GM #5AMWritersClub✍️ Something got me thinking about Hitchcock's recurring themes--doppelgängers, his own cinematic cameos... 💡Maybe I'll include the same line in every book.💡📚 My pick below😁--but, who do I ask for permission, Moira? #AmWriting #books #mystery

GM #5AMWritersClub Happy Humpday, writerlies 🐪 ✍️ Week’s halfway behind us—weekend’s creative freedom is just ahead. Keep slurping ☕—you’ve got this. 💪 This morn, I'm working on my cozy mystery: Clue or red herring?⬇️😁

Thanks for making me laugh.

Anyone else in our #WritingCommunity attending the Manuscript Academy Comps workshop tonight?✍️ Literary agent @jsinsheim.bsky.social is amazing--one might say InCOMParable😁! #5AMWritersClub #AmWriting #BookSky📚

GM #5AMWritersClub✍️ I needed this reminder. 🌿Growth isn’t just in pages—it’s in self-care, in showing up for ourselves. Progress check: stretched (sun salutation🧘‍♀️), & survived Monday. Our well-being is part of our masterpiece. 💛📚🎨” #TransformationTuesday 🌸 #WritingCommunity

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GM #5AMWritersClub & #WritingCommunity Setting: Subway. Character en route to dayjob. Monday. Working on interiority. #AmWriting All the other characters at the workplace: are you always in a good mood? True POV:

GM #5AMWritersClub✍️ It's #SlowDownSunday: reading & writing with plenty of coffee ☕& without that lurking dayjob clock⏰. It's been a week--so this Sunday is especially welcome🐾🍂. #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #Mystery #Miracles 👋

GM #5AMWritersClub Happy #Caturday #WritersLife #CatMom

GM #5AMWritersClub Friday’s plot twist—'13'🐈‍⬛ survived the week 🎉 THANK YOU so much for the warm thoughts this week. We're not out of the woods yet, but...🙏❤️🐾 ☕ Coffee first. Here’s wishing you all some weekend joy & magic 🫶✨. #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #CatMom

GM #5AMWritersClub Shoutout to my muse, editor-in-fur & professional napper—13's kept me company (and occasionally sat on my keyboard) for 16 yrs! 🐈‍⬛❤️ We're not writing a lot of words this week, but we're trying to heal, trying to make it to the weekend🙏 #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #CatMom

Elbows Up is out! I wrote a chapter on Canada's long-suffering relationship with the US, the work of many years, and how we're feeling about it. (Bad). I also write about my late father, an American who was stolen from his mother as a child and taken across the border to Canada.

GM #5AMWritersClub Feeling extra grateful this #Humpday for all the loving thoughts yesterday & for small miracles — my sweet boy is healing! 🐾💛 #WritingCommunity #AmNOTWritingToday #CatMom🐈‍⬛

GM #5AMWritersClub It's said a good book stays with you, but a great book transforms you. The same can be said about our pets. This is my soul-pet❤️. His name is '13' & we're taking him to the vet today. Warm, healing thoughts welcome. He's such a loving & gentle soul. #WritersLife #CatMom

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Happy Thanksgiving Monday #5AMWritersClub! 💃 🍂 Grateful for coffee☕, pumpkin pie, chapters that behave (mostly), and the excuse to do a little happy dance between pages. #ThanksgivingMonday #AmWriting ✍️ Adding a Gratitude Prompt by #SharonMartin

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

GM #5AMWritersClub It's #SlowDownSunday: Dream: like the days I tell myself I’ll read only one chapter… then three hours vanish: I tell myself I'll only write one chapter & three chapters later I'd notice the coffee's empty. ☕✍️📚 Happy Writing! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

GM #5AMWritersClub Long-weekend Saturday = road-trip time! 🚗 Words will wait while stories will brew. Here’s to strong coffee☕, favourite playlist, open, winding roads + orange, crimson and golden leaves🍂! Wishing many words to my fellow writerlies! #WritersLife #JoyintheJourney #FallVibes

“Freedom is in our blood, courage in our hearts. For Ukraine, we fight and we rise. ✊🇺🇦 Слава Україні! Героям слава!”

GM #5AMWritersClub Happy long weekend Canadians on🦋❤️! Grateful for cozy reads📚, coffee☕, art, family, friends, our kitty cats, community, pumpkin cheesecake, gravy & elastic waistbands. #ThanksgivingWeekend🍁🦃 #WritersLife

#ThrowbackThursday to when I was a writer who woke up at 5 & believed in structure. Today’s version of me is… more interpretive. ☕🎭📚 #WritingLife” --also, I'm working the late shift, LAST one today🎉. Somewhere, David Rose just sighed in aesthetic disappointment #5AMWritersClub #WritersOfBluesky✍️

Happy Humpday🐪 #5AMWritersClub #WritingWednesday✍️, fall edition: strong coffee☕, cozy sweater & 47 open tabs for ‘how long does it take to forge a Van Gogh?’ 😁🎨 Let's be honest. How many tabs are open??? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WIP

yes, we need mature, competent team Canada members all hands on deck now - deck those that aren't for Canada

We are pleased to share the 2025 #GillerPrize shortlist! Learn more here: gillerprize.ca/the-giller-p... #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

Good Morning Batwomen & other gendered bat friends🦇! Some days we write✍️others we edit. Others yet, we shmooze with the muse… Remember: your well-being is part of the masterpiece. 📚 #TransformationTuesday 🦋 #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub #Ally

😬Cringe As a Canadian🍁, I have no idea if this is accurate, but even a portion of that is impossible to wrap my head around...

G’Mornin’ #5AMWritersClub New week, new words. 📚 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #MoodboardMonday:

GM #5AMWritersClub Post-festival glow🌟: Left Cabot Trail Writers Festival inspired by voices, kindness & Cape Breton's gorgeous fall colours.🍂 Here’s to courage like @ivancoyote.bsky.social, poetry like @suegoyette.bsky.social... TY for reminding me why we write—why we need each other. #WritersLife

GM #5AMWritersClub Rugged coast, salt air, crisp leaves—a perfect fall trifecta. 🍂 Add a roomful of writers✍️ & readers—converging on Unama’ki (Cape Breton) this weekend = a cornucopia of awesomeness! Can't wait to hit the road. Roadtrip!! #Books 📚 #WritingCommunity www.cabottrailwritersfestival.com

Yes @parisreview.bsky.social #writingcommunity #october #5amwritersclub #womenwriters

GM #5AMWritersClub On this #ThankfulThursday, I'm grateful for books📚, coffee☕ & for authors who give me hope: "Write. Write well. Write to the end. Take as long as you need." Who wrote it? Read or bookmark this article for a day you need to hear it. janefriedman.com/how-long-sho...

Ok, I go back to writing✍️ after this, but: What the hell is going on over there? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy Humpday, #5AMWritersClub creatives 🐪 🌿✨ Keep slurping ☕ and plotting—you’ve got this.📚 Whole day off yesterday: didn't pull off a single leaf🍂 of writing. Got feedback from a beta reader & dove into edits. #WritingWednesday✍️ it is! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting Today’s/October plan:

GM #5AMWritersClub Today, Canadians🍁commit to learning our shared history with Indigenous Peoples to move us toward a healthier, more just future. #Storytelling can honour Residential School survivors & remember lost children😢 #EveryChildMatters #IntergenerationalTrauma #Ally

GM #5AMWritersClub ✍️ 📚 #MoodboardMonday below. Yep, I really need coffee ☕ Happy Writing! #WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmWriting

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Dearest Martha, I write from the front lines of war-torn Portland. Today I fought bravely through a hostile farmers market, narrowly surviving a volley of kombucha bottles. Supplies of pour-over coffee and oat milk run low. Clouds of artisanal incense fill the sky, the drum circles beat incessantly

War-ravaged Portland

From my sketchbook... Have a nice, safe, peaceful weekend! Thank you for following x

Greetings #5AMWriters True strength is more than surviving adversity. May creatives cherish connections & strive for a world filled with compassion & sustainability. May those who thrive, share hope, bounty & vibrancy with others. #WritingCommunity #BooksMatter #ArtMatters #YouMatter #FoodSecurity

One, I'm not allowed to make a profit on goods and services? Two, the margin on vaccines is razor thin. I have receipts. Three, vaccines save lives and prevent morbidity and cost on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars annually. That's been studied. Four, you're a dumbass.

Drowning Anchor #WritersCommunity #authorsky #5amwritersclub #amwriting #6amwritersclub #Booksky #Poetry #BookLovers #poem #nature #arts #bebrave #chronicillness #liverdisease

Ooh, tough: 3 things I can talk about for THREE hours: 1. #Socioeconomic🤑 status--how it impacts regular people We'll start here: broke ≠ understanding poverty 2. #ArtHistory🎨: How art reveals truth history books don't 3. #Paris: Love | hate. Starting here: Paris removed its last 🛑sign in 2016!

Good Morning #5amWritersClub 🍂 Saturdays were made for stories. Writers: what scene are you sinking into today? Readers: what book has you hooked? 📚Rainy morning in Eastern🍁 #WritingCommunity #WritingandBooks #BookSky

I know it’s happening everywhere but it leaves me breathless and screaming every time.

This man has left his nation in a state of total isolation. He is disaster for Israel's international standing and security.

During my town hall, someone asked me what they could do to stand up to authoritarianism. Despite what the cynics say, you have power. All it takes is one person speaking up for somebody else. It is small acts that can change the course of this country.