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jtgates.bsky.social
Book lover & aspiring author. 📚✒️ Writing my first novel & sharing the journey. ✍️✨ Come along for the ride! Photography: @artfulgates.bsky.social
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👋📚 Hey #writingcommunity, are you a "planner" or a "pantser"? In other words, do you carefully map things out or just dive straight in? 🧐 Me first: I'm a planner to the point of total stagnation. 😅 Send help. 👩‍🏫 Thanks. #writer #author #creative #booksky #scifi #fantasy

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

It's fun to think about this kind of stuff. Isn't it? 🤓 #writingcommunity #booksky #philosophy #religion #spirituality #AI #whatif

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Anyone else write in their head while trying to sleep? 🌙✨ Ideas come by day, but words flow easiest at night... Do I write at 3 a.m. while the prose is clear, or wait until morning—when the night’s quiet fades, tearing my inspiration away with it? *sigh* 😴 #writingcommunity #booksky

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I had a little book photoshoot today for my BlueSky banner, because why not. 🤷‍♀️ Finally sitting down with a cup of tea to read a book. ☕📖 #photographer #writingcommunity #booksky

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This made my day! Your books helped me through a really difficult time, and I’m so grateful you decided to write The Land of Lost Things. Thank you, @jconnollybooks.bsky.social!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

When you sit down to read for a few minutes before bed... and next thing you know, it's tomorrow! 📚✨ Oops... 😴 #booksky

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Your friendly neighborhood librarian here...buy physical copies of your favorite books, especially challenged or banned books. Preferably from small local merchants. That's all; carry on. #Read #BookSky #Resist 📚

submitted 7 days ago • 139 comments

To answer the long-standing mystery, when an author says, “His eyes darkened,” it means his pupils dilated either from lust, fear, anger, or another strong emotion. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. #booksky

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I respect a book that has me stopping to re-read a perfectly and beautifully constructed sentence. #BookSky

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Hi #BookSky! 👋 Book dragon 🐉 & sci-fi/fantasy nerd here! 📚 Join me on my journey as I write my first novel! ✍️✨ I'll be sharing all the ups, downs, and behind-the-scenes moments along the way. #intro #writingcommunity

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"We lived as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it." "We were the people who were not in papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. "We lived in the gaps between the stories." 📚 (The Handmaid's Tale, 56-57)

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Choose 20 #books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 📚 I'm writing a thread below and counting any series as one. 😁 1. Grimm's Fairy Tales, the Brothers Grimm 2. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen 3. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle #BookSky #BookChallenge

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment