Bryn Donovan: On the Power of a High-Concept Story https://www.writersdigest.com/bryn-donovan-on-the-power-of-a-high-concept-story #Writer'sDigestAuthorSpotlight #AuthorSpotlightSeries #WriteBetterFiction #historicalromance #AuthorSpotlights #AuthorSpotlight #romanceauthor #BeInspired #Historical #Interviews #Romance #Genre

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Glad to receive my ordered paperback of this fabulous #anthology from Wicked Shadow Press Parthsarathi Chakraborty
It's one of two brilliant anthologies.
TY again, for featuring one of my stories. Don't miss this superb publication, great reading, writing & so apt illustrations & blurbs to accompany each story!
https://www.lulu.com/shop/parth-sarathi-chakraborty/unholier-than-thou-original-sin/paperback/product-v8qw757.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawOo8eRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFGQmNRN2N0T05JZVpaUDJQc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjH9nC-DdtXfXTGjv_JAql3DU9t4PkQJrnXaTPwSOZqqG8hXeCtBBETZAKra_aem_AQdhKShk3aBqARr656csiA&page=1&pageSize=4

"The form-fitting suit coat communicated serious intention, wrapped in a feminine shape. Ysabel Aranda was not a woman to be trifled with."
https://medium.com/tales-of-blue/when-love-is-a-stranger-5215c545b8bc
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1 Kings ~ 7:7 to 7:33, In-depth Study

https://hcongrove2.com/2025/12/12/1-kings-77-to-733-in-depth-study/

As a #writer, I’m drawn to the liminal — strange, luminous edges. My #creative work often explores the so-called “fringe”: #UFOs, Energy Fields, #Akashic Energy..etc. You’ll find me writing #esoteric literature & speculative theology. If you’re curious..check out my Quantum Soul Series. —Phillip

Sometimes writing takes time to write and reflect. Time to think through the story. Other times it tumbles out too fast to type. Writing is more than the act of typing, it's also the time spent thinking through the story. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Writer #Author ~ #BookSky #AuthorSky

#PennedPossibilities 871 — What is the greatest extravagance your MC lets or would let themselves have?

Blackmail has left Bolt as little more than a slave to the mob, which uses her talent for quickly flying messages and hauling "herbs" through sky. They never leave her with more coin than needed for rent and food. She's allowed some autonomy to ensure she never takes a dose of fucketol and takes others down with her.

The story lets us witness her life change. Because she's newly assigned to follow someone the mob boss is interested in (spying from high places sometimes), she's allowed a few more coins for expenses. She goes from affording crusts for breakfast one day to the next day some squid and ramen (while watching her mark, of course.) The meals make her unaccustomedly happy, but illogically makes her subliminally bond with the woman she's tailing, feeling as if they have a connection.

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Ever feel like writer's block has your writing all boxed up? Write a fun short story about some of your side characters. A story you've always wanted to tell. It will get you writing again and shed light on what you are currently writing. - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writing #Writer #Author #BookSky #AuthorSky

Just made a gift to Clarion West. There will be a scholarship next year.

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When asked what my writing style is, I struggle to describe it.
But I just edited the first chapter of Shallow Trenches/Open Skies's first draft, and I can *feel* the style even if I can't *describe* it.

I am please to say this reads like Gas Giant Gambit, although I can't put my finger on how or why.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2025.12.11 — People are often frustrated by the lack of engagement on social media. Do you have any ideas for how to improve it?

When I was self-publishing niche material on its de facto niche platform, I worked every dimension of the platform that I could perceive. I wrote enough for nine novels. The platform included blogging; I regularly discussed my characters and those of others. I provided writing tips. The platform encouraged writing blurbs for my stories, long ones and short; I refined my process over a sequence of stories. I did keywording. I researched how to, heavily. I participated in included forums that focused on promotion and on group discussions. I contributed. I commented there, and on other's stories. Considering that I wrote material more like SF than fantasy, and gritty (gangsters were a theme at one point) rather than somewhat fluffy, I wrung out about as much as I could expect.

Was I frustrated? Emotionally, oh yes, and exhausted, especially when entitled so-and-sos would instantly down-vote without reading, or make comments that had nothing to do with reality—but it's the bratty side of me that expects my view of reality ought prevail. You can't make people do what you want; you need to entice or conform or ignore. You have to take care of yourself.

In the final analysis, it comes down to whether you interest people. Until you build a brand name and a reputation, it's work without guarantee of success. How do you improve it? You can't, except by participation and persistence and improving your product—and making your own luck.

I don't have these secrets.

Yet.

I'll share if I get there.

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🔴#A7Radio > #Decouverte > Kent-Zo ✅
https://a7productions.blogspot.com/p/7-radio-100-mix.html

Une nouvelle Douceur à écouter et à partager ! Elle va faire partie de vos coups de coeur ! ❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPcyHqkBgo&t=3s

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I finally went public again! It's was a little scary!

https://open.substack.com/pub/burtonyin/p/i-finally-hit-publish-on-the-cavalletto?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4wxw8t

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Carissa Broadbent: On the Second-Book Challenges https://www.writersdigest.com/carissa-broadbent-on-the-second-book-challenges #Writer'sDigestAuthorSpotlight #ScienceFiction/Fantasy #AuthorSpotlightSeries #WriteBetterFiction #AuthorSpotlights #AuthorSpotlight #BeInspired #Interviews #Romantasy #Romance #Genre

1 Kings ~ 6:17 to 7:6, In-depth Study

https://hcongrove2.com/2025/12/11/1-kings-617-to-76-in-depth-study/

Investment is the deliberate allocation of capital today to generate superior future returns. In 2025, successful investors prioritize three realities: (1) higher-for-longer interest rates have permanently raised the cost of capital, rewarding cash-flow-positive businesses overgrowth-at-all-costs;
Full Article: https://webartrix.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-guide-to-securing-investments-for.html
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#PennedPossibilities 870 — Name something your MC fears losing.

As you get to know Bolt, you begin to sense that she doesn't value her own life, or, at least intellectually doesn't. She doesn't seem to fear that it might soon end. She isn't suicidal—simply apathetic because she's been blackmailed by the mob. What we do learn is that she values other people. Her keeping in mind that she's poison is one way she demonstrates it. Her self-isolation is manifest in her street photography. She pastes photos of people living "normal lives" to her apartment walls to pine away at. Alone. At a deep level, she fears that the mob might involve her family in its manipulation of her, but after a dozen years without revealing her name or other identity, that fear has faded to a vague and far way bitterness—which I'm going to prod with a needle starting in the current scene. What's more immediate, though, is that thanks to the catalyst of her street photography, she's having to interact people, and like them, and have friends as a result, which generates the fear that by giving in, by being near them, she will get them hurt, or used, and on a level that makes her want to cry, that they'll hate her. It's a recurring sick feeling deep in her stomach. Is it stopping her from being around these people? No. Her lack of discipline makes her even more sick about it!

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