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I’ve got June’s #WordWeavers questions for you!
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)
#amwriting #writing #authors

June 2025 #WordWeavers 1. Share your favorite fact about your story. 2. What's the biggest challenge you're facing with your current project? 3. Is your MC a good cook? Any special dishes? 4. Describe the mood of the opening paragraph of your story using 3 adjectives. 5. What would your first chapter smell like? 6. What object would you use to represent the sensory feel of your story? 7. Antagonist POV: If you were an animal, which one? 8. If you have more than one story, what's your best one & why? If only one, what's the best part? 9. MC POV: Whose advice do you value the most? 10. How many POV characters does your story have? Is that your preferred approach in general? 11. What color do you associate with your current story? 12. How much do you interact with libraries for research, reading, writing groups, etc? 13. If your MC magically became a dog, what breed would fit them best? 14. What real song would be your antagonist's favorite? 15. If your MC found a clean, sealed, unlabelled box, would they open it? Why or why not? 16. Has your physical health ever affected your ability to write or the topics you write about? 17. Are there any midsummer traditions in your world? 18. If you could have written any other author's book, what would it be? 19. If you could choose another (living) author to remix your work, who would it be and why?
Created by @AlinaLeonova@wandering.shop &@BranwenOShea@writing.exchange

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May 22, 2025:

What is a "haibun"?

A haibun (俳文) is a short piece that combines prose and poetry (a haiku), with a subtle or direct link between the prose and the haiku.

Here's my first one, "My brother's fall" on Medium.

Haibun, "My brother's fall"
https://medium.com/@romanalanwrites/my-brothers-fall-134a0a8a6830

My Medium stuff should be open and accessible to all – let me know if it's not.

#Poetry #Prose #Haiku #Haibun #Writing #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Do you like hedgehogs? Artist @KarenKasparArt and I certainly do! We have created two designs of #haikuart with them, from T-shirts and throw pillows to cards and prints. Now with a 25% discount at Redbubble!

For Europe:
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Hedgehog-in-Hibernation-Haiku-English-Watercolor-Painting-by-KarenKaspar/170755239.WFLAH

https://www.redbubble.com/i/throw-pillow/The-Scent-of-Spring-Hedgehog-Haiku-English-Watercolor-by-KarenKaspar/170756430.5X2YF

https://www.artheroes.de/de/motiv/Igel-im-Winterschlaf-Haiku-Englisch/1732219?mediumId=1&size=45x60&var2=0&var3=2

https://www.artheroes.de/de/motiv/Der-Duft-des-Fruehlings-Igel-Haiku-Englisch/1732230

For ao The US :
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/hibernating-hedgehog-haiku-english-karen-kaspar.html

https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/the-scent-of-spring-karen-kaspar.html

#haiku #haikuart #poetry #art #buyintoart #ayearforart #FAA #writing #hedgehog #hedgehogs #nature #animals

Blue T-shirt with a watercolour painting of a snow landscape with a fir tree and a hibernating hedgehog under a blanket of snow.
Haikuart:
art by : @KarenKasparArt@socel.net
haiku by : @MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl

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THE DEAD DON'T DIE #Review

Adam Driver drives Selena’s Gomez in this The Dead Don’t Die (2019) Review! (#Link Below)

http://hub.me/amOtN

#horror #horrorFam #writing #writer #writingCommunity #writers #Movies #movie #cinema #cinemastodon #Film #films #filmmastodon #zombie #comedy #horrorCommunity #horrorMovie #horrorMovies #horrorFilm #horrorFilms #horrormastodon

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"We Paid The Debts Of Others" #writing #poetry #debt #florida

My parents bought a used station wagon. We all took it shopping. Then came out of the store to a shattered back window. Witnesses helped find the culprit. The previous owner had owed him money. We paid the debts of others. And it was a cold drive home.

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In this month’s Writer Newsletter, Zulie @ #Medium shares alternatives to AI #images for #illustrating stories, popular story topics, #DraftDay2025 stats, a request for editor recognition, and more.

https://medium.com/@MediumStaff/writer-newsletter-7x-more-readers-are-opting-into-story-notifications-b2819c6218d6

#writing #writers

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“It didn’t occur to me for about five or six years after leaving school that literature was something I could be involved in. Then I discovered it was possible to write stories myself…”

—an extract from James Kelman on “Elitism & English Literature”, from a book I’m currently typesetting

#Scottish #literature #workingclass #writers #writing #JamesKelman #elitism

It didn’t occur to me for about five or six years after leaving school that literature was something I could be involved in. Then I discovered it was possible to write stories myself, I just had to go out and buy a couple of reliable ball-point pens and a good-sized notebook. I could even write stories about ordinary people if I wanted to. There wasn’t anybody going to stop me by using physical force. After that I found out there were other people in this country also doing such things, and there were other people who had been doing such things for a couple of hundred years. It was just that nobody in any of the positions of power in society had got round to telling me.

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Haven't joined my email list yet? Never received your free book? Now's a great time to sign up; I'm changing up my marketing strategy to keep in better touch with my fans!

https://storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/352eda48-44de-11f0-a3a4-37b9c031cb04

#AmWriting #WritersLife #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Books

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Medium Day, our annual community event, kicks off on Sept. 19, 2025. Register now to get updates on confirmed speakers, sessions, and activities at https://www.mediumday.com

#Medium #writers #writing #MediumDay

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The brand-new, interactive #Medium101 Webinars launch tomorrow, June 18, and will be offered multiple times a week. Learn more and register on Zoom here: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AqHsz36w78Tw45-SGmcTeWk5pePMDkp1xTKf5fF21vpX04YSlrnK~ArznQFrP1xm1ZfTwwNikcFd-mmIj5vo6fmn2WTkT2ENpeZ-qs7_IO6WMTg

#Medium #writers #writing

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My thought for the day. LLMs can string words together according to most likely usage in specific styles.

Human writers can create subtext, foreshadowing, red herrings, unreliable narrators, analogies, allegory. They craft passages which elicit sympathy, foreboding, and any other emotion you care to name. Their work can prompt curiosity and understanding - of self and others.

All these things distinguish pages of strings of words from books.

So that's what I'll be doing today.

#writing

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I just published “Generating Passphrases Like correct horse battery staple” at
https://www.ii.com/passphrase-generators/ - please post suggestions for passphrase generators as a reply to this toot and I'll include them in my article!
#InfiniteInk #Privacy #Security #Tech #Passwords #Passphrases #CorrectHorseBatteryStaple
#Words #Writing #Byℵ #ByNM

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Want to just start writing? Join the “Write with Medium” June micro-challenge! Learn more and sign up here: https://medium.com/not-perfect/want-to-just-start-writing-join-the-write-with-medium-june-micro-challenge-d8a50f0e384a

#Medium #writers #writing #WriteWithMedium #WritingChallenge #WritersBlock

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#lispyGopherClimate #technology #emacs #writing #lisp #gopher #podcast #LIVE #archive
https://communitymedia.video/w/hTjTR5cwshdWP7DX3VqWjB

#climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman

This week, DJ @damaru of the Evolution Revolution will talk, including about using emacs as a #writer.

I will share my #eev mode experience, and @eduardoochs should be in #emacsconf on IRC.

I'm going to mention incredible show artist @prahou with reference to gef's last episode.
https://analognowhere.com
https://archives.anonradio.net/202506241600_gef.mp3

@mdhughes @rat

Lispy gopher climate banner by @prahou@merveilles.town #UNIX_SURREALISM .

The lisp alien, in a purple tshirt, holding a microphone with its hand-nose and the gopher are carrying radio equipment labeled SDF through flooded AI wreckage.

anonradio.net
Every Wednesday 000UTC

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I edited and re-uploaded the first chapter of my Demon fucky story

It's here if y'all are curious https://taullo.ink/defyingorder/

#writing #demon #demons #wolf #werewolf #werewolves #religion

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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)
#amwriting #writing #authors