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"Mr. Tippy-Tappy"

Once, a nice woman in New Orleans fed a beautiful Blue Jay yummy peanuts. But then, she moved away. The Blue Jay started to tap loudly on all the windows in the neighborhood. What's next?

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DECLASSIFIED! We had no identification of this undocumented victim. Everyone deserves to be recognized by their life. Gus & Ollie were on the case! https://www.catdetectivecases.com/year8-casefile47/
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Have a great week writing! I feel good about this week...

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.07 — World Health Day! What’s your take on the “suffer for art” argument?

I can relate. In my first writing career, I suffered a lot of procrastination and displacement activity, you know, finding yourself sweeping instead of typing on the computer. When my agent and I had disagreements about my work, exacerbated by a publisher almost buying and then not, calling one of my sensitive male characters too wimpy, I entered a zone where I was producing novel after novel nobody was reading

It was suffering. I burnt out.

I've a handle on what went wrong and my attitude being about forcing appreciation from others to feel validated. Better I enjoy my work, and like my stories first and foremost, and find outlets even if not remunerative (e.g. fan fiction). Keep it fun.

I don't plan to suffer again.

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#PennedPossibilities 637 — Does your MC have a past that haunts them?

May Ri watched from Mars orbit as Herschel Crater got nuked, having failed to knock out all the missiles with her railgun. Her eldest daughter worked in the capitol, in the domed city situated in that crater. Had. She has nightmares of the flash and a mushroom cloud rising. Sort of like in the attached vid.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38985/sarychev-peak-eruption-kuril-islands

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Credit: NASA Johnson

#WritersCoffeeClub 6. Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?

I try to go wild and am usually happier when I do, but sometimes I can't see past the errors.

Writing every day helps with the "go wild" approach. I find if I take too much time off, I'll spend all my time revising the bit I wrote last time.

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WRITER FUEL: An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

https://www.limfic.com/2025/04/06/writer-fuel-did-an-interstellar-visitor-warp-the-course-of-four-of-our-planets/

Stick a fork in her, she’s done. Evie spent the morning in the window and toasted. The burn, obviously, was uneven.

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight.

Today: For author and textile artist A. Catherine Noon, it’s all about the yarn, both metaphorical and literal – spinning a yarn, knitting with yarn, weaving, sewing, painting, sharing stories and good times over a cup of coffee with dark chocolate. She teaches creative writing, creative expression and textile arts.

https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-a-catherine-noon-2/

Irish Writers' Union networking event - Pearse Street Library 5.30pm, 17 April - meet your union reps and meet local fellow-writers, ask any questions you have
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I've submitted my 5th April story for the #AustralianWritersCentre's #FuriousFiction challenge. Will it get an honorable mention? I'll have to wait and see! #writers #writing #flashfiction #shortstories

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#PennedPossibilities 636 — Are your characters superstitious? CW: A-theism.

In Mars Needs Women, May Ri when caught not praying during school prayer (in a public school!), her anger flares and she proclaims she's an a-theist. Note the spelling. May Ri is so NOT superstitious that at one point in the book (when she's trying to terminate an unplanned pregnancy and is being forced to watch videos) she says:

"I'm an a-theist, raised Clear Thinking by my father. My mother died when I was 5. She ceased to be, that's all. Your invisible friend is a farce; there's no 'better' place to go. Like all animals, [my mother] stopped being; this will, too. I have to take care of now, and will."

I can't speak about other characters in the story. Some are religious, but the topic doesn't come up. However, in May Ri's world view, there is no place for anything super-natural. She's an engineer, after all.

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