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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me)

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Wordsmith and poet, Indie author, Tolkien nerd, kiwi in the Inner Hebrides, she/they. River Daughter (meander phase) Relationship status: single [malt] 🥃 #RingsofPower #Tolkien #LOTR #Poetry #Poem #IsleofMull https://mybook.to/OnWildAir

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · Oct 17

I'm going to hang my shingle out properly by 'fessing that I've been reading Tolkien, and about Tolkien, for over half a century, and I'm currently obsessed with Rings of Power

Mother of Uruks
River Daughter
Stone-singer in Training

She/they

I play DnD/BG3 & recommend Vampire Therapist

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 12h

One last chance to soak up the sun before I head back to Scotland (Bells Rapids, Western Australia)

In just over 24 hours I'll be needing my big coat 😂

Selfie: a white woman in soft cloth sunhat and sunglasses. Behind, a shallow river runs across stones, and scrub-covered hillside gives way to blue sky

View across a shallow river to a long wooden trestle bridge. Beyond it is scrubby Australian hillside and blue sky

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 1d

This is fundamentally correct

I love it warts and all. I read it at the 'right' age

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 1d

I believe it 💗

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Wasn't it Richard Adams (Watership Down) who talked about all of us getting our ideas by linking into the great web of story?

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

happy bday New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, b.1888.

“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of,...

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Is there? Who's that then?

Honestly, the unintentional irony of this "slams misogyny" would be hilarious if it wasn't so depressing

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, yes, the evergreen firball 🌲

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

I write a bit. I paint a bit. I study and debate a bit

I'm not really good at anything. But I know how vital it is that someone - many someones - excel in all the arts

If all we have of music is recordings, all we have of art is old paintings, of learning just files? We are a dead species

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 5d

They are tasty by all accounts but one of my colleagues ate some and ended up with liver flukes, so I'm in no hurry to try it

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 6d

You can tell I'm only a tourist, because I'm ridiculously excited about this kangaroo with a big joey in her pouch, hanging about in my dad's front garden in Western Australia

A kangaroo with a well-grown joey in her pouch, in Australian bush

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 6d

And their flowers are so big and pretty. You go, little insect-eating plantlets! Have your moment in the sun

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I think so, though I was thinking more about some Scifi/horror I've read than any RL species

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 6d

Every where I go in Western Australia, these tiny, unassuming, ground-dwelling Drosera (sundews) have begun a mad race up the nearest object (like an ant infected with Cordyceps) to put out out sprays of completely unexpected flowers. I almost feel if I stand still they'll be scrambling up me

Tiny ground-growing sundew plants growing tendrils and scrambling up the nearest object to flower

White flowers of a sundew plant (Drosera). Western Australia in spring

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, honey 🫂

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 6d

Oh very yes

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 7d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 7d

Trust you to think of that 🤣

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Today I'm launching a Crowdfunder with the incredible Grace Quantock.

The aim of this is to get Grace's book "Living Well with Chronic Illness" into health centres across the UK.

We be so grateful for your support.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/86e1e73e29...

The front cover of Grace's book "Living Well with Chronic Illness"

Here's Grace with her very cute medical alert and response assistance dog Wilfie.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 7d

Good answer 👏

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 7d

It's a fun way to hang out with (and wind up) my mates

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 7d

*bookmarks and follows*

a man sitting in front of a screen with the number ten on it

Alt: a man leaning his head on his hands, eagerly awaiting whatever will happen next

media.tenor.com

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 7d

How to write:

Read
Read
Think a bit
Read
Go for a walk
Write
Read some more

Everything Joanne says here is true and invaluable advice

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 7d

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 7d

It cracked up

I cracked up (apparently I shouted some surprising words)

Then my dad cracked up (he had to get dressed and drive me to the ferry that was just about to leave. Between us we were running an entire country's allocation of adrenalin

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 7d

Very much so 😟

Also, I have a habit of hitching up my trousers with two fingers under the belt. Ask me how I found out I have this habit 😥