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Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

Why is NOIR a dead genre?? www.youtube.com/shorts/vCkXq...

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Good morning, humans 🌞 What are you working on today?

Night night, Bluelings 🌛

The Name of the Wind is a great book to study for its double-arc series-kickoff plot structure... www.youtube.com/shorts/6M29_...

The Malthese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett does something with POV that is super rare... www.youtube.com/shorts/Yfvnf...

Have you read The Dane Curse? What did you think?? www.youtube.com/shorts/jCaKX...

A multi-POV novel can be fantastic, but... www.youtube.com/shorts/aEOJL...

"Improv clarified something important for me about writing. When I hedge in my novels ... it’s the same impulse at work: self-protection. But just like onstage, hesitation drains momentum. A bold choice, even an imperfect one, gives the story something to push against." —Kyla Zhao

Timeline cleanse! Shuswap Lake pre-dawn ♥️

Coming very soon!!

The Hidden Cost of Using AI Our brains are incredibly powerful tools, but they’re like muscles: they only stay strong when we keep using them. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/t...

Tech lite vacay = reading frenzy youtube.com/shorts/IWgHN...

The Hidden Cost of Using AI Our brains are incredibly powerful tools, but they’re like muscles: they only stay strong when we keep using them. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/t...

Follow Your Characters, Not Your Outline "Your characters are, or should be, the ones in the driver’s seat. This is their story." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/c...

The following is a roundup of new publishers and agents announced in 2025—free to all. Want to be notified every week of new publishers and agents? Sign up for my newsletter The Bottom Line (free version works as well as the paid version for this purpose). See comments for sign-up link.

Red Harvest (Dashiell Hammett) is an interesting book in how it sits at the crossroad of pre-noir hardboiled pulp—an important stepping stone in the development of detective fiction. www.youtube.com/shorts/DIu4X...

I always follow my characters. It is their stories, so why wouldn't I listen to them?

Thanks for sharing :)

This was something I discovered several years into writing. At some point, the characters dictate the narrative's direction more than the writer.

Follow Your Characters, Not Your Outline "Your characters are, or should be, the ones in the driver’s seat. This is their story." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/c...

The Rejection Resolution: Flipping the Script "If you send out enough submissions to garner 100 rejections, I can almost guarantee there’ll be a few surprises in your inbox in 2026." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/1...

The Rejection Resolution: Flipping the Script "If you send out enough submissions to garner 100 rejections, I can almost guarantee there’ll be a few surprises in your inbox in 2026." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/1...

Too Good to Be True: Writer Scams Are Proliferating Their goal, naturally, is to get money from you. As for your book’s future? They couldn’t care less. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/w... #writingcommunity

New post up on the Chopping Blog 🪓🪓

How a Tech-Lite Trip Turned Into a Reading Bender "What surprised me was how much reading and writing we got through without trying." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/t...

Happy holidays from the Darling Axe 🎄🪓

People who write are the target of scams - in particular, people promising marketing miracles for your book. There's nothing new about this stuff but it's getting worse. Useful post by Darling Axe #writesky #BookSky #writing

Gotta keep reminding myself... #writersky #blacksky

Merciless scammers will stop at nothing to exploit your money and your hard work! Always ask around about anyone who comes to you with offers that sound too good to be true. They usually are not true.

Which quote do you like the most?