The algorithms on here are getting me wrong. My feed is full of random stuff in the wrong language. I want to see more content on science and the arts, esp. writing.
#authors #artists Are you a creator or a poacher? fionamjones.wordpress.com/2026/10/30/t...
The Roofer and the Poachers
Last week I was driving along I road I hadn’t been along for a while, and I passed a HUGE construction site in an early stage of its progress. Now, I’m the sort of person who grieves ev…
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What's happening on TwitteX? Someone called Stephanie Hygge has stolen my TwitteX account, putting all of my posts in her name and deleting my identity. Has this happened to anyone else?
New anthology out this week: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HKGWWGP... #fiction #books
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The Villanova study supposedly proved that AI content is indistinguishable from human writing. I'm saying it did nothing of the sort. litmagnews.substack.com/p/lets-study...
Let’s Study That Study: A Review of Six Stories Used to Compare Human and AI Authorship
“...proof that chatbots write better fiction than humans.”
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A long, long time ago, before children got iPads as a substitute for family relationships... fionamjones.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/a...
A Quarter of a Century Ago
Back in the summer of 2001, I began doing strange things. I started eating huge amounts of food–healthy food, high in protein, and plenty of greens. I couldn’t stand chocolate or citrus…
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When people ask me to write recipes... fionamjones.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/y...
You Have to Sense the Difference between Sloppy, Smoothish, Squashy and Smudgy
I am “good at writing”. That means I can communicate on paper, using words to build ideas both literal and imaginative. It means I choose good words for the task in hand, marshalling bo…
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I've just finished watching tonight's World Cup game: fionamjones.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/t...
Two-Nil to Egypt
Back in my second or third year of teaching, there was a seven-year-old boy who always wanted to write about football. Any time I allowed “free story-writing”, he gave me a page of larg…
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Why do home-grown potatoes taste so different from the potatoes you buy? foodgardening.mequoda.com/articles/the...
The Surprise Potato
He opened his chubby fist and showed me what he had found: a tiny, grubby potato no bigger than a cherry. I smiled and told him what it was, promising …
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If you read one book this year, make it "Not Now, Bernard" by David McKee. fionamjones.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/n...
Not Now
This is a book review. There’s an important book I believe everyone in the 21st century needs to read. It’s only 155 words long, hardly TL:DR; and it’s easy to find. You have no e…
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I was going to say here's an example of my story-writing, but the more startling aspect is what an AI sound like reading a Scottish story. 100wordfiction.com/story.php?sl...
First Bridge on the Forth [Scottish rail bridge, built 1890, 73 deaths] — Fiona M Jones · 100 Word Fiction
“Eh, naw, lad.” Queensferry Mack spat into the water. “Ye’ll no be gettin a brig ayean they waters. There’s seventy men’ll die afore ever ye span the Forth.” The engineer laughed. “We’re pretty good a...
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I will always remember a book that doesn't make sense to me. burialbooks.com/how-do-you-k...
How Do You Know When There's a Dead Body in the Room
How do you know when there is a dead body in the room? Check out Fiona Jones article on our Burial Books blog to find out!
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I have often been Elsewhere. This time, it's along the A82, watching the forces of nature rewriting the landscape. www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...
A82 — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
By Fiona M Jones The snowgates open in spring, giving access across the Highlands towards Fort William.
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What to do with your worst nightmares: write them into a story. burialbooks.com/horrible-dre...
Horrible Dreams
Horrible Dreams is a new article by Fiona Jones on Burial Books website. Check out the article and get some insight into an author's head!
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Food Gardening Network have taken quite a few of my family gardening stories. Here's the latest to come up: foodgardening.mequoda.com/articles/the...
The Carrot Waltz
It has always been a mystery to me: how do farmers manage to grow carrots that are perfectly straight, single-rooted, and almost uniform in shape and size, when carrots, given …
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This summer/autumn I have picked 108kg of blackberries just in and around my town. www.choeofpleirnpress.com/harvest-harm...
Choeofpleirn Press - Harvest Harmony
Because we want to promote a national consumption of literature, we are creating a new kind of poetry-meme through our online zines. Contestants should send us their previously unpublished 12-line po...
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A long, long time ago, back in the 1900s, when kids had wax crayons instead of tablets, and colouring-in was a thing.
Five Minutes@fiveminutelit.bsky.social · last yr."Earliest Memory" by @FiiJ20.bsky.social, who writes short, dark-themed fiction and nature-themed nonfiction. More micros at fiveminutelit.com
Hi Blueys, can I have a few shares on this please? It's only my personal blog, but if you agree with me, please give it a push; and if you don't agree, well by all means take your courage in both hands and argue in favour of electronic devices. fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/j...
The Story of the Unreliable Narrator and the Ghost Car: fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/u...
The Unreliable Narrator and the Ghost Car
I am an Unreliable Narrator. If you’ve ever read or written stories, you’ll have met the Unreliable Narrator technique, wherein the author knows what’s happening and the character…
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I have a paragraph here today: www.paragraphplanet.com
Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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Merry 32nd March, everyone! fionamjones.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/m...
March 32nd
Unfortunately I’m not teaching today, so I won’t get to April-fool the young and not-quite-innocent. I’m at home on my sofa, or thereabouts, nursing a broken collarbone—a seatbelt injury from a car…
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