Something I'd forgotten all about came up in my FB memories today. This is the post:
"I've just received a letter from a reader of my books. She's reading Blood Libel. It inspired her, she said, to seek out the only synagogue in the (I'm guessing rural) county she lives in and wish them a blessed Passover. What a wonderful letter to get today!"
That might be the best thing I've ever received from a reader.
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Lately, there’s been a surprisingly clear message: AI is a threat to the climate.
And yes, it is.
But something about the way it was being framed didn’t sit right with me. So I dug into the numbers...
This isn’t a defence of AI.
It’s a defence of critical thinking.
https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/is-ai-the-problem-or-just-the-headline/
Today the 9th chapter of my Phoenix Academy story is out: Table manners. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/109929/phoenix-academy/chapter/2218835/table-manners
Today's Wandering Shop Stories #prompt is #board. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "board" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/board Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @extraspecialbitter
Yesterday's write-up now also available on my blog. It was a nice day. 
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https://www.norbertwoehnl.com/singles/tokyo-japan-metropolitan-teien-museum-cafe-lunch-2025-04-20
The latest Fountain Pen video is now available for your viewing pleasure.
In this video I am looking at the fountain pens I have inked up in April 2025.
Join me now to see those pens.
I may not be able to walk properly, but I can still write. This afternoon shall be editing galore, I need to get moving on this manuscript so its time to light a fire under my own butt!
Nonsense poems:
Floogles drive the destiny of galt,
With many shives and traces halt.
Batswanie moongles in the pond
With divided loyalties in jond.
Cavort! Cavort! the wandress cries,
And meanwhile all the turvey dies.
Despite writing for pay for years (and having a love of written word since I was 4), I still feel like every time I put words to page I'm still trying to discover my voice. I can't tell if this is impostor syndrome or if this is just what it feels like to be a writer.
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Today, I wrote more than 5k words for a new project I shouldn't even be starting and which has no predictable outcome.
A writing brain is not easy to handle.
I'm really lonely and looking for friends to chat with in the #disability and #lgbtq communities. I have cancer and its really weighing on my mind. I play #videogames, enjoy #writing and #reading. I'd love to be a part of the #writingcommity on here. I'm a #Trans woman who's very proud of it
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#WordWeavers 2504.20 — If someone gave you a million dollars (or equivalent) to never write again, would you take it?
I spent a lifetime scrimping, saving, investing, and being frugal to get to this point. Retirement. Now they offer me a million dollars? Sheesh. Gonna have to make me a better offer to stop me from doing what I like to do. [Sticks out tongue, makes raspberry.]
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.20 — What rôle does religion play in your writing?
Religiosity is important in many of my stories, even when it is as prominent as vacuum by its absence. Usually, I don't write in the point of view of the religious, but I did write an SF novel in the point of view of a shaman. I'd lived in Bali for awhile, and having studied the culture and theatre of the island during college, felt I had a feel for animism. At university, I studied religions and non-western cultures as part of my degree, as well as folklore and mythology. I find it fascinating. At least as far as my writing goes my degree has proved useful.
More often I write about how people wield religion to abuse society. My latest novel (now in revision) pits a fictional religion and a theocratic plutocracy (where our world is headed) against one woman's quest for freedom. It is the background main antagonist. For the people in the other WIP, the concept of a supernatural or the divine is absurd; they don't even have words for it in their vocabulary. Nevertheless, the MCs are destined to face people who bear unusual ideas about how reality actually functions, who might react badly when upon meeting a woman with bull horns and a man with ruby-edged white feathered wings.
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The young one pauses
Awkward lanky like a colt
Wishes school were done
#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poem #shortpoem #writing
Prompt - Colt
Every time I read "this isn't about politics" or some variant thereof in an article, I would like to ask the writer what they think politics is.
The US Civil War was about the political decision of whether to permit slavery to continue. The Nazi Party was a political party that instituted policies of racism and eugenics to exterminate millions.
It feels like even among people who hold political opinions that politics itself must never be about anything that matters too much. It's as though it's just politics until it kills me.
But, politics is and always has been life or death. That anyone is incredulous of this fact really puts into question everyone's education on history and civics.
the opening paragraphs of my novel
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The Tower loomed over the tangled silhouette of the Last City. Impossibly tall, it split the luminous night sky into two halves, its black outline visible as an emptiness, a void of missing stars. No lights pocked its surface, and what few sparks glowed in the Escherian disorder of buildings below it were not powerful enough to cast onto its monolithic sides.
She knew she was dreaming. It was not the first time she’d dreamed of this Tower.
Librarians are dangerous: A public service announcement by Brad Montague
Dear Enthusiasts,
I write to you today as a concerned citizen. Many aren’t brave enough to say it, but the time has come. So, I will say it:
Librarians are dangerous.
(Dramatic music should be playing in your head right now.)
You thought they were just keepers of the quiet. Guardians of the “shhh.” The ones who handed you a dusty book and pointed to a beanbag chair.
Wrong.
