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

Reborn in Ash is currently at 92 sales. I would absolutely love to hit 100 by the end of Feb, which will mark 4 months since it came out!!!

Omg 92 people have actually bought my book!! 🥹 Still sinking in. Thank you so much everyone for the support!

🥰

#Books #Fantasy #SFF #LGBTQ #SapphicBooks #WritingCommunity

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

This piece is about drystone walling, and about belonging. About building something solid before building something beautiful. About making a life, and a place in it, with your own hands.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-work-of-belonging

#Scotland #UK #Books #Book #Reading #Writing #WritingCommunity #Women #Land #Nature #Life

For the love of all that's holy...

If you are a writer on substack, please consider leaving their platform. They profit from nazi newsletters. Archive link for some alternatives: http://archive.today/0UJXN

"Among them are newsletters that openly promote racist ideology. One, called NatSocToday, which has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80 – about £60 – for an annual subscription, though most of its posts are available for free.

NatSocToday is understood to be run by a far-right activist based in the US and features a swastika, a symbol appropriated by the Nazi party in the 1920s to symbolise white supremacy, as its profile picture. The full name of the Nazi party was the National Socialist German Workers’ party."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

If that's not enough to convince you, see this interview with substack CEO Chris Best..

#FuckTheFash #Substack #DeNazify #PunchNazis #Mastodon #Journalism #Writing #WritingCommunity

I’m halfway through writing a new book in a new series.

So obviously now is the time for me to have a brand new idea for a brand new book in a whole new genre. One that will require a co-writer who can do trans masc spicy scenes. Because that’s how AuDHD works.

#writingcommunity

I’m halfway through writing a new book in a new series.

So obviously now is the time for me to have a brand new idea for a brand new book in a whole new genre. One that will require a co-writer who can do trans masc spicy scenes. Because that’s how AuDHD works.

#writingcommunity

Hi, I’m Ro! I’m a self-loving antizionist Jew and a self-hating lawyer.

I live on unceded Interior Salish land in the Pacific Northwest of what’s known to some, for now, as the US with my wife & our dogs. 🏳️‍🌈 Our family is WASP, Ashkenazi & Nicaraguan. 🥰 I practice deportation defense and I’m an abolitionist.

✨Find me enjoying hiking & biking & reading & writing & music & collage.✨

🏔️For hiking & snowshoeing I’m usually somewhere in the PNW, preferably going to the top of something or at least seeing some cool trees or rocks or moss. I’m a bike commuter! 🚲

📚Favorite novels include Babel by R.F. Kuang, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, No.6 by Asano Atsuko, Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zi & Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. Favorite nonfiction includes Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernández, The Other Slavery by Andres Reséndez & Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. And my favorite manga ever is Fullmetal Alchemist - unbeatable IMO (although I am loving The Summer Hikaru Died these days). I’m rodile on Storygraph.

✏️Current writing projects include a novel about lesbian ecoterrorists & an amorphous story about an anarchist-reformist enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies? situationship.

🎶Music I love includes Mitski, The Muslims, The Gits, Left at London & Doechii. I also love swimming and sleeping and petting my dogs!!!! And persimmons 😅

English, español, 普通话都可以！I usually follow (back) if it seems like we’d vibe. I’m honestly a nice person but I’m angry all the time. I like emojis and ampersands and alt text. This post is very long but I wasn’t sure what to include & I believe it’ll get cut so I hope it’s not too annoying! I am hoping to connect with more people on here. Here are a bunch of tags to either filter this post out or find it! :)

#longPost #introduction #mosstodon #vegan #languageLearning #writingCommunity #lesbian #USpol #books #reading #law #immigration #Jewish #LGBTQ #queer #music #abolition #fuckICE #freePalestine #hiking #bikeTooter #PNW

Reborn in Ash is currently at 92 sales. I would absolutely love to hit 100 by the end of Feb, which will mark 4 months since it came out!!!

Omg 92 people have actually bought my book!! 🥹 Still sinking in. Thank you so much everyone for the support!

🥰

#Books #Fantasy #SFF #LGBTQ #SapphicBooks #WritingCommunity

Knowing has a terminal limit, beyond which it becomes part of the harm...

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #News #Scotland #UK #Books

Just a reminder that if you like my writing on Substack, it’s very likely that you will also like my book ‘Drystone - A Life Rebuilt’

If you buy it on bookshop.org you support me and indy bookshops.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15919/9781846976469

#Books #Book #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Scotland #UK

Knowing has a terminal limit, beyond which it becomes part of the harm...

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #News #Scotland #UK #Books

Question on #copyright I intend to publish a public domain book, Myths and Legends of the Bantu. I think it's an important documentation of our cultures, but it has problematic and racist content. So my goal is to strip it of racism, fix some factual errors, etc. I can't claim authorship, original author has moral rights to that. I'll only claim editorship. But 1) Can I legally register a copyright to this edition? 2) Is this whitewashing the author of her racism?

#writing #writingcommunity

Question on #copyright I intend to publish a public domain book, Myths and Legends of the Bantu. I think it's an important documentation of our cultures, but it has problematic and racist content. So my goal is to strip it of racism, fix some factual errors, etc. I can't claim authorship, original author has moral rights to that. I'll only claim editorship. But 1) Can I legally register a copyright to this edition? 2) Is this whitewashing the author of her racism?

#writing #writingcommunity

The figures are stark. GenAI slop is severely impacting the #CreativeArts and particularly the #writingcommunity

" 86% of authors say GenAI has already reduced their earnings
72% of authors say job opportunities have already been cut
57% of authors say their career is no longer sustainable
43% of literary translators and 37% of SoA illustrators saw earnings fall due to GenAI
26% of illustrators and 36% of literary translators report cancelled or redirected commissions "

This is a report on the UK state of affairs, but it could equally be representative of what is happening here in Australia.

Read more:
https://societyofauthors.org/2026/01/30/brave-new-world/

#GenAISlop

Ingram Spark no longer charging for revisions. Makes me want to go through all my books and re-write them. Is that an impulse all authors have? A do-over for their old books, now they are better writers?

#writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

I don’t write about being chronically ill very often, mostly because I’m still thinking it through in real time.

This short piece is about effort, belief, and what it’s like to live in a culture that insists improvement is always possible…even when your body says otherwise.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/effort-without-improvement

#Health #Scotland #UK #Writing #WritingCommunity #Books #Reading #Women

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My daughter took this photograph of me today, quickly, in my bedroom. We swept the mess off the table, moved the dirty clothes off the chair and tried to make things look presentable, including me.

I complained the entire time about how I looked. The light wasn’t good, my hair was greasy, I’m 42 on Sunday, I want to lose weight, I’m in perimenopause. But this is something I do. Saying it out loud has become a habit.

#Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Scotland #UK