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I Write Like
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I Write Like is a text editor for writers. I post about it, as well as about writing, storytelling, and books. I share only what I personally enjoy and find interesting.
The free version is here: https://iwl.me
Installed MacLampsX for lamps and snow. Work is frozen, brain is happy.

#Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
How is it going?

#Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Typewriter sounds – an IWL Premium feature – are free to use online during the holiday season until early January.
iwl.me
December 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Merry Christmas!
December 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A very informative article on narrative structure:
www.strangepilgrims.com/p/lit-theory...

#WritingCommunity
Lit Theory 101 | Narrative Structure & Time
Free, accessible, practical guide to help make you a better writer and reader | PART 1
www.strangepilgrims.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I'm so in love with the typewriter sounds in I Write Like I wish I had them for the whole browser.
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Happy Solstice!
December 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Bluesky pairs really well with Instapaper. I find stories on Bluesky, save them to Instapaper, and it becomes my digital bookshelf.

#app #reading
December 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
First lines are not everything, but they are definitely a lot.
Gabriel García Márquez on Kafka's Metamorphosis

#quotes #books
December 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Why do you write? I write to trap thoughts and characters in a physical form, so I can always return to them later, just like I caught these rays -- here one moment, gone the next.
#myphoto #WritingCommunity
December 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
What a perfect, heartbreaking and beautiful story. The loss of memory is shown with great skill through the perspective of a once-successful field biologist who is watching her world disappear in a literal and metaphorical inferno.

#shortstory
Spotlight this week on Betty J. Cotter, writing what she initially thought of as the “field trip story,” which then evolved into a greater examination of aging, memory, and our threatened environment.
The Memory Root - Tahoma Literary Review
For a while, Doris remembered when it started. A January day. Mild: 65 degrees, gentle breeze blowing in from the Gulf. She had brought her biology
tahomaliteraryreview.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If there’s a right time to read a certain story, then there’s probably a right time to write one too. And if you miss that time, whether for reading or writing, you can’t really connect to it anymore. Right?

#WritingCommunity
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I've just read 'Leaving', flash fiction by @kellypedro.bsky.social published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. I really liked it, especially the ending. At first, I feared something like this would happen, and then I knew it would because, of course, it couldn't be otherwise.
fracturedlit.com/leaving/
Leaving | Fractured
fracturedlit.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I've been obsessed with @grantamag.bsky.social's podcast to the point that I started looking forward to chores because that's when I listen to it. It feels like being wrapped in an atmosphere of thought, literature and discoveries. Here's the link:
granta.com/explore/?cat...

#podcast #books
Explore Granta | The Magazine of New Writing
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalists, Granta publishes the best new literary writing and art.
granta.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Reposted by I Write Like
Does your soul sing when you see a typewriter? My soul is singing now that there are typewriter sounds on I Write Like. Try it!
I’m so in love, I’m melting 🫠.
(I’ll attach the screenshots showing how to enable the feature.)
#amwriting #WritingCommunity
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
What a wonderful and heartbreaking story that lets a reader piece together what happened through thoughts and phrases that drop seemingly randomly during a fight over what a gravestone should say.
'Corners' by Etgar Keret published in @vqr.bsky.social
www.vqronline.org/spring-2025/...

#shortstory
Corners
And then they started fighting about what the gravestone would say. Noam’s dad wanted “Son, something, and friend, plucked in the prime of his life.” He didn’t know what the “something” would be yet, ...
www.vqronline.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
What are your thoughts on publishing the letters of famous people after their death? At what point does a private life become cultural material?
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Before you start reading this, ensure that your surroundings are suitable for explosive laughter.
Absolutely brilliant and hilarious. Thank you, Elizabeth Schambelan, and @nplusonemag, for this experience.

#shortstory #funny
December 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"The first words I typed were not on a computer keyboard or a glass screen, but on an old mechanical typewriter."

About typewriter sounds in I Write Like:
blog.iwl.me/2025/12/13/t...

#writing #editing #app
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Gabriel García Márquez on Kafka's Metamorphosis

#quotes #books
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I've just read this story, and it's so good! Such a perfect portrayal of the narrator through his thoughts. I now want to read more by Vivek Shanbhag.

#shortstory #storytelling
‘He introduced me: “Mr Manmohan, my boss, but more importantly, a famous Kannada short-story writer.” I listened for any trace of sarcasm.’ 

Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.

granta.com/a-measure-fo...
A Measure of Martyrdom | Vivek Shanbhag | Granta
‘I didn’t mention Shami to my wife, I am not sure why. Maybe, deep down, I wanted to keep her a secret.’ Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag translated by Srinath Perur.
granta.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Today I learned that some elements of sci-fi appeared as early as 2nd century CE in True Story by Lucian. I always thought it was a modern genre.

#books #history
December 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In 1986 Pennebaker and Beall studied the effects of journaling, calling it 'expressive writing'. They found it produced small but reliable benefits, such as better mood, reduced stress. New studies come to the same conclusion. Times change but stress remains, and so do the attempts to write it out.
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Does your soul sing when you see a typewriter? My soul is singing now that there are typewriter sounds on I Write Like. Try it!
I’m so in love, I’m melting 🫠.
(I’ll attach the screenshots showing how to enable the feature.)
#amwriting #WritingCommunity
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Do you write your first drafts by hand?

"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity"
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

#writing #brain #science
Frontiers | Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom
As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human brain. Brain ele...
www.frontiersin.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM