Jacci Gooding

So many to choose from! Zoom meet-ups I mean! This morning I’ll be hitching up with the @societyofauthors.bsky.social #Oxford branch for a two hour writing session. I can feel the focus and support already!
Here’s to the next 1000 words.. #writingcommunity #authors #writers

Beautiful day in #hampshire yesterday, and this fantastic #autumn display fed the imagination. Look at those colours!
Back at the desk now, tippity-tapping away. Half way through! Yeah!
How are you getting on? Drop me a note in the comments 👍🏻⭐️ #writers #writing #writingcommunity #words #novel

Just an average day in the #library Why work on my novel when I can chat with Whateverhisnameis ?! #writingcommunity #authors

Received my copy of #brokenground from @uncertainstories.com recently and it’s packed with great writing. I love this full story on a postcard. It really is brilliant - perfect 1 minute read for this time of year with a creepy supernatural edge! Dim the lights, sit back & draw back the veil…

Coming soon - episode 1 of The Tortured Writers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts on 8th November 2025! Tag a friend and follow us to win a pre-order of @willrdean new book #Adrift out February 2026. #TheTorturedWritersPodcast #writers #writingpodcast #WritingCommun

Just finished this! What a twisty turny ghostly adventure!

Just finished reading this! What a journey- twisty, turny, unexpected!!

Three weeks to go!

Hi there - a little late to the party - it's beens so busy! But a huge Thank You to everyone who came to the festival, worked the festival, volunteered at the festival It was an absolute blast! @gwynethbox.bsky.social @pageturning.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social @karenstoreyauthor.bsky.social

Hahahaha! Thought I’d send myself a few emails just for lols. Got to have that PMA haven’t we, #authors & #writers!

Come with me, #authors, as we start our writing week. So many words to capture! Don’t let them get away! #writers #books #research

Square photo. Vignette style - i.e. the corners are darkened so it fades at the edges. The photo shows the head and shoulders of a white cat asleep on top of a piece of dark wood furniture. His head is raised, resting against the wooden edge of the shelf. Under his head is something thin and white, perhaps a tile or notepad. The wall behind is white or cream. The only real colour in the image are the cat's pink nose and the pink of his ears. The whole picture is grainy and slightly yellowish, giving it the appearance of an old-fashioned photo.

I'm not sure which came first, the artistic or the literary vignette, but here we have a photographic vignette of Watson, the writer’s cat, asleep on top of the antique writing desk I inherited from my mother.

#writingcommunity #caturday

Just started this and loving it. Perfect for thenightsaredrawingin reading!

Fiction. I like to think literary fiction… ! hahahaha 🤪 but hey - never say never, right?!

Good for you! I know that feeling!

Really well! Two hours every morning at my local library. Cracking on 70k words already!

Henshaw Press (@presshenshaw.bsky.social) Four days to go! We're counting down to the last day of our current competition... Get those stories in! #writing #Booksky #Writesky

Submissions to the current @presshenshaw.bsky.social quarterly #shortstory competition close in four days!

So true!

Yep - I'm all over this one! Actually am. Time to get writing! #writers #writingcommunity #authors #shortstories #shortstory Thank you @thefictiondesk.com No excuses!

Just spent a lovely hour+ with amazing and inspiring author @sophiehannah.bsky.social & #poet Nic Arbury @ #LeamingtonSpa #library courtesy of Warks Libraries talking all things Lambert (if you know, you know!) and hearing some of Nic’s stupendous poetry. #author #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Deadline 31st August fellow #writers Plenty of time.
(heard that before)
#writingcommunity @shortstorycomps.bsky.social

Love it! Oh the things we could but mustn’t write… that list surely is endless!

Oh! One of my #favourite things! My little ol’ rucksack stuffed with my trusty laptop on our way to a quiet #writing spot somewhere. Will I get to the end of the chapter? Will it all make sense? Twitching to start #editing but NO! I must wait until the end.How’s your writing going #writingcommunity?

Hi Readers! We’ve been away doing Stuff, most recently the @writingwestmids.bsky.social conference which of course was excellent. Here’s a snap of what you missed! @leenanorms.bsky.social @riotcommons.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social #authors #writingcommunity #books 📚📝

Some interesting #books here methinks! Not all mine I hasten to add. Quite alarming really, seeing your #reading material on display like this!
Who has what on their shelves? (you should see the other shelf not in this picture!)🤣

#writers #reading #books #libraries #writingcommunity #writing

A great @societyofauthors.bsky.social event last night organised by #author @franhill123.bsky.social talking local #literary festivals Reading from my notes it’s good to see how far @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social has come so quickly The team must be doing something right! @gwynethbox.bsky.social

Hello There #writers ICYMI only 3 days left to our #deadline #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction and #flash A big #thankyou to everyone who has entered so far - we're loving your work! Special thanks to the CNF #authors many of whom have shared some beautiful stories with us 🧡✍️📖 #writingcommunity

Something Out of a Horror Movie ~ by Mario Aliberto III In the horror movie she calls a life, The Bad Girl gets cast as a camp counselor because she’s hot, she knows she’s hot, and every horror movie needs an antagonist to the virginal Final Girl, at le…

This flash fiction piece by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social plays with the Final Girl trope in a really compelling and new way:

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#FlashFiction #FlashLit #Writing #Writer #WritingCommunity

The image is an advert with South Warwickshire Literary Festival logo at top left. The advert uses blocks of the same brand colours (bright yellow, pink, dark blue) to highlight texts. There is a QR code at the bottom right of the image. The hashtag #SWLitFest is on a small banner at the top right. The texts give information about the Creative Writing Competition 2025. Closing date March 28th. Entry fee £3.90. Categories: Fiction (max. 800 words. Judge Gabrielle Mullarkey); Flash fiction (max 200 words, judge Michael Loveday); Creative non-fiction (life writing, travel, memoir etc., max 800 words, judge Simon Whaley); Poetry (max 40 lines, judge Gwyneth Box). Full details and submission rules: https://www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com Two prizes in each category: £75 first prize, £25 commended.

Just under a week left to enter the @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social writing competition.
I'm looking forward to reading all the #poetry entries :-)
Fiction, CNF & Flash categories, too.
Full details & guidelines on the #SWLitFest website: www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com

#writingcommunity

Good Morning from the #UK! Who’s reading what today? We’re in for some unseasonally good weather this w/e so will you #read or will you #write?! Hmmmm! #writingcommunity #authors #poets