Meredith Wadley – editing a novel – ignoring DMs!

A paperback novel on a laptop. The Lights of Shantinagar by Nidhi Arora has a colorful illustrated cover of bight windows against a star-filled night sky. Figures occupy most of the windows but one, which has a study lamp, beaming light across the cover and centrally placed title.

Hands down, the most charming book I’ve read this year! I highly recommend!!

#TheLightsofShantinagar by #NidhiArora

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I was in Brussels for a great weekend with writers organized by the #EuropeanWritersSalon. Enjoyed Brussels and I might go back with my daughter to explore more. I always enjoy Honfleur! The church is my favorite in France.
(I can never take a vacation from writing it seems 🤣🤣)

Oh, I have no idea about train travel to and beyond Auxerre. Should be easy to Google. Good luck!

Traveling is hard on #5amwritersclub members. 1) How to share hotel rooms with a partner who sleeps in?? 2) Where to find decent coffee at 5am? & 3) Breakfast start as late as 6:30? Or 8:00???!!! That’s crazy!

Still, I’m getting work/editing done + enjoying #Brussels #LeTouquet #Honfleur & #Auxerre

Enjoy this brilliant read! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻(And greetings from #AuxerreFrance!)

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#Submissions open next Monday, 15 September - also when the theme of Issue 9 will be announced.

Hint? You might already be in it. #shortfiction #creativewriting #visualart #sometimeswehowl

Heading up north to #EuropeanWritersSalon in #Brussels! Excited to meet new & #SM friends & to talk nerdy #writer stuff!

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Dear #PrinceAndrew, surely it's time to confess your crimes to the world, your sins to your god, king, and daughters, and NAME NAMES. #epstein #trump #sextraffickers #POTUS #USCongress #believethewomen

Latest #macbookpro #wordupdate & I'm getting #pinwheels. Excessive numbers! Annoying! 🤬🤬🤬

You, too?

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Apple Sued by Authors for Copyright Infringement On Friday, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of illegally using their books to train its AI.

Hell yes. Go after all of them. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Text superimposed over the cover of a manuscript of adult literary fiction: “My September #musing is shaped by the Wonderland of #AI, but not the writing of it.

My September #musing is live!

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Sunrise colors the bellies of clouds, purple, pink, orange, and yellow. The landscape is of a lawn and a large fir tree to the photographer’s left, and to her right, a contemporary Swiss house with a red tile roof. A paved driveway leads the eye straight to a distant village, silhouetted against the sunset and the colorful horizon.

Wishing everyone a bright, colorful day! #5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

I’m happily #editing my #campusnovel, #suspensenovel, my #poet #protag undermining the patriarchy!

Thanks! She’s passed on your hug! Best wishes back at you!

A bright yellow garden gnome flips the finger. He smirks, too.

Editing my #novelinprogress & not here much but thinking of you & hoping your #writingprojects are progressing well.

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Here's to self-doubt:

From a mowed, grassy ledge, the view of water cascading through rocks and brush where two mountain slopes come together.

Looking southwest and from 500 meters up from the valley floor, Obergoms, lushly green, and forested mountain slopes. The sky is partly overcast. In the foreground, a trail cuts through turf, and a sign is posted with directions.

Looking up toward the Furka Pass from a rough, two-track road flanking a mountain slope. Just visible is a mountain bike handlebar. Just up the path is a pole with trail mustard yellow signs.

This morning , #editing on my 2nd draft & a bike ride in the afternoon.

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#obergoms #switzerland

Curious about the use of “settlement” here instead of shakedown or bribe.

😱😱😱

New personal musing up. Enjoy !#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky

Tumbling and Plunging into Senior Citizenry Now that I'm a senior citizen, challenges are becoming far riskier than I ever suspected to reckon on. In July, a few mishaps on bike and in a kayak refreshed my respect for aging.

It's time for my monthly musing, an indoor activity that takes you outdoors this month and covers some perils of Golden Years fitness ambitions. Enjoy! My last musing hit a record number of readers. So, thank you everyone for spending time with me!

So, I read, “mini stabbing spree,” and corrected myself: “mini snubbing spree.” Kinda where my head’s at, I guess. 🤣🤣🤣

Still a handful of tickets left. Come share/learn/shop/tour/dine/hang with us!

Oh, yes, grateful to be working on a new chapter of my #WIP in the best company & with wine & fries. Chatter was minimal, of course. 🤣🤣🤣

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A screenshot of an Instagram post for a Substack post. Superimposed on a photo of a sieve filled with tiny ted and white strawberries is the title, “A Full Empty Nest”and a lede, “For three weeks, our lives brimmed with young people. My early morning house, I shared. And our gorgeous country, Switzerland, as well as our place in the Alps, we shared. I don't mention it in this piece, but we shared a bout of flu, too—all during a heatwave.” Included is a link to the Substack post: https://meredithwadley.substack.com/p/a-full-empty-nest (1) A Full Empty Nest - Meredith Wadley

New musing up on my Substack page! Enjoy!

meredithwadley.substack.com/p/a-full-emp...

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June was a month of heatwaves, family visits, a chance to tour Switzerland for these two empty nesters.

Our July issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-7/

Words
@mczyzniejewski.bsky.social
@kimchinquee.bsky.social
RENESHA DHANRAJ
WYLEY FROHLICH JUNGERMAN
TROY ANDERSON
@danbillyc.bsky.social
@theresegleason
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social
BRITTANY REDD
TARA SHEA BURKE

Art
JACELYN YAP

Hey folks. I’m a reader for this crazy awesome litmag @lit-namjooning.bsky.social and we’re waiting for your quiet, meditative pieces. 2 days left!! 🩷🩷🩷

the amount of people who still don’t understand this utterly foundational fact is staggering

A closed MacBook Pro covered with left-leaning stickers—Ruth Ginsburg, Literaturhaus Zürich, I VOTED, Powell’s Bookstore, and a colorful dia de los muertos skull—sits on a walnut wood desk facing a window overlooking an out-of-focus garden. Between the laptop and window is a stack of books: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine, The Boat Not Taken by Joanna Choi Kalbus, The Lights of Shantinagar by Nidhi Arora, and Ran’s Daughters by Kaitlin Felix.

Family visits end soon 😭😭😭 & my #reading & #writing rhythms return 😎😎😎
I’ve been staying up late and spending my mornings watering the garden. #heatwave

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I read “confetti “ and thought, “That’s true!” 🤣🤣