I’ve seen closeups of this lil nappy-do but seeing it in context is disastrous. At least it *should* be disastrous. What do we call him? Drowsy Donald?

Trivia time! Who is this?

Just passed a car with the license plate ANX10U5

Being on SNAP benefits for 17 years, I've NEVER been told I wouldn't be paid my benefits. NEVER. What is going on is BEYOND cruel. The ppl w/disabilities, ppl w/chronic illnesses & cancer, seniors already isolated, the 16M hh's w/children. WE REFUSE TO BE A NUMBER. WE ARE PEOPLE. WE DESERVE DIGNITY.

That’s me in my backyard. My playground. I loved it but I was also lonely. This was how a writer came to be.

I finally got the courage to send my edited novel ms back to my editor. Now it will be moving along toward an ARC. I can’t believe it.

Not to advocate throwing sandwiches or getting mustard on a federal officer, the sandwich guy was found not guilty.

Never EVER click on ads on Facebook. Even if they appear legit, you can almost guarantee they aren't. Facebook is like Mos Eisley spaceport: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

Why I buy books local or from Bookshop(dot)org— because we deserve more than a ballroom open.substack.com/pub/lindaksi...

Good news: I got my edited manuscript from the publisher, so I'm crunching edits. I made the editor's minor corrections, but every time I scrutinize a line, a section, a paragraph, I think this could be better... due in two days! Eek! Send moral support. Dog pics. Cat pics. Babies. #writersky

Donald Trump blamed GOP election losses on what he calls a “new word” — “affordability” — even though he ran on the economy and promises to lower prices.

The best part of shopping at Bookshop(dot)org is getting this email:

Big thanks to everyone who voted! We can make a difference.

“And what if we are all here to help each other evolve.” —Elizabeth Gilbert

Funniest thing I’ve heard in a while: Kim Kardashian said she failed her law exam because she relied on ChatGPT to help her study.

The glamorous life of a novelist: Editing so that ‘Burritt shifted the motor into high gear, making it too loud for talk’ becomes ‘The noise of the motor rose and Burritt stopped talking.’ Try to contain your excitement. I do all this so you can read it in three seconds and move on.

When you have short legs…

That line in a recent marketing scam email comparing my poetry book about my son’s death being treated like a coloring book was obviously purposely written to tug at my heart. Ouch and WTF?! Writers, Here's What I Learned: How To Protect Yourself from Scams lindaksienkiewicz.com/book-marketi...

“Why is no one answering?”

"A country of hate is a weight the world can't afford." OProinntigh #quote

Fellow writers, beware the marketing scam that plays on our deepest longing to be seen, read, & have our work touch someone. Praise is powerful bait, but it’s a risky roll of the dice. Learn what the scams look like. Build a bullshit detector. Here's how: lindaksienkiewicz.com/book-marketi...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

A November Sunday, beef stew with allspice, football game in the background, sunlight fading too fast. I lettered a new chalkboard for the porch.

Cowboy asks “Did they go home yet?” at 8:10 p.m. on Halloween night.

How the Mashantucket Pequot tribe in Connecticut is fighting to tell Indigenous history in American classrooms. www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

Did you know 97% of books started are never finished? If it was easy, maybe we’d all have a book! How to Finish the Damn Book: Notes from a writing workshop with Best-selling author Jacquelyn Mitchard lindaksienkiewicz.com/finish-the-d...

A favorite from last night. Go corgi!

My vintage troll-in-a-pumpkin earrings! Classic 🎃

“Vance has changed his name, his religion and his political bearing. He was once a moderate. He once called DJT Hitler.” Now he’s having his wife convert to Catholicism. Who can trust this guy?

Was it a bad day, or a bad 5 minutes that you milked all day?

Who decided?

Happy Halloween! This is all I got. No time this year for anything more and Cowboy won’t wear a hat. I cropped my hand out of the picture hahaha

Email your representatives to support SNAP. Advocacy groups and summary fact-sheets note that each dollar of SNAP benefits has been estimated to generate up to $1.80 of economic activity in certain downturn conditions.

Be like the weather. Except not a hurricane. Don’t be that. No one likes that.

Nothing like getting your manuscript edits the day after your flu shot. Send tea. #writersky #amwriting

This post is my personal manifesto for why I write. Does it resonate with you? 7 Reasons Why “There’s not a moment to be lost” https://laureldecher.com/7-reasons-why-theres-not-a-moment-to-be-lost/ #amwriting #amreading #amexploring

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” ~ Émile Zola #writers #books

The felon-in-chief is glitching. Again.

Practice self-care much?

This thread is terrific. Thank you Mr. Knowles.

Cowboy has been carrying this tough enzymatic dental chew around for four days now. He put bite marks all around the edges. It keeps him busy, moving it from point A to B, taking it outside, bringing it in, protecting it, thinking about it, watching me watching him watching it. 😆 #corgi #corgisky

How To Use Dialogue for Backstory and Worldbuilding—Infodump-Free! writershelpingwriters.net/2025/10/dial... #amwriting #writingtips

He said a Halloween costume is a waist of time.

Trump is a paper tiger, he is not popular.

Be the lamp. Or the light. You know what I mean.

How a brief conversation with Leigh Stein about her murder-free murder mystery spurred my wild dream. I was so screwed as I imagined the trial with me in the hot seat. A steady diet of TV autopsies didn’t help matters. lindaksienkiewicz.com/how-leigh-st... #dreams

“…the 2nd Trump presidency is poised to be more consequential, more radical, & more lasting than his first. Plenty of what Trump does during these four years will be undone by future for security, & some will be unwound by the courts while he is still president.” - Jonathan Karl