Hi #WritingLifeMonthly friends. Sorry for being MIA, life of the chronically ill, I'm afraid. The past few months have been rough, but I'm recovering. I'm going to take a break until the New Year and see how things go from there. Thank you for joining me this year. It's been a blast!

#WritingLifeMonthly 23 #TheDragonblood: dragon-obsessed physics undergrad gets isekaied #InReverse: woman stuck living in reverse #ThroughTheCracks: anarcho-communist utopia harried by baddies

Exiled knight tries threesome #writinglifemonthly ...I'll just leave this here books2read.com/b/4APvDq

#WritingLifeMonthly Day 23 Monty Python's Ready Player One: books2read.com/thechipwhisp... #WriteSky #AuthorSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Library run by book dragon.

Why is plugging so much harder than writing?😄 📚💙 Here's mine: Unlikely sleuth tackles heart mystery (Links in bio - free in Kobo Plus) #WritingLifeMonthly #WritingCommunity

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 23📚 Time for a little indie author promotion today. 5 words or fewer, tell us about your book. #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbrpile #indieauthor #amreading #indienovel

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 22📚 You don't actually have to tag anyone, but feel free to tag the friend or the author. How did your favourite book get into your hands? #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 21📚 What's your style? How do you prefer to get your reading materials? #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading

gotta be those litfic books about women in their 20s #writinglifemonthly

I would choose fantasy... It was my first love and the one I enjoy the most #writinglifemonthly

#WritingLifeMonthly 20. ROMANCE! Always. And, yes, it's 95% of what I read anyway.😊

#WritingCommunity #writersky This is TOUGH!!!! As much as I love sci fi and fantasy, I have to pick one genre?! Like Alexander Hamilton, I want to read any book I can get my hands on! Fantasy and sci fi is what I write, but I'd like to get my inspiration from almost anything.

#WritingLifeMonthly November 20: If I could only read one genre for the rest of my life, it'd probably be sci-fi. The past few years, it's been getting a diversity of voices that certain of my other favourite genres lack, and I can't see that stopping even with where our world's heading.

Day 20 Honestly, I’d read fantasy. You often can approach real world issues and have deep philosophical discussions in fantastical settings. Imo, fiction is just learning through imagination. #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading

Well… horror is pretty broad and can encompass a plethora of topics. Sci-fi has such a broad definition I’d still get to enjoy end of the world , dying earth tropes… but I can’t choose between them… can’t!

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 20 📚 One genre, forevermore, what do you choose? Curious to see how many folk say they only read one genre as it is. #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ☺️ #WritingLifeMonthly #BookSky

i tell everyone to read adelaide by genevieve wheeler #writinglifemonthly

#WritingLifeMonthly November Day 19 I will recommend “The Favorites” by Layne Fargo to anyone who asks. And, self-promo time, you can watch or read my Q&A with Layne over on Kingdom of Ice-olation adamreisinger.substack.com/p/book-talk-...

I'll always rec Hold Still by Nina LaCour. That one rly had an impact on me #writinglifemonthly

#WritingCommunity #writersky There are TOO MANY!!! :) Yours Truly, 2095- Brian Paone (for ELO fans) Tigerheart- the late Peter David, who signed my copy and was a gem Enchanted, Inc. series- Shanna Swendson Parasol Protectorate series- @gailcarriger.bsky.social (1/2)

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 19📚 Someone asks you if you can recommend a good book, what is the one title that always comes to mind? (Or share as many as you have the character count for.) #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre. Paranoid right-wing nonsense. The epitome of pseudo-intellectual boomer fiction.

This isn't even a secret at this point ngl most people know my stance.

The value of pi is three point one-four. It isn’t less and it isn’t more. But in Kings it’s simply three, though Rome knew geometry, from an all-being I’d expect the right score. #WritingLifeMonthly #writingcommunity #Limerick

Hmmm prob ACOTAR?? I tried so hard to convince myself I liked it but the more I thought about it, the less it held up lol and also I did not want to read more in the series after 3 books #writinglifemonthly

could not get through song of achilles #writinglifemonthly

#WritingCommunity #writersky Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey, obviously, as I've said before. Poorly written. Read one page of both and I tossed them back to the library where they came from. Also, I never liked horror books, give me nightmares like the movies too. Don't like Stephen King.

#WritingCommunity #writersky I would tag my best friend Kerensa or my boyfriend Alexander, but neither of them are on Bluesky. Kerensa would be a rogue, probably, but one of the nice ones, a chaotic good, and Alexander would definitely be a knight, for he's very heroic! :)

Ditto for me on all accounts

#WritingLifeMonthly 18. This is a throwback, but I was never crazy about “Harry Potter”. My mom read it to me as a kid as our bedtime story/bonding time. I think Mom was more into it than I was. I wouldn’t say I hated it, but I’m glad I never loved it, because the whole thing with the author is 🤢.

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 18📚 Sorry it’s late today. What’s a book others raved about but you secretly (or not so secretly) hated? #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading

the aesthetic i aspire to have when i learn how to write litfic #writinglifemonthly

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 16📚 I remember the indie records of my youth and the diy vibe. I wanted that vibe for my books. #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 17📚 Who is the one person who always gets your reading list and has recommendations you trust without reservation? If they were a fantasy character, what would they be? #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #tbrpile #indie #amreading

#WritingLifeMonthly I have DNF'd only one book and it generally shocks people lol. No Country for Old Men. I acknowledge McCarthy was a driving force in writing but I couldn't get past his choice to forego punctuation/dialogue markers. Got sick of re-reading passages 😅

When an author makes the protagonist gaze in the mirror and describe in detail her pouty red lips, ice blue or chocolate brown eyes and shoulder-length jet black hair... I know the rest of the book will suck. Let the reader use their imagination. 🙄 #booksky #writinglifemonthly

Time for Week Two of #WritingLifeMonthly November. "Witch Hat Atelier Peppermint Patty". Sounds a little...cottagecore? I'm not good with genres. I'm also not good at reading (or watching) things for the first time. Maybe it's my autism, but I can take months, even years of dancing around...

Animal cruelty. Graphic violence that is gratuitous and/or just for shock value. Bad writing and/or editing. No likable characters. #writinglifemonthly

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 15📚 There is really nothing specific. I will sometimes just lose motivation to open a book again. OTOH a book can have typos, poor grammar, bad spelling, faulty plotting and still be interesting, entertaining or speak to me in some way.

Outside of bad editing and writing (i feel that’s a deal breaker for most people), for me a huge NO is poor quality sex and meaningless violence. I’m fine if it’s there but ya gotta make me feel something and justify its existence. #WritingLifeMonthly

#WritingCommunity #writersky Distractions, things that force me to set priorities over reading, my migraines, and yes, bad editing. I've tossed both Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey because they were written so poorly.

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 16📚 Share three book covers that either reveal your personal life aesthetic, your reading vibe, or who you are as a writer. #writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading

I am the worst when it comes to DNF. If a book doesnt grab me by the second page, I put it down. I feel badly for it, but my attention span is that of a goldfish. I just can't keep going. #Booksky #WritingLifeMonthly

I DNF a few times a month, usually within the first third. Sometimes I stick out a book that I don't like just to see where it's going, but mostly I'd rather just pick something else and move on.

#WritingLifeMonthly 14: I guess I don't read enough to have a particularly large sample size, but I know I DNFed Outlander. I was really enjoying it, but then it got tough and I quit.

I used to stick out every book, and I probably still stick with too many and for too long. The worst are the ones that trick you into hoping they get better or pay off then don’t. I do DNF more than I used to. #writinglifemonthly

Narrative pace, unnecessary filler scenes, bad editing, and a writing style that's just not to my taste. #WritingLifeMonthly

if the book's written in an experimental prose and it doesn't work. if the book is too long sometimes... like romance over 430 pages. prose is too heavy and uninteresting. #writinglifemonthly