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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BUTCHERING my WIP until it’s no longer recognisable! Guess readers will tell me if it’s a good or bad thing 😬😬😬😬 #amwriting #amediting #indieauthor #WIP

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wanted to have an editing day, instead I watched a movie 🙃 down time counts as writing time, right? Got to refill the vat

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My 2pm revelation is: I’ve had nothing to drink today 🙃 whoops

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Mackworth Arms, granted in 1404 to Thomas Mackworth and his brother John by John Touchet, lord Audley. In the family for 622 years but I can't pass them on to my children because I'm a woman 🙃 #Heraldry #InheritanceLaw #HeraldicInheritance #GenderInequality

The Mackworth Arms; Per pale indented sa. and erm. a chev. gu. fretty or. Crest—A wing per pale indented, as in the arms.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s only a rough outline and mainly what Arthur and Lance will be up to, but it’s a start! #Pendragon #TheFutureKing #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #booksky #KingArthur #writing #selfpub

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Plotting the next instalment of The Future King series (Excalibur) and thinking it'll be less Mean Girls meets King Arthur meets 1984 and more Mean Girls meets King Arthur meets A Game of Thrones 🙃 #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #wip #KingArthur #GameofThrones #MeanGirls

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Rowan le Fay @rowanlefay.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

'The Future King Logres' by @meredithpraed.bsky.social is the best book I've read so far this year. I rated it 5⭐️ A gripping story filled with Orwellian suspense, angsty teen drama & Arthurian mythology. A must read! #booksky #review #dystopian #meangirls #georgeorwell #arthurianlegend #fiction

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@thomasdlee.bsky.social almost finished Perilous Times and it is AMAZING! Throughly enjoying every page. Looking forward to picking up The Knight Watch!

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There’s a pretty cool film project on Kickstarter trying to raise enough funds to make a LOTR fan film about community and loss. Will never share my awful audition video 😅 but I do encourage you to go and pledge! There’s only 33% left to raise www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste... #LOTR #kickstarter

Poster for proposed short film the Society of the Lost & Found.

Overview of the film’s aims: celebrates global LOTR community, raises awareness about mental health, inspires audiences to seek connection, shares a story of hope, empathy & belonging.

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Editing for Pendragon is going well! Down to 255k words (from a 390k starting point). That's more than a whole novel cut! 😅 #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Editing #BookEditing #KingArthur #TheFutureKing

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is how Anthropic described this project:

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Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

EXCLUSIVE💘 Jamie Campbell Bower’s role in The Rings Of Power Season 3 is confirmed: he plays Celeborn. The Elf lord is a “lover-boy”, Bower tells Empire, teasing a romance with Galadriel. “This idea of longing and yearning is so pervasive.” READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/tv/new...

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Thinking about selling this. Would anyone be interested? #artsky #painting #goldleaf

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

Dave Eggers, on NPR's Wildcard with Rachel Martin: www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...

"This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them to express themselves. But I say like you are one of one unprecedented in the history of human evolution. There's only one of you. …There's never been you in Ever, and there never will be another one of you. So to give your voice to a machine, to say 'speak for me, I'm going to be silent and I'm going to tell a machine to express myself or to tell my narrative,' is such a crime against yourself.

"It's so dystopian, beyond anything I could do in a dystopian novel— and I did a lot; I never saw this coming— would be an entire generation tempted and too many of them acquiescing to the the silencing of their own voice in favor of a bland unthinking machine to voice their souls.

"But if you can tell them, 'even your roughest drafts, even your most disjointed seeming thoughts are going to be valid; and your voice is essential; the human chorus is incomplete without your voice; and I'm going to listen to whatever you say, even the rough drafts, whatever; I want those; I want to see it all," then we can make sure that that they're heard and that they feel like there are humans out there that want to hear that voice and not the machine processed voice.

"…Good lord, we're at a really scary time, you know, but every adult has to be that person. Every teacher, every parent has to be the one saying, 'Do not do this.' Your voice is the only thing that you have naturally. It's the one thing that nobody can replace. So let's hear your truth. Even if it's raw, even if it's unpolished, even if it doesn't come in the five paragraph essay or whatever. Like, let's let's have it straight from you."

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

So far 2026 has just been a period of dreams then watching those dreams go up in flames 🙃

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Not having much traffic on my KDP can be discouraging, but at least it means I can see when someone reads my book in one sitting. The whole of book one AND the start of book two in one day? That's a new record 😍 Thank you, mystery reader! #writingcommunity #indieauthor #booksky #kingarthur

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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It’s really frightening.

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Actually a crime such things remain in private hands for so long 😭 I hope one of the libraries or museums gets this so it can be loved, enjoyed, and studied by all! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

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Medieval King Arthur manuscript could fetch £2m at auction

Book containing early versions of the Merlin and Grail legends has remained in private hands for 700 years

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just saw a job listing in which you have to go through an AI INTERVIEW. They can’t even be bothered to interview candidates anymore. Guess I just prompt the AI bot to tell the company to give me the job? 🤮

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

They want to soup their brains while they’re young

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 04/05/2026

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

AI, or is someone just having an off day at the Guardian? As red as her memoir has been read? What? She's as red as much as her memoir has been read? Very red because it's been read a lot? Is that what this means? 🙃

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

They took away our village and support networks by working us to the bone Now they want us to pay for a village of AI chatbots #AI #dystopia

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Guess homophobia doesn’t violate TikTok’s terms of service after all 🙃

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Reposting and re-pinning this to cheer myself up 🙃

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

King Arthur as you’ve never seen it. High school. Rebellion. And the famous love triangle against a backdrop of resistance. Fighting for their Camelot #ArthurianApril #IndieApril #ArthurianLegend #TheFutureKing #WritingCommunity #BookSky #KingArthur #Dystopian #YACrossover #Arthurian

"Surveillance isn't just about spying on you, Merlin. It's about controlling you. You know that." - Arthur

"I saw police ofiicers shoot down civilians. And now the New Morals are snatching people from their homes. You had people to stand up to them-you had over five thousand. You still have people loyal to you, who are waiting to follow your lead." - Gwen

"Do you have any idea what is happening right now? Do you? Or is this just some game that you and Arthur can play when you're atyour secret little club? This is real, Gwen. It's real life and it's fucking dangerous!"
- Lancelot

Arthurian - Dystopian - YA Crossover - Near Future - Political

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Readers I did not get selected. Now I am reminded why I never entered these things in the past. Bye bye self worth! 🤣

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Tomorrow! It's tomorrow! Trying not to think about it yet wondering if this dream will come true 🙃 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #IndieAuthor #LibraroPrize2026 #shortlist #WritingCompetition 🤞

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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Spending my Sunday wondering if they’ve contacted those shortlisted yet 🫠🫠🫠 I mean they could have done, right? #libraroprize2026 #writingcompetition #booksky #writingcommunity #indieauthor

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

They're announcing the shortlist for the #LibraroPrize2026 this Tuesday. If you have five minutes to sign up and go comment on/upvote my book I'd appreciate it - it'd be great to see a King Arthur / 1984 / Mean Girls mashup in the final six 🙃🙃🙃 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Arthurian #Indie #author

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Only 11 days until they announce the shortlist! 😬😬😬 Likes on Logres have ground to a halt, but I’m excited to see which six entries will be chosen! #LibraroPrize2026 #booksky #competiton #TheFutureKingLogres #indieauthor #writingcommunity

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Just a little hack I use in the scenes where I keep getting pulled into the narrative - I start at the last paragraph and make my way backwards to the first. It works! ☺️ #booksky #writingcommunity #editing #indieauthor

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Turns out I missed Tolkien reading day! Actually, I only today learned it was a thing. I've always told stories but PJ's The Lord of the Rings films is where writing really became "it" for me, basically through cowriting LOTR fan fiction, and through my father's love of the books. Hannon le.🍃🌳

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Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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