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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Off on my hols this week so will catch up with #wipsnips, #histficmay and my riotous fictional dinner party when I get back. In the meantime, here are my toes on a genuine Roman mosaic in southern England. Yes, I was excited.

Two white feet stand on a Roman mosaic. The central pattern is a large urn with curved handles in a frame surrounded by abstract patterns. The tiles are dark brown and cream.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 18

A Black woman, heavily muscled, wearing a strong breastplate with leather straps and a belt, a sword at her belt stands against a blurred background of buildings, barrels and firelight. This is Nanisca, the Woman King of the film, called Nanisca, based the all-female warrior unit, the Agojie, of the army of Dahomey in the 17-19th centuries. As fictionalised she is a fascinating character.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Morgen of the Strait and her volcanic lover Magda shape their dream of a sanctuary made of ice water and fire. CHILDREN OF THE LAND (amzn.eu/d/cj46RtR) is love stories set ina world where geopolitics and climate change have made for strange bed fellows. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #where

The text sits between two copies of the same picture, a close up of pieces of black pillow lava embedded in brown rock. Pillow lava is created when hot, erupting magma meets very cold water. There is some on the shores of Ynys Llandwyn in north Wales. I took this picture in Antarctica in 2016

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

My favourite histfic book asks #HistFicMay. I really cannot choose. There's so many amazing books out there. I will list #Menewood, #FloodofFire, #Saltblood and #MasterandCommander for a start.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 17

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Is there a sequel to Wm's story in #amquerying BORN OF COURAGE asks #HistFicMay. Indeed there is: NOT ALONE takes her story from heartbreak and war to liberty, love & peace after Waterloo. She's not done wandering though: our last view of her is seeing a right whale off Portugal. Is this a trilogy?

The head of a right whale is just above the surface her eye glistening slightly. Around her is blue, slightly rippled sea water. This lovely picture is (uncredited) at https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/north-atlantic-right-whale. North Atlantic right whales are today endangered.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Adain tells us the background of the man who has come to the valley with his horses & hawks. This was the first story written in t CHILDREN OF THE LAND (amzn.eu/d/cj46RtR), and introduced me to the strange, future Cymru of those tales & wip WILDWOOD #wipsnips #writingcommunity #college => #school

A few lines of text in a cursive script on lines on a background that vaguely resembles an old school text book.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A new #StarterPack of writers, well worth following, who are also seeking an agent. If you want to be included, then like, share, follow, ask in the chat, and I'll include you. And to writers/readers in general, please share so we can include more fine talents here #booksky #writing #writers #agents

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 16

Image of a young woman wearing a shirt and tie (loose at the collar) and a v-neck jumper (ie a school uniform). The picture is painted on to bricks, as a mural and a speech bubble from her says 'I'm the wee... lesbian'. Clare from Derry Girls (played by Nicola Coughlan), here depicted in a Dublin mural by Emmalene Blake. Brave (despite herself), loving, in need of love, very, very funny. So much to enjoy in a dinner guest.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Who is Wm Brown based on, #HistFicMay asks? Literally, on the slimmest of archival evidence. As a created character: a mix of people I know IRL, Nancy Blackett, Moll Frith, Aubrey, Tituba of Salem, Prospero & Caliban, Nanisca, Mintah & more. Survivors, tricksters, warriors, wanderers, leaders.

A white woman, shown head and shoulders, gazing upwards from a standpoint above the tempestuous sea. This is Helen Mirren in the 2010 film version of The Tempest where she played Prospero, Pic by Julie Taymor, from a discussion at https://www.maramarietta.com/the-arts/shakespeare/the-tempest-pericles/.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Not everyone in CHILDREN OF THE LAND (amzn.eu/d/cj46RtR) is human. Morgen is the genius loci of the Menai Strait. She is listening to her explosive lover, Magda, play the flute and overhears two men who want to evict Magda from her home. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #give

Picture of a flute made from a long piece of bone, against a grey background on which the text is superimposed. This image, from https://minim.ac.uk/index.php/explore/?instrument=42556, shows an extremely rare, later 1800’s musical instrument now held in the Brighton Museum collection.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

William is neither the self-destructive hero nor redeemable villain envisaged in today's #HistFicMay. Hers is the journey of a female hero (not heroine!) She builds an affinity with which to change the world, while learning how to live in her own truth & according to her own values.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Many inhabitants of that future Cymru in CHILDREN OF THE LAND (amzn.eu/d/cj46RtR) show little mercy to their enemies. Mwyn has none for that spy within her mine who has betrayed her to a brutal fight. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #hello

A picture of grey pavers lies behind the text. (I took this picture in 2015; I have no memory why.)

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 15

Image of a teenage woman in a pink teeshirt and red jacket over jeans with a multi coloured belt. Around her neck are several chains and beads. She has long blonde hair and is sitting outdoors looking rather cross at something happening out of shot slightly to her right. The background is blurred grass and a few buildings, and a small, pink conical tent. Aimee Gibbs is played by Aimee Lou Wood in Sex Education. She suffers a s3xual assault on the bus and it’s a struggle for her to get past it. My wife (much more a fan of the series than me) nominated her so all the other fierce women can both help her to revenge and show her how when life kicks you in the ass, you can become kickass too. And she can show them how to thrive in the modern world of gadgets and transparency.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 14

Fiorinda, leading lady in the Gwyneth Jones quintet Bold as Love, is an extraordinary woman. Brave, determined, passionate, both loving and a Bele Dame Sans Merci, she would probably want to bring Sage and Ax with her. They might be allowed into this otherwise all woman space because they are so interesting. http://bryan-talbot.com/oldsite/Images/gallery10/Fio.jpg drew this image

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

CHILDREN OF THE LAND (amzn.eu/d/cj46RtR) includes some passionate affairs. Here is Dai, in Bones and Fire, recalling a first night like no other. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #bed

A magnificent photo of a barn owl in hunting mode, its wings high like those of an angel, captured against an orange full moon. The text is in orange across the black sky. The picture is not credited, and comes from https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/white-feathered-barn-owls-terrify-prey-submission-like-ghost-coming-202918

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

If I took William to dinner, we would talk about ships, about the sea and the wind and the call of whales. #HistFicMay, taking my MC out (more likely for a quiet jar, though she rarely drinks.)

Pic of a sailor standing on the rope beneath the yard on a tall ship. He is hard to seee as shot against the sun. The yard is heavy wood with a sail furled against it. The line upward from it are protected by furry sheaths (baggywrinkles and on the end of the yard are heavy blocks. I took this picture in the Southern Ocean. William is a woman disguised as a man serving on tall ships in the early 1800s. This image is anachronistic in that it includes more modern materials for sail and lines, and the crew member is standing on a metal rope, but you get the idea.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 13

Picture of a woman’s face. Her eyes fade into shade. Her mouth is covered in black (like a Covid mask but without ear straps). Nazareth, linguist genius in Native Tongue, would undoubtedly be excellent and stimulating company - and might help to manage the many egos I have managed to invite so far! Contrary to this picture, Nazareth talks plenty, and has a great deal of sense to share.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

In CHILDREN OF THE LAND (amzn.eu/d/aotNCma), the story The Flow, takes Enfys on a journey in England. The River Thames (Tafwys in Cymraeg) is her ally, in his own fashion. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #revenge

White text is superimposed on an image of a flooded river with houses to one side and boats in the distance. The pic, by Peter Glaze, is at https://www.mylondon.news/weather/new-london-weather-map-shows-28019512, illustrating how easily London will flood if/when the Thames Barrier fails.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The MC of #amquerying BORN OF COURAGE & sequel NOT ALONE is William Brown - a young, free Black woman. Born in St Lucia, imprisoned in England, she loses everyone she cares for & must make her own way in a strange land. She loves the ocean, her freedom, and a few people. Can she have them all?

A statue of a Black woman stands against the grey sky. She is heavily pregnant. She wears a simple dress . This is the statue of Solitude La Mulatresse, heroine of events in Guadeloupe in 1802, which stands in Point-à-Pitre. Solitude is an off-stage character in the books.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 12

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Something strange @holland-tom.bsky.social @therestishistory.bsky.social I have Peter Part 2 in my feed but not Part 1. No aethling but I am a club member! I need to know about Sophia. Help!

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Today's #HistFicMay is fave quote from my writing. I found this difficult cos too many are rather (ahem) vivid or violent, or have massive spoilers. This is from Not Alone, the sequel to #amquerying BORN OF COURAGE. Wm has escaped Guadeloupe, is back in disguise & at sea, returning to Jamaica.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

In #amediting WILDWOOD, Gwen is given an impossible choice by Rhys, who she thought was her friend. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #apparent CW: small swear.

Water reflects the black of the hedge and the gold of the sun. Text is superimposed over the gold. Photo taken by me in 2014, of sunset on the River Fal in Cornwall, England. No real relationship to the text, but sufficiently abstract to pass.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

#HistFicMay #amquerying BORN IF COURAGE. A lifetime of inspiration & influence. Maybe CLR James meets Patrick O’Brian, all directed by Maryse Condé.

À Blaxk man wearing sailor’s slops is surrounded by white officers in Naval uniform. He is pointing upwards while looking round at a Marine, and speaking. Around them are hints of warships (rope, sails, bulwarks) and battle - a haze of smoke blurs the background, one of the officer’s has his head bandaged and the Marina is aiming his gun where the Black sailor is pointing. This is a detail from Louis Daniel Maclise’s vast painting The Death of Nelson. It shows a Black man on the bridge of HMS Victory pointing to the sharpshooter who had killed the Admiral. Maclise made this painting some 60 years after the battle of Trafalgar and interviewed people who were there. This painting is further evidence of the presence of Black sailors in the British Royal Navy in the late 18th & early 19th centuries. Regulations prohibited enslaved persons serving as sailors, so we can assume this man was free. There is other evidence of named Black sailors, including George Ryan who is shown on Nelson’s column. The Maclise painting also shows women aboard Victory, working as nurses.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 11

A woman with long blond hair stares out of the picture. She wears a round helmet sealed at the neck but see through, and underneath a flowing robe and cape. She stands on red soil. This extremely unlikely image is the result of asking Canva to show me Maya Toitovna on Mars. Maya was one of the First Hundred in Kim Stanley Robin's Mars series, a fearsomely brilliant, determined and volatile scientist. I want more scientists at this party! She lived a very long time, was extremely active in the debates around aeroforming and independence. I love her and think she would be an amazing guest. For anyone interested in the fictional stories of Martian Independence, @mikeduncan.bsky.social is currently making an extraordinary series of podcasts in his (otherwise historical) massive set of Revolutions series which is a another way of thinking about the complex interplay of power, ethics, nature and resources.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

in #HistFicMay I'm talking about BORN OF COURAGE: #amquerying 92k maritime novel upending the genre. We know of Wm from this London interview in May 1815. This Black female sailor was lying, from the muster books of HMS Queen Charlotte. So who was this consummate trickster & survivor?

A page of tightly typed newsprint from May 1815, kept in the National Archives at Kew.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Lovely challenge. Prompt a day in #HistFicMay. I'm using my novels #amquerying BORN OF COURAGE & direct sequel NOT ALONE. Calliste is the child of Black Republicans from the French Caribbean & becomes a disguised sailor & spy in Nelson's Navy. My completed PhD project @swanseauni.bsky.social.

In white text on a grey background, a list of 31 prompts to write about one's historical fiction work.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 10 www.indiependent.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Image: a beautiful young woman with simple hair pulled back and in a plain brown dress is staring pensively at something to her lower right, our of frame. A blurred green background suggests parkland or woods. This is Keira Knightly, who is definitely not fictional - here playing Elizabeth Bennett of Pride and Prejudice, who qualifies for my dinner table. No explanation needed as Elizabeth would bring so much wit, wisdom and savagery to a table full of 'difficult women'. (Emma would be much too snotty!) Pic from http://janeausten.wikia.com/wiki/File:Elizabeth-keira-knightley-as-elizabeth-bennet-10470523-1250-840.jpg.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

WILDWOOD: war and love, fire and babies in the disputatious future of a small country. Hwni is learning about emotions. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #cup

A white mug has 'PANED' written on it in tartan letters, with the snipped text next to it. 'Paned' is Welsh (Cymraeg) for 'cup' and in Wildwood, the characters would be thinking and speaking in that language - though I am writing in English. Also note that Rhyfelwyr means 'warrior', and refers here to the new battle leader for the forests of the Upper Tywi Valley.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 9 Really should have posted this one on Monday. RIP TP! Pic © @jackscarab.bsky.social

Amazingly detailed drawing of a fierce old lady in a high necked black cloak and a tall witches hat. Behind her are trees in a blue and yellow lit forest. Drawn by @jackscarab.bsky.social, this is a fab portrait of Granny Weatherwax from the Discworld. I love her, and as I grow older she becomes more of a role model. Like most of the dinner guests, she is very impatient, so will add (even more) spice to the conversation, though not of the kind favoured by Nanny Ogg.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

WILDWOOD #amediting a standalone Welsh fantasy set in the same future as CHILDREN OF THE LAND. The battle to drive pharma experimentation out of the forest is underway. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #explode

Pic of a burning gorse bush, with big flames and thick smoke emerging from the greenery and branches. The yellow flowers of the gorse are still visible. Snipped text above and all enclosed in a brown flame. Pic is from https://highlandradio.com/2021/04/25/fire-crews-tackle-slieve-donard-gorse-fire-for-third-day/ fro a horrible wildfire in Northern Ireland in 2021. Do not set fires or be irresponsible with cigarettes/bbqs etc on the hills, peeps!

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 8

Image: a drawing in which. young girl with big eyes and black hair in bunches stares out, while an older man in a lab coat bends over her. In front of them is a transparent crib in which a small baby is attached to a cord. Ariane Emory of Cyteen is one of the most interesting fictional women I know. I would invite the second Ari, aged 20 or more. The first Ari is far too twisted! As with so much of Cherryh's work, the complex politics in the light of tech & alien species are the heart of the story. This image of the back cover of a 1989 Warner version is uncredited.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

WILDWOOD #amediting a fantasy of regenerating forests, rebalancing the mountains of Wales. Hydarch, most venerable elm, is talking to Hwni about her potential future, and the need to guard against losing her way as she spies in the human village. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #clown => #foolishness

Two English elm trees stand next to each other on the edge of a field, with a wood in the background. The sky is very blue above. The snipped text is in white on the grass in front of them. This image from https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/english-elm/ would now be an usual sight as so many elm trees were destroyed by disease in the 1970s. In Wildwood, the resistant trees have recovered and remember the plague as an horrific episode.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 7 harrybingham.com/wp-content/u...

Fiona Griffiths from the series by Harry Bingham would be a really interesting guest. (Image of a woman's face is of Sophie Rundle who played her on TV.) I think she would be quite unsettling and (at least in the earlier books) not terribly comfortable around (living) women so I think I would invite her from about Book 5 onwards.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

WILDWOOD #amediting Welsh fantasy novel set in a future Cymru where the forest fights back. Gwen grows up in a tiny village surrounded by trees. Her father Siôn tells us she was always curious and talkative - and enjoyed shiny things. #wipsnips #writingcommunity #talk

Photo of a jackdaw feeding a wide-mouthed chick, both on a moss-covered branch. Credit to Brian Arbuthnot: pic from Reddit. Snipped text in lower right hand corner

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The #WIPSnips words for April 28th through May 4th are here! Use the word to find a snippet to share from your writing (it doesn't have to be your current WIP) or use it as a prompt to write something new. Don't forget Alt Text on graphics. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The #WIPSnips words for April 28th through May 4th are here.

April 28 - talk; April 29 - clown; April 30 - explode; May 1- cup; May 2 - over; May 3 - apparent; May 4 - force

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 6

Picture of a small wooden sailing boat with brown sails. She has a long bowsprit but that outer jib is furled. Her main sail is partially reefed. There are people in the cockpit. This image (from ITV News) is of the yacht Nancy Blackett, sailing on the River Orwell in Suffolk. The yacht belonged to Arthur Ransome who wrote Swallows and Amazons (and sequels). He named his boat after his wonderful heroine, pirate captain and all-round sailing tomboy, Nancy. I would absolutely love to have Nancy, my heroine since childhood, to dinner. I bet she became more interesting as an adult than Ransom allowed her to be in the books.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

#CHILDRENOFTHELAND (amzn.eu/d/gu2hJP8) & WIP #WILDWOOD: Wales has many kinds of #magic. Magda Llosgi lives alone on Ynys Llandwyn, often visited by her lover Morgan. Niall is trying to make her move, so he & Malick can reap an illegal harvest. #Amwriting #writingcommunity #indeed

Picture of a dried cocoa bean, text alongside, all enclosed in a brown frame. (Pic from Amazon.) Sadly these refugee tech beans do not exist.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 5

A thin white woman stands in chain mail with a gold cross at her breast and a sword beside her. She is semi transparent and the trees and turquoise sky are visible through her. The image is the cover art for the novel Hild by @nicolaz.bsky.social, created by Anna & Elena Balbusso. Hild would be truly scary to have for dinner, but extremely cool. (The historical figure is real but I am taking the woman as portrayed in fiction.)

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

#CHILDRENOFTHELAND (amzn.eu/d/gu2hJP8) & WIP #WILDWOOD: Wales, making her own power. In The Flow, Frank & Enfys are visiting hydro generators across England. Jason, who is from Cumbria, has a dam in Cymru and welcomes the pair into his home at Burneside. Amwriting #writingcommunity #decor

A black and white drawing of the frontage of a country house with many windows, a conservatory and formal planting. Text superimposed in one corner. (Pic from https://www.countrystride.co.uk/single-post/countrystride-121-a-history-of-paper-making-on-the-river-kent) When I was small, we spent Easter holidays in a flat in this house which is owned by my mother's cousins. They then had a very much loved lurcher called Jason. Now, they are investing not only in their modernised, sixth-gen paper business, but in amazing small hydro-plants remaking energy generation across Cumbria. Their work was an inspiration in writing this story, so using Ellergreen is an oblique compliment as well as a (long) trip down memory lane.

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

‘Going into battle again’ was, perhaps, not so apt a description. Ari felt more like a feared wolf of lore in the aftermath, come to collect the dead. - my WIP, When Morning Comes #WIPSnips

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#CHILDRENOFTHELAND (amzn.eu/d/gu2hJP8) & WIP #WILDWOOD: making art in Cymru In Bones and Fire, Dai’s lover Gwennie is an ambitious photographer. The offshore rocks of the Gower peninsula known as Worm’s Head offer great inspiration. Amwriting #writingcommunity #wolf => #dragon (of course)

Beautiful image of the sunset over the ocean. A line of rocks, known at Worm's Head, lie across the water, like a dragon’s snout resting. Above the image is the snipped text. The photograph (uncredited) comes from https://www.trailexposure.com/21/192/wales-gower-worms-head.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 4

Pic: a Black woman's face starring out at us, Mintah from Feeding the Ghosts is one of the most determined and moving survivors in all fiction.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 3

Image: a figure dressed in a tunic and trousers stands on a dome looking at an orange sky in which floats an orange and orange and blue planet. I would love to talk to Takvar from Le Guin's The Dispossessed. I have taken this cover pic of the book to be her, looking to where Shevek has gone while she remains on Anarres. In the book Takvar is much-loved but a cipher, committed to the founding principles, equal by definition (really?), a steady worker with her own ambitions about which we do not hear much. I want to know what Takvar dreams of, what she wants to do with her life, whether she would have gone with him, whether she is angry.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

#CHILDRENOFTHELAND (amzn.eu/d/gu2hJP8) & WIP #WILDWOOD: fables for a future Wales, set in places on the IRL map. In Bones and Fire, Dai burns selected corpses on a pyre in a field in Rhossili Vile. The residue delivers an important income to the village. #Amwriting #writingcommunity #magic

A heart shape made from the burnt residue of a body sits on a plain grey background, with the snippet text superimposed on it. Image from https://morningtongreen.com.au/what-are-ashes-from-a-body/.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

#CHILDRENOFTHELAND (amzn.eu/d/gu2hJP8) & WIP #WILDWOOD: tales of a future Wales, set in real places. Adain has hatched the Hawks of Dust and Wine in the folded land around Wernfigin. She takes her son, Bedwyr, to meet them as hereditary hawk-master of Cymru. Amwriting #writingcommunity #click

Pic generated by me using Vanya of a hawk, a woman and a baby. Baby in pic has his eyes closed. Text alongside picture.

For those saying don't use generative AI at all, this is a challenge. I find it useful sometimes as a last resort instead of stealing a picture (also a Bad Thing), or being unable to find anything remotely near what I want. I really, really cannot draw. I use pix in these snips both to capture your attention, and help protect my actual words. So there it is.

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Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Choose 20 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS who you would invite to a Dinner Party. 1 character per day for 20 days. No explanations, just gifs or pics (names only in the ALT text). Day 2

The Roaring Girl, Moll ‘Cutourse’ Frith. Here she is being acted by Lisa Dillon in the 2014 RSC production of the eponymous play by Dekker and Middleton. I have always loved Moll who did exist but was famously dramatised c1607 and novelised by Emma Galford in Moll Cutpurse in the 1980s. For 10 years I lived at sea in my own yacht, called Roaring Girl in her honour. Of course she must come for dinner.

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