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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I am so glad to see this account here. Yesterday, we finished watching the tv series on Kafka that came out last year, and I know I wouldn’t have considered seeing it had I not read some of the delightful Kafka quotes posted by this account. Thank you for making me see his sunny side!

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Beautiful sunrise. But also looking forward to the mornings when the sun will rise earlier than 8.47am, when I took this pic.

Snowy path through trees framing a bright orange sunrise

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

You will be visited by three spirits… ✨ An outline. ✨ A synopsis. ✨ And a rough draft of a novel you keep saying you’re going to write.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 13/12/2024

Yup

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Post someone you’ve been told you look like who you definitely don’t look like.

A black and white photo of the dark-haired and absolutely stunning Hollywood actress Natalie Wood, who I was once told I look like and definitely do not look like.

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Gemma Bristow @konallis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Oliver Cromwell's house festooned with Christmas lights. The man would be spinning in his grave, if he hadn't already been exhumed and dismembered.

Half-timbered house, outside which stand mannequins of a man and woman in 17th-century clothing. Christmas lights are hung in the windows and along the roofline.

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Historical romance writer: brb got to go research cups for several days

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I had a little meltdown on Friday evening over just want to put in the middle and somehow – just as you’ve said – the thought of 10k blocks is so much less daunting! Cannot wait for the vid 👏

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This pantser is about to try out the sequences trick by Alexandra Sokoloff for plotting and writing (yes, @rachelblackmore.bsky.social, I know - finally!). Hoping it can help me work out just what should happen in the middle of the story 😆

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Agent: The cup isn’t a good fit for my list

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yeah, I suspect that’s my issue and why I react to this: I’m “all the vaccines, please” and cannot get my head around not being this way.

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

At least you now know to avoid this person throughout the winter months!

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Gah! But still, there’s research and looking things up if you don’t recognise them?

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hope the heating pad is working its magic and you got lots of words on the page.

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hej from Sweden - would love to be added to this amazing pack. Thank you 😊

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Mel Reynard @meljrey.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Attention Canva users! Sharing this in case you didn't see my repost last night. Check your privacy settings, as the default is switched on to train their AI services! You need to go into your privacy settings and switch it off! #WritingCommunity

Screenshot of Canva privacy settings which shows how they use data and both testings are turned "off".
"Your data is important for helping improve and personalize Canva, and you have control over how it is used.
You can change these settings anytime if you feel like playing a part in our development. Learn more.
Allow your general usage to improve Al
We're always improving Canva by reviewing your general usage and the feedback you give us, but when it comes to Al, we want you to have the choice to opt-out.
When set to on, Canva and our trusted third-party partners will train Al using information about your general usage which includes fonts, colors, search queries and instructions you input. This does NOT include any of your uploaded images, videos, or designs."
There is a 2nd box underneath about content improving AI:
"Allow your content to improve Al
Your content is yours and we want to develop better Al features to help improve the way you create it in Canva. We have strict controls and policies in place to protect your content when building Al, but we still won't use it without your consent.
When set to on, Canva and our trusted third-party partners will improve Al using your content, which includes the text in your designs and your uploads (such as photos, videos, audio, and files)."

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Rach 🍂📚☕️ @rachelmayquin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Celebrating my first 1k followers on 🦋 by giving away a hardback copy of my fave book of 2024, #Costanza by Rachel Blackmore! 🍊💛 All you have to do is follow & repost. Happy to ship internationally, so tell your friends. Will pick a winner next Friday. #BookSky 📚

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Am having flashbacks. And not in a good way 😖

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Maria Vale @mariavalewrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

PSA for 🇬🇧UK🇬🇧 #romancewriters. Simon & Schuster Books and the City editorial team are "flinging open our doors to prospective new ‘contemporary commercial women’s fiction’ authors writing specifically in the Romance space." Pitch between 8am to 8pm GMT on Monday 15th July 2024. deets below.

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History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Network Rail, the corporation that maintains the UK's rail infrastructure, has a corporate archive full of digitized engineering drawings, timetables and other documents. A great resource for the rail historians out there! 🗃️ #c19th #c20th #c21st history.networkrail....

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

I read the book a few months ago but even so, I was confused by who was who and what they were trying to say with the film.

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

I struggled through to the bitter end but it took days (and felt like weeks). How did they make it so relentlessly dull when it could easily have been a dizzying rollercoaster of avarice and the misuse of power. There was so much to work with and yet the story they told was bland in the extreme.

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

I received that same model as a Christmas present and am so happy with it. The pretty watch faces, the competition on steps and intensity minutes with the rest of the family - it’s excellent 👌

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

Pens, like cattle pens, but then I’m British

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Yesterday, cupcakes were baked. This morning, cupcakes were iced. And this afternoon, they were eaten…

A cupcake with purple icing / frosting and gold dusting

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/01/2024

Scam solicitation alert: "literary agent" using email address @independentliteraryagents.com. The pitch: a major publisher wants your book. One author got fake offer letter & contract from PRH (first they had to pay for "book re-licensing"). Names associated w/ the scam: Chris Cortez, Adara Lopez

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

It’s now at the Yorkshire Air Museum (former RAF Elvington), which I hope to visit this summer ✈️

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Oh good! I thought it was just my brain being fuzzy after the holidays 🧡

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Just starting on this short short one. So far, though, I am utterly confused by it 😆

Front cover of This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Have just started Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey. So far, so great.

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

It’s just started doing this for me too. Ever since the latest update.

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

I have looked at the Snowflake method and it scared me 😆 I am thinking I’ll start with key scenes (inciting incident, midpoint and all is lost moment) and work outwards from there. I like your idea of starting with a paragraph and building on that.

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Plan for next year is to stop noodling around with ideas for my second novel and try to get an outline down (not the easiest thing for this pantser).

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Somewhere, in one of my notebooks, I scribbled down all my thoughts on the main characters for my new novel. Can I now find said notebook? Of course not 😱 (But this absolutely does not mean I have too many notebooks…)

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

My boys devoured the One Piece series by Eiichiro Oda.

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Yes, that feeling is what gets me every year. February is the worst. It feels like it will never end…

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Just had to ask the husband as I seem to have blocked what previous years have been like (all 14 of them!). I do love when the snow arrives (because light!) but its coming and going over the winter does get wearing, doesn’t it?

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Yeah, we’re only day 4 or 5 and already I’m starting to be over it.

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Am currently reading this, which I went into with little idea of the premise. Interesting to see where it goes next.

Front cover of the novel Trust by Hernan Diaz, the cover shows a black and white photo of 1920s/1930s skyscrapers

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Have paused with revising the first novel and thinking out the next for a couple of weeks. Yesterday, on a long train journey, my second novel’s POVC’s name suddenly popped into my head, plus a couple of scenes. Love when this happens. Thinking time is writing time! #authors #historicalfiction

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Holy shit twitter just rolled out audio and video calling and made it the default setting that ANYONE you follow can call you. Go into your settings and turn it off for your own safety: Settings—>Privacy/safety—> Direct messages —> disable audio and video calling

Holy shit twitter just rolled out audio and video calls and made it the default setting that ANYONE you follow can call you.

Go into your settings and turn it off:

Settings—>Privacy/safety—> Direct messages —> disable audio and video calling

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Katharine Rogers - author @katrogersauthor.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

About a quarter of the way through In Memoriam by Alice Winn and am enjoying it (if you can use that term for this book).

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