Laugh of the day. (And I use the word 'Perhaps' too much) 😂 #laughterismedicine #comedy #satire

March is Women's History Month, gente! This month we will feature picture books about women and women's history! 13. SOFIA VALDEZ, FUTURE PREZ, 2019 Author: @authorandreabeaty.bsky.social Illustrator: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R... 💙📚 #booksky #picturebooks #WomensHistoryMonth

I saw @tayari.bsky.social at the Decatur Book Festival years ago. I was enamored. Looking forward to reading her new book! #writers #writing #books

This is pretty damn cool. Geared for screenwriters, but could be useful for all kinds of writers, I believe. - At least for certain scenes. I sometimes sketch scenes too. (How do I get from here to there? How are my characters physically in the space?) #amwriting #writing #writingtips

I tell readers and those not in the writing/publishing industry on a regular basis: if you like an author's work, & they're still alive, & their website or social media has a way to contact them to let them know. I call this a reader giving an author a "hug". #writerslife

HELLO SEXY

This is the exact reason why I started writing what I am writing right now. 50K words+ and growing! #amwriting #writing

My W.I.P. is a satire/alternate reality of America in this era. The book is filled with action, smartassery, sheroes, heroes, and ornery villains. A funhouse mirror with a lot of intention - and a lot of heart. Would you read something like this? #writing #books #booksky

A Happy St. Patrick's Day to all! Celebrate with a new Irish read! #reading #writers #StPatricksDay #Irish

www.instagram.com/p/DVtZbT4lIQN/ #bookstores #BookSky 📚 💙

I LOVE this! What Improv Comedy Taught Me About Writing One of multiple gems: "But just like onstage, hesitation drains momentum. A bold choice, even an imperfect one, gives the story something to push against."- Kyla Zhao Be bold, writers! #Writing #BookSky #novels #comedy

Laugh of the day for Friday the 13th! Rocky Horry Picture Show. #laughterismedicine #comedy youtube.com/shorts/JLHbw...

New discovery! Check out Mon Rovia. #music #artistry 🎶 Thttps://youtube.com/shorts/0PLx3Vrkdw4?si=IEgPuQQmIaGHuLKf

🐈‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐈‍⬛ Happy Friday the 13th! Be BOLD, Be Unafraid. The black cats and ravens are on your side.

Good work: Creating spaces where writers can engage deeply - while staying nimble and responsive to your community and the world. #writingcommunity #writers electricliterature.com/the-mccormac...

#WritingCommunity #poetry

Emily Hodgson Anderson paints an introspective ghostly picture on AI here. "These earliest example of ghostly writing made us as a society more comfortable with not knowing, or not asking, how some forms of writing were produced." #writing #AI #ghostwriting lithub.com/ghost-writin...

"My job is the sentence, and secondarily the paragraph or flow, and only thirdly the content of what I have learned or am learning" Allen in the intro. My fav - "above all, wants to keep their reader turning the page." #writing #books #booksky bigthink.com/books/good-w...

"The need for this kind of interpretive work is not a shortcoming of any given piece of writing—like it’s failing to communicate and needs a translator. Rather this interpretive effort shows just how much the work could successfully communicate and why it’s art in the first place. " #books

It's hard to laugh when so many awful things are going on. We can still care very much, do what we can, work together for better days ahead. Let's not let the bad guys take our joy. Laughter is medicine. Here's some silly writing jokes/puns. Laugh of the day: jokespunfun.com/writing-jokes/

To every #writer out there building worlds one sentence at a time, keep going.

A LOT of gems for writers in this piece by Nick Petrie. I'm hoping my W.I.P could potentially be a long running series. Definitely saving this for future reference. Thinking a lot about his guiding principle- "to simultaneously meet reader expectations and subvert them." #BookSky #writing

Laugh of the day.😀 #comedy #laughterasmedicine

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon #BookSky

Hooray for cursive writing! "When writing cursive, students are learning how to connect letters while engaging in spelling words — foundational skills for how much students write and the quality of their writing"

The first line of a current book I'm reading: "The child's world changed late one afternoon, though she didn't know it." #BookSky #books #reading

Laugh of the day. 😀 youtube.com/shorts/hvtfv...

I like to read my writing aloud. In this piece, novelist and poet Jesse Ball says, "“Sound gives us clues about what is necessary and real" - you discover the weak parts, harder to find when just reading. So much more great advice here too. #BookSky

Good morning! ☀️ It's almost the weekend! 😘 #bunny #rabbit

Laugh of the day. Big fan of Gary Larson And Kangaroos And nerds!

I love developing characters that are unabashedly themselves. In all their beauty, in all their pain, in all their quirks and favorite things. Has a penchant for a lasso?☑️ Likes to bang papers together with a stapler really hard because it is so satisfying? ☑️ Skips till they're no longer sad? ☑️ YES.

This vibe... Art is life.

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Laugh of the day. Karen, aka, the fabulous Megan Mullally 🍸 youtube.com/shorts/rsOv1...

My current W.I.P., I believe, is primarily Horatian satire with a bit of Juvenalian satire thrown in from my anger and outrage at the state of the world... What is Satire? liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-sat...

It’s official! We have qualified to be on the ballot for GA-13. Next stop, Congress!

Laugh of the day. Natasha Lyonne has ALWAYS been so funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsRH...

Exploring ideas, sparking curiosity, encouraging "visible thinking" Writer Jennifer Keck brings vintage TV into present day relevance. What happens when we think together? substack.com/home/post/p-...

Amber Glenn 🇺🇲⛸️ is my whole attitude for 2026. 🔥

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

A little purr for you from the galaxy far, far away. (Sound on) 🐈‍⬛🤍 #cat #purr #maythe4thbewithyou

This is a naked, vicious attack our right to vote; an effort to illegally bully their way into the policies of the SAVE Act because they know they can't pass it through Congress. Trump has no authority to do this and we must fight it every step of the way. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The protests in Turkey might be writing the protocol of “getting back democracy from fascism.” The youthful energy of street protest is breathing life back into failing progressive parties – and it’s a model that could be applied everywhere t.co/9pxNWVa1al