Eryn McConnell

Michael G. Williams 🏳️‍🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

For a different character, in a different book series, I did some research into dementia and memory loss, and it was pretty fascinating. It never came up in the story itself, but in the real world ~1 in 6 cases of mild cognitive impairment progress to full dementia.

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Eryn McConnell @erynmcconnell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

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I am truly being chaotic here, answering out of order.

I have no horror WIP on the table right now, I know! I know. I'm mostly ghost writing.
But I have two to get on with in hopefully a couple of months. Both arthouse.

1. Why am I alone here?
2. The sky bleeds yellow. We die

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Eryn McConnell @erynmcconnell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:00 UTC

Eh not all the time: not recently, although some is automated for Instagram. I've been that busy with work stuff, and moving. But this is my home. And horror.

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Eryn McConnell @erynmcconnell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:00 UTC

There were whispers about it now, about women with ripped clothes and tearstained faces, of women who went off with soldiers and got drugged with tainted cigarettes. The hunting cats were everywhere, riding the bombs, biting the buildings, making women cry.

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Eryn McConnell @erynmcconnell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:59 UTC

This is her voice, not mine. I still maintain she was a ghost who wanted to tell her story. And when it was dark, and everyone was asleep, Emily indulged in her darkest thoughts. She wished that the bombs would bite and tear the hunting cats, who stalked the streets at night. 1/2

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Eryn McConnell @erynmcconnell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:57 UTC

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I remember when Emily was talking about what she called the hunting cats, living in 1940s London, and her words were simple but strong. She linked it all up in her head, and while her process was different to ours, it made sense. And it was poignant. I cried a lot writing Emily.

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Eryn McConnell @erynmcconnell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:55 UTC

Silence breeds creativity. Words. Soul. When Brendan came to me, fully formed, he told me he was deaf. I read, I listened, I learned. And his first words on the page were, I am the silence. His last were, I was the silence. Now I am the song. And it still stays with me. He was a powerful voice.

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Eryn McConnell @erynmcconnell.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

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I did a lot of research for Black Cat in general, but also for Brandon: I listened to a lot of articles, interviews, talks by deaf people, I hired a sensitivity reader.
I learned that for many/most, deafness is not a lack. It's more akin to my aphantasia in some ways.

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