WRITERS!

Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

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Submit free via Submittable 👇

https://nws.submittable.com/submit

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Hey #writingcommunity - I am very excited to announce a new literary magazine for eco-fiction: Rotting Leaf Magazine!

- Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website
- $ 0.06/word
- 1,500 words or less
- More details at the link 👇

https://www.briefecology.com/p/annoucement-rotting-leaf-magazine?r=1x8f3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Hey #writingcommunity - I am very excited to announce a new literary magazine for eco-fiction: Rotting Leaf Magazine!

- Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website
- $ 0.06/word
- 1,500 words or less
- More details at the link 👇

https://www.briefecology.com/p/annoucement-rotting-leaf-magazine?r=1x8f3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Do you have a writing, publishing, book-related question for an author/publisher with over 20+ years' experience? Published in romance, sf, fantasy, women's lit.

Would love to feature YOUR question on Moment of Muse. (Launching soon!)

kitauthor.com/momuse/

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Do you have a writing, publishing, book-related question for an author/publisher with over 20+ years' experience? Published in romance, sf, fantasy, women's lit.

Would love to feature YOUR question on Moment of Muse. (Launching soon!)

kitauthor.com/momuse/

#Podcast #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeClub

WRITERS!

Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

@writingcommunity

Submit free via Submittable 👇

https://nws.submittable.com/submit

#Scottish #literature #writing #WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 27: Recommend a book that had an impact on your prose.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

I am not joking.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 28: Have you ever edited another's work? Was it harder than editing your own?

No, not really. The closest I've gotten is workshopping with my group, which really isn't editing, so I think perhaps I don't even want to base an educated guess on it. I have nothing but admiration for people who are good at editing and find it fulfilling.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 27: Recommend a book that had an impact on your prose.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

I am not joking.

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#WordWeavers 28
MC: Riparia’s best friend winning the day

Gliss? Excuse me, Glistenelle, for those of you who don’t know her. Beautiful Gliss who’s more regal and commanding when she wakes than I am all day?

She’d know exactly what to do with the burden of greatness, something she tries to instill in me, despite burdens of her own. “The self-made queen,” Tryn teasingly calls her, yet Tryn isn’t exactly wrong. Gliss is what real queens aspire to be.

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#WordWeavers 28
MC: Riparia’s best friend winning the day

Gliss? Excuse me, Glistenelle, for those of you who don’t know her. Beautiful Gliss who’s more regal and commanding when she wakes than I am all day?

She’d know exactly what to do with the burden of greatness, something she tries to instill in me, despite burdens of her own. “The self-made queen,” Tryn teasingly calls her, yet Tryn isn’t exactly wrong. Gliss is what real queens aspire to be.

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You may be asking yourself - why in heaven's name would someone choose to publish their own book? After all, isn't that a lot more work?

Why yes. Yes it is.

But there are reasons: https://www.danielaquirke.com/2025/09/03/why-i-chose-to-publish-my-own-book

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You may be asking yourself - why in heaven's name would someone choose to publish their own book? After all, isn't that a lot more work?

Why yes. Yes it is.

But there are reasons: https://www.danielaquirke.com/2025/09/03/why-i-chose-to-publish-my-own-book

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It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post

https://blog.pabloecortez.com/its-insulting-to-read-your-ai-generated-blog-post/

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 26: How culturally diverse do your casts tend to be?

I go out of my way to make sure my casts reflect the worlds they live in. My Vancouver cast has Chinese and Punjabi characters because that's what Vancouver looks like. My Ancient Greek story has a North African character because they were in that part of the world, too. It's just reality (even if I'm writing SFF).

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#WritersCoffeeClub 25 Oct: Does 'destiny' have a role in modern fiction?

Personally, I prefer subverting it, but yes, of course. Any and every storytelling tool in existence "has a place" in fiction, modern or otherwise.

"Modern" is such an elastic word. People usually mean "current," but it's also a distinct era of art, and separately, an era of history.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 24: How many plot arcs do your finished works tend to have?

One. Tee hee!

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 23: Have you ever written a story-within-a-story?

Sort of. The protagonist in my novella is a folk hero, and she's subjected to a bard singing her own origin story back at her, but it's *wildly* inaccurate, so hearing the bard get it wrong is the frame, and she recedes into her own memories of what really happened. I had to do that because I'd already written her origin story as a standalone.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 22: What inspiration have you taken from historical figures or events?

This book has a cult-like organization at its centre, and I've learned a little about how cults work, although it's also not like that in other ways. Mostly, it's about Star Wars, so...?

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