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148d

So I wrote a piece on the new #Draft2Digital fees:

https://eroticmythology.com/draft2digital-to-penalise-low-performers/

#indieauthor #writingcommunity #writerslife #NoAI

117d

I'm in this meme and I don't like it 😜 😂

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"The worst script is the one never written" he said to himself as he wrote the second worst script.

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40d

#Kraa is for #mindful #longform #writing:

https://kraa.io/gyrusinczky

#Sourcefeed is for sharing daily #contemplation in a discreet, elegant way:

https://www.sourcefeed.app/feed/exceptional-day

#Sourcefeed #RSS:

https://www.sourcefeed.app/feed/exceptional-day.xml

#PencilBooth is for visual #newsletter:

https://pencilbooth.com/gyrusinczky

#amwriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #WritersSupportingWriters #philosophy #photography

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110d

If procrastinating was an olympic sport, I'd have ALL the medals 😂

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#TomGauld
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Three panel comic by Tom Gauld

MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS FOR NOVELISTS
1: Susie has written 12 chapters of a novel. Her editor asks her to cut 3 chapters and rewrite 8 chapters.
How many glasses of wine does Susie drink that night?

2: Every day Paul spends 3 hours procrastinating, 2 hours worrying, and 1 hour napping.
How long until the publisher asks Paul to repay his advance?

3: Anne writes a new novel every 6 months. 75% of Anne’s novels are bestsellers and 66% win literary prizes.
How much do you hate Anne?

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145d

Me: Maybe #PublishDrive is an alternative to #Draft2Digital?

PublishDrive: Use AI to generate optimized descriptions, keywords, and covers based on market trends!

Me: 🫠

#writingcommunity #writerslife #genAI

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81d

I'm Jackson Allen and I'm on track to be a self-sufficient author by the end of the year. I tell fast, sharp sci-fi short stories about the end of the world, the future, and the choices that still matter.

https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-science-fiction-short-stories/

#MiddleGrade #KidLit #Scifi #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity

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167d

Want to read screenplays I wrote? I realized I have a whole ton of scripts lying idle in my folders and decided to make books out of them. Here is the first, the stories range from drama, dark comedy, thriller, teen lesbian romance (is that a genre?) It's available for free via @ododopress (Only pdf, the epub comes out a huge file at 40mbs and I can't figure out how to reduce it). Enjoy the read!
https://www.ododopress.com/screenplays/home-is-a-fine-place-to-die/

#books #bookstodon #reading #screenplay #film #writing #writingcommunity

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166d

i'm so tired reading all those ai generated texts on the internet. it makes me sad to see the open web die so rapidly. it's just annoying, and yes incredibly tiring. so for my own websites i stopped using all of this ai slang entirely for now, let's see how this goes

http://cogmodo.com/aieditorfired

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #iamwriting #ai

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105d

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up.
Choosing Your Own Path
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#BookIndustryNews

one path splits into two paths in the woods.

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157d

Fry: "Um... yeah, that ring's a bell."

I love the writing of the early seasons of Futurama so much 😜😂

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Two panels from the show Futurama:

Girl: "You're from the 20th century? That's incredible. I'm from the 21st century. Remember when those billionaires enslaved humanity?"
Fry: "Um.. yeah, that rings a bell."

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179d

I feel like the dystopian techbros and super-rich aren't getting enough credit in this meme 🤔😁

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Four panel meme of Mr. Bean cheating on a test.

Then: Government (Mr. Bean) looking at dystopian scifi books and movies (his neighbours test)
Now: Dystopian fiction writers (Mr. Bean) looking at government (his neighbours test)

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78d

“Suppose it ill paid: the wonder is it should be paid at all. Other men pay, & pay dearly, for pleasures less desirable.”

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Letter to a young gentleman who proposes to embrace the career of art” – via @gutenberg_org

Today, 24 June, is National Writing Day!

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https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/614/pg614-images.html#page182

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But even with devotion, you may remind me, even with unfaltering & delighted industry, many thousand artists spend their lives, if the result be regarded, utterly in vain: a thousand artists, & never one work of art. But the vast mass of mankind are incapable of doing anything reasonably well, art among the rest. The worthless artist would not improbably have been a quite incompetent baker. & the artist, even if he does not amuse the public, amuses himself; so that there will always be one man the happier for his vigils. This is the practical side of art: its inexpugnable fortress for the true practitioner. The direct returns—the wages of the trade are small, but the indirect—the wages of the life—are incalculably great. No other business offers a man his daily bread upon such joyful terms. The soldier & the explorer have moments of a worthier excitement, but they are purchased by cruel hardships & periods of tedium that beggar language. In the life of the artist there need be no hour without its pleasure. I take the author, with whose career I am best acquainted; & it is true he works in a rebellious material, & that the act of writing is cramped & trying both to the eyes & the temper; but remark him in his study, when matter crowds upon him & words are not wanting—in what a continual series of small successes time flows by; with what a sense of power as of one moving mountains, he marshals his petty characters; with what pleasures, both of the ear & eye, he sees his airy structure growing on the page; & how he labours in a craft to which the whole material of his life is tributary, & which opens a door to all his tastes, his loves, his hatreds, & his convictions, so that what he writes is only what he longed to utter. He may have enjoyed many things in this big, tragic playground of the world; but what shall he have enjoyed more fully than a morning of successful work?

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77d

My roundup of #Publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up.
Finding The Sweet Spot
https://buff.ly/7vtvQSj
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#BookIndustryNews

Looking in a bakery cabinet that has lots of yummy slices and cakes with strawberries on top.

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138d

For independent bookstore day, I wrote a guide to #Draft2Digital alternatives.

https://eroticmythology.com/draft2digital-alternatives-erotica-authors-writers-2026/

Feedback welcome since I don't know all of those platforms myself.

Stay strong, everyone 💖

#IndieBookstoreDay #IndependentBookStoreDay #writingcommunity #bookstodon #erotica #smutstodon #Amazon #Kobo #IngramSpark #itchio

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97d

#WritersCoffeeClub #WritingCommunity

5th Jun 2026. What climes and climates feature in your work? Why those?

I'm a city boy and most of my stories are set in cities or otherwise indoors. And the extraterrestrial ones (like the space opera I'm working on now) has zero relationship with our terrestrial climates.

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86d

Okay @aanee it's not exaclty the meme that was promised but it's in the right general direction 😜😂

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Post by ely kreimendahl

When I get negative feedback: omg so true, thank you for your honesty...
When I get positive feedback: why would you lie to me like this...

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75d

A largely positive review of my coming soon novella, contains mild spoilers, but the reviewer does get the essence of the book, about power and decentralized governance.

"The Blossoming of the Big Tree is a genuinely absorbing read, funny and serious in equal measure, and Adita is one of the most quietly original protagonists I have encountered in the genre in some time."

https://vector-bsfa.com/2026/06/25/no-one-at-the-centre-reading-dilman-dilas-the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/

Pre-Order
https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/

#review #bookreview #books #bookstodon #sff #writingcommunity

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71d

I just pushed my latest book to ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/s/29a3443684

For the next 3 days, it's only $1 on ko-fi.

#amWriting #books #sff #writingcommunity

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96d

My latest very sensible and not weird internet search asks how many potatoes fit into a washing machine.

Why, yes. I am a writer. Why do you ask?

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#AmWriting

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71d

Hey folks, Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale is on!

Do you have a book in the sale?

Drop a link in the replies so we can see what you got!

Don't forget to boost and support each other.

#WritingCommunity #Books #Smashwords

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93d

Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre’s Write Highlands Bursary offers fully funded non-residential places on creative writing courses on life writing, fiction, & poetry for writers living in the Highland Council area. You do not need to be a published writer.

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https://forms.office.com/e/8LtwJL245v

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Photo: a dark and dramatic Scottish highland landscape

Text: Write Highlands Bursary

Fully-funded non-residential places on creative writing courses for writers living in the Highland Council area

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55d

Looking for something to read? Like your stories hot and sexy?
Buy direct from https://www.evernightpublishing.com/suzy-shearer
or anyone online bookstore worldwide.
PS - Finn is still only $0.99us on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GG7XKGLN?

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books #bookstodon #writing #romance #olderCharacters #scribesAndMakers #WritersCoffeeClub #writersofMastodon #writingCommunity

A collage of 19 different book covers by the same author and publisher - Suzy Shearer, Evernight Publishing.

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90d

If I had known then what I know now I could have saved so much time and gotten isolated and weird so much sooner 😜😂

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Me, in High School:
"I'm going to hecome a writer!"
My guidance counselor:
"So, you've decided to become isolated and weird."

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122d

I am seeing more posts and calls for submissions that note “no ai” but it’s ok for brainstorming or storyboarding or blah blah blah… “No ai” should mean just that #noai

“But no one would know…”

*Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is looking.*

#Writing #WritingCommunity