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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A short story I wrote was accepted by a magazine! Woohoo! It's a story about a vase 🏺 Now to get back to my novel... #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been practising reading a trio of microfictions for an erotic open mic night. Yes, seriously. The trouble is, I have no one to send them to. I want to double check that they're okay. #AmWriting #EroticaWriters #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ugh, last week I was in a really sweet spot, feeling like a writer. Now I am banging my head against this stupid novel idea. I've overworked it... like old gum #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lately, I've seen a bunch of different posts by trans women just unapologetically loving womanhood. I have never wanted to be a girl more 🥺 #LGBTQ #RandomThoughts #Trans

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I tried to strip my pear story down to just pears, but pears are a motif rather than a central theme. The central theme is loving someone you don't know. Maybe it's time to throw out the pears??? #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do you ever lie awake at night and think, "What if my major project lacks forward momentum?" Also, thinking about making night pasta 🍝 #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your hair is really vivid! (In a good way)

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a personal account that's literally just me talking about salad dressings I like (and my worsening mental health)

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧠 the rest of the time: lmao, I am swimming in story ideas 🧠 now I have an external deadline: lmao, I am dry as dust #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

lmao, I just signed myself up for an erotic open mic night. All I have to do is write some erotic short fiction 🤷🏽‍♂️ #AmWriting #Erotic #Erotica #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ugh, I need to come up with a completely new novel idea by Monday morning. Genre? Who knows. Characters and setting? I also don't know. Just something completely new. #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh no! I just spent the afternoon writing a piece for a submission call I saw in a dream 😯 #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I just need to write down the gist. I'll remember all the details when I wake up." Team, I did not remember any details or even why I thought this idea was good. #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

A screenshot from a notes app. The note reads: A blind date set up for an astronaut while he is in space

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Due to the tremendous success of handing out my story cards today, I'm going to have to write a new story. This time, I'll include my website on the cards. lmao. #AmWriting #Fiction #Microfiction #Writersky #WritingCommunity

A line drawing of a pen. The address of a website: ijwriting.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1944 #womensart

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My tiny story cards have arrived. And so I have fulfilled my goal of turning a piece of writing into a physical object 😊 #AmWriting #Fiction #Microfiction #Writersky #WritingCommunity

A white card on a piece of rust-coloured fabric. The card reads:

Love Me Today: A Free Short Story

10 September 1936

Autumn leaves fell onto the wet path. Early, Violet thought. She was thinking about the mizzle, the greyness of the day, when she saw him.
‘Michael.’
She knew him instantly by his fluffy hair, golden-red like the leaves. He hid his face. Scars. Deep wounds knitted together.
‘Michael, stop!’ She caught up with him and touched the shoulder of his grey coat. They stood in the shelter of a maple. Leaves falling.
‘You stopped writing letters. Did you stop loving me with the armistice?'
‘I died, just like this tree is dying.'
She wanted to tell him the tree wasn't dying, that it would live anew in spring. Instead, she kissed his new face. Michael. Her Michael.

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a story with lots of characters and so I think it will survive, even thrive, as a novel :)

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's definitely the final option. I struggle to know which idea should be a novel. I'm working on my pear novel now, so hopefully that shouldn't be a problem anymore

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🤨: Hmm, I don't think it's plausible to write a literary fiction novel about pears 👨🏽: So you're saying I should add more pears? 🤨: No, of course that's not what I'm... 👨🏽: PEARS! 🍐🍐🍐 #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me? I just read books. I'm typing out this message in a copy of Jane Eyre

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would try my best. It sounds interesting if a little intimidating

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I write short stories and either submit them for publication or publish them myself on my website (ijwriting.com). That could be my entire writing life. And yet, I still dream of writing a novel. I struggle to bring a novel into being. Why? #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Submitted a science fiction story to an anthology, now time for night ice cream 🌌🍦 #AmWriting #ScienceFiction #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ugh, I am obsessively worried about the species of tree I used in a short story. Maple. I double checked that England has maple trees. It does! But I worry that maple reads as out of place. I had this story printed, so it's too late to change it :( #AmWriting #Trees #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Writers: how do you generate new ideas? I'm in the mood to start something completely different. I usually do this by free writing to classical music, but I'm interested in finding out what you guys do when you want to pluck an idea out of the ether. #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'Angel' by Marianne Stokes (1855–1927), Austrian painter who created this work in an Art Nouveau style #WomensArt

Painting featuring the upper half of a white woman resembling an angel with blue closed wings, red hair tied back, facing right, looking outwards, holding a dry twig from an honesty plant

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It was a piece of historical fiction set during the interwar years. I don't know if I'll make more physical objects. I have always wanted to make a chapbook of short stories.

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In my writing critique group, I set myself the goal of turning a piece of my writing into a physical object. Last night, I wrote a tiny piece of microfiction and sent it off to have it printed on business cards. Et voilà! My goal is achieved :) #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taking a break from writing romance to write a literary fiction novel??? 🤷🏽‍♂️ Honestly, I just wish a good romance plot would settle in my mind. I wish I were a more romantic person 🥀 #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you ever feel like your novel is dominated by a minor character? I just mapped out my scenes, and I'm like, 'What are you doing here, Jane? Why do you show up so much?' #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wrote three short stories today (early drafts) and I still don't feel as if I've got anything done 🤷🏽‍♂️ #AmWriting #Writersky #WritingCommunity

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.’ ~ Maya Angelou writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm working through this book (Adam Roberts' Get Started in Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy). I'm doing the exercises. It's tremendous, the amount of joy and accomplishment that comes with completing a short story. #AmWriting #ScienceFiction #Writersky #WritingCommunity

A second-hand paperback book with a white, orange and blue cover. Get Started in Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Adam Roberts

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A writer is someone who writes. I wrote for years without showing anyone. I was still a writer then.

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

May I suggest you take a twelfth book? Just in case you don't have enough 🤷🏽‍♂️

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am currently without a pet 😢 But I did go to the cat café 😺 #Catsky #CatsofBluesky

A hand stroking a hairless cat who sits in a pile of other, fluffy cats

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IJ (she/they) @ijaja.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am back from threads. It's a heady, seductive environment. I won't go back.

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