The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 30 August 2025 is:

#excellent

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

#Writing#SmallPoem#Poetry#Fiction#MicroFiction#SmallStories

The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 30 August 2025 is:

#excellent

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.

#Writing#SmallPoem#Poetry#Fiction#MicroFiction#SmallStories

You may have heard about the class action against Anthropic, who trained their models using pirated, copyrighted works (including mine):

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/

Since they are settling the suit, you may want to ensure you can be contacted by counsel; you may be owed damages. (Amount TBD. Don't get your hopes up, but expect more than zero!)

The Authors Guild has useful information on how this impacts authors and what authors need to do:

https://authorsguild.org/news/anthropic-ai-class-action-important-information-for-authors/

Please share this with any authors!

#writing #books #piracy #ai #legal

After a terrible busy week, I am finally on my way to my magical happy place, London!

#writing #blogging #witch

Someone smarter than me said that when you're writing about people who are different from you, a good guide is to think of the people who sit at your kitchen table. Those are the people you can feel comfortable representing in your books.

Does anyone know what quote I'm talking about and who said it? I want to refer to it in a blog post and attribute it properly if I can.

Please boost! Thank you!

#writers #writing @writerscoffeeclub#WordWeavers

Someone smarter than me said that when you're writing about people who are different from you, a good guide is to think of the people who sit at your kitchen table. Those are the people you can feel comfortable representing in your books.

Does anyone know what quote I'm talking about and who said it? I want to refer to it in a blog post and attribute it properly if I can.

Please boost! Thank you!

#writers #writing @writerscoffeeclub#WordWeavers

You may have heard about the class action against Anthropic, who trained their models using pirated, copyrighted works (including mine):

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/

Since they are settling the suit, you may want to ensure you can be contacted by counsel; you may be owed damages. (Amount TBD. Don't get your hopes up, but expect more than zero!)

The Authors Guild has useful information on how this impacts authors and what authors need to do:

https://authorsguild.org/news/anthropic-ai-class-action-important-information-for-authors/

Please share this with any authors!

#writing #books #piracy #ai #legal

With the #WorldBlogDay coming up on Sunday, I updated my World Blog Day post from last year.

"A funny thing happens with history in that the most mundane, ubiquitous parts of daily life are the things that we've kind of lost the most because nobody wrote about them."

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/world-blog-day-2024/

#blogs #blogging #writing #indieweb

A young woman who has decided to forgo humanity entirely must defend the decision to her father.

Today’s story is “Dear Rabbit” by Str8aura, who draws on the side and very much prefers depicting animal subjects over humans, especially if they talk. She would like you to know she is NOT the Str8aura who draws Pokemon, that was an unfortunate coincidence. You can find more of her stories on AO3 and Furaffinity.

Listen here: https://thevoice.dog/episode/dear-rabbit-by-str8aura/
CW: Incidental gore, mention of suicidal ideation.

#Furry#Writing

A young woman who has decided to forgo humanity entirely must defend the decision to her father.

Today’s story is “Dear Rabbit” by Str8aura, who draws on the side and very much prefers depicting animal subjects over humans, especially if they talk. She would like you to know she is NOT the Str8aura who draws Pokemon, that was an unfortunate coincidence. You can find more of her stories on AO3 and Furaffinity.

Listen here: https://thevoice.dog/episode/dear-rabbit-by-str8aura/
CW: Incidental gore, mention of suicidal ideation.

#Furry#Writing

I have done it.

I have finished a draft ‡ of my first novel, and sent it out to beta readers for feedback.

Now I just need to🤞cross my fingers and hope I haven't radically overestimated my abilities.

In October I will - hopefully - have everyone's feedback and restart the editing process.

Still looking for more beta readers if you're interested in #sapphic, romance.
https://weblog.masukomi.org/2025/08/17/looking-for-beta-readers/

—

‡ so many edits between getting to the end and putting it out for others.

#writing #polyamory

Is there such as thing as fountain pen ink trading and pen trading?

Have to trade:
Almost new pilot kakuno F nib in purple
4mL sample Robert Oyster NG special
3mL ish left sample Robert Oyster Honey Bee

Interested in:
shading and shimmers
Anything in EF nib
Would trade a purple platinum plaisir with F nib for a silver or light blue plaisir any nib (ef pref.)

#fountainPen #pens #art #writing #ink#noBuy #trade#mastoTrade

Is there such as thing as fountain pen ink trading and pen trading?

Have to trade:
Almost new pilot kakuno F nib in purple
4mL sample Robert Oyster NG special
3mL ish left sample Robert Oyster Honey Bee

Interested in:
shading and shimmers
Anything in EF nib
Would trade a purple platinum plaisir with F nib for a silver or light blue plaisir any nib (ef pref.)

#fountainPen #pens #art #writing #ink#noBuy #trade#mastoTrade

SWMBO has Grammarly for work.

Tempted to run the #n4sa2e mss through it just to watch the software cry. #writing

#PennedPossibilities 760 — MC POV: Describe who you are in your group of friends. Tell is if you’re the motherly / fatherly type, the funny friend, the serious one, etc.

Friends, Friendship. Teammates. Buddies. Partners in crime†. Frankly, I don't get it. I do the job and make sure everybody comes back. I train them until they drop in a sweaty heap, but then they insist on group meals and singing, that stuff, and won't let me pay. Sure I have everybody's back in a fight, or with clients, or the boss, but that's the right thing to do. I am responsible for them. They ask me for advice, too. Sometime weird. I ended up punching the cheating husband when he made a pass at me, which was actually sort of fun. At times they won't leave me along to be quiet with my books, which is really all I want out of life. I am really the wrong person to ask such a question to.

=-=-=-=-=-=
† Literally.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory#RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

#PennedPossibilities 760 — MC POV: Describe who you are in your group of friends. Tell is if you’re the motherly / fatherly type, the funny friend, the serious one, etc.

Friends, Friendship. Teammates. Buddies. Partners in crime†. Frankly, I don't get it. I do the job and make sure everybody comes back. I train them until they drop in a sweaty heap, but then they insist on group meals and singing, that stuff, and won't let me pay. Sure I have everybody's back in a fight, or with clients, or the boss, but that's the right thing to do. I am responsible for them. They ask me for advice, too. Sometime weird. I ended up punching the cheating husband when he made a pass at me, which was actually sort of fun. At times they won't leave me along to be quiet with my books, which is really all I want out of life. I am really the wrong person to ask such a question to.

=-=-=-=-=-=
† Literally.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory#RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

SEND ME A QUESTION!

Forbidden Queeries: Questions and Responses beyond the norm

Help me build up the momentum I need for my new Question and Response blog, FORBIDDEN QUEERIES! My goal is to have a bank of at least 15 questions to choose from before my first post goes up on Friday!

Goal: 1/15 questions submitted

You can submit an anonymous question through the form on the website (https://forbidden-queeries.ghost.io/ask-a-question/), by emailing me directly at forbiddenqueeries@gmail.com, or private messaging me here @mallory_sinn!

#ForbiddenQueeries#Queer#Trans#Writing

An update from the Society of Authors on licensing deals for AI training rights currently being offered by a couple of big trad publishers.

You will be unsurprised to learn these deals are wholly inadequate on many levels, including the fact the publisher gets far too much of the cash.

https://societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/bloomsbury-ai-deal/

#writing #books

An update from the Society of Authors on licensing deals for AI training rights currently being offered by a couple of big trad publishers.

You will be unsurprised to learn these deals are wholly inadequate on many levels, including the fact the publisher gets far too much of the cash.

https://societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/bloomsbury-ai-deal/

#writing #books