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Are you a book reviewer? We're looking for book reviewers for Musecharmer Media Network. We'd love to hear from you and showcase your reviews.

https://home.musecharmer.network/book-reviewers-wanted/

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Genuine question for anyone who listens to audio fiction instead of reading it: what's actually happening around you when you hit play? I write some scenes assuming a dark room and full attention, and I have a growing suspicion most of you are doing the dishes. #audiodrama #WritingCommunity

New free tool: QuickWrite — a simple WYSIWYG text editor for Android, built for writing fiction on the go. Bold, italic, font size, indents, saves straight to RTF. No Play Store listing, no account, no subscription. Just download the APK and use it.

davidmkelly.com/quickwrite/

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#WritersCoffeeClub Sept 21:
What's the latest in the writing process you've found a mistake?

After mass-market paperback publication.

(I'm trad published: there used to be an opportunity to fix typos up to about two months after first hardcover dropped. But once it was in MMPB, everything froze forever. Of course, the mass market no longer exists, so … )

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I've said it before (and I'm saying it again because I'm practicing to be an old guy who repeats his stories over and over) but I do not like the idea that adapting a book or comic or whatever into a movie/TV show is "bringing it to life".

Nah, the original work is what was alive. The movie is just official fan fic 😛

#books #comics #writingCommunity #hotTake

An Empirical Study of the Impact of Library E-Lending on the Book Economy: As Public Libraries Prioritize eBook Formats, Harm to Commercial Markets Across All Formats is Quantifiable and Significant.

“[C]onsumer print sales decline by approximately 0.85 to 1.0 percent for every one-percentage-point increase in the share of e-books in public libraries, with adult fiction being at the upper end of this range.”

#books #writing #libraries #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon

https://publishers.org/news/new-study-analyzes-the-impact-of-library-e-lending-on-commercial-book-markets/

What's that old saying again, 'Write high, edit drunk?' 😜😂 Then again I've never written a sonnet 😁

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My latest weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up for free on Substack. If you subscribe you can get it in your inbox.
https://maureencrisp.substack.com/p/guarding-the-process-of-creativity?r=8opd8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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It is great, most of the time 😂

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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Glasgow launch
8 September, Waterstones Sauchiehall St, Glasgow – £5 / £12 with book

Celebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!

https://www.waterstones.com/events/new-writing-scotland-44-launch/glasgow-sauchiehall-street

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #writingcommunity #Glasgow

When describing the big things in your world, also remember to include the kind of small, human details that will make it feel real. Graffiti. A drunk's pool of vomit. The safety card in the back of the seat.

#WorldBuilding #StarWars #writing #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev

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Tried to recover someone's DOCX files, even unzipped them and everything, but I guess they got moved/copied so many times over 3 decades they just... faded and became broken? They were moved/copied so much too much data was lost to where they cannot be recovered. Yet another reason why writers, especially, should move to writing in plain text and converting to anything later. #WritingCommunity #PlainText

#ScribesAndMakers Sep 1:

#Introduction

I am an author of #Sapphic-fueled #Mythpunk serials: #Yuri (Japanese-style lesbian romance), #UrbanFantasy, & #TimeTravel.

I have 3 complete & 2 new self-published serials (Time-Travel & Urban Fantasy)

Bijou the Time-Traveling Ghost

• PIXIV Link:
• AO3 Link:
• In serialization

For Love of a Konbini Idol

• PIXIV Link:
• AO3 Link:
• Three complete volumes

My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed (R18)

• AO3 Link:
• Complete

Arisu: The Girl Who Saw Ghosts

• PIXIV Link:
• AO3 Link:
• Complete

Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

• First serialization now on the Fedi. Will be revised for broader release later.

I also write JP-style #Poetry: Haiku, Tanka, Renga, and Rengay.
And I am an urban photographer,

#NMFic #WritingCommunity

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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with book

Celebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh

It's hard to believe it but my series Beloved Maid is coming to an end! After 5 years, the final issue starts in October. To celebrate, the entire Beloved Maid series is 75% off! Use the code ZZAGJ8BXRH at checkout on Payhip! #writingcommunity #indieauthor #web #comics

https://payhip.com/EpicWorlds/collection/beloved-maid

To add to my last post: I know it’s only a matter of time before some scammer slaps one of my books through an AI generator and starts selling the “audiobook” version.

That’s one of the reasons I’m investigating creating official audiobooks — the other reason is also why I’ve commissioned a real artist for my next cover and started a community writers festival — because those are real-world things I can do against the corrosion of AI.

Though commissioning an audiobook is well outside both my skillset and my current budget, so it’s going to be a slow process…

#audiobooks #WritingCommunity

This infamous PHP quote could be the best explainer of how nobody understands, nor cares to understand, the life of a working writer if it went like this.

Philomena: Some people have been writing books for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish?

Expert: No, existential dread is constantly evolving.

Philomena: So they've been writing the same thing for 20 years?

Expert: No, different projects.

Philomena: Have they tried finishing one before starting another?

Expert: That's not how existential dread works.

Philomena: My mate Paul spent 20 years building a shed. Turned out he was just an alcoholic.

Expert: Right.

Philomena: Is art like that?

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“Writing is a way of dealing with things. You give your problems and big questions to a fictional character and let them worry away, and you might get a solution or a bit of closure.”

—As Ian Rankin publishes his first standalone thriller in two decades, he talks about making sense of difficult experiences through fiction, & giving away a share of his success

@writingcommunity

https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/arts/writing-is-a-way-of-dealing-with-things-ian-rankin/

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My latest weekly roundup of #publishing News, #Writing Craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up free on Substack.
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Just like Sisyphus, you have to imagine writers being happy 😜😂

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Hey Western Australian short stories writers, a small short story contest is open here, full details available via:
https://bridgetownwritersfest.au/

$5 entry, $50 first prize (told you it was a small one 😊)

Any funds raised over administering the prize will help run the writers fest.

If you’re not eligible or not a writer, and feel like making a small donation to help make the fest happen*, then you can use the same payment link and thank you greatly!

https://square.link/u/eAyLR7EW

*needed to move it to June for its longterm viability, which means it’s this financial year, which means there’s not a single scrap of funding still available, aside from begging from the local mine, which I’d rather not do…

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The fact that marketing more than quality influences what becomes popular is proof that we live in an inherently unjust universe 😜😁

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#PennedPossibilities 1140 MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?

(Current WIP)

Jum: "A hero? Me? I think you've got me confused with someone else. Anyway, in this empire the only heroes are idiots, and shortly thereafter they're dead idiots."

Tabitha: "I'm Jum's hero, and if anyone says different I'll backstab them repeatedly until they stop."

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he was a technician
https://subspacewagon.systems/he-was-a-technician/

Algol, Part III
https://archive.org/details/algol-part-iii-by-richard-j-tilley

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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 poetry. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue.

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

#Scottish #literature #editor #writing #writingcommunity #poetry

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