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Why on earth do publishers do this? It drives me nuts!

Why not just pick a book size and keep it consistent for the whole series?

*eye twitches*
#publishing #publishers #books #book #author #writing #rant

The books of the “Rosie” series by Graeme Simsion in two different sizes

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The books of the inheritance series by Christopher Paolini in three different sizes

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The books of the Artemis fowl series and other books by Eoin Colfer in four different sizes

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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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WRITERS!

Submissions are invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, Gaelic, & Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

@writingcommunity

Submit free via Submittable 👇

https://nws.submittable.com/submit

#Scottish #literature #writing #WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

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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

July 2025 #WordWeavers

1. Which other medium besides writing (film, song, game, etc.), would work best for your story and why?
2. Who would you want to co-create the version of your work from question #1?
3. If your story were food, what kind?
4. Given access to your wardrobe, what would your MC choose to wear?
5. What kind of perfume/scent would work for your antagonist?
6. MC POV: You get an hour to do absolutely anything (within the possibilities of your world), no restrictions. What do you choose?
7. If you could live the life of one of your characters, which one?
8. Antagonist POV: You can eliminate any obstacle except people; no killing. What do you choose?
9. Who is your most powerful character? In what way?
10. You have to leave Earth, and you can only immigrate to one of the settings you’ve written. Where do you go?
11. How is your current WIP going? Anything you'd like to share about it?
12. Are you comfortable promoting your own work?
13. Do you regularly write reviews of others' work or promote them?
14. What’s your favorite format to release your work (ebook, paperback, audiobook, etc.)? Why?
15. How emotionally intelligent is your MC?
16. SC POV: What do you do to calm down when you’re angry?
17. Your MC's boss has done a job performance appraisal, share a few details.
18. The home of your MC is on fire. They can retrieve one item. What is it and why?

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139d

Uhhhhh so I just went on a really long rant on my blog about why I don't like Meta platforms. 😆

It's called "8 reasons why I think Meta platforms are pointless".

#Meta #SocialMedia #blog #writing

https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/8-reasons-why-meta-platforms-are-pointless-imho/

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One of the scariest moments of my life was when I fled #boise #idaho to #portland #oregon with nothing.

I was #homeless and desperate, and there was nothing left for me there but bad memories, and very few resources for someone poor.

I had exhausted all my options, and I was just trying not to die.

Still recovering from #opioids I got on a Greyhound to a shelter I had lined up in advance, and stepped from a desert into rain.

All that effort and fear just to have a bed.

#writing

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108d

Don't trust cloud services with your creative work.

#enshittification #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity #writing #art

Tumblr post by maerossi.

screenshot - "Google Sheets
We're sorry. You can’t access this item because it is in violation of our
Terms of Service."

Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff. Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.

23 Jul
Holy smokes, guys. It's way worse than | thought. Google actually took away access to every single file of fiction writing I'd made on that account. BUT |
backed it all up on Scrivener yesterday by coincidence. So | haven't lost my work, but I could have just lost the 12,000 words I've written this month after a year of really intense writer's block. I honestly don't know what that would have done to
my psyche. Please be careful out there, folks! <3

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WRITERS!

New Writing Scotland seeks a new co-editor for English- & Scots-language work. Applicants should be currently based in Scotland & have a strong publishing record, with a focus on prose. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue.

@writingcommunity

Details 👇

https://asls.org.uk/new-writing-scotland-seeks-co-editor/

#Scottish #Scotland #writers #writing #writingcommunity

NEW WRITING SCOTLAND

ASL is seeking applications to be a co-editor of New Writing Scotland, from writers currently based in Scotland. Applicants should have a strong publishing record of their own, with a focus on prose; previous editorial experience would be an advantage. The post will run for up to three years from 2026, for volumes 44, 45, and 46, publishing in 2026, 2027, and 2028 (dependent on funding).

Our editors jointly select approximately 50 pieces – poetry and prose – from the English- and Scots-language submissions we receive each year. The submissions are anonymised, and we provide editors with paper copies to read. As an editor, we’d ask you to attend launches in Edinburgh and Glasgow (travelling expenses would be paid). Editors receive an annual £1500 stipend and full editorial credit.

We encourage applications from all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from people who are under-represented within the sector, including from BPOC applicants (Black people and People of Colour), disabled people, LGBTQIA+ applicants and those from a low socioeconomic background.

Please send a CV and a one-page application letter, outlining your qualifications for the position, to admin@asls.org.uk by midnight on Monday 4 August 2025.

Submission to New Writing Scotland is free and open to all. You can find our submission instructions here.

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https://screwlisp.small-web.org/emacs/writing-experience/

My #emacs #writing #writingExperience #emacsCarnival submission.

Discussing my transition to #eev away from being a heavy user of the popular #orgmode.

My writing primarily concerns #lisp #programming, so the difference between #eepitch and #orgBabel features heavily.

Looking forward to hearing from everyone including the other emacs carnivalians.

CC @greg (Writing Experience emacs carnival host)

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“[I]f you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.”

—Nancy Hawkins, the majestic narrator of Muriel Spark’s A FAR CRY FROM KENSINGTON, on why a writer should own a cat

Today, 8 August, is International Cat Day (don’t tell them) 🐈‍⬛

1/3

#Scottish #literature #writing #cats #InternationalCatDay #MurielSpark

So I passed him some very good advice, that if you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work, I explained, the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk-lamp. The light from a lamp, I explained, gives a cat great satisfaction. The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquillity of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.

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What kind of maniac launches their website on a Friday?!

Hi, hello there, it's me. I'm that kind of maniac. How you doin'.

Today, I'm excited to launch the place where I'll be putting my energy where my mouth is, the website where I'll show (AND tell) you what I've learned.

It is my great honor to invite you to check out www.Get-Frosty.com

This is just a sample of what I've got cooking; there's more to come. Stay, and I cannot stress this enough, tuned.

#TTRPG #Gaming #3dPrinting #Writing

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