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@olivewrites.bsky.social
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don’t really know what i’m doing in life but i like to write about it 🖋️☕️ open.substack.com/pub/olivelovelady

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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend! 🌷 If you’re in need of something light but thoughtful to read to wind down the night — I welcome you to check out the new article I put out this morning! 🤍
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The glass is already broken.
Impermanence in friendships and relationships.
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My latest piece explores the importance of the mundane within the practice of writing. This one’s for all the chronic observers who find meaning in everything. 📄🖋️
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There are infinite stories hidden in the mundane.
Noticing and it's importance in writing.
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
First ever substack post is officially live! Reads and shares mean the world to me — I plan on keeping all my work publicly available, I just want to get it out there! 🤍 open.substack.com/pub/olivelov...
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How to grow in an environment you've outgrown.
Whether it be physically, mentally, or emotionally, feeling trapped can quite literally drain your soul.
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
one of my favorite writers sharing one of my favorite quotes:
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Michelle M. Smith @michellemsmith.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#writingcommunity
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 27/08/2025
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This was such an amazing read that I wanted to share it here. This author managed to express the feelings that have been culminating in me for years, in better words than I could formulate on my own. brennanleemulligan.com/if-you-had-g...
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This Christmas Party Was So Fun That Now I’m a Communist -
If you had guessed there would be a fortuneteller at this party you would have been dead wrong. Because there were two fortunetellers at this party.
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This fall weather is doing wonders in bringing my writing spark back - expect some new work very soon! 🍁🍂
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Saw this the other day - “If you ever worry that you don’t have what it takes to be a writer, you were born to be one. Normal people literally never think about writing.”. And that just made some things click.
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zee @zeegeeclover.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Out: Write drunk edit sober In: think about writing to the point of obsession while drunk but be incapable of crafting a coherent sentence and then shut down after getting no work done and then wake up the next morning with no recollection of any ideas you had the night before
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 14/04/2025
Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's fine. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to set myself on fire.
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Jerry J. Davis @jerryjdavis.com · 21/02/2025
Looking for an escape from our current train wreck of reality? Here’s some hopeful, endearing sci-fi adventures with heart. Seeds from Ancient Earth jerryjdavis.com/books/seeds-...
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Seeds from Ancient Earth
Katharina didn’t ask to be born at the very end of the world. Beautiful, blazingly intelligent, she’s the product of a beta test — a human created by machines. But her life doesn’t end when the wor…
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Peter @pajjr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If You Like Workplace Fatalities, You'll Love This GOP Plan To Kill OSHA! www.wonkette.com/p/if-you-lik... Too many Americans "did their own research"
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If You Like Workplace Fatalities, You'll Love This GOP Plan To Kill OSHA!
Make falling to your death from a burning building because your boss locked the doors great again.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 04/02/2025
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Front page of the nyt
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Jerry J. Davis @jerryjdavis.com · 01/02/2025
Don’t be a sheep. Be a chupacabra in a field of goats.
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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/01/2025
Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Me 24/7:
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
merry christmas🎄🤍
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Some will declare fealty publicly. Some privately. Make no mistake, they will all protect their own interests before defending the country that made them rich.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Kiss me passionately in the secluded corner of a used bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Prague during a raging thunderstorm, or kindly stop wasting my time.
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The Boooook Shepherd 👻 @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.
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silashouse.bsky.social @silashouse.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
If you’re buying my books for folks this holiday season, or any books, I hope you’ll use Bookshop. It is as easy as Amazon but it keeps the money local. It allows you to choose the indie store of your choice. Shipping is free today. #ShopLocal #SmallBusinessSaturday bookshop.org/search?keywo...
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JodieWrites @jodielouise.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I've been a writer my whole life and I've learnt that those days you don't feel like writing, those weeks where you make no progress, those months where you haven't thought a single creative thought... they pass. Don't obsess. Have faith. It comes back. #WritingCommunity
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I started being regularly published when I was 25. I didn't make my first dollar writing until I was 30. I didn't sell my first novel or screenplay until I was 35. Many of you hadn't even heard of anything I'd written until I was over 40. You have time. There is no expiration date on writers.
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 26/11/2024
Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?
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Shaun Manning @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Trying to clear space/raise some $$$, got some nice comics stuff on the old ebay including a signed Saga hardcover. Adding more stuff soon, have a look if that's your thing: www.ebay.com/itm/28618389...
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Saga Hardcovers vol. 1 2 3 SIGNED Brian K Vaughan Fiona Staples | eBay
<p>First three volumes of hardcover SAGA, representing the entire first half of the series by Fiona Staples and Brian K Vaughan. Hate to part with these but Im it’s time. Volume 1 is SIGNED by BKV! (V...
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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
one time, goodreads let me ramble on about my favorite dragon books, with emphasis on those that were BIPOC and queer, and i'm bringing that list back now because it's holiday season so give one of these to the dragon lover in your life!! www.goodreads.com/blog/show/27...
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An Epic List of Amazing Dragon Books for Fantasy Lovers to Hoard
By day, author Kamilah Cole works in publishing. By night, she frantically types words she hopes to see in a book on shelves one day. In the pa...
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Dan @thedanlines.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
With so many people joining the #WritingCommunity, I feel like I'm missing fellow UK writers! I'm thinking of making a Starter Pack for UK writers so we can commiserate about the recent weather together. Let me know if you'd like to be added! And do share if you'd like! #Author #Booksky #Writing
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Stop being the bad kind of weird. This place is for the good kind of weird only. 🦋
Little brown goat giving you a stern talking to
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Some writers are planners and know what will happen every step of the way. Some writers are pantsers and discover the story as they go along. Some writers are feral demon herders, desperately hanging onto any thread of a story, covered in blood, screaming as it drags them along.
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Tom Clews (He/Him) @misanthromantic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A brilliant starter pack of self published authors, if you want to get involved, message me :D go.bsky.app/S5iYkkG
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This looks really good Finally Enjoy Just take a minute to stare
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Goodmorning everyone! Today’s going to be busy, me and my cat feel the same about it. 🥱😂
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olive @olivewrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Sometimes the words just come at the weirdest times, I set aside 4 hours to write yesterday and got nothing of use, tonight I just spontaneously dumped my brain into my notes app and created the most beautiful and poetic thing I’ve written so far.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"If someone else wrote your book and you read it, would you still think it was good?" I felt like I'd been punched through the chest
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Paaneah @paaneahpannell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Flash fiction about coping after the election and how negativity spreads like cancer. Doing my best. Like the rest of us. open.substack.com/pub/paaneah/... #flashfiction #shortstory #fiction
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It's Five O'clock Somewhere
A slippery slope
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
when I say I’m writing but you see me looking out the window contemplating the past, that counts
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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
funny how you can just eat a good dinner and put fresh linens on your bed and you suddenly feel like at least 50% less evil
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Elizabeth Rubio @rubiowrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thinking about my book nonstop is the same as writing it, right? #WriterSky
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