I just published No Regrets https://link.medium.com/M6v77QlOiBb

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My boy cat (Grissom) is the cat that steals laces - there is a story in there somewhere. #Writing #Writers #WritingCommnunity

#writing #WritingCommnunity Good morning, everyone! Finally going to take some time to myself and get some writing done today.

#writing #WritingCommnunity Feeling a little better and did some writing. One thousand three hundred sixty-nine words are what I added to my WIP. It's not the best work I've done, but it's something.

#writing #WritingCommnunity So I wrote 1782 words today. It finishes a chapter, and though I will likely rewrite most of it, it's a very good start as rough drafts go.

#NewBlog from Pipxar: New Lush Stuff

#Blog #WritingCommnunity http://pipxar.com/2023/04/17/new-lush-stuff/

@ashteranic @AmyDentata About what to do with computers, I asked how I could make writing more fluid than using my Smith-Corona electric typewriter? Text editors and formatting and the Internet made the drudgery go away. Sadly, I don't buy reams of paper or typewriter ribbons anymore. Put many people out of business, I suppose.

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Did #writers and #agents and #editors really ever circulate "do not follow" or "block" lists to their #Twitter followers? I simply can't imagine it, but I'd love to know if anybody's ever seen one or been part of one.

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Hello Folks!
It's #IndieApril and now is the time to step outside your comfort zone and read some grass roots #sff !

170+ titles, heaps of them FREE, the rest either $0.99 or $1.99. Get into it!
https://promotions.narratess.com
💥Sale runs 1-3 April💥

#readingcommunity #WritingCommnunity #booktwt #booklovers #fantasy #scifi #HorrorCommunity

Participating authors feel free to tag yourselves below!

And a big thank you to
Narratess
for organising

What is the long-term valuation on the printed word? And what does it say about me that I even care? #substack #WritingCommnunity

https://brynphd.substack.com/p/51-stacks

present conundrum: how to appear more interesting than a smart phone.

tips appreciated.

#smartphones #lovelife #obsessed #WritingCommnunity #QuestionOfTheDay

do you know the words to "Muskrat Love?"

an excerpt from a recent newsletter

we post collections of old photos
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Short story
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Where The Rainbow Ends
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The ash from his cigarette fell beside the ashtray, otherwise full of butts and ash from long days looking out of the window.

"This rain will never end.", he muttered. The title of the book was as annoying as its contents, but he hadn't been able to forget about it and had kept reading every day, promising to himself that he would stop after every page. He felt the cigarette reaching its end and used its last embers to light another one, then walked to the door, grabbed his coat and hat and left.

"Another rainy day, another grey morning." He tightened the coat, feeling the chilling wind knocking at his bones' doors, and walked down the street, hands inside the pockets. Everything around felt miserable and dirty, but that's the way it had always been. The rain had long ago stopped washing away the grit that covered cars, pavement and buildings and even people had a layer of greyness over them. He looked up, holding his hat with one hand, raindrops spoiling the cigarette that still hanged from his lips. "Rainy days are the best, because sun is always waiting above the clouds to draw with the purest colors." Feeling bitterness, he scoffed at the words he had read before, that same morning. "I have never seen the sun, I wonder how it must feel..." People from the next shift crowded the factory's entrance, queuing up for clocking-in, all of them husks, wishing for the evening to come already so that they could go back home. He joined the line behind the last person and waited his turn, looking far away, beyond the horizon, trying not to think too much. "Light has a way of bringing out the good things. When the sun shines in a cold Winter day, feels even better than during all Summer." He clenched his fists inside the pockets, incapable of forgetting about the book. He wasn't even sure how the book had appeared in his life. [...]

The rest of it: https://library.leblake.space/author/thelo/short-stories/where-the-rainbow-ends

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Today, the wonderful Hannah Kate will interview me on her excellent North Manchester Radio show, Hannah's Bookself.

We shall talk about BOOKS, my book, other people's, and other good things (more books).

The show will be on air in a few weeks, I'll send a link to it then.

#writingcommnunity #debutauthor #author #sff #scifi #shortstories #books #bookcommunity

Hey #WritingCommnunity. Have you noticed over the course of your professional writing career that editors at major book publishers are the most pleasant to work with?

Whereas someone with just a marketing background at some corp blog will try to reword every single sentence?

Editor w/ decades of creative writing experience: One minor edit per page.

Some guy w/ a marketing degree:
E̶a̶c̶h̶ o̶f̶ m̶y̶ s̶e̶n̶t̶e̶n̶c̶e̶s̶ a̶r̶e̶ c̶r̶a̶f̶t̶e̶d̶ w̶i̶t̶h̶ c̶a̶r̶e̶. It is. T̶h̶e̶ s̶k̶y̶ i̶s̶ b̶l̶u̶e̶

It's TaleSlinger day! Time for some #writingtips. Today: Checkpoints. An aid in getting your story from A to Z.

https://leekhulme.substack.com/p/taleslinger-checkpoints

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Me he dado en la tarea de trabajar en un pequeño 🤖 #bot que se dedica a escribir el #horóscopo ♎♏

Si tienes curiosidad de verlo en acción o crees en el #zodiaco puedes encontrarlo aquí: @horoscopos

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"Sunday school" has a certain connotation, especially when it has to do with an on-demand weekend meeting with a teacher when you don't want to. In a society that doesn't have religious schooling outside of secular schooling, it isn't the appropriate word, however.

Hey, #writingcommnunity, any #sf or #sff ideas to use instead of "Sunday school" you can think of?

#writing #amrevising #amwriting

I remember people talking about the fact that it's difficult to show fascism without romanticizing it, especially when you show/describe fascists in "classy" military style clothes. Would anybody have a link to something about that ? I'd be curious to read this again, to get some ideas on how to avoid this. #writingcommnunity #writing #writingtips

what happens when kids & teens are the editors for a science journal? less drama & the writing gets a LOT more understandable, that's what!

via @washingtonpost

#science #WritingCommnunity #SciComm https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/07/science-journal-for-kids/