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J.D. Everhard, Author🛡️
34 minutes ago
Free on Amazon, my anthology Stand with Ukraine: Debunking the Propaganda Hard-hitting Perspectives from the Resistance Book One of the Series: United Resistance Support Archives ******************* https://www.amazon.com/Stand-Ukraine-Propaganda-Hard-hitting-Perspectives-ebook/dp/B0CB3TS3Y8 ****************** Get it now! (You don't need to have Kindle Unlimited, price to own is zero!) "Mad love for what seemingly cannot be and in so doing makes it possible." Alexander Reid Ross, Portland State University Author of "Against the Fascist Creep" #author #authors #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity #sherrybriscoe.com #amwriting #author #authorlife #book #books #creativewriting #indieauthors #fiction #novelist #writer #writerssupportingwriters #writing #writingadvice #writingcommunity #writinglife #writingtips #bookaholic #bookworms #ilovebooks #bookworm #ilovereading #Russia #ukraine #StandWithUkraine #propaganda @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @poetry@a.gup.pe @authorindiespeak@a.gup.pe @writingcommunity@a.gup.pe
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Coreyartus Imagery
45 minutes ago

Finished up my last image inspired by the 2023 Folktale Week word prompts for my book: “Found”.

This experience has really helped me shape my adaptation of Little Red. I’m so excited about writing now!

This moment happens when Little Red finds the captured spirit of her dead father, held by the three Fates as leverage against her so she'll follow the path they want.

It’s… complicated. 😜

But SO MUCH FUN to work on!

#2023FolktaleWeek #LittleRedRidingHood #Folktale #art #illustration #writing

Illustration of a floating blue glowing spirit in the air, looking down at a girl in a red cloak, surrounded in the dark by forest foliage. the word “Found” in fancy script is on the ground, glowing with a blue light.
si_irini
47 minutes ago

This is a meme i found and i thought....

oh damn...why am i writing??
😂 😅 🤣

#meme #writers #writing #schreiben #read #lesen #book #books #poem #poetry #joke #laugh #smile #gedicht #text

#AltText
meme with persons
people who read: they look great

People who write: They look exhausted
Andrew Melder
1 hour ago

Right now I use my SuperNote e-ink writing tablet but I'm not a natural hand writer, so I find it difficult getting into the flow.

As such, I'm now looking into dedicated digital note takers from Japan under the Pomera brand.

Quite keen on the DM100 - https://olivierduong.com/digital-notetaking/pomera-dm100-review.

While there are newer models out, this one runs on standard AA batteries. A more standard clamshell design should be way more durable than the PSION as well.

#writing #journaling

Andrew Melder
1 hour ago

Well an update on my PSION Series 5; the screen gave up the ghost completely shortly after the above post.

Even if I can get my hands on some spare parts, I'm not entirely confident in my ability to not only get it working, but to not encounter the same issue later on.

So I've been looking at alternatives. Using my phone (with or without an external keyboard) doesn't work cause there's just too many distractions & barriers to journaling quickly.

#RetroComputing
#PSION #writing #journaling

Indie Author Social News
1 hour ago

Every Little Thing

The Never Before Seen Kickstarter is going much better than I ever could have hoped—and that’s because of all of you. Thank you for the support! The Kickstarter features some of my short crime fiction. The stories are original and never before seen....
https://kriswrites.com/2023/12/09/every-little-thing/

#WritingCommunity
#SelfPublishing
#Writing

Games
2 hours ago

Christmas poem:
"They don't call me Saint Knickerless for nothing!"
A drunken Santa wobbled half naked to the music.
Mrs Claus tried to shield the elves with a baking tray.
The gingerbread men screamed.

#poetry #writing

So far her tally had been raised to killing a dozen men by slashing their throats. At this rate they’d soon be accusing her of building a guillotine for her private use. #writing

#WritersCoffeeClub #Writing 10: What aspect of your work are you most proud of? Don't be shy.

I think I do a very good job at witty dialog. In fact, I have trouble with characters that are plan speakers.

BraveryTEWalker
5 hours ago
Ian Robinson
5 hours ago

2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 3 New Scripts, 31 Total | by Scott Myers | Dec, 2023 | Go Into The Story https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2023-award-season-screenplay-downloads-3-new-scripts-31total-ad8f68044b1a

#Film #Scripts #Writing #Movies

Richard A Carter
6 hours ago

Without further adieu, I've now released my latest generative Bitsy art-game. "The Book of Sand" is a retelling of the 1975 short story by Jorge Luis Borges. Read excerpts from the tale as you navigate passages from the mysterious tome it depicts. https://racarter.itch.io/the-book-of-sand

#bitsy #gamedev #generative #pixelart #writing #story #digitalArt #art

Screenshot. Simple, low resolution pixel art maze set against a desert backdrop, top-down view. Books can be seen strewn throughout the maze, and desert scrubland can be seen outside its walls. The scene is rendered in varied shades of soft pink and gold.
nebulos
7 hours ago

There's a lot of this going on in #witchpunk since it's set approximately modern day. Here's the first example:

Diane Ashton has accepted your invitation.
I meant it when I said we should catch up.
Are you busy tonight? How about dinner?
=> only w/ what ur paying me for lol
=> I can do dinner
=> Do you think you could pick me up?
At 6:52 Alan’s Tesla Roadster rolled up to the front of the condo building. Ash clambered in through the convertible roof...

Not super attached to the formatting, so it'll probably change by the final draft.

#AmWriting #WritersCoffeeClub #Writing

Ashley from Avoid The Hack
7 hours ago

Somehow 1 #novel in progress turned into 2 novels in progress.

Far happier with the second one, though. It stems from an idea in the first one, but they’re not really related. Current focus is on the second as it’s going far smoother.

Unfortunately, doesn’t look like I’ll hit my goal of finishing #writing it by the end of the year… but that’s ok.

Mistress witch writes
8 hours ago

What a witching view!

#writing #blogging #witch #photography

Through branches with leaves on them the reflection of a red castle wall and a window in the wall is seen.
Mistress witch writes
8 hours ago
Mistress witch writes
8 hours ago

It‘s in general known as a bad sign if you start talking about the weather, right? Still, I had to ask my witch how the weather was back in her days, and in this post, I will tell you why!

#writing #blogging #witch #history

https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/what-a-witching-weather-what-was-the-little-ice-age/

Mistress witch writes
8 hours ago

I have found two main reasons and each one of them makes me rethink old Halloween costumes!

#writing #blogging #witch #magic #history

https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2023/04/03/why-witches-wear-pointy-hats/

#WritersCoffeeClub #Writing 09: How would you write an online chat or text message conversation in your novel?

Cont.

Use the formatting style used in JNovel Club books as closely as possible.

Mistress witch writes
8 hours ago

With my #witch, I have chosen a difficult time to write in. Trying to summarize our starting point in this post!

#writing #blogging #history

https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2023/03/25/the-next-writing-challenge-growing-up-in-1618/

Mistress witch writes
8 hours ago

Self-driving carriages and a dead body searching for a home! The city of Dortmund tried it all to matter in the medieval world. More in this post!

#writing #Blogging #witch #magic #Medieval

https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2023/01/21/medieval-magic-visiting-st-reinoldi-in-dortmund/

Mistress witch writes
9 hours ago

Visiting my favourite medieval town with my #witch!

„Look at these cozy houses even surviving your hell!“, I tell my witch searching through photographs over candle light that pictured a very resilient small town, hidden in the hills.

#writing #blogging #history

https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/monschau-a-small-town-of-resilience/

Mistress witch writes
9 hours ago

and being the last one alive standing by the window, whispering:
“I love you.”
“Oh please be back in time!”
“Save me, Daddy!”

“Really?”, my witch interrupts coughing into her bottle of wine. “Does it have to be Daddy again?”

#writing #Blogging #witch #essay #historicalfiction

https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/closer-to-the-past/

Dilman Dila
10 hours ago

Been a long day of modelling, and a longer week, and so my patrons just got an early access to an article about the short film I'm working on, #TheMetalPerson You too can support me on there, or perhaps on https://ko-fi.com/dilmandila

https://www.patreon.com/posts/december-updates-94376440?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#sff #film #writing #writingcommunity

Wendy Parciak
16 hours ago

I think a lot about my favorite parts of writing (Finishing Draft 1! Revising!), and it occurred to me I need to put household chores in the same positive light. My Favorite Chore? Dishwashing! (warms up my hands)

What chore's at the top of your list?

#WritingCommunity #writing

Jonathan Schofield
16 hours ago

What if journalism gave us less of…

Clickbait headline
Hyperbolic lede
Problem statement
Evidence of problem
Evidence of problem
Evidence of problem
Evidence of problem
Possible solution statement
Token explanation
Bye

- - -

And instead, a lot more of…

Slightly less clickbaity headline
Inviting lede
Problem statement with link to detail
Possible solution statement
Reasonably in depth exploration of solution
Links to getting involved in making that solution a workable reality

#writing

Kristie
16 hours ago

Writing with the Swan Lake finale blaring in my headphones is a singular experience.

I think this is how it must have felt to write the really exciting parts of the Bible 😂

#Writing #SwanLake #ClassicalMusic #Writer

Chris Cutler
23 hours ago

#WritersCoffeeClub #Writing 09: How would you write an online chat or text message conversation in your novel?

#TheWomanWhoFoundHerself is the first in a dual timeline series. In each book, the historical period is different. The modern timeline is the present and moves forward with each book. To avoid straying into the future, book 1 starts in 2003. Online chat has yet to appear, but I'll keep you posted.

Sampath Pāṇini ®
23 hours ago

if you grow up around people with unprocessed trauma, your learning and development involves empathizing with the Impenetrable Sadness caused by grief.

#trauma #learning #development #empathy #ImpenetrableSadness #grief #writing

Noelle :verified:
1 day ago

Yet another blog post on my Linefeed blog about WordPress. I'm switching over to Linefeed and Neocities for blogging. 😀

#blogging #neocities #blog #writing

https://noelleblogging.linefeed.app/the-analytics-on-wordpress-stress-me-out-6032c6

Steve Henderson Fine Art
1 day ago

Where I want to be

Is out and about with friends,

Enjoying the day.

How pleasant, how necessary is an outing, getting away someplace far from obligations and texts from the office ("Oh, I must have left my phone in the car.") Perhaps we call it free time because we're free from onerous expectations and constraints.

Outing canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/outing-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

#weekend #sailing #freedom #friendship #art #artwork #stevehenderson #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #writing #haiku

Canvas print of an original oil painting by Steve Henderson depicting two sailboats out on the water.
autumn 🌞 sunshine plz
1 day ago

115 day writing streak. 💪

i haven't finished my #nanowrimo novel, but it's there waiting whenever i'm ready to come back to it (maybe #campnano goals).

#4TheWords #writing

I am the man now, dog. :cat_typing:

#Writing

Happy Holliedays
1 day ago

Copyright question: I'm in some programs for nervous system healing (a paradigm currently being developed for helping/healing chronic conditions). These can be very expensive, and I think there needs to be more public discussion of what they're like so that more people can decide if they'd be helpful for them.

How do I write notes on these programs without overstepping copyright bounds? Is sharing notes (in your own words) always okay?

#chronicIllness #copyright #questions #blogging #writing

RS, Author, Novelist
1 day ago

@kagan
Super big thank you for posting this. I know that a number of people have #fibromyalgia in my followers and amongst the #writing hashtags in the #writingcommunity. The article has a lot that has changed since I last looked.

the findings also contradicted long-held perceptions that chronic fatigue syndrome is a rich white woman’s disease.

Yep. Doctors used it to once again discriminate against women! To disempower them. But now:

[The study shows] There was less of a gap between women and men than some previous studies suggested, and there was hardly any difference between white and Black people. The study also found that a higher percentage of poor people said they had it than affluent people.

So, there's the reason medicine ignored an important disease, and even in that group, I fell through the gaps. It's about time this gets taken seriously. #Brainfog and #chronicfatiguesyndrome are real and can affect anyone.

#writersofmastodon

Writers' questions:

Do you use the passive adjective or the subjunctive predicative in your #writing?

Me:

.........................................................

Maria Liv
1 day ago

Dear Swedish journalists and writers of any kind. Please stop using the words "huruvida", "huruledes" and "om ifall".

It's passive aggressive lawyer language, it sounds like you are writing a letter to Gustav Vasa, which doesn't sound good anywhere, confuses everyone, and lawyers shouldn't use those words either.

Write literally anything else. Like for example the words you use when you actually talk to people FROM THIS CENTURY!

Best regards, the annoyed paralegal

#Writing #Journalism

Damon Thomas
1 day ago

This whole writing thing? Time gives us new perspectives. Revealed truths. #writing #FlashMemoir #poetry #florida #truth #christmas

In the mid-90s I'd occasionally volunteer at the Civic Media Center in Gainesville, FL. My time in this "library of the non-corporate press" was mostly spent reading although it did once provide an opportunity to be verbally assaulted by Harry Crews. One day I arrived to see a fridge had been placed beside the front entrance. The "Free Fridge" held donated food that was available to all at no cost. Once I grabbed a carton of Rice Nog. I had never had an alternative nog at that point so was unfamiliar with the product. Was it supposed to have that flavor? Was it supposed to be that texture? Time has passed and now I can say that specific carton of Rice Nog was more yogurt than Nog.
Rua M. Williams
1 day ago

The recording of the Writing with Executive Dysfunction workshop is available with corrected captions. The document that we drafted in it will be completed available next week on my substack.

https://youtu.be/zQ5kH59_b8s

If you enjoy this video, please consider donating to my friend's housing fund.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/jonmeshia-find-a-stable-future

#Neurodivergent #Autistic #ADHD #ExecutiveDysfunction #Academic #writing #HousingFund #housing #fundraiser

Image is screen capture of zoom recoding on YouTube. Rua M Williams is in the upper right corner. The slide is titled Fractal Scaffold and has 6 blocks that read "premise, context, substantiate, acknowledge, reaffirm, point the way". The captions read "But when you're sitting there and you're thinking, I have no idea how to write the thing I need to write, or I have no idea how to get the point across, this tool can help you get it onto paper, and then decide which rules you want to..."
Sampath Pāṇini ®
2 days ago

Sometimes, this space is a way to subtweet the world and convos happening without my involvement, or on completely different platforms, without feeling like I’m spamming or interrupting the participants.

#writing #CriticalThinking #blogging

duanetoops
2 days ago

Repression is a rite of passage, they tell us. It’s called being an adult, they say. It’s all part of becoming a semi-well-adjusted member of a society. Smile. Nod. Stay in your lane. Dress for the job you want. Do as you're told. Pay your taxes and your rent. And, most importantly, stuff all your otherness way the fuck down so no one knows, and no one sees...

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/bowerbirds

#reading #writing #art #poetry #amwriting #writingcommunity #blog #blogging #book @bookstodon #creative

duanetoops
2 days ago

Sometimes an idea turns into a diaster, and sometimes you’re glad it did.

A piece of art I made to accompany one of Carolyn Jones' poems

https://wordblooms.substack.com/p/discarded-dreams

#reading #writing #art #poetry #amwriting #writingcommunity #blog #blogging #creative #creativity #artwork #collage #collageart #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #type #typography #graphicdesign

ink smeared and splattered paper with typography that says "forget me not"
Fictionable
2 days ago
A portrait of the writer Catriona Bolt, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'Most of my writing comes from feelings and atmospheres'
Jonathan Schofield
2 days ago

6 hours to go on this poll and, as ever with my polls, small numbers 🤷‍♂️

https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111540474687751836

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Whichever use of text case you choose, pick ONE and *stick to it*, people.

And that’s one reason why it’s my firm view that ‘Sentence case with Proper Nouns’ is the right choice – because it is the easiest to be consistent with

#writing #editing

Yahia Lababidi
2 days ago

Young Palestinian poet & scholar, Refaat Alareer, killed today by a targeted Israeli airstrike along with his brother, sister & 4 of her children.

Anticipating his own death, Refaat shared this moving poem, 1 month ago:

https://youtube.com/shorts/cRqq4H7XNCA?si=Ieb72FEnTS_X-RkS

#israel #palestine #Gaza #war #genocide #news #BreakingNews #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #youtube #video #rip 🕊️

Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
2 days ago

Why does your character not follow the local religion?

#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #religion

A fantastical drawing of a fish that looks similar to an Anglerfish, but instead of a light on its lure, there is a glowing cross.
🦠Toxic Flange🔬⚱️🌚
2 days ago

#writing #dragon #dragons

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel, and then the dragons arrived."

cc: @GreatDismal

🦠Toxic Flange🔬⚱️🌚
2 days ago

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, and then the dragons arrived."

#writing #dragon #dragons

🦠Toxic Flange🔬⚱️🌚
2 days ago

Ok, this is pretty funny.
From Josh Gauthier (@JG_Writer on twits)
Let's try this. Give me the opening line of a book, but add "and then the dragons arrived."

In the beginning, the universe was created, and then the dragons arrived. This has made a lot of people very angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move.

#writing #dragon #dragons

From Josh Gauthier (@JG_Writer on twits)
Let's try this. Give me the opening line of a book, but add "and then the dragons arrived."
Longreads
3 days ago

Working on our "Best of" package is a labor of love. Sifting through our 2023 editors' picks is a lot like listening to your favorite songs on repeat. Here are reported essays that we will reread over and over again by Summer Praetorius, Jennifer Senior, Nick Bowlin, Guy D. Middleton, and Tom Vanderbilt.

https://longreads.com/2023/12/07/best-of-2023-reported-essays/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #BestOf #ReportedEssay #Writing

Wendy Parciak
3 days ago

I love it when a story turns a character's biggest flaw into a positive trait.

My MC's inability to focus, for example, helps her to think outside the box.

#WritingCommunity #writing

Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
3 days ago

#WordWeavers 7 Dec: Do you use foreshadowing? If so, how?

I'll usually realise I need to set stuff up when I start writing about a random thing and realise it doesn't fit. How much work it would involve to edit it into earlier in the story? If it's too much I'll just remove it and think of something else. I've had some of my best plot ideas this way. At the end of the writing I'll go, hey! That's a great solution to... Damn, so much work to seed it through, now.
#WritingCommunity #writing

1. Writers write.
2. Writing is a process.
3. You don't know what your writing will be until the end of the process.
4. If writing is your process, the only way to fail is to not write.
-Gail Sher "One Continuous Mistake"
#writing
#writingcommunity
#writingpractice

Marjolein Rotsteeg
3 days ago

I just received an email stating that the Japan Society UK has chosen my haiku as their 'haiku of the week'. 👇🏽

https://www.japansociety.org.uk/haiku-corner

#haiku #poetry #poem #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

@poetry

kat
3 days ago

i was told by the wise to make an #introduction post, so:

hi all i'm kat or katie!! i'm #autistic and #queer and i like #literature and #words and #language and #books and #writing and #podcast.

i competently speak #português #english #français #español #deutsch and incompetently a few others.

i also do computer stuff? i like being a tech nerd among the humanists and a book nerd among the techies.

i'm animalcule on bluesky but that was taken here.

wynlim
3 days ago

posted some words and photos on the nostalgia I experienced at akihabara
https://winnielim.org/journal/nostalgia-in-akihabara/

#writing #blogging

Damon Thomas
3 days ago

The best memoir work will always involve just a smidge of terror. #writing #FlashMemoir #poetry #florida #terror

Person is concerned about a partner ordering a book.
Erotic Mythology (hire me) 💖
3 days ago

When I first started writing professionally, I was hesitant about giving away my sources of inspiration, afraid people would say I ripped someone else off, which is sadly a common accusation if a work resembles a popular one (not that anything of mine is even close to the popular Greek myth bestsellers LOL). But today, I like to think that I am very straight-forward with my inspiration if I know I took it from a particular work.

#writing #writerslife #rant

duanetoops
3 days ago

Something happens when you're unhurried, when you escape from acceleration and speed. When you give way to haste-less activity.

Something happens when you tarry, when you linger, when you pause.

You were never trying to escape your life, only what you thought it was supposed to be. Your real life has always been in the attention you give to slow things.

#reading #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #creative #creativity #blog #blogging #art #poetry #books @bookstodon

RS, Author, Novelist
3 days ago

1/2 Poll Intro There are "Edit" notification settings in the Notification column of your instance web app for Mastodon. This notifies you if a post you starred or boosted was modified by the poster.

Question Is Edit notification on or off? Please take a moment to say whether you turned it on or off in a reply. Feel free to comment about what you think of this setting.

Please boost for the widest possible sample size.

#hashtags: #fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion #poll #fedi #fediTips #fediVerse #mastodon

RS, Author, Novelist
3 days ago

2/2 Poll Intro There are "Edit" notification settings in the Notification column of your instance web app for Mastodon. This notifies you if a post you starred or boosted was modified by the poster.

Question Do you get upset when someone modifies their post? Please take a moment to explain what you think in a reply.

Please boost for the widest possible sample size.

#hashtags: #fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion #poll #fedi #fediTips #fediVerse #mastodon