Does anyone else use Wordpress for your website (at which you routinely blog)? I'm getting tired of mine and wondering about options.
Does anyone else use Wordpress for your website (at which you routinely blog)? I'm getting tired of mine and wondering about options.
Reworking my #introduction
I am an independent scholar of various humanities. I am often distracted from those studies by writing poetry. I have lived with disability my entire adult life. I spent the majority of my life below the poverty line. I earned a master's as an adult to escape, but barely an inch.
I am big believer in community driven intra-degrowth, that is, degrowth that is more concerned with the immediate area, with each community doing the same. Degrowth is that feminist, anti-violence learning, care driven, open access anti-intellectual leader, and it is only anti-utopianism that we can find a truer utopia.
There are more and more drifting towards an idea of holistic and mutually beneficial progress and in that there is hope. Open stewardship of open, shared education is the only way to assure if progress comes in the form of open access and anti-thought leaders, more individuals will be better able to maintain that progress.
Support Human Artists
I have books of poems (and one book of essays) at Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/@rtilley4
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https://www.locate.richard.directory/
https://www.subspacewagon.io/
https://tilley.solar/
https://citizengkar.com
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rtilley4-AT-alumni.jh-DOT-edu
#disability #utopia #degrowth #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Writing #art #community #scifi #academia
Reworking my #introduction
I am an independent scholar of various humanities. I am often distracted from those studies by writing poetry. I have lived with disability my entire adult life. I spent the majority of my life below the poverty line. I earned a master's as an adult to escape, but barely an inch.
I am big believer in community driven intra-degrowth, that is, degrowth that is more concerned with the immediate area, with each community doing the same. Degrowth is that feminist, anti-violence learning, care driven, open access anti-intellectual leader, and it is only anti-utopianism that we can find a truer utopia.
There are more and more drifting towards an idea of holistic and mutually beneficial progress and in that there is hope. Open stewardship of open, shared education is the only way to assure if progress comes in the form of open access and anti-thought leaders, more individuals will be better able to maintain that progress.
Support Human Artists
I have books of poems (and one book of essays) at Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/@rtilley4
____
https://www.locate.richard.directory/
https://www.subspacewagon.io/
https://tilley.solar/
https://citizengkar.com
____
rtilley4-AT-alumni.jh-DOT-edu
#disability #utopia #degrowth #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Writing #art #community #scifi #academia
#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 1: What's the greatest benefit you've taken from the writing community online?
Breadth of techniques. It's the inverse of reading one book by one person who tells you "the correct way" to write a novel (or whatever). Having a collective that all does things differently means your approach is validated by others who do the same, and you're exposed to and can learn from those who don't.
#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace
#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 1: What's the greatest benefit you've taken from the writing community online?
Breadth of techniques. It's the inverse of reading one book by one person who tells you "the correct way" to write a novel (or whatever). Having a collective that all does things differently means your approach is validated by others who do the same, and you're exposed to and can learn from those who don't.
#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 31: Happy New Year! Take pride in what you’ve written and share the progress you've made!
I finished a whole first draft of a novel. It is just under 72,000 words. It's a short novel, but it's mine.
#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year! I capped off 2025 as a paid writer by sellig a one-paragraph short to a publication for one dollar. Follow your dreams. Any resolutions? Not me. I wouldn't keep them. #newyear #newyear2026 #resolution #resolutions #notme #fun #bookstodon #mastodon #writingCommunity #socialnetwork #social #socialweb #writersCoffeeClub #writer #followyourdreams #publishing #scribesAndMakers #work #words #writing #writers #writersLife #humor #funny #holiday #dollar #world
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 31: Happy New Year! Take pride in what you’ve written and share the progress you've made!
I finished a whole first draft of a novel. It is just under 72,000 words. It's a short novel, but it's mine.
#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year! I capped off 2025 as a paid writer by sellig a one-paragraph short to a publication for one dollar. Follow your dreams. Any resolutions? Not me. I wouldn't keep them. #newyear #newyear2026 #resolution #resolutions #notme #fun #bookstodon #mastodon #writingCommunity #socialnetwork #social #socialweb #writersCoffeeClub #writer #followyourdreams #publishing #scribesAndMakers #work #words #writing #writers #writersLife #humor #funny #holiday #dollar #world
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25 for 2025 - And Aw The Best For 2026
1. My book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt was published.
2. I was diagnosed with two new chronic illnesses.
3. I started HRT. And loved it.
4. I sent three formal complaints to regulatory bodies. Up from last year.
5. I learned how much admin a body can require. Also up from last year.
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25 for 2025 - And Aw The Best For 2026
1. My book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt was published.
2. I was diagnosed with two new chronic illnesses.
3. I started HRT. And loved it.
4. I sent three formal complaints to regulatory bodies. Up from last year.
5. I learned how much admin a body can require. Also up from last year.
#WordWeavers 30 Dec: How has your writing been this year? Any achievements/wins/lessons you want to celebrate?
So, as I discussed a few times the last few months, thanks to Trump's Big Fucking Bill, my family is in a situation where if I don't start bringing in significant (~$650 a month) income in the next 3-4 years we are completely screwed.
After some research (and a bit of panic) I concluded that the only way to bring in that kind of money as a self published author was volume -- publishing lots of books. About a book a month in fact.
So I started in August with a commitment to treat my writing like a business and try to publish SOMETHING every month.
I am delighted to say that contrary to my fears, I have kept this schedule for six months (January's release is already scheduled) and barring disaster should be good to go at least through March.
It's been a rough several months, with one moderate burnout in October and another near burnout in Dec. But I did it and am now convinced I can keep doing it for at least the next six months.
And if I can get through the next six months, I can probably manage this long term.
I'm also already seeing real increase in income, with my royalty payout in December being twice that of my royalty payout in July. Payouts are still in the double digits, but it's real, measurable progress towards my goal.
So huge celebration, much proud, and if you'd like to support my in my goals, a bunch of my books are on sale on Smashwords today and tomorrow:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JessMahler1449
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 29: What would I like to see future writer generations discard?
There's no device or conceit or tool that's inherently bad. I don't want anything "thrown away." What I want is for those tools to be used selectively, to fit the task at hand, rather than habitually: over and over again, always the same way.
#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 30: How much would writing by another means (by hand, digitally, audio transcription) change your prose?
It would be very very different. Transcription will feel dead bc it doesn't have all my inflection. Writing by hand would be more circuitous because I can't rearrange text nearly as easily. I do write digitally, so that's my default.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 28: How does your prose create and maintain tension?
I honestly have no idea how or even whether I'm doing that, so I'll be reading this prompt for tips.
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You write #fanfiction and you are interested in publishing original queer fiction?
@duckprintspress
specializes in that.
Their upcoming anthology "Beyond the Galactic Tide" has an outer space setting and is all about asexual characters.
More about this on Tumblr:
Rules and guidelines on the press's website:
https://duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-galactic-tide/beyond-the-galactic-tide-rules-and-guidelines/
#originalfiction #queerfiction #asexuality
#acespectrum #asexual #ace #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #writing
You write #fanfiction and you are interested in publishing original queer fiction?
@duckprintspress
specializes in that.
Their upcoming anthology "Beyond the Galactic Tide" has an outer space setting and is all about asexual characters.
More about this on Tumblr:
Rules and guidelines on the press's website:
https://duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-galactic-tide/beyond-the-galactic-tide-rules-and-guidelines/
#originalfiction #queerfiction #asexuality
#acespectrum #asexual #ace #sciencefiction #writingcommunity #writing
G'morning all.
I'm back to writing today, after stopping for two weeks for burnout prevention.
I had planned to basically take a month off out of every three (when I would publish the next Whips & Fangs Single, which are all already written and basically don't require any work from me). But I didn't make it a full month and a half (Nov-Dec) without needing to stop again.
So that sucks.
New plan: taking the last full week of every month off. It'll be less total time away from writing, but more frequent breaks.
Fingers crossed, let's see how this one works...
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