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So now that I have a database of 60+ women who have written about visiting Rome between the 15th century and the 1960s... should this be a book? I would love to make this a book.

#Rome #travel #WomensHistory #Italy #books #bookstodon #writing #history
#travel #writing #history #Italy #books #bookstodon #womenshistory #Rome

Our annual "Best of" package—now in its 13th year!—kicks off today. This week, we'll publish a Year in Reading reflection from each of the @longreads editors. Today, Krista Stevens shares stories that sparked awe and shifted her perspective in 2024.

https://longreads.com/2024/12/09/a-year-in-reading-a-shift-in-perspective/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Bestof2024 #Essays #Journalism #Writing #Reading

A Year in Reading: A Shift in Perspective

The stories that sparked awe and made me think differently in 2024.
Krista Stevens (Longreads)
#journalism #writing #reading #longreads #bestof2024 #essays @Longreads

Published a new article on my #blog, it's cosplaying as a tech article but in reality is just a rant about capitalism, like everything else I write and/or say. It didn't turn out how I wanted to and I had to tone it down multiple times because although I'm a jerk, I don't enjoy sounding like one. I could spend another week trying to make it better or move on, I guess I choose to move on.

Feel free to read if you like to.

#Writing

https://maxalmonte14.surge.sh/blog/about-tech-give-me-boredom-or-give-me-death/

About Tech: Give Me Boredom Or Give Me Death

Another corner of the good ol' internet, another guy with opinions, another collection of 3AM thoughts dumped into HTML pages as if it were a good replacement for pen and paper.
Nowhere
#writing #blog

I just don't have the energy or confidence to do social media properly right now.

I wrote a book. It's really good. It has beautiful nature writing, it's smart, it's honest in a way that is rare, it covers many important/difficult themes & it's really funny.

'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt'

Pre-orders early 2025

You can read more here

https://www.kristiedegaris.com/interview-continued

#Depression #Writing #Scotland #Books #Author #MentalHealth
#depression #mentalhealth #writing #books #scotland #author

If you've never experienced a line edit, this is what it feels like.

#writing #writingcommunity #books #humor #humour
#writing #humour #humor #writingcommunity #books

Inhaltswarnung: Spicy android romance promo, preorder Too Hot to Handle!

#romance #writing #indie #erotica #smut

Oooo, kinda savage, Terry.

#writing #writingcommunity #writersblock #humor #humour #quotes #quote
image of palm trees with quote: "there's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write." ~Terry Pratchett
#writing #humour #humor #writingcommunity #quotes #quote #writersblock

Was once again reminded of Ursula K. Leguin'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).
#book #writing #writingcommunity #books #bookstodon #ursulakleguin

📢 new post on The Winged Life !

featuring the lyrics of « One Day, » a catchy pop number that is actually a prayer to the divine disguised as a love song…

🔗· https://poligraf.substack.com/p/one-day

#writing ✏️ #writerscommunity #CreativeWriting #poetry #lyrics #poems #OriginalPoem #indie #selfpublish #author #authors #PoetryLovers #TheWingedLife @poetry #faith #spirit 🎧 #Substack

One Day

one day this song will find your way you'll hear the words i dare not say…
Christopher Andrew Stewart (The Winged Life)
#writing #Poetry #authors #author #substack #lyrics #poems #indie #writerscommunity #creativewriting #originalpoem #selfpublish #poetrylovers #thewingedlife #faith #spirit @poetry group

My hearse is lost. The driver looks young and inexperienced, like a gig worker filling a casual vacancy. He can't reset the GPS navigation, and his phone has no reception in the narrow lanes. ⚰️ #writers #writing #shortstories

Link to story on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/short-stories/more-time-and-a-ouija-board

More Time and a Ouija Board

Communicating with the living would be difficult unless someone brings a Ouija board to my funeral.
Tall And True
#writing #writers #shortstories

Just stumbled across some old edits from The Fridgularity. I'd completely forgotten about the gunfight scene in the tomato soup factory. (Wishing now I hadn't cut it.) Some of the dialog:

"Ah, God, I'm hit... No wait, it's just soup."

"I'm done for, tell my wife I ... no, I'm good, it's just soup."

"There's so much blood! Oh nevermind, it's just tomatoes."

Ended with a head shot.

https://geni.us/TheFridgularity

#writing #scifi #humor #humour #book #books
cover art for the fridgularity by Mark A. Rayner an apocalyptic sky, with an old timey Zathir fridge, and a raven on top of the fridge
#book #writing #humour #humor #books #scifi

On a rainy day like today I really would just like to sit, listen to music, and read a book or write a blog post

Unfortunately, it's Thanksgiving, so I'm going to have to go and do things

But we don't usually run too late, so I'll be able to do some of this tonight

#Thanksgiving #Reading #Blog #Writing
#writing #reading #blog #thanksgiving

Unless you’re Salvador Dali, in which case it’s all red circle, baby!

#art #writing #writingcommunity #humor #humour
Venn diagram: Red circle: absolute narcissims Blue circle: crippling self doubt Purple juxtaposition: art
#art #writing #humour #humor #writingcommunity

The thing is when you have a story outline is that you can never really know where the chapters end and begin until you start #writing.

What can take up a paragraph in an outline might stay as a paragraph, and what is a single sentence might become a large section of adventure.

That is all.
#writing

#WritersCoffeeClub
#EpigraphCoffeeClub

"If 'science fiction' could refer to something with no science and no fiction, it would be a useless concept." — @bodiednovel

26. What's the best feedback you've ever received on your writing?

Probably that the world seems "lived in." Characters have lives that go on outside of the events of the story.

#Writing
#writing #writerscoffeeclub #epigraphcoffeeclub @bodiednovel

Once he had his typewriter, Mr. Nubbins could finally write his masterpiece.

#writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #dog #dogs #dogstodon #DogsOfMastodon #humor #humour
small dog sitting in front of a typewriter in the background
#writing #Dogs #humour #humor #writingcommunity #dog #dogsofmastodon #dogstodon #amwriting

Inhaltswarnung: Spicy SF M/M romance promo: Preorder Too Hot to Handle now!

#romance #writing #books #indie #romancelandia #erotica #smut #androids @smutstodon group

I need to get back to a regular habit of blogging, small thoughts, big ideas, #academic musing etc...

What are your favourite platforms?

I don't want anything robust, I don't need to host a corporation or anything.

Should I stick with #wordpress?
I heard #tumblr is makin' a comeback (I guess it never really went away).

Give me your suggestions!

#Writing #AmWriting #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #blogging #blog
#writing #amwriting #blog #blogging #wordpress #academicchatter #tumblr #academicmastodon #academic

I once asked a writer friend why she wrote, and she replied, with total sincerity: "For revenge."

#amwriting #writing #writingcommunity #humor #humour
Sign that looks like an artist's palette with brushes that says: Study Art For Prestige or Spite
#writing #humour #humor #writingcommunity #amwriting

📢 new post on The Winged Life !

a new poem titled « At The Heart Of Despair » that aims to convey constructive interpretations of apparently undesirable experiences…

👇

🔗· https://poligraf.substack.com/p/at-the-heart-of-despair

#writing ✏️ #poetry #poems #TheWingedLife @poetry #CreativeWriting #selfpublish #authors #indie #PoetryLovers

#Light #Faith #PersonalDevelopment #SelfDevelopment #KarmicProcess #Maturation #Maturity #Humanity #DivineIntelligence #IrrationalIntelligence #Heart #Despair

At The Heart Of Despair

that unscheduled passage through the echo chamber where worshippers of night stare at a shrine to gloom…
Christopher Andrew Stewart (The Winged Life)
#writing #Poetry #authors #Humanity #heart #poems #light #maturation #indie #creativewriting #selfpublish #poetrylovers #thewingedlife #faith #maturity #despair #personaldevelopment #irrationalintelligence #divineintelligence #selfdevelopment #karmicprocess @poetry group

Do you draw maps of your world?
This is the most accurate map of Australia that I know.

#maps #WorldBuilding #writing #AmWriting #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev
The continent of Australia. a black outline encompassing the green land, surrounded by blue water. The green land is marked, "Area where things on land can kill you." The blue water is marked, "Are where things in the water can kill you." The black outline is marked, "Both."
#writing #dnd #ttrpg #worldbuilding #amwriting #maps #gamedev

It's all about flow, baby!

#jung #writing #writingcommunity #makebelieve
What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits. ~Jung
#writing #writingcommunity #makebelieve #jung

This advice from Dorothy Parker is too late for those doing #NaNoWriMo, but still helpful!

#quotes #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity
Quote on top of a typewriter: "If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, teh second greatest favor you can do them is present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy." -Dorothy Parker, The collected Dorothy Parker
#writing #writingcommunity #quotes #amwriting #nanowrimo

Writing advice from #KurtVonnegut:

"Rules only take us so far, even good rules."

That said, "let the bear have your coffee" is one to always follow.

#amwriting #writing #writingcommunity #humor #humour
Kurt Vonnegut having a coffee, standing next to a stuffed polar bear standing on its hind legs
#writing #humour #humor #writingcommunity #amwriting #kurtvonnegut

My leg hands were feeling a bit cold because the window's open and I don't wear any of those foot gloves.

So I just wrapped a blankety thing around my legs while I write.

#Writing
#writing

Would you like a gentle and inspiring start to your weekend?

If so, I'd recommend reading this piece I wrote for Barley magazine about drystone, the land, resilience and the life lessons learned from this ancient craft.

https://www.barleymagazine.com/blog/kristie-de-garis-drywalling

#Writing #Scotland #NatureWriting #Article #Reading
A colour photograph of a drystone wall that disappears into the distance. Surrounded by green grass with a soft blue sky above.

The Wonder Waller

Writer and photographer explains how drystone walling in Scotland helped her discover a more nourishing future away from the rat race.
Kristie De Garis (Barley)
#writing #reading #scotland #Article #naturewriting

This is the team that comes up with my story ideas.

#amwriting #writingcommunity #writing #humor #humour
chimp and a boy wearing grey suits, 3-D glasses and tinfoil hats with a Geiger counter and notepad
#writing #humour #humor #writingcommunity #amwriting

#introduction

Primarily I write #ScienceFiction and #humor, but I've also written darkly comic stuff, fabulist satire, and some literary fiction. Once I blogged squibs, screeds and other drivel (some pure & some quite tainted with meaning.)

My cats keep me sane(ish).

If you want to understand my rich inner life, I recommend this #book: Alpha Max.

https://geni.us/AlphaMax

Occasionally pimp some of the others.

Co-host at:
https://re-creative.ca

#SFF #humor #writing #writingcommunity
Black and white photo of Mark , with hands folded behind head on a pillow, thinking: "Life is too important to be taken seriously." –Oscar Wilde
#book #introduction #writing #humor #writingcommunity #sff #sciencefiction

📢 new post on The Winged Life !

« On The Run » aims to convey the pursuit of a vision of artistic freedom and self development despite the recurring temptations of personal demons…

🔗· https://poligraf.substack.com/p/on-the-run

#writing ✏️ #CreativeWriting #poetry #poems #indie #selfpublish #authors #PoetryLovers #TheWingedLife @poetry #faith #spirit #lyrics #SelfDevelopment #PersonalDevelopment #quest

On The Run

we were on the run always on the run aiming for the dream gliding on a moonbeam…
Christopher Andrew Stewart (The Winged Life)
#writing #Poetry #authors #lyrics #poems #indie #creativewriting #selfpublish #poetrylovers #thewingedlife #faith #spirit #personaldevelopment #selfdevelopment #quest @poetry group

Adept at touch typing? Want to go insane? Try the latest toggle switch "keyboard."

#typing #writing #writingcommunity #humor #humour
A qwerty keyboard but all the keys are replaced with switches
#writing #humour #humor #writingcommunity #typing

« For me, writing is an act of reciprocity with the world; it is what I can give back in return for everything that has been given to me. »

― Robin Wall Kimmerer

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/741986895849046017/for-me-writing-is-an-act-of-reciprocity-with-the

#quotes #writing #RobinWallKimmerer #GiftEconomy #reciprocity #interbeing #unity #oneness

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

For me, writing is an act of reciprocity with the world; it is what I can give back in return for everything that has been given to me. — Robin Wall Kimmerer
poligraf (Tumblr)
#writing #quotes #unity #Interbeing #reciprocity #robinwallkimmerer #oneness #gifteconomy

📢 new post on The Winged Life !

« Mother Of Pearl » is built around the idea that divinely orchestrated challenges lead individuals to their fullest expression, like irritants cause oysters to yield pearls…

🔗· https://poligraf.substack.com/p/mother-of-pearl

#writing ✏️ #CreativeWriting #poetry #poems #indie #selfpublish #authors #PoetryLovers #TheWingedLife @poetry

#lyrics #PersonalDevelopment #destiny #IrrationalIntelligence #DivineIntelligence #pearls #maturation #maturity #oysters

Mother Of Pearl

told love was not for me i used to play the fool blind to my own folly yet in me you saw the jewel…
Christopher Andrew Stewart (The Winged Life)
#writing #Poetry #authors #lyrics #poems #maturation #indie #creativewriting #selfpublish #poetrylovers #thewingedlife #destiny #maturity #personaldevelopment #irrationalintelligence #divineintelligence #pearls #oysters @poetry group

Today on our podcast Re-Creative Mark A. Rayner and I talk to author Peter Darbyshire, who joined us to champion the classic Roger Zelazny fantasy series The Chronicles of Amber. I've loved Zelazny's fiction from the moment I first encountered the Amber series, and Mark's a fan as well, so Peter was in good company.

#zelazny #writing #chroniclesofamber #novels #sciencefiction #fantasy #novel #rogerzelazny #writingtips

https://re-creative.ca/the-chronicles-of-amber/
#writing #fantasy #sciencefiction #rogerzelazny #novels #novel #zelazny #writingtips #chroniclesofamber

When I'm #writing #Fiction I often add elements of things that happen in real life into the story.

They are altered to fit the premise and narrative, not accurately described, but the essence taken and replicated. It's usually small things - something annoying, some observation I've made, etc.

I'm sure most writers do this too, but it's often works well to flesh out characters or even to bring in unexpected sub plots. Often these additions can easily be tied into the existing story.
#writing #fiction

This week on Re-Creative:
Author Peter Darbyshire joins the lads to champion the classic Roger Zelazny fantasy series, The Chronicles of Amber.

https://re-creative.ca/the-chronicles-of-amber/

#writing #writingcommunity #amber #RogerZelazny #peterDarbyshire #podcast #podcasts
Cover art for Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, hugo and nebula award winner -- the first book in the Chronicles of Amber
#podcast #writing #Podcasts #writingcommunity #rogerzelazny #peterdarbyshire #amber

Decided to take a break from
#writing for a bit.

Have been struggling to write since I had surgery recently. Right now, brain and body feel a bit overloaded, so I just need a good rest. So having a holiday/vacation at home.

Tricky bit is resting without feeling guilty. Shouldn't feel guilty for self-care, right?
#writing

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