This week's #writingabtwriting review is Charlie Jane Ander's 'Never Say You Can't Survive.' Part writing manual, part survival handbook for our dumpster fire times, this one is for anyone who is struggling to create right now. 🪐📚💙 #writingcommunity #bookreview #writingq #author

I'm ready to start on my fall projects 🍂

The National Hurricane Center wants us all to know that Gabrielle is "still struggling" over the central Atlantic and...I don't usually identify with hurricanes, and I'm in Florida, close to the Atlantic but not over it, but otherwise - I hear you, disorganized storm. I hear you. I get it.

Your occasional reminder that Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick were in the same year in the same high school, liked each other’s writing, but never met in person.

Today's #WritingAbtWriting post went off early. Appropriate for an article about setting up a Chekov's Gun? 💙📚🖋️ #writingcommunity #bookreview

My garden this morning. The world’s on fire but there are still butterflies and bees

Copyright is a front-and-center issue in the ongoing class action against Anthropic. Thankfully, @victoriastrauss.com of SFWA's Writer Beware® was kind enough to outline the basics, myths, & issues for us this week. Writers: Share widely! Some of our best creator-defense lies in everyday education.

Amazing readings last night at Fantastic Fiction, which is also my favorite podcast. 💙📚🪐 #booksky #shortstory www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/category/aud...

Twain insisted there were no new ideas, that we only give old ones a new and curious twist. Which has author Kasey LeBlanc wondering why we’re so hard on ourselves about striving for newness, today at WU.

My writers group is coming up on our 10th anniversary and I've had several people tell me recently that they'd love to start a group but don't know how. So today's #writingabtwriting post is explicit instructions on what I'd do if I was starting a new writers group today. #writingcommunity 💙📚

Thinking about this list of gentle writing books again today. Wish it wasn't so necessary. Are there any books you would add to the list? #writingq #booksky 💙📚 #writingabtwriting

How do you find more time to write? One way is to be ready to write when you have smaller moments of time. 20 minutes in the Drs office. 10 minutes while waiting for a friend. Carrying your tools with you is today's #writingabtwriting tool. #writingq #writing #booksky 💙📚

New for subscribers at #writingabtwriting, there is now a monthly Reading Report of writing news, articles to spark your interest, and whatever books I've been reading for the month. 📚💙 #writinglife #writingq #booksky

I'm back in the saddle getting more #writingabtwriting posts up on Mediuum.

Claire is out here doing the work folks. Spread the word if you know anyone who applied for an NEA literary fellowship.

Today's tea is the rest of a sample of Dragonwell Long Jing from Teavivre while scheduling #writingabtwriting posts and organizing my revisions so far before my writers group tomorrow. Couldn't resist this view through the teware of my good buddies. 🍵 🫖 #teasky 🐞🐌 #writinglife #author

I had the pleasure of curating this week's #TidyTuesday data about Scottish Munros ⛰️ So the chart just had to be an annotated, snow-capped, density mountain! 📊 Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy... #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

I highly recommend everything but the very last chapter of 'Steering the Craft' by Ursula K Le Guin. See why in today's #writingabtwriting post. 🚀💙📚 #booksky #bookreview #writingq #writingcommunity #author

New #WriterBeware blog post: A brief backgrounder on authors' class action lawsuit against Anthropic for unauthorized AI training, plus how you can find out if your books may be included and how to add yourself to a contact list for official class action notices writerbeware.blog/2025/08/15/b...

Is it really a used bookstore if you are not in mild fear for your life?

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

"The world needs us to peel ourselves away from the outrage machine, and instead make art that tells the truth..." vis @writerunboxed.bsky.social writerunboxed.com/2024/04/15/h...

Good overview of the latest development in authors' class action copyright lawsuit against Anthropic aifray.com/anthropic-dr...

Today's #writingabtwriting tool asks "what makes your writing valuable to the world?" I'm very interested in hearing your thoughts. 📚💙🖋️ #writer #writingcommunity

I’ve finished another needle felted piece of terrain….all made from wool :-) It’s so satisfying!

We've raised over $3200 so far this month, enough to support the series for another year. Thank you to all donors! This is amazing! However, we'd like to make enough to keep the series going for another four years. Can you help us spread the word? @datlow.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/fantastic-...

Having a system can be a boon. Or it can be a hindrance, if you’re using it to harshly judge yourself. All brains are wired differently, and Kelsey Allagood wants to help you figure yours out, today at WU.

Hey folks, Ghost did a major upgrade while I was away and I think I'm going to take one more week to figure out the Bluesky integration among other things. I've also worked on #writingabtwriting articles for you, finished reading or re-reading three writing books, and working on my revisions.

Even if you are publishing in other genres, give this Writer Beware a read. A big reminder to read every line in a contract and make sure you understand what each section does. And if you don't understand you need to ask a lawyer.

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

#writingabtwriting is on a two week hiatus while I recover from dental surgery and visit my parents. Thanks for your support.

Okay I am NOT updating this graphic any more (go buy THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST so I can feed my cats tho) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Today's #writingabtwriting tool may sound obvious, but it's devilishly hard to do in practice. Try the challenge to write deliberately out of order and then in order, and let me know if it helps. 💙📚🖋️ #writing

i’m reading your stories :) 🛸🛸🛸we’re still open by the way, send your stuff! pro+ rate 🛸🛸🛸 www.annareser.com/night-shades...

"...you’ll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.” -Anton Checkov What are your favorite memorable descriptions?

Can't make the start of your story meet up with the ending? Here are two books with online tools to get you through the messy middle. 🖋️📚💙 #writing #author #outline #writingabtwriting

Hi! We've gotten a few questions lately about "Why doesn't [Super Cool Magazine] have a full listing, and says 'does not qualify for a full listing'"?" We have updated our FAQ with a detailed answer, but I will also thread here. :)

“He Painted Bugs Like Jewels”. 16th-century Dutch artist Joris Hoefnagel painted some of the first dedicated and detailed images of insects in the world. If he’d lived 200 years later, you would have called him a naturalist. [kottke.org]

Today's #writingabtwriting is about getting specific with your description. Can I drop a challenge here? Read the Delany quote in the article, then take a moment to write the most specific description you can of the place you are in right now in the comments. 🖋️💙📚 #writing #author #prompt

Books for sharing with a new writer or for getting back to basics yourself in today's #writibgabtwriting article. What's your favorite writing book for beginners? 📚💙 #writingcommunity #author

Expand your reading lists...

Hey #writingcommunity I'm working on a list of books to hand to a new writer similar to my gentle writing books article. What books would you recommend to a beginning writer that are not 'On writing' or 'Steering the Craft'? 💙📚 #writing #author #booksky #writingabtwriting

New #writingabtwriting post up today reviewing Delany's 'About Writing'. While the content varies wildly in tone and complexity, every section will give you something to stretch your ability. It's the kind of book that will grow with you as you grow as a writer 💙📚 #scifi #author #writingcommunity

A reminder that the OC submission start date for the "Mmeory" anthology begins in 3 weeks on July 7th - info here aanpress.com/submissions....

Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025

If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

I'm actually pretty good at reading a room, as long as the room is full of books and I'm the only person involved.

A cold took me out before I could post this week's #writingabtwriting post about Writing as a Vocation. Do you feel "called" to write? What does "writing as vocation" mean to you? What's your best cold remedy? (Plz, I'm so done with this cold) #writingcommunity #booksky #author