The Doodle Project

writing

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I thought it would be good to take a moment and post my six-monthly #introduction update. So, yeah, here we go:

I'm slanderoid, an anomaly in the #Midwest, #USA

Things have been a little different lately: for one, I've been #gaming a lot less often and #writing consistently instead. I've got a #fantasy project coming up soon that I'll be posting about here with the hashtag #NotAHeroStory. I'm excited (and nervous) to share it with all of you beautiful people!

Another change is that I haven't been here as often as I'd like lately because it's #LittleFreeLibrary season! With the current climate in #USPol we've decided to get deadly serious about our #LFL this year. We've become an Official #BookCrossing Zone, started a #SilentBookClub, and even (finally) become a PokeStop in #PokemonGo. We've got big plans for #Halloween that we're going to start working on soon...

Otherwise, I'm still into #horror, #metal, and working on getting more #tattoos. Some things never change, after all 😅

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3h

A haiku inspired by Richard Throssel's photo "Strikes One with a Lance"

https://creativeramblings.com/poetry/strikes-one-lance-richard-throssel/

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poetrywriting #photography #writing #writingcommunity

@poetry @photography @haiku

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3h

"Money To Get A Hole" #writing #poetry #florida

I donated plasma to get pierces. It was an even trade. A hole to get money. Money to get a hole. They said you couldn't donate with new pierces. But just took my word for it as well. My face was sill oozing. But they didn't care.

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4h

write your name
on the darkness
in the haunting
of the sparkler's fizzle

spirit trails
haunt the stinging
and the shining
of my cold and smoke tears

and i dream
of a shimmer
and a chiming
of you returned to me

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 18 May 2025 - fizzle

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5h

#TomGauld on how to focus on #writing your #book – cultural #cartoon | #Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2025/may/18/tom-gauld-on-how-to-focus-on-writing-your-book-cultural-cartoon

How to focus on writing your book:
Turn your devices off.
Put them in a drawer.
Lock the drawer.
Throw away the key.
Leave the house.
Do not look back.
Keep to back roads and hedgerows.
Feel your old life slip away.
Sleep by day. Forage in the evening.
Write by the light of the Moon.
When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent.

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10h

Was adding a note of *more detail* in a story and the autocorrect changed it to *more deaths*… Should I follow the unexpected advice? #Writing #WritingCommunity #Fiction

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1d

I am so incredibly honoured and proud that my haiku on my horse has been selected for 'Issue 52 - Farm Animals - The Solitary Daisy'.
Thank you so much, Sally and Michele, at @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social!

https://bsky.app/profile/thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social/post/3lpezm4v32s27

#haiku #poetry #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #horses #animals

@poetry

@haiku

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23h

A haiku inspired by Samuel Bourne's photo "Haridwar from opposite bank of the Ganges"

https://creativeramblings.com/poetry/haridwar-opposite-bank-ganges-samuel-bourne/

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poetrywriting #photography #poetrywriting #writing #writingcommunity

@poetry @haiku @photography

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1d

A haiku inspired by Robert Macpherson's photo "The Valley of the Anio"

https://creativeramblings.com/poetry/valley-anio-robert-macpherson/

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poetrywriting #writing #writingcommunity #photography

@poetry @haiku @photography

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1d

After many issues, my new #FountainPen is finally here: the #Lamy 2000.

#Lamy2000 #ink #writing #fediverse #mastodon #pen

#100DaysToOffload : 58/100

https://lazybea.rs/lam-2k2

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1d

How to Create a Strong Character Arc
#WriterCommunity #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#Characters #Character #WritingTips #Writing #CharacterArc #Tips #Arcs

http://georgelthomas.com/2024/01/30/how-to-create-a-strong-character-arc/

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#WordWeavers 2025.05.16 — Antagonist POV: What do you like the most about yourself? CW: Zealotry

Ezekiel Stan managed to get a number of townships to form a coalition with him, even though that got them isolated from the rest of the planet. Turns out he got interviewed once and answered that question.

"I stood up. I will do the hard thing, like I did building the first settlements on Mars. When the colonization company went bankrupt, I recognized the opportunity to fashion Mars into a perfect Kingdom of God and took that opportunity despite pushback from the other directors. The ungodly are easy to intimidate, especially if you back up your words with action, when you get the job done and ask permission later, if then needed at all. I found men that were able to take up the good cause, to fight—modern Zealots willing to shred the bounds of our corrupt society, to whip the misguided until they see the light or cower, to gag the voices of the harlots and perverted, so that we can raise generations of children protected from hearing other than the Good Word, never sullied by the temptations and demonic ways of the unfortunates left behind on Earth. What I do is noble and shows the worth of a man."

BTW: He's the villain.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSMarsNeededWomen

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2d

Sinister Minutes 2:5 features a hodgepodge: a short revenge piece called Best Served Cold, a flash piece called Tempus Fugit, a poem about a mouse from guest poet Branwen Drew, and musical bowl of dessert called Eldritch Porridge.

https://shows.acast.com/sinister-minutes or wherever you grab your podcasts.

Written and narrated by @KurtHohmann (me), music by Tim Parker

#writing
#writingCommunity
#podcast
#podcasts
#Podcaster
#Podcasting
#fiction
#horror
#AudioDrama

Image by Dieter from Pixabay
A hodgepodge of odd items, including a naked mannequin in a bathtub filled with small jars, a collection of beer bottles, and a witch statue standing behind.

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6d

#writephant Q2 What writing goals are you excited to dive into this summer?

#writing #amwriting

Elephant with a pen for a nose in a blue background. Below is the hashtag Writephant.

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1d

A haiku inspired by Samuel Bourne's photo "Tibet Road - Great Chini"

https://creativeramblings.com/poetry/tibet-road-great-chini-samuel-bourne/

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #writing #writingcommunity #poetrywriting #photography

@poetry @haiku @photography

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2d

how often
the essence gets lost
in translation

#dailyhaikuprompt - lost
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#senryu
#lost
#translation

@dailyhaikuprompt

@poetry

@haiku

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3d

passing the flowers
attracted to the thistles
like moths to a flame

#MastoPrompt - thistle
#dailyhaikuprompt - passing

PHOTO
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/peek-a-boo-thistle-photography-sharon-cummings.html

#thistle #plants #plant #garden #gardens #gardening #nature #naturephotography #naturephoto #naturephotos #butterfly #butterflies #peekaboo #poetry #poet #poem #poets #poems #writing #moth #moths #photography #photo #photos #haiku #shortpoem #smallpoem #smallpoems

Thistles with a hidden butterfly in the upper middle by artist and photographer Sharon Cummings Haiku in post.

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2d

A haiku inspired by Peter Henry Emerson's photo "The Old Order and The New"

https://creativeramblings.com/poetry/old-order-new-peter-henry-emerson/

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poetrywriting #writing #writingcommunity #photography

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5d

Sit a spell at Café des Rêveries (Cafe of Daydreams), where the food and drink will nourish your thoughts as the creative muse visits. Authors & artists have frequented cafes/ restaurants as spaces to think/create.

#Cafe #AYearforArt #Art #Writing #BuyIntoArt #Inspiration #Dining #Creative #reading #coffee #creativearts

https://chrystyne-novack.pixels.com/featured/cafe-des-reveries-chrystyne-novack.html

2017- A photo painting of an outdoor cafe with large umbrellas to offer shade during the day and a string of lights to illuminate the cozy seating area at night. Sit a spell at Café des Rêveries (Cafe of Daydreams), where the food and drink will nourish your thoughts as the creative muse visits. Take a sip of afternoon coffee or enjoy a glass of wine to accompany a late dinner and who knows - mayhap the next literary or artistic masterpiece will be called forth. Many a time in the past authors and artists have frequented cafes or restaurants as places where their creative minds opened to write a novel or paint - Picasso, Hemingway, Pushkin, Kafka, and Rowling are just some of the recognized names that would seek out places to dine and create. I saw this cafe and I instantly thought about those cafe's that inspired the literary world.

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5d

If an encounter with your past will change your future …

Linet is invited to San Francisco by Janet, a good old friend from school. There she runs into Livia, the first woman she fell head over heels in love with. And then fate takes its course …

Do you want to know more about my #sapphic #romance #novel Returning Home to her, my other #stories and my #writing?
Learn All About My #Books on I Heart SapphFic:

https://iheartsapphfic.com/2025/05/12/all-about-returning-home-to-her-by-jutta-swietlinski/

Happy #lesbian & #queer #reading!
✍️ 📖 📚 👭💕 🌈

Books (view from above) with the cover of the novel Returning Home to Her by Jutta Swietlinski and advertising text.
Pictures: Pixabay

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Editing: Start with the Big Picture- "One of the challenges of editing is to step back from your work and look at the big picture. How can you get the whole story condensed so you can remind yourself of what you were trying to achieve?"
https://lttr.ai/AeqMR
#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity

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4d

A haiku inspired by Frank Hurley's photo "Sunset, Boianai"

https://creativeramblings.com/poetry/sunset-boianai-frank-hurley/

#haiku #poetry #poetrywriting #micropoetry #writing #writingcommunity #photography

@poetry @haiku @photography

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4d

A haiku inspired by Brian Bird's photo Luna Park lighted windmill

https://creativeramblings.com/poetry/luna-park-lighted-windmill-brian-bird/

#poetry #haiku #micropoetry #poetrywriting #writing #writingcommunity #photography

@poetry @haiku @photography

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4d

Emma Newman is angry. Justifiably so.

“I’m just a girl, standing in front of the British government, asking why they want to give away all my work as part of the UK's 126 billion pound creative arts industry, to serve another industry being run by greedy tech bros, just so they can destroy everything else just that little bit faster.”

#Books #Writing #AI https://enewman.co.uk/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-mic/

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4d

So proud of my 17 year old son, Dylan.

No only does he write poetry, but is also an LGBT+ spokesperson for his college (and school before that).

If you're on Facebook, could you give his post a like:
https://www.facebook.com/share/15EgnBZQQr/

#Poetry #DylanMillerWriter #Writing #WritingCommunity #TransRights #LGBT #LGBTQ #Pride #TraffordPride #Trafford #Manchester

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