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25d

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

26d

A thing I love about Austen's work is how immensely quotable it is. All you need to do is open up one of her books and you'll soon enough find a quote to your liking!

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

Light green flowered background. There are two lines of medium green curlycues at the top and bottom of the image. The text reads, "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours, he replied, with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them." Below the bottom two golden yellow lines, it says, "Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen"

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20d

In addition to the write-up about the upcoming P+P cast:
* More than 78K Austen novels have sold this year thus far (compared to 64K for all of 2024)
* The Folio Society's special edition Austen collection will range about $1000 USD

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/netflix-pride-and-prejudice-cast-dally-alderton-pptmz3kfk

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

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22d

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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19d

#wipwednesday
From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf

#wipwednesday #romanticsuspense #embezzlement #dangerinperil #bodyguard #graphicartist #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

A black background with two figures dressed in black holding stacks of cash with a snippet from Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series, for WIP Wednesday on 08/20/25.

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19d

101 Days. . . The first book in my #mystery series is scheduled to launch on December 1. Color me equal parts excited and terrified.

https://open.substack.com/pub/susannasullivanauthor/p/101-days?r=ytlja&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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13d

#wipwednesday
From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the Whimsical Dreams series.
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/bookshelf

#wipwednesday #romanticsuspense #embezzlement #dangerinperil #bodyguard #graphicartist #butchfemme #lesfic #sapphicbooks #bookstodon #writingcommunity #butchfemme #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks

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12d

A CHAOS OF LIGHT
New Writing Scotland 43
Ed. by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher

“writing that unsettles and challenges, that questions assumptions and gets us to look at, when it feels so much less painful to look away… A rich, boisterous, tender, charming, angry, sorrowful, gleeful mix”

Available now from all good bookshops!

@bookstodon
@writingcommunity

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/newwriting/nws43/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #newwriting #writingcommunity

Book cover

A Chaos of Light
New Writing Scotland 43

Edited by Kirstin Innes and Chris Powici
Gaelic Editor: Niall O'Gallagher

A dark purple-black cover. The book title is in pale yellow. A beam of white light rises up from the foot of the cover, forming the letter I in LIGHT. It hits the bottom of the capital A in CHAOS – represented by an upwards-pointing solid triangle – and a burst of colour emerges from the right-hand side of the triangle, as if light was passing through a prism. Multicoloured sparkles rise from the right-hand edge of the cover where the spectrum of light hits it.

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10d

The grand finale is here!

The final two Chapters (43 and 44) of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

#solarpunk #hopepunk #bookstodon #novel #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
#WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers
#PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction
#climatefiction

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5d

That's our Emily! Cheerful as always.

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #EmilyBronte #Victorian @romancelandia

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1y

I mean, would it kill you to let Cathy tell you about her ferrets?

#library #libraries #reader #readers #books #book #writingcommunity #ferrets #humor #humour

Three signs -- one says Library Book Return and is on a book drop return slot.
Drop box is broken! Please visit Cathy inside to return books
Update!
Drop box is NOT BROKEN! Cathy is just super lonely and wants to talk to you about her nine ferrets.

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12d

#AmWriting: This week, as I start readying my book for publication, I'm having second thoughts about some characters' names. What to do?

https://open.substack.com/pub/susannasullivanauthor/p/character-name?r=ytlja&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity

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6d

Be forewarned if you haven't seen Materialists yet, this does a really deep dive into the movie while cross-referencing Jane.

https://electricliterature.com/jane-austen-did-it-better/

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

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8d

https://tinjar.ghost.io/anf/download-a-new-faith/

Ebook versions (EPUB and PDF) are available to download to your favorite ebook reader.

Both versions are DRM-free and should be usable with most ebook readers. DRM-free means that these are yours to keep and also share with friends/family just like a physical book.

#solarpunk #hopepunk #bookstodon #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
#WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers
#PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction

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1y

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

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89d

Want to chat with other members of the #WritingCommunity about the challenges around creating diverse, representative fiction? Join our Tumblr Community, a place for respectful discussion and sharing resources.

https://www.tumblr.com/communities/writingtheothercommunity

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1y

Sniff
Baking
Cookie smell
Grandma's cooking
Unmistakable -
Rich tantalising scents
Resistance impossible
Heaven - a moment on that tray
Fingers poised, waiting for approval
Once we have seized the day, all that's left - crumbs!

#Cookie #MastoPrompt #Etheree #Poem #Poetry #MicroPoems #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

Toffee and Chocolate chip cookies cooling on a wire rack

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230d

A tip others might find helpful.

During editing, I noticed I wrote clunky sentences whenever my POV character saw or heard something. e.g.

“Adam saw the moonlight filter through the bare trees. Somewhere ahead, he heard a vixen scream.”

As someone who writes 1st person or deep 3rd, it’s usually bloody obvious which POV we’re in.

“Moonlight filtered through the bare trees. Ahead, a vixen screamed.”

This works because the reader knows who is doing the seeing and hearing.

#WritingCommunity

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162d

#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

#writing #creativewriting

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347d

❗❗❗ INCOMING: a book announcement ❗❗❗

This is going to turn out either frabjously amazeballs or utterly disastrous.

https://courtcan.com/2024/09/26/incoming-a-book-announcement/

#AppetiteForParadox #WIP #PeterRollins #pyrotheology #WritingCommunity #nonfiction #MyNextRead #philosophy #theology #DeathOfGodTheology #AtheismForLent #theism #atheism #christianity #faith #doubt

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281d

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

Ursula Le Guin‘s daily schedule

5:30 a.m. - wake up and lie there and think.
6:15 a.m. - get up and eat breakfast (lots).
7.15 a.m. - get to work writing, writing, writing.
Noon - lunch.
1:00-3:00 p.m. - reading, music.
3:00-5:00 p.m. correspondence, maybe house cleaning.
5:00-8:00 p.m. make dinner and eat it.
After 8:00 p.m. - I tend to be very stupid and we won't talk about this.

This was Le Guin's daily schedule first appeared in an interview she gave in 1988 (and more recently reappeared in Ursula Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations).

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Want to chat with other members of the #WritingCommunity about the challenges around creating diverse, representative fiction? Join our Tumblr Community, a place for respectful discussion and sharing resources.

https://www.tumblr.com/communities/writingtheothercommunity

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259d

Long and Short Reviews is hosting a Winter Blogfest this week.

Every day I plan to reply to this thread with links to the posts and brief descriptions of the prizes you can win by commenting on them.

#Giveaway #Prizes #Bookstodon #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #LongAndShortReviews

A dark blue banner with white snowflakes gently falling from the top portion of it. The blue gradually grows lighter, too, as your eye scans to the bottom of the banner. The text reads” Long and Short Reviews Winter Blogfest. A Prize on Every Post. December 23-27, 2024. www.longandshortreviews.com

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88d

#WritingCommunity, share some examples of good representation of people of faith (Abrahamic or not) you've seen in movies.

Can be something you watched recently or an old favorite 😊

#ThursdayThoughts

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231d

A lot of new folks coming to the #fediverse and I need to update, so here's a new #introduction.

I work as a #video guy. An aspiring novelist looking to connect more with the #writingcommunity. My debut novel is with beta readers.

I'm a rare sports fan on #mastodon, cheering the #Packers, #DCU, #USMNT and #USWNT.

Other stuff you can expect: urbanism (#train and #bicycle in particular), #fitness (mostly weightlifting), #newmusic and #gaming (#tabletop and video).

I tend to follow back.

Picture of the author from behind with a t-shirt and weightlifting belt on doing deadlifts.

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