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September's reading report is up. It's a short one but punchy. What is everyone reading right now? #writingcommunity #writingabtwriting #booksky #reading
Reading Report - September 2026
Finding balance, finding voice, finding community.
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George Saunders, articulating with verve, emotion and grace about how using AI to write our stories evades our very humanness, in all our human faults, fancies and flights. #AI #writing #stories #fiction Model Behavior: George Saunders on.substack.com/p/model-beha...
Model Behavior: George Saunders
“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”
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This year, so far, it was A World Appears by Michael Pollan that has made the greatest intellectual impact. It has pushed my boudaries on what it means to be conscious. #writingcommunity #booksky #bookcommunity #philosophybooks
Writing About Writing About Writing@writingabtwriting.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat is the book that found you when you needed it most? #writingcommunity #booksky
Here to promote Mur Lafferty's "Lonesome October Club". Write a chapter of a novel each day in October, just like Zelazny did in "A Night in the Lonesome October". Maybe. To sign up, go to Mur's Patreon page (you don't have to be a patron of hers to participate): www.patreon.com/mightymur/po...
Practice connecting disparate things with a fun writing prompt in this week's #writingabtwriting. #writingcommunity #writingprompt #write #booksky #author
Creativity is Connecting Things
Your ability to mash disparate experiences and knowledge together and make connections between them is what makes you uniquely creative.
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Are extremely kind characters too vanilla for you? Author Vaughn Roycroft explores virtuousness in potentially more complex characters, today at WU.
The Virtuous Character
Remember when there was a great deal of talk in writerly circles about crafting morally gray characters? Seems like I hear less of it these days. Makes me wonder if it’s due to the fact that we’re …
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Considering #Novelvember? These books will help you build a routine you can actually live with. #Writingcommunity #write #journal #nanowrimo
Books for Building a Writing Routine (that works for you)
It all sounds so simple, just write every day, how hard could it be? (cue laughter).
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Last Day!! If you've been thinking about getting Halloween Hearts, today is the last day to get it! Twelve spooky-sweet stories of Halloween delight and romance. #halloween #romance #romantasy #booksky 🌶️📚 🏰📚
Halloween Hearts: An Anthology of True Love & Spooky Romance
Twelve tales of cursed love, monstrous meet-cutes, dark and stormy witchcraft, and happily ever hauntings to warm your Spooky Season.
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What is a sentence you love just for the sound of it? Let's make some fabulous music with words.... More on LeGuin's work here: www.writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com/steering-the... #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #write #author
"This is a story built to end with a satisfying sense of comfort." Read the editor's notes on my story "Pumpkin Guts" and then hop over to the Halloween Hearts Kickstarter. Just two days left!! #writingcommunity #romantasy #halloween #romance #booksky
Pumpkin Guts – The Typosphere
The Typosphere
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How is writing like building a cathedral? Letting things be unfinished for now is essential to finishing... More in today's #writingabtwriting tool. #writingcommunity #booksky #writing
Learn to Sit with Uncertainty
Some thoughts on an article about the La Sagrada Familia cathedral and a meditation on sitting with uncertainty and incompleteness in your writing.
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There are just four more days on this spooky-sweet kickstarter with a story by me and eleven other fantastic authors! Don't miss it... 🏰💙📚 #writingcommunity #romantasy #halloween 🎃
Ron Collins@roncollins.bsky.social · 4w agoHe’s an Incubus. She’s a Succubus. They get along. Maybe? Read the editors’ thoughts about “We Only Live at Midnight” - a new short story from USA Today Bestselling Author @bobscribe.bsky.social in HALLOWEEN HEARTS. Available on @kickstarter.com now! www.typosphere.com/2026/09/16/w...
Further to the AI agent spam I just received, here's @404media.co on the problem: www.404media.co/ai-agent-pla...
AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
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Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 4w agoNope.
See immediate improvement in your manuscript by searching for, and eliminating, these weasely words... #writingabtwriting #author #writingcommunity
Confront Weasel Words
Weasel words sap your sentences of conviction and once you start to notice them, you will see them everywhere.
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"The most powerful thing you can do is imagine how things could be different... What if?" More about Charlie Jane Anders' Never Say You Can't Survive: www.writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com/never-say-yo... #writesky #writingcommunity #journal #booksky #writing
Hey writer! Yes, you! You need a PR folder. If not today then someday soon. Here's what to put in it... #writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #author #writing
You need a PR folder
Yes, even if you are not published yet. The need for your materials will sneak up on you.
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And another story out this month! "Twelve Silver Candlesticks" is part of Person, Place, Thing! I also wrote the introduction for this anthology of stories drawn from a hat using random prompts.
Missing that back-to-school feeling? Brush up on your grammar (and have fun this time) with these books for a grammar workout. #writingabtwriting #booksky #writingcommunity
Books for a Grammar Workout
Build your writing muscle with these books on grammar, punctuation, and rhetoric.
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Life can definitely get in the way of our writing routine. Author Rachel Toalson provides useful advice and tips to steer us through unforeseen challenges, today at WU.
When Life Gets in the Way: Creating Even When the Curveballs Come
My summer began with rushing one of my sons to the emergency room for a very large kidney stone that required an overnight hospital stay, a stent, and a later surgery to dissolve the stone. It was …
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🚨🚨There are no writing police.🚨🚨 Write your queer tween vampire-cowboy romance if you want to! This reminder brought to you by Rachel Aaron's 2K to 10K. Read the review here: www.writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com/2k-to-10k-ra...
Your writing matters, even (especially!) if it's silly or sad or weird or angry or funny or fierce or wild or... whatever you are feeling. Join us at www.writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com #writingabtwriting #booksky #authorsky #writingcommunity
If you are taking classes, or writing nonfiction, take a look at today's #writingabtwriting review of How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens. It has a lot to say about learning notettaking from readings. #writingcommunity #writing 💙📚
How to Take Smart Notes - Sönke Ahrens
If you are doing any kind of reasearch How to Take Smart Notes is worth a read to see if these ideas work for you
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Check out Robert Jeschonek's story "We Only Live at Midnight" in the new HALLOWEEN HEARTS kickstarter! The kickstarter has officially launched, and you don't want to miss your chance at this book filled with spooky but sweet stories. Get it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ron... #kickstarter
I follow a lot of authors on Bluesky and I assure you fountain pens is a genre.
