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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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www.theverge.com/news/612898/... Back up your books now! Watch out for disappearing (banned) books!

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Did I just come up with an entire history and backstory for something that will get ONE line in this manuscript, that will probably end up cut out anyway? ...yes. Yes I did.

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🇦🇺 Book launch is next Tuesday night at Melbourne CBD Dymocks! I keep forgetting to post about it here! Details in linktree!!

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I thought I had honeybees setting up a nest but I have wasps. So disappointing.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The bit where the Ents go absolutely nuts in The Two Towers is one of my favourite bits of the entire LOTR trilogy

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So we seem to have had some bees move into the bottom of one of our half-barrel pots and one of the chickens thinks that they’re the best snack ever. Not sure if we might have to do something about … any of this

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I have only just discovered that Goodreads has a thing where people can log their progress as they read a book and this particular one just absolutely tickled me. I'm going to go look up what happens 8% of the way through my book now. Night night. #gay

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Prioritizing relationship-building over reactivity, and solidarity over silence, is how abolitionist writer and activist @kwhitlock.bsky.social suggests we all confront the rising violence and authoritarianism in the days and years ahead. https://inquest.org/this-is-how-you-win-the-culture-wars/

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

🇦🇺 Book launch is next Tuesday night at Melbourne CBD Dymocks! I keep forgetting to post about it here! Details in linktree!!

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Writer Beware has gotten complaints that Word Alliance Literary Agency (not really a lit agency) is contacting writers to offer editing jobs. The "jobs" are already-published books, w/ pmt on completion; scam then asks for writer's bank account info. Discussion here: www.reddit.com/r/writing/co...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

this is as good as "trying to clean while baby pandas want attention." :D

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Art pisses fascists off—like fr! Your shit got a message? A theme? Fascists hate that shit. They want banal entertainment that aligns with their myopic worldview. Their capacity for creativity is utterly boring! Their allegiance to losers is breathtakingly uninformed and self-sabotaging!

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Got confimed for 2 major surgeries this week. I will need funds & soon, but I was fired when I was diagnosed with cancer & my only income now is writing. I hate to ask because I know we're all struggling, but I'd appreciate any donation. Thank you & please share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

Donor being spelt with an -or not an -er is even more annoying when you look at the etymology:

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Came home from a writing session to find the strong winds were having today blew our ancient crappy front gate… clean off the fence 😬

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First drafts: A haiku of despair First drafts are the worst I hate them with my whole soul Please god no, first drafts Needs work but that’s ok because you can fix a first draft once they’re done. The bastards.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

To paraphrase a tweet I read a ways back: Hope is spitting out blood and teeth and is cracking her knuckles as she gets to her feet for another round.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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It feels diabolical to be doing self-promo in the midst of all this BUT! Consider this an official FYC post, as Sargassa is not only eligible for the Hugos and Nebulas this year, but long-listed for Best First Novel in the Locus Awards--and you, yes YOU, can vote right now in the first round. ☀️😎

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I am in the bath. The tween just randomly brought me a cream bun, announcing “snack delivery for mummy!” and once again, I’m thinking this whole making-a-person thing is working out fine

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve just finished The Ministry of Time and it is absolutely full of “telling” and that’s absolutely fine because it worked.

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BABY

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The point is for you to be scared. The point is for you to be too exhausted and inundated to take true action. The point is for you to feel defeated. The point is for you to feel isolated. Don’t believe the point. Take a deep breath. Focus on community, on tangible actions.

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

The advice I’ve started giving people, when they ask for writing advice, is that you need to ignore most writing advice. You can’t work out which advice is going to help you until you know yourself as a writer and know your own process. I am delighted any time I see someone else talk about this.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

"the violent public death of one guy never changed anything" oh yeah then how come I know who Archduke Franz Ferdinand is

submitted 67 days ago • 58 comments

ICYMI — ICE protests across 🇺🇸

submitted 20 days ago • 36 comments

Microsoft Excel just demanded I rate it out of five stars and the future is so, so stupid

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A lot of writers are very busy people with day jobs, families and other commitments. Here are 4 top tips (from @keslupo.bsky.social who has written 3 published - and more unpublished - novels while working full-time) for how to write when you're short on time.🧵

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Authors if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book. "If Lord Aubrey Ainsley had known when he tied his cravat that the evening he was dressing for was going to change the course of his life, he probably would have picked a more complicated knot." (Prince of Fortune)

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Alt Text: Things Queer Culture Teaches & Straight Culture Doesn't You don't get married or have kids if you don't want to. Its nobody's job to flirt or be flirted with. If you're into someone, do the work and tell them. People will judge & reject you without knowing you. This isn't your fault...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

FYI google have now stopped "-ai" working at the end of your search string. So put this at the end (after a space) instead: &udm=14 Fuck you #google. #AI

submitted 24 days ago • 166 comments

Prince of Fortune hits Antipodean shelves today and I couldn’t be more thrilled. Can’t wait to find it in a local bookstore 💙 @simonschusterau #australianAuthor #YAfantasy #loveOzYA #fantasyBooks #australianBookstagram #debutCrew25

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An incredible photo from Berlin this evening. An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe. #Resist (📸 Ricarda Lang)

submitted 28 days ago • 76 comments

This video is absolutely fascinating and says succinctly so many things that have been fermenting in my head for a while now. Dismissing certain genres as not worthy of critical thought when their books have SO MUCH TO SAY (often BECAUSE of what genre they are-this is not an accident) is unhelpful

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Someone just called my tween a millennial and … people really don’t care what words mean do they

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Something to remember is that the Techbro billionaire class were rarely the actual tech pioneers. They're the ones who bankrolled it, or engineered a controlling share interest. They're just Railway Robber Barons 2.0. It's why they're crap at actual tech. Their 'skill' was money, timing or theft.

submitted 31 days ago • 46 comments