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Was It Abuse?
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I've been doing some research for the book tonight - not "AmWriting", but I guess at least research for #writing? Anyway, looking into whether one character would be likely to have done some self-harm or possibly even a suicide attempt.
And the answers seem to be yes, and yes, and also wow, even just reading about that stuff is really depressing and disturbing. And it will not be fun to try to work out the details, but I need to know them for the character's history. Ugh.
AI Content vs Human Written Content for SEO
By Kayla Chauvel For decades, one powerful concept has captured the imaginations of millions: artificial intelligence (AI). An evergreen topic in popular culture, it’s been the subject of dozens of bestselling novels and blockbuster films, like...
https://www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/ai-content-vs-human-written-content-for-seo/
murmurous
adjective
mur· mur· ous ˈmər-mə-rəs ˈmərm-rəs
: filled with or characterized by murmurs : low and indistinct
#WordWizard #WordOfTheDay #WotD #Logophile #lexiphile #lexicography #literature #poetry #writer #writing #storytelling #story #BookStadon
The Satanic Curses – Fraud.
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IF THEIR INTENTIONS ARE EVIL THEY MIGHT DO YOU A MISCHIEF....
Oh my fucking god of COURSE.
I talked a while back about wanting to start an #advice column. That would be an excellent way to start building a #writing #portfolio and get my foot in the door.
Anyone have any burning questions or want my thoughts on a complex situation? Shoot me a DM! I want to feature it on my #Substack #blog. ^^
Two weeks ago I ‘got into’ fountain pens. I now own all of this, and yeah, it’s an addiction now. #FountainPens #Pens #Ink #Writing
I always wonder a bit if #writers avoid creating fun character names because of the red squiggle line from word or other document processors. They're annoying to look at and I'm too lazy to make it go away so I wind up with tons of squiggle marks all over. #amwriting #writinglife #writingcommunity #writing
I do that too, try to have the names spread across the alphabet. And vary the length. And avoid accidental rhymes.
@adriabailton Ah, got it, I thought you meant you choose B and that later becomes Bob or Barbara. Makes sense!
Notes From A Fallen Island – 2 - WIP
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It's good to get it right on the first try! I find myself changing names in later drafts as the character develops. (Like, no a Sam would not do that, but a Harold might)
@adriabailton How do you choose the letter in that first draft?
I find myself changing names if they no longer fit (in some way I can't exactly define) as the character develops. Like, no a Sam would not do that, but a Harold might
@elektra I find that as I develop a character, the name sometimes just...no longer fits.
I do that with first names, look up if they were common in the decade (like Jennifer in the 90s!)
@adriabailton I use something similar! It's a very slow process for me, picking names.
Book Page!
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painting enchantment
wet pigment staining pure white
Moments of pure bliss!
Wishing that each of you finds your bliss whatever it is. :)
#art #artwork #artist #artists #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #artistsofmastodon #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #micropoetry #poet #poem #follow #nature #poets #poems #writer #writers #colorfulart #colorful #life #abstract #abstractart #hope #drip #painting #paintings #contemporaryart #modernart
The Satanic Curses – Greed.
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#WritingWonders March 21: How descriptive is your writing?
I try with varying degrees of success to provide as little description as possible. For example, I'll hint at a character's hair color or height, but I rarely go beyond that. As for scenes/settings, it depends; descriptions of some rooms and buildings are sparse, while I show others in living color. I'm all over the map, and often at odds with Elmore Leonard's revered eighth and ninth rules of #writing.
So.
I'd like to go back to #school, and I may have found an opportunity that will allow me to do so at no cost, cover #certification costs (including CompTIA A+), AND provide #career assistance to set me in my desired direction.
The only problem is that the opportunity would require full-time schooling for a few months. I've tried to work and go to school full-time at the same time before, and it's not something I'm capable of maintaining.
I don't doubt that I can find somewhere to work part-time/seasonally, but that's only going to make up a fraction of my current income. I can request #MutualAid but I highly doubt y'all want to support me for nearly half a year. So I need *something* to supplement my income.
Be real with me, friends: If I started an #OnlyFans or #Fansly account and used it for more explicit things than I've posted here, would any of you actually pay for it?
On top of that, do any of you have suggestions for #freelance #work that I would be decent at? I do *not* have the time to handle web design at the moment, unfortunately, but I am *extremely* efficient and effective at #writing short-form content (articles, letters/emails, #blog posts).
Any and all advice is appreciated!! Thank you all!! 💕
Popping in briefly to invite people to post self-promo links here! #writing #Writephant
The Tormented Mind – 6 – The End.
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Ingenuity comes from failing. Failing much & failing often. From adjusting, moving further, failing better and failing again.
"New ideas do not just fall from the sky. They are born from...endlessly turning over the open questions, trying all roads to a solution, then again trying all the roads to a solution-and then trying all those roads again. Until there, where we least expected it, we discover a gap, a fissure, a way through." (Carlo Rovelli)
Poetry is never a personal matter,
a poet sings for those who cannot.
Oof. Website redo in #Elementor is complete. Just need to confirm the newsletter subscription is working as expected and then it'll be ready to re-launch. The new strangeborders.com coming soon! #Writing #Websites
There is no historical precedent for fascism turning into a beautiful, long-lasting strategy for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness because it has no design or incentive to do so. It’s a bit like there aren’t any heroin success stories. No tales of triumph due to a start with banging smack in a back alley.
#Politics #USPol #Democracy #Writing #Journalism
https://medium.com/ellemeno/its-time-to-take-the-threat-to-democracy-personally-8536a82c50da
The Void - Dark sci-fi space opera.
Aleph Corporation - Vulcan-class.
As a specialised battleship-killer, the Vulcan-class is peerless, employing the very best technology. Only the Republic comes close to the advanced systems in this ship.
As it is also quite expensive to build, the Aleph military is smaller than the other corporations. But make no mistake, this ship is superior.
https://www.ratchman.com/hardware/aleph
#scifi #sciencefiction #audiobook #thevoid #scifibooks #writingcommunity #writing
Q4: What are some of your favorite titles? It’s perfectly fine to mention your own — go for it! (But please save any links for the self-promo opportunity at the end of the chat)
Q3. How do you come up with story or book titles? Do you find it easy or hard?
Q2. How often do you change character names in subsequent drafts?
#writephant #writing #writingcommunit
If I can get 100 people to buy an entry in The Histories for $10 or more, I'll be able to replace this slowly dwindling computer!
So, here are I am asking for you to pay me to write thing for you! Or someone else! Or add to things! #writing
Deets here: https://shaunduke.net/2023/03/thehistoriescomputer/
When it comes to picking character names, I don't know that I have a specific method, it's usually whatever comes to mind. Sometimes I'll use the Scrivener name generator for ideas.
Q1. How do you come up with character names?
Bringing me #joy today, a neighborhood walk with the dog
#writephant #writing #dogsofmastodon
The Devil Made Me Do It – 3 - The Witch and the Vampire.
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The Devil Made Me Do It – 3 - The Witch and the Vampire.
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Among the falling leaves coloring the landscape in warm shades of orange and red, a curse returns to Maine. Can we fight this evil threatening to destroy our quaint town?
MEET ME IN MAINE
by Susanne Leist
#Thrillers #BookRecommendations #Bookwyrm #Mystery #Fantasy @bookstodon.com #BooksWorthReading #Books #Reading #Writing #Romance #Paranormal #Horror #Author #Thriller #Ebooks #Occult #Romantic #AmWriting #IndieWriter #IndieAuthor
Ep 530: Chris Wright, journalist and co-author of ‘The Millionaires’ Factory’.
Chris Wright, journalist and co-author of The Millionaires’ Factory. Should you write about real places? And win The Vein of Gold by Julia Cameron. You can listen to the episode below, on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or add the podcast RSS...
https://www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/ep-530/
Painted Bride Quarterly: Market Spotlight
For this week's market spotlight, we look at Painted Bride Quarterly, a quarterly online literary publication with an annual print...
https://www.writersdigest.com/getting-published/painted-bride-quarterly-market-spotlight
A short #Spring #Equinox #story I wrote a few years ago.
“Spring is like walking up a big hill,” Jill said, leaping effortlessly up the rocky slope as I scrambled behind breathlessly.
“How is it like…?” I panted.
“You can’t just flow from winter to spring, darkness to light, with no effort,” she explained.
“The dark isn’t threatening if you can simply step out of it,” Jack added.
“But spring comes along without us doing anything,” I countered. I stopped at a steep break in the path in front of me, looking for a foothold. They each reached down and offered me a hand. I took both and they pulled me up.
“Not doing anything?” She asked. “What about winter colds, post-Christmas blues, spring cleaning…”
“Getting out and about, getting fit again, waking from hibernation,” He continued.
“But it would still turn to spring if we didn’t do any of that,” I said, a bit bewildered. “As the days grow longer, daffodils would bloom, frogspawn would fill the ponds, hawthorn leaves, the sap rising…”
“Yes, spring would still come, but you would be stuck in winter,” Jack said.
“Not everyone makes it,” Jill nodded in agreement.
I shuddered as I finally understood. If you didn’t work to wake yourself up at the end of winter, you’d sleep. Forever. Not the light-hearted chat I was expecting after they’d suggested an equinox outing.
I resigned myself to soldiering on to the top of the hill, seeking spring and light. A chill wind carried a wispy cloud towards us. As I stepped through the mist, I spotted Jack ahead of me to the left, just in time to see him turn into a large brown hare and bound off ahead.
“Did you see—” I said to Jill, but she had already turned into a stream, somehow climbing the hill despite flowing down it.
“I guess I’ll turn into a leaf and float to the top!” I declared. I waited a few seconds in anticipation. Sadly, it didn’t happen, and I trudged on up the path.
The last stretch was steep and slippery in the thickening mist. Darkest before the dawn, I said to myself, trying to focus on the days to come, on light and warmth. Suddenly I emerged at the peak into gentle sunlight, a warm breeze blowing. They were sitting nearby on the moist grass, taking in the view, looking human again.
“It’s all about the balance,” Jill was saying, as I collapsed to the ground between them.
I regained my breath, and gazed at the surrounding sunny hills and fields coming into spring. I smiled.
“Well done,” Jack said. “You survived another winter.”
Anyone on the #fediverse know of a decent, lightweight social media platform I can self host like #mastodon? I love it but it's resource heavy and looking to #selfhost something for my #writing stuff and brands.
#dungeon23 Day 79
-Observation Station 2
-Large, cracked, two-way mirror allowed monitoring of activity in room 19
-Small puncture holes in the glass, work station in disarray
-The mirror is mostly obscured by growths
-if the creatures in room 21 are alerted, it takes them 3 rounds to smash through the glass to get into this space
#map #writing #drawing #art #amwriting #dnd #ttrpg #gaming #Science
The problem with working on my book after dinner is that now I want to stay up all night working on it 👀
I might treat myself to a new notebook tomorrow. 😁
Question is, will I actually write in it?
Do you remember all the conversations you had following the disastrous 2016 election, where you lamented how nearly half of America had been duped by a con man? How confident were we that things would go poorly and that, eventually, our fellow citizens would realize the catastrophic error of their ways? No one wanted to be the one to say I told you so, but it seemed inevitable. This couldn’t possibly continue.
#Politics #USPol #Democracy #Writing #Journalism
https://medium.com/ellemeno/its-time-to-take-the-threat-to-democracy-personally-8536a82c50da
This ✨Wonderful✨ private note from an 87 year old #French #woman , #today 🤗
"Vive la #france !"
Anyone know a good #translator ?
#translation #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #writing #WritingCommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #boost #Mastodon #introduction #introductions #Fediverse #SilentSunday #Monday #literature #readers
Nothing builds a presenter's ego more than when a grade 8 teacher emails you to say his students loved the virtual session. Phew!
possibilities
are endless colorful drips
Art reveals itself.
#MastoPrompt - drip
ART https://fineartamerica.com/featured/abstract-art-possibilities-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html
#art #artwork #artist #artists #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #artistsofmastodon #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #micropoetry #poet #poem #follow #nature #poets #poems #writer #writers #colorfulart #colorful #life #abstract #abstractart #hope #drip #painting #paintings #contemporaryart #modernart
Wild winds batter the coastline, punctuated by short, sharp showers of ice-cold rain. A group of Fulmar dance to the sound of waves rolling over rock. A photo from this Saturday’s wander along the edge of Eynhallow Sound, Orkney. #Nature #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Wildlife #Birds #AYearForArt #Outdoors #Orkney #Scotland #Travel #Landscape #Photography #Writing #Sea #Beach #Ocean #Coast #Adventure #Hiking #Life
A campaign to protect a tree gets help from unexpected quarters in Ross Raisin's short story Treehuggers.
Catch it exclusively at https://fictionable.world
Image: s9-4pr
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #environment @bookstodon
Great post!
"A blog is my little place on the Internet. It’s the only public place I fully control.
The blog is mine. I own the domain name. I own the content. I decide what to show on the blog, and what not.
I am not subject to algorithms."
...And I took the chance to write a real blog post on Tumblr, all about word count and holidays and parenting and plot tangles: https://www.tumblr.com/stephanieburgis/712323465520267264
Want to write faster and easier? Join me in the Q2 2023 Writing Workshop. See info here: https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2023/03/q2-2023-writing-workshop-open-for-registration/ #writing
Writing is an important part of many people’s work, including mine. It’s clear large language models (LLMs) can speed up the process, but how? The latest issue of my newsletter explores one way of using ChatGPT: as a conversational partner to hash out ideas.
I'm humbled and grateful to all those who have supported The Book of Constellations and voted my show one of the "Best Existing Story-Based Production" in the Audio Verse Awards.
Thank you so much!
http://bookofconstellations.com
#AudioFiction #AudioFictionPodcast #podcast #podcasts #AudioDrama #AudioDramaSunday #awards2022 #sciencefiction #sff #scifi #hopepunk #alien #indie #audioverseawards #writing #writingcommunity
We notice the unhindered sky. The breathable expanse. A clearing where once there was none. An opening within the uncertainty, between the question and it's mark. A place of hope, 'perhaps', and longing. A place of waiting and whispers. A place of richer listening. Where we can know the touch of our truest expectations and learn the tender textures of our hearts...
DIVINE BY PAMELA WILLIAMS
Gentle breeze upon
Ivy entangling the mind
Sunshine saves the soul
#dailyhaikuprompt #ivy
Meet Divine a fascinating stilt walker character at Animal Kingdom camouflaged amongst the trees, often hard to find.
👇#SharePamsArt👇
https://3-pamela-williams.pixels.com/featured/10120-divine-pamela-williams.html
#TheArtDistrict #Haiku #Poetry #SmallPoems #Prompts #Poem #WritingCommunity #camoflauge #nature #tree #leaves #green #PoetryCommunity #Writing #AYearforArt #BuyIntoArt #POTD #Photography #FediGiftShop #smile #follow
Hey, I'm Jae! A Midwest Non-binary fren who loves nerdy things. Here just to vibe with other kind-hearted people.
I'm very easy-going and don't judge. Just trying to get by, just like many others! Looking forward to meeting y'all. 💞
HASHTAGS:
🌿 | Interests - #VideoGames #Gaming #Nintendo #PCGaming #RetroGaming #Emulation #Nature #ProWrestling #Wrestling #WWE #AEW
✍🏻 | Hobbies - #Writing #Drumming #Singing #Music #RockMusic #Metal #Anime #Art #Tech #Photography
you don't have to be
ivy league educated
To think for yourself...
#DailyHaikuPrompt - ivy
#art #artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #colorfulart #artists #writer #writers #poets #poems #healing #spirituality #spiritual #inspiration #thinking #brain #brainpower #education #university #school #selflove #selfhelp #power #neurology #poet #poem #ArtMatters #mastodonart #fun #cute #teachers #teaching
✍️ Next piece of my #Newsletter 'One Page a Day Keeps the #Burnout Away' is coming in <24hrs ⌛️
🧠 It'll contain simple and effective practises to re-wire your #brain.
Plus one real-life example how #BusinessJournaling supported me recently in my work as an #AgileCoach and #Facilitator. 🎯
📨 Don't miss it, sign-up: https://businessjournaling.substack.com
👀 Read what's already online, start today! 🙌
Reminder that I keep up a free aggregated paying calls for submissions email newsletter for writers. Subscribe by RSS or email. Subscribe via email at https://rk.groups.io/g/writerop/join, or RSS, at https://rk.groups.io/g/writerop/rss #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Fiction #Nonfiction
New instance, time to share the #introduction
I'm an #author, #storyteller, New Yorker, and General Weirdo.
My main interests are #SciFi, #Horror, #gaming, #writing, and #hiking. I have a weird thing for #fountainpens and old #books.
You can find my links here: https://bio.link/orennichols
i had #chatgpt #ai write a villanelle about #TheOrville (or, as i dubbed it, an orvillanelle) for @tomcostantino ~ #scifi #poetry #poem #writing
March 20, 2023
watching this film, originally in English and Mandarin
dubbed in German and then in Russian
not quite eliminating the previous audio tracks
would probably be a bit easier if it weren’t also subbed
in Dutch over Cantonese over English
rendering the experience occluded holographic
four fragmented linguistic elements variously known
as one might know cooking oatmeal and French toast
where historically French toast has been any number of things
while oatmeal, beloved oatmeal, sometimes utterly lacks oats
in a mélange with eggy cinnamon, while the French breads
sometimes don’t even egg a little bit, even in the closet
finding myself on the streets again, angry teens RDXing cars
tanks getting ready to roll, but not rolling yet, economic collapsar
spinning in radio silence, glitches of radio screams
punctuating interstellar distances where we’ve been dreaming contact
everything between included, photographic intersectional
a sophit lie-down, upside-down, soft-silenced
where we’re watching this film we’re in, knowing it’s coming
knowing it’s been, knowing in iron cornices filed down to wire
magnetized, shaken to blank, baby syndrome regurgitating memetics
screening truths that are truths that are truths that have never been
gyrations at umbilicus end, it’s not fashion, it’s not ism, it’s dance
threshing striations towards homogenous obliteration, unpeopling
we have always been watching this film, we have always been in it
saying there is no film, there is please gods no film, where are my people
everyone pointing at painting in egg-wash, baking down fixations
motivations in let it not be real, let the reveal be concealed eternally
burn cinnamon, burn the itch, burn the ever-loving ash out of the
[insert people here] until we can look the other way, everyone like us
we are not watching this film, we have never been here
fill the trenches with everything we might have known
dark matterless prolapsar, where are my people
where are my people, glitch-signal out
broken E-R bridge, white light
white light
where are my people
* * *
#poem #poetry #writing
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Living in the sea
Swimming with purpose endlessly
Chomping up my prey
👇#SharePamsArt👇
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♥️#ArtMatters♥️
Please support Independent Artists they depend on kind people that support us! Thanks for your Boosts & Follows!!
#TheArtDistrict #Haiku #Poetry #SmallPoems #Prompts #Poem #WritingCommunity #sealife #animals #coastaldecor #PoetryCommunity #Writing #AYearforArt #BuyIntoArt #Art #MastoArt #FediGiftShop #smile #follow
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS!
The time has finally come for me to put together a Neuroqueer Theory handbook.
I'm accepting chapter proposals from now through the end of May.
#neurodiversity #neuroqueer #neurodivergent #queer #writing #books #cfp #academia #opencall #creativity #genderqueer #culture #psychology #sociology #humanities
https://neuroqueer.com/call-for-chapter-proposals-neuroqueer-theory-book/
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Angel-Colleen-Millsteed/dp/0228888727/ref=monarch_sidesheet
My book has been published. Wahoo.
The Internet Archive is systematically using DARVO-style arguments to camouflage their attempt to legitimize piracy as a Robin Hood action on behalf of readers. If people want new #books on their digital readers, especially from small #indie presses, they should take the trouble to understand how #copyright & legitimate distribution work. Put simply, #writing professionals need to be paid for their efforts - a concept apparently hard to understand.
Putting the final touches on my latest newsletter, which explains how I’m using ChatGPT for writing. Coming within the next couple of hours; subscribe here: https://jarango.com/newsletter
We need spaces of wild idleness. Wide expanses of feral ambling, even if only for brief stretches. Just enough for remembrance and recognition; to remember our own undomesticated possibility, to recognize our undiscovered vastness.
"With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" (Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays)
Okay, I am looking for freelance writing work. I'm not going to get the car repaired by curling up and crying. What's more, if possible, I want something that's steady and could lead to something substantive.
I'm not stopping Set Side B, far from it, but I can do more I think. Something about or in games would be best, since it's where a lot of my interest lies. Does anyone have something available?
1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous.
wrote some reflections about running 10km and as usual it went from running to some existential thoughts – on the capacity to live life to the fullest, making life's calculations, being flexible in routines, the conflicts we feel when we're learning: https://winnielim.org/journal/running-10km-and-making-lifes-calculations/
For me, when I learned I was autistic, it finally all made sense. I'm fitting the pieces together with a VERY late in life diagnosis.
Here's the audio version of an interview that autistic art therapist Jackie Schuld did with me, in her series of interviews with late-identified autistic folks.
#ActuallyAutistic #masking #autism #relationships #perception #knowing #AutisticMind #values #empathy #podcast #writing @actuallyautistic
https://priscillastuckey.substack.com/publish/post/109146969
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” - James Baldwin
We shot the final season of "Tales From The Crypt" in London. Ironically, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
#movies #film #cinema #tvshows #London #England #writing #storytelling
https://how-not-to-make-a-movie.com/2023/03/15/crypt-in-london/
Hey, @academicchatter since I don’t have a campus office these days, I’ve been missing my white board #Kanban board for tracking projects.
Tell me about the apps or digital tools you use for Kanban and visualizing the workflow of #scholarly #writing projects. What’s working for you?
It would be really convenient if I could have some of my San Francisco city magicians have formed an occult order, back around the 1920s, dedicated to delving into magical mysteries. And #SanFrancisco's symbol has been the phoenix since the Gold Rush. (They had 6 major fires between 1849 and 1851!)
So, it would make total sense for this San Franciscan occult order to call itself... the Order of the -- oh, fucking crap, I *can't* do that. 🤦🏻
Damn you, Joanne.
Somedays it hits me that:
- there are tens of thousands of available books, from both publishers and indies
- There's a shrinking pool of readers
- Most people would rather watch TV/play video games
- I'm a nobody
- People still read my books and that's f'n amazing.
O, #florida ...
#english #University Professor Samuel Joeckel was been placed under review for alleged "indoctrinating" students by teaching about #racialjustice in his #Writing and #Composition class :
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-university-fires-professor-racial-112654710.html
Blog writers or aspirant blog writers (noncommercial) ✒️✨:
Are there people here who could be interested in getting access to a free blog website template and style, that is super-hyper simple, and completely dependency-free and tracker-free?
With also access to a script so you could simply write your article in a text file, run a super-hyper simple dependency-free Python script on it, and it would generate the html page for the article and update all the listings automatically without even the need to open the html or css code.
Is this something some people here would like?
My latest short story has some satirical touches (okay, dollops).
I may have chosen too easy a target, but I was in a hurry to publish it – an irony in itself.
https://reiditwrite.substack.com/p/publish-no-matter-if-damned-or-proud
#satire #shortstory
#publishing #publishers
#writer #writers #writing
#amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
Our creative work is the proof that we have survived the harshest seasons. The diminishing daylight. The shifts into the dark. That we taught our cells to tolerate the cold. That even in the slow dormancy we have never stopped working. We learned to make a flower. A candy liquid. A shielded seed desperate to be sown. Our determination to persevere...
Ways to Increase Vocabulary for Children #TeamEnglish #Books #Reading #engchatuk #engchat #literacy #writing Primary #school #education
https://www.academia.edu/98679780/Ways_to_Increase_Vocabulary_for_Children
Today's cup of tea isn't a cup of tea. It is a Choc Norris smoothie of Greatness to celebrate my partner in crime, @TonyJohnson finishing his first #sff novel, which is a crackling #ianbanks style bit of awesomeness. It's been 2 years of being locked out of Australia during the pandemic, pinballing between 7 countries, much stress, laughter and daftness and now relief! Let the next chapter begin! Sometimes this whole #writing gig hands you little moments of awesome like this. Chocolate smoothie awesome.
It can be helpful to hear about other people's declines, so every Friday in 2023 I'm posting my submission statistics.
December 31 - March 17
Submissions: 41 (+3) (week goal: +7)
Personal Declines: 14 (-)
Form Declines: 18 (-)
Withdrew: 6 (-)
Acceptances: 2 (-)
Total Fees: 0 (-)
#WritingCommunity #LitMags #Writing #Writer #AmWriting #WritersOfMastodon
Read more: Not for lack of trying, but there are only three
The stories about your character are false, but they serve an important purpose. Does your character go along with them? What might force the truth to come out?
April 4th at 12-1p EDT I'll be running a free writing workshop via Zoom. I promise to help make your poetry/prose/prosetry a bit weirder.. or your money back! Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/there-is-a-life-after-life-flash-memoir-featuring-damon-thomas-tickets-588402125597 #writing #FlashMemoir #zoom #workshop #free
i wrote a new short piece. about the mountains, the glaciers, about eternal ice and snow and why i can’t unsee what i found there
https://aboutgrau.com/vulnerability
#blog #writing #art #mastoart #climatechange #glacier #climate #mountain
Oregon Governor Urges State Lawmakers to Back Literacy Initiative
https://www.the74million.org/article/gov-kotek-urges-state-lawmakers-to-back-literacy-initiative/
#oregon #education #teaching #learning #school #k12 #literacy #reading #writing