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Empty Bowl, Full of Fruit The Over-Functioning Emotional Caretaker: Metaphorical Poem of How Taking on Other’s Burdens Can Become Your Main Identity

Fresh off the brain after a week brewing in the back of it.

This is for all those still learning they don't need to empty themselves to hold space for others.

#prose #poetry #cptsd #writingcommunity #writesky #familysystemstheory #emotionalcaretaking #overfunctioning

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True. And the chicken costume is the traditional PNW symbol of war.

In case anyone wants to see what was happening at the ICE facility in #Portland/#PDX the last few nights.

So war zone.
Much fire.
Very disaster.

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😂 I needed this tonight. Thank you! 😆

a man in a green shirt holds a stick and says all right then keep your secrets ALT: a man in a green shirt holds a stick and says all right then keep your secrets

#Fantasy and #Speculative #Booksky people.

How do you take your books?

Actual or Audio?
Bought or Borrowed?
Series or Singles?
Vetted or Vibes?
Cover or Content?
Lyrical or Literal?

I must know.

#writerslife #writesky #fictionbooks #WritingCommunity #whatyawantfromme

Woot! Finally have the next chapter of #PollyOllyOxenFree for you all 🥰

#Fantasy #Fiction #NeurodivergentNovelist #AuDHDAuthor #WritingCommunity #SerialFiction #Booksky #Writesky

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Instant Pot Kimchi Jjigae | Easy Kimchi Stew Recipe Instant Pot Kimchi Jjigae is an easy Korean stew recipe that's full of spicy, umami flavor. This Kimchi Stew is guaranteed to perk up your taste buds!

I can’t vouch for it yet but I’ve had this one saved in my recipe tabs to try for a while now. Might have to give it a go this weekend now that you’ve reminded me 😂

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Solution: Feign “responsible adult behavior” & establish an all-hard-pants washing day on Saturday mornings. All hard pants plop into washer because rules & you get soft pants all day.

If for some ungodly reason you have to change into hard pants later, at least they’ll be straight-from-dryer-warm.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

As a lifelong #PNW -er, I am unphased by pumpkin spice lattes, flannel, and cozy and/or damp outdoorsy vibes.

This👇is MY first sign of #fall.

#McSweeney’s Classics: It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

Nature straight up went:

“Ugh. The humans are talking rapture again. Yo, Spermy and G-Squid? It’s time to troll.”

Oh, never posted this:

Just discovered I have NOT missed the event and have 45min to make an #unhingedpit post based on the DemonBox interview or slap together something less logistically challenging…

I choose…slap together.

Seems more unhinged-pit-worthy anyway.

Stay tuned.

#TheCopperCanary

Here you go #unhingedpit. 45minutes.

#YA #F #ComingofRage #amquerying
#TheCopperCanary #PokemonPitched

ChatGPT Interviews Me to Determine Why I Wrote The Copper Canary a.k.a. Why A "So-Called Rational Person" is Pursuing Traditional Publishing

For #UnhingedPit, I had every author’s enemy ChatGPT interview me about why I wrote my book The Copper Canary.

Realized I missed the event & decided to post the interview anyway because #unhingedwithouttrying.

#YA #AuDHD #TimeBlind #writing #amquerying #writesky

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Orange background with white text that reads "ChatGPT Interviews Me to Determine Why I Wrote The Copper Canary" and subtitle reads "aka Why A "So-Called-Rational Person" is Pursuing Traditional Publishing

Apparently, I'm a sucker for punishment and ridicule. Enjoy:

#amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky #neurodivergence #whyiwrite #interviewedbytheenemy

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ROBERT CARLSON'S ULTIMATE STORY STRUCTURE CHART 2015 v 2.0

My story nerd brain is so damn relieved to know that someone else has done this to preserve their sanity. 🤓😂

#amwriting #amoutlining #writingcommunity #storystructure #stoleitfromreddit

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‘Twas ineffective.

I feel bad for all the Alberts who used the nickname Al in their emails and usernames a decade ago.

#weirdthoughts #fontfail #writingcommunity

a man is standing in front of a fence talking on a cell phone and asking to come again . ALT: a man is standing in front of a fence talking on a cell phone and asking to come again .

LOL yeah that was the point with the Kingsolver bot that got me as well. When they basically told me I knew nothing about social media. Instant hackles raised for me 😂

Thank you! And an update, I did reach out to the real Evie Woods via her website and she confirmed that it is not her (she is not on BlueSky). She also mentioned that happens via Facebook and TikTok. It sucks that authors are dealing with this from both sides!

🚨AUTHOR SCAM🚨

We got another impersonator. Please report @eviewoods14.bsky.social & block 😡

Then go give Aiko some love after reading her attached thread 🫂

#amwriting #amediting #amquerying #editors #authors #developmentalediting #writingcommunity #writesky

Reaching out to the actual Evie Woods also wouldn’t hurt if you know where to find a verified account.

Okay. So, even if you block them you should be able to report them. Go to their profile & click the triple dots in the top right. It’ll give you options. This is how I reported & booted the Barbara Kingsolver scammer. Send bsky screen shots of the editor asking for money & Evie’s referral to them.

Hey, yo, writer-targeted scambots.

If you are going to slap your writer-bait under a writer’s post, here’s a list of steps to follow:

1. Read the linked piece.
2. Like it.
3. Make sure it ISN’T about them grieving someone they love, then
4. Don’t.

Thanks. 🖕

#writingcommunity

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Came over here to say it again. I am so happy for you!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!! 🎉🍾🎊🥰🥰🥰🥹🥰🥰🥰

The Girl in the Burning Orchard When laugher and hindsight guts a college freshman like a knife, a ghost from her past comes asking for clarity - Based on a True Story

Today feels like a good day to bring this one out of the archives. I fear people might miss the reason “why” but maybe it can still light a bit of a 🔥

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#writingcommunity #shortstory #ghoststory #fiction #writesky #paranormal #readsky #neurodivergence #grief #resist

Sometimes you wake up happy, other times you wake up plotting to take down authoritarian regime policy through cleverly crafted vlogs.

#amwriting #orami #jkiam #butiftherewaseveratime #justsaying

Something Wasn’t Right. A reflection on years of systemic medical negligence and my boy’s resilience in the face of it all.

The Motherload accepted my personal essay “Something Wasn’t Right.” 🥹💕

#amwriting #mediumwriter #motherhood #chronicillness #neurodiversity #writesky #writingcommunity

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Doot. Doot. Doot.

Another query bites the dust

Do-Doo, Doot. Doot. Doot.

Another one bites the dust

Yes another hope’s gone, another form pwn

Another one bites the dust!

Hey, gotta pay your dues, another query bites the dust!

HeyEeyaaEeeyaAaEeeAaEeeYaaaEeAYyaaAaaoo

#amquerying

Late dx for me as well 😂

Love this! I wish we did more candid confessions as a community!

For instance:

I am considered “gifted,” but I
often leave entire words out of sentences when writing/editing.

My brain skips over them because it wants to move on to the next sentence—because I am also dyslexic & have AuDHD.