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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 768 — How do you balance writing with personal life?Yesterday: On Vacation on the Central California Coast<ul><li>Woke, tried to sleep but wrote the current chapter in my head.</li><li>Spouse drove to the next town for breakfast. I wrote on iPad.</li><li>Ate breakfast on restaurant patio. I wrote.</li><li>In passenger seat going back to hotel. I wrote.</li><li>Ditto to wine tasting up the coast. I wrote.</li><li>Enjoyed flight of wine overlooking the sea coast. I wrote.</li><li>Some shopping, returned to hotel, then to swimming pool to swim. Paid attention.</li><li>In hot tub. Wrote on iPhone.</li><li>In jacuzzi in hotel room. Hour and a half soak. Wrote on iPhone.</li><li>Late dinner in room. Wrote on iPad.</li><li>After dinner. Wrote and finished chapter just before midnight. 6,100 words total, about 2,500 today.</li></ul>Um…Yesterday was a good day.PS: Up at 4:00 AM. Found and answered this prompt, demonstrating show don't tell.[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RSReluctanceStory</a>

jumacheck the equation what will you add, not subtract in this proof of life?<a href="https://mas.to/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoPrompt</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/add" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#add</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@stevencudahy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@stevencudahy</a>

Lydia Vvinters<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/EroticMusings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EroticMusings</a> 13: How important is it that an audience experiences your work? How much interaction do you want?I create for myself, and I'll publish when I'm dead. My current audience is, well, mostly just me. Past, present, future. So, yes, it's very important this audience experiences my work, and I would like more positive interactions with my audience/self.Beyond that, it's my precious and I won't let nasty hobbitses take it from us.<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

AmbientDreadSardine Dread<a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialSplatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSplatter</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Sundries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sundries</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/Poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poems</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/posts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#posts</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/YesterdaysRiff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YesterdaysRiff</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blogging</a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://ambientdread.net/2025/08/28/aug-27-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ambientdread.net/2025/08/28/aug-27-2025/</a>

Lydia Vvinters<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> 28, What's the highest praise you've received as a writer?"This is BLEEPING woke BLEEP madness written for semi intellectual, horny LGBTQ BLEEPS!"Yes, yes it is. :rainbow_heart: <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

Lydia Vvinters<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 28, Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?Most are heavily symbolic and taken from history, philosophy, mythology, or various pantheons. (Freya, Lazarus, Socrates, Plinius)Others, are smash the keyboard type random. (Ixtan, Intamar)And more are "could be" IRL historical names.(Pelliniana, Zonasius)Some are just a bit funny. Like a witch named Hazel and the Zant coven. I balance this with some normal names like Fred and Clyde.<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

RichardWhen Dad Lies About a Failed State<a href="https://subspacewagon.systems/when-dad-lies-about-a-failed-state/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://subspacewagon.systems/when-dad-lies-about-a-failed-state/</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poetry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@poetry</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/poets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@poets</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@writing</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@writers</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/SharingIsCaring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SharingIsCaring</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/PoetryLover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoetryLover</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poem</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/PoetryCafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoetryCafe</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amwriting</a>

Stephen Hayes<a href="https://c.im/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 768 — How do you balance writing with personal life?I don't, but I've almost given up <a href="https://c.im/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Writing</a> for several reasons:1. The computer on which I do my writing has lost all connection to its USB ports, so I can't save, back up or transfer anything I write to or from it. 2. The publisher with whom I signed a contract doesn't acknowledge, much less reply to my letters.3. Nobody reads my books anyway. A few people took free ebook copies of my books in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smashwords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Smashwords</a> summer/winter sale, but none of them have written any reviews, so I assume they didn't read them.So I've more or less stopped writing and read other people's trashy novels instead. My current read is "Death's Disciples" by J. Robert King, which appears to be "The Satanic Verses"-lite -- magic realism, adventures of the survivor of an air crash being pursued by the ghosts of those who succumbed, the FBI, the terrorist group that brought down the plane, and a few more.What are the beauties of springtime to me? Let me be drunk. Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sustainer! (Joyce) <a href="https://c.im/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a>

Hannah Steenbock<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 8/28 Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?Since the Wolves take place in our world (with a few extras), they get names that work in our world.For my fantasy worlds, I invent names. It doesn't feel right for people there to have "our" kind of names.In the Twin Worlds, the Earthlings get Earth names, the rest have their own.<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fantasy</a>

Lydia Vvinters<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 768 — How do you balance writing with personal life?By diligently failing at it repeatedly.<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

Lydia Vvinters<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScribesAndMakers</a> 28, You're a bored ghost talking to an aspiring author through a ouija board. Who would you pretend to be?I've always been amused at Tutankhamun's eagerness to communicate with folks during seances when they became popular in the 1920s. It's so delightfully absurd that I am somewhat disappointed he's not showing up any more. I'd tell the author all about the aliens, and how I cursed everyone who touched my tomb to die! (mostly of old age).<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a>

RichardI deleted yesterday's poem, "Fasting," because it is awful. Maybe I will go back and work on it more, I don't know. <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoemADay</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/PoetryLover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoetryLover</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poem</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TodaysPoem</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/PoetryCafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoetryCafe</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://allmyneighbors.earth/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amwriting</a>

Hannah Steenbock<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/PhantastikPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PhantastikPrompts</a> 28.8.25: Wie gehst du damit um, wenn deine emotionale Situation dich beim Schreiben blockiert?Dann spiele ich Valheim.Ich spiele zur Zeit viel zu viel Valheim.Die Richtung, in die sich unsere Welt zur Zeit bewegt, macht mich fertig. Echt alles läuft gegen jegliche Vernunft, gegen Menschlichkeit, gegen Miteinander - und ich rede noch gar nicht vom Klima, von Krieg und vom Faschismus.Ich kann gar nicht so viel essen, wie ich kotzen möchte.<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Schreiben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Schreiben</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a>

Skip Scherer - AuthorThe Social CreativeIf you came for my writing— sorry, you found my politics. If you came for my politics— sorry, you stumbled on art. If you came for my art— sorry, the writing slipped in. If you came for it all— You found me.💙📚 💙 🪐📚 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a>

Hannah Steenbock<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 768 — How do you balance writing with personal life?I don't have a personal life.Well, mostly. Sad truth, though, my life revolves around my books and some Valheim. Work is a necessary interruption.Don't even know how to change that.<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a>

rhaenAllright, good morning. Dear science and writers bubble, how do you deal with local toolchains for managing your library and archives?I tried Zotero and had a look - *ugh* it requires cloud syncing for metadata and webdav for storage (or pay for it).Is is really a combination of a local bibtex file in combination with archivebox?Any feedback is highly appreciated! (boosting as well).<a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/bibtex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bibtex</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/zotero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zotero</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emacs</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a>

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Spooky Panda 🇺🇦<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> 768 — How do you balance writing with personal life?Not well? Just kidding! They're usually one and the same, to be fair. A majority of my close friends are also writers, or we actually met through writing (whether it's original work, fanfiction, or roleplay stories), and I absolutely love it. I met my girlfriend the same way 13+ years ago. She's also a writer.But honestly, I do pretty well. I have ME time, and then I have WRITING time. So, it's not usually a problem for me. "Me time" consists of reading, listening to podcasts and audio dramas, gaming, art, watching telly or streaming stuff, and paranormal things (and my spooky podcast is a whole other story, with how much of my life that takes up). You just have to try and find a balance. It isn't easy, but you have to try. It keeps you sane. <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a>

SatanThe Satanic Curses – Wrath.<a href="http://satan-speaks.com/2022/11/the-satanic-curses-wrath/?fsp_sid=35243" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://satan-speaks.com/2022/11/the-satanic-curses-wrath/?fsp_sid=35243</a> Words have power, and words have meaning. People think you can spew a load onto a page, and that is that. That is the end, but some of us have power. Some of us have a gift. I thought that I used to write without limits. The sky was never the limit. The sky, if anything, […] Written by Satan & Lee Wilson. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> Block Filter - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UGhhYmFyZw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UGhhYmFyZw</a>

Crewman Six, Snack Viking 🪓every soul must face choices...<a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a><a href="https://crewmansixrants.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/tempered-intellect/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://crewmansixrants.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/tempered-intellect/</a>

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