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2025-05-23

A Ghosts Story.

Written by Satan & Lee Wilson.

Sometimes it's safer not to know. Dare you look?
satan-speaks.com/a-ghosts-stor

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Tom Bradley Jr. 📚🇺🇸🇺🇦tombradleyjr
2025-05-23

Sometimes, all you gotta do is a bit of nip here and a tuck there and suddenly, your WIP's self-esteem improves exponentially.

2025-05-23

I did it! I clicked publish on Jonah of Olympic. I'm so excited for you all to read the next installment of the Mercedes Masterson Detective Stories series.

Click the link to read the book blurb, the first 3 chapters, and buy it! Happy reading!

Link — weaversdeepthoughts.com/librar

If you haven't read the first two stories, they're available for free right now. It's the perfect time to catch up! These first two stories read really quick, so you can catch up fast.

Link — weaversdeepthoughts.com/librar

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2025-05-23

Floral sonata
leaves uprush in song
quivering harp strings
connecting the moods
of a woman's heart
to the verdant notes.

Art: So For A Heartbeat She Saw Him by Howard Pyle

#poetry #WritingCommunity #spring #garden #Nature #poetrycommunity #fineart #poem #smallpoems

Painting of a woman in a red dress looking out of a green garden bower.
2025-05-23

Wilp.

Written by Satan & Lee Wilson.

Think you know the world? Think again.
satan-speaks.com/wilp/

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaistsfwrtr@eldritch.cafe
2025-05-23

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.05.22 /2 — How do you make a location you’ve never visited feel ‘real’ for the reader?

How?

I have the character interact with their environment. They encounter a green newspaper machine, put in a coin, hear the machine clank, smell the newsprint, then the coffee from the cart down the street, then salivating until it hurts, smelling a frosted donut then biting into the crispy oily maple goodness while talking to the pretty purveyor with blonde hair, before putting the back of their hands to their ears (with the sticky pastry in one and a cup of coffee in the other that splatters drops on a black sweater) as a fire truck with a clanging brass bell clatters down the cobblestone street pulled by a team of six white work horses with blinders.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

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Alicia McClendonqtarantino
2025-05-23

The Woman Who Knows is personal. It’s about a woman suffering from mental illness and fibromyalgia as she slowly drinks herself to death coping on meds, trying to live to see another day.

What’s the point of living?…

Back the crowdfunding campaign.

igg.me/at/TWWK/x/38434936#/

Alicia McClendonqtarantino
2025-05-23

The Woman Who Knows is personal to me. It’s about a woman suffering from mental illness and fibromyalgia as she slowly drinks herself to death coping on meds, trying to live to see another day.

“What’s the point of living?” I get it.

If you do too, please back the crowdfunding campaign.

igg.me/at/TWWK/x/38434936#/

2025-05-23

A good read for these tough times. The Girl Who Endured - A Contemporary Paranormal Survival Novel. #author #authorlife #writing #Writingcommunity

The girl who endured
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaistsfwrtr@eldritch.cafe
2025-05-23

#WordWeavers 2025.05.23 — Have you made up any swears or unique sayings for your characters? CW: Crude Language, duh.

There is almost never an opportunity to use conventional or "modern" foul-mouthed language in any of my stories because there is no connection to 19th-21st century Earth. In Mars Needed Women, one character just uses the word asshole; his using it comes off as very quaint since he's a rough character now in his early fifties (but still sexy), talking about how awful he was when young. There are plenty of other made up or repurposed words, but no defined martian "swears." Instead, here is May Ri listening to her daughter:

The teenager, her green eyes sparkling with the same fire her father's eyes often evidenced, explained what she meant in great unvarnished detail. The words "hypocrites" and "misogynists" featured along side martian swear words that made May Ri's ears burn. Mari had studied her father's "situational" rhetoric thoroughly.

In the Reluctance Series, I make up "words." But first, for those who have followed me long enough to have learned about the devil girl, she's funny in that if someone is about to swear, she warns, "Language!" In most contexts (mob, prizefighter, "princess"), whomever she says this to abides, or regrets it if they don't.

The following words may seem like cheats, but give them a moment to sink in before you conclude that. It's amazing how quickly a reader can get used to even nonsense when it has a definite context.

While these are day angel slang, Thorn Rose uses them without much situational awareness (she's a daemon). Day angels have feathered wings and control surfaces, double-shoulders and extra joints to make it work, and use reluctant forces to let them fly. There's also night angels—too many spoilers there—but day angels so far are portrayed as lower class. These "swears" come from them; bear in mind, these people are very human.

Flap v. as in, "Are you flapping crazy?" or intr. "Flap it all!" Not a synonym for sexual intercourse, but it does imply getting hit up side the head with a feathered wing. It serves the purpose.

I originally used in a teen-rated YA!

Flap and fluff n., NSFW originally involving wings and someone male, but you can use it generally for what's implied. Yes, the novel is "racy."

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2025-05-23

Outcasts.

Written by Satan & Lee Wilson.

Everything has a beginning; dare you read this one?

satan-speaks.com/outcasts/

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Alicia McClendonqtarantino
2025-05-23

I created an LLC for the feature film, The Woman Who Knows, as its own entity.

Of course I’m not giving up on writing and filmmaking!

Consider backing the crowdfunding campaign as support a woman in film!

Writing and film are all I know!

igg.me/at/TWWK/x/38434936#/

NSonic79 on Mastodonnsonic79@mstdn.social
2025-05-23

Explaining a certain scene that conveys the right emotional attachment and understanding to what it’s being written. How does one explain a dance move and the reason behind it, how does one describe the emotion one has during a moment of self-detachment? #writingcommunity

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2025-05-23

@emmadavidson
Thanks for the links Emma. The Conversation piece on Little World is interesting and leaves me in a strange place where I wish to read the novel but not entirely convinced I should (hard to explain). If the review prompts such a response what would reading the novel do?

As for the poem [in as much as I seem to be inured to poetry’s allure] it intersects with the novel alright. Whether it is a sign, I suppose, is left up to you to say and interpret. From my perspective, if signs these really are, they feel dark and foreboding. Silent screaming might be a better analogy.

Good luck with your interpretation, I hope it bodes well for you.

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Spooky Panda 🇺🇦floofpaldi@mindly.social
2025-05-23

#PennedPossibilities 678 — How important to your SC is their hometown or where they came from? (For example, are they proud of it, or are they considered a hometown hero?)

First off, my SCs are all from the area of Ethera (the city where our story takes place), and they've stayed. It's a major city. They never moved away. It's the type of place where people arrive and never leave. It sucks you in (and usually eats you alive).

Their hometown, as terrible as it can be, is also where they met their friends and joined the gang. Alexios is the reason they have a true /family/ now. The gang is a band of misfits. On the one hand, it might be a terrible place, but on the other, it's /home/ and they'll never leave. They've never been proud of the city, though. How could they? They've never been hometown heroes, either. They're feared, not loved.

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2025-05-23

Congratulations to Sutton Writing Group member Curtis Corey! Curtis has released a new sweetly inspirational romance novella! #writing #author #WritingCommunity

Showman's red jacket
2025-05-23

A Memoir Of Madness.

Written by Satan & Lee Wilson.

It's the madness that we seek. It's the madness that keeps us whole.
READ FOR FREE.
satan-speaks.com/a-memoir-of-m

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