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
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#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
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? 😔
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#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! 😉
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A perfect Medina, WA morning?
Yes. Yes it is.
😌
A great place to think!
This afternoon’s writing nest:🪹 🖊️
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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! 😉
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#walking
#deer
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! 💭
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Non fiction and thriller
My writing nest on Sundays: The UW Bothell Library. So quiet and peaceful.
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#KingCounty
#Washington
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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No I’m responding to notes from an editor, doing my rewrite.
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! 🔮 )
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#BlackCats
#StetPet
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
As I work through the thicket of my developmental edit, my editorial assistant (my cat Roo) is of absolutely no help! 😔
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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
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
My writing snacks for library-time today!
A mixture of healthy vs not so healthy? 😉
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#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!
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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?
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