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Chatelaine (Ornamental Chain) with the Figure of Judith with the Head of Holofernes | The Walters Art Museum Online Collection

Another stop on my upcoming vacation museum tour will be the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. I've wanted to go there for a long time. art.thewalters.org/object/57.876/ #HistoricalRomance #AmWritingRomance

Explore Welcome To The Banneker - Douglass - Tubman Museum Annapolis, MD in 3D Matterport 3D Showcase.

Another thing I'm planning for my vacation is a long overdue return visit to the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman museum. They have an amazing virtual tour online my.matterport.com/show/?m=TXcF..., but there's nothing like going in person. #HistoricalWriters #AmWriting

Really looking forward to visiting the Maryland Center for History & Culture on my vacation. The costume collection is small compared to some museums, but it has some amazing items like this coat. www.mdhistory.org/resources/co...

If AIs are profiling our search history, I hope someone somewhere realizes that writers search for some pretty weird stuff. I was just looking at my search history last night, and it paints quite a picture.

Finally scheduled my first full week of vacation in nearly 9 months. I need R&R and drafting time, but there's gotta be time for museum and bookstore visits, too.

I needed to hear this today.

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

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A picture of me with purple braids, wearing a mauve colored blouse with the text: Hello! My name is Seressia Glass

A photo of me on the left with a graphic that states: 5 facts about me. I love purple. I have two fur kids. I like to belly dance. I watch Asian dramas. I also watch anime.

A photo of me writing with the text What I write...Sexy contemporaries. Snappy dialogue and sassy heroines. Paranormal romance with Egyptian mythology, Multiple POV's with fun characters.

Text: and here are some of my books... with cover graphics for The Love Con, Shadow Blight, and No Commitment Required. Final text: Available at: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple and more.

Hi! Here's a little bit about who I am and what I write!

I've watched so much drone footage of the settings where this contemporary romance series occurs that I've nearly talked myself into buying a drone. It looks so fun! #amwritingromance #writingcommunity #amwriting

Because writing is a tough journey, it's easy for writers to build up one book or one opportunity as your Big Break. Your One Shot. The truth is, there is no one big break. There are always more opportunities.
#writingcommunity #amwriting #MondayMotivation

My sister had hers last week. I recognized that bottle immediately! She was totally done in under 3 hours and felt well enough for a huge breakfast right afterward. Best of luck tomorrow!

Some days it's like the words are coming out through an eyedropper, but I'm determined to hit page count tonight. Found some drone videos of the coastal area where the story takes place, so hopefully that'll keep me going. #amwriting #contemporaryromance #amwritingromance

Sent the short-short on its way, finally. Most of the time after I've sent in a submission I have the keep-checking-email, what's-going-to-happen thing going on, but I've got so much draft to get out on other projects that I may not have the cycles for fretting. #writingcommunity

Just looking at the sales numbers for the non-fiction books whose covers I recently designed for some friends, I get the impression that certain colors sell better. The book I thought had the least interesting content is outselling the rest by a mile because I gave it the prettiest color. 🙄😄

Woman's jacket, English about 1610–15, with later alterations. Linen plain weave, embroidered with metallic threads and spangles; metallic bobbin lace. MFA Boston.

Just finishing up a super-short I wrote on a dare. My usual ratio is 10x words of draft to usable copy, which I think is kinda high, and I'm trying a new method that may be more efficient. But although the quality on this short piece is decent, I don't know how that'd hold up across 100K.

For the first time in my adult life, we have a holiday tree and a wreath up before December 1st. For the last few years, we didn't decorate at all, so this is quite a change for us. 🎄

Embroidered cream coloured silk with coloured silk & metal threads, England, 1740-45. Originally a court mantua, the ensemble was altered for fancy dress in the late C19th. Full description & images via V&A here collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O71800/... #fashionhistory #dresshistory #1740s

Watching the Season 5 finale of Unforgotten, and this show is so grim that I'm gonna need a palate cleanser, something funny like Agatha Raisin or maybe even Hallmark. It's well done, no question, but really dark.

My draft-writing momentum is such a fragile thing that I try not to stop to research. I add a to-do if I run across something minor I'm not sure of, but I don't actually look it up (and fix the text, if needed) until my next pass.

If it's a HUGE question, I'll stop to research, but I time-box it.

Such a cool gift idea, and I love the packaging. Thanks for the inspiration!

Oh, yeah! It's so much more configurable and flexible than the notebooks I used to use, and that extends even to paper type. Mine always have a few sheets of grid paper at the back for when I'm trying to diagram a building's floor plan or sketch an exterior map.

I use Scrivener for this kind of thing already, but I think having something physical would have a similar effect to what I find happens with a TUL disc notebook and a fountain pen.

I'm considering creating something that's kind of a cross between those scrapbooks, a commonplace book, and a novel-planning or world building workbook. I could run off a copy for myself at any of half a dozen POD shops for a reasonable price, I'm sure.

My maternal grandmother was into scrapbooking before it ever was a thing, and the ones she kept for her senior citizens group were beautiful but also surreal in a "Does she know how odd this is?" kind of way. I wish we'd made photos of the pages before we donated them to her group.

The plans have arrived for my new house... #writing

Really cool list, with a few writing books I (surprisingly) don't have. I didn't know Elizabeth George wrote a book on writing! #writing

Instrumentals are my tried-and-true writing music, but I was already listening to Faouzia's Stripped EP when I started writing tonight...and now I'm wondering why the hell I haven't done this before.

Thanks, Universe.

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At the hair salon waiting for color processing and wondering what these edits via Canva for Android are going to look like on a real monitor. I fear the worst. 🙄🤣