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Alright, students, flip open your books to the pages on the strategic problem of crafting communications which have to accomplish different aims to different audiences...

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“Two dollars worth of sandwiches?” 1920s

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"The only emotion in the story is in the last paragraph" -my wife, best beta reader

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From @theathletic.bsky.social: Brian Kelly is Thursday’s underrated loser. Kelly left Notre Dame for LSU and a better shot at a college football championship, but it's Marcus Freeman and the Irish who will play for a title. nyti.ms/3Px42is

submitted 61 days ago • 12 comments

Hello #BluePitHype ! I'm Michael, stay at home dad to four rambunctious little ones. I write adult fantasy and children's stories. I've been telling stories every since I was little, drawing knights and castles in the margins and playing out wars between nations on spare pages.

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#januaryworldbuilders 8. Rulers from the past Let's take a tour of history through the world of Euethia

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6 wise, blind elephants discussed what humans were like. Unable to agree, they decided to determine what humans were like by direct experience. The 1st wise, blind elephant felt the human, and declared, "Humans are flat." The other wise, blind elephants, after similarly feeling the human, agreed.

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#JanuaryWorldbuilders #mondaymaps So I'd like to take Mondays to share my collection of fantasy maps, as well as some real world ones as well. Several of my projects take place here, on the continent of Euethia.

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#januaryworldbuilders 8. Rulers from the past Let's take a tour of history through the world of Euethia

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#JanuaryWorldbuilders Day 7 Petra on the road towards the Rock of Kestral

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#JanuaryWorldbuilders Day 7 Petra on the road towards the Rock of Kestral

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#januaryworldbuilders Day 6 The Marquis de Condorcet and the French Revolution, Dark Sun Magic, and an image that would not leave my head, inspired me to create my world.

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#JanuaryWorldbuilders #mondaymaps So I'd like to take Mondays to share my collection of fantasy maps, as well as some real world ones as well. Several of my projects take place here, on the continent of Euethia.

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#januaryworldbuilders Day 6 The Marquis de Condorcet and the French Revolution, Dark Sun Magic, and an image that would not leave my head, inspired me to create my world.

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This week on the blog: Coins! Contrasting historical coinage with the vision of ancient coinage presented through 'gold' in fantasy fiction. What were coins used for, why did much economic activity remain non-coinage and what do you use when you aren't using coins? acoup.blog/2025/01/03/c...

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#januaryworldbuilders Day 4 The words "I require a final act of service," when you're a clerk working for a Magister. Best Hope the Sanguinst's knife is sharp and the Magister burns through you quick.

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#authorsky #writingcommunity #SelfPublishing #WritingGoals #WriteMore

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#januaryworldbuilders At least for Petra, my Main character, the Whistlewind, which is one of the tallest peaks of the Pearlcap mountains, is very majestic. She's always there, overshadowing his village, and when he takes his flock up to graze he can see the entire plain of Kestrel

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#januaryworldbuilders Day 2: One big mystery that goes unexplained is how the Heartlands of old became the impassible Blasted Lands

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