#WIPSnips The word is 'carrier.' In Stormbreak, Mac and Jarhead are carrying water to the wildfires. This is their third trip of the day. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #AmWriting
STEPHAN MICHAEL LOY
@stephanloy.bsky.social
Artist of paintings and photos, writer of novels and short stories, enjoyer of retirement, and eater of donuts. Visit my website: smloy.net
Just 3 1/2 more hours until my Writers' Critique Group meeting.
I went to the doctor. I found out what makes the car rattle (the aero wheel covers). I trimmed the trumpet vine away from the solar panels. So. I don't want to do anything else today. Except I have to do stuff.
The Waltons: Good Night, John Boy!
Alt: The house from The Waltons (also, the Dragonfly Inn from Gilmore Girls) with the caption "Good Night, John Boy!"
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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com · yesterdayomggg there are so many cool writer people here posting so many cool things in response to the writing prompts and I just want to pause time so I can read them all.
For those who need to hear it, and even those who don't: You don't have to reason out a point to making art. You make art to MAKE a point.
The only thing better than sitting out in the garage in an office chair and watching the rain is sitting out on a covered porch in a rocking chair and watching the rain. I wish I had the covered porch though I'm not complaining about the garage.
Every morning when I get up, I say hello to each of the cats, ask them how their night went, and tell them they're pretty. Oh, and I feed them. Yes, I feed them.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #AmWriting I just sent this out embedded in the newsletter for my writing critique group, so I thought I'd wrap it up and send it out to you, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMl7...
Why are Movie MacGuffin's Called That and Who Came Up With Them?
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#SWSale2026 #Books #BookSky Only two more days left in the Smashwords Summer-Winter Sale. ALL of these ebook novels (by me) are on sale there from 25% off to 50% off, plus six more titles, some of them FREE! What are you waiting for? www.smloy.net/smashwords-s...
Here's the really difficult question for my writer friends: What's the difference between 'lay' and 'lie,' and why don't you know it? #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmWriting
My first year checkup after being diagnosed as seizure prone: "Good work, Steve. Keep it up. It'll most likely kill you in the morning." In the meantime, let's go one more year. Who knows, maybe I'm just a walking base-state seizure. I was always different.
Dear TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube producers, If you're employing the giant captions so that only 3 or 4 words at a time can fit on the screen, or even the smaller ones that track right across the middle of the video, I'm giving you just as long as it takes to find the Exit button.
The Big Indianapolis Storm, which was really the ragged dregs of the Chicago storm, is over. Not complaining, but it was a miracle we got any rain at all. It did scare the cats, tho.
Folks, we're in the last days of the Smashwords Summer-Winter Sale. Thousands of ebooks at deep discounts. Stuff those phones, Kindles, and other tablets full. If you want, you can try some or all of mine right here. www.smloy.net/smashwords-s... #SWSale2026
Smashwords Summer-Winter Sale — Stephan Michael Loy
ALL my novels are 50% off or FREE to you through July only!
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Dear TikTokkers and Instagrammers who make captioned video. Some of us don't read that fast. Leave the print up longer.
I went to my writing critique group's retreat a few weeks ago, a weekend thing. I wrote a little over 8000 words in two days. During that same time, my wife (back at home) read 6 books. I'm just not working fast enough.
I just got home from phase one of getting a crown. On a tooth, not on my head.
I've also a story in THE BOOK OF NEEDS, which is on sale at the Smashwords Summer-Winter Sale. 75% off, $.99, till July 31. www.smashwords.com/books/view/2.... It's satire. Patterned after the 1960s Batman TV show, Statman tries to save democracy from the evil Orange Julius Caesar. #BookSky
I've two stories in DARK TALES FROM THE MID-WORLD, which is on sale at the Smashwords Summer-Winter Sale. 75% off, $.99, till July 31. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1.... One has a Japanese vengeance spirit terrorizing a B-29 bomber crew in WWII. The other is a Dark Shadows parody. #BookSky
I've come to see movies first from the library. Because every movie people have raved about over the last several years has been, to me, pretty bland vanilla. Dune, Superman, The Martian, Project Hail Mary. Now I'm suspicious of The Odyssey. Crowd sourcing just ain't working out.
Got caught up with a fellow retired couple. Talked long about theirs and our grown-ass kids screwing up the simplest life matters while refusing to ask their parents how this wheel thing is made. The cycle, or scratch-skip*, of life... *That's a record player reference. Don't worry about it.
This morning I went to Meijer and bought $100 worth of groceries. Then I went to Aldi and bought three times as much for $65. Imagine if I'd gone to Trader Joe's.
The grocery shopping is done for the week! Now to get into some more of that writing thing.
A LIGHT IN THE BLACK, my 15th novel, is on sale at the Smashwords Summer-Winter Sale. 25% off, $2.99, till July 31. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1.... Military Scifi/fantasy. Homage to The Empire Strikes Back. Religious fascism. An inter-dimensional invasion. Great chow! #BookSky
1800 words today. That seems like an honest day's work.