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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#FantasyIndiesSeptember Day 26: Snippet A little different one - my MC created a prayer to awaken belief in the Incan goddess of air Mama Wayra & since he's more comfortable with Christian liturgy, he's/I've stolen from a Methodist prayer at Pentacost. (The lines in bold are said in unison.)

The screen is full of text, written out almost like a poem, with nearly every other line written in bold. I’m not sure where he got this from, if it’s something that he found in some of the pre-War archives he seems to be able to access or if he came up with it on his own, but there’s something about it that feels right:

Great goddess, Mama Wayra,
we confess that we have sinned
against you and against our home.
Your Spirit gives open air,
but we have preferred enclosure.
Your Spirit gives wisdom,
but we have been foolish.
Your Spirit gives clarity,
but we have preferred our own vision.
For the sake of our world, forgive our folly
and enable us by your breath
to serve you in peace and hope
to sanctify our home again. Amen.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

QWERTY "helping" with a bead project and Nef taking over my footrest

A white and brown tabby sits in a large Walmart bag on top of some tubs of beads. His head is sticking through a handle of the bag, which was removed right after taking the picture.

A black cat flops in a blanket folded on top of a box. A white spot on her belly is just visible.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#FantasyIndiesSeptember Day 19: Snippet Image from Scrivener below, text in the alt text:

Dr. O shakes his head, but not in disapproval. "It's not your fault, Mike," he says kindly, and I'm instantly on my guard. He's never this nice. I've had him as an advisor or a professor for six years now, and he's never been one to let the slightest mistake slide. This is not the slightest mistake - this is the kind of thing that could have blown up his entire plan for posterity in one fell swoop, and I missed it. "Hey, it's not your fault," he repeats, putting one hand on my shoulder and squeezing. "Breathe. You're OK. I know you're panicking, but you're OK."
Ah, the panic. Sometime my sophomore year my system decided to treat every small inconvenience as a deadly threat and send my adrenaline into overdrive. I was late to class? Everything is awful and I'm going to die! Missed a line on a homework assignment and so didn't get all the points I could have? Going to die. Sweats, difficulty breathing, muscles tight, ready to run screaming into the void at the slightest provocation. Dr. O was the first professor to actually witness this embarrassing situation and help me figure out what it was, and help me find ways to combat it. He must be seeing the signs right now, because he pushes me into a desk chair and kneels down in front of me.
"Just focus on your breath, Mike." He takes an exaggerated breath in and I mimic him without thinking, then let it out slowly the same way. After a few cycles of reminding myself how to breathe (because of course I forget how to do that in the midst of everything), I look him in the eye.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#FantasyIndiesSeptember Day 18: Pet Photos Behold, QWERTY and Nef on their favorite beanbag chair! (QWERTY is the tabby, Nef (short for Nefertari) is the black cat using him as a pillow)

A white and brown tabby looks at the camera while a black cat curls up with her head resting on the tabby's tummy, eyes closed.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#WeeknightWriters Q6: I've got my book The Infinite Library out on Amazon and Kobo! A cross-genre group of fictional characters has to figure out what's destroying the library of all narrative. Amazon: a.co/d/0clRniWt Kobo: bit.ly/4vLvEDD

The book cover for the book The Infinite Library by Stephanie Wood Franklin. The top half is red with the title in white text; below that is a black bar with the author's name. The bottom half is a photo of a set of bookshelves with the books organized to make a portal into another room.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#FantasyIndiesSeptember Day 12: Snippet Screenshot from Scrivener below, text in the alt text:

Gesturing, Dr. Oberman continues. “Look down there. Look at how empty the streets and the sidewalks are. When I was a child, no one could move for all the traffic on these roads. Now, the only people you see outside are in hazmat suits, driving golf carts as they go from one filter to another.” He’s angry now, and he begins to pace between the window and the chairs where there rest of us sit, entranced. “People are terrified of a leaking window! People refuse to let their children out of their homes without a full filtration mask! And people who can’t afford to have their filters fixed, well, they just shut themselves up in their homes and hope not to infect anyone else!” He stops abruptly in front of Dr. Ibarra’s chair, and makes a pleading gesture. “Don’t you see? They need some kind of beacon of hope, and this can be that beacon!”

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#FantasyIndiesSeptember Day 5: Snippet Screenshot from Scrivener - text in the alt text

Dr. Ibarra crosses the short distance to Dr. O and puts her hand on his shoulder. “Look, Kevin. Not everyone…not everyone gets to make a name for themselves. For every Jane Goodall, there are a hundred - no, a thousand - anthropologists who publish their articles and teach their classes, whose names will live on with the students they teach, but…well, they won’t go much further than that. Not everybody can be the star, Kevin. The world needs stagehands just as much as they need leading men.”
Damn, Doc, I think to myself. I mean, sure, she’s right, but that’s a little harsh. Especially since anyone who’s talked to Dr. O for more than five minutes knows that he’s a tiny bit obsessed with “making his name last forever.” I don’t know if he just wasn’t hugged enough as a kid or what - I’m not a psych major - but something clearly messed this man up, and there’s not really anything that’s going to change that.
Dr. O looks absolutely miserable. “I know that, Natalie,” he says softly - I have to strain to hear him (yes, I was eavesdropping - wouldn’t you?). “But I still need to try, don’t I? What’s the point of being here, of being on this Earth, if I don’t at least try to be a star?”

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#FantasyIndiesSeptember Day 4: Collect anything? First thing that comes to mind is enamel pins. I may have a bit of a problem, because this is not the entire collection - I have a small drawer full of pins waiting to be put on the wall.

A wall with several black or gray hexagons covered in enamel pins. A standing light illuminates the wall from below the pins, and a Lego Japanese maple and Lego hibiscus cover part of the pins on the right, while plastic daisies cover some of the pins on the left.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hello all! The Infinite Library is available on Amazon (a.co/d/0clRniWt) & Kobo (bit.ly/4vLvEDD). It's a fantasy about a library that contains all the narrative in human history that is currently under attack & the cross-genre group of fictional characters out to save it. #WriterShareWednesday

The book cover for The Infinite Library by Stephanie Wood Franklin. The title is in white text on the top of the cover on a red background; the author name is in white text on a black band under the red background. Beneath that is a picture of a set of bookshelves forming a porthole into another room.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#Septversary Day 7: Self-Promo Day I have a book! The Infinite Library is fantasy set in a library of all narrative that is in danger & a cross-genre group of fictional characters has to save it. Available on Amazon (a.co/d/0clRniWt) & Kobo (bit.ly/4vLvEDD) Also my blog, insertscenehere.com

Cover art for the book The Infinite Library by Stephanie Wood Franklin, showing the title and author name over the image of books on a shelf forming a tunnel into another room.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Isn't she just? She knows it, too - she's the brains of the operation, though QWERTY's no slouch in that department, either.

A white and brown tabby cat cuddles on top of a black cat on a purple, gray, and white striped blanket. Both cats are looking in the direction of the camera.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

He's not wrong! His sister Nefertari is a little pickier when it comes to receiving love, but when she determines it's time, by gum, You Will Pet Nef.

A black cat looks directly at the camera with green eyes. She is one a brown cat bed.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#WeeknightWriters A4: Next week Sleeping a little more would probably be good. Also drinking more tea. When in doubt, sleep, tea, and cats, and my cats have been doing a good job of making their presence known (see QWERTY below).

A white and brown tabby curls up asleep with one back foot near his face. His pink and brown toepads are visible by his pink nose.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#WeeknightWriters A1: How am I holding up? Simultaneously too tightly and not strong enough. For other Xennials, remember those tubes of glittery water that would squirt out of your hand if you didn't hold it with just the right amount of tension? Like that. It's been a week/month/year/decade.

A Caucasian hand holds a plastic tube filled with blue glittery gel. The fingers are barely wrapped around the tube.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Meanwhile, if I suddenly start typing strangely, just be aware that my hooligan of a cat, QWERTY, is behind my monitor chasing a bug in the window. His timing is exquisitely bad, but he's really cute.

A white and brown tabby cat flips over onto his back, exposing his belly and staring off into space. There is very little activity behind his eyes at the moment.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Two years later, he's an incredibly lovey hooligan who still loves his laptop. Happy gotcha day, QWERTY!

The same white and brown tabby curled up in a clear plastic shelf covering a laptop keyboard. He has one eye peeking out between his paws, watching the person holding the camera.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It took less than a day for him to find his preferred perch & for us to give him his name:

The same white and brown tabby sits on the keyboard of a laptop, staring down the person holding the camera.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

On this day in 2024, @gamethyme.bsky.social & I went to an adoption event to find a new member of our household. Almost immediately upon entering, we heard a SCREAM:

A white and brown tabby cat stands in a cage, mouth open in a very loud meow at the person holding the camera.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Father's Day via Blogger ift.tt/RutM2dG 2026-06-21T09:18:50-07:00

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Great Discworld Re-Read: Small Gods via Blogger ift.tt/XujKiHF 2026-06-14T08:36:45-07:00

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Great Discworld Re-Read: Reaper Man and Witches Abroad via Blogger ift.tt/GrznfpH 2026-05-31T08:52:28-07:00

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

All the World's a Stage via Blogger ift.tt/kdc7E9b 2026-05-25T11:14:19-07:00

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Our black cat Nef is usually the epitome of grace and dignity. Usually.

A black cat stands on a floor on her hind legs and sniffs at the camera, forcing her nose and yellow eyes in perspective.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Hi #WriterShareWednesday! My first-ever book, The Infinite Library, is available on Royal Road for free, and on Kindle and POD on Amazon (Kobo is in process)! a.co/d/0hfBQpxm www.royalroad.com/fiction/1014...

A short stack of paperback copies of the book The Infinite Library by Stephanie Wood Franklin.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

20 years ago today, @gamethyme.bsky.social and I decided to sign some paperwork and tie our lives together. Since then we've been through 3 moves, 4 jobs, and the loss of 3 cats; health issues, triumphs, failures, & everything in between. I wouldn't want to do it with anyone else.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I promised myself when I was a kid that someday, there would be a book with my name on it. Today's that day.

A short stack of paperback books titled "The Infinite Library" by Stephanie Wood Franklin. The title is written in white letters against a red background on the top half of the cover; the author name is in white letters on a black band just below the red background. Below the author name is a photo of books on bookshelves arranged into a hole showing another room on the other side.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

For Traumatic Backstory Reasons, I've been afraid of turning 45. My friends helped me reframe it by helping me throw a Triple Quinceañera today, with a gobliñata representing the brain goblins I fight everyday and snackle boxes with names and googly eyes. They are the absolute best.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I have A Mystery! I got an interesting piece of mail with a sticker with several polygons (looking like a set of gaming dice) and a bit of cardstock that I can fold into a D20. No note, no name on the return address, which is a campus apartment for Central WA University. I am intrigued!

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This is Miss Daisy Mae, who we lost suddenly last year. She was me in cat form and decidedly my cat - full of anxiety and always one to give love, with a high EQ and an impeccable sense of when someone might need a cat. I miss her mightily.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Hey, friends! Did you know there's a 100% online, FREE convention happening this weekend? Flights of Foundry (flights-of-foundry.org) is hosting their online convention starting today, running for 60 hours around the clock. Here's where you can see my shiny mug. I'd love to see you there!

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

QWERTY is sleeping the sleep of the kitty who has only gotten 15 hours of sleep today, and is utterly exhausted.

A white and brown tabby cat lies on his side on an open laptop, fast asleep with his mouth slightly open

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I have a new friend! Meet Lankide (Basque for "colleague"), a tea friend from @queenbeeceramics.bsky.social She's already making friends with Frankenbear, naturally.

A black ceramic dog with a curly tail stands on a certificate of adoption with her name, Lankide, on it. She's standing against a stuffed Frankenstein Care Bear.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Day 12 of #storyadaymay (and day 79 of #the100dayproject) - story prompt sticks from the Writer's Toolbox. Story at insertscenehere.blogspot.com

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Day 10 of #storyadaymay - rankings! Stories at insertscenehere.blogspot.com

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Day 8 of #storyadaymay (and day 75 of #the100dayproject) and the second day with the Sixth Sense Cards. They got very specific this time! Check out the story on insertscenehere.blogspot.com

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Day 6 of #storyadaymay (and day 73 of #the100dayproject) - my second day with The Reckless Deck is a little more chaotic. Story on my blog, insertscenehere.blogspot.com

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Day 2 of #storyadaymay (and day 69 of #the100dayproject) - Fridays are for CHAOS! Here's what the notes look like when I'm trying to come up with a story from a prompt (using @storyenginedeck.bsky.social again today). Check out the blog for the story! insertscenehere.blogspot.com/2025/05/stor...

A screen capture from a Scrivener document, showing the notes written about a story based on a prompt pulled from The Story Engine.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

May 1 - an introduction to my take on the Story a Day challenge for May. storyaday.org www.royalroad.com/fiction/1014... insertscenehere.blogspot.com

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

19 years ago today, @gamethyme.bsky.social and I stood in front of our families of blood and choice and promised to love, honor, respect, and protect each other. A lot has happened in the intervening years, and I like to think we've learned a few things (thread):

A woman (@setauuta) in a white and lavender wedding dress with a lace mantilla and holding a bouquet of daffodils and irises stands next to a man (@gamethyme) in a white guyabera and black slacks. Their heads are together, and they are standing under a mural of lumber workers.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

QWERTY would like you to know that he thinks you're really neat.

A white and brown tabby is curled up on a lap covered in owl-patterned pajama pants. He is looking at the camera update when, his green eyes focused on the camera.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

He's been like this for half an hour. My hand is asleep. And yet, how can I disturb him?

A white and brown tabby cat lies on his side, his front paws crossed over a woman's hand which shows part of a text tattoo around the wrist.

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Stephanie Wood Franklin @insertscenehere.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Oooh, a gem revolt sounds like it could be really neat. All right, I think I've thrown all the spaghetti against the wall that I want to - now it's time to sort through and see what stuck. Thanks for coming along on this trip, and again, good job, @storyenginedeck.bsky.social!