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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 50m

The project to publish Season to Be Witched has progressed to paperback formatting. This'll test my patience...

(Lol, the generated description of this gif said "yoda from star wars is smoking a cigarette and saying patience you must learn. 😆)

yoda from star wars is smoking a cigarette and saying patience you must learn .

Alt: Yoda from Star Wars is using the force with his eyes closed and saying "patience you must learn."

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 13h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2h

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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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 2h

If you’ve followed the weird project of a new path into the park that’s been constructed outside our window, today, for the first time since July, when it stopped where the gravel ends, they came to dig the rest. We’ll see how far they get this time. 😆🤞 And if the pine survives. I doubt it will.

The line between the old dig and the new.

New dig has damaged the roots of a pine that’s right at the edge of the path.

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 2h

I had to buy a new PC mouse yesterday. The clicker in the old one died. I liked the old one, it fit my hand perfectly and it had a silent clicker. There wasn't exactly the same mouse available, but the same maker and good enough shape. But it has a loud clicker and I'm already annoyed with it. 😆

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 11h

I read Sleeping on Paper Boats, Vol. 1 by Teki Yatsuda. A sad and beautiful story with gorgeous art.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#manga #bookreview

Susanna's review of Sleeping on Paper Boats, Vol. 1

5/5: What a wonderful, beautiful, and sad story. Kei has written with death as his muse ever since he survived a horrible accent as a child. It has made him a star screenwriter, the stories based on t...

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 13h

I read Phantom Busters, Vol. 1 by Neoshoco. Fun start to a high school ghost busting series.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#manga #bookreview

Susanna's review of Phantom Busters, Vol. 1

5/5: This was fun. Eugene starts high school in a town famous for its ghosts. He doesn’t believe in them though. His first day, he meets Mogari, who claims he is an exorcist. He just can’t see ghosts....

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 4h

🌳📏BONSAI BONANZA✂️🤏

Kyōto hosts 2 major exhibitions of bonsai each year at the Miyako Messe: the 'Nihon Bonsai Taikanten' (日本盆栽大観展) in autumn, and the 'Gafūten Shōhin' (小品盆栽雅風展) in January, which focuses on bonsai so small they can be held in the palm of your hand.

#bonsai #盆栽 #Kyoto #autumn

Bonsai featured in the autumn 'Nihon Bonsai Taikanten' exhibition.

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 11h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 11h

I read Sleeping on Paper Boats, Vol. 1 by Teki Yatsuda. A sad and beautiful story with gorgeous art.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#manga #bookreview

Susanna's review of Sleeping on Paper Boats, Vol. 1

5/5: What a wonderful, beautiful, and sad story. Kei has written with death as his muse ever since he survived a horrible accent as a child. It has made him a star screenwriter, the stories based on t...

www.goodreads.com

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 13h

I read Phantom Busters, Vol. 1 by Neoshoco. Fun start to a high school ghost busting series.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#manga #bookreview

Susanna's review of Phantom Busters, Vol. 1

5/5: This was fun. Eugene starts high school in a town famous for its ghosts. He doesn’t believe in them though. His first day, he meets Mogari, who claims he is an exorcist. He just can’t see ghosts....

www.goodreads.com

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 15h

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 6 copies of @maxgladstone.bsky.social's Dead Country: Book One of the Craft Wars Series, which I have and have read and have liked and have given out before. It's a *great* western, and Ma Abernathy is a truly frightening woman, and I love her.

#KindleBookGiveaway

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 15h

Same. But it's annoying that for Smashwords, they'd optimised the styles perfectly and now with D2D they're completely useless.

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you. My German is nonexistent, so that's not for me then. 😆

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 19h

Where is that book from and is it any good? 😀 I take it, it's only available as a physical copy, because I can't find it.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 1d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 20h

I actively dislike D2D publishing system. It's absolutely impossible to make the book look presentable, as it completely ignores all formatting styles. Break in the text is set by two empty lines or everyting runs together. Templates are only wholesale to the entire book, no opt-outs anywhere.

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Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 23h

I loved this.

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Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 23h

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of. 📺

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 1d

Paddington was introduced #OTD in 1958 in A BEAR CALLED PADDINGTON by Michael Bond.

"I felt it would say a lot about the Brown family that they were prepared to take in a refugee like Paddington," Bond said of the beloved bear from Peru, who was inspired by the displaced children of WW II. #BookSky