Yay! Another story for Smile is out!
Kindly click the link again if the first time doesn't bring you to the actual story. (I've already alerted the editor about this hiccup.)
"Try These Unusual Travel Ideas When You’re in Metro Manila"
I’m looking for a sensitivy/authenticity reader. And it’s been super hard to find someone that fits the requirements:
1) Spanish-fluency
2) Mexican heritage
3) Female
4) Familiarity with gothic literature (a fan is even better)
5) Open to reading potentially traumatic (but not graphic) situations
I’m looking for someone who does this for a living (so does invoices, contracts, and has experience with this kind of reading).
If you have leads, let me know!
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I've started a new monthly serial with @Longplay_Games: Riparia Marten and the Mystery of the Ancients.
Coming out monthly for free on the longplay games site:
https://blog.longplay.games/riparia-marten-and-the-mystery-of-the-ancients-chapter-1/
Introduction Appendix 3: This project will be a bit less socially minded, more just creative, and hopefully even a little lucrative, but I'm not holding my breath.
That's right, I'm writing a novel. I know that novelists are a dime a dozen, but I actually really enjoy writing, think that I'm fairly decent at it, and certainly have no shortage of ideas. There will be sequels, many of them (and prequels, and side stories...).
So what's it about? It's science fiction, because that's what I know and like best. The basic idea is the well-known "lost in space" idea, but I'm hoping that the unique setting, characters, and story are able to carry it. It takes place in an alternate history where the United States, Canada, and Mexico joined together to form a Technate, a country that employs Technocracy (see my Intro Appendix 1), not long after World War 2. Technological progress happens much faster until the start of the novel, where we find our crew of four performing a test flight of a prototype fusion rocket engine. Naturally, something goes horribly wrong and... science fiction weirdness ensues as the crew has to try and find their way back to Earth while navigating several strange (and often hostile) alien civilizations.
The background and setting are fairly detailed, enough that I already have ideas for prequels and side stories in addition to the main series. "Epic" world building appears to be my jam. Now we just have to see if anyone else happens to like it.
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Chapters 27 and 28 of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
Parts 1 and 2 are available to #download (or read online) for #free in #DRMfree #PDF and #EPUB formats
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Part 3 begins!
Finally, the stakes come into focus.
How does it all end?
Chapter 29 of "A New Faith" is up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
Parts 1 and 2 are available to #download (or read online) for #free in #DRMfree #PDF and #EPUB formats
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To self-publish or not to self-publish, that is the question. At my age, do I have the time to go through the whole process of finding an agent, sending queries, etc?
Check out July’s #WordWeavers questions!
Written by @AlinaLeonova & I, you’ll find the month’s questions pinned to our profiles on the 1st. All are welcome to join in.
Participate with a WIP or an already published book.
As always, play the days you want, skip the others. Please use CW as necessary. Looking forward to seeing your answers & meeting new friends. And a big thanks to those contributing the community questions. (below)
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Kindness isn't weakness.
Grace isn't surrender.
What does real strength look like, and how do we keep going without becoming what we're fighting?
You've heard of health span, but did you ever hear of JOY span? I just did, and I realized that writing, for me, covers all of its requirements.
Okay, I've read Les Miserables so I feel that I'm now entiteled to know what else Victor Hugo got up to 😁
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Zine page! Getting further into the nitty gritty of why carnivorous plants need to eat.
#art #humanMadeArt #zine #sciArt #gardening #nature #amWriting
https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/new-zine-page/
For the month of July I wrote a total of 15408 words of 96632 total words on the year so far, plus spent 3 hours 10 minutes revising/editing
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In an updated writing version of this meme I vividly hallucinate 1s and 0s onto liquid crystals.
The future is now! 😂
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I hate using Word for any sort of creative writing. I wrote a short story in Obsidian then put it in Word because that's one of the accepted formats for the place to which I might like to submit it.
Instantly dozens of blue underlines, exactly two of which are simple spelling errors. The rest are all style suggestions which, while they would not fundamentally change the thing I wrote, would rob me of my unique voice.
This isn't even AI slop. It's just the helpful little suggestions like verb tense and comma usage which I had already carefully considered. It's also straight up wrong 3/4 of the time. In a few cases, it wants to change the wording entirely.
I used to write like this. I used to use Word all the time. How much of my voice was lost to blue and red squiggly underlines?
I know I can go turn all those features off if I really wanted to, but I'd rather they be opt-in, just like I'd rather any genAI features be opt-in. The point is, even before genAI, Word was already tailoring and softening everybody's individuality toward a perceived ideal.
Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list of scammers:David Warteno <davidwarteno@gmail.com>Wordsmith & Writers <wixhelpspecialist@gmail.com>#bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #booksky
Being an #IndieAuthor means you have to do EVERYTHING yourself. Some steps are easier than others, as I've recently discovered.
https://susannasullivanauthor.substack.com/p/publishing-my-first-mystery-ebook?r=ytlja
RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116211809285100124
This is the kind of love story I like around here, shut up I'm not crying, you're crying... 😊
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Sent my anthology short story manuscript to my beta readers and editor. Now the waiting game begins, but it's okay cause now I can write about toxic vampire men to distract me.
Super excited cause it's about a hypocritical Chinese official and a vaguely Persian/Arab embroiderer in Tang Dynasty's Chang'An told as if you are reading a series of Chuanqi or Ancient Chinese marvel stories.
Y'all liked those baby turtles so much, well here's the zine page with them! I love this part 'cause it's got 🎵 propaganda! I'm doin' a wetland propaganda! 🎶
Bog Monsters zine:
https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/
Back in 2018 I decided I’d had it with winter weather. I headed south, all the way to Panama (where I had lived previously for a short time), and stayed during the coldest months at an AirBnB owned by a friend. I’ve been back every year, except during COVID lockdown, and it's become my #WritingRetreat.
Now, sadly, that epoch is ending. . .
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