Happy Humpday #5AMWritersClub 🐪 🌿✨ Lunar year, #Ramadan & Ash Wednesday (start of #Lent) all coincide this year. Personally, this convergence marks the beginning of my symbolic Fire Horse year: intense passion, rapid transformation & unstoppable energy. I am a #FireHorse🔥🐎 and I #AmWriting✍️

GM #5AMWritersClub Anyone out there writing sequels?😆 Happy Tuesday #WritingCommunity #AmWriting✍️☕

GM #5AMWritersClub ☕ Today's a stat holiday, Heritage Day🎉to honour #Acadian culture, Atlantic Canada's French settlers who survived deportation, the cultural genocide known as Le Grand Dérangement. My ancestors are from Poitou/Poitiers & Dauphiné (where I'll visit this summer)! #AmWriting✍️ #Memory

GM #5AMWritersClub Lazy Sunday here. Coffee's on☕& waiting for more snow❄️ to shovel🥺Goal: send out a query! C'mon just ONE. Grateful for the books that keep me company, including the one I #amwriting ✍️ #cozymystery

GM #5AMWritersClub To all the books📚 we've loved! To all the stories & poems we've heard & those waiting to be told! To all our favourite authors & writerly friends! Happy Valentine's Day!💖 #AmWriting #ValentinesDay #WritersLife

GM #5AMWritersClub ☕ May you feel loved on this Valentine's weekend.❤️ And show love to others: check in on them, write a thank you Valentine to a first responder, buy a stranger coffee☕ for no reason. Be kind. Offer grace instead of judgment.💫 #amwriting✍️#mystery #writingcommunity #BeKind

GM #5AMWritersClub In Canada🍁, we have been mourning alongside the families of Tumbler Ridge, BC. Our Prime Minister Carney is above all, a profoundly human and decent man, caring father, husband, and I'm proud to call him our leader.

Happy Humpday, creatives 🐪 🌿✨ Dedicating Wednesdays for words & wisdom of my #writerslife. When I read Diego's quote⬇️, I knew he was the historical character I was looking for my second novel. Here's wishing you a "profoundly human" day! #WordsMatter #WritersMatter #AmWriting✍️

GM #5AMWritersClub Most Mondays I want weekends to last so I can keep writing. Yesterday, I was facilitating an RN session when a nurse puts her hand up & says she came here from Kosovo because of something she learned & felt in an online course I taught.🙏 My eyelids grew flowers. #WritersLife ✍️

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GM #5AMWritersClub And by the best company, I mean books, cats, dogs & coffee!📚🐈🐕☕ #AmWriting✍️ #AmReading a book about murder in #Paris

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

I LOVE Team Canada's Values!! Go #Canada Go🍁 Proud #Canadian here 🇨🇦 #Olympics

GM #5AMWritersClub I succumbed to snooze. Again. Due to injury, I've been sedentary this past month & surprised how tired it made me. I plan to start slowly on Monday to reincorporate activity (possible grumbling ahead😁). Till then, wishing all a lovely & fecund weekend of writing💫 #AmWriting✍️

GM #5AMWritersClub Dayjob's been extra taxing this past week, month, year... Made it to another Friday! Got ☕& a headful of dreams for the last stretch of my 3rd novel. #AmWriting✍️ #CozyMystery

GM #5AMWritersClub As I settle in with my lemon water & coffee☕, I'm trying to evoke that sort of wonder that comes when a child looks out the window & watches snow magic. Wishing you all a wonderously productive day! #WordsMatter #WritersLife

Happy Humpday, #5AMWritersClub & creatives 🐪 🌿✨ Week’s halfway behind us, and the weekend’s creative freedom is just ahead. #AmWriting Keep slurping☕ and plotting—you’ve got this. 💪📚 #WednesdayWords in honour of the great #CatherineOHara (as Moira Rose) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOo...

GM #5AMWritersClub Snow is melting 🎉 and coffee in hand☕, I'm turning back to my #CozyMystery (book 3) this morning, which ends up in Arles. If anyone's interested to explore Van Gogh's stomping grounds, here's a link: Explore Arles: www.lelongweekend.com/arles-france/ #AmWriting✍️

GM #5AMWritersClub Monday🥺Snowstorm🥺Coffee☕😁 "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in". -Leonard Cohen #AmWriting✍️

GM #5AMWritersClub The only bright side is that if the groundhog predicts more winter, I buy more books & snacks. Oh, and get exercise snowshoveling. Another storm incoming.🐿️❄️ Stay safe, fellow snowed-in writers & readers. 📚 #WritersLife #AmWriting✍️#CosyMystery #WritingCommunity

GM #5AMWritersClub Catherine O’Hara from Toronto, Canada, was one of those rare creatives who lit up every room she walked into—every screen she walked onto. Radiant💖, generous, fearless, and deeply human. Forever grateful for her inspiration. ✨RIP

GM #5AMWritersClub Friday energy: joy, motion & a little mischief😁. Sometimes, we make inspiration complicated when it’s waiting in an old photo album & a curious mind. Bonus: no selfies😂 Writing prompt: What happened 5 seconds before the shot? What happens 5 seconds after? #AmWriting✍️

GM #5AMWritersClub White Rabbit: "I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date!...I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" Yep, I slept in. Need coffee.☕I hope ewe's more forgiving than the Red Queen: "Off with her head!" 😁Granted, the image isn't quite true for me, but it made me chuckle. #AmWriting✍️

Cover reveal ✨ for my debut novel, THE LABORATORY ASSISTANT. Gothic historical set in Petrograd just before the Revolution. Incredibly grateful to everyone who’s supported this so far. Releases June 2, w/ Apprentice House Press. Pre-order: a.co/d/d9lm4XC #AmReading #GothicFiction #Bookstagram

GM #5AMWritersClub It's Humpday🐫, so time for a Wednesday #WritingTips What critical skill comes before writing & after writing? Read & Edit⬇️ “I leave out the parts that people skip.” Elmore Leonard #WritingCommunity #AmWriting✍️

GM #5AMWritersClub Snowstorm❄️ update. Day 2: the world's turned into a snow globe, everything feels hushed & I’m pretending this is a writing retreat. Hot drinks mandatory☕. Productivity optional. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting✍️ Here's an actual 'wintering' writers' retreat if you're into that:

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

GM #5AMWritersClub Yep, Monday came. Helped shovel the drive so my spouse could make it to work (everything else is closed, except the hospitals).❄️❄️❄️ There's coffee though☕#WritingCommunity #AmWriting✍️

GM #5AMWritersClub Coffee☕ anyone? The answer⬇️ of late seems to be snowstorm & power outage. I'd be open to a lottery win, though😁 #WritingCommunity

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti: #3E #GoodvsEvil

They shot him 10 times while he was face down. It was a 3rd world style public execution youtube.com/shorts/LDETj...

GM #5AMWritersClub Weekend vibe: pretending I’m in a quiet Paris café, coffee within reach☕ time to wander & linger through sentences; actually in sweatpants in my reading chair. And YES, ⬇️I do really need another day between Sat & Sun. Is that so much to ask? #WritingCommunity #AmWriting✍️#mystery

Happy Friday🎉 #5AMWritersClub Specificity✍️ tip: Red wool scarf beats clothing. A flickering porch light says more than pages of atmosphere. First 2026 snow/ice storm🥶❄️ pics⬇️ complete w. power outage & downed cell tower. Lovely neighbours let us connect to their generator, salvaged our food🙏. 🍁

GM #5AMWritersClub Up early (read: late). Me earlier: weekend groove, like a slow Paris cafe☕. Then: "maybe I’ll just tweak my query.” 3 hrs later: questions every verb choice ever made 5 hrs later: deep in a spiral about whether “unearth” is better than “uncover.” 🙏Send snacks. #QueryRabbitHole🐰

GM #5AMWritersClub Ahh, weekend mornings...they feel like permission—to write slowly, read deeply, and let the world stay quiet a little longer. I imagine I’m writing in a small Paris café—take slow sips of strong coffee☕ and allow sentences to arrive like unhurried friends. #AmWriing✍️ #CozyMystery

GM #5AMWritersClub Happy Friday to the writers drafting, the readers escaping & everyone telling themselves “just one more page.” 👀I see you👀 Writing on a Friday like I’m in a Paris café—even if I’m actually at my kitchen island:) #AmWriting #CozyMystery #WritingCommunity

GM #5AMWritersClub I mighta mentioned once or twice (in passing): I need more closet space! Hubs found a design that suits me😁. Of course, instead of lying nicely folded sweaters, the Persian cat would be on a stack of books📚 Happy Thursday💫! #WritingCommunity #CatLovers #AmWriting✍️#Mystery

GM #5AMWritersClub My oasis came up on another platform feed. 6 months till I'm back! Writing in Paris: coffee or wine beside my notebook, conversations drift past in my mother tongue, reminder of how much of writing is inspired by early morning walks, observing & sitting still. #AmWriting #Paris

GM #5AMWritersClub I’ve been quiet here. Real life closed my book after a death in my family. In addition to being a nurse, my mother-in-law loved books & belonged to two book clubs. We'll miss her😢. I’m easing back in now—still believing in the comfort of stories. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting✍️

Happy Humpday 🐫 #5AMWritersClub My desk is either a creative mind's artistic expression…or an archaeological dig site for lost pens & ideas. Results pending. Maybe I should add a NY's resolution afterall😕 PS Not my real desk-that would too embarassing🫣 #AmWriting✍️ #Mystery #WritingCommunity

GM #5AMWritersClub Calendar says the holidays are over, but my body & soul are hanging back. Need lots of coffee for this particular Monday☕ Wishing you a good one! #WritingCommunity

4 months ago, I joined 🦋! Grateful for new writerlies👋who share this journey✨ We write alone…but need community too. Here’s to stories, coffee☕& the community we’re building—together.📚 #WritingCommunity #5AMWritersClub #AmWriting✍️#CozyMystery Tips welcome on new WIP website.⬇️ dinawrite.weebly.com

Happy Weekend #5AMWritersClub Reel set to the song, New Story. Though AI generated, the images are artist originals. 2026 will be a moment of reckoning for creatives. Sensing the cusp of a major shift. Meanwhile...I drink☕and #amwriting✍️ with my #writingcommunity www.facebook.com/reel/8618300...

Happy Friday #5AMWritersClub Lived a strange 'write what you know' moment: was writing a 'lights go out' scene in my #cozymystery, when...you guessed it, power went out. The world shrinking felt very cozy (🙏 fireplace & candles) Here’s to some weekend joy & magic💫. #AmWriting✍️ #WritingCommunity Me:

Greetings #5AMWritersClub Resolutions are not 2026 vibey. Setting systems & space is. But, I got those, so screw it. I resolve to finish my novel: THIS year. In fact, I resolve to finish before I go to Paris. Missed #writingcommunity over Xmas. I'm back! Let's do this! #HappyNewYear #AmWriting✍️☕

GM #5AMWritersClub Greetings to all writers, readers & all humans who love others & value human dignity regardless of that human's race, gender, sexual orientation... yeah you⬇️

GM #5AMWritersClub Clocking in to weave in a new character who decided to barge into my WIP yesterday. Thinking she might cause some chaos. #AmWriting #LoveHolidays Also, check out that gorgeous & festive Bohemian⬇️! -credit to photographer Gary Murphy

A hostile regime would control the software updates on the F35s. I agreee with Wrambbit (@wrambbit.bsky.social)--that's a dealbreaker in my books. Not interested in being a #51stState. #Trump declared economic warfare on my country-the country that's been the best friend of the US. #ElbowsUp Canada🍁

GM #5AMWritersClub✍️ Hallelujah because of two words: