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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer

@meredithwadley.bsky.social
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Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With alt text. I know someone who actually did this
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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay, the clanging of cow and goat bells in the Alps may seem romantic, but it can also keep you up at night! Sleep deprived. #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
A herd of black-and-white, long-haired goats grazing on a brown hillside overlooking a wide green valley and a small Swiss alpine village. Forest-covered slopes and bare mountain peaks in the background.
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
PSA! Our free-submissions window closes today.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
October’s off to a great start, and it still September! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #seekingrepresentation #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you ask a room of college graduates if they know someone who was raped in college, every single person would need to raise their hand. Some of us know more than one. I walked in Take Back the Night marches on my campus in the 1990s. In all these years, women have never taken back the night.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ve been shy lately about posting on my website. Time for a new musing! Enjoy, and thanks for reading! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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The Best Laid Plans
This summer, Markus and I delayed big travel plans. We substituted trips to Brittany, France, and Greece for short, punchy trips. “We’ll go in the fall,” we said. Well, fall’s here, and we’ve…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yesterday, I sent 7 dear #betareaders my #WIP, a #campussuspensenovel, for feedback! Now working on a #queryletter body & a synopsis. Next, deep research into #litagents. 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #writersky #authorsky🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Finally peeking out of #novelinprogress editing cave. Last 2-of-6 edits, 🤯🤯 1) re-typed entire MS. Woke new brain cells. 🤔 2) Used #ReadAloud. Found more new brain cells. 💪 Brilliant! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #noAIfiction #WIP #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #writersky #authorsky
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“Absurd & inhuman violence is spreading through the sacred places…profaned by the blasphemy of war & brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives…But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.” ~ Pope Leo XIV
A poster, featuring a small oval close-up photo of Pope Leo XIV:
“Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.”
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#GoogleAI is that loud faux-charming meeting dude who comes unprepared, talks over experts, and spews random BS. He'll steal your ideas and get the praise for them you deserve. He says he wants to be your friend. He wants your job. He's flashy but bad for the company numbers. The bosses 🤪😍 him.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I spent every free hour of school in the library reading Great Books of the Western World.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#GoogleAI: “you can’t use punctuation or a colon in dialogue.” Its example: a punctuated interrogative sentence. 🙄 #punctuaton #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky Get me started.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You #write a #word & your mind says, “Wrong spelling.” You say, “It’s correct” & your mind says, “No, looks weird” & it DOES. #self-doubt #editing #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
TBF, most of these are already killing people and none are designed to protect anyone but their designers . . .
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Gorgeous #poetrycollection from #SanFrancisco #poet #MaxOrkis. Ready to preorder & save! @finishinglinepress.bsky.social #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky #poetsky #poetrysky
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I wished for rain for my birthday yesterday & the heavens deliver this morning!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻⛈️⛈️⛈️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️ Wishing you all heaven-answered #writing/editing. #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
A printed manuscript, an open laptop, a glass of water, a French press, and a terracotta cup on table covered with a colorfully printed tablecloth before an open picture window, its hinged frames opening into the room. The view is elevated, the crowns of deciduous trees and a gray sky. The trees are stressed by drought conditions, and it’s raining, but the rain’s not visible. By smell, the rain is evident.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
ICE lied about how Renee Good was shot. They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot. And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot. Don’t believe their story for a second.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Living in northern #Switzerland & using German daily has ruined my ability to spell #English_words with "ie" or "ei" vowel combinations. 😂 😂 😂 #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The orange felon blames mail-in voting, immigrants and felons for destroying America, yet he marries immigrants, he votes by mail and he’s a convicted felon. Funny how that bullshit hypocrisy works.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
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N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Can you really call yourself a traveler if you haven’t full out sprinted through Chicago O’Hare?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/07/2026
We're constantly told that women can never compete with men and yet Kelsey Pfendler is about to set the record for the fastest solo row from California to Hawaii, beating the men's record by a full week. What an incredible feat of athleticism, endurance, and grit.
A promotional graphic featuring a photograph of a woman, Kelsey Pfendler, rowing a specialized ocean rowboat alone on open water under an overcast sky. The white boat is designed for long distances, featuring enclosed cabins at the bow and stern, solar panels on the rear cabin, and various mounted navigational antennas. The hull is decorated with vibrant pink, purple, and blue swirling wave graphics.
​Several sponsor logos are visible along the side of the boat, including Pasha Hawaii, Hatch River Expeditions, Concept2, Güntner, and the cursive Lily logo near the stern.
​Text overlaid on the image reads:
​Top left: YouRowKelsey
​Bottom left (in a dark blue banner):
​CALIFORNIA TO HAWAII
​KELSEY PFENDLER TO SHATTER SPEED RECORD FOR SOLO ROW TO HAWAII
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/07/2026
I’m on this motherfucker like white on rice.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

The sun may have set but the overnight heat is still dangerous.

Do not sleep in a sweltering room. If you’ve lost power or the heat is too much, we have opened up overnight cooling centers where you can spend the night safely.

Visit finder.nyc.gov/coolingcenters/ or call 311 to find an overnight location.

Call 911 immediately if you or someone you know shows signs of heat illness.

Check on your neighbors. We’ll only get through this heat wave together.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Phase #rewrite of #noveledits: I print each chapter to retype, which accesses fresh brain cells. Amazing! A #BetaReader said, "Cut 2 Chapters." OK, let's see. 😬 #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In #Switzerland, I'll have a celebration-free #4thofJuly, work on my #novel_ms, listen to podcasts & enjoy the post- #heatdome temps. If you're celebrating, enjoy. If you're suffering heat, take care. If you're fighting to ensure #USDemocracy for another 250 years, YES! Let's make it a #Peace agent.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
‘I use this method. It works for me. No issues.’ ‘Okay, but have you tried—‘ ‘I JUST SAID IT WORKS FOR ME.’ ‘But—‘ ‘I DID NOT ASK FOR UNSOLICITED ADVICE.’ What is up with people on the internet viewing a way that works wrong simply because it’s not how they would do it? We aren’t all the same!
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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Here's your #WritingPrompt for today:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“If you zoom in on the guitarist’s sunglasses you can see a crowd of less than a dozen people… the organizers appear to have recently deleted that image.” 😬 🕶️
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Sitting on the balcony, #editing my #novel_ms & looking into the house at a magical morning moment: #gratitude. Good morning writers! 🥰🥰🥰 #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
Morning sunshine lights an open-living space, a wood-clad, sloping ceiling, white walls with pictures hung, the corpus of a white-rendered Kachelofen, a burgundy-red, armless chair and a gray-leather reading chair. A picture book on a shelf, and a small round black table with a blue-glass vase and a bouquet of wild flowers. The parquet floor stretches to an open door.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Wishing everyone a great start to a productive week! #writing #morningwalk #obergoms #switzerland #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
Cusp of a sunrise over a lush green Swiss alpine valley. In a blue sky, the clouds hang golden. The forested mountain slopes, the valley fields and village, of church and chalets, remain in shadow. Above the Nufenen Pass, snowfields are visible.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I’ve got a new musing up on Substack. I don’t take you far but I cover a lot of ground. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/meredith... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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A Spring of Drought and Projects
Dry weather and new plantings kept us home in April and May, but projects and day trips kept us busy.
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Barbara Longley Author (no DMs) 📎 @blongley.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I live in MN in a Minneapolis suburb. It's so frightening, but we need to get more people across the country out. It takes 3.5% of the population before changes begin to be made. We're at about 2% right now.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I cannot stay silent about #Minneapolis. My February musing is as grim as I look. #ICE #entitlement #pastor_martin_niemoeller #FirstTheyCame #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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Now They Come for Me
When I'm part of the problem.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Whoo-hoo! An old friend's memoir is filmed. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... @lidiamiles.bsky.social #TheChronologyofWater #LidiaYuknavitch #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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“The Chronology of Water” Is an Extraordinary Directorial Début
Kristen Stewart’s first feature, based on a memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, packs great emotional power into its boldly original form.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
New musing up on substack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/meredith... #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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A Winter, Alpine Climb
Taking a break from cross-country skiing, Markus and I took a rewarding New Year's Day hike.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Focusing on a #campussuspensenovel – NOT submitting #shortstories to #litmags. Yet this a.m., I opened #bluesky to announce an acceptance! NO! WAIT: just last night's #DREAM! #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #flashfiction #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
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a man with curly hair and glasses is saying just dreams sleep it off
Alt: A Caucasian man with curly reddish hair and wearing wire-rimmed glasses shakes his head and his lips move. Text below reads: Just dreams. Sleep it off. Superimposed on the image, next to the text, is a small seated figure in yellow trousers, blue shirt, and sombrero, who's napping.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/11/2025
Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Last year slipped by—along with my attempt to finish a #novel. This year, I'm nearly done with my #2nddraft. A #WIP, but I'm hella farther along & loving the process & progress. #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #SwissAlps #Weisshorn #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #writersky #authorsky
Sunset in an alpine valley. The grassy valley floor, it's decommissioned airstrip, and the lower, forested slopes of the mountains are in evening shadows. The dark slopes form a V that frames the silhouette of the distant Weisshorn bathed in gold light and capped by horizontal layers of clouds touched golden and silver and blue.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
After an October #blog break & being on the road, I'm back with a post about traveling + a bonus message . . . Enjoy! #Musing #retirement #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #WIP #campussuspense #writersky #authorsky meredithwadley.substack.com/p/finding-co...
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Finding Community in Place
After taking a blog break in October, a month I also spent on the road, I'm back with a November post—about traveling! With a bonus message . . . Enjoy my musing about retirement and traveling from Sw...
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 05/11/2025
The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#PubDay #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #militarybrat #usafbrat #VietnamEra #VietnamWar #LineofAdvance #MiddleWestPress #ColonelDarronLWrightMemorialWritingAwards #vestwrite #writersky #authorsky
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