A lil’ buddy hopped by to remind me he lives where I was pulling weeds. #flora #fauna #frogs #gardening

@darylwriterguy.bsky.social manages with When We Were Real to create a believable future-now world(s) more bizarre than whatever we’re living in now. A true writing feat! Freaking great audio read too! Washington Anywhere library needs to add it! #libby #amreading #futurenow #scifi #readthisbook

Nature: a healing balm for the heartbreak of incessant human snafu. #nature #cutenessoverload #timelinecleanse #babyanimals

Cut almost 4000 words today. It’s getting there… #amediting #amwriting

Loved the literary refs in Someone to Build a Nest In by @wiswell.bsky.social feeling the need to reread Beowulf now. Well done audio version! #booksky #writers #scifi #amreading

High in a hedge #garden #nature #snakes #wildlife

My writing coach has big news! 🎉 #writingclub #writers #amwriting #memoir #booksky 👀💙📚

Oat milk is going to take some getting used to. Anyone have favorite brands to recommend?

Beautiful, wild & free on the Salish Sea #salishsea #nativeplants #nature #naturewriters #happyplace #flowers

Got gardening with dogs issues? Join my free online class Weds 4/23/25 for help! Reserve your spot & add your questions in the comments. naturalyardcareapril23.bpt.me #gardening #gardenhour #dogs #pets #dogsky #gardeninghelp

Hummingbird showed me her nest on Earthday. She chooses this tree often. #earthday #nature #birding #hummingbirds #nest #birdsky #trees #wildlife

Cutting tangent paragraphs is incredibly satisfying. #writer #amediting #booksky #writingclub #letitgo #speculativefiction #epic #writersky #historicalfiction 💙 📚 👀

Acquaintance is a word I use a lot & misspell consistently. A random thing I learned editing my 1st draft. Damn that 1st c! #writinglife #writingclub #writer #booksky #novelist #speculativefiction 💙 📚 👀

I finished writing my 1st novel today! Now the real work begins. #booksky 💙 📚 #keepwriting #writingclub #novelist #lifegoals #writer #reader #speculativefiction #firstdraft #theendisthebeginning #goalunlocked

Where my faith resides, always. #timelinecleanse

After a long day staring at words while writing my book, there’s nothing as sweet as curling up in bed with a library audio book that reads me to sleep while my tired eyes rest. #booksky #library #libby #reading 💙 📚 👀 💤

What’s your take? #writingclub 💙 📚 #historicalfiction #writer #reader #photography #badparenting

I love this publishing model & the 1st anthology. “Stars and Sabers publishes human-written books & contracts human artists and editors…Authors get paid first. Funds raised go directly to the making of the book: production, promotion, & shipping…” #books #readers #noai #supportrealart #booksky 💙 📚

I love my birthday books that arrived late for reasons including: 1. They did NOT come from the shit river store overnight 2. They aren’t fresh off the presses but gently used 3. Some might ban them 4. They’re written by award winning writers who make me think like @edyong209.bsky.social #readers

Patrick Henry’s Give me 🗽 or give me 💀 turned 250 on my birthday today. FYI: I did not also turn 250 today, even if my hip feels like it’s that old. Also, 💯 what he said all those years ago! (You can thank my sister for this timely reminder.) #VAis4❤️

If in doubt, always send me books. 💙 📚 #reader #booksky #writingclub

Dumped my url verified handle. What a headache. Blocked me from starter pack ads. Then my handle was marked invalid. What a cluster. Hope it’s fixed soon!

Writing often feels like working a marionette. Today my puppet’s strings are clipped. I’m struggling to grasp loose ones before they blow away. Others seem a jumble of wrongly tied knots. It is an entangled, herky-jerky heap I am desperate to see dancing at my fingertips again. #keepwriting 💙📚

Last supper for you buddy! #gardening #growyourownfood #slugs #springvibes #vegetablegardening

Wind took the alder top in summer. Thru fall & winter woodpeckers drilled new homes in the highest snag crumble. By spring gentrifying bully starlings arrived to hijack their best, new real estate. Now I hear the displaced hammering deeper in the woods. No choice but to try again. #booksky 💙📚

I am reminded of all I have imagined, let go, lost. Childhood & memories of my mother doing the best she could-badly- goodness & badness in the same father, wild places & plant names I have known. & my dog who spins for his dinner. Bravo for another masterpiece @eowynivey.bsky.social #reader

Thanks for the fiction for days when reality’s too hard to bear. #skywriters #booksky 💙 📚 #keepwriting #keepreading

The tension building in @eowynivey.bsky.social Black Woods Blue Sky is masterful. Loving every cringy minute of it! #booksky 💙 📚 #skywriters #naturewriters #readers

That feeling when you’re certain the dog just ate your entire book outline. And the dog is your software. And all your actual dog wants is to do anything to make it all better for you.

FYEO he teased #dogsky #aussie #dogs #cutenessoverload

What am I reading for #internationalwomensday ? 1st: A long section of my WIP that needed TLC edits. Counts, right? Yes? No? Well, I’m switching to Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros in Libby next 🐉 💪 #keepwriting #writerslife #booksky 💙 📚 #girlpower #audiobooks #libby #librarybooks #bookrelease

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“Carry on” says the forest. Do your thing beautifully. Persist. Thrive. Survive. #nature #forest #flowers

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I wish I could do this #shakeitoff #dogs #ashamedandanxious

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Pink pussies. Some in hats. #garden #spring #flowers

Salish Sea moment of zen … #nature #ocean #zen #writerslife

Often I find book character inspiration in old family photos. This chill kid in KS is so intriguing. I have no idea who s/he is. Do you? All captions appreciated — true or invented — for fun. Tip — remember to label your photos for posterity! #skywriters #writinglife #historicalfiction #history

Refreshing my feed, my garden, my outlook.

Wrote thru my anxiety last week. Not my best work, but boy did the angry, freakout pain shine thru like a razor glinting in the spotlight. Now I’m thinking of Angela Lansbury at the Kennedy Center in Sweeney Todd years ago. I want to cry. I want to cut not only words. #writerslife #arts

A movement a sparkling murmuration fizzing & flowing & skimming just above the white lake of self that spews each successive spray into which it will merge again wave after wave shifts the great whiteness west to east dancing snow geese on a brown, muddy field #birding #poem 🪿

Taught & gave away a terrarium today at #nwfgs #gardening

Writer’s garden vignette 💙📚 #booksky #nwfgs #writerslife #gardening

Help a 😔 girl out. Name 1 good thing.

Lack of vaccination will kill another flu victim today. It’s heartbreaking to lose loved ones this way. Even if they are characters in my WIP book during a pandemic before science gave us vaccine protection. #booksky 📚💙 #books #writerslife #vaccines #fluseason #sciencematters #writing #specfic

3 Good Things Valentine edition: ✅ Helped a family in need. ✅ Snow & ice is nearly gone. ✅ Daphne survived the long days of freeze & smells so good. #threegoodthings #3goodthings #flowerpower #stongertogether

Influenza is killing off a generation today of my WIP characters in 1919 The irony of the day is not lost on me. #history #influenza #pandemic #vaccines #writerslife #shirleybassey #historyrepeating #booksky 💙📚 youtu.be/nC2pgcagyRk?...

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3 Good Things: ✅ Olympic Mountains covered in snow under blue sky ✅ Flu & Covid vaccines up to date ✅ Hens are laying & healthy Amid so much 🤬 🖕💩💔, I gotta focus on 👍🩷💪 stuff or 🤯 #threegoodthings #selfcare #wtfworld