Jaine Fenn

I'll be at Bristolcon - looking forward to it!

I now live in a country where broadcasting the truth can get you arrested for 'malicious communication'.

George Orwell was so right.

Building work at the safari mini-golf leads to some odd juxtapositions

Some days I just want to be my cat.

For anyone in the US reading this: I hope you enjoy your national day today as much as you can given... well, you know.

I spent the Solstice in a sunny pub garden, listening to live music. Perfect.

I can literally feel my brain releasing endorphins when I look at those fluffy little bundles of cuteness.

A short slice of cute duckling action to brighten your day.

I'm finding myself weirdly invested in the #Eurovision results, possibly due to my friends persuading me to play the Eurovision drinking game during the actual performances.

Or I may just go and have a lie down now.

Currently in The Village, my favourite place in the whole wide world

And she knows it

Toffee’s got the right idea. #Caturday #CatsofBluesky

True. Though most decent and reasonable human beings are "left" of Musk.

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Story beginnings can be tricksy, so it's good when they write themselves.

Though Guardians of Paradise was the third Hidden Empire novel I knew where and how it should start halfway through the first book in the series... www.patreon.com/posts/guardi...

Western diplomacy pre-2025: Working towards a mutually acceptable solution

Western diplomacy now: Appeasing an over-powered lunatic

Today’s duckling pile. Enjoy.

First duckling-pile of the year. Enjoy the cute. More will follow.

Happy Groundhog Day.

Today I will to ignore my chores and avoid the news. Instead I will walk down to the sea, take my man out for a nice lunch, catch up on some reading-for-pleasure and maybe go down the pub.

Just in case.

Indeed. Happily, by the time I read 'Save the Cat' I'd learnt to take what I needed from writing 'how to' books and ignore what didn't work for me, but someone less experienced could easily get snared by that prescriptive mentality.

ChatGPT is refusing to work ChatGPT is offline, leaving users unable to talk to the AI chat app.

Just as long as it doesn't mean the LLMs are unionising
www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt...

The actual lesson in the title is, I think, useful for newbie writers; the checklist approach to structure less so but if memory serves it's mainly for screenplay, rather than fiction, writing.

May I also recommend watching Kitten Academy on YouTube?

Those tiny cats neither know nor care that the world is on fire, and watching them helps me forget that it is.

I wish that were true. Things can always get worse.

And, one hopes, the wisdom of checking for trams before lying down on a tramway.

A brief summary of my writing year: www.jainefenn.com/2025/01/chec...

Welcome to 2025 everyone.

I find it hard to be optimistic about this year, but would be delighted to be proved wrong.

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Happy Solstice!

Here's a free audio story, short and dark, for the shortest and darkest day of the year: www.patreon.com/posts/season...

Our weekend plans have been cancelled after Storm Darragh made travel through the West Country unwise.

We've got off relatively lightly so far as we're on the south Devon coast, sheltered by Dartmoor.

If you're also in south or western Britain I hope you're staying safe.

Went to the local pub's Charity Christmas Quiz
They had a music round
Betcha can't guess what the final song was
#Whamageddon

And it's only December 1st.

I find this to be true of life in general