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Writer, ex-journalist, freelance editor. Querying #HistoricalFiction; short stories at daveswanauthor.wordpress.com/. This feed shames fascists. #GoBlue https://linktr.ee/davidsswan.

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Vintage blue typewriter and Billy Wilder quote: “If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.”

Vintage blue typewriter and Billy Wilder quote: “If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.”

If the floor isn’t level, the foundation isn’t solid. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

07.10.2025 13:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

06.10.2025 23:43 — 👍 5830    🔁 2043    💬 161    📌 67
A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli
, 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto
, 1d ago) to @drmistercody
 states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli , 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto , 1d ago) to @drmistercody states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

History has many painful lessons.

02.10.2025 21:00 — 👍 16894    🔁 5635    💬 861    📌 330
Vintage blue typewriter and Judy Blume quote: “Nothing teaches you as much about writing as listening to it.”

Vintage blue typewriter and Judy Blume quote: “Nothing teaches you as much about writing as listening to it.”

Listen to everyone around you - friends, colleagues, folks on the train or in the bar. That’s not snooping or plagiarism. You’re building your book’s LLM. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

30.09.2025 13:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Someone's dead. Hold the emojis. You might’ve heard this famous show-business saying: “Dying is easy.

Would you want to find out by text that a loved one has just died? Me neither. Read more in my new post. open.substack.com/pub/daveswan...

29.09.2025 19:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Multiple victims in Michigan church shooting; church on fire, police say | CNN Multiple victims have been injured in a shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on Sunday, according to police.

Almost ten years ago, someone I knew was killed in a shooting in another Michigan town, my hometown. Whatever the politics of this horror may be, remember that people are hurting, traumatized, and scared. My thoughts go out to the congregation and everyone in #GrandBlanc. www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

28.09.2025 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With a QB who couldn't outrun a parked car.

28.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
National Weather Service graphic of possible storm track towards southeastern Atlantic coast.

National Weather Service graphic of possible storm track towards southeastern Atlantic coast.

Early and lots of unknowns but please keep watch and stay safe.

27.09.2025 02:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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VOA Silenced at the UN
For decades, VOA reported U.S. presidents’ speeches at the UNGA in 49 languages. This year, most of us were silenced by a looming RIF—leaving adversaries to tell America’s story. #SaveVOA #PressFreedom #short VOA Silenced at the UN

For decades, VOA reported U.S. presidents’ speeches at the UNGA in 49 languages. This year, most of us were silenced by a looming RIF—leaving adversaries to tell America’s story. #SaveVOA #PressFreedom

25.09.2025 13:40 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Lately I'm getting tons of spam from accounts spoofing real authors, even Oprah's book club!

24.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
New Yorker magazine cover showing remote labeled Power with buttons to stop, banish, muzzle etc.

New Yorker magazine cover showing remote labeled Power with buttons to stop, banish, muzzle etc.

Once again @newyorker.com strikes with pinpoint accuracy. #stoptrump

23.09.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Vintage blue typewriter and Walker Percy quote: “I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.”

Vintage blue typewriter and Walker Percy quote: “I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.”

If you’re bored, your readers are too. Sex won’t cure a bad situation in real life or on the page. #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

23.09.2025 12:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So You Still Don't Want to Die a Horrible Death from Covid Dear___,

We have a new vaccine that'll help you survive the next surge. Answer these questions first! #CovidVaccines #RfkJr daveswan.substack.com/p/so-you-sti...

22.09.2025 14:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I had a serious flashback to Colorado Hail Mary '94.

21.09.2025 01:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

18.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 48298    🔁 15354    💬 1302    📌 637
Vintage blue typewriter and Zadie Smith quote: “Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.”

Vintage blue typewriter and Zadie Smith quote: “Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.”

Dogs and cats are excepted unless they get too pushy. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

16.09.2025 13:04 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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On Proofing (And Not Over-Proofing) By Cindy Sams Not long ago — just last month, in fact — I sent a piece to a well-respected Southern lit mag with the line “drunk as fiddler’s bitches” in the story. After acceptance, the editor mar…

Great advice on proofreading AND Southernisms. I especially like "Don't fry fatback in a hurry." #writingcommunity #writingtips brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/o...

15.09.2025 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

14.09.2025 12:55 — 👍 20283    🔁 6979    💬 726    📌 340
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Slogging thru red tape to stay alive Four years and seven months after my first Covid shot, I've gotten another one.

Getting a Covid shot should be easy, especially if you're at high risk like me. It's not. Read about it in my new Substack post. #Covid19 #RFKJr #vaccine open.substack.com/pub/daveswan...

12.09.2025 20:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
They Lost Loved Ones In 9/11. We Invited Them To Leave A Voicemail In Their Memory | NPR
YouTube video by NPR They Lost Loved Ones In 9/11. We Invited Them To Leave A Voicemail In Their Memory | NPR

They lost loved ones in 9/11. We invited them to leave a voicemail in their memory.

11.09.2025 12:54 — 👍 912    🔁 254    💬 20    📌 19
Vintage blue typewriter and David Milch quote: “Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you’re not writing.”

Vintage blue typewriter and David Milch quote: “Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you’re not writing.”

Your last book is never as amazing as you might think once it’s done. Your next one is nowhere near as hopeless as it seems when you wake up at 4.a.m., panicked and sweating. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

09.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

06.09.2025 17:16 — 👍 17122    🔁 4965    💬 264    📌 204
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Reduced Screening May Have Led to Rise in Advanced Prostate Cancer Diagnoses

Important news for men, especially if you're 70 or older. #prostatecancer #Biden www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

02.09.2025 17:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My mother saved the newspapers from this day, 80 years ago now. It's hard to overstate what it meant to, as the AP put it, "...a ravaged world now done with war." #VJDay80

02.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Opinion | Here’s the truth about Trump’s ‘none of our business’ doctrine As foreign leaders are finding, Trump’s noninterference foreign policy is purely situational.

“The United States, long the world’s foremost champion of freedom, is moving from promoting democracy abroad to undermining it.” Read @maxboot.bsky.social’s opinion on @washingtonpost.com

02.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Vintage blue typewriter and Susan Sontag quote: “One can never be alone enough to write.”

Vintage blue typewriter and Susan Sontag quote: “One can never be alone enough to write.”

How to be alone today? Put your phone (far) away. No email, no browser. Do your best to push your human acquaintances out of sight and mind. Settle in with the ones you’ve invented. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife

02.09.2025 14:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Kari Lake lays off more than 500 staff at Voice of America parent agency Amid a contentious court battle, the Trump administration official sent long-awaited termination notices to staffers who have been waiting on administrative leave for months.

“VOA journalists Patsy Widakuswara and Jessica Jerreat, and Kate Neeper, a director at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, called Lake’s firings ‘abhorrent.’” Read @scottnover.bsky.social report on @washingtonpost.com 👇

30.08.2025 16:31 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Molly Ivins and quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then warps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

Molly Ivins and quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then warps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

More true than ever. #resistfascism #stoptrump

26.08.2025 19:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hi Sapie, thank you for the follow! It's always great to connect with an author. I'd love to hear more about your writing journey what genre do you write in, and what project are you most excited about right now?

Hi Sapie, thank you for the follow! It's always great to connect with an author. I'd love to hear more about your writing journey what genre do you write in, and what project are you most excited about right now?

#WritingCommunity From someone who 's trying to sell me her writing and editing services. I am not now and have never, anywhere, been "Sapie," which Google says is a meat-based Chinese sauce.

26.08.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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