iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✨✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Day*🌞✨ Hi Mom. Hi Dad.🥹🌈 👋🏻 Love you❣️ #BookSky📚 #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #theology📜🪶 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #art🎨

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Fiction… or #fact*⁉️📖🤨✍️✨ (*October 🗓️ Edition) 🎃🍊💥 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #Peanuts🥜#comic🫟 #MemeSky🖼️

An illustration on a solid orange background featuring Linus van Pelt from Peanuts sitting at a wooden desk, writing a letter. He is focusing intently with his tongue slightly sticking out as he holds a pencil to a sheet of paper, with a white envelope resting nearby. Above him, black handwritten text reads: "Dear Great Pumpkin, Please do something about your evil cousin."🎃🍊

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

✨ *The #WritingVortex🌀💥 (*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Why?😵‍💫 In the space where creators thrive…)🧠💫 #WritingLife📝 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WritingCommunity🏘️ #5amWritersClub🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

Everyone wants to know the secret to making it. Here it is: you have to become comfortable with people thinking you’re delusional. Because before something exists, believing in it looks like insanity. The line between visionary and crazy is thinner than anyone admits.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

✨✍️ #BeenThereStillThere🔃🙋🏻‍♀️ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife📝#storytelling🗣️💬 #5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

A screenshot of a humorous post by Michael J Seidlinger (@mjseidlinger) titled "What it takes to get the job done".
Under the text "Everyone else:", there are only three emojis: a laptop, a smartphone, and an alarm clock.
Under the text "Writers:", there is a massive, chaotic wall of dozens of emojis illustrating a dramatic creative process. The emojis include smartphones, clocks, stacks of books, crying faces, beds, beers, neutral faces, flushed faces, people running, coffee cups, meditating figures, sheet music, cameras, hearts, broken hearts, sleeping symbols ("zzz"), and finally, a single laptop at the very end.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

✨When your beta readers take "brutal honesty" a bit too far…✨ 💀🧑🏻‍🏫 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #BSBC🐑📖 #CrimeFiction🔫 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

A humorous cartoon watercolor illustration depicting an intense meeting of a "Crime Book Club." On the left wall, a wooden sign reads "Tues in Crime Book Club 4-6 PM" above small drawings of a fingerprint and a magnifying glass.
An elderly woman with short, curly grey hair, glasses, and a stern expression sits at the head of a rustic wooden table. She is holding up a smoking black revolver pistol, having just shot a club member. A man with dark messy hair and glasses lies sprawled face down on the patterned rug below the table, knocked backward out of his overturned wooden chair. A book lies open on the floor next to him.
Four other club members—two men and two women of various ages—are seated around the table, staring at the elderly woman with expressions of absolute shock, terror, and panic. One man holds up a finger defensively, while others clutch their coffee mugs. The elderly woman looks angrily at the remaining group and asks, "Anyone else not read this month's book?”

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

✨✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Day*🌞✨ ✨Imagine…😌💭‼️✨ #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #art🎨 #ShelSilverstein🖊️🫟

A quote graphic on a bright yellow background with a pattern of white dots at the top. In a circular frame is a black-and-white portrait of a bald man with a thick beard and mustache, looking into the distance. Below the portrait, bold black text reads: "Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibilities, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." Underneath the quote, smaller text attributes it to "SHEL SILVERSTEIN, WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS".

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Fiction… or #fact⁉️📖🤨✍️✨ (*Upmarket Edition) OMG.🤣 Babe, I feel you.🍆 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #MemeSky🖼️ @lizshiptonauthor.bsky.social 🖊️

A screenshot of an Instagram Reel by user lizshiptonauthor. The video features a person with short, blonde, styled hair, a nose ring, and black wireless earbuds, wearing a black t-shirt and a silver watch. They are looking upward and to the side with a thoughtful expression. In the background, bookshelves display various fantasy novel covers, including one featuring a black cat with glowing red eyes titled .dot/slash(magic).
Overlaying the middle of the screen is the caption, "Like iron wrapped in silk." A large white text box below it reads, "Euphemisms in Romance.”

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

✨✍️ #TheWritingProcess ✨ Answer: Because it’s what I LIVE to write‼️😉 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife📝#5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #storytelling📚 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

But how can two people have such undeniable chemistry, feel so naturally drawn to each other, and still be people who cannot actually be together?
And why does life even allow that kind of torture?😬

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

✨ #BetweenTheCovers📕🤨📕✨ 📄✍️ Debut authors: Print this out. And frame it.🖼️ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #MemeSky🖼️

A social media graphic featuring a large, textured yellow watercolor circle layered over a slightly larger blue watercolor circle on a cream-colored background. Text in dark blue, bold font reads: "Reminder: your favorite book probably survived twelve people saying, 'I’m not sure there’s a market for this.'" At the top, a social media header displays the username "unsolicitedp" from "Writing advice.”

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✨✍️🔍 #FactChecked: True*☑️✨ (*And unapologetically authentic.📝) #WriteSky📝 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting💻 #5amWritersClub 🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

A screenshot featuring a white text box that reads:
"There comes a time in every woman’s life when she must make a CHOICE. A choice between trying to satisfy the suss little detectives of the internet - or standing ten toes down and saying: F*ck it. I’m keeping the em dash. And I’m keeping the rule of three AND the goddamn sentence that begins with ‘and’. ➔ SUE ME."

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

✨ *The #WritingVortex🌀💥 (*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Why?”😵‍💫) Wrote an 80K-word Upmarket Novel. So why is this still the hardest thing to do on cue?🎬🤦🏻‍♀️⬇️ #WritingLife📝 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WritingCommunity🏘️ #5amWritersClub🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

An image with a background of open, overlapping book pages. Several rectangular white text blocks with bold black text are arranged vertically down the center, explaining what an elevator pitch is for a book.The text blocks read:THE ELEVATOR PITCHWhat: What your book is about, out loud, in about 30 seconds.Length: 2–4 sentences.Who it's for: Anyone who asks "what's it about?"Its job: Sell the concept with confidence.Bottom section: If you've ever panicked at that question, this is the thing you need to come up with & practice. Yes, really.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

💫Cosmic #Quote 💬 of the Day🌞💫 #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social #CarlSagan✍️💫

A screenshot of an Instagram Story from the account "londonwriterssalon", featuring a famous quote by Carl Sagan about the magic of books.The text reads:"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you."The next sentence is highlighted in bright yellow: "Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs."The quote concludes: "Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. – Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.”

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

✨📚🧚‍♀️ A-Musing Takes in the Daily Life of a Writer: ✍️✨ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #comics🤣 #DaveCoverly🫟

A single-panel comic set inside a coffee shop. Two baristas stand behind the counter, looking at a line of three Greek muses wearing classical tunics and gowns who are waiting to order. One barista remarks to the other, "Yeah, the muses are always the first ones here in the morning." The bottom left of the panel includes the artist's signature, Dave Coverly, and the web address speedbump.com.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

✨ #Fiction… or #fact⁉️📖🤨✍️✨ Reprint:📰🤦🏻‍♀️ (Revised (LOL)😏Compensation List‼️) #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #MemeSky🖼️

A humorous "Help Wanted" poster mockup tailored for writers.At the top, text reads: "Help Wanted:* Debut Writer seeks Sorter of Saved Files." Below this is a long list of chaotic, nested file names under "Responsibilities include:" such as Final.docx, Edited_Final.docx, Revised_Final.docx, Final_Final.docx, and Retitled_Revised_New_Char_Names.docx, with a note adding "(Repeat above files for .docx versions 3–5)."The job details continue under "Qualifications," listing "Stellar eyesight" and "Infinite patience." Under "Compensation," it promises "Unlimited tea, Homemade cookies, Eternal gratitude," and "Comfy desk chair access."On the bottom right, an illustration shows a woman sitting in an office chair, working on a laptop on her lap next to a small desk with a plant.A disclaimer at the very bottom reads: "*This is not a real job. Crazed writer is not currently authorized to employ anyone. Except her Muse.🧚‍♀️

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

✨ #BetweenTheCovers📕🤔📕✨ TGIF.👏🗓️ ✍️Been a week…🌊 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #MemeSky🖼️

An aerial, top-down view of a person floating in clear, deep blue ocean water next to a white surfboard. The individual is swimming or floating on their stomach, holding onto the edge of the surfboard with one hand.White, centered serif text overlays the middle of the image, reading: "some chapters are only meant to teach you what your nervous system never wants to tolerate again".

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

✨ *The #WritingVortex🌀💥 (*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Why?”😵‍💫) The best laid plans…📝🛏️ (Can be the most fun when you least expect them.😉✋🏼💋) #WritingLife📝 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WritingCommunity🏘️ #5amWritersClub🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

“This scene will be simple.”
Narrator: It turned into a three-act play about betrayal, longing, and one almost kiss.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

✨✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Night*🌚✨ Well said.👏 (And my story too— So I’m sticking to it.📖🖋️) #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ @sahilbloom.bsky.social

Post by Sahil Bloom:
“The older I get, the more I realize that life has seasons. And not every season needs to be your best one. Some seasons are for building. Some are for healing. Some are for just surviving. You don’t have to win every single chapter for the whole story to turn out well.”

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#YouKnowYou’reAWriterWhen…🤭 📖✍️ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠#5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

A meme featuring a person buried entirely under a beige duvet in bed, with only the top half of their face visible. They are wearing large black sunglasses and green over-ear headphones while staring at an open Apple laptop positioned on the bed in front of them. The background is a darkly lit bedroom. White text at the top reads: "When people say we're writers but that's the least interesting thing about us."

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✨✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Day*🌞✨ (* #FreedomofthePress Edition)🎤📰 No words. Literally. #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #Journalism📑 #PressFreedom🗞️ #MediaFreedom📺📻 #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

A female news reporter stands in the middle of a busy city street with a wide strip of silver duct tape covering her mouth. She wears a professional grey blazer and a black turtleneck, holding a notepad and pen while wearing "NEWS" and "PRESS" identification badges on her jacket. Her expression is serious and urgent. In the blurred background, a crowd of protestors holds up cardboard signs that read "FREEDOM OF THE PRESS" and "SILENCED." Emergency vehicles with flashing lights are visible in the distance.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✨✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Night*🌚✨ (*Letter Edition) Yes, the text of the letter is authentic, a modern, digital compilation of literary "tough love" ✍️ by Hemingway to his friend/rival F. Scott Fitzgerald on 5/28/34. #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

A clean, digitally typeset excerpt of a letter printed on cream-colored paper. The letter is headed "Key West, 28 May 1934" and addressed to "Dear Scott". It contains encouraging, direct literary advice and is signed "Always your friend, Ernest".Transcription:"For Christ sake write and don’t worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what. I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist.I’d like to see you and talk about things with you sober. You were so damned stinking in NY we didn’t get anywhere. You see, Bo, you’re not a tragic character. Neither am I. All we are is writers and what we should do is write.But Scott, good writers always come back. Always. You are twice as good now as you were at the time you think you were so marvellous. You know I never thought so much of Gatsby at the time. You can write twice as well now as you ever could. All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is. Go on and write.Anyway I’m damned fond of you and I’d like to have a chance to talk sometimes."

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✨✍️ #TheWritingProcess ✨ Greetings from the time warp…👩‍🚀⏳ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife📝#5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #storytelling📚 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #MemeSky🖼️

A meme featuring a screenshot of an Instagram or Pinterest post by user @lamaicreative under "Writing advice."The text at the top reads: "Friends of Writers: You said you'd only be writing for an hour. What happened? Writers:"Below the text is a scene from the movie Interstellar showing two astronauts in white spacesuits wading through knee-deep water on a gray, ocean planet with a spacecraft behind them. Captioned at the bottom of the image is the movie quote: "1 hour here is 7 years on earth," joking about how quickly time slips away when writers get lost in their work.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

✨ #BetweenTheCovers📕🤔📕✨ 🛌 In case you needed an excuse… #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #MemeSky🖼️

A black and white meme template featuring British poet Edith Sitwell. At the top, bold text reads: "EDITH SITWELL. Started writing at 5:30am and sometimes didn't emerge until the afternoon." The central image shows an elderly Edith Sitwell sitting upright in bed, propped up by pillows. She wears a light-colored collared shirt, massive rings on her fingers, a large pendant necklace, and a unique, turban-like dark headpiece. She is looking off to the left with a serious expression, surrounded by sheets and a desk piled with books in the background. The text at the bottom reads: "She also believed 'all women should have a day a week in bed.' Amen sister." A smirking emoji is visible in the bottom right corner.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

✨ *The #WritingVortex🌀💥 (*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Why?”😵‍💫) My Sunday.💻🔨 To a tea.🫖 #WritingLife📝 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WritingCommunity🏘️ #5amWritersClub🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 @lorenfishman.bsky.social

A white ceramic mug with a black rim and handle, featuring a comic panel by Loren Fishman on the side. In the comic, a person sits at an office desk staring at a computer monitor that is bursting with bright yellow flames and black smoke. A colleague stands nearby holding a mug, asking, "Did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in?"

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

✨✍️🔍 #FactChecked: True☑️✨ ☺️📚👋 Good news for everyone still breathing‼️ #WriteSky📝 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting💻 #5amWritersClub 🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

A simple flowchart answering the question, "Is it too late to be a writer?" The chart starts with the question, "Are you dead?" An arrow pointing to "Yes" leads to the conclusion, "It is too late to be a writer." A second arrow pointing to "No" leads to the conclusion, "It is not too late to be a writer."

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

✨ *The #WritingVortex🌀💥 (*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Why?”😮‍💨) ✨💻🖱️📂🤔💭✨ #WritingLife💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WritingCommunity🏘️ #5amWritersClub🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

A screenshot of a smartphone screen showing a list of Microsoft Word documents in a file system, captioned with a relatable joke about disorganized file names.Overlaid text at the top reads: "Me trying to find my book’s real actual final draft." The file names listed below include chaotic variations like "ACTUAL FINAL.docx", "FINAL draft 2 copy.docx", "Final draft 11.docx", "FINAL no typos.docx", "Final13b.docx", "FINALFINALFINAL.docx", and "helpme.docx". The bottom caption reads: "Welp, I guess I'll never know which file is my..."

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#YouKnowYou’reAWriterWhen… 📖✍️ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠#5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

The weirdest part of being a writer?
Missing fictional people YOU invented.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

✨ #Fiction… or #fact⁉️📖🤨✍️✨ FINALLY… YES‼️🙌🎇 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #MemeSky🖼️

A meme from an Instagram Reel by "writingdaywksp". The top text reads, "Every author after typing 'The End'." Below the text, a young woman sits in a modern, open-concept office chair wearing round sunglasses and a yellow paper crown, looking around with a smug, proud, and accomplished expression.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

✨ #BetweenTheCovers📕🤔📕✨ 🪐Cosmic Deadline: Hey. Life is too short to leave your stories trapped in your head.🧠📦 ✍️Put the words on the page today‼️ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

✨🧠Creative Realignment‼️🙌✨ 👣Step back & change your angle.📐The breakthrough is already there.👀 #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

A three-panel comic illustration demonstrating how perspective changes a message.In the top-left panel, a person looks at a white brick wall from a sharp angle, where the red graffiti reads, "JUST DO NOTHING."In the top-right panel, a different person looks at the connecting wall from the opposite angle, where the graffiti reads, "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE."The bottom panel reveals the full corner view where both walls meet. From this centered perspective, the two phrases combine cleanly to read, "JUST DO IT" on the top line and "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE" on the bottom line.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

✨✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Night🌚✨ #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#BetweenTheCovers📕🤔📕✨ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

Reading your own first chapter after finishing the whole book and realizing you were completely different person when you wrote it.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

✨👋Hi, Scribes ✍️ of BlueSky🦋✨ 🗓️🤓📝📚‼️ #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

In September
I notice that all the slightly geeky people get excited at this time of year. We hold a cellular memory of starting school again, and with it, the promise of fresh, stationery and new textbooks, the chance to make a mark on a blank page.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

✨✍️🔍 #FactChecked: True☑️✨ 😮‍💨📚 #WriteSky📝 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting💻 #5amWritersClub 🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

Life is hard.
Make it harder
Write a book.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

✨✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Day🌞✨ Happy Labor Day to the creatives out there whose timelines work harder than any physics equation. 🗓️🫠 #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️ #LaurenAbramo

A screenshot of a social media post by Lauren Abramo (@LaurenAbramo), shared by the account metamorphosis_literary_agency. The post reads: "No one is more uniquely qualified to take on these weird times than novelists, whose unedited manuscripts often claim that it is both Monday and Thursday and one day ago it was Tuesday and two days have passed in a span of time in which the protagonist has gone to bed five times."

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

✨✍️ #TheWritingProcess ✨ Say what…⁉️🗣️💬 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife📝#5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #storytelling📚 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

An infographic screenshot from an Instagram account named "theliteraturelane" titled "ANALYZING DIALOGUE: QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU ANALYZE DIALOGUE IN A TEXT". The graphic features a list of eight numbered questions, each paired with a circular black icon and descriptive bullet points:Which character is speaking? Bullet points prompt the reader to identify the speaker and consider their role in the story.Who is the character speaking to? Bullet points ask to identify the listener and the relationship between them.What does the dialogue tag tell the reader? Sub-bullets list options: character's tone, movement/actions, or internal thoughts while speaking.What is the character's tone while he/she is speaking? Bullet points suggest considering the attitude or feeling behind the words (e.g., angry, sad, sarcastic, calm).Why do you think the author chose to have this character speak this line of dialogue aloud? Bullet points ask what is revealed about the character, theme, or plot.How does the dialogue move the action of the story along? Bullet points prompt evaluating if it reveals new information, creates conflict, solves a problem, or leads to a decision.Is the piece of dialogue part of a back-and-forth conversation... or an isolated statement...? Bullet points suggest considering the purpose of the exchange or monologue.How does the author make the dialogue authentic...? Bullet points advise looking at word choice, sentence structure, contractions, slang, pauses, and natural flow.The bottom of the screen displays standard Instagram interface icons, showing 70 likes, and a partial caption that reads "theliteraturelane How to Analyse Dialogue in...”

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just when I thought I was out...🚪 It pulls me back in…📝 #WritingLife💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WritingCommunity🏘️ #WIP🧠🔫#5amWritersClub🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 #MemeSky🖼️

A meme overlaid on a photo of a laptop screen displaying a manuscript. At the top, bold text reads, “Me rereading my first draft…”. In the center is a cutout reaction image of actor Al Pacino with a goatee, sporting a shocked, wide-eyed, and slightly disgusted facial expression. Text at the bottom of the image reads, “This must never be seen.”

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

✨✍️ #BeenThereStillThere🔃🙋🏻‍♀️ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife📝#5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

Being a writer is saying, “I’m nearly finished” for six months.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

✨✍️ #TheWritingProcess ✨ That brief, glorious window where you think you’ve finally mastered it… 💥🛘😬 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife📝#5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

A line graph titled "LEARNING CURVE" that charts a person's changing confidence levels over time. The curve starts at zero and crawls slowly along the bottom with two points labeled "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE." and "I'LL NEVER BE GOOD...". It then shoots rapidly upward through points labeled "OH HERE WE GO!" and "WHAT WAS I WORRIED ABOUT?" until it reaches a high peak labeled "I TOTALLY GOT THIS!". Immediately after the peak, the curve plunges straight down in a near-vertical drop, ending at a final point labeled "I CAN'T BELIEVE I THOUGHT I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING."

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

✨✍️ #TheWriter'sToolkit 🧰✨ The #Storytelling Trifecta 🎬‼️ #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev🛠️

SCRIPT TIPS:
Plot is what characters do.
Character is why they do it.
Theme is why the audience cares.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

✨ #Word Up‼️✨😏📓 #Linguistic disruption💥 🏛️Ancient Greek poetry meets modern attitude.🗣️ #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #art🎨#gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

An image titled "#WordNerd" explaining the linguistic term tmesis (pronounced T-MEE-sis).The text defines it as "The splitting of a word or phrase by dropping another word right in the middle — often for emphasis."It lists two examples:"I haven't seen her any-blooming-where.""Abso-f*cking-lutely, baby."The bottom text notes that it is common in informal speech but has been used since Ancient Greek and Latin poetry, calling it a "fancy name for something we all do when we’re feeling extra dramatic." The credit text "forreadingaddicts" appears at the bottom.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

✨✍️🔍 #FactChecked: True☑️✨ 👩🏻‍💻Write beyond 👀 sight— to bring deeper texture to your #storytelling.🗣️ #WriteSky📝 #writingcommunity🏘️ #amwriting💻 #5amWritersClub 🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

Use all the senses.
“I’m a visual writer so default to picturing scenes like I’m seeing them in a movie. Helpful for visual and auditory detail, less so for everything else. It helps to remind myself of all the other senses, and whether sometimes they’d be better placed to convey the sensation (smell is often underused!)”

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

✨ #CreativeResilience🌱✨ #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #art🎨#gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

“A scene isn’t finished when it’s perfect.
It’s finished when it’s inevitable.”
—Kay Goodstadt

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#BetweenTheCovers📖✍️🤦🏻‍♀️✨ Funny, not funny. But still…😏 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

Reading a book it’s like telling a joke and having to wait two years to know whether or not it was funny. — Alain de Botton

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

✨✍️ #TheWriter'sToolkit 🧰✨ 🪝Hook, ❤️Heart, and ⚾️ Pitch‼️ #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

An infographic table titled "Story Hook vs. Story Heart vs. Novel Pitch" comparing three writing elements:Story Hook (Magnet Icon): Creates curiosity. Grabs reader attention. Answers: "Why should readers want to know more?"Story Heart (Heart Icon): Creates meaning. Covers theme and emotion. Answers: "What is this story really about?"Novel Pitch (Compass Icon): Combines both. Blends hook and heart. Answers: "Why should readers care enough to begin and keep reading?"

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

✨✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Night🌚✨ Channeling this exact energy for tonight’s final draft‼️😏📈 #WritingCommunity🏠#WriterSky💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub☕️ #art🎨 #gamedev🎮 #indiedev🛠️

Why be difficult—
When with just a little more effort, you can be impossible.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

✨✍️ #TheWritingProcess ✨ Every story is a journey… 🧳🗺️ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife📝#5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

An infographic titled "THE BUILDING OF A STORY - PLOT & CHARACTERS" structured like a stepped stone tower or pyramid showing the elements of storytelling.From the bottom up, the building blocks are:The Foundation: Theme & Purpose ("The deeper meaning. Why the story matters.") featuring pillars labeled Love, Power, Justice, Betrayal, and Redemption.Characters & Types of Conflict: The characters section describes them as "The heart of the story" and lists Protagonist, Antagonist, Supporting, Mentor, and Ally with small stick figures. The conflict section asks "What creates the tension?" and lists Man vs Man, Man vs Self, Man vs Society, Man vs Nature, and Man vs Fate.Exposition: "The beginning. We meet the characters and enter the world," showing a house structure and characters standing outside.Rising Action, Conflict, Falling Action: Three blocks sitting side-by-side. Rising Action notes "Events build up conflict and suspense" with figures climbing up. Conflict is "The struggle between opposing forces" with figures pulling a rope. Falling Action states "Events wind down. Consequences unfold" with figures walking down steps.Climax: "The turning point. The highest tension," depicting two characters sword fighting.Resolution: "Loose ends tied. Change is complete," showing two characters together holding a string at the very top of the tower next to a flag.The illustration is a black and white line drawing set in a landscape with clouds, a tree, and a sign that reads "EVERY STORY IS A JOURNEY."

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

✨✍️ #BeenThereStillThere🔃🙋🏻‍♀️ #writingcommunity🏘️ #WritingLife📝#5amWritersClub☕️ #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨#SabyasachiRoy🖊️

On the process before the draft:
“Creative preparation rarely looks productive in real time. It looks like pacing circles around your kitchen while reheating the same cup of coffee. It looks like lying on the floor, listening to one specific song until your emotional organs loosen slightly. It looks like muttering dialogue fragments while buying onions.” —Sabyasachi Roy, The Draft Before the Draft

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

*The #Story🗣️📖 Vortex🌀💥 (*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Why?”😏) ✨📚📕 📗📘📙📚✨ #ReadingCommunity🧑‍🏫 #WritingLife💻 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #WritingCommunity🏘️ #5amWritersClub🌄 #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

*Meets Someone New*

Them: So I hear you like books.

Me: I don’t think you are fully prepared for this conversation.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

✨ #Fiction… or #fact⁉️📖🤨✍️✨ A little gift for your reading list today. 👀📖🧠🎁(no paywall) #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨 wapo.st/4wuWyzP

wapo.st

Column | Books are good for your brain. But fiction has a surprising added benefit.

Reading fiction may strengthen the social skills we use to understand and connect with others.

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✨ Kay Goodstadt ✍️ Author✨ @kaygoodstadt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#BetweenTheCovers📖✍️🤦🏻‍♀️✨ Literally push me/pull you…👉👈🏼 #writingcommunity🏘️ #WriterSky🌠 #amwriting👩🏻‍💻 #5amWritersClub🌄 #storytelling🗣️ #gamedev🎮 #indiedev 🛠️ #art🎨

Stages of writing a book:
1. omg this is so good! I’m so inspired!
2. oh no

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