Laura Walsh

Outlining is thinking. Drafting is thinking. Writing is thinking.

By trying to replace the product of your thinking, AI is trying to replace your thinking.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Well if my therapist is this character I'm going to be making some bad decisions. 😄

I played it because someone else raved about it, so I'm happy to have passed the energy on. 🎮

WASD + mouse controls were unfamiliar to her I believe, but she sat down and finished it in 3 hours and loved it!

Convinced a very good friend who is a reader but not a gamer to play What Remains of Edith Finch. "It is like none of the games your kids play," I assured her.

When spring comes but the weather stays wintering, I always feel like it’s because Persephone is back home with Demeter but at that locked away in her room/not speaking to her mom stage. Then when it’s nice for a day it’s like, Aw, did the ice thaw as they shared a moment over coffee this morning?

Small, wrinkly rhubarb leaves emerging from garden mulch.

Rhubarb is emerging in the garden like little alien eggs.

BookBindr: a dating app where you submit a list of your most beloved books and it matches you with people whose favorites overlap with and/or complement yours. Importantly, you could also pick authors and books that would be automatic disqualifiers ❌

Oh it was published in 1989 gdi how did I miss out on that!?

Magicians Nephew is probably most memorable to me of all the Narnia books too. ❤️

Oh I wish there had been a graphic novel of the Hobbit when I was a kid. I would've become a LOTR nerd much sooner.

Mixed-up Files had younger me convinced I could run away and live at the library and all would be well. As for older me... that would still be pretty ok. 😄

Four childhood favorite novels that stuck with me into adulthood

Blossoming redbud flowers against a vibrant blue sky.

A small and understated spring wildflower, the spring beauty, emerging through dry leaf litter.

Purple trillium growing amidst leaves on a hillside.

A lone yellow trout lily blossom in a sunny patch of the woods.

I'm visiting Mammoth Cave National Park and surrounding area, and the redbuds and spring ephemerals are putting on a show!

No kidding... 🫠 well I still have hope bookstores and libraries will persist and save us all

It's a timely story, even moreso today than when it was first published in 2019, and it's about books and book clubs and hostile neighbors and what happens when strangers are trapped in a room together. It's also a story of hope. If you get a chance, read (or reread) it--I hope you enjoy it.

Anyway, it reminded me of this short story I enjoyed several years ago by Anders, about a bookshop that similarly straddles the border between two nations. I read it again this afternoon.

(good news, though, they have recently crowdfunded over $120k for renovations including second main entrance from Canada)

Until recently visitors from either the US or Canada could enter through the main entrance, which is on the US side of the border. But with tightened border restrictions, Canadians, unless they have a membership card or actually work there, will have to enter through an emergency exit in the back.

You may have heard in the news about this unusual library that straddles the US/Canada border. The Haskell Free Library and Opera House is located in both Derby Line, Vermont, and in Stanstead, Quebec, and even has the international border marked inside on the floor with black tape.

The Bookstore at the End of America - Reactor Tor.com is thrilled to reprint “The Bookstore at the End of America” by Charlie Jane Anders, as featured in her forthcoming short fiction collection Even Greater Mistakes, out on November 16, 2021. Th...

Book (well, short story) recommendation! "The Bookstore at the End of America" by Charlie Jane Anders. @charliejane.bsky.social You can read it here: reactormag.com/the-bookstor...

Summer - Nightmare Magazine During the baby’s nap-time, a housefly buzzed past the new screen somehow, and landed on Danielle’s wrist while she was reading Us Weekly on the back porch. With the Okeepechee swamp so close, mosquit...

I recently read @tananarivedue.bsky.social's short story "Summer," which I have assigned to my students as part of a module on writing monsters & ghosts. Tananarive remains one of the sweetest women with the most unsettling imaginations I know. *shudder* www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/summ...

Writers write. Writers also submit!

Post a ship that's not Star Wars or Star Trek.

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Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

It's been quite a few years but I sure loved my time as a CA! Have fun everyone. ☺️

If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?

Things I'm looking forward to this spring:

Yesterday - Wheel of Time
April 8 - Handmaid's Tale
April 10 - Black Mirror
April 13 - The Last of Us
April 22 - Andor
May 15 - Murderbot

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