Fiona M Jones
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I write very short things.
I will always remember a book that doesn't make sense to me.
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How Do You Know When There's a Dead Body in the Room
How do you know when there is a dead body in the room? Check out Fiona Jones article on our Burial Books blog to find out!
https://burialbooks.com/how-do-you-know-when-theres-a-dead-body-in-the-room/
about 1 month ago
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I have often been Elsewhere. This time, it's along the A82, watching the forces of nature rewriting the landscape.
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A82 — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
By Fiona M Jones The snowgates open in spring, giving access across the Highlands towards Fort William.
https://www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2025/12/21/a82
about 2 months ago
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What to do with your worst nightmares: write them into a story.
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Horrible Dreams
Horrible Dreams is a new article by Fiona Jones on Burial Books website. Check out the article and get some insight into an author's head!
https://burialbooks.com/horrible-dreams/
about 2 months ago
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Children and horror stories: do they mix?
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Where Do You Put Children in Horror Stories
Where do you put children in horror stories as an author? Check out the article by Fiona Jones on Burial Books website!
https://burialbooks.com/where-do-you-put-children-in-horror-stories/
2 months ago
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Food Gardening Network have taken quite a few of my family gardening stories. Here's the latest to come up:
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The Carrot Waltz
It has always been a mystery to me: how do farmers manage to grow carrots that are perfectly straight, single-rooted, and almost uniform in shape and size, when carrots, given  …
https://foodgardening.mequoda.com/articles/the-carrot-waltz/?t=119376&mqsc=EGP4613497&utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Food%20Garden%20Full%20ListGP%20Weekly%20Gold&utm_campaign=GPWeekly_11-29-25
2 months ago
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A political post:
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It’s Political
This is a writing blog. Me, a writer, writing about what I’m learning about writing-related matters. Which kinds of books I like/don’t like and why; what I really think about semicolons…
https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/its-political/
3 months ago
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This summer/autumn I have picked 108kg of blackberries just in and around my town.
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Choeofpleirn Press - Harvest Harmony
Because we want to promote a national consumption of literature, we are creating a new kind of poetry-meme through our online zines. Contestants should send us their previously unpublished 12-line po...
https://www.choeofpleirnpress.com/harvest-harmony
4 months ago
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A long, long time ago, back in the 1900s, when kids had wax crayons instead of tablets, and colouring-in was a thing.
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5 months ago
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Hi Blueys, can I have a few shares on this please? It's only my personal blog, but if you agree with me, please give it a push; and if you don't agree, well by all means take your courage in both hands and argue in favour of electronic devices.
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5 months ago
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Blogging away from home today:
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What Would Shakespeare Do? by Fiona M. Jones | Streetlight Magazine
What Would Shakespeare Do? by Fiona M. Jones
https://streetlightmag.com/2025/07/14/what-would-shakespeare-do/
7 months ago
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The Story of the Unreliable Narrator and the Ghost Car:
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The Unreliable Narrator and the Ghost Car
I am an Unreliable Narrator. If you’ve ever read or written stories, you’ll have met the Unreliable Narrator technique, wherein the author knows what’s happening and the character…
https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/unreliable-narrator/
8 months ago
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What's the moral of this story?
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We Will All Stop Using Acronyms « A Story In 100 Words
http://entropy2.com/blogs/100words/2025/05/19/we-will-all-stop-using-acronyms/
9 months ago
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I have a paragraph here today:
www.paragraphplanet.com
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Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
http://www.paragraphplanet.com/
10 months ago
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Am I right?
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Girls Don’t Talk About Chess
I’m feeling vaguely ashamed again, and as usual I don’t quite know why. I think I must have overstepped a subtle social barrier, plunged myself into the usual minority of one. Here’s what...
https://www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out-of-the-box/girls-dont-talk-about-chess
10 months ago
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Merry 32nd March, everyone!
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March 32nd
Unfortunately I’m not teaching today, so I won’t get to April-fool the young and not-quite-innocent. I’m at home on my sofa, or thereabouts, nursing a broken collarbone—a seatbelt injury from a car…
https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/march-32nd/
11 months ago
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I am SO TIRED of people bragging about how they've bought a chatbot to replace them in interacting with their children. Why have children then?
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Remember Your Why
What do you do when your children ask too many questions? Maybe it’s natural curiosity; maybe it’s for a school project; maybe they’re concerned about something they’ve heard, and they’re...
https://www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out-of-the-box/remember-your-why
12 months ago
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When someone tells you a chatbot has written a "poem", but then you look at the "poem" and it's no better than a highschooler's homework...
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When the Moon Rhymes with June…
Once upon a very, very long time ago, people read the works of Milton, Longlace, Donne et al, and decided to try writing poetry too. Anyone with any pretensions to a stylish education could dabble …
https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/when-the-moon-rhymes-with-june/
about 1 year ago
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Are your children drowning in plastic?
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Drowning
I’m looking back to when I had babies, thinking of the things I wasn’t prepared for. The sheer weight of responsibility, knowing that what you do and don’t do makes a real and lifelong...
https://www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out-of-the-box/drowning
about 1 year ago
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Where are the writers on Bluesky, and which of them will agree with me and write whatever words they need to write?
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#writing
#writers
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What Would Shakespeare Do?
What do you do when something ought to be a word but isn’t yet? You’re typing in something you’ve written, and a little red line appears under it. You’re supposed to humbly …
https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/what-would-shakespeare-do/
about 1 year ago
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Who'd like to read a nice little Christmas story?https://everydayfiction.com/a-christmas-wish-fiona-m-jones/
about 1 year ago
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Are you one of those people who blast the moss off your stonework and burn it out of your grass with toxic chemicals?
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We Need to Talk about Moss
We need to talk about moss. We need to talk about all things green, everything that terraforms the planet, tames the rage of wind and water, gathers carbon out of air and feeds the biosphere. We have....
https://www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out-of-the-box/we-need-to-talk-about-moss
about 1 year ago
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St Boswells, Scottish Borders. Or thereabouts.
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River Tweed — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
By Fiona M. Jones Whose woods these are I think I know, or at least whose woods these were, but the river flowing down below cares not whose land is whose, not yet whose trees are these and whose are...
https://www.elsewhere-journal.com/latest-issue-posts/2024/11/20/river-tweed
about 1 year ago
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Name a dinosaur. Any dinosaur. For research purposes.
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Name a Dinosaur
Name a dinosaur. Any dinosaur. Why does nearly everyone say Tyrannosaurus Rex? Why does he get all the attention? What’s he ever done for us apart from stomping around very, very heavily and...
https://www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out-of-the-box/name-a-dinosaur
about 1 year ago
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When people ask me to write recipes...https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/things-i-cant-read-or-write/
over 1 year ago
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"Life is Rubbish":
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Life is Rubbish - Black Hare Press
by Fiona M. Jones “Damien.” It was the Enemy. “What—” Damien dodged away, throwing chairs to slow the Enemy’s advance. He needed to level up, exchange the bread knife in his jacket for a machete. He h...
https://www.blackharepress.com/life-is-rubbish/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGPpKRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdJqYsHcgyWnIkYP0ooVz2zgkduG_2AJqpxgnk_0joGtG8tpOPkwcUYyvw_aem_IBW2dFO0znVEigK69fTZSA
over 1 year ago
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What schoolchildren REALLY need to do, when they're feeling inspired to write a story, is to stop and fill out a formal Planning Page stating characters, setting and story arc...
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Is Planning the Best Plan?
I’m not saying I hate being a teacher, but there are some things I really, really hate teaching. And one of them is The Writing Lesson. Yes, that’s right: I’m a literary writer, and I dread...
https://www.vineleavespress.com/climbing-out-of-the-box/is-planning-the-best-plan?fbclid=IwY2xjawFWQG1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYT3u2aGZhB0M5MpWNb-4nGwJS-aBfsB2gI2mfOUilVfaaK9X4AN62QitQ_aem_YgYXCYdRSrs21p1W4DEn1A
over 1 year ago
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,845,627!
over 1 year ago
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#writers
#authors
Here are some of the things you can do, if you're a human writer, and an AI cannnot.
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We’re Not Robots: Why AI Chatbots Can’t Replace Good Writing
by Fiona M JonesI’ll always remember 2023 as the year when the manure hit the rotating blades with regard to AI-generated content.For the first time, AI chatbots showed that they c
https://authorspublish.com/were-not-robots-why-ai-chatbots-cant-replace-good-writing/
over 1 year ago
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#writers
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Should we have a red lion stamped on the cover of books created by genuine humans, untouched by AI?
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Gatekeeping Against the Robots
"Half a dozen “authors” of AI-generated material could flood the self-publishing markets in a matter of weeks..."
https://litmagnews.substack.com/p/gatekeeping-against-the-robots
over 1 year ago
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New blog-post:
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Out of the Box
"I don't believe in calories," I said. I could sense the annoyance around me: I had said something heretical, something that invalidated the hallowed belief that health and fitness is all about juggli...
https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/2024/06/05/out-of-the-box/
over 1 year ago
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Why I object to Earth Day:
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almost 2 years ago
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A pot plant is a boy's best friend:
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almost 2 years ago
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Me again, throwing my pebbles at the tide:
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almost 2 years ago
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Content warning: The dog dies.
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almost 2 years ago
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I am being annoying again. This time I'm putting real plants in other people's classrooms.
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almost 2 years ago
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I'm trying to add to my blog about once a week...
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almost 2 years ago
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#writers
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Have you ever wondered why publishers say they prefer to read poems that don't rhyme?
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about 2 years ago
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After having been a published author for more than 6 years, I've finally stepped out and made an author website!
fionamjones.wordpress.com
There's a lot of content still to add, but you can see who I am and read samples of my short pieces.
about 2 years ago
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Tiny scary story:
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about 2 years ago
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My most controversial column yet on Vine Leaves Press: an argument in favour of removing analogue clocks from the primary maths curriculum and placing them in a history topic.
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about 2 years ago
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I'm saying AI content generators cannot write and never will. Agree or disagree?
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about 2 years ago
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I've just finished writing a Christmas-themed story of 1000 words, and I want to send it somewhere (free subs only). Is there anywhere still open?
about 2 years ago
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I've just started a blog about parenting, teaching and nature. All my most annoying opinions are going to go up here. On the plus side, there's a place for reader comments/arguments/debunkments/etc.
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about 2 years ago
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Sometimes I write about nature; sometimes I write about writing about nature.
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about 2 years ago
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Can anyone help me please? I'm starting a blog about general topics in the crossover between parenting, teaching and writing. I'll be writing stuff about creativity and nature and getting out of rectangular spaces, physical and otherwise. I need a title.
about 2 years ago
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Can I call myself "an award-winning author" now? Please?
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over 2 years ago
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Hello BlueSky people! The picture is accurate. I was trying to get in on a Firefox browser and first it tried to ask me for my credit card details and then it let me in but wouldn't let me click on anything. If anyone else can't get in or sees strange things, tell them to change browsers.
add a skeleton here at some point
over 2 years ago
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