fictionable, to bookstodon
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When Lowe applies for an internship, he’s offered a job. @seanbirnie calculates profit and loss in his short story The Medical Room.

Catch it exclusively at https://fictionable.world

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MarjoleinRotsteeg, to writers Dutch
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Hello fellow-writers, help wanted. Last week my partner lost a number of my tabs. They are irretrievable. One of them was of a website by women on ao growing vegs and, if I remember it well, pictures of pumpkins. They also asked for fiction submissions on nature, with possible bonus points for a vegan character. It's not hearthstories.
Can anybody help me, please? Thanks in advance!

@writingcommunity @writers

NaraMoore, to lgbtqbookstodon
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I am looking for a new beta reader. I write serialized Yuri Paranormal Romance. I publish up to 5,000 words a week and my drafts are close to finished before I send them to readers. I am happy to return the favor.

Not required but a def. plus is being familiar with Japan to spot cultural errors.

DM me or reply but please remove the lists, no point in cluttering those feeds.


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haikushack, to bookstodon
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abpositiveart, to bookstodon
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haikushack, to bookstodon
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duanetoops, to bookstodon
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duanetoops, to bookstodon
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“It is so much more comfortable to think that we know what it all means”, Anne Lamott says. But, sometimes the really magical, top-shelf, good shit, sometimes WE PROGRESS when we realize we don't know a goddamn thing. I came to collage to stop overthinking...

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/we-progress

#reading #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #art #poetry #creativity #blog #blogging #collage #collageart #books @bookstodon

MarjoleinRotsteeg, to poetry Dutch
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MarjoleinRotsteeg, to poetry Dutch
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fictionable, to bookstodon
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When we offer a stranger help, where should we draw the line? Irena Karpa tests the boundaries in Fellow Traveler, translated by Kate Tsurkan.

Explore at https://fictionable.world

Image: Alyssa Black

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MonadicBlurbs, to bookstodon
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Hey there!

I'm CKMo, and I'm a taiwanese high fantasy indie author. I'm trying to bring more works with influences into western culture via my novels.

You can find all my publishing sites, social media, and discord server in my bio!

@bookstodon

The video is made using a still picture of a dimly lit, antique looking library wall. The wall is illuminated by a row of hanging Edison lightbulbs. The books on the shelves appear to be arranged somewhat haphazardly. Partially covering the library image, in the center of it, is a black frame with a darker, semi-transparent background which adds a worn look to the picture behind it. In this frame are a set of captions in antique gold with a black outline, which read in this order: "Looking for a new indie author to support? Check out my high fantasy series, Below the Heavens! Here’s what you’ll find inside: A detailed world crafted from scratch with its own unique magic system and political struggles. A realm full of dragons, spirits, magical auramasters, and battles for power and control! A charismatic protagonist using his quick wits to try to survive in this tumultuous world and find his way back home. A large and diverse cast of likeable (and not likeable) supporting characters and antagonists! A free, multi-book series in the works. Book one out now!"

duanetoops, to bookstodon
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"The ongoing challenge of the creative life is how to balance the outward sharing of one’s gift with the inward stewardship of the soul from which that gift springs." - @mariapopova

https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/11/26/bear-is-never-alone/

#reading #writing #art #poetry #amwriting #writingcommunity #blog #blogging #books #creativity @bookstodon

duanetoops, to bookstodon
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Put out a newsleter this morning attempting to describe my collage process and the way that it influences my entire creative process.

Link below if you'd like to give it read. I'd love to hear what you think:
https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/we-progress

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duanetoops, to bookstodon
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You have a condition. A sensitivity. The symptoms are invisible. Whether you were born with it or came to it. Something in your genes or something that happens as you age. Who knows? Who’s to say? It’s a kind of osteopenia. A loss of inner strength. A kind of poverty. You can’t rebuild quickly. A reduction of volume, of mass. An inadequate density.

https://duanetoops.substack.com/p/unsafe

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MarjoleinRotsteeg, to poetry Dutch
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the last milestone
destination reached
new challenge awaits

- milestone





@aethelshane

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MarjoleinRotsteeg, to poetry Dutch
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during the heatwave
the carps in the pond
gasping for breath

- carp




@dailyhaikuprompt

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fictionable, to bookstodon
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A series of letters arrives on sheets of old paper in I Can't Tell by @mjohnharrison But what are they communicating?

Find out at https://fictionable.world

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naldela_teleyal, to fantasy
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Kythorn 20, 1362 DR – Ykril POV

As I sat by my bed spooning the hot milk soup with cinnamon that this beautiful Drow prepared for me and introduced herself to me as Naldela when I woke up, I watched her as she seemed to be arguing with another Drow, a very muscular one, and wondered what was going on. I wished I had learned the Drow language. Then I could listen and understand them. Only a 'No, I will not leave him' from Naldela was possible for me to translate, but otherwise I could only tell by the wild gesticulation that they were in disagreement. I wonder if they were sisters. They already looked very similar, and they also argued with each other, rather like me and Sunih did.

https://tly.be/bBcwq

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duanetoops, to bookstodon
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Super excited about Monday’s newsletter. I made a piece of art for a fellow writer's poem last week, and I “try” to write alittle bit about my creative process in making it and the way collage relates to my creative proces as a whole…I know…it’s kind of a lot…

https://duanetoops.substack.com/

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bibliolater, to econhist
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"The following review of the archeological and document evidence indicates that three events occurring in the first half of the first millennium BC trigger the emergence of a specialized and integrated classical economy after 500 BC: (i) growth in demand for silver as a medium of exchange in economies in the Near East; (ii) technical breakthroughs in hull construction and sailing rig in merchant shipping of the late Bronze Age; (iii) perfection of ferrous metallurgy into the European hinterland."

Grantham, G. (2021). THE PREHISTORIC ORIGINS OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION. Social Philosophy and Policy, 38(2), 261-306. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052522000140 @economics @econhist @philosophy

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"The early alphabet developed in association with Western Asiatic (Canaanite) miners in Sinai (or, at least, was taken up by them) during the Middle Kingdom in the eighteenth century BC. We suggest that early alphabetic writing spread to the Southern Levant during the late Middle Bronze Age (with the Lachish Dagger probably being the earliest attested example), and was in use by at least the mid fifteenth century BC at Tel Lachish."

Höflmayer, F., Misgav, H., Webster, L., & Streit, K. (2021). Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: The ‘missing link’ from Tel Lachish. Antiquity, 95(381), 705-719. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.157 @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

MarjoleinRotsteeg, to poetry Dutch
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the last rose
defies rain, hail, and snow
lavender dream fades

This evocative name of this rose is 'lavender dream'.






@poetry

MarjoleinRotsteeg, to poetry Dutch
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what I need
to get back in touch with me
seclusion

- seclusion




@dailyhaikuprompt

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MarjoleinRotsteeg, to poetry Dutch
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Despite the cold, it was a warm waking-up with a haiku of mine published on Under The Basho. 🙏🏽 👇🏽

https://underthebasho.com/the-journal/under-the-basho-2023/haiku/marjolein-rotsteeg.html

#haiku #senryu #poetry #writing
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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