Rain showers
at the water lily pond
Picnic postponed

#DailyHaikuPrompt - lily
#Haiku #ShortPoem #ThreeLines #Writing

The latest Writing Prompt is up! This week, the theme is In the Kitchen.

https://haikushackprompts.substack.com/p/weekly-prompt-in-the-kitchen

#poetry #fiction #poetrywriting #writing #writingcommunity #microfiction

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Hey friends who beta read / critique /edit for writers!

I've noticed that debut writers struggle more with staying consistently in present tense than past tense. Is my simple size too small? Or is this trend a real thing?

First week of May and my contest stats are: sent just over two submissions per day.

I'm editing more than producing new material since the start of the month.

I wrote a new thing...

...and it's not what I meant to write...

...but it's what I needed to

https://fromemily.com/every-choice-a-million-deaths/

@actuallyautistic

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #blogging #SmallWeb
#IndieWeb #grief #FromEmily

Quirky green witch vs cranky old necromancing arch mage dude in the catacombs of Brightwall. How should she defeat him?

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/5. Have you ever worked through a bad experience by writing fiction?

As a teenager I did that a lot. It felt easier and safer to write than to talk.
When it comes to my recent writing I wouldn’t word it like that. I do still write about specific personal experiences. But now it feels more like a creative act, and less like processing.

"I decided that I didn’t want to be this deadline-driven, miserable writer anymore. I actually like writing. I like my work." Sarah Lang explains how a mindset shift and buliding low-stress routines helped her actually enjoy #AcademicWriting

https://epigrammetry.hypotheses.org/5910

Just was out on the bike for a bit.

This was not smart. ideas for 3 new stories appeared.

Who else suffers from this? (Bike not mandatory.)

two minutes a year
the sound of silence
speaks louder than words

#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#WWII
#worldwar2
#remembranceday
#freedom
#peace
#niewieder
#neveragain
#neveragainisnow

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@haiku

@writingcommunity

Finding true #love is an interesting thing.

Out of the five #relationships I've been in that lasted in my life, one of them ruined the two I had after that.

It wasn't because it was horrible, it was because it was the most beautiful experience of my entire life.

It ended tragically and I was left with #grief and the inability to find someone as kind as her again.

I haven't given up that I will.

It's hard to fill a hole from someone so kind they taught me how to love myself, too.

Lots of driving this week. Appointments in town (50km/30miles away) for my parents, and I have to pick up my book's kickstarter flyers for ComiCon Melbourne and Supanova in Sydney. I quite like driving. Do you all have a chore you secretly enjoy?
#WritersLife #WritingCommunity #writing

Episode 4 of the 5AM StoryTalk Podcast is now available across podcast apps! Veronica Sullivan – director of the 2025 Melbourne Writers Festival – discusses curation as an act of creation, uncomfortable cultural conversations, and how literary fests will have to evolve because of publishing platforms like Substack.

#writing #writingcommunity #writinglife #Substack #literaryfestival #writingtips
 
https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/BibaTgCS3Sb

My shadow
was bending
on the asphalt
and I was standing
on the edge
of myself

Ich starte demnächst den neuen Zyklus "Regen". Das hat mit Humor nun rein gar nichts mehr zu tun und passt eher zu meiner gegenwärtigen Verfassung.

Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text

https://ericwbailey.website/published/dungeons-and-dragons-taught-me-how-to-write-alt-text/
https://ellyloel.com/dungeons-and-dragons-taught-me-how-to-write-alt-text/

#Bookmarks #Accessibility #Resources #Art #Communication #Writing #Image descriptions #Alt text

skylark song
summer
soundtrack

#dailyhaikuprompt - skylark
#haiku
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing
#writingcommunity
#summer
#birds

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Thinking loudly about not being able to write today.

https://headful.bearblog.dev/show-me-clouds-and-trees/

#blogging
#autorenLeben
#writing