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Sticky and Humid: https://devonellington.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/fri-june-6-2025-sticky-and-humid/

Well, here's my trope map

I did have a lot of fun doing it even if I was quite woozy!

And in case this tempts you (despite the mistakes in alignment etc), all the handy-dandy purchase links are on this page:

https://mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/places-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook/

(I do need to figure out how to set up an itch.io storefront at some point)

#Bookstodon #books #fantasy #mythology #mermaids #writing #writingcommunity

Obligatory shiny water shot.
#Melbourne #ComicCon #writing #photography

current mood? panic
soon switching into calm mode
ctrl alt delete

#haiku #writing #poetry #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

#MastoPrompt #panic
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Friday 6 June 2025 is:

#panic

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

New plan to reduce the size of my WiP. Remove every second word.

Today's Wandering Shop Stories #prompt is #spread. Feel like writing something short and sweet that has the word "spread" in it? Check out the definitions of the word at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spread Join in and tag it with #wss366! #writing #WritingLife #microfiction h/t @extraspecialbitter

I don't understand the advice to "write from an outline". Where do people get that outline from if not from their writing?
#writing

Swooping and fluttering
Drawn to incandescent light
On paper thin wings

#DailyHaikuPrompt (north) Moth

Phew! For one sweaty moment, before I read the full instructions for June's #FuriousFiction, I feared our stories would have to feature the entire NATO phonetic alphabet! #writers #writing #flashfiction #shortstories

Link to Australian Writers' Centre website: https://www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fiction/

#PennedPossibilities 691 — MC POV: Have you traveled to other lands? (Or planets, even?)

Yes. And yes.

Oh, you want an enumeration? I've been told I can admit I was with Rainy Days when she conquered the northern prefecture of the dragon lands. She'd decided I was her new favorite student and she fetched me during my math class, in front of everyone, and took me away to teach me "lessons" that in retrospect that were very important but a bit too nerve wracking for my taste. I learned what the phrase "grew up fast" meant, learning by doing as it were.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

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#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#WritersCoffeeClub

6 June. What are the conventions of the genre in which you write? How strictly do you follow them?

There are conventions?

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Less than 30 minutes until the #AustralianWritersCentre drops the prompts for this month's #FuriousFiction. I wrote my first ever superhero story for last year's June challenge, The Power of Two!

#writers #writing #flashfiction #shortstories #superheroes

Link to story on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/short-stories/the-power-of-two

#WritersCoffeeClub 6/6. What are the conventions of the genre in which you write? How strictly do you follow them?
See, this is what I deeply dislike and distrust about ‘genre’.
People , please, it’s meant to be a SIGNPOST not a STRAITJACKET. (Sorry for shouting but this stuff bugs me beyond belief.)
So, no, I just don’t.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon

#WordWeavers 6/6. What object would you use to represent the sensory feel of your story?
Sensory feel? Of which every object, every sunbeam, every sound and scent, is a part? Tall order.
But okay, okay… a beehive.
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