Atraxian Blue preview/serialization chapters (http://mathling.com/books/index.html):

10: In which Lila discovers something very unpleasant in the cargo

For the impatient: https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx

#scifi #writing

" I’d scour profiles in an effort to figure out where these men were coming from, why they seemed to oppose the things I’d previously spent a career fighting for . . ." —Vera Papisova for Cosmopolitan

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/relationships/a63915627/political-beliefs-dating-app-experiment/?src=longreads

#longreads #dating #rightwing #conservative #america #writing #reading.

@seharinsights I'm a huge fan of the em dash in my own #writing.

https://forkingmad.blog/em-dashes/

It gets me down pretty frequently, how there are so many of us out here writing fresh, vivid stories that break from the popular mold to venture boldly into frontiers never before explored -- yet the people who have the money and the clout to bring our stories to the forefront ignore us entirely, in favor of the same voices with the same stories and the same posturing ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

#Capitalism is death.

#writing
#TheWritingLife
#WriterProblems
#BuyMyBooks

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"Suddenly, the teenager from Teddington who just wanted to be a theatre actress was one of the most famous women in the world." —Caitlin Moran for The Times

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/keira-knightley-interview-caitlin-moran-childrens-book-spj5wcgjp/?src=longreads

#keiraknightley #celebrity #profile #writing #reading

Atraxian Blue preview/serialization chapter (http://mathling.com/books/index.html):

In which the captain of the Kintsugi has a moment with the ghosts of her past

For the impatient: https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx

#scifi #writing

Atraxian Blue preview/serialization chapter (http://mathling.com/books/index.html):

In which our feckless hero evades a lot of pointed questions with half lies and misdirection

For the impatient: https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx

#scifi #writing

This short story is about moving houses when you're young, leaving behind friends, always being the new kid at school.

‘Piece of the Furniture’ by Brooke Smith, a Year 13 student at Waiuku College, is this year's winner of the Sargeson Prize - secondary schools division.

The writing is lovely.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/25/short-story-winner-of-the-sargeson-prize-seconday-schools-division/

#NZ #Writing

The most frustrating thing, for me as a writer, is not being able to give my readers a full sense of the world. How many words would it take to describe this beautiful window in Morocco? That particular blue, the vivid contrast in yellow? The detail of the grill-work? The sunlight?

#FensterFreitag #FensterFriday #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #writing

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Now, having said that. A wall painted a rich, sky blue, and a golden-yellow window with intricate, delicate grillwork.

A couple more chapters From Atraxian Blue (http://mathling.com/books/index.html)

The tale takes a darker turn:

In which a small boy is very very ill.

In which deadly violence erupts while our feckless hero obsesses about his art.

Get the whole thing here if you like: https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx

#writing #scifi

The alien in my cupboard

https://sylvia.buzz/the-alien-in-my-cupboard

#Short-stories #Writing

[for your address book]

A Fediverse group for sharing your papers and preprints.

https://soc.octade.net/papers/

#Papers #Writing #Preprints #Authors #Research #Reading #groups #fedigroups #fediverse

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cartoon drawing of a feather quill standing in a inkwell

Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

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Hexlish Alphabet logo. The word HEXLISH in rainbow colors on a black background with a hexagonal dot above the letter I. Beneat the logo in yellow reads the phrase, "English Text Compression & Encoding."

It doesn't matter where you write, just that you write!

https://sylvia.buzz/it-doesnt-matter-where-you-write-just-that-you-write

#Writing

It normally takes me two weeks to write #blog posts, but I did a one-week sprint to finish my newest one.

I'm writing about #llm / #ai which is different from what I normally write about, but I've become so frustrated with media coverage. Look forward to it next week #writing #tech #darkpattern #misalignedmarkets