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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 1d

When I began writing, my stories lacked details about scenery, physical traits, and all that world building hoopla. Why? Because I’d skipped over it when I read, choosing like you, to follow the plot. Now, when I write, I close my eyes & imagine the place — look around, see what my characters see.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 8d

Translators! Send in your book length poetry translation! $1500 prize, publication by the University of Wisconsin Press! You can resubmit--different judge every year!

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Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone got a story regarding your writing on Paragraph Planet? Did you have 75 words featured which were later in a published novel? Did a story inspire you to seek out an author? Forge a friendship online? Would love to hear and share your #stories

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 1d

A stunner. Resurrected memories of when I’d walked through my parents home for the last time before it was cleared of everything preparing for its sale. 💔

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 3d

Ooh. Loved this story! Such a believable world an unexpected ending.

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 5d

Wow! Congrats!! Very cool!!

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 6d

Wow!! Such fantastic news!!

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 8d

I read this!! And WHAT a story!!

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 14d

You there. Are you the owner of a dog or owned by a dog? This story felt felt like reading my memoir.

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 14d

"Dog" by @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social--a brilliant, breathless meditation about humans and dogs, desires, and what happiness really means. Read Here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Dog by Michael Czyzniejewski

If the only way that I can exist is to make sure that I take the dog on his walk and feed the dog and then feed the cats and make sure the dog doesn’t eat the cat food, or the cats, for that matter, a...

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 19d

Until I started reading @doesithavepockets.bsky.social slush pile, I never noticed how much certain phrases and words popped up everywhere. Bonus: It’s improved my writing —I cringe when I read overused words when I’m revising my work and quickly strike them.

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 19d

Well, now, you just inspired me to buy his book! Thanks for that!!

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 20d

Been sharing with friends.

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 20d

Someone called us ‘The Pocketeers!!’ Definitely in the running for our team’s nickname.

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 20d

Another disappointing broken promise. Maybe next time.

Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 23d

I gather the rapture is supposed to happen, yet again, tomorrow. Great. So, when ppl are randomly being picked up off the street & floating around, my boss will call me on my day off to come in, because, well, a majority of the store will be floating around in the sky with Kirk Cameron & Dean Cain.

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 22d

open.substack.com/pub/bradmont...

Hello Human

A short reminder

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 22d

“You don't know yet that you will feel the track-rattling impact in your guts every time you pass through a tunnel for the next ten years.”

Prose with power. 💔

Jo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social · 28d

A story I've been trying to write for 20+ years found its home in Issue 3 of @frazzledlit.bsky.social: www.frazzledlit.com/p/young-enough

Young Enough

By Jo Gatford (Highly Commended)

www.frazzledlit.com

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · 25d

Do the raspberries substitute for ice?

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · Sep 12

Trouble with crafting titles?

This workshop is money well spent!!

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Make Your Titles Do More of the Heavy Lifting (Sept 18) — Press 53

with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood Thursday, September 18, 2-4:00 PM Eastern on Zoom  Do you struggle with titling your work? Do you ever read titles that pull you in as a reader? Your titles can d...

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · Sep 12

"A palpable sense of vulnerability, and a brave use of self-disclosure hums throughout from the first page.”
-- CRAFT editor's note

Angela Kubinec's powerful short story illustrates excellence in writing published today in CRAFT .

Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · Sep 11

I look forward to reading it!!

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · Sep 10

Gosh, this one hurt my head (or maybe my heart?) You're so good at world-building but lordy, what a world you've imagined in this story!! Congrats!

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · Sep 6

Wondered about the head. Thanks for reassurance. 😉

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Warnock: Clearly you have an agenda. It is a threat to the public health of the American people. It's clear that you are carrying out your extremist beliefs.

RFK JR: We’re the sickest people on earth. How am I a threat?

Warnock: I think that you ought to resign.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social · Sep 5

So, last December my younger brother passed away leaving behind his aging dog Ginger. My other younger brother adopted her and tells me stories about her stubborn antics. When this hybrid piece came into our pocket, I felt compelled to make sure we published it!! Love it so very much!!