Author's Tranquility Press got my phone number, and they keep calling thinking that I'll pay them for promotion.
ATP is 100% a scam.
Also: my books are not promotable. Nothing anyone does could make people want to buy them. #writing
Author's Tranquility Press got my phone number, and they keep calling thinking that I'll pay them for promotion.
ATP is 100% a scam.
Also: my books are not promotable. Nothing anyone does could make people want to buy them. #writing
What go to songs or albums do you have?
What go to songs or albums do you have?
I have to pick a topic to make a 10 minute video presentation on, and then write an essay about for my "Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Crime and Justice" subject.
I can choose anything that is a "contemporary or emerging issue" that I want to research, however it can't be anything that our modules already cover..
Our modules are:
- Hate Crime
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Wildlife, Animal, and Forestry Crime
- Trafficking in Cultural Property
- Identity Crime
- Technology, Digitals, and Crime Prevention
- Institutional Abuse
- Trauma, Personality Functioning, and Offending Behaviour
- Aging Offenders
- Work with Offending Behaviour
- The Professions in Criminal Justice and Wellbeing
I want to write about the NSW anti-Semitism laws, and how they're actually being used to cow criticism of Israel's genocidal actions against Palestine, but I feel like the marker is going to think that comes too close to the "hate crime" module.
I was thinking of writing about either the under-16 social media ban or about Ring door camera surveillance stuff (but both could be covered by the tech/digitals module).
The only other thing I can think of is the whole ligature points in prisons issue.
Suggestions welcome!
#uni#Academia#Criminology#CriminalJustice #university #writing
novel word count: 30,100
okay is this really happening
another day, another 1000 words
if i keep up this pace i can be finished in about a month and a half
come on
Today’s story is “Fireside Meeting at the Cumuliform Arches” a collaborative piece with contributions by Partvoid, who still doesn’t know what to say about themselves, Pico, who hopes to write much more over the coming months, and whose upcoming stories can be found on FurAffinity, and @jshawthorne who can be found in “The Heavens Within Our Grasp” and other works from the Furry Historical Fiction Society.
Read by Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker, BP Rugger, the Ineffable Moo-Moon, and Yuugenshou, wolf of wanderlust.
Listen here: https://thevoice.dog/episode/fireside-meeting-at-the-cumuliform-arches-by-friends-of-the-fireplace/
#Furry#Writing
Today’s story is “Fireside Meeting at the Cumuliform Arches” a collaborative piece with contributions by Partvoid, who still doesn’t know what to say about themselves, Pico, who hopes to write much more over the coming months, and whose upcoming stories can be found on FurAffinity, and @jshawthorne who can be found in “The Heavens Within Our Grasp” and other works from the Furry Historical Fiction Society.
Read by Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker, BP Rugger, the Ineffable Moo-Moon, and Yuugenshou, wolf of wanderlust.
Listen here: https://thevoice.dog/episode/fireside-meeting-at-the-cumuliform-arches-by-friends-of-the-fireplace/
#Furry#Writing
I love cats, but I am extremely allergic to them.
There are no cats at the house I stay officially, but there is a pack of stray cats that roam around and show up at night when our dog isn't roaming around the yard.
They really like chilling on the couch back there I discovered...
... I fell asleep with bare arms on the couch for a while as it was warm outside last night. I now have hives all over my arms, and need to go get itch cream before I scratch my skin away.
Did you ever give up a traditional career for one in art? Would love to know. Here is a stubborn young woman who told her mother she would study film, and not law.
Good Internet Magazine
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#ScribesAndMakers #ttmd 2025.08.03 @JulieLiddellWhitehead Author Talk to Me Day
Sometimes I get the opportunity to research and sometimes I don't, like today (I'm currently unwell). I hope I'm asking a fair question here; beyond that, that it's not something I should have seen in a bio if I'd looked.
Your book collection of short stories appears to be about characters living through hard times and dealing with hard decisions made or needful. It feels like something an author would write in part to work through their own demons or to make sense of a nonsensical world. Is this the case for you? If not, what drives you and your writing? What do you wish the reader to feel they have learned when they finish the reading the last page of your story?
[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]
#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool
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#RSdiscussion
I was reading some author marketing advice and one suggestion was that I check out other authors in the same genre to see what they’re doing.
What I’ve learned is that author blogs in SF generally suck, if they exist at all. I don’t know if I should feel better about that — or worse.
The best one I found was a combination of reviews of other SF books and documentation of just how much being a relatively popular, self-published, award-winning author [a legitimate award, not one of the many ripoffs out there] had cost them. That’s right, cost. The P&L over several years was negative. Not one single year of profit.
I already knew this pursuit has to be a labour of love, but it’s hard to see someone who writes well and is not frivolous with their spending come out underwater by a few grand a year.
I keep dreaming that the future is de-urbanized, and I'm working on a novella that is set in such a world, sort of a utopia. No mega cities, no mega urban centers. Life retreats to settlements that by today's standards are considered rural. But I want it to be 'hard scifi', meaning it is possible to achieve in the near future. Question then, is this a pipe dream? What would happen if this became the future? Would we be happier? Would it reverse climate change?
I keep dreaming that the future is de-urbanized, and I'm working on a novella that is set in such a world, sort of a utopia. No mega cities, no mega urban centers. Life retreats to settlements that by today's standards are considered rural. But I want it to be 'hard scifi', meaning it is possible to achieve in the near future. Question then, is this a pipe dream? What would happen if this became the future? Would we be happier? Would it reverse climate change?
I don’t earn any money from writing on my blog, despite it taking significant time and energy. But it still feels like the right thing to do.
- I write to save others the trouble I’ve been through.
- I write to structure my thought and self-review my work from a different perspective.
- I write as a social activity, to get something others can criticize and help me improve.
- I write because that’s how we humans share ideas.
I write to connect with others.
New #blog post: Why Do We Blog?
https://rldane.space/why-do-we-blog.html
296 words
Pretty short and sweet, but I enjoyed writing it. :)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
New #blog post: Why Do We Blog?
https://rldane.space/why-do-we-blog.html
296 words
Pretty short and sweet, but I enjoyed writing it. :)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
This is the love
that never came.
This is the hope
that was stolen from us.
This is the grave
that was dug for us.
This is the justice
that we desperately sought.
This is the freedom
that was denied us.
But this is the fight
we have always fought.
si_irini
#YouWinAgainSi #writing #mastodon #fediverse #freedom #world #poem #writing #lyrics #reading #poetry #justice #life #love
This is the love
that never came.
This is the hope
that was stolen from us.
This is the grave
that was dug for us.
This is the justice
that we desperately sought.
This is the freedom
that was denied us.
But this is the fight
we have always fought.
si_irini
#YouWinAgainSi #writing #mastodon #fediverse #freedom #world #poem #writing #lyrics #reading #poetry #justice #life #love
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