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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fat Bear Week has a new champion!! ❤️ And whilst I am sad Chunk didn't win, I do feel that Backpack (below) is an excellent chonky, worthy winner 😍

The furry, chonky backside of a brown bear sitting in a river. This is Backpack, winner of Fat Bear Week 2026 ❤️

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Plot twist! The 15-year-old DOESN'T WANT TO GO!!! 😱😱 So I'm going to go on my jack jones 😊 Will I be the last one at the party?? See what I did there 😉

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Booked! Very excited 😊 Will be the 15-year-old's first standing stadium gig so excited for him too ❤️

A poster advertising Macklemore's Free Palestine Tour date on October 30th

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just some of the many reasons why women will always choose the bear...

It's a tweet from the U.S Department of the Interiors that lists characteristics (built like a refrigerator/always fishing with the boys/living in a waterfront home etc) and the days that's not your man, that's a fat bear week contender ❤️

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3

A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom.

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our youngest daughter turned six yesterday, so she got a new fluffy bed and foxy cuddle buddy 😍😍

It's a dog!! An adorable jackawawa (mix of jack Russell and chihuahua) she's white and tan and adorable and is cuddling an orange fox toy.

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't feel that Fat Bear Week is getting enough love on here. It's simple and satisfying - you get to look at fat bears and then vote for your favourite chonky, furry fella (or lady, no discrimination here) It makes me happy and it will make you happy too 😍 #fatbearweek

A fat brown bear with a wonky jaw. His name is Chunk and he is the reigning Fat Bear champion and even with a broken jaw he has put on enough chonk to probably win this year too. He would eat me if he saw me and I would probably let him; he's a chonky boy, he needs the calories.

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you are taking part in Fat Bear Week you can watch a livestream of the river and some of the bears in the National Park here... ❤️ www.youtube.com/live/EwTH5yY... #gochunk

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LIVE Brooks Falls Brown Bears Low | explore.org

YouTube video by Explore Bears

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just checked the weather and it's due to be 20 degrees on October 7th where I live. Not happy. I WANT TO STOP SHAVING MY LEGS AND START WEARING JUMPERS. Stupid global warming

static.klipy.com

Elmo Excited in Fuego

Alt: Elmo Excited in Fuego. Basically Elmo on fire. Like the entire world be really fucking soon if we don't sort it out.

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Only that it's not an LOATP sequel I'm afraid ☹️

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also this week is FAT BEAR WEEK which seems a most excellent time to head back into social media. My favourite is currently the reigning champion, Chunk 🐻

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

...but the excellent news is that the book is written and I love it and I'm now going to take you on my journey of submitting to publishers instead, which is FAR more exciting and also FAR more terrifying. Strap in kids, it might get bumpy...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So, five months ago I was all like - ooh, I'm writing a new book, I'm going to take you on the creative journey with me, it's going to be so exciting, get ready everyone, this is going to be huge! And then I...didn't. Life got in the way and it was either skeet or write. I chose write...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (10) ...they discover the person that they are meant to be, IF they discover the person that they are meant to be. Because, of course it is all still to play for, and that's what makes it so fucking exciting, isn't it?!! I'm excited! And tomorrow...ACT THREE. If I remember 😉😉

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (9/...) ...they need something to feel, they need to be on an internal adventure; discovering who they are through external challenges. Because that is what will make us go on the journey with them - whether it be up mountains or across oceans - we want to be with them when...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (8/...) Act 2 has less leading notes than Act 1- less story set up, less needing to let the reader know where they are and what is happening, because Act 2 is about character - not story. The adventure IS your character (gasp!) yes, they need something to do but more importantly..

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (7/...) ACT 2 - Rising action and complications... ▶️Pressure increases - what goes right and wrong now that your MC has made their decision? ▶️Decision Point Two - why do they STILL not turn back, even when given a choice. ▶️What small wins / false senses of control are they given?

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (6/...) Okay then, I say, let me give you tools to find that well of adventure, that pathway to a satisfying character arch, the road to a world full of wants and needs for all 😊 Let me give you the next part of my story plan - ACT TWO...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (5/...) ... even, maybe, a little dull 😱 NO! You say. Never! Let me not fall foul of the soggy middle, the aimless wanderings of a character in search of wants and needs! Let me navigate this land of story and find the well of adventure I seek...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (4/...) But you can't go into my brain, so I have to plan it and then write it and therefore I have to move onto ACT TWO - where the magic happens and, hopefully, not the soggy middle. Because Act Two is where we writers sometimes lose it, our shiny idea becomes less shiny...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (3/...) In fact it pisses me off that I even have to write it down. This world, this story is there, in my brain, fully formed, waiting to get out & if you could go into my brain you would see it there - the colours and sounds and smells and tastes - everything waiting for you...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (2/...) But that's fine because - as any writer knows - when something is good you cannot leave it alone and you do not WANT to leave it alone. You want to eat, sleep, breathe that idea and getting it out of your head and down onto paper is the only thing that matters...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

DAY TWO - ACT TWO (1/...) So, on Monday I put up a *skeet* (thanks for letting me know the term @pmchoan.bsky.social 😊) about how I was going to skeet every day about the process of writing my new book and then, on the very next day, I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO SKEET 😱😬😱😬

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I wish, when someone first told me writing was rewriting, that I had listened.* *Might have this on my gravestone.

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I'll be honest - I've not got any publisher interest in a sequel at the moment so it's on hold for now. BUT as soon as I do have any interest or I win the National Lottery I have an absolutely BANGING sequel ready to write 😊

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Haha! No I'm afraid - but maybe even better! 😱

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 8) And that's it. Day one of planning and First Act done. I mean obviously I have to redraft it roughly one hundred times still but it's there. The bones are there. Exciting, huh? Come back tomorrow for Act Two 😊

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 7) Act 1 - Set up/Inciting incident ▶️Prologue (if you have one) ▶️Introduce your protagonist / setting / tone ▶️What's broken in his/her world? ▶️Inciting incident - what happens that CANNOT be ignored? ▶️Decision point - what does you MC do that means they cannot turn back now?

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 6) And I'm going to give it to you because I'd never gatekeep anything that can help fellow creatives 😊 Next 'tweet' (what the hell do we call these things??) is a (very) brief idea of what I plot/plan for the first act...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 5) Act one. And yes, I talk in terms of acts, because I started out as a screenwriter, and because it is easier when trying to plot or plan something if you can break the story down into three or four parts. Wanna know what's in the first part of that planning doc?

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 4) I have taken the kernel of an idea and made it into a walnut and then a kiwi, an apple, cantaloupe, watermelon and finally a full-sized book baby. And now I need to give birth, or rather, write it down. So today I am writing the first section of the plan...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 3) The book that I am working on has been in my brain for about a month. I have thought about it in the shower, walking the dog, when I go to sleep, when I wake up, whilst driving, during boring conversations, sometimes during interesting conversations...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 2) After years of trying and fruitless research I found a plan that works for me - not something that needed loads of time and effort - a 3-page breakdown that gives me something to hang my plot on and then muddle and mould into a first draft. IT HAS BEEN A GAMECHANGER....

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT...) I'd tried not being a pantser, I tried to plan. I tried writing a short story, I tried doing a story graph, I tried chapter breakdowns, I covered my house in post-it-notes. It never helped ☹️ But then, last year, a miracle occurred...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DAY ONE - PLANNING... I've always been a pantser when it comes to books. Have an idea. Think about that idea for a bit. Start writing that idea. See what happens... What normally happens is I write 150k words in order to get a 80k book out of it at the end. It's long, intense and hard work....

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

So, my BlueSky has gone a bit empty and bereft but I am going to fix that starting now. Who wants to come along with me whilst I plan and write a new book??* Not just any book. THE book. *Trick question. You don't have a choice. I'm doing it and I'm going to write about it here. Every. Single. Day😊

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It was a hit! Proud to say that he shall be carrying on the family tradition 😋

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The 14yo is having cheese with his Christmas cake for the first time this evening... I shall report back...

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Finding the photos your daughter took when she stole your phone seven years ago is one of life's unspoken joys ❤️

An adorable small blonde toddler at the very bottom right of the frame

The top of the head of an adorable small blonde toddler at the very right-hand side of the frame

The whole of the head of an adorable small blonde toddler

A blurry adorable small blonde toddler at the right hand side of the frame

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Watching 1923... Me: Harrison Ford is still a good looking fella... Husband: Even at 150-years-old Me: 😳 Husband: What?! He's that old now isn't he??

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The TV bingeing, time-wasting half of me is screaming 'Yes! Another one!' The writer half of me has its head in its hands and is on the verge of tears 😁

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I absolutely LOVE it! ❤️ But fear I may have started with the best one ever and now nothing else will live up to it 🥲

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This weekend I started the Korean romance-drama TV show Guardian: The Lonely and Great God. I did not realise there are 19 episodes and most of these are c80 minutes long. I am OBSESSED and planning to take the week off writing, eating and sleeping to binge it. Send help. Do not tell my agent.

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The housing market these days is INSANE - Here's a two-bed in need of renovation, a perfect starter home for someone looking to get on the housing ladder. £550,000 please

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Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Puppy sitting is the best kind of sitting 😍

A picture of an adorable sandy cavapoo puppy sitting in the lap of a woman, nibbling on her little finger. I am that woman, Woody is the adorable sandy cavapoo pupster I am puppy-sitting. I am very happy.

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