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Melinda 🌻

@melindacharnas.com

Writer - trilingual (ish) - globe-trotter - 🍫💕. I write speculative fiction & personal essays. Working on a novel & short stories. 頑張ります! She/her #amwriting

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 02/05/2026

Finally getting around to reading Dune, and... just gonna leave this here. 🙃 For no reason whatsoever.

Screenshot of highlighted Dune quotes, all of it reads:
"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
"'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted.
"Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said. "But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.'"

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 24/01/2026

... welp, definitely a threat this time 😭 #ShortStoryChallenge2026

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 14/04/2023

"WELL, this should be fun" round 2! 😆 Very happy the idea muse visited before I slept, let's see what happens... #shortstorychallenge2023

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 21/01/2023

Well... this should be interesting 😂 #shortstorychallenge2023

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 27/08/2022

When you're procrastinating on editing your story and listen to a podcast (about writing) while coloring instead... #writerproblems

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 12/03/2022

Casually making the WordPress support person laugh while cramming in an update before midnight... (I meant 2021 didn't exist for my blog, given the lack of updates, but it works with whichever interpretation 😜)

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 29/07/2019

Today's #MondayMotivation brought to you by: sobering thought. If I died today, nobody could ever finish writing my work the way I envision it. 😔 Best get to it! Tackled my personal essay (yes I changed #WIPs) by color coding sections to make sense of sections. #amwriting

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 28/04/2019

I'm SO relieved!! I thought my signed copy of Fahrenheit 451 (which I'd not seen since 3 moves ago) had been stolen. But actually... my brother stole it! 😂 I still remember Ray Bradbury saying "I've never seen this edition before" (French) & asking me to get him one. 😌

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 11/03/2019

What better day to update my blog than to celebrate a blogiversary?

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 23/01/2019

Oh boy. I probably should've checked Twitter before 2am! While I'm here ("celebrating?" my #MyTwitterAnniversary), I'm happy to say I submitted to my first contest of 2019! Only an 18-word story contest, but I'm counting it. Thanks @TLBREIT for your feedback! 😊 #amwriting

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 04/10/2018

You know what they say: when life kicks you down, bake delicious brownies for your tête-à-tête with your feelings!

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 07/09/2018

I *think* this is my complete ink pen collection (my normal writing tool), from oldest to newest (top to bottom) dating as far back as middle school! ( c. 2000!?) Fairly certain those red & green cartridges' ink halved in size, but still good to use! 😂 #writerslife #pens ✒️

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 10/07/2018

Unpacking, & found this bad boy, bringing with it memories of intense desperation & shame (#highschool). I worked hard & got an A in English AP though, so suck it #steinbeck! #tcklife #languagehurdles #literature (Rereading classics now might prove less painful...)

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Melinda 🌻 @melindacharnas.com · 25/05/2018

A much awaited update! ... Awaited by me, that is. ;) Today: story & character types! I promise you words (the best words), and pop culture references! #writing #characters #storytype