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@JonSparks Where did that graphic come from? Is it free to use? I'd like to put it on my web site.

@ombialik Suggestion: @pluralistic #SciFi

Ramen: n - males who follow Ra.#writing #throwawayline

Can any of my fellow self-publishers recommend a European print-on-demand organisation? I'm using Draft2Digital, but the orders take a while to ship, plus the shipping charges. (Please don't mention Amazon!)Thanks.#writing #writingcommunity

Duck under the tree Rain and petals pour down Bringing delight #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poem #shortpoem #writing Prompt ~ Down

Your heroes set out to right the wrongs of the world. How exactly will they do that?#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev

Take that Richard Bach!Quote below by Ursula Le Guin:#Books #Writing

Happy Birthday to Terry Pratchett! “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky#Books #Writing

#MastoPrompt #absent #writing #creativewriting #smallstories @stevencudahy

Jackhammers down streetGet closer to my old pipesHistoric living#haiku #poetry #SmallPoems #Writing

Support my work on my website today: https://mkultra.monster/support/I am a hobbyist webdev, writer, blogger, and musician, and most of my funding comes from community support and album purchases.(this post automatically scheduled and shared via Python)#Blogging #Music #Writing #Support

"In the 1950s, the Iowa Writers Workshop received funding from the CIA to push a writing style that centered the emotional life of the individual while decentering the social and political forces that shape human behavior.The Workshop popularized an idea of craft as non-ideological, but that individualism is itself an ideology." #Books #Writing #Individualism #CIAhttps://lithub.com/the-craft-challenges-of-writing-political-fiction/

Like many I've been avoiding the news today but I always read the Will Bunch newsletter for the vivid writing."Saturday night’s gunfire right outside the swank ballroom hosting Trump and the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) dinner — with elite journalists in awkward black ties or uncomfortable high heels diving under white linen tables with half-eaten spring-pea-and-burrata salad — went beyond metaphor for a depraved and decadent America."https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-dinner-shooting-violent-america-20260426.html?int_promo=newsletter#journalism #writing #uspol

@gavin57 yeah it certainly felt that way when reading it. They've forgotten about the process and seem too fixated on the quality. I mean maybe they do clarify later on or halfway through the year, but I'm not going to find out.

i was recently sick in shanghal (not covid), and was impressed by their near-instant PCR testing (for 12 different pathogens!) services, so I documented it: https://winnielim.org/journal/the-experience-of-being-sick-in-shanghai/also some commentary about the seemingly lack of care about health in society.#writing #blogging

“Everyone knows that stories are imaginary. Whatever effect they might have on us, we know they are not true, even when they tell us truths more important than the ones we can find elsewhere.” - Paul Auster, GhostsIf the stories teach us important things, does it matter that they aren’t true?One can argue that the line between fiction and non-fiction is blurred. Any moment in time will be experienced objectively by all those present, there will be many versions of what actually happened.#writing #bookstodon #paulauster

Dear @broadwaybabyto, all the best to you.

The bluebonnets fieldwas insatiably showingher blooming beauty#dailyhaikuprompt #Lupine#MastoPrompt #gluttonous#haiku#senryu#poetry#SmallPoems #writing #photography@dailyhaikuprompt @stevencudahy Mountain Meadow Beauty - Aobram

Scents of berries, sweetened cream and coffee...The hulking orc looked down at his icy beverage in it's clear drinking vessel. It was a most charming shade of pink."This is really the largest chalice they had?" he asked his human companion.The human nodded apologetically, "They don't do orc portions here."The orc took a healthy sip through the straw. And then he roared."It attacked my brain! I approve of this fierce libation!"#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

The Wandering Shop Stories #prompt for today, Thu-23-Apr — William Shakespears birth, is #hamlet. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "hamlet" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hamlet Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @NaraMoore