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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 8h

Serialised fiction transforms reading into a live, shared experience. Here is why I'm opening up the writer’s studio for my novel "42 Railway Terrace", launching 25th October 2026. serialnovel.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...

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The joy of the serialised novel: Victorians had more fun!

Charles Dickens had it right: how I’m bringing back fun and anticipation in reading.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

a phd

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 10h

Intro updated: 🖖 Name: Damon Lord 📍 Location: Worcester, UK 🌍 Nationality: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 💼 Job: writer; IT 📚 Study: PhD English & Creative Writing www.serial-novel.com 💡 Interests: audience response to serialised literature, pronoun evolution, Freemasonry, languages, Esperanto, disability & LGBTQ+ equity

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 11h

I forgot Bluesky existed. I remembered my password so now I'm back.

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

when it rains all weekend, you are required to order more books than you could possibly read in your lifetime

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Intro: 🖖 Name: Damon Lord 📍 Location: Worcester, UK 🌍 Nationality: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 💼 Job: writer; IT; assoc. lecturer English Lang 📚 Study: PhD English & Creative Writing 💡 Interests: audience response to serialised literature, pronoun evolution, Freemasonry, languages, Esperanto, disability & LGBTQ+ equity

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Read around! Last night I had a breakthrough with my PhD. Chatting to a colleague from another department a few days ago, the colleague recommended some academic articles from a totally different field. As I read last night, I got excited, because I gained answers to nagging questions I had.

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

My latest article: Tylenol doesn't cause autism, but misinformation causes harm Stigma and discrimination vs science and compassion open.substack.com/pub/damonlor...

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Tylenol doesn't cause autism, but misinformation causes harm

Stigma and discrimination vs science and compassion

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Perhaps overdoing the research for my writing? I'm researching the weather and cloud cover for a particular location on a particular date to work out if the Sun is likely to have been shining through the window at the time for a scene in my novel.

Cloud cover diagram for the afternoon of Wednesday 22 October 1986, in a location undefined by the text in the image.

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Working on my novel; I can't type or spell this morning. Typing "orange plastic chair" and somehow it corrected to "orgasm patrol chair". I give up. 😆

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A two-part story, from love to tragedy, told in only six words. An unknown graffiti artist upstages Hemingway's six-word story. #narrative #graffiti

Graffiti on a wooden wall, inside a roughly drawn heart. The text reads: Keven love you stupid ass bitch. The first two words are crossed out. Stupid ass bitch is written in slightly different coloured ink, revealing it to be a later inscription.

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Uneasily embracing Disability Pride Month, July 2025 Dealing with internalised and external stigma, and having to "mask" my disabilities to fit in. Click to read the latest edition of my newsletter! damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/disability...

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Uneasily embracing Disability Pride Month, July 2025

Dealing with internalised and external stigma, and having to "mask" my disabilities to fit in.

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Recently I saw some horizontal stripe flag pin badges on a colleague's bag. Curious, I asked what the flags were. They were the asexual flag and non-binary flags. I thanked my colleague for educating me.

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Walking to work yesterday morning, I almost (but didn't) bumped into a man, due to my poor eyesight. I have huge gaps in my vision. He: You should look where you're going. I've got places to be. You're just rude. Me: Sorry, I didn't see you, I'm half-blind. 🧵 1/

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Olympia Dukakis in "Tales of the City" - BOTD

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"Is he blind?" - What happens when an airport security officer ignores you and directs all questions about you to a family member instead. damonlordwriter.substack.com/p/is-he-blind

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"Is he blind?"

Disability discrimination: "Does he take sugar?"

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Long weekend ahead. Settling down in the garden with a few books (I usually read several at once) and a beer.

A glass table in a garden, upon which stands a beer can, and four books. From bottom to top: Queridas de Rizal — Ambeth R. Ocampo; The Berlin Novels — Christopher Isherwood; The L-Shaped Room — Lynne Reid Banks; The Woman In Me — Britney Spears, and a Kindle on the top.

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Goodbye, Duolingo. I've decided to stop using Duolingo. Why? They've had some really bad and questionable advertising tactics of late.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

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genocide is bad @antiwarjosh.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Star Trek is the GOAT.

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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Had a good long chat with one of PhD supervisors yesterday, and meeting with the other supervisor next week. I'm truly thankful for the opportunity to explore ideas with them. Afterwards I sat down and wrote a load of notes, which cleared my thinking for the next steps of this project.

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I was at a lecture from an academic librarian today, who warned us all of the increasing inaccessibility of reliable resources from certain locations of the world, due to actions such as the "Enola Gay" deletion. I fear for the future. #LGBTQrights

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Lady Revolution🏳️‍⚧️ @ladyrevolution.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

If someone doesn't respect trans people, they also won't respect: Blacks Latinos Vaccines Muslims Science Native Americans Women's rights Gays Free Speech Immigrants Anyone who opposes them Repost this to show you respect everyone who deserves it.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.

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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Come one, come all! If you support restoring the Creative Writing A Level in England, please fill out this form, and please share! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Let's Bring Back the Creative Writing A Level!

If you support bringing back the Creative Writing A Level, please complete the form. Any questions, please contact Dr Carrie Etter at carrie.etter@bristol.ac.uk. Let's go!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻

Emergency demonstration at US embassy. Wed 5 March - 5:30pm

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I just saw the Zelenskyy Trump meeting on the news. President Zelenskyy was a true, calm diplomat up against a childish dotard. Trump (a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist) is truly a good Russian agent. Putin will be proud of Agent Krasnov standing up for Moscow. May God be with Ukraine tonight

The words Russia First above the US flag, and pictures of Trump, Vance, Musk and others in the Trump administration.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees To counter the nonsense yn the worlde We must teach artes & humanityes

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. #TwinPeaks

Dale Cooper, driving. "Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14/02/2025

Lisa Sterle's incredible Ten of Swords tarot card from the Modern Witch tarot, depicting a woman with long hair lying on a jagged landscape under an ominous sky. She's stuck full of swords and looking at her phone. It's captioned EVERYTHING IS FINE.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Paul Atreides doth go to a Frensshe bakerye to picke up breade. Upon arriving at the Frensshe bakerye, Paul Atreides doth fynde that the Frensshe bakeres have lefte a box for hym. Paul Atreides asketh: "What ys yn the box?" And the Frensshe bakeres responde: "Pain."

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Fabulous day at @scripthavenltd.bsky.social yesterday, celebrating the birthday of Charles Dickens! I gave a talk on "Dickens: Father of the serial" to finish off the day.

Montage of pictures from Script Have Great Recitations Day to celebrate the birthday of Charles Dickens

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 09/02/2025

Also don’t forget the Bridport Prize also has the Never Too Late Award for Writers Over 60. Please share :)

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NEW! Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize

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Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Read a book today. The fascists can't stand it when you read books.

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’ll be appearing today, Saturday, 8th Feb, at @scripthavenltd.bsky.social 104 High St Worcester WR1 2HW. Celebrate the birthday (7th Feb) of Charles Dickens! There are Dickens-related events all day. I’ll be speaking at 18:30, giving a talk Charles Dickens: father of the serial. #charlesdickens

Damon Lord outside Script Haven Ltd, Worcester, before a banner reading "Great Recitations Dickens Festival" with a sketch of Dickens thereupon.

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Damon Lord, MA, PGCert LTHE, FHEA @damonlordwriter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Felt a bit of imposter syndrome yesterday. I'm very thankful to my PhD supervisor for essentially saying "don't worry, you're on the right path."

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