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Lynn Sikkink

@lsikkink.bsky.social

Writer, anthropologist, teacher, hiker, cloud-watcher, and observer of all things human

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I'm grateful for #1000wordsofsummer for keeping me on track to write a pile of words and launch me into the rest of my summer writing. On Day 9 I'm almost at 10,000 words!

08.06.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Doris Lessing reading

Doris Lessing reading

#bookchallenge

13.03.2025 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Still emailing the house DOGE Caucus with suggestions for cutting government waste and fraud. This week's suggestions: 1. Limits on Pres. Golfing, 2. No Ads to praise Press., 3. Hire back fired IRS agents to collect more taxes. 4. Hire MORE IRS agents to collect more taxes!

23.02.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you're a fan of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus or THE BODYGUARD by Katherine Center, you'll love my new book, ACCORDING TO MY SCIENCE. It comes out March 11!

#accordingtomyscience #writingcommunity #writer #indieauthor #womensfiction #romance #womeninstem #books #author

18.02.2025 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So grateful for this beautiful blurb from my publishing house "sister author," Jennifer Klepper, about my debut novel, Everything We Thought Was True, which releases tomorrow! Only one more day until my book makes its way into the world.

26.01.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Resistance is not futile

27.01.2025 01:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join us in one week at mam's books in Seattle Chinatown for WRITERS READ BEN MASAOKAโ€™S posthumously-published debut novel, โ€œCRIMINALSโ€
Sunday, February 2, 2025
2:00-4:00 pm PST
Mamโ€™s Books
Free and open to the public.
Join Frank Abe, Lucy Tan, Carla Crujido, Bruce Rutledge, and Dan DeWeese.

26.01.2025 01:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@lsikkink.bsky.social
Thanks!

24.01.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a favorite writing metaphor for me is from the bubbe of an old friend who always hand-grated her latkes, inevitably skinning her knuckles. when asked why she didn't use a processor, she'd say 'they're no good unless there's some knuckle in them'

next year, may your writing have some knuckle in it

31.12.2024 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 272    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Perfect!

11.01.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#mini1000 Thanks to Jami Attenberg, the midwife or conductor of our collective words, possibly numbering in the millions in its grand total, I met my own goal and came in just over 5000 words for the 5 days. More importantly, I found a tentative structure (for now) that I can use to move forward!

07.01.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Got my #mini1000 words for the day. Today was hard. The first 3 days of writing were relatively smooth. Today, I began by reading something I'd already written and pruning it. Losing words didn't lead to forward momentum! It took some time to turn it around, but glad I stuck with it.

06.01.2025 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What do you want for your writing in 2025? My goal is to stay on course with my newest novel, despite the two thousand and fifty distractions that await me. #mini1000

02.01.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Canโ€™t do it yet! I just put it up on December 24. Also I need the light to make it through these dark days.

30.12.2024 04:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sunday Thread: What's Your New Year's Read? Reminder: the Mini 1000 starts next Friday, Jan 3.

On January 3 Iโ€™m beginning the New Year with Jami Attenbergโ€™s Mini 1000 Words. Join in!

1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/sunday-thr...

30.12.2024 04:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Which one?!

30.11.2024 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How many people (womenfolk?) away from home for Thanksgiving and discovering theyโ€™ve gained hours of mental and manual labor time by not hosting the crowd this year?

26.11.2024 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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