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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

My protagonist 'shook his head' 35 times in the latest novel. Poor guy is dizzy. Back to the editing. #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Guaranteed to contain no gardening advice. mybook.to/dHqVVy #humour #amwriting

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

At last I'm a real writer - Morgan wants to scam me. #writingcommunity

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hazel has a problem – she’s lost her memory. The blank hours just happen to cover the period when her hateful boss was murdered. The big question – just how the hell did that traffic cone get into her flat? #WritingCommunity #booksky #humour #author #crime #novels www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GQCBKPVD

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Jenny Kane @jennykaneauthor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's less than two months until the publication of the first in my #cornish based #cosycrime #series - #thefishandchipshopdetectives On my blog today, I'm chatting about my love of #Cornwall jennykane.co.uk/blog/why-cor... @hodderfiction.bsky.social #newseries #comingsoon

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

For anyone who hasn't read A Clear Solution, it's now free for the next few days. Give it a try, I can assure you it's worth the asking price. #WritingCommunity #booksky #humour #author #novels www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C6H9FWH7

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A Clear Solution (The Dreghorn Saga)

A Clear Solution (The Dreghorn Saga) eBook : McFarlane, Eric: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 01/03/2026

Revisiting ‘The Visage of Many Sorrows’ to share a #WIPSnips for today's word: “Face” You can read the whole story on my patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/151217... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WritersLift #AmWriting 💙📚

I didn’t need a balaclava. Balaclavas are for people who care about their mothers recognizing them on the six o’clock news. I walked into First National Bank with my own face, patted the rubbery slip of gray skin in my pocket, and handed the teller a note. I even made sure to wink at the security camera. Why not? By the time I hit the sidewalk and performed a quick “mask on, mask off” maneuver, I wouldn’t be “Arthur Pringle, mediocre accountant” anymore. I’d be someone else entirely—hopefully someone with better cheekbones.

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Ruth | Temporal_discounting 🏴‍☠️ @insane-foliage.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It's midlife crisis hours for Ed in my wip #WIPSnips

"It's just… I turned forty nine. I'm staring down the barrel of fifty, y'know? And I just… fuck. Is this really all there is? Work and taxes and figuring out what food to shovel in my face to keep myself alive for another day? Just the same fucking thing, every day until I keel over?"

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

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A Clear Solution (The Dreghorn Saga)

A Clear Solution (The Dreghorn Saga) eBook : McFarlane, Eric: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The #WIPSnips words for February 2nd through February 8th are here! Just a few reminders: Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine Use Alt Text on Graphics Use Trigger/Content warnings when necessary Don't be a jerk! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The #WIPSnips words for February 2nd through February 8th.
February 2nd - perish; February 3rd - confident; February 4th - position; February 5th - except; February 6th - sixth; February 7th - redeem; February 8th - airport.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 02/02/2026

The Cymera Prize for Speculative Short Fiction is open to any writer living in Scotland or Scottish by birth or inclination, aged at least 14 years. Submissions are open from Monday 12th January 2026 until 8pm BST on Sunday 22nd March 2026. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2026-prize

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2026 Prize — CYMERA

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Some Random Monk @phranicholas.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

...on the elusive happiness of being 'without thoughts' #meditation #Buddhism 🧘‍♂️

Cartoon of monk speaking to meditating dog with a wagging tail and saying it can't possibly be thinking about nothing of its tail is wagging

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The #WIPSnips words for April 21st - April 27th are here! Don't forget your #WIPSnips hashtag with your posts! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The #WIPSnips words for April 21st for April 27th are April 21 - move; April 22 - submit; April 23 - click; April 24 - magic; April 25 - wofl; April 26 - decor; April 27 - indeed.

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Here are the words for #WIPSnips for April 14th through April 20th. Don't forget the hashtag in your post and Alt Text on your graphics! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The #WIPSnips words for April 14 - April 20th are here.
April 14 - chill; April 15 - fear; April 16 - wet; April 17 - dear; April 18 - music; April 19 - introduce; April 20 - smoke

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

He hit repeat, and I watched my block and an open door, and the crowd of cops, and a gurney with a body bag thrown onto it. I put my hands to my face. I couldn’t believe I was crying, crying for that stupid schmuck with his impossible dreams. #wipsnips #sf #writingcommunity #writesky

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Wind whipping through my hair, we stood at a handrail where, a hundred feet below, Lower straggled on in its ramshackle way. If the evening sun had cast a golden glow, you might have called it beautiful. But it wasn’t, so it looked like a pile of crap. #wipsnips #sf #writingcommunity #writesky

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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This is high art

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Kate Halena @katehalena.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If you want to live forever, write a story that will outlive you—one that carries a piece of your soul in every line.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#WIPSnips #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity #writers #writesky From Book 1 of my #Atlantis trilogy, when Kena first finds his pet phoenix. Mireia's views of masculinity & strength evolve quite a lot as she gets older.

Mireia took in that image of Kena and the phoenix—the gentle touch of his fingers, the spark of joy in his eyes. She realized she was seeing a glimpse of his truest self, without any defensive walls or masks. This was Kena the gardener, the caretaker, full of simple love for the beauty of the earth.
And he’d wanted to hide this from her. Because he feared she would think it unmanly.
Mireia felt a lingering pang of shame at that thought. As much as she hated to admit it, she could understand why he would expect that of her.
Perhaps she should try to change that.
“What are you going to name her?” she asked him.
“I haven’t really thought about it,” he replied. “I don’t expect I’ll ever see her again once her wing has finished healing.”
“Maybe not. But that’s no reason not to give her a name.”
“Perhaps Aiaxi?” he suggested, choosing the name of a royal pet phoenix from a story they’d both recently read. “Not the most original name, I know, but I think it fits.”
It was a good name. A fiery name. Mireia smiled. “Iie, it does fit.”

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Here are the words for the new week of #WIPSnips! April 7th through April 13th Don't forget to use the #WIPSnips hashtag in your post & try to remember Alt Text on any graphics you use. Sometimes the font is difficult to read & Alt Text helps with that! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The #WIPSnips words for April 7 through April 13
April 7 - supply; April 8 - whip; April 9 - cry; April 10 - trip; April 11 - goodbye; April 12 lip; April 13 - comply

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Khonri 🫜🎃 @khonri.com · 05/04/2025

That's a weird looking cat. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

He focused his sight on Hakumei, who was still staring at him from shadows at the base of the pine.
As the light began to dim in his sight, the shadows pulled from the mossy floor like a sticky black ichor draped over a frame not quite man but not quite beast, as it slowly crawled on clawed hands towards the bowl separating them. It stopped at the point where Mori could still see part of its face over the rim—the kuraima’s glowing violet eyes opened wide and the voids within them imitating a cat's pupils followed, dilating fully like they were inviting Mori into the dark they held. Or, he liked to think, like it was excited for where he was going.
I know Haku. You'd come with me if you could. Home, after all…
“Make it count.” Bert's voice seemed far more distant than before despite not having moved an inch.
…right.
And on cue, all was dark.

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We were climbing away from the dismal wet low ground onto the dismal higher ground where those who could afford to get out of the city made their homes. Party officials or crooks, most of them, or did that come to the same thing? #wipsnips #Writingcommunity #Writesky #sf

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Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My dear husband, at times, will just stare, His gaze seemingly fixed on mere air. What has captured his eye? The rapture? A fly? He’s not scared, so I’d guess … not a bear. #vsspoem #Gaze #Marriage #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #LightVerse #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Poems

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The #WIPSnips words for next week are here! Hopping right on into April. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

March 31 - appreciate; April 1- trick; April 2 - scene; April 3 - official; April 4 - laugh; April 5 - count; April 6 - name

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 30/03/2025

#WIPSnips From Heir to The Sun. Loneliness is a definitely a theme in this book, and will also be for the (at-some-point coming) sequel. Aura is an extrovert and not coping well with her somewhat own choice of isolation.

“Aura shook her head and went inside. She weaved her way through the maze of sleeping cats in the hallway, closed the door to her room, and leaned back on the hard bed with a sigh. The headache came back, rushing over her temples, and she moaned, blinking down tears.
During the day she told herself that she had to accept the fact she had no family left. But now, lying alone in this dark room with the stench of cat-piss, she wasn’t so sure.”

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Heir to The Sun: Chronicles of Eshea 1
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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 30/03/2025

#WIPSnips | lonely So I do have a couple of uses of that, but going a wee bit sideways and using 'alone' for today's prompt, just because it lets me share this particular snippet. ( saranadosfiction.com/2024/12/21/s... )

“I’m not going to leave you,” he said, because it was true. Whatever happened, they’d face it together, as they’d done for the last gods-knew-how-many years. “You know that. I know you do. But I can’t finish my part of this if you’re holding onto me so damn tight I can’t move.” He shifted position, wrapped his hands around Sabbat’s, fingers interlacing. “I promise you, I’m not leaving you here alone.”

A pause. Then, so brief as to be almost imperceptible, another flicker of movement behind Sabbat’s closed eyelids, and, under Archer’s fingers, a sudden slackening of that bone-breaking tension as the assassin’s hands and arms abruptly relaxed into sleep-sodden heaviness.

“Thank you,” Archer whispered, and didn’t know whether his gratitude was directed at Sabbat, at the gods, at fate itself, or at some strange mixture of the three. “Rest now. It’s almost over.” *One way or another.*

“Will?” Verist’s voice, raised to be heard over the howling wind. “We’re ready. Waiting on your signal.”

*By which you mean I’m out of position and we’re very almost out of time.* “Give me a moment.”

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

#WIPSnips #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity #writers #writesky This week has just been full of romantic snips! This is from Book 2 of my #Atlantis trilogy, one of my favorite passages.

And he wanted—he wanted so badly—to finally tell her that he didn’t actually care about fate or free will or any of that, and honestly he never had. None of it mattered. What mattered was that the two of them were each other’s match, each the answer to the lonely call of the other’s heart, and that was simply a fact. And maybe “fate” was neither some lovely empty word, nor some vague tyrannical force to be defied, but rather just a natural truth: stars belonged in the sky, fish belonged in the sea, and Kena belonged with Mireia.

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Finklebaum smiled, or rather a thin fissure opened across his granite-lined face. ‘I like to help. I’m just a lonely old man, but I like to help.’ #wipsnips #Writingcommunity #Writesky #humour

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Eric McFarlane - writer @ericmcf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Don't forget the #solareclipse tomorrow. This is my picture from 2015.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A lovely Neolithic knife - with its wooden handle - from a site with houses built on stilts on marshy land in Germany. Usually, the wooden part rots away and we just have the blade. This makes so much more sense! OP - David Connolly on FB: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EaR...

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

GNU Terry Pratchett. #Speakhisname

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