Medhya R Samarasinghe

@MedhyaRsamaraS Right??? 🥹

Don’t get to write today but do get to puppy sit this handsome prince 🥰

Fun fact: A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.

@douglass_meghan Hopefully at least that one works, my main one has gone on holiday.

Fun fact: Your gut contains its own “mini brain” (the enteric nervous system).

Yesterday was one of those days where Grief decided to pay an unexpected house call. I was having a lovely afternoon, but Grief doesn’t mind! In fact sometimes I think that’s when she likes to visit best. My mom has been gone for 11.5yrs and Grief doesn’t drop by as often as she used to, but every once in a while she still invites herself over. Not sure if you could really call this a poem, but I find it helpful to jot these feelings down when they come. I decided to share in case someone else finds this framework helpful too 🖤

@KupcakeProse I use their name every sentence

How often do you use someone’s name when speaking to them? You should write dialogue how people actually speak! Unbelievable or clunky dialogue is one of the fastest ways to turn me off a book.

I finally got @CountMontiCHRIS Deep Blue Oui joke. I swear I am smart…!

@douglass_meghan Would explain how the Bananas in Pajamas came to be.

Fun fact: Bananas are naturally radioactive.

@KupcakeProse Well done, congratulations. Well deserved.

I got a STARRED review in Publisher’s Weekly?!!! Ahhhh!!! 😭🙏🎉 publishersweekly.com/9798217095360

@KupcakeProse OMM, that is amazing congratulations 🎉🎈🎊🍾

@MedhyaRsamaraS I can spill now cuz it went live—it’s that I got a starred review in Publishers Weekly!!

Just got really exciting book news that I’m not allowed to share yet so I’m just like screaming happy in the middle of the zoo with my family and everyone is looking ate like I’m insane it’s flippin fabulous 😁

If I were giving “the eyes” would you assume I’m looking at you?

@CountMontiCHRIS Wait…noh…I do

youtube.com/watch?v=Ya3lim… I hope you don't have arachnophobia folks because this week we're diving into the giant spider movie, Big Ass Spider (2013). Enjoy!

@HeidiAnderson05 @ToddVercoe Congrats, looks amazing

Got my copy of my first published book. What a feeling 😁❤️

@douglass_meghan Someone once told me Bananas were berries but strawberries are not.

What’s the craziest fact you’ve ever heard?

@KupcakeProse Beautiful. Wish you and your family a happy and long future, filled with prosperity

This was me on my wedding night 13yrs ago. I found the dress on sale for 15pounds. Id gone to a hairdresser I found at the shopping center earlier that day—I’ll never forget the stylist’s face when I told her I was getting married in a fews hours. After nearly 5yrs of long distance, my British husband and I had we were at an impasse. It was get married or break up. So we eloped. We told everyone not to get excited. This wasn’t a “real” marriage, not in the normal sense. We didn’t know if we wanted to spend our whole lives together. We just knew we had to spend this moment together. The present was all that mattered and we had to be together right then. And to do that, we needed to get married. 13yrs later, I still need to spend this moment with him. And now I know I also need all the moments that are yet to come still, too 💕

@KupcakeProse You are sweet. I am going to pretend that is true.

@MedhyaRsamaraS Oh no!! Procrastination can be a key part of creativity too of course

After spending an hour and a half getting the baby and the five year old to sleep in some strange game of whack-a-mole, I rush down to the living room and begin the mad dash to vomit as many words as possible onto the page while hunched over the coffee table with the sleeping baby in my lap. I’m not looking for advice lol but if you ever read my next piece I just want you to know this was how it was written 😂

@douglass_meghan Remind me never to borrow a Roman’s clothes

Fun fact: Romans used urine to clean clothes.

You swear? Every damn day.