Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I'm delighted to see that Marcia Hutchinson's The Mercy Step has been longlisted for the 2026 Women's Fiction Prize. womensprize.com/library/the-...womensprize.comThe Mercy Step - Women's PrizeBradford, December 1962. A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb, to a chaotic household that seems to have […] 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Happy World Book Day! I hope we can make creativity stand out in this world of AI. Let's keep to real-life people writing books, not sodding machines! 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Day 10 of virus illness. The trick is to keep breathing. 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 13/12/2025I suppose there must be some weird, deep-seated Freudian reason why watching something as downright corny as 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry every time. 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I'm currently reading 'Our Missing Hearts' by Celeste Ng. A dystopian novel? But the world it describes is frighteningly real. 020
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 27/08/2025High Royds Hospital, formerly Menston Pauper Lunatic Asylum. The stuff of nightmares, for me. Long ago, but memories still vivid. jeanmdavison.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...jeanmdavison.wordpress.com 000
Reposted by Jean DavisonKarolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · 09/08/2025One of the best memoirs ever written. A masterclass. manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo... - And she has not vanished. She has been writing.manchestermill.co.ukAndrea Ashworth wrote a classic of Mancunian literature. Why did she vanish from view?My search for the author of ‘Once in a House on Fire’ led to the other side of the world - and to a tantalising revelation 052
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Past trauma can spark an intense fear of doctors or medical procedures. It's called Iatrophobia, though I would dispute that the fear is irrational. (Hey, you learn something every day). 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 21/07/2025We need these conversations so much. www.youtube.com/live/GNlhbc7...youtube.comEverything you know about depression is wrong - Laura Delano on The Moynihan ReportYouTube video by 2WAY 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Great song. Great singer. Timeless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6om...youtube.comThere But For FortuneYouTube video by Joan Baez - Topic 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Authors are frightened of naming emotions because we're taught to SHOW NOT TELL. So now we get novels full of pounding, racing, or thudding hearts, fear as a twisting in stomachs, anger something that beats in your chest... I do it myself but I'm sick of hearing it. #amwriting 000
Reposted by Jean DavisonThe Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Unable to attend in person, you can still make some noise online using our downloadable visual assets 👇https://societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/soa-day-of-action-following-allegations-of-metas-mass-theft-of-authors-work/societyofauthors.orgSoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work – The Society of AuthorsOn Thursday 20 March, The Atlantic broke the story of how Meta has used the Library Genesis (LIbGen) dataset, which is full of pirated material, to develop their AI systems. 12116
Reposted by Jean DavisonThe Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇change.orgSign the PetitionProtect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training 5213183
Reposted by Jean DavisonALCS @alcs.co.uk · 02/04/2025Our comment on Meta's use of LibGen, a notorious database of pirated content 👇 www.alcs.co.uk/news/alcs-co...alcs.co.ukALCS comment on Meta and LibGenIt was recently revealed by The Atlantic that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has used LibGen, a vast database of pirated material, to train its AI models. 07862
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I want to write a novel filled with humour and light. My pen keeps veering to the dark side and I have to write gritty realism. Why, when I'm happy now? Truly I am. But sometimes my past hangs over me like a cloud. The pull of the magnet 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Pancake Day. We've had fun making and tossing pancakes. And the Tosser of the Year 2025 title goes to my husband Ian. 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 10/02/2025How do we know who are the really good singers if they use auto tune pitch correct? How do we know who are the really good artists and writers if they use AI? It's frightening. 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 30/01/2025RIP Marianne Faithful. Survivor of heroin addiction, homelessness, the swinging sixties, and singer of this haunting, beautiful song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_phZ...youtube.comMarianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By (1965)YouTube video by John1948NineA 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Great post, but I'm trying to find examples of how to switch from past to present tense in 1st person within a scene. I'm told by some this is a no-no, but changing tense seems necessary to move into the showiest show for parts of heightened emotion. 110
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Derek was a patient with me at High Royds Day Hospital in the 1970s when doctors subjected this kind man with a great sense of humour to appalling experimental brain surgery without his consent. OMG, none of us was safe in their hands! RIP Derek. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comExperience: I had a lobotomyThere was nothing mentally wrong with me. I’ll never know for certain why they chose me for the procedure 001
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 29/12/2024It often seems to be overlooked that coming-of-age novels with a teenage protagonist can be aimed at the adult market. If I key 'coming-of-age novels for adults' into google, it (annoyingly) changes 'adult' to 'YA'. Grrr!! www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...msn.comMSN 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 22/12/2024'I was sat down when I should have been stood up and I ought to of known better.' That 'of' also annoys me as much as anything, and everyone seems to be doing it now. 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I've been watching a documentary about the Salem witch trials. It's disturbing to think how so many people could get such wrong ideas into their heads, leading to tragedies. Frightening too to think how similar things still happen today, such is the dark side of human nature. 100
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I can't stop laughing at my husband's attempt to use Alexa for the telly. He said 'Alexa, Unmute'. Up on the screen came a picture of the back-end of a cow. I think it thought the word was 'Unmilked' 🤣 010
Reposted by Jean DavisonKevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Fun fact: writers don't 'finish' books, we just eventually stop editing before we spiral into madness. #booksky 1052062182
Reposted by Jean Davisont wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 06/12/2024In a focused, goal-driven world we marginalize the tendency to be distracted as a sign of an undisciplined mind or even as a symptom of the mental disorder of ADD. What about considering it another way? I explore this possibility in a recent blog. www.twiltondale.ca/blogtwiltondale.caBlog - T Wilton DaleWelcome to the blog of T Wilton Dale, author of A Greater Good and An Incoming Tide. 101
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Much as I love my husband, I am NOT 'Mrs Ian Davison' or 'Mrs Ian Roger Davison' or 'Mrs I R Davison or (worst of all) 'Mrs Ian Roger Davidson'. I'm JEAN Davison (and no extra 'd' please). Rant over. Merry Xmas (bah! humbug!) from a Grumpy Old Woman. 010
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Oh, please don't close them. Studying literature enriched me with so much of value, providing me with the 'critical, empathetic and intellectual tools' necessary in all areas of life. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisisWith degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture 001
Reposted by Jean Davisont wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Nexus, a monumental book by Yuval Noah Harari, is an essential and existential read. You can check out my review at www.twiltondale.ca/wiltons-read...twiltondale.caWilton's readsOn the pages linked to this one there are dozens of book reviews. To make finding what will interest you easier, I've given you two browsing pages (the Book Shelves) -- one for fiction,... 031
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 07/12/2024I've just watched the documentary, Lena Zavaroni: The Forgotten Child Star. Such a sad tale. Whatever made doctors think it was her brain that needed changing and by means of a leucotomy? 030
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Hi! Welcome to BlueSky. Great to see you on here. 000
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I was planning on doing my keep-putting-it-off household jobs this afternoon while husband Ian is out doing his voluntary work, but my Mslexia has just arrived... 010
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 23/11/2024By sharing our stories I feel we can learn a lot about our own life with all its differences and similarities. Here's a moving memoir I'm enjoying reading. 131
Reposted by Jean DavisonEmma Darwin @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Aha! Teaching memoir and creative non-fiction a lot these days, so this is definitely one for the To Be Listened To list. 252
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 18/11/2024So far the sky looks blue on here. Not so outside my window. 030
Jean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Hi! Just landed here and feeling my way around. 160
