WayWORD Festival 2025
1–5 October, Aberdeen
The programme for WayWORD 2025, the University of Aberdeen’s cross-arts literary festival, is now online.
#Scottish #literature #writing #creativewriting #WritingCommunity
WayWORD Festival 2025
1–5 October, Aberdeen
The programme for WayWORD 2025, the University of Aberdeen’s cross-arts literary festival, is now online.
#Scottish #literature #writing #creativewriting #WritingCommunity
He will outlast us, churning out his books,
advocate and historian, his prose
earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates,
its cheap mementos from the land he made…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WalterScott #IainCrichtonSmith #writers #writing
Hiya everyone! I'm Noo, an Australian #indiecomics author, artist, and a refugee from #tumblr after they pulled a Deviantart!
I'll primarily be posting my #art and #writing stuff, plus the occasional shitpost.
Glad to be here, big fan of open-source, decentralised stuff, Linux and not having algorithmic content shoved down your gob.
Can't wait to meet some fellow indie comics peeps too!
THEY’RE HERE! My self-care adult coloring books arrived just now. I haven’t uploaded them to my website store (yet), but if you would like one, send $9.99 USD & your address to me at $mckra1g (CashApp) or @mckra1g (Venmo). Free shipping in the U.S. (add $3.00 for intl addresses).
#art #books #SelfCare #creativity #FediGiftShop #mind #MentalHealth #writing #journal #SelfHelp
What if the robot that asks you
“are you a robot?” is only trying
to find its family.
Full of Journaling Prompts and Self-Care Exercises along w/illustrated affirmations awaiting your talented flourish, this coloring book is designed to help you lower your stress, focus your intentions and expand your well-being!
Please email info@mollycantrellkraig.co for bulk orders over 50 copies for special rates.
https://mollycantrellkraig.co/product/self-care-scribbles-coloring-book/
#stressRelief #HR #coloringBooks #books #art #journaling #happiness #affirmations #LifeCoach #focus #FediGiftShop #writing #MentalHealth #manifestation
I have three new writing workshops coming up in June and July! Building on the success of Design-A-Ghost, I'd like to invite you to join me to explore some more familiar characters from #SFF and #horror by reading extracts from classic and contemporary authors together, and then using writing prompts and exercises to create your own unique monsters, aliens, and robots! 👹👽🤖
#Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #WritingWorkshop
My personal column of essays about life and the world we live in. A bit of everything, I’m afraid. Philosophy, history, science, human behavior, and religion. Sometimes I take the long way around but it’s usually entertaining. Buy a ticket. Take the ride.
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In return, I promise not to become a neuro-sparse psychopathic plutocrat.
What are your favorite monthly/weekly challenges?
https://challenges.stefanbohacek.dev
#challenge #challenges #MonthlyChallenge #WeeklyChallenge #ArtChallenge #writing #WritingChallenge #WritingPrompt #coding #CodingChallenge
I'm the new Revisionary at the Loft Literary Center's online writing community--helping people learn about & embrace revision w/new content + live sessions each week. I'm so happy to get to play! Check it out or tell people you think might be interested :)
Monthly Membership: https://loft.thinkific.com/bundles/loft-lit-commons?ref=b5cc65
Annual Membership: https://loft.thinkific.com/bundles/lit-commons-annual-membership?ref=b5cc65
Me: https://loft.thinkific.com/courses/lit-commons-revisionary-s2
@edibuddies @writers #Writing #AmEditing #WritingAdvice #WritingCraft #QueerWriters #FictionWriting #IndieAuthors
#authors, #writers, #writingcommunity, #gamedevs, #gamedevelopers #gamingcommunity, #artists #contentcreators! Is there anyone here who is on #substack? I'd be more than happy to #connect!
https://substack.com/@myhauger
When I get on a new elevator, I count the number of seconds between floors to detect any hidden floors. Useful in casinos. This is sometimes the office and security floor.
I’m Lauren, a creative professional and writer in Cape Town.
I love all things #reading #writing & #design - I have a #communications and #GraphicDesign business & many #creative interests
I’m #SelfPublishing soon!
After connecting with the #IndieAuthor community I made a series of #canva #tutorials to help them design and market their #books
My flagrant use of tags here is a good representation of my approach - full enthusiasm at max speed 😂
I look forward to connecting!
I've just finished the first stage of a more long-term project, which has produced an audiobook version of the prologue and first two chapters of Troll Song.
If you enjoy this sample, you can learn more about the novel from my website: https://owentyme.us/books/wizards-scion/troll-song.html
This was achieved with an open source neural network text to speech synthesizer named Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #actionadventure #fiction #ai
Was once again reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin's daily schedule, and why this woman was an icon on every single level.
#UrsulaKLeguin #Books #Bookstodon #book #Writing #WritingCommunity
#Society always tries to convince you that you need a solid reason to do something. It has to be worth your #time, whatever that means, and I always found that idea confusing.
For starters I never chose to have all this time. It was given to me randomly one day and I appeared here with a bunch of it, that everyone always wants.
What's worth my time is for me to decide, society just wants me to think differently so they can have a piece cuz it's valuable.
I started a new project titled 'Starwitch'.
It's about three sisters that launched themselves into space with magic. The novel has been named for the ship itself. The setting will be primarily fantasy, though with some minor scientific elements, mostly in the form of mathematics and orbital dynamics.
I intend to publish as an episodic web series, then as a novel, so keep an eye out for details.
https://owentyme.us/books/starwitch/index.html
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #wip
My first fictional story. There are no physical descriptions or names so as to allow our minds to fill in those details based on our own experiences from our own cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds. What image did your mind create of the couple? Did certain people come to mind?
Cosmic horror but make it funny
In my latest post, I reflect on the kinds of stories I most like to read, and maybe should write as I seem to be running out of them.
Ancient Origins of Writing Traced to Mysterious 6,000-Year-Old Symbols
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-origins-of-writing-traced-to-mysterious-6000-year-old-symbols
#WordWeavers What are beauty standards like in your world?
While Ethereal is a diverse Realm, with many cultures that each have a sense of beauty, no one understands what attracts Cedric and Freya to Sabre. He's striking but born halfway into the shadows and, at times, looks more like a creepy spectre than a person, so it's funny to Freya and Cedric to publicly, theatrically swoon for Sabre whenever he's being his disconcerting broody self.