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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 4h

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Words written today: 839

Happiness with the words written : ✒️✒️✒️✒️*
(out of five)

Overall contentment with the novels progress: ✒️✒️✒️✒️*
(out of five)

*Had to use the pen nib emoji as the didn't have quills. Ba humbug!

#TamLin #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Fantasy

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#WritersCoffeeClub 15th October

How strictly do your characters follow their traditions?

#TamLin values the traditions of nobility & rank

The fairy folk follow their traditions/rules meticulously

Janet on the other hand does what keeps her safe. Traditions be damned

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Yes release the 10,000 plus Palestinians who are being held by Israel many of them in administrative detention which means they are being held indefinitely without charge or trial. Release the Palestinian hostages!

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250603-isr...

Israel holds over 10,000 Palestinians, including 3,600 without trial: Rights group

More than 10,000 Palestinians are in Israeli detention, including around 3,600 without charge or trial, a prisoners’ affairs group said today. The Prisoners’ Media Office said the Israeli occupatio…

www.middleeastmonitor.com

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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 19h

What exactly is the rationale for keeping the remaining "non-fighters" being held in "administrative detention without trial"? Is it for future bargaining? If so, how is that any different from a hostage?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The prisoners and detainees were released by Israel a few hours after all living Israeli hostages were returned from Gaza. The exchange marked the first step in a ceasefire that could permanently end the two-year conflict in the territory.

Before Monday’s release, 11,056 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons, according to statistics from the Israeli NGO HaMoked in October 2025. At least 3,500 of those were held in administrative detention without trial. An Israeli military database has indicated that only a quarter of those detained in Gaza were classified as fighters.

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So the sources, which have come under question for bias in its reporting don't even support your claim. Nice whataboutism to ignore the Israeli violations of the current ceasefires and past ceasefires. 🤷

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 11h

Palestinians have the right to defend themselves from an occupying force that's committing a genocide against them and trying to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their native land.

Israel violating the ceasefire agreement at least 9 times sure doesn't look Israel disarming.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Hamas gathering forces and working to reassert control sure doesn’t look like Hamas disarming and accepting an international security force in charge of Gaza.

Weren’t we told to gush with praise for the brilliant diplomacy that solved the big problems? Could’ve sworn that, it was just this week.

Gaza: Hamas mobilises fighters as fears of internal violence mount

Clashes have already taken place between the group and an armed clan in Gaza City.

www.bbc.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 11h

This makes no sense.
1. Brexit is at least two things: Being out of the EU and being out of the Single Market.
2. Both of these can be reversed.
3. To blame a reversible problem for your harmful economic decisions, while still refusing to reverse that problem, is the behaviour of a fool.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 11h

Rachel Reeves Blames Brexit As She Prepares To Raise Taxes And Cut Spending

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rachel...

Rachel Reeves Blames Brexit As She Prepares To Raise Taxes And Cut Spending

The chancellor said the impact of leaving the EU is "severe and long lasting".

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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citation needed

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 11h

In a surprise to no one, Israeli has recommenced it's genocide of Palestinian citizens, despite a 'ceasefire' being agreed and hostages being returned.

Israel is the very definition of a bad faith actor, they have repeatedly broken ceasefire and peace agreements.

Keep protesting. Free Palestine

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Kestrel Casey @kestrelcasey.com · 15h

People who opposes taxes are people who don't realize they're already benefiting from us acting collectively at scale.

Mostly dudes who can't conceive of their own disabled future and think that roads are facts of life instead of major ongoing human projects.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙 @caradelaney.bsky.social · 13h

Everything is run by taxes. Like, literally - the country runs on taxes. You cannot throw a rock anywhere here without hitting something paid for, or heavily subsidised by, taxes.

Roads. Schools. The admin building where you get your documents after you move. Trash cans. Public transit.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 1d

If your writing helps even one person, it's worth doing
Especially if that one person is you

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 1d

When it's a scene at night, books should switch to white writing on a black page

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1d

Writing novels is very hard, and everyone who finishes writing one deserves praise and accolades purely for that accomplishment.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 21h

If a book happens, you've found a successful writing strategy. There's no magic formula for writing a book. No one, sure-fire way to get a book finished. Like every creative you'll find the way that works for you. When you do cling to it zealously and with joy

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writing

Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 1d

Me, writing: Where is this book going???

Good to know I still have no idea how to write a book other than sit down and write and eventually a book happens, lol.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 14th October:

Talk about a book that surprised you: how was it not what you expected?

Orbital by Samantha Harvey was a slim book but it took me by surprise how lyrical the prose was and how the detail made it a book to be slowly digested.

#WriteSky #Books #BookSky

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Even the messy, dystopia world seems more ordered than the world we currently live in. The worlds we create can be carved and altered by our hands, guided in the right direction. I like my fantasy worlds, they feel like they're more ordered and pleasing. Stop reality, I want to live in a novel!

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#writerscoffeeclub 13th October:

Are you motivated to write by internal drive or external goals?

I'm compelled to write, to express my creativity, to speak my heart and get words on the page. It sounds very arty farty but writing is a release for me, a pleasure.

#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #Writing

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#WritersCoffeeClub 12th October:

Do you prefer to use real-world settings or to invent new ones?

In my Fantasy novels they tend to be new world settings. The exception to that is #TamLin which is a mix of otherworld and the mortal world

My Dystopia and suspense novels are real world settings

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#PlotTober 14th October

#TamLin ends with Janet challenging the queen of the fairies on Halloween eve at midnight. To save Tam Lin being used as a tithe to hell she must rescue him from the clutches of the fairy folk who will enchant & bewitch her

#TamLin #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 1d

#PlotTober Day 14: Story endings

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

14. Now that you have some ideas of your story's beginning and the main character's goals & growth, can you come up with a few different story endings that would be satisfying for a reader?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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#PlotTober 13th October

#TamLin starts with Janet going to Carterhaugh woods despite being forbidden to do so because Tam Lin resides there. Knowing the dangers, Janet goes there anyway. She is head strong, fiercely independent and determined.

#TamLin #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 2d

#PlotTober Day 13: Story beginnings

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

13. Let's begin brainstorming the main plot points of our WIPs. Knowing what you know of your main character(s), what are a few potential ways you could begin their story?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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Some antagonists are just 'evil', but they have motivations, mostly power. Antagonists who are evil for the sake of it are few and far between. If there's no motivation then it's harder to create drivers for their actions. Antagonists driven by events are much more interesting.
#WriteSky #Writing

SpiceyDragoon | AF2025 | Team Petal @spicydragoon.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who believes that people are inherently good, or at least a blank slate, I just don't find evil for the sake of it all that compelling, evil is a deviation from the norm and it can be interesting to explore how folks got that way.

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They has been a singular pronoun since 1375. Please take your own advise.

A brief history of singular ‘they’ share.google/cC4ifScTsrl2...

A brief history of singular ‘they’

share.google

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I see you've never been near an English degree course or examined its syllabus. Degree level here is University and we're talking about degree level English in the UK.

Nice whataboutism. If they were discussing Tolkien it would be an Eng Lit degree, not Eng lang. Discussing authorial bias matters.

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