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Hello, writing community! We are the beta wing for the Darling Axe. Follow us for graphic writing prompts—all art is by actual humans. Find us here: tinyurl.com/earthlingbeta 🪓🪓

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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨 🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨
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rtvrtv.bsky.social @rtvrtv.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Seeking MALE beta readers for a 60k word mystery set in small coastal town. Already have enough female feedback. Themes: family, hidden truths, emotional depth, small-town suspense. Comp titles: Ordinary Grace, We Begin at the End. DM me if interested!”
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 28/11/2025
Story Skeleton—Magpie Murders In a genre as established as mystery, it’s not easy to do something new. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/m... #storystructure #writingcommunity #booksky
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Story Skeleton—Magpie Murders
In a genre as established as mystery, it’s not easy to do something new.
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 29/11/2025
Exit Strategy: Your Novel’s Ending as a Structural Tool Don’t be afraid to find out that something isn’t working. It’s rare to stick the landing on your first draft. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/n... #writingcommunity #booksky
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Exit Strategy: Your Novel’s Ending as a Structural Tool
Don’t be afraid to find out that something isn’t working. It’s rare to stick the landing on your first draft.
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 29/11/2025
“Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now.” Happy #Caturday ❤️
cuddling tabby cats, one orange and one greycuddling tabby cats, one orange and one grey
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 29/11/2025
I'm happy I made the switch to Tidal a few months ago. They pay artists 3x what Spotify does, they don't run ads for ICE, and they don't invest in AI-powered murder drones. Win-win-win. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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As controversies pile up, is Spotify losing the streaming wars? | CBC News
The popular listening platform Spotify has dominated the streaming industry for years. But there have been recent calls to boycott the platform over controversies surrounding issues like artist compen...
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 19/11/2025
How (and Why) to Structure Your Memoir Like a Bestselling Novel An engaging memoir, while rooted in reality, employs the same narrative devices that make novels compelling. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/m... #writingcommunity
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How (and Why) to Structure Your Memoir Like a Bestselling Novel
An engaging memoir, while rooted in reality, employs the same narrative devices that make novels compelling.
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 19/11/2025
The world's ongoing response to American political news in 2025
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TJ Silverlake @tjsilverlake.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Before I forget 7, series of 7, 40 x 40”, monoprint, ink on archival paper, 7/25 #ContemporaryArt #ArtCollector #ArtGallery #PortraitArt #DigitalArtist #DigitalArt #Procreate #AffinityPhoto2 #landscape #painting #abstractexpressionism #hyperrealism #art
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JKXXIV @jamiegallery.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#art #abstract #painting
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 17/11/2025
Story Structure in The Great Gatsby, part 2 of 4 :) #WritingCommunity #booksky
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 17/11/2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "When the Sky Breaks is a vibrant biopunk science fiction novel that brings us on an incredible odyssey." mybook.to/whentheskybr...
Book cover: When the Sky Breaks (sailboat under a large moon)
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 18/11/2025
What do you find the most difficult to write? #writingcommunity
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 15/11/2025
Coincidences can work well at the inciting incident or if they make things worse for your protagonist, but otherwise they tend to feel cheap and mechanical. #creativewriting #writingtips #writingcommunity #writingadvice
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 16/11/2025
A writing professor once told me,"there is nothing easy or cheap about being clear." #writingcommunity #booksky
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 13/11/2025
Where is your current manuscript taking you? #writingcommunity #booksky
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 13/11/2025
Have you read The Secret History? What did you think?
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 15/11/2025
My latest book signing! Only sold five copies, but talked to lots of people, refined my pitch, and got 20 newsletter signups 😁✌️
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 09/11/2025
Attempting to make some reels!
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 08/11/2025
Everyone should listen to Sparrow 😁😁😁
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 08/11/2025
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." —from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 07/11/2025
"Some early reviews of the book have called it “laugh out loud funny,” with one reviewer stating that they spat their drink out of their mouth at one point due to laughter." Check out the article about my book on Victoria Buzz 🤩 victoriabuzz.com/2025/11/vict... #booksky
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Victoria-based author writes book framing Canada-US trade war as satirical fantasy
Local Victoria author Septimus Brown’s latest offering frames the ongoing US-Canada trade as a satirical fantasy quest titled We’ve Come for Your Eggs (And Other Reasons to Annex the North).
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 07/11/2025
"Juggernaut" comes from the Sanskrit "jagannatha," meaning "lord of the world." #etymology
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 05/11/2025
Seems like an appropriate quote today for our neighbours to the south: “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” — Victor Hugo
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 05/11/2025
"Lonely" made its debut in Shakespeare's Coriolanus. #etymology
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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
For #WorldJellyfishDay: a sampling of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur's #sciart from his & François Péron's work conducted on the Baudin Expedition to Australia 1800-1804, which more than quadrupled the # of documented #jellyfish species. Muséum du Havre archives: museum-lehavre.fr/en/node/6
digitized image of a watercolor by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (French, 1778-1846), unidentified jellyfish specimen from the Baudin Expedition to Australia (1800-1804), side view
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing_of_jellyfish_by_Lesueur_16.jpgdigitized image of a watercolor by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (French, 1778-1846), unidentified jellyfish specimen from the Baudin Expedition to Australia (1800-1804), side view
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing_of_jellyfish_by_Lesueur_17.jpgdigitized image of a watercolor by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (French, 1778-1846), unidentified jellyfish specimen from the Baudin Expedition to Australia (1800-1804), bottom view
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 04/11/2025
🧐 The Surprising Power of Letting Myself Be Silly 😜 I did a guest post on Jennifer L. Gadd's blog about my new book: We've Come for Your Eggs. Check it out: jenniferlgadd.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/g... Thanks @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social 🤩
Book Cover (dragon flying across a sun and cloud) for We've Come for Your Eggs
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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨 🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 31/10/2025
Story Skeleton: The Picture of Dorian Gray "Tragic climaxes typically end in catastrophe: the final consequence of the protagonist’s fatal flaw." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/d... #writingcommunity
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Story Skeleton—The Picture of Dorian Gray
A plot point summary of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Exploring this classic's narrative structure and thematic depth. Dorian's inciting incident, his deal for eternal youth, sparks…
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 01/11/2025
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” —William Shakespeare (A quote for Halloween, or just for current events. Take your pick 💀)
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 29/10/2025
The Long Game: Writing a Mystery Series While most agents and publishers want a first book to stand alone, it’s a bonus if your mystery novel (or any novel) has series potential. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/m... #writingcommunity #writerslife #booksky
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The Long Game: Writing a Mystery Series
While most agents and publishers want a first book to stand alone, it’s a bonus if your mystery novel (or any novel) has series potential.
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 29/10/2025
This morning I am envisioning a kinder and more empathetic world 💙 ❤️
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 29/10/2025
"Ostracize" has a pottery past. Ancient Athenians voted to banish people by writing names on potsherds called "ostraka." #etymology
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 28/10/2025
Book Review: We’ve Come for Your Eggs 🐉 "On the one paw . . . . . . this is a very funny book. On the other paw, this is the most transparent satire I’ve ever read. And I mean that in a good way." jenniferlgadd.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/b... Thanks @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social 🤩
A side profile graphic of a small dragon
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 28/10/2025
The First Page Challenge 2025—3rd place CITY by Andrew Riddles "The bronchial whining of the elevator always reminds Jonathan of the night he accidentally murdered his father." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/f... #writingcommunity #writingcontest #booksky
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The First Page Challenge 2025—3rd place
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 23/10/2025
The First Page Challenge 2025—1st place INFINITY LAND by Mark Daniel Taylor "Long time lurker, first time poster." Congrats, Mark!! darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/f... #writingcommunity @katamazov.bsky.social
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The First Page Challenge 2025—1st place
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 28/10/2025
The First Page Challenge 2025—2nd place CLOUDIA WITH A CHANCE OF DARKNESS by Melissa Grant "It was her 11th birthday, and the sky had the nerve to be blue." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/f... #writingcommunity #writingcontest #booksky
A girl with balloons running away
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 24/10/2025
BREAKING NEWS 1) It's my birthday 2) My book comes out today Good planning, right? Because now you want to buy my book (because it's awesome) AND you want to do a nice thing for my bday?! Right?? We've Come for Your Eggs = fantasy satire goodness mybook.to/dragoneggs 😄😄😄😄🫠
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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#NationalOpossumDay : Vasily Vatagin (Russian/Soviet wildlife artist, 1883-1969) #Opossum with Its Babies, 1920 Oil on canvas? From the collection of the State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia. artsandculture.google.com/asset/opossu...
painting of a mother opossum (Didelphis sp.) with five babies (four on back, one by her tail) on a large tree branch, overall dark tone giving it a crepuscular quality
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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#NationalOpossumDay : Julia Lucey (CA, USA) #Opossum in Toyon, 2025 Aquatint etchings collaged on panel 14 × 18 × 2 in | 35.6 × 45.7 × 5.1 cm www.artsy.net/artwork/juli... #ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists
depiction of an opossum hiding in the foliage of a fruiting Toyon bush (aka California Holly)

“Sourcing imagery from the flora and fauna of the California coast, Julia Lucey combines printmaking and collage for a medium all her own. Lucey prints her exquisitely detailed aquatint etchings in multiple editions, and uses a deft hand to cut and layer them into complex large-scale collages. The finished pieces are visually dense constructed environments that play on the character of her animal and vegetable subjects. As the artist herself explained, in some of her worlds, she references narratives and folk tales she imagines could happen, but with local animals as the characters. In other collages, she sets the animal’s gaze out toward the viewer in judgement; and others are simply about the magical feeling of being in a wild space.”
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 18/10/2025
True story
Writing a book is just like reading a book except the book hates you
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 18/10/2025
No Kings #Caturday ❤️
A tabby cat wearing a crown
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 15/10/2025
"Damn right," he behemothed hoarsely.
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 16/10/2025
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." —from The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
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a man with long hair and a beard is looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 16/10/2025
We’ve Come For Your Eggs is a comic fantasy adventure equal parts Dungeons & Dragons romp and razor-sharp satire, lampooning the US-Canada trade war and a few infamous celebrities along the way. Book launch: Oct 23 Kindle pre-orders are live 🐲 mybook.to/dragoneggs
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 14/10/2025
"Trivial" comes from Latin "trivium," meaning "crossroads." It originally referred to common, everyday matters discussed at crossroads. #etymology
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 14/10/2025
Timeline cleanse! Here's a waterfall :)
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