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Rosetta Yorke Author
@rosetta.bsky.social
1.7K followers 1K following 1.5K posts
Gothic romance, horror & time travel author. Writes short stories & drabbles. #TurtleWriters

Published by Black Hare Press, Stygian Lepus, Undertaker Books, Mocking Owl Roost, HorrorAddicts.net Press, Dark Rose Press, & Dragon Soul Press.
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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
~William Somerset Maugham

Remember, #turtlewriters, when you write, you're constructing a refuge both for yourself & for everyone who reads your story!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
A village of tiny houses carved into the remains of a chopped off tree stump.
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.”
— Wayne Dyer

Think positive, believe in yourself & follow your dreams, #turtlewriters! You can do this & we're right here cheering you on. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
Dark brown desert sand dunes under a dark brown, starry sky.
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment & to say in his heart of hearts, ‘To hell with you.’”

– Saul Bellow

Start a new WIP whilst submitting, so you stay upbeat & motivated, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
— Thomas Edison

Keep going, #turtlewriters! Write one word, one sentence, one paragraph after another until, one day, you'll find you've finished your book! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
A golden dawn sky over silhouetted tower block roofs.
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books."
~Julian Barnes

Never underestimate the power of your story & your voice, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
The view of one long wall of a gloomy library lit by bare lightbulbs.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely & isolated from anyone. You belong."

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

You're never alone when you have #turtlewriters cheering you on! Good luck!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
A male figure in a coat, standing on a moorland track, silhouetted against a gold and dark sky.
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head.”
— Jon Acuff

Have confidence in your writing, #turtlewriters! You have a great story & you're the only one who can tell it! So keep writing!🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”
e.e. cummings

Love your story, #turtlewriters, & then it will be *true* for your readers! ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
- Oscar Wilde

Write at your own pace, #turtlewriters! However slow that might be, your characters will wait for you because It's your story & you're the only one who can tell it how it should be told. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
A long-haired woman sitting down, talking to a seated dog, both silhouetted against the setting sun.
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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It started, as these things often do, with a whisper that made me tremble. A murmur on the radio, a voice that spoke of change, of a world on the cusp. “History unfolding” they called it. A grand, sweeping narrative that led only to a tangle of broken promises and autocracy

#RetroArtPrompt #tremble
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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It is now #PiDay / #PieDay, so Sweet Dreams is now live!

A #TTRPG module for Apocalypse Keys pits Omen-class monsters against a candy landscape

Links
Calenmir’s RPGs: www.calenmirsrpgs.com/Shop/p/Sweet...
Itch: calenmirs-rpgs.itch.io/Sweet-Dreams
DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Sweet Dreams. An Apocalypse Keys Mystery from Calenmir's RPGs. The central figure is a bear made of blue gummy candy that is standing on its hind legs, baring its teeth. The Calenmir's RPGs logo, a yellow knight, is in the lower right-hand corner of the cover.
March 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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"Just as one candle lights another & can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart & can illuminate thousands of other hearts."
- Leo Tolstoy

Put your heart into your WIP, #turtlewriters, & it will illuminate your readers' hearts, too.🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
A candle made up of any small red hearts, with a flame burning steadily at the top.
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️

Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity
Two very curly-haired white sheep and one dark brown and black one, looking into the camera.
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I'm thrilled @blackharepress.bsky.social have accepted my horror sci-fi story 'The Gift That Keeps Giving' for their forthcoming anthology 'Eerie Christmas 4'! 🎄🎅!
Perfect Christmas reading for all #horror fans!

Pre-order link books2read.com/Eerie-4
A spooky Gothic image of a Christmas Tree made of skulls and orange ornaments, set against a sinister night sky.
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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“…the beginning of my stories is always very promising & looks as though I were starting on a novel, & the middle is huddled & timid, & the end is...like fireworks.”
- Anton Chekhov

Everyone struggles with the muddy middle, #turtlewriters! Trust yourself & keep going! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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'Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, & which are completely unnecessary to know.'
- Leo Tolstoy

Good luck with whatever you may need it for, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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"The kinder & more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy & dull things become cheerful."
- Leo Tolstoy

#turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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'It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.'
- William Shakespeare

Believe in yourself, like we believe in you, #turtlewriters, and anything is possible. Good luck with your WIP. 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
A star constellation in a midnight blue sky.
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
- Henry Miller

Pass on a little love, hope, encouragement, a kind word, or even a smile, #turtlewriters, & everyone's day will be a hundred times brighter! 🙂🐢❤️ 🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Fifty years ago, I'd have KILLED to take photos like this.
Well.
Ok.
I'd have been willing to say something slighting about somebody's hair to take photos like this, fifty years ago.
It's just down to the hagling really🥴

Nikon
180-600mm lens
Close-up, left-lit gibbous Moon (~60–70% illuminated) against a black sky. Dark, smooth basaltic plains (maria) dominate the bright hemisphere – most prominently the round Mare Imbrium near the upper left with Mare Serenitatis adjoining it, and broader mare patches lower left. The right edge is the terminator, showing strong relief in the southern highlands: dense fields of overlapping craters with crisp rims and deep shadowing; chains and wall segments give a ragged, scalloped profile toward the limb. Near the lower-right limb a cluster of large, overlapping craters (Clavius–Tycho region) is visible, though Tycho’s rays are subdued at this phase. Fine surface texture is slightly softened by atmospheric interference.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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"...A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, & that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones."
-Anton Chekhov

Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters!🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity
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November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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“A writer reports on the universe...the gates of heaven & hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense & god’s accusations...The writer can be anything & any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.”
- Bangambiki Habyarimana

#turtlewriters🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity
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November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Find people who help you feel more at home in your heart, mind & body...who take joy in your joy...who love you, for real...who accept you, for real. Just as you are...Your tribe is waiting for you. Don’t stop searching until you find them.”
-Scott Stabile

#turtlewriters🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity
A golden dawn breaking on the horizon of a velvet black sky
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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“Find people who can handle your darkest truths...who don’t change the subject when you share your pain, or try to make you feel bad for feeling bad. Find people who understand we all struggle...&...there’s no weakness in admitting it.”
- Scott Stabile

#turtlewriters🙂🐢 ❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity
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November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️

Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! Love & ((hugs)) 🍀 #WritingCommunity
Two cute toy rabbits, one tall & one small, sitting on a moss-covered stone wall, with hazy buildings in the distance.
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM