I Want to Believe.
Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in four months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.
Write quicker. Publish more. Optimise. Optimise. Optimise.
This essay argues for something else.
Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writing-factory
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #UK #Publishing #Craft
Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in four months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.
Write quicker. Publish more. Optimise. Optimise. Optimise.
This essay argues for something else.
Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writing-factory
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #UK #Publishing #Craft
I Want to Believe.
Hello lovely people, just in case you need to snatch up a small moment of happiness today, you can find Tiny Moments of Joy here in both print and ebook form.
https://www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments-of-joy
Link is for direct purchase and the big retail stores. The site is in New Zealand dollars, so much much cheaper in most other currencies, including Narnian Lions😊
RELEASE DAY!!
My new graphic novel, a queer regency rom-com with a transmasc MC & an Austen mashup plot, is out in the UK today (about 5 years since I first started researching for the pitch.)
Here's a link to more about the book https://www.hari-illustration.com/-i-shall-never-fall-in-love
And just a big THANK YOU to everyone who's been supporting it 🌈📚
Hello lovely people, just in case you need to snatch up a small moment of happiness today, you can find Tiny Moments of Joy here in both print and ebook form.
https://www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments-of-joy
Link is for direct purchase and the big retail stores. The site is in New Zealand dollars, so much much cheaper in most other currencies, including Narnian Lions😊
Completly misunderstanding how society works is what tech bros do best! 😂
@bookstodon @books @joinin
@worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#Tech #Bro #Dystopian
#SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks
#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove
Completly misunderstanding how society works is what tech bros do best! 😂
@bookstodon @books @joinin
@worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#Tech #Bro #Dystopian
#SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks
#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove
New in our electronic collection:
➡️ Synthetic Frontiers: Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands
🔗 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15813.001.0001
"Bringing feminist science and technology studies approaches to materiality together with hydrohumanities critiques of terracentrism, Kim De Wolff shows how ocean plastic pollution is shaped by land/water divides and the fluidities that defy them."
#Ocean #OceanPlastic #OpenAccess #OpenScience #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Pollution #FeministScience #Environment
Inside Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library
By Mike MacEacheran
The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library
Medieval library at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+library
Inside Switzerland's extraordinary medieval library
By Mike MacEacheran
The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20260202-inside-switzerlands-extraordinary-medieval-library
Medieval library at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=medieval+library
so this month I'm doing a reading mini-challenge where I only read books by Black authors [as part of Black History Month], I did this last year too.
so far I've read:
- Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa [0]
- A Song of Legends Lost by M.H. Ayinde [review will be published tomorrow]
up next in my queue I have:
- Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
- Birth of a Dynasty by Chinaza Bado
- Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okusun
those three I bought on Kobo ebook store sales in the past couple months so I'll be reading ebook copies of them!
[0]: my review - https://nullrouted.space/2026/02/06/review-lost-ark-dreaming-by-suyi-davies-okungbowa/
so this month I'm doing a reading mini-challenge where I only read books by Black authors [as part of Black History Month], I did this last year too.
so far I've read:
- Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa [0]
- A Song of Legends Lost by M.H. Ayinde [review will be published tomorrow]
up next in my queue I have:
- Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
- Birth of a Dynasty by Chinaza Bado
- Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okusun
those three I bought on Kobo ebook store sales in the past couple months so I'll be reading ebook copies of them!
[0]: my review - https://nullrouted.space/2026/02/06/review-lost-ark-dreaming-by-suyi-davies-okungbowa/
A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise
Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a “life-and-death struggle”
by Meilan Solly
Carter G. Woodson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3835
A recent interview. I really enjoyed answering these questions.
We talk about the realities of neurodivergence, the invisible labour inherent in publishing, my opinions on ‘nature cure’, and why so much writing advice falls flat for so many (it travels well because it sounds confident, not because it’s accurate, and it often asks writers to distrust their own ways of working).
https://neurodivergentnotesonwriting.substack.com/p/my-process-is-simply-adapting-to
#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Books #Book #Reading #UK #Author #Women #ADHD
Today in Labor History February 11, 1938: BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R. Čapek coined the term "robot,” deriving it from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs. R.U.R. is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #play #playwright #KarelCapek #robot #RUR #totalitarianism #fascism #antifascism #serf #slavery #sciencefiction #scifi #czech #bladerunner #books #fiction #playwright @bookstadon