Take your own, it's my plan for the blog going forward Had a look-see at Shutterstock and guess who has AI tools now...
Catholic Bisexual living on Cabrogal land with Bipolar 1/ADHD and a penchant for writing, blogging, and gaming Currently neck deep in structural edits of Three Ways, catch up with the posts and a short story on my site https://tmshannonauthor.com/
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Take your own, it's my plan for the blog going forward Had a look-see at Shutterstock and guess who has AI tools now...
A FONT OF ALARMING DESIGN "AI threat detection platform" to aid law enforcement in identifying "potential school shooters." #news #ai #writing #politics #law #privacy #firearms #survielance #social #police #bookcafe #android_dreams #futurism #technology www.comicsands.com/cohen-ai-thr...
I ended up doing BOTH because I'm so cool - productive in the morning, then played the Sims a little in the afternoon & rested before a rough work week to come. #WritingCommunity
Writers forget how important editorial reviews are. Just as important is how to post. #writersofbluesky
Oof pricey but looks worth it Page saved
Dark Academia has a lot of potential for strong storytelling and commentary but it’s being tarnished by poorly written romances between some barely-adult virgin girl and a dark, brooding edgelord white dude that reduce the entire genre to an aesthetic. #WriterSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity
Well, I got super annoyed with myself for losing a handwritten chapter, so I have sat down and re-written it. It's still handwritten (which hurt, I have chronic pain, yay). But it's sat in front of me at the computer. There it will stay until typed up. It better had anyway. #amwriting
When nature watched WWE, everything changed... #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #BookSky
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. Abraham Lincoln American President #quote #booksky #writer #president
#WritingLifeMonthly by @traceyleewrites.bsky.social
I've been rereading George Saunders's "A Swim In A Pond in the Rain". Still my absolute favourite #WritingBook by light years. It's a gentle, transformative journey through the short story writer's craft and, frankly, a little bit of a joy to read.
Author Update 🖊️ First day back at work after 2 weeks off and it's so good to be in routine again Not that the time off was wasted, got some good progress on the WIP but my ADHD needs stability to function Next week, re-outlining the 2nd half, lots of cuts coming #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky
Yay for words!
I almost posted this today. Instead I deleted the draft and sat down & wrote. Wasn't a huge writing day but I got words on the page. #amwriting #writinglife
For anyone who has rec'd the message "Do you have any published books?" from a user maxtonhall12.bsky.social - its a scam and apparently an identify thief of an actual legit author. #Writer #Writing #LuciferFanfiction #Publishing
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Remembering the birthday of Edgar Rice Burroughs, I #amreading the “best” #literature . . . 📚💙 More: Edgar Rice Burroughs, American #writer; creator of #Tarzan and John Carter on Mars - www.edgarriceburroughs.com/erb-biography/ #writers #quotes on #reading
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” Attributed to John Steinbeck. #LaborDay #writing #reading #5amwritersclub #books #GrapesOfWrath
Applications currently open for Scriptoria, an LGBTQ+ Neurodivergent intermediate+ Discord writing community for writers 25+: forms.gle/8ojhfGpSSCV9... #queerwriters #lgbtwriters #transwriters #neurodivergentwriters #writingcommunity
That's a losing battle
Success!!! Cake time!
The Master of Horror said my name!!! HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!! Made my year!! #StephenKing #WritingCommunity
Without fail, as soon as September rolls around my mind turns to writing again. Inspired by today's Witcher outfit, I set out to finish the #OC-tober promptlist from last year by @marycreatesart.bsky.social before I embark on a new one Immensely enjoying these OC ficlets #ElfWrites #writing
Dennan faded fast from when I got him, slower, then unable to train, bedridden, and now at finality. Still, he clenched my hand strong. "Let the #past go. Get on the road. Complete it, and be free." I stared. "I'm not that kind." He smiled. "Neither am I." #vss365 #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky
As always each month #WritingLifeMonthly mission one is write when I can Mission two will be drafting and timing of the WIP's back half Mission two is peck out a blog post and keep that up monthly - I'll do a section a week and post on the 28th #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
#writerscommunity #indieauthors #sciencefictionauthor #writerscommunityofinstagram #novelist #writer #author #writing #fantasy #fiction #mindpen #selfpub #writeon #editing #amwriting #wordcount #Scriptsky #Screensky #amediting #Writesky #indiepub #wordcraft #Readsky #shortstory
Yes! Education is so important. It saves lives. Don't let anyone take that from you or convince you that more information is ever bad.You are not a drone. You can use further information to change/make up your own mind! #education #writing #growth #books #booksky #censorship #bookbans #stephenking
My brain kept repeating two verses at me, so I took out my notebook and wrote a short poem out of them. To be clear: I am no poet, I'm incapable of doing poetry, haven't tried in years. But when your brain won't shut up, you write until it does. #writing #writingcommunity #writersky
One of the great questions of our time #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
My first draft hit 200k words It took me 10 years and a lot of massive life changes/blockage working out to 54.76 words a day I plan to absolutely demolish that with my next project, hopefully one year including editing/beta reading and revisions #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
Happy birthday, Edgar Rice Burroughs, born 1 September 1875. ‘I wrote Tarzan of the Apes, evenings and holidays. I wrote it in longhand on the backs of old letterheads and odd pieces of paper. I did not think it was a very good story and I doubted if it would sell.’ —Edgar Rice Burroughs #writers
The more I work on this new book, the more certain I am I need to work on my story craft. You don't realise how much you don't know until it smacks you in the face. #writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife
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Inspiration from those Johnny Depp and Matthew McConaughey TV commercials. #OliviaCo #writingcommunity #comedy #jokes #humor #poptarts
Grief reshaped my world after losing my mom, but writing has given me a rhythm, a voice, and a way forward. Each post is both a search for meaning and an act of resilience—growing community, honoring loss, and finding strength in words. #Grief #WritingThroughLoss #BloggingJourney
I shall be known as "the troll under the bridge" 🤣🤣 #WritingCommunity #writerslift #writersofbluesky #writingmemes #authorscommunity #AuthorsOfbluesky #booksky #authors #authorproblems #booklover #writinghumour #AuthorLife #writerscommunity #booklover #bookmemes #bookhumour #bookmemes
Poem 28 I don’t know. I can’t tell which is which. Y’all sound like y’all in cahoots with them. With y’all feckless fingers to the wind. nlundym.etsy.com #Art #SupportArt #Poetry #Comic #Posters #Narratives #SmallBusiness #Etsy #BSkyArt #ArtYear #Writer #BookSky #Creatives #ForeverArt
Meet Dante. Sept 1, 10 AM CST, Bringing my 3,000-year-old protagonist to near-future New Orleans TTRPG. Amazing Cast vs. rogue AI, live on Twitch (c-bio 👆). #VoidCraft #TheFallOfNewOrleans #TTRPG #ActualPlay #SciFiStorytelling #ProjectInfiniteEngine #BlerdsCreate #writingcommunity #blackskygamers
Poem 29 Remember. In 2009. You could get a studio in Harlem for $800. It was tiny. But it was enough. What happened? nlundym.etsy.com #Art #SupportArt #Poetry #Comic #Posters #Narratives #SmallBusiness #Etsy #BSkyArt #ArtYear #Writer #BookSky #Creatives #ForeverArt
Thanks, A.C., Next part of the project is photos of things for fresh images - had a contemplation about Shutterstock but guess who's on the AI bandwagon Don't care how "ethical" it is, I need real pics
Procrastination wins yet again #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
Celebrating the birthday of Kenneth Oppel, I am telling stories for the reader’s pleasure – and for mine. I #amwriting #romance 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Kenneth Oppel, award-winning #Canadian #writer - www.kennethoppel.ca/author/ #writers #quotes on #storytelling
I’m on a journey. Decided to put down my socials/TV & pick up a book. Committed to finishing the countless books on my side table & on the sides of my bookshelves overdue reading. Today is Day 1… #booksky #readingsky #Blacksky #writingBlackness started with “Medicalizing Blackness…” By Rana Hogarth
Hi all I posted to my blog last week about a meds adjustment and accepting the mentally ill, ditching AI pics on the blog, and an off-topic homily on the Feast of the Assumption Do check it out, this is me building my brand - had to start somewhere #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
As an international author, I can't get a settlement of the books stolen by various companies, so help out by getting this bundle! #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #readersofbluesky itch.io/s/149961/met...
Baby author's first book - italics for emphasis and exclamation marks galore Not so baby author's WIP - exclamation marks and em dashes galore I took out the former but the MS still has 900 dashes I need to savagely reduce #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity
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If #writing a #book was done by nations The Americans would have main character syndrome The French would be on strike over pay & conditions The Germans would be worried about preciseness in grammar/structure And the British would be a washed up writer self medicating with gin #WritingCommunity
Progress is progress My rewrite is killing me being so critical and I have to work in tune with the bipolar/ADHD so I use 1-2hr sessions to do what I can and be proud of that
Incremental progress today. I worked on my "Getting the Astronomy Right" seminar for this fall. That's going to be a 45-minute lecture on the current state of astronomy for world-building: the likely distribution of Earthlike worlds, the results of exoplanetary science, and so on. (1/2) #writing
I left FB/Insta after the 3rd Party moderators were cut and the Zuck allowed people to harass LGBTQIA+ for being mentally ill or degenerates I'm queer and writing a queer book, and I wasn't standing for that shit This will hurt me for self promotion and advertising, but my sanity comes first
It was suggested to me that I make a Facebook author page. OK, fine. I started Instagram, so I might as well cross-post. So, I registered for an account from my email that I use for all my writing things, including Instagram. Immediate message that my account is suspended. What? I made it 1/4
Yay!!!
Just chilling at the gay bar and someone comes up to me and says, "I bought your book and read it in two days! I loved it!" What a happy surprise! 😊 a.co/d/3FriApV #writing #mmromance #gayromance #surprise #bragging #gaybooks #queerbooks
Your art or writing are only fully protected if they are not in the digital landscape or on a shared device that is 'online'. You are sharing with unscrupulous strangers whose income is sourced by stealing from you for their gain. It is reasonable to keep a non-connected computer. #writingcommunity
So long as your 'extra' computer is not connected to anything but an electrical plug, the content on that device cannot be shared outward. Everything wifi should be silenced. Take a few moments every couple months to re-check your connected computer's privacy default settings. #writingcommunity
All programs are trying to back-door creators. Assume it is also trying to do this. Find the privacy settings and read them carefully as the steal is usually programmed as the default setting on the program as they know we don't read the TOS right now. #writingcommunity #booksky #programmingtheft
The tech chuds are modern day robber barons
Yes, I just found a new-to-me program trying to scrape from me. This is ongoing. I have shut it down but knowing I have to try to block the steal is frustrating. When did stealing become the acceptable norm? No need to answer that as we have a theft felon-in-chief. #writingcommunity #booksky
Note: big business would not be programming theft if your content and creations were not valuable in real cash money. Your intellectual property is seriously valuable hence the very hard push to steal it from you. Why do you think AI is going after creators first? #writingcommunity #booksky #maker
Beware uber cheap "services"
Best of luck sorting it out!
So last night belted out 2000 words, then looked at them in the cold light of day. Yep it's a mess. In fact I'm desperately throwing words on a page in the vague hope it will all come together. It's not working. Back to the drawing board I go. #writing #WriteSky
Doom scrolling until I take the darling partner to work, then finishing this spicy scene I need a fold out fan for this stuff, yeesh it's good #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
Despite the earlier fainting spell, managed to get a few minutes of video edited and wrote some of the third story in my new anthology, "Caer Y Môn". Now I'm gonna play some pathfinder with my pals. What are y'all up to? #writesky #disability #pathfinder #ttrpg #Welsh #writing
[elle] dansait, légère, libre, confiante, les pieds nus sur le pavé -Victor Hugo, Nôtre-Dame de Paris puella leviter, libere, fiducialiter, pedibus nudis super pavimentum saltabat she danced, light, free, confident, her bare feet upon the pavement #AmWriting #Classics #WritersLife #ExUmbrisLux
"How'd you go proofing that paper?" "I did alright, really got it thanks to the #abstract, and apart from wading through the gobbledygook and googling stuff, it was pretty mind bending." "Would you do it again?" "Hell no, every thought hurts now" #whistpr #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #BookSky
"What's your favourite #constellation?" "Two, actually. Scorpio because, well, Scorpio, and the Southern Cross because, well, Aussie and it's on my flag." "So you're deeply introspective and laid back?" "Love a good think, and she'll be right, mate." #vss365 #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #BookSky
Nice
I'm already at 6" x 9" with the narrowest margins I can pull off for print With all hope I might get to 400 pages but 100-110k words so it'll even out
To clarify, 'Imogen, Obviously' by Becky Albertalli is a gorgeous coming-of-age YA that centers sexuality in an age-appropriate manner. We are not meant to be horny by Imogen's exploration--and we AREN'T. She's a child. Ergo the YA label. See how that's done? Why is there 🌶 YA? #writingcommunity
I think this game helped me flesh out the nuances of religion in my world. Before this, it was just sort of this nebulous thing with gods and stuff, without much acknowledgement of how it affects everyday life. This game helped me put that stuff in writing. #MythAugust #writingcommunity
Yeah... that's not fun. LOL #Authorlife #Writer
Scumbags
A Pennsylvania state agency used my intellectual property 🔗 scottgraffius.com/blog/files/p... #IntellectualProperty #IP #IPRights #Copyright #CopyrightInfringement #Author #Writer #PhasesOfTeamDevelopment #Teamwork #Pennsylvania #Government
Also, it's good to know that when you reformat your book significantly, and this involves a substantial change in the number of pages, you'll need to regenerate your cover art to the correct size again, as the spine width will change. #writingcommunity #kdp
I was sitting on 435 or so pages, then I dumped Times New Roman for Calibri and it shot up to 517 8 rewritten chapters to reformat (ugh) but I finally got under 500 pages today (yay)
Well #LoreOutLoud I'm still neck deep in the rewrite with one flashback chapter left to go Gonna be a doozy but I'm sure I can keep the moment simple yet holy shit at the same time Then I start on the 2nd half which'll be even more of a mission... #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
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✍️ I'm not far from finishing the first draft of book about Jersey's only unsolved murder.... ...then it's time for the dreaded editing phase #writingcommunity #writing #writersofinstagram #writer #snoopy
Happy Birthday, G. Willow Wilson, comics writer, author & creator of Miss Marvel, born 31 August 1982. ‘If man’s capacity for the fantastic took up as much of his imagination as his capacity for cruelty, the worlds, seen and unseen, might be very different.’ —G. Willow Wilson #Writers #Books
And let's not forget the cat on the keyboard 🐱 #amwriting #writing #writerscommunity #booksky #author
Sorry for being a bit quiet recently. I’ve been on a #writingretreat to complete my sixth book before the deadline for submission, and I’ve achieved a record (for me) of 21,108 words in just 5 days. Some of them even make sense! 😄 I only have two scenes left to write - wish me luck! #amwriting
Oof that's a mission and a half that would wipe me out You got this!
Might not be ready until next year, the second half is way too long and the rewrite/restructure is very taxing
“l’ll get you, my pretty!” #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity
#Childhood #television. Where the #BIGwhitelies get glammed up, + sold #wholeSALE, to #young #minds, passing as #wholeSOME #family-viewing, when really #culturally-sanctioned #gullibility. #racism #honkyBS #revolt #changethenarrative #writer #poet #author #books #film #bluesky #settlers #myth #SD
Ooh, very good q #SummerOfStory While not as apparent as Darcy and Bingley (Smiles and Grim), the MC and both LIs are mirrored, while the MC/misogynistic friend serve as the foils #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
Me sitting down to character creation (with special thanks to Elizabeth Barrett) - "How do I traumatise thee? Let me count the ways..." #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BookSky
Or, how to channel your inner pyro (Alt Text, a quote from Edgar Allen Poe's writing - "I continued ... to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation") #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ReaderSky #BopkSky
Damn, that's some epic pyromaniac shit right there
Yay!!! Celebration cake time! I'm lining up a flourless chocolate mud cake for publishing day
I've just submitted my first order for paperbacks of HoP. Gunna give myself a round of applause real quick. #Romance #SliceOfLife #Erotica #LGBTQIA #Disability #Writer #Author #Writing #SerialisedNovel #FreeToRead #Booksta #Bookthreads #Booktok #Inkitt
I reckon sprint in the outline, take the scenic route on the first draft, then tease/carve out the narrative from the second draft onwards
Thank you for sharing, hope you get stable soon!
Sometimes, chronic illness means laying here because my heart rate was 120bpm and rising sitting. Yay, POTs. 😅 I just wanted to keep writing, but my body said, "No." Lmao #writersky #chronicillness #pots #writer #author #authorsky
I argue you could build on it following consumption of a lot of fantasy, personal/AO3 in-universe short stories, an older/experienced critical and analytical mind, and the wonders of hindsight to carve out something wonderful For my fantasy, the idea spawned out of re-use of the same ideas 3 times