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Vanessa Knipe

@vjknipe.bsky.social

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Malaysian-born, Scottish writer. Recovering Luddite, DIY house renovation, likes canoeing, decorates a mean cake, a highly biased mother. Mastodon: @[email protected] Website: https://vanessajknipe.wixsite.com/vanessa-knipe

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · May 19

#TimeTravelAuthors
Thrown out of the Guardian Angels, Jack will search the Ends of Time for Lizzie.

Will History Ever Recover?

Last Days Forever is now available from
vanessa-j-knipe.itch.io/last-days-fo...
www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Days-Fo...
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

A flier for the novel Last Days Forever. An angel flies over a Texan oil field.
Text reads: Overhead, high overhead I saw the flight of angels and wept. Without my wings I was nothing. Flotsam on the drifts of time.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 12h

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." ~ Oscar Wilde

Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 17h

Jim'll paint it @sirpaintalot.bsky.social

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Greg Michaelson @gjmichaelson.bsky.social · 22h

George Morrow, Punch, 1921, Volume 160, p140
@morethanadodo.bsky.social

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 21h

I enjoy getting the news from my area being on Mastodon. scot. I rarely see anything about my home anywhere else other than the indy movement (not bad but limiting).

Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 21h

I have a list of people I intend to haunt.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 21h

Strangely enough, Mastodon is the only social media that doesn't leave me wanting to stick my head in a gas oven. I guess I just don't people very well, and Mastodon keeps its distance. There's a lot less ruthless purity over there, with the distance, we keep opinions to self, fewer people get hurt.

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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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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1d

My coworker
who loves the autumn
was in a dejected mood,
and when I asked what was wrong
she told me there’s something off
with the pumpkin things this year
they don’t taste or smell right,
and though she’s been sick,
she’s sure
all of the companies
must have changed something.

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

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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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 1d

The formula for escape velocity.

V sub esc equals the square root of 2GM divided by R

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 3d

In this house, we believe:
- love is love
- science is real
- books are magic portals
- pants are always optional
- squirrels are little demons
- the forest accepts you as you are, and for who you will become

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 3d

I really love the third one. It reminds me of that snoopy cartoon where he dances with a leaf then says thank you for the dance.

Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 3d

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” ~ Ray Bradbury

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Benedict Terry | COMMS OPEN @3enedict.bsky.social · 3d

JUST A REMINDER: I've still got EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS going. I'm about halfway through covering it, so thanks to everyone who's helped me so far.

Halloween discounts still apply.

ko-fi.com/3enedictterr....

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 3d

MARI LWYD CHARITY AUCTION UPDATE!
A wonderful postcard by @lri.bsky.social and his partner ( a collab) has arrived!

Please go see all the entries so far here!: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com

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Benedict Terry | COMMS OPEN @3enedict.bsky.social · 4d

ITS HERE! My latest song "Too Many Broken Parts" is now available on all platforms! #newmusic #newmusicfridays #comedymusic #parodysong www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHmP...

Benedict Terry- Too Many Broken Parts (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Benedict Terry

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Benedict Terry | COMMS OPEN @3enedict.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know... I have an album?

And you can listen to it (AND BUY IT) from Bandcamp! Check it out right here: benedictterry.bandcamp.com/album/the-ve... #album #comedymusic #comedy #parodysong

The Very Worst of Benedict Terry, by Benedict Terry

12 track album

benedictterry.bandcamp.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 4d

Noticed today that despite the fact that a woman won the Nobel Peace Prize …. The whole freaking day has been about centring an angry elderly white man instead!!

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 13d

We've got a big announcement to make! For the entire month of November, we're going to be hosting an event celebrating indie and self-published SFF authors that we're calling... A Month of Rain and Reads!

But we'd like YOU to get involved! Find out more:
www.readindiefantasy.com/announcing-a...

A banner image showing a planner with autumnal decorations and stickers along with calligraphy spelling out A Month of Rain and Reads. There is a stack of indie books in the background and a cup of coffee.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 4d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 4d

It's nailed to its perch.

Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 4d

Not that weird or Victorian. My Mum served it to me in the 70s. The recipe is in my Dad's WW2 cookbook. 😂

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Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social · 15d

Just researching Sir Edward Herbert for my WiP and came across this miniature by Isaac Oliver, which is exactly the kind of selfie I would love my boyfriend to give me. Apparently, he's chilling in the woods after a joust. #EarlyModern #17thC #KeepitStuart #ComeHither

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