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?
writing
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.
I need to do some work. If you catch me procrastinating here, yell at me. #writing
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.
The fifth and final volume of The Wizard's Scion, The Inverted Glass, is now available for pre-order as an Ebook!
Read more on my blog: https://owentyme.us/blog/available-for-pre-order-the-inverted-glass.html
Or go straight to the store links: https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #actionadventure #fiction
Just finished creating cover designs for the 12 days promo Christine and I are launching on DEC 20th. We're offering 12 days of free downloads, ranging from energy audits, mindfulness exercises, manifesting, sales/business playbooks AND MORE. The retail value of the offerings ranges from $97-$497 each.
Want to learn more? Register for free:
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The Ebook of Sky Children is now available for purchase! Print copies will be available on Friday, January 3rd!
You can learn more at my website:
https://owentyme.us/books/sky-children/sky-children.html
Or go straight to the store links:
https://books2read.com/SkyChildren
#author #indieauthor #books #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #actionadventure #fiction
Happy #caturday!
deep sigh beside me
the cat stands up, stretches
and curls up again
Haiku: @MarjoleinRotsteeg
Handmade acrylic painting: @KarenKasparArt
--> https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/deep-relaxation-cat-haiku-english-karen-kaspar.html
#haiku #haikuart #poetry #writing #MastoArt #art #painting #FediGiftShop #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatLovers #pets #cute #animals #catstodon #WhiskersWednesday #kitten #kittens #katze #CatsOfFediverse #AnimalArt #BuyIntoArt #gingercat #ArtForSale #giftideas #handmade
Wrath of the Sky, the second volume of Sky Children, is available for preorder! The release date is set for February 7, 2025.
You can learn more at my website:
https://owentyme.us/books/sky-children/wrath-of-the-sky.html
Or go straight to the store links:
https://books2read.com/WrathOfTheSky
#author #indieauthor #books #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #actionadventure #fiction
every now and then i mistype girlfriend as girlfried
It makes me chuckle whenever I find this in an editing pass.
Here is my #introduction because I’m #newhere.
Like so many others, I’m a refugee from Meta/X. Mastodon is giving me some hope that I might find a #community in social media. Happily married. Resident of Florida but currently on slow travel in Costa Rica. My passions are: #writing – my web site (link in profile) has info on my novels and occasional #popculture essays - #movies , #reading #fiction and #nonfiction , and #photography
I look forward to connecting with the Mastodon community!
Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved:
https://www.saverilawfirm.com/meta-language-model-litigation
Bear with me, I want to tell you about the night sky and all her secrets. She was present 100 million years ago when that luminescent beetle lit up for self-protection or courtship. She was there watching with her millions of eyes when the redwoods emerged, when the first whales surfaced, and when seaweed evolved, floating over the cool currents. She looked on full of detached love perhaps or codependent love, or just coolly observed with scientific interest. It's possible she did not watch at all, distracted instead by something in another direction. I can imagine her engulfing earth in darkness, nestling this homey sphere in the fluffy cloud of the milky way. Maybe she simply slept as life crawled forth, sprouting, teeming, building, transforming. Maybe she missed the whole thing.
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I just migrated here from SecondUniverse@neurodifferent.me, so as a quick introduction... I am a trans woman. I transitioned back in the nineties before the world declared war on us. I was diagnosed with autism in my fifties, and more recently I have self diagnosed myself as having CPTSD. I post about astronomy, game development, trans issues, mental health, autism, and writing. #trans #actuallyAutistic #writing #mentalHealth #gameDev
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Love iA writer app, but it is only for Apple.
Found https://typora.io/ which is as excellent and available for Linux too and Free!!! (*edit: website sayd 15 days free trial, but I'm pretty sure I've had this on Linux longer... 🤔)
Plain text files for the win.
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🇫🇮🐍 Welcome to our next meetup on Wednesday 19th March 2025 at Taiste:
Talks:
✒️ @hamatti - Why developers should write blog posts
💉 Sakari Cajanus - Dependency injection in Python (or why Python is not Java)
🦀 Mislav Novakovic - Refactoring to Rust
And the famous HelPy quiz!
https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/306522919/
Please also drop us a line if you’d like to give a talk in April or beyond ⭐
#HelPy #Helsinki #Python #meetup #writing #blogging #DependencyInjection #Rust
I am an amateur #writer and #photography is immensely interesting to me, and I deeply enjoy wandering, then finding beautiful, strange, and interesting things to capture.
I wouldn't mind being #professional though, so I have an idea I want to try-
I created a #kofi that's similar to #patreon where someone can #commision me for #writing as well as photography.
It's a draft, and #experimental but if you'd like to support or #FediHire me:
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I wrote about how social media habits make it hard to write a good opening and how a BBC4 radio program helped me overcome the urge to waffle.
Neither waffle nor a cold open: In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg is my model for topic introductions
https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-03-22-neither-waffle-nor-cold-open/
I will NEVER hold, represent, use an emoji, hang, or honor ANYWAY an American flag again.
Just those that America is hurting, and those I support or feel I belong to.
I am no longer an American.
I am simply ME.
I was already ashamed of the #usa after being #homeless and feeling/seeing first hand how horrible it treats its most vulnerable people.
I am EMBARRASSED to even have this accent.
It's now a red mark on me, and I don't appreciate that at all since I didn't choose that.
![Avatar for Emily Moran Barwick [archived]](/proxy/identity_icon/280779823553852866/0ce5ffc456.png){kind=icon}
I've spent a lifetime making myself smaller for everyone.
Making myself the version of me that was most useful and comfortable for everyone around me.
And I *HAVE* to stop before I disappear.
I wrote about learning to TAKE UP SPACE: https://fromemily.com/space-taking-defiance/
Maybe you've made yourself smaller too? Let's TAKE UP SPACE together.
@actuallyautistic
#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #mentalhealth #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #writing #FromEmily #SmallWeb #writersofmastodon
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Bringing this from writer Joseph Malik over from Bluesky. I think it's spot on.
"Subtext separates a novel from a novel-length story. Subtext is the part that AI can't--and never will--generate. It can't read for subtext. It can read Cliff's Notes to determine an existing novel's subtext, but there is no mathematical or logical process to create it. Subtext is uniquely human."
It's the conclusion to a 3-post thread. You can find that via my mentions if you're so inclined.
It's my pleasure to announce https://storyseedlibrary.org/ - a #library of #solarpunk #art and story seeds to help you imagine a better #climate future!
Huge thanks to all the artists who shared their art under various #creativeCommons licenses, including @the_lemonaut , @NiwlCraft and @jacobcoffin ! No AI will replace handcrafted art!
If you liked our @SolarpunkPrompts #podcast , the Story Seeds are expanding its concept - soon with more, unpublished ones!
Trolls, boogeymen and witches, oh my!
Just another day for a young wizard.
It all starts here: https://books2read.com/b/TrollSong
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