#bookbuzz #AuthorUproar #BookBoost #BooksWorthReading #booklovers

Michigan has fired JB Brown, who allegedly coached special teams (per Pete Thamel)

Sometimes you just have to let go of a piece or an idea. There’s no point in throwing good time after bad. You’ll think of something better. #amwriting #writetip #WritingCommunity #writerslife

Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

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Details bring authenticity, connection, and emotion. Train your mind’s eye to find these “little things” and remember to show, not tell. #amwriting #writetip #WritingCommunity #writerslife

Note to self: check homeowners insurance.

Channeling Dylan, Woody, and all the great protest singers, just when we need it most! #JesseWelles #LateShow www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...

Like detective stories? Check out this crazy tale of fearless environmental private eye L. G. Green investigating a massive oil spill that might be from a long-lost German submarine off Florida: daveswan.substack.com/publish/post.... #fiction #Florida #humor

The story is always evolving and unpredictable. At some point, you have to let go of whatever’s locked in your head and create on the fly. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

From the family archives: my great-great uncle's livery in Elgin, Illinois. It's nice to know our ancestors didn't understand apostrophes any better than we do.

Chapter 1 of my bio. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writinglife

Like a lot of people, I enjoy researching my family history. I just discovered I’m related to a killer. I look like him too. Read more in my new Substack post. #history #genealogy #truth open.substack.com/pub/daveswan...

Some people and characters speak decent English, others don’t. You can capture their language without making them look dumb (unless they really are). #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

Thank heaven for poets. Watch this all the way to the end. You’ll smile, maybe even tear up just a little, like I did. #PattiSmith #Colbert #peace #power www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUlN...

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

PEN America strongly condemned the Iranian authorities’ detention and harassment of six writers in Tehran this week as “repressive tactics meant to quash independent thinking, analysis, and expression,” said Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Director of Writers at Risk. pen.org/press-releas...

Wish I could go on national TV and say the same thing about AI! #amwriting #writingcommunity

People will sniff out a cardboard character, a wildly impossible plot or boring dialogue. Respect your readers on every page. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

What in the actual hell? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Gulf of Mexico in the afternoon, as it always has been and will be. #Florida #PanamaCityBeach

RIP Prunella Scales, the queen of Fawlty Towers who played the real queen in another show. #Prunella #sybilfawlty www.youtube.com/watch?v=60WV...

Characters say things you didn’t expect. Beta readers call you out on a half-baked story line. It’s tough. But from chaos comes art. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

Once again our young sugar maple leads the pack in changing color.

Some crossover advice from a giant of jazz. Whether it’s notes on the bandstand or words on the page, choose the right ones and don’t waste any. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

#A_NewHope ✊

The Pentagon confiscated press credentials from reporters who won't bow down to their anti-democratic demands and threats. I'd do the same thing if I were back on the defense beat. Read more in my new Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/daveswan...

Do you, writer, take this manuscript to be your life partner, in lousy first drafts and big sales, in beta reads and submissions, in despair and in glory? #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

As writers, we’re always waiting for something: an agent’s decision, a cover designer’s vision, a beta reader’s thoughts. Read my thoughts on coping with these pins and needles in my Substack post for @atlantawritersclub.bsky.social: awc1914.substack.com/p/the-weight.... #amwriting #writingcommunity

I used to report on the Pentagon. This is outrageous and dangerous to freedom of the press. If it succeeds, Trump can keep journalists away from any war, like Israel has done in Gaza. #pressfreedom #DOD

If the floor isn’t level, the foundation isn’t solid. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

History has many painful lessons.

Listen to everyone around you - friends, colleagues, folks on the train or in the bar. That’s not snooping or plagiarism. You’re building your book’s LLM. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

Would you want to find out by text that a loved one has just died? Me neither. Read more in my new post. open.substack.com/pub/daveswan...

Almost ten years ago, someone I knew was killed in a shooting in another Michigan town, my hometown. Whatever the politics of this horror may be, remember that people are hurting, traumatized, and scared. My thoughts go out to the congregation and everyone in #GrandBlanc. www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Early and lots of unknowns but please keep watch and stay safe.

For decades, VOA reported U.S. presidents’ speeches at the UNGA in 49 languages. This year, most of us were silenced by a looming RIF—leaving adversaries to tell America’s story. #SaveVOA #PressFreedom

Once again @newyorker.com strikes with pinpoint accuracy. #stoptrump

If you’re bored, your readers are too. Sex won’t cure a bad situation in real life or on the page. #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

We have a new vaccine that'll help you survive the next surge. Answer these questions first! #CovidVaccines #RfkJr daveswan.substack.com/p/so-you-sti...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Dogs and cats are excepted unless they get too pushy. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

Great advice on proofreading AND Southernisms. I especially like "Don't fry fatback in a hurry." #writingcommunity #writingtips brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/o...

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Getting a Covid shot should be easy, especially if you're at high risk like me. It's not. Read about it in my new Substack post. #Covid19 #RFKJr #vaccine open.substack.com/pub/daveswan...