With many election losses, and disappointing politicians (cough cough Platner), there have been many disappointments in the last few decades. This is my take on them, from a COVID era memoir. #MediumWriters #WriteSky #politics edwardrstapleton.medium.com/on-disappoin...

#Descriptables is the writing challenge on Medium where each Friday you describe something as vividly as you can. For this week, it’s fireworks. Comment on the article with your Medium handle to be added. #WritingPrompt #WriteSky #MediumWriters medium.com/descriptable...

Hello #WeeknightWriters! I have written a novel about a professor who is forced to live out the lives of her ancestors. Currently querying, but find it difficult to pitch a novel that straddles science and historical fiction, which may not have overlapping audiences.

Clap for John Henry Arthur’s submission to #Descriptables, describing the colors of the rainbow. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #MediumWriters medium.com/descriptable...

How the information crisis has divided us. #WriteSky #politics edwardrstapleton.medium.com/a-crisis-in-...

Read a poem with me! In this case, Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” Published in The Hub. #poetry #nyc thehubpublication.com/ferry-throug...

For this week #WritingPrompt on #descriptables, we have a special challenge for #PrideMonth. Describe a rainbow. 🌈 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...

“When was the last time you stood before something so powerful, so immense, or so startling that the breath in your body froze like a startled deer, when your feet refused to move, and when your heart fluttered?” #WriteSky #nature #WritingComminity edwardrstapleton.medium.com/the-rarefied...

Finished The Lost Metal, closing out phase two of #Mistborn. Wayne belongs among the pantheon of rich and captivating literary characters. I don’t know who’s waiting in phase three, but they’ll have to coinshot their way out from under a big shadow. #Sanderson #Booktok

Read if you’ve forgotten how incredible the world is. Don’t forget to be breathtaking. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #USA edwardrstapleton.medium.com/the-rarefied...

Clap for this #descriptables submission from LilWifey! #space #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity #WtiteSky medium.com/descriptable...

Another #descriptables submission from John Henry Arthur. “The Enormity of the Pale Blue Dot.” Give a clap! #WritingPrompt #space #sagan #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...

Clap for a new submission to #descriptables from Shrirangdangre! #earth #space #WritingCommunity #WriteSky medium.com/descriptable...

Every picture of the earth is a mirror. For this week’s #descriptable, describe our planet. #WritingPrompt #WriteSky #space #WritingCommunity #MediumWriters edwardrstapleton.medium.com/pale-blue-do...

Another entry from my 2020 political memoir. The USA is a smaller country than you think. #politics #Trump #travel #MediumWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity edwardrstapleton.medium.com/the-new-worl...

Barron Trump is increasingly reminding me of Paul Dano’s character in Little Miss Sunshine.

Another submission to #Descritables from author Shrirangdangre. This week’s #writingprompt asks you to describe a rock concert. To submit, seek out the publication, follow it, and request with a comment on Medium. medium.com/descriptable...

Currently listening to “Watchers” by Dean Koontz on Audible. Came for the sciFi, horror, and thrilling suspense. Stayed for the adorable golden retriever. #booksky #dogs www.audible.com/pd/B07D2JG8T...

Raaaaage Rock! Another entry to #descriptables from LilWifey. Descriptables is the Medium publication that asks you to describe things as well as you can. This week’s challenge is a rock concert. #WritingPrompt #Music #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...

Clap for Liane Fazio’s submission to #descriptables! To submit your own, visit the publication on #Medium. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...

If the Knicks win, New York can celebrate. But if they lose, we get another chant. My proposal: Our mayor’s still Muslim. Our bagel’s still Jewish. Our president makes us sick. Knicks in six.

Clap for this rockin’ entry to #descriptables from John Henry Arthur! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #music #writing #MediumWriters medium.com/descriptable...

Explaining injuries when I was younger: “I was riding my bike across an intersection...” “I was at a Muay Thai class…” Explaining injuries in my 40s: “I was opening a window…”

Prepare yourself for the #descriptables #8 #writingprompt, to test your descriptive #writing. Who can give the best description of a rock concert? #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #music medium.com/descriptable...

Some political ramblings from 2020. #politics #nature #USA #resist #WritingCommunity #MediumWriters edwardrstapleton.medium.com/our-national...

The poet Ruth, her rich, tyrannical husband growing too old and tired to control her, celebrates vicarious freedom through her two young daughters.

Clap for Shrirangdangre’s entry for #descriptables #Writingprompt #7! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #cats medium.com/descriptable...

Another villanelle from my #poetry collection, published in “The Black Veil.” #poem #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/the-black-ve...

Clap for LilWifey’s submission to #Descriptables about a cat on a windowsill. #WriteSky #Writing #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...

It is 4,000 years ago in the Indus river valley, and a dying leader, shot through with arrows, gives advice to his successor. #WIPSnaps #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

He finds the will to go about his day in a flood of fear and anxiety because the #horror of being seen is just vaguely surpassed by the horror of being invisible. #vss365 #WriteSky

It’s 1780, and Eunice, son of a New York loyalist, learns of the prison ships on the East River. More US colonists would die in these ships than in battle. #WIPSnaps #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

A #descriptables submission from Shrirangdangre about the emptiness you get walking through Times Square. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...

I know it’s not yet #caturday, but for this week’s #descriptables writing challenge: Describe this cat as vividly as you can. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky medium.com/descriptable...

In 2020, mid-pandemic, I visited Yellowstone and encountered a tiny pond on the continental divide called Isa lake, with different sides of the pond draining into different oceans. A perfect metaphor for America. #politics #Trump #MediumWriters #WriteSky edwardrstapleton.medium.com/isa-lake-544...

During the Fenian raids, America’s Irish immigrants were #ready after the civil war to invade Canada and hold it hostage in exchange for a free Ireland, as is depicted in this scene from my novel. #AmQuerying #WIPSnaps #WriteSky

Love is a #gamble And life is a choice. Give laughter a stage And sorrows a voice. And when you get old, Look back in wonder At the burdens and pains You’ve crawled out from under. And cash in your chips And settle your debts. You leave here with nothing If you don’t place a bet. #vss365 #poetry

On a #midnight walk Through misty woods We dreamed and talked, And sang of good And wondrous Things we’d do Far from ponderous Truths we knew. Then night grew dark, Your grip grew tight, Your eyes a spark Of mad delight. I awoke alone On a dewy field Scarred and prone, Deep truths revealed. #vss365

I guess they like me? 😢 #thankful #poetry #WriteSky #Writing #WritingCommunity medium.com/the-black-ve...

#NaturePhotography is trending today. I live in Queens. Here’s a goddamn pigeon. #birds

Edward Stapleton III takes us into the mind of the insane and their noble but nefarious plans. medium.com/first-line-f... #firstlinefiction #writingprompts #storytelling #shortstory #fiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #horror

A petite little tale of madness published in First Line Fiction. #FlashFiction #ShortStory #horror #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/first-line-f...

Kennedy’s second best birthday present.

Clap for this haunting contribution to #descriptables from LilWifey. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky medium.com/descriptable...

Elon Musk’s Long History of Sexual Misconduct by Jeanne Deaux medium.com/fourth-wave/...

Clap for John Henry Arthur’s submission to #descriptables! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #DescriptiveWriting #WritingPrompt medium.com/descriptable...

It’s time for #descriptables, your favorite Medium #WritingPrompt (you haven’t tried yet)! The challenge your descriptive writing ability…describe this urn as well as you can. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity medium.com/descriptable...

Years after it ended, they still carried #remnants of each other. The way he made his coffee with a dash of cinnamon. The way she slept on the right side of the bed, even when sleeping alone. #vss365 #WriteSky #relationships

During the Irish hunger of the 1840s, families often migrated through chain migration, sending one family member at a time, like in this scene of my novel. #AmQuerying #WIPSnips #WriteSky