Matthew Rehrl MD

A black cat partially asleep on a gray Mickey Mouse sweatshirt on a bed with an open closet door in the background.

Woke up to some cat and mouse this morning! 🥰

#CatsOfBlueSky

Don’t be diverted fro finding true happiness! 😉🙏

#poetry

This #StetPet dog should be illegal fro being so cute! How can anyone ever work with this little one around?

#DogsOfBlueSky
#WritingCommunity
#dogs

Very timely for me! I’m pretty good at dictating non-fiction, but am making the transition fiction dictation! 🤞🏼; listened to your podcast for years…always excellent!

Great #writing #podcast episode especially since my first novel in working on — a mathematical thriller — I’m using digital dictation AND I have 3 PNW Native American characters!

Also, I ❤️ Kobo Writing Life Podcast 🎙️
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#writingcommunity

Cream background with colorful confetti and streamers. Centered bold black text reads "HAPPY NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY." Along the bottom, a row of illustrated books in muted reds, blues, yellows, and creams sits on a black shelf above an orange tiled floor.

Happy National Grammar Day!

In case you missed it, I made my LinkedIn Learning writing course free for 24 hours. 1/2

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Today is the @edsguild.bsky.social favorite day! 😉

It should be higher on the list of writers’ favorite days? 😔

#WritersOfBlueSky

#NationalGranmarDay!

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Faron is a beautiful!

And cats and delete keys?

Just be thankful he hasn’t learned how to paw “CTL-A” first, because if cats ever figure that out, then they will use it! 😉

#CatsOfBlueSky
#WritersOfBlueSky

A morning photo of a lake with hills in the distance and a dock on the left side in both the foreground and the midfield. The lake is calm. The sky is mostly blue with isolated streaks of clouds. There is a slight haze in the background and in the center of the picture there is a suggestion of a mountain peak.

A perfect Medina, WA morning?

Yes. Yes it is.

😌

A great place to think!

This afternoon’s writing nest:🪹 🖊️

#Writing
#WritersOfBlueSky

Seen on my walk this morning in Bellevue! Deers! 🦌 🦌 🦌

Definitely sets the right tone for my day.

OK—I’ve seen something beautiful…now it’s time to edit! 😉

#WritersOfBlueSky
#amwriting
#walking
#deer

Inside photo of a bus with one person standing and another sitting. Daytime.

I’m on the bus 🚌 heading to @hugohouse.bsky.social to read in class a scene from my upcoming novel: “The Raven Singularity.”

It’s a mathematics thriller!

Think Good Will Hunting meets Angels and Demons! 💭

#WritersOfBlueSky
#WritingCommunity

Non fiction and thriller

Walkway with buildings around it, modern and angular style, with clouds and slight sunshine behind. Ground slightly damp. Some evergreen trees around.

My writing nest on Sundays: The UW Bothell Library. So quiet and peaceful.
#amWriting
#WritersOfBlueSky
#KingCounty
#Washington

Crossed legs in foreground, on a pier of metal with water and an island in the distance and a sunrise behind the could in the background.

In Medina, looking across Lake Washington at Mercer Island.

Improving my writing by paying more attention to the soundscape. 🤓

Here?

The lapping of waves. 🌊
Multiple bird sounds. 🦅
The distant hum of the highway, ever-present. 🚙
The airplane engines. ✈️
#WritersOfBlueSky
#sound

When life gives you lemons 🍋 — especially if it’s a dog 🐕 named Lemon — you don’t need to make lemonade.
You have loyalty and love!
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#DogsOfBlueSky

No I’m responding to notes from an editor, doing my rewrite.

Explicit and Implicit Measures of Black Cat Bias in Cat and Dog People In some cultures, black cats are viewed as causing bad luck. This may partially explain why it takes longer for black cats to be adopted from animal shelters. Three possible causes of this bias against black cats—superstitious beliefs, belief in ...

FYI : Here’s a study about black cat bias, which, sadly, 😔 increases before Halloween. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Schrödinger’s cat lives! And best of all, it’s black!

(All black cats 🐈‍⬛ are magical! 🔮 )

#CatsOfBlueSky
#BlackCats
#StetPet

A manuscript with spiral binding open with a red pen on top sitting on a wooden counter with a window in the background. The manuscript is open on what appears to be about 25% through thank you

Slowly but surely, I’m making progress on my development edit!

(I print out a hard copy of the manuscript with editor notes, read through, and then edit on Scivener)

#Scrivener
#editing
#WritersOfBkueSky

A black cat asleep curled into a big fluff ball on a blue towel and red blanket at the top of a cat tree with carpet and part of a backpack in the background.

As I work through the thicket of my developmental edit, my editorial assistant (my cat Roo) is of absolutely no help! 😔
#amwriting
#CatsOfBlueSky

In people-first language, I am living with an Americano.

In Buddhism, I am an Americano.

😉

#coffee

For creativity, I think morning walks are the best, however, a morning swim in Puget Sound in winter?

Well, that’s pretty cool!

#ThinkWalking
#Walking

A walkway over water with a distant city skyline in the background, sun reflecting of the water surface.

All walks are good.
Some walks are “gooder” than others.

This is a nice walkway in the northern shore of Lake Washington, Seattle in the background.

#walking

A baggie on a desk with an apple, beef jerky, two Oreo cookies. And jelly beans.

My writing snacks for library-time today!

A mixture of healthy vs not so healthy? 😉

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#WritersOfBlueSky
#AmWriting

A nice morning walk for me in #Seattle.

It’s Sunday, which means UW Library writing time for me from 1 pm to 8 pm—so no #SuperBowl for me 😔; Still: Go Hawks!

#WritingCommunity

If you were guaranteed success, what would you do?

I think the hashtag “ #stetpet “ is the best hashtag to show off the pets of the editing community, especially #cats and #dogs.

What’s the best #Bluesky hashtag for #Writers with pets?

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#CatsOfBlueSky
#DogsOfBlueSky

(FYI for non-writers “stet” means “let it stand” 🤓)

Editor humor—a nuanced humor— reminds me of an em dash.

Stet!

😉

Since working with a professional editor is a new, first time experience for me, I think I’ll use #BlueSky to help document my journey, mostly for my future self, but may—if I share my mistakes—help others?
#amwriting