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@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

A day in the #life… ✍️
( #Philly Girl Edition) 🥨🦅⚾️🏒🤝❤️

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#art 🎨🖌️
#swag 🛍️

White mug, with red and blue print describing Philadelphia colloquialisms.

January 24, 2026 at 12:02 AM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

A night in the #life… ✍️🌔🍷💋

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#AuthorLife📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#art 🎨🖌️🕹️
#Romancelandia💘

Comic: woman thinks to herself, Hey, Sherri’s introducing herself to the new guy in our writers group. Sherri approaches the woman, who asks, “So, what’s he like?” Sherri answers: “Too much backstory, not enough action.”

January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

A day in the #life… ✍️
#Reading = #Rewarding❣️🧠📓🗣️

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#art 🎨🖌️🕹️

Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 8d

#booksky

January 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

“ #ThePitchLife “📨📖🫠

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#LitFic🏛️
#SciFiSky👽
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#comic🫟
#art🎨
#funny💀

January 21, 2026 at 12:55 PM

Citi of Books

@citiofbooks.bsky.social

Greyhound Therapy by JR Conway! Sheriff Craig Spence bravely faces justice, sacrifice, and growth in Wyoming. Bold characters and a journey readers won’t forget. 📘🔥

🛒 Purchase your copy now!
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#BookLovers #ContemporaryFiction #CitiOfBooks #booksky

January 23, 2026 at 4:49 PM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

A day in the #life… ✍️
#OnARoll Edition 🥐🧻🪶

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#PulpitSky😇
#MedievalSky🕯️
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#art 🎨🖌️

Comic of a medieval scribe at his lectern writing from a mounted role of what appears to be toilet paper.

January 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

A day in the #life… ✍️🧠❣️📖

#grammar🎓🧐
#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#nonfiction📒
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#art 🎨🖌️🕹️
#fanfic👥💋

Woman at her desk sending an email: Dear Internet: We, the current editors of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style, must – with great reluctance – clarify a point of orthography: Strunk & White should be used for the style manual and Strunk/White for the erotic fanfiction pairing.

January 25, 2026 at 4:30 PM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

“ #ThePitchLife “📨📖🦴🔩⚡️

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#HorrorLit🧌
#SpecLit🛸
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#webcomics🫟
#art🎨

Comic:
Publisher in office speaking to author about first draft of Frankenstein: “Don’t get me wrong Miss Shelley, potentially you have the nuts and bolts of a good novel here.”

January 23, 2026 at 2:52 PM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

#Don’tGiveUp: Lit Agent Edition
#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers🧱
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#LitFic🏛️
#SciFiSky👽
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#funny💀😂

January 21, 2026 at 4:06 AM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

“ #ThePitchLife “📨📖🫠

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#LitFic🏛️
#SciFiSky👽
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#comic🫟
#art🎨
#funny💀

January 22, 2026 at 12:28 AM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

The Art of the #Edit✂️✨
#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#LitFic🏛️
#SciFiSky👽
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#funny💀
#manuscript📑

Comic with writer and publisher conversing: “ I read your manuscript with interest. We just to change need a couple of things. What you said and how you said it.”

January 21, 2026 at 1:05 PM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

A day in the #life… ✍️

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers🧱
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#LitFic🏛️
#SciFiSky👽
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#funny💀
#videogames🕹️

Literary agent sits behind her desk, and addresses an author: “ beautiful book. However, I’m afraid it lacks video game potential.”

January 21, 2026 at 2:35 AM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

“ #ThePitchLife “📨📖🫠

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#LitFic🏛️
#SciFiSky👽
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#funny💀
#amquerying🌪️

Literary agent behind his desk to author: “ I’m afraid we only accept manuscripts through an agent, except spy novels, which we only accept through a double agent.”

January 21, 2026 at 2:56 AM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

#YouKnowYou’reAWriterWhen… ✍️

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers ✍️
#authors📖
#readers 👀
#WeeknightWriters 🌘🖥️
#booklovers💕📘
#readingcommunity👀📖🏘️
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub 🌄
#6amwritersclub 🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#wip👩🏻‍💻
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#MusicSky 🎶🎸🥁
#MusicCommunity 🎧🏘️

January 19, 2026 at 11:44 AM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

A day in the #life… ✍️
( #Classy #Caffeine Edition)☕️🫖🫨

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#art 🎨🖌️
#swag 🛍️

January 19, 2026 at 11:17 AM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

A day in the #life… ✍️
( #Plot Hole Edition)😵‍💫🕳️🪏
#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#WIP📑
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#art 🎨🖌️🕹️

Plot hole meme: author at teetering at the edge of a mountain gorge. Where they stand: the thousands of words I’ve written so far. The gorge says plot. The other side of the mountain says the one scene I’m trying to get to that inspired the whole thing.

January 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

THIS‼️👏✨

⬇️Same 4 ALL #Writers✍️

#BlueSky🦋
#writing💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge🔎📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#LitFic🏛️
#foodies🍽️
#SciComm🔬
#SciFiSky🧙🏼

Ularis Badler @ubadler.bsky.social · 7d

The reason for this post is that I often see the “start small” advice given to beginners. I’m not against it, not at all, but it’s simply something that wouldn’t have worked for me. In fact, I got to where I am precisely because I dismissed a lot of the advice I was given.

#gamedev #indiegamedev

January 18, 2026 at 1:27 PM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

The Art of #Avoidance✍️❄️🪏
#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#LitFic🏛️
#SciFiSky👽
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#funny💀
#WIP📑
#weather🌡️💨
#snow☃️

Comic conversation between two writers through their coffee cups: “Did you get any writing done yesterday, Bo? I didn’t, Bella. I spent four hours shoveling the snow. By the time I was done, I was too tired to write. If you need a time to write, why don’t you just pay someone to shovel your snow? I’ve considered it, but my desire to save money is greater than my desire to write.”

January 24, 2026 at 3:19 PM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

A day in the #life… ✍️
( #Plot- #Zing Edition)😵‍💫🗺️🕳️🪏

#BlueSky🦋
#writing 💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#art 🎨🖌️🕹️

Riders explaining the plot of their book:
Photo of crazed man with police-like red yarn strung haphazardly across a wall of pinned news clippings.

January 19, 2026 at 1:16 AM

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨

@kaygoodstadt.bsky.social

#Weekend #Wisdom ✍️✨🔥🌎

#BlueSky🦋
#writing💻
#BookSky📚
#bookchallenge🔎📙
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers ✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📘
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌠
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌅
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#foodies🍽️
#SciComm🔬
#SciFiSky🧙🏼
#magic🪄

You are a writer. Your words hold immense power to touch hearts, transform minds, and shaped the course of history. Ignite the world with the magic of your words.

January 17, 2026 at 3:25 PM

diagonalizable.bsky.social

@diagonalizable.bsky.social

Choose 30 books, one-per-day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women.
#BookSky 📚 #bookchallenge 🔎 📙
#readers 👀 📖 #booklovers 💕📕📗📘💕
#buchsky #buchliebe