in order to write it, in order to craft it into existence. Your biography on the Book Cave explicitly reminds us, one and all, of your "ability to find light in the darkest corners." It speaks of how you bring "unique perspective" to your "explorations of fear, madness, and the unknown." It is you who invites us "on a journey into the pages of the unknown." And here you are, at the precipice of your own destiny, standing at the very edge of having "no idea what's going to happen next." Congratulations, Mister Cross! You are exactly where you're supposed to be.

@ZadokSarit My ceiling is more seen now than it ever has been before 😆

@JonathonTCross It's the most fun. Also a great excuse to stare at the ceiling.

@RoyGFrisk I at least have an ending in mind, it's just that pesky middle I need to sort out lol

@JonathonTCross I start off with a backbone, but most of the twists and turns are spontaneous. I feel SOME structure is necessary...

@M1cahB0wers @KT_Carlisle 🙏

@JonathonTCross @KT_Carlisle Appreciate this level of clarity.

Pro tip: You don't need to specify which body parts are used to perform actions that are inherent to those body parts. Example: ❌ He nodded his head. ✅ He nodded. ❌ She squinted her eyes. ✅ She squinted. The above, passive voice, and filtering are probably the biggest reasons behind exceedingly high word counts.

@FawnPoet 🤣😂

@JonathonTCross Alright, bring on the grey hair. lol

35... I'm still coming to terms with it. 😩😩

@PenginRob Your feet will be frozen, because my book will knock your socks off. In addition to the very real risk of hypothermia, people in the vicinity will smell your bare feet. You've been warned! ⚠️

Convince me not to read your book.

@FawnPoet Happy future bday! Fight the inevitable no longer... join us 🧓👴👵

@JonathonTCross Happy belated birthday! That's not old. I reject your use of the old man emoji. lol 🤣🤣🤣Not when I'll be that age in a few years. lol

@CJSimone333 It's definitely allowing my weird to take center stage 😆 unfiltered madness

@JonathonTCross That's awesome! To me, it's so much more fun when you have no idea how it's going to turn out and get to experience it like a reader would!