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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A frame narrative is a story wrapped inside another. But the frame isn't just a container, it's a lens. It puts a narrator between you and the events, shaping how much you trust them and whose truth you're getting. Use it on purpose. 🏯 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips #InkBreaker

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Exquisite Corpse Vol. 5: What the Tide Left Behind Prompt: “The will left everything to someone no one in the family had ever met.” 🧐 4 writers built this blind, each only seeing the line right before theirs. Every twist here came from someone just taking their turn. #exquisitecorpse #inkbreaker

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fantasy heists with clever crews and jobs way over their heads: . - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch - The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman . Three impossible jobs, zero clean getaways. 🗝️ . #BookSky #Fantasy #AmReading #InkBreaker

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Old saying,"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist". The catch: breaking a rule and breaking it well aren't the same. A fragment from a pro reads as style. From a beginner, as an error. The difference is whether the reader feels you meant it. 🚭 #InkBreaker #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There's a name for this: the objective correlative (T.S. Eliot, 1919). Every emotion has a formula, a set of objects that produces it. Don't write "grief." Write the untouched plate, the coat still by the door. The feeling arrives on its own. 🌾 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips #InkBreaker

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SaliencyBias @saliencybias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Life has been really hard, but today I find time and heart for RavenWood. @inkbreaker.bsky.social has a competition I've used as a prompt to explore RavenWood's florist, Aedan. Wanna compete and beat my entry? 😉 inkbreaker.com/competitions...

Just outside the greenhouse, she points to flat clouds atop fat ones. I read her lips as she reads the darkening sky for us both. We fill our lungs with precipitation’s promise. The night’s rain will be good for her field of crops, she says. Maybe that is why she has the time and joy to share. To think, she handles the old farm herself. Meanwhile, the boy and I struggle with a few raised beds and two small hot houses.

Rinny’s Flower Shop is just that: Rinny’s. But, she’s not here anymore. I am. Our son is. And now, here to help is my son’s crush: Paisley Applebaum. I know I shouldn’t read his journals, but a father worries. A father worries a lot, and more so every day. More so every night.

The cold front races through the flower beds, tearing searing red poppy petal embers into a lift. They swoop, swirl, scatter around us. Times like this, I still smell the cinders. I still blame myself. Times like this, I could use another drink of fire. And another.

This time, the wind whips up a murmuration of petals and leaves and memories. With gusts like this, whatever isn’t tied down will fly. Someone, tie me down. Tie me up. Tighten the knot. Knock me down and out. This friendly neighbor invites herself over to help with the flower shop. She invites herself over to see me, help me. Help me. Please.

Paisley’s laughter strikes a match along my spine. Ignition.

The blaze found a belly loaded with moonshine and a vacuous heart. Complete combustion. She invites herself into the hot house, where the Tiger Lilies have just begun to germinate. If I offer her a bouquet of Rhododendrons instead, will she know to stay away?

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

InkBreaker x @fatedthemusical.bsky.social Our first competition, The Storm Beyond the Night, is open: write a story from a lyric of the show. Entries close Sept 30. Win a limited-edition notebook and a month of Pro. Plus five Fated tracks now on InkBreaker Radio for every writer.🎉 #WritingCommunity

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Professor Uni’s class begins now :3

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

John Gardner called it psychic distance: how far the reader stands from a character’s mind. “It was winter” is the wide shot. “Freezing your miserable soul” is right behind their eyes. Neither’s better, but move between them on purpose. 🚃 🎥 📖 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Exquisite Corpse Vol. 4: Four Burrito Heaven Combos 3 writers built this one blind before the clock ran out. No closer this round, so it ends mid scene, which honestly fits the vibe. 😂 Find InkBreaker on iPhone, Mac, Windows, Android, and Linux, or just use the web browser.📱🖥️ 🛜 #InkBreaker #writer

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Survival stories where the cold itself is the horror: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, Dark Matter by Michelle Paver, and All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes. Remote, frozen, and haunted. Bring a blanket. 🧊 #BookSky #Horror #AmReading #InkBreaker

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Test any subplot: remove it. If the main story barely notices, it was filler. A real subplot crosses into the main plot and changes it, hands the hero what they need, twists the knife, reshapes the ending. Make the threads tangle. 🚦 🧵 📖 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips #InkBreaker

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A motif isn’t just a repeated symbol, it’s a symbol that changes meaning. The image that meant hope in act one can mean grief by the end. You’re showing how much has changed by how differently the same thing lands. Don’t explain it, let the reader feel it 🏮🌸📖 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #InkBreaker

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can’t see the wind, only the paper strips fluttering under a wind chime. Write your villain the same way. “They were terrifying” tells us nothing. Show the arrogant one going quiet when they enter. Don’t describe the force, show what bends.🎐 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips #InkBreaker

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Exquisite Corpse Vol. 3: A Dying Heartbeat “He’d lived in the house for thirty years before he found the basement.” 🕯️ Four writers built this one blind, each only seeing the line right before theirs. 🩸⏳🖤 Next round starts soon. Link’s in bio. 🙌 #exquisitecorpse #inkbreaker #writers

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fantasy plus a proper whodunit: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, and The Silverblood Promise by James Logan. Three worlds, three murders, no idea who did it until the end. 🔍 #BookSky #Fantasy #AmReading

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Aristotle named the engine behind every great twist: peripeteia, the reversal into the opposite. The best ones aren’t random, they come from the character’s own choices. The move meant to save them is what ruins them. Inevitable in hindsight. 🌸 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dwight Swain called it scene and sequel: action, then a quiet beat to react and reset. Skip the quiet and readers go numb, there’s nothing to measure the tension against. The calm is what makes the next rise land. ♨️ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips #InkBreaker

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

C.S. Lewis said don’t tell the reader it was delightful, write it so they say “delightful” themselves. Most of us show something, then explain it anyway. “His jaw tightened, showing his anger.” Search your draft for “showing” and cut what follows. 🌸 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My birthday is coming up and hospitals are low on blood. If you want to do something for me and can donate blood, maybe look up a drive?

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Exquisite Corpse Vol. 2: Empty as of Last Tuesday Four writers built this one blind, each only seeing the line right before theirs. Somehow it goes from a moldy tuna sandwich to death by paperwork. 🐟 📝 🪦 Next round starts soon. Link’s in bio. 🙌 #InkBreaker #EquisiteCorpse #writingcommunity

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Got a Dungeon Crawler Carl-shaped hole in your life? Same. 😭 Try He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon, Cradle by Will Wight, and Beware of Chicken by CasualFarmer. Progression, dark humor, and one wholesome curveball. Three ways to keep the crawl going. 🎮 🗡️ 🐔 #BookSky #LitRPG #Fantasy

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There’s a name for it: prolepsis. A small flash-forward that tells the reader something is coming, without saying what. “It was the last morning the house stood,” and suddenly an ordinary scene aches. Promise the future once, then let the quiet do the work. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Chekhov’s advice was to seize on small details and let the reader assemble the picture. The trick is picking the right one. A red coat is decoration. A red coat still on the hook in July is a story. Find the detail already carrying weight. 🧥 🪝 ☀️ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Filtering is when you write the character noticing a thing instead of the thing. Burroway’s test: readers should look through your character, not at her. “She saw the light move” makes us watch her watch. Cut it and the light just moves. ☀️ 🌳🧍‍♀️ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Four writers. Two days. Nobody saw the whole story until the end. This is Exquisite Corpse, our community writing game. One writer opens it blind. A few more each add a single line, seeing only what came right before them. A closer ties it off. Nobody plans where it goes. #equisitecorpse #inkbreaker

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The best gothic novels know a secret: the real monster is never the obvious one. 🕯️ - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. The monster is rarely the one wearing the mask. 🥀 🖤 🏚️ #BookSky #AmReading #GothicBooks

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Your complete writing platform. Worldbuilding, drafting, EPUB formatting, community, and human feedback in one place, on every device. Never any AI. Your work stays protected and always yours. ✍️ 📚 ❤️ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #writingtools

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Carnival Cat Games @carnivalcatgames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Happy Monday! Did you have a favorite teacher/professor while you were in school?

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Gary Provost taught: sentences of the same length drone like a stuck record. Vary them & the prose becomes music. Short to catch, long to carry. Rhythm speeds a pulse or slows it, usually without the reader noticing. Pace is a feeling, not an accident.🎶 🌊 🎧 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Readers can feel when you’re protecting your characters, when nothing bad is allowed to happen and every loss gets undone. The tension goes quiet. Take the rails off and let them get lost. That’s where the story lives. 🧭 🗺️ 🥾 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Meg Rosoff said your writing voice is the deepest reflection of who you are. So it grows exactly as you do. Read something old and you’ll feel the difference, you’re meeting a version of yourself you’ve outgrown. You’ve grown more than you know. 🌱 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingMotivation

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Three haunting books about memory and loss: The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, Solaris by Stanisław Lem, and The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami. Worlds built out of what we forget, and what remains when everything else disappears. 🧠 #BookSky #AmReading #LiteraryFiction

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

An outline is a map, but the map isn’t the journey. Plot A to B if you want, but leave room to wander. The best scenes are often the side paths your outline never mentioned. Let the story surprise you. 🗺️ 🧭 📚 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Stephen King puts a finished draft in a drawer for six weeks before touching it. Right after writing, what you meant to say is still louder in your head than what’s on the page. Distance is the only fix. Come back with new eyes. 🕰️ 📆 🖊️ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The most common mistake in emotional writing is the line right after the emotional beat, the one explaining what just happened. Cut it. The reader already felt it. Trust them. Restraint hits harder than emphasis. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 28/05/2026

🎉PUBLISHED! Alan Sharp (1934–2013) is remembered as a screenwriter, but his writing career began with the award-winning – & taboo-breaking – novel A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE. Still controversial, it is nevertheless “a flagship of 1960s Scottish prose” Order your copy now! 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

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Annual Volume 55 (2025)

Edited by Colin McIlroy and Paul Malgrati Paperback, 504 pages Association for Scottish Literature, May 2026 Price: £14.95 ISBN: 9781906841676 Pre-order from our bookshop “If you don’t go you can’t…

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

If Blade Runner or cyberpunk games hooked you, dive deeper: Synners by Pat Cadigan, Neuromancer by William Gibson, and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Neon heists, hacker minds, and a pizza-delivering swordsman await. #BookSky #SciFi #Cyberpunk

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A Shinto shrine has the temizuya, a fountain where you rinse before entering the sacred space. Writing has its own threshold. The same music, same desk, a lamp switched on. The ritual isn’t superstition, it’s a signal to your mind that it’s time to cross into the work. #WritingCommunity #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Murakami says that late in a marathon the hills feel like mountains, and what keeps him going is remembering it only feels like one. Writing is the same climb. The summit looks far, so take the next step instead. The climb is how you earn the view. 🏔️ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingMotivation

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Readers don’t just see your world, they hear it. A wind chime, the knock of bamboo, cicadas in the heat. One well-chosen sound can place them somewhere completely. Sound is often what they remember long after the sight fades. 🎶 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Three dark, brilliant retellings of the Oedipus myth: Homo Faber by Max Frisch, The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk, and Everything Under by Daisy Johnson. Fate, family secrets, and the crossroads you can’t avoid. 📚 📕 📖 #BookSky #AmReading #LiteraryFiction

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InkBreaker @inkbreaker.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hemingway called it the iceberg theory: the surface is only a tenth of the story, the rest sits underneath. Dialogue is the same. A character says “have a safe trip” when they mean don’t go. Let most of it live under the surface, and trust the reader to feel it. #WritingCommunity #WritingTips

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Spilled Ink & Coffee LLC ✍🏻 ☕️ @spilledinkcoffee.com · 08/07/2026

Can we get one sale today? We’ve got books, bags, candles, and crochet goodies!! spilledinkcoffee.com #booksky 💙📚 #crochet 🧶

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Atlanta Writers Club @atlantawritersclub.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Want a chance to earn a contract with a literary agent or editor? Get advice about what’s right and wrong with your book? Learn more and sign up for the fall Atlanta Writers Conference at atlantawritersconference.com/the-conferen.... #amquerying #amwriting #writetip #WritingCommunity #writerslife

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Our 35th Atlanta Writers Conference on November 6-7, 2026, held in-person at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel, consists of TWELVE parts and you may participate in one, some, or all of these events …

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dear picture book authors, It's not you. It's the dumpster-fire market. More and more great manuscripts get rejected all the time. More and more great picture books go out of print - faster and faster and faster. You're not alone. It's everywhere and everyone and everything.

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Molly J. Bragg 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Queer Author @themollyjay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Mail Order Bride by Molly J. Bragg is coming to Audio Book on July 21st, 2026 from Tantor Media. rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97... #wlw #LesbianFiction #lgbtbooks #LesbianBooks #QueerBooks #Lesfic #SapphicBooks #audiobooks #nonbinarycharacters

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Flash 500 Writing Competitions @flash500.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We have the following competition categories open for entries: Quarterly #flashfiction Annual #shortstory Annual #novels More information here: flash500.com #writing #writers #writerslife

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