✨💚Exodus Oktavia Brownlow💚✨

It is my greatest pleasure to FINALLY share this news with, y’all! 🥹 I. Am. AGENTED! 😭 And with the most wonderful agent, too— @daniellechiotti! 😭 And I wish, and I wish, and I wish this post was much more pretty and poised but my goodness, I GOT AN AGENT, Y’ALL!!!!! 😭🙏🏽✨

Ya’ll my mama COOKED-COOKED. Fried Chicken. Squash-Dressing. Fried Corn. Green Beans. And Banana Pudding! Mercy on me, and my waist-line! 😭

My best friend took me out yesterday to celebrate my good news, and honestly—it’s so nice to be spoiled. It reminds me why acts of service and words of affirmation are my favorite love languages. It’s really beautiful to be thought about, catered to. 🥹🥰💚

I’m not particularly afraid of heights, I love roller coasters and I adore flying, but ladders? Standing beside a railing when you’re x-amount of floors up? Please! 🫠

My daddy asked about my review. Said he wanna see it/read it. One thing about my pops, he gone remember work I tell him about! 🥰

If you’d like to celebrate The Golden Girls’ 40th Anniversary this year with a little poetry, may I suggest reading Stay Golden? 💛

Fashion Reminder: always check the clothing that you have before you go out & buy new stuff. I’m all for buying new stuff. But also—forgotten fits slip through the cracks. Signed, a girl who just rediscovered a NEW emerald green Adidas track set her mama gave her years ago! 🤪

Sunday! Have a good one, dear ones! 💚✨💚

Wine and Dine Summerrrrrrr 💁🏽‍♀️

I watched Zoolander for the first time today, y’all. I— 🤪🤓😵‍💫.

Out of 7,673 active listing on @Duotrope, @DoricLiterary has the 11th fastest response time among #fiction publishers! 🔥 Prompt responses were a primary goal in starting the #journal, so this achievement makes me unutterably happy. Submissions open: doric-literary.com/submissions-2/

Plum-Cherry wine in-progress! 🤗

Didn’t write today but I DID write cards to send to friends so there’s that. 😇Writing is also in the living and the loving, I believe. 💚

It’s Thursday, friends! Aka PRE-FRIDAY! 🤗

Being a writer is knowing all the proper grammar & punctuation, the syntax, conjugations, the dreaded spelling... but then throwingggg it all out the window when it just doesn't *feel* right.

Submissions open on July 25th. You ready?

I am decently traveled enough to say this—Mississippi has some of the most delicious, and I have to emphasize this, most cost effective food you’ll ever have the pleasure to eat. And that goes from gas stations, to bbq/fish spots, to upscale restaurants.

Actually, if you clean + listen to a writing podcast + think about your wip, while listening to a writing podcast, while cleaning? THAT counts as writing!!!

Was supposed to work on 20k+ Word Bae this morning but instead I think I’ll eat breakfast early, and clean… 🙃