Vironika Wilde

Raw, time-travelling page turner about a survivor seeking salvation in all the wrong places. A brutally honest tear-jerker with a metal and industrial playlist. #posterpit #posterpitq #Q #P #A #NA

@NikkiMDoucet @RWeberWrites That's not what happened, and your views are more racist than you realize. No marginalized person took your spot. No one's book gets published only because of their "immutable characteristics."

@RWeberWrites Honestly? When I was querying I found a lot of agents were filtering based on people's immutable characteristics rather than the content of their story They were also demanding certain representation in the works they were looking for, and forced diversity makes for bad stories

I'll say it again: I don't understand the #publishing industry. I'm always blown away when I read my writer's group #books, including individuals still searching for an agent or who decide to publish independently. The talent is present and accounted for. Make it make sense. 🤷‍♀️❔

I've been writing since I could hold a #pen, but I became a writer only when I found no safer place than the page. #vss365 #poetry

ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes. About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds. Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp's first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts. A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn't breathe. And then there's the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence. Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome. Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself. Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game. This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first. The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America. Share this. Do not let them bury it under another news cycle.

@Purlnelope @MostCrucified Actually a lot of us are writers with audiobooks in libraries, and we know the truth about how royalties work.

@MostCrucified Everyone in these comments with their masters of librarian science

why is there a 38 person hold line for an audiobook at the library. why cant you just let 38 people listen to the audiobook

@MostCrucified @whatiwrote_ This is misinformed and inaccurate. When a library purchases a copy, the author gets one royalty. That could mean 25 cents in profit. That's it. Then, that copy is circulated, which is why there are line ups. No author is getting paid "over and over" for a library purchase.

@whatiwrote_ well no you guys get royalties like 100 times apparently cuz libraries have to pay for the audiobook over and over which doesn't seem fair but hey someone's gotta make money just not the place with the books

I have my mind #set on a future where I reminisce about these old, onerous days. #vss365 #poetry

Israel murdered every single person in this photo today in South Lebanon. Every. Single. One. 2 journalists 7 paramedics 1 Lebanese soldier They bombed the journalists’ vehicle — then bombed them again when paramedics rushed to help.

What is motherhood but a million tiny choices to #revolve instead of collapsing or drifting away? #vss365 #poetry

@rachkmc As a poet and spoken word performer, when I write fiction, I know how to not waste words and how to evoke emotions with metaphor and imagery.

what is one thing you think you do really well in writing? i just had a call with a book coach client and i was able to tell them they are SO good at interior monologue and dialogue :) i know we are all hard on ourselves; but what do you think you do really well :)

No one will #frustrate you like a toddler. No one will amaze you like a toddler. No one will make you simultaneously question your sanity and marvel in gratitude like a toddler. I can't imagine my life without these tiny tormentors. #vss365

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We can no longer #endorse the Gaia hypothesis. Mother Earth has postpartum depression. It's all hands on deck now. #poetry #vss365

Another nap time, another round of queries. It's exhausting, but I know one day, this story will inspire my kids. #amquerying #writingcommunity

Do not #waver in your integrity. It is the only asset that cannot be seized or frozen. #vss365

@jessbradywrites Not only block the creepers but ignore the incels leaving inflammatory comments. Block if you wish. Don't feed the troll. Welcome back 🌹

I’m back (: and I brought sage. 🍃 Seriously though, all of my socials and the email associated with them got hacked. It gave me time for a “spiritual break”, but now I’m back and ready to dismantle the patriarchy. More like block the creepers, but you have to start somewhere.

Growing up frozen by childhood drama, I once promised to never have kids. In this cold world, how could I ever be the #warmth they run to from life's chills? It seemed impossible. But here I am, like thousands of mothers, doing it each day. #vss365 #poetry

Black rain in Tehran while Google searches for Epstein files decrease by 95% Such #blatant evil belongs in novels and bad thrillers #vss365 #iran #poetry

Woke up on Women's Day to my youngest peeing on the bedding I specifically washed yesterday so I wouldn't have to do house work on Women's Day, and I feel like that about explains what it's like being a woman. Someone's always pissing on my work. #WomensDay

I don't have a high pain tolerance. I have a high threshold for pain without treatment. Don't call me brave. Truth is: unless I have a broken arm or open wound, it's nearly impossible to get taken seriously in a medical setting as a woman when pain is the primary symptom.

The Catholic Church pushes virginity. Hollywood pushes youth. Both have been revealed as complicit in grotesque levels of organized child abuse. The way out is through not only justice and accountability but also rejection of the infantilized standards we've all been force fed.