Shakedown Social

Strange Seawolf 🕒 CETIn other news, Herald Petrel is now available on Bookshare for those who are members of the service. Thank you to <a href="https://fandom.ink/@Fragglemuppet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Fragglemuppet</a> for pointing me to it! I think <a href="https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@WeirdWriter</a> you were interested as well?<a href="https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6527411" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/6527411</a><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accessibility</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HeraldPetrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeraldPetrel</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Bookshare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookshare</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bookshareUsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookshareUsers</a>

AnneTheWriter<a href="https://tootsweet.social/@annewalk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@annewalk</a> 🧵3/X On that same idea... While <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Grammarly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grammarly</a> , <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ProWritingAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProWritingAid</a> , and other similar grammar software are AI, they are a different kind of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> . While they do use <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> to offer suggestions etc, they do not write the book for you. In the same way that "All Dalmations are dogs, but not all dogs are Dalmations," it is also accurate to say that "All <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> is AI, but not all <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> is Generative."Grammarly does use AI to assist writers, but it cannot write the book for them. This is why I personally have far fewer ethical issues with such software. Yes, it probably did scrape a library for training, but at least it doesn't allow writers to take credit for the work of a robot. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WritersLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersLife</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WritingWithChatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingWithChatbots</a>

AnneTheWriter<a href="https://tootsweet.social/@annewalk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@annewalk</a> 🧵1/X This also points to the need to pay a HUMAN Editor instead of relying on only <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> or grammar-checker software to "edit" the book. Human eyes would have caught this. Chatbots and <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Grammarly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grammarly</a> are NOT a full replacement for a paid <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Editor</a> . "Self-editing" does NOT replace a human Editor.Humans will catch other things that AI tends to miss, like:* A character's eye or clothing color changing mid-paragraph.* Info dumps (NEVER use them).* Overuse of the same word.* Too much tell, not enough show.* Homonymns and other words that spell-checkers won't catch.* Inconsistent punctuation style.* Paragraphs that REALLY need to be broken up.* The most problematic issues with "self-editing" are the sentences where YOU know what you meant, but the reader will be confused. A good <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#editor</a> does far more than spellcheck. They are well worth their cost. A quality book uses human Editors.<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WritersLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersLife</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EditorsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EditorsLife</a>

Shantell PowellI'm not a fan of form rejection letters which include suppositions of what's wrong with your story. My most recent rejection included "Sometimes a narrative can be excellent work but simply not be right for the journal. One common reason for this is that the text, though under 1000 words, isn't a flash narrative. This might mean your story would work better as a longer story, part of a longer story, or even poetry."Another time, I received a form rejection that said my work might be offensive or poorly edited. Lit mags, don't put stuff like this in your form rejections. If it's personalized and you want a writer to revise and resubmit, ok. But including this in all rejections comes across as condescending or alienating. Sometimes the story is perfectly fine and just doesn't fit in your issue, and that's ok. I've had stories rejected with these sorts of copy/paste commentary that went on to win contests. Writers, don't take this stuff personally. Maybe your story does need a bit more revision. Or maybe the form rejection was written by a crankyass. <a href="https://c.im/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LitMags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LitMags</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publishing</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RejectionLetters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RejectionLetters</a>

AmbientDreadBill Dread<a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialSplatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSplatter</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Sundries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sundries</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poems</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/posts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#posts</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/YesterdaysRiff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YesterdaysRiff</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blogging</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/artifacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artifacts</a> <a href="https://petrd1.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/may-23-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://petrd1.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/may-23-2025/</a>

Christina Anne Hawthorne<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Today" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Today</a> 24Good day!And so the warming begins…It’s coinciding with a long weekend holiday here in the US, which means the trails will be crawling with people, many of them on bikes.I’ll wait.Instead, & because I have the freedom to do so, I’ll spend these days on Book2.Be everwell.<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingLife</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Aging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aging</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/HealthyLiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HealthyLiving</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/HealthyLifestyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HealthyLifestyle</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/GetOutside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GetOutside</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hiking</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Trails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trails</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/HikingAdventures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HikingAdventures</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/NaturePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NaturePhotography</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/NatureLover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatureLover</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/LandscapePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandscapePhotography</a>

Xan_WriterOnce upon a time, this book idea was meant to be a cozy fantasy involving factious siblings making amends with each other over tea and pastries, and now? Now it's all vengeful demigods, blood magic, and plots to overthrow cult-like tyrannical governments 😅<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a>

Lydia Vvinters<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> 24, What in your writing 'dates' you?Well, I hope it'll date me. The things my characters need to fight for can mirror our IRL struggles. I hope one day it's a reminder that we needed to fight for equality, acceptance, and kindness. That we will have won those fights so thoroughly, it dates me and my writing to here and now. Let it seem outdated, let it seem ridiculous that we needed to fight for such basic things at all. I'd love that.<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

Lydia Vvinters<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 24, Would your antagonist participate in spring cleaning?Dorius uses the term as a euphemism for genocide. Turns out, it's not a smart move to attack a coven of green witches in the spring...<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/witch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witch</a>

Lydia Vvinters<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 679 — What was your SC’s childhood like? How has their upbringing affected them as they’ve aged?Dio, Val, Zonas, and Pelly had traumatic early childhoods. Leaving them feral, lethal, and fiercely protective. They had to fight for survival from the moment they could walk, so have mastered some devastating abilities at a dangerously young age.They're cute kids, but if you harm any of them, you might die from sprouting tomato seeds in your intestines.<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

Marjolein Rotsteegwalking through swaying summer grass tickling my skin<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/dailyhaikuprompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dailyhaikuprompt</a> - tickle <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/poetrycommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetrycommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/summer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#summer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/@dailyhaikuprompt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dailyhaikuprompt</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/haiku" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@haiku</a>

Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏Sigh. Another week, another indie author all excited because they won a book award. Over the next week or two, we might see them wonder why the phone lines haven't lit up with interview requests, or why sales haven't spiked, even though they may have paid out handsomely to order cover stickers proclaiming their prize. I blogged about an earlier one of these the dubiously named "International Impact Book Awards", which got more problematic the deeper I looked (see <a href="https://alanlangford.com/.../06/parasitic-author-contests/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alanlangford.com/.../06/parasitic-author-contests/</a>).In that post I mentioned that the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) maintains an awards rating page. The awards mentioned above weren't listed, but this week another excited author won an "Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY)", and that contest is rated as "Caution", with the comment that "The site's FAQ notes that judges may not even read the books."ALLi's caution rating is defined as: Contests with more serious concerns e.g excessive entry fees, exploitative contracts, conflicts of interest, or high-pressure sales.Not only is the author out a US$85 entry fee, according to the ALLi, they are likely to be subjected to "Relentless marketing and up-selling," typically pitches to buy the aforementioned cover labels, physical trophies, etc. That's at least C$115 and probably much more that a cash-strapped author could have spent more effectively elsewhere.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a>

Ben Lockwood, PhDMy latest piece of fiction is out at ergot. Just a guy sitting in a church, listening to the pastor. They’re definitely going to be super normal and not weird about it. Nothing strange happening here. <a href="https://www.ergot.press/authors/Ben_Lockwood/Light_of_the_Savior" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ergot.press/authors/Ben_Lockwood/Light_of_the_Savior</a><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weird</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

Scott Rochester<a href="https://mas.to/@kims" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kims</a> they are playing Quidditch by the rules of rugby, rather than the rules of cricketthe muggles have forced the wizards to use bicycles instead of broomsticks, whilst they themselves are cheating by employing every airborne utility available to thembut they still cannot seize the Golden Snitch from the powerful wizards, who can actually see the invisible manifestation of the Sherringer Equivalence<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indieauthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indieauthor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CopperWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CopperWolf</a>

E.S. RayeI just wrote the phrase, "sci-fi shenanigans happens," in my Shallow Trenches, Open Skies outline ...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amoutlining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amoutlining</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amwriting</a>

AnneOh my god. How humiliating. Honestly, I don’t understand why writers would want an AI to write their books unless it’s as a content mill to generate income which I think it’s being used for the most right now. Slop generation. Too bad. It can be so much more than that.I just started using AI for some things and it’s been working well for me. I have a very foggy brain which has trouble holding onto things and having a robot hand to hold through the process keeps me on task.I’ve been using AI to talk endlessly about the story I’m currently writing. No real person wants to be subjected to that much navel gazing.I also ask it things like “find instances where I’ve accidentally changed tense”. You know. Practical stuff.I give it samples of my writing and ask it to describe my writing style. Useful for formulating answers for when humans ask me about my writing (I’m assuming at some point in the future, people will ask me about my writing…).I ask it research questions on story details (I use Perplexity which cites its sources so I can follow up).I ask it for critiques on scenes and get it to ask me questions about what I’ve written which is especially useful for keeping my head in the game and helps me think about my story in ways I might not have (like good crit groups do but available without an appointment).Perplexity has Spaces where you can upload your Story Bible, for example, and then when you analyze story scenes within that space, you can get it to look through your Story Bible as context so you don’t have to remember every single detail of, say, a trilogy (or, if your brain is anything like mine, a novel or even a short story). Ask for a list of lines that need revision and get to work.Same with other story meta. Upload character sheets for it to reference so someone’s eyes or outfit or name or… won’t be changing mid-story.You see where I’m going.This, to me, is how to use ai in writing. Not giving it a story idea and having it write it for you. But, hey. You do you. You might even end up in the LA Times!What say you? Do you use it for anything? Everything? Would you ever? Never? What about Grammarly or autocorrect or spellcheck? Or are you a purist?<a href="https://tootsweet.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://tootsweet.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://tootsweet.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amwriting</a> <a href="https://tootsweet.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://www.latintimes.com/fantasy-author-called-out-using-ai-after-leaving-prompt-published-book-so-embarrassing-583727" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.latintimes.com/fantasy-author-called-out-using-ai-after-leaving-prompt-published-book-so-embarrassing-583727</a>

Kirsten Menger-AndersonFrom Vienna! The Expert of Subtle Revisions visits Egon Schiele's Seated Woman with Bent Knees at the Leopold Museum, thanks to Mastodon connection <a href="https://chaos.social/@pty" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pty</a>! Many thanks to Mastodon for connecting us, and to pty for the wonderful photos!<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon@fedigroups.social</a>

Spooky Panda 🇺🇦Chapter 14 is here! Moving right along...⸻Bel calls Lix with the good news. How will she respond? Everyone's completely stunned. On another note, Bel loves to tease. (Especially Randall.)You can read it here: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/53738239/chapters/169474975" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archiveofourown.org/works/53738239/chapters/169474975</a><a href="https://mindly.social/@strangeseawolf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@strangeseawolf</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/@DoctorMonkey2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DoctorMonkey2</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/@doctorwanderer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@doctorwanderer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/@QuokkaMocha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@QuokkaMocha</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/@Luna_Catriona" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Luna_Catriona</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/@EvelynCold" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@EvelynCold</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/@NeanderthalPride" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@NeanderthalPride</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/@aslgms" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@aslgms</a> <a href="https://fedi.nlpagan.net/users/paul" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@paul</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/@Firlefanz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Firlefanz</a> <a href="https://bardicperspiration.club/@therivercrow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@therivercrow</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writer</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Author</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ArchiveOfOurOwn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArchiveOfOurOwn</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AO3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AO3</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TheHour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheHour</a>

Excessively DivertingVogue writer Emma Specter, jots down her thoughts as she makes White Soup. (Frankly, the recipe sounds disgusting.) <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/white-soup-experiment-pride-prejudice" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vogue.com/article/white-soup-experiment-pride-prejudice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmReading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReadingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Regency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Regency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Georgian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Georgian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JaneAusten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JaneAusten</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@romancelandia</a>

Author Steaphan KayAs an author I hate it that my knee-jerk reaction when an overly enthusiastic 'reader' reaches out is to assume they are a scammer or at best a spammer. :crying: <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/Indie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indie</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndieAuthor</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/SelfPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SelfPublishing</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#writingcommunity