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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah I’ve always used word. I’ve tried docs but I think Word just feels more comfortable for me

Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · 16d

Curious to see: what word processor do you use to write? I've always used MS Word and probably always will, but I'm curious what else is out there.

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · 26d

Aww thank you! Yeah with these stories I basically let the characters explain their world to me by just having them talk. The worldbuilding mostly just comes from me listening to them

Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Sep 15

It’s really telling how all the commercials for AI products like Gemini infantilize their consumers.

Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? and Other Rumors - JournalStone

Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yo! My debut collection of weird tales came out a couple years ago: journalstone.com/bookstore/ha...

HAVE YOU SEEN THE MOON TONIGHT? AND OTHER RUMORS “Duckworth is a magician of the macabre in these sixteen wonderfully inventive and wickedly unsettling tales of the inhuman ruin creeping just beneath ...

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Sep 3

He looks worried for me

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bloody Muddy Water by Jonathan Louis Duckworth

Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today Dandelion the book cat is being The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 29

Aww thank you! There's another Rugg story, also published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies. When you get a chance maybe check out "Bruised Eye Dusk."

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Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. ✶✶✶✶ @tvayyyy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks, Gabino! Get on THE EL wherever you stop for books. Happy #FridayReads!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738830...

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 29

ICYMI, my newest short story came out earlier this week with Beneath Ceaseless Skies! "Bloody Muddy Water" is a fantasy detective story where spellbreaker Rugg and his alligator mount, Tugboat, must solve the mystery of the Headsick plague spreading through the swampy canals of Blackvill.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Live in BCS #439: "Bloody Muddy Water" @jduckwriter.bsky.social "Rugg read her. The knit of the veil was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo...

Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft, and the fiber looked to be made fro...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bloody Muddy Water by Jonathan Louis Duckworth

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Live in BCS #439: "Bloody Muddy Water" @jduckwriter.bsky.social "Rugg read her. The knit of the veil was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft. It was a conjanet—a special weave made to protect" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo...

Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft, and the fiber looked to be made fro...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Postman, Soldier, Traitor by Vijayalaxmi Samal

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Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have a story out in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social today!!!!

It's about a letter than demands itself to be delivered through a war torn country, about service and community and more! ✉️

Sometimes the letter wants to go over bridges already burned. The bridge must have been here when the boy passed. The journey becomes a battle then, of convincing and calming the letter. Every time, A...

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks for reading and sharing!

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Morgan L Ventura (Dr Hilary M V Leathem) @morganvl.bsky.social · Aug 20

“how coalmine the canary /
how cathedral the heart’s chambers /
how crow the call / how bright the under”

Really exquisite poem today from @jduckwriter.bsky.social

Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 20

My newest published poem, "Armature," is out today in an absolutely STACKED issue of the Bennington Review: www.benningtonreview.org/fourteen-duc...

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 21

The sequel to my Best American SFF story “Bruised Eye Dusk” is out today in the new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Come down to Perish to have another adventure with Rugg the Spellbreaker and his gator mount, Tugboat!

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 21

New Issue: BCS #439 out today, featuring stories of outsiders undertaking obligations by Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social and Vijayalaxmi Samal @kaunvijaya.bsky.social, behind cover art by Jereme Peabody: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #439 by Scott Andrews

Featuring new cover art: "Ravine" by returning BCS artist Jereme Peabody. Bloody Muddy Water by Jonathan Louis Duckworth. Postman, Soldier, Traitor by Vijayalaxmi Samal. BCS 350: Postman, Soldier, Tra...

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 20

My newest published poem, "Armature," is out today in an absolutely STACKED issue of the Bennington Review: www.benningtonreview.org/fourteen-duc...

www.benningtonreview.org

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 17

I’ll keep that in mind for next time!

Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 17

@nicolaz.bsky.social I’m not the only one in this house enjoying your truly excellent second entry in the Hild series

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 16

A lot of creative writing pedagogy takes for granted processes that may be uniquely effective to the individual instructor but may not work for everyone. I share what works for me with students, but always with the caveat that we must each discover our own best process for creating work

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 16

Our backyard chickens have produced their first egg of many!!

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Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social · Aug 4

New reading desk. Soft but a little on the small side, can’t fit much more than a single book