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[?]Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏 » 🌐
@SPF@hear-me.social

For Rules [of writing], like Crutches, are a needful Aid to the Lame, tho' an impediment to the Strong. Edward Young, 1759

Alt...For Rules [of writing], like Crutches, are a needful Aid to the Lame, tho' an impediment to the Strong. Edward Young, 1759

    [?]Eoin O'Beara » 🌐
    @eobeara@mastodon.ie

    2/10: Do you tend to include prologues?
    Yes, in all the books I've written, each has a prologue. I feel it helps to set the scene.




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      [?]Mary Holstege » 🌐
      @mathling@mastodon.social

      Available today, my space opera novel, Atraxian Blue: books2read.com/u/b6ElAx

      Chapter one preview available here:
      mathling.com/books/AtraxianBlu

      In which we meet our feckless hero, defacing a bulkhead in the name of art

      Cover image for "Atraxian Blue" by Mary Holstege. It shows an abstract nest of overlapping wavy rings with ants crawling over them. The design is etched into some strangely patterned metal and signed RS.

      Alt...Cover image for "Atraxian Blue" by Mary Holstege. It shows an abstract nest of overlapping wavy rings with ants crawling over them. The design is etched into some strangely patterned metal and signed RS.

        [?]Mary Holstege » 🌐
        @mathling@mastodon.social

        Now for something completely different: a novel

        Sometimes I take a break from writing programs to make art to write English to make art. Out Oct 1st: Atraxian Blue. Space opera. Our hero is an artist (usually).

        Buy it, get it from the library, or just drop me a line. Ebook/print (link). It's about freedom & friendship & forging your own path. Perhaps not your cup of tea, and it has flaws, but I am frightfully proud of myself for making it.

        books2read.com/u/b6ElAx

        Cover image of the book "Atraxian Blue" by Mary Holstege. There is some kind of design of many overlapping loops, with ants marching along it, etched into some kind of metal with an odd patterned sheen. The work is signed RS. (Spoiler: Renny Samson, the main character.) The actual creator of this image is me.

        Alt...Cover image of the book "Atraxian Blue" by Mary Holstege. There is some kind of design of many overlapping loops, with ants marching along it, etched into some kind of metal with an odd patterned sheen. The work is signed RS. (Spoiler: Renny Samson, the main character.) The actual creator of this image is me.

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          [?]Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) [He/Him] » 🌐
          @golgaloth@writing.exchange

          This is the whole of academia in a nutshell.

          Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts? Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called - wait, | need to go back further. Okay, so in the 20th century, the new inventions of radio and television were known as broadcast media - no, wait, that's not really the start either - Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh- -- the Agricultural Revolution, which began circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting --

          Alt...Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts? Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called - wait, | need to go back further. Okay, so in the 20th century, the new inventions of radio and television were known as broadcast media - no, wait, that's not really the start either - Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh- -- the Agricultural Revolution, which began circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting --

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            [?]Robbie 👾 (Author) » 🌐
            @robbienorlyn@babka.social

            You have crash-landed on a foreign terrestrial planet. You have no rations because of an unfortunate mishap.
            The terrain is dotted with small iridescent green ponds and clusters of some kind of tuber that has palm-like leaves protruding from the ground. You do not have any functioning equipment to screen these things for contamination nor radiation.
            Do you drink the fluid and eat the tubers?

            Yes.:2
            No.:0
            Give me three days to think about this.:4

              [?]Michelle-Tessiah » 🌐
              @Tesseks@mastodon.social

              Blog post I wrote from a writing prompt Wordpress gave me.

              What was the best piece of advice you were given?

              tekscreates.wordpress.com/2025

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