Writing About Writing About Writing
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A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
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Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Looking for a gift for a writer?
Here are my top five options.
What things are on your gift list for your writer friends?
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Here are my top five options.
What things are on your gift list for your writer friends?
#writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #booksky
Writing Books to Gift Writers
Writing books sure to please your writer friends.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Looking for a gift for a writer?
Here are my top five options.
What things are on your gift list for your writer friends?
#writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #booksky
Here are my top five options.
What things are on your gift list for your writer friends?
#writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #booksky
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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Today's #writingprompt for StoryADay comes from editor Tiffany Yates Martin and invites you to reimagine...the impossible! storyaday.org/2025-day-26
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's #writingprompt for StoryADay comes from editor Tiffany Yates Martin and invites you to reimagine...the impossible! storyaday.org/2025-day-26
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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A community of writers can lift us up and, when needed, push us along. Author Harper Ross shares her gratitude for her recent experience at the UnConference, today at WU.
Giving Thanks For The Writers At My Table
On Thursday, most of us will gather around the Thanksgiving table with close family and friends, expressing our gratitude for one another and the things that bring us happiness. Today, I want to …
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November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A community of writers can lift us up and, when needed, push us along. Author Harper Ross shares her gratitude for her recent experience at the UnConference, today at WU.
How do you maintain enthusiasm for a writing project, especially when they can drag on for years? The answer might lie in Begeisterung.
#writingabtwriting 📚💙 #author #writingq #writingcommunity
#writingabtwriting 📚💙 #author #writingq #writingcommunity
Finding Begeisterung
Begeisterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived
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November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
How do you maintain enthusiasm for a writing project, especially when they can drag on for years? The answer might lie in Begeisterung.
#writingabtwriting 📚💙 #author #writingq #writingcommunity
#writingabtwriting 📚💙 #author #writingq #writingcommunity
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What would happen if you just believed you could?
I love these videos by Struthless on YouTube for keeping myself creative and away from the doom spirals. If you're not feeling it today, worth a watch?
I love these videos by Struthless on YouTube for keeping myself creative and away from the doom spirals. If you're not feeling it today, worth a watch?
Self sabotage? In this economy?
YouTube video by struthless
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November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What would happen if you just believed you could?
I love these videos by Struthless on YouTube for keeping myself creative and away from the doom spirals. If you're not feeling it today, worth a watch?
I love these videos by Struthless on YouTube for keeping myself creative and away from the doom spirals. If you're not feeling it today, worth a watch?
*sigh* how did you know about my cable box of shame? I'd clean it out, but I might *need* a four-foot coax cable or a type B cable in the future?
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
*sigh* how did you know about my cable box of shame? I'd clean it out, but I might *need* a four-foot coax cable or a type B cable in the future?
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It’s this beautiful out.
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It’s this beautiful out.
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When Dwight Swain was teaching workshops my granddad was still in college. Yet much of his advice rings true today. If I was teaching a class, this is the book we'd use.
Read this #writingabtwriting to see if 'Techniques of the Selling Writer' is right for you.
💙📚 #writingq #writingcommunity
Read this #writingabtwriting to see if 'Techniques of the Selling Writer' is right for you.
💙📚 #writingq #writingcommunity
Techniques of the Selling Writer - Dwight V. Swain
A 50’s era pulp writer speed runs your writing knowledge. If I was teaching a college course today on writing fiction, this is the book we’d use as a textbook.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
When Dwight Swain was teaching workshops my granddad was still in college. Yet much of his advice rings true today. If I was teaching a class, this is the book we'd use.
Read this #writingabtwriting to see if 'Techniques of the Selling Writer' is right for you.
💙📚 #writingq #writingcommunity
Read this #writingabtwriting to see if 'Techniques of the Selling Writer' is right for you.
💙📚 #writingq #writingcommunity
In this house we share each other's work.
Congrats Erin!
Congrats Erin!
Fellow Starling Writer Erin Cullen's "asdfghjklkjhgfdsa" is out in @perseidprophecies.bsky.social. Free to read and so, so good. Go check it out!
🪐💙📚 #shortstory #freefiction #writingcommunity
🪐💙📚 #shortstory #freefiction #writingcommunity
Latest Issue - Perseid Prophecies
Issue 7: Autumn 2025 Fiction SUPPORT PUBLIC TRANSIT! by Thomas White The Decimationist by Nathan Batchelor River Daughter by Jeannie Marschall The Old Man of the Sea by D. A. Raymond asdfghjklkjhgfdsa...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In this house we share each other's work.
Congrats Erin!
Congrats Erin!
Fuck AI. Copy like an artist instead.
When you know your work isn't measuring up, but you're not sure why or how to get to the next level, use a trick from the artists and do a master study to figure out how the fuck they did that instead of stealing their work.
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When you know your work isn't measuring up, but you're not sure why or how to get to the next level, use a trick from the artists and do a master study to figure out how the fuck they did that instead of stealing their work.
#writingabtwriting #mastercopy 📚💙
Tool: The Master Study
Today we are going to steal a tool from the visual artist’s cabinets and see if we can bang it into shape that works for writers. It’s called a Master Study, and it’s part copying, part analysis, and ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Fuck AI. Copy like an artist instead.
When you know your work isn't measuring up, but you're not sure why or how to get to the next level, use a trick from the artists and do a master study to figure out how the fuck they did that instead of stealing their work.
#writingabtwriting #mastercopy 📚💙
When you know your work isn't measuring up, but you're not sure why or how to get to the next level, use a trick from the artists and do a master study to figure out how the fuck they did that instead of stealing their work.
#writingabtwriting #mastercopy 📚💙
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I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
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Today's tea is Yorkshire gold with sweetened condensed milk and some Sam Delaney on "Begiesterung" for an upcoming #writingabtwriting article.
"Begiesterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived."
🍵🫖 #teasky #booksky
"Begiesterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived."
🍵🫖 #teasky #booksky
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Today's tea is Yorkshire gold with sweetened condensed milk and some Sam Delaney on "Begiesterung" for an upcoming #writingabtwriting article.
"Begiesterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived."
🍵🫖 #teasky #booksky
"Begiesterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived."
🍵🫖 #teasky #booksky
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Any one of these is a story prompt too. Let your imagination run wild!
Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Any one of these is a story prompt too. Let your imagination run wild!
The Master Study for Authors is up as a guest post on Substack. Is there a writing technique you want to master but you're not sure how to go about learning it? A master study may be the way for you.
#writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #author #writingq 💙📚
#writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #author #writingq 💙📚
The Master Study for Authors
Today Em will steal a tool from the visual artist’s cabinet and bang it into shape for writers. It’s called a Master Study: part copying, part analysis, part hands-on learning.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Master Study for Authors is up as a guest post on Substack. Is there a writing technique you want to master but you're not sure how to go about learning it? A master study may be the way for you.
#writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #author #writingq 💙📚
#writingabtwriting #writingcommunity #author #writingq 💙📚
If you need another reminder to read your contacts thoroughly, even, or maybe especially, for your dream markets.
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If you need another reminder to read your contacts thoroughly, even, or maybe especially, for your dream markets.
Voice is my current bete noir. My white whale. My keys at the bottom of a storm drain.
If you too are struggling to find your (writing) voice, here are four books that might help.
#writingabtwriting 📚💙🪐 #writingcommunity #writing #writingq
If you too are struggling to find your (writing) voice, here are four books that might help.
#writingabtwriting 📚💙🪐 #writingcommunity #writing #writingq
Books for Finding Your Voice
A list of intrepid tomes that dare to teach what many say cannot be taught.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Voice is my current bete noir. My white whale. My keys at the bottom of a storm drain.
If you too are struggling to find your (writing) voice, here are four books that might help.
#writingabtwriting 📚💙🪐 #writingcommunity #writing #writingq
If you too are struggling to find your (writing) voice, here are four books that might help.
#writingabtwriting 📚💙🪐 #writingcommunity #writing #writingq
This month's #writingabtwriting report for members features several craft articles and an especially spooky party favor that I really want a story about.
#writingcommunity 📚💙🪐
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Reading Report: October 2025
This Month's reading report features craft articles from Ilona Andrews and C.L. Polk, a 2,000 year-old copper skeletong and 100 word memoirs.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This month's #writingabtwriting report for members features several craft articles and an especially spooky party favor that I really want a story about.
#writingcommunity 📚💙🪐
#writingcommunity 📚💙🪐