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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 15/03/2025

PSA: If you get the new Parmesan Stuffed Crust from @dominos-pizza.bsky.social and you order in the app with font way to small for any human to read, you might THINK you are getting parmesan stuffed in a crust. No. It's MOZZARELLA. I was so excited... until I wasn't. Blech.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 25/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Book 14:

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 25/02/2025

WIP: Time traveling space cowboy (just the once; not at all like The Doctor, and especially not like the 11th Doctor in A Town Called Mercy). With horses! #writing #booksky not #doctorwho

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 22/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Book 13:

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 22/02/2025

“The body laid twenty paces from him in a pool of water that was rapidly turning red. He did not have to look to know that there was no longer life in it. His aim had been true and when the bullet is silver, there is no coming back.”

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 22/02/2025

I’m currently reading The Cult of Trump. I thought, “I’d really like a WWII book,” so I bought The Final Solution and Maus. Then I got The Open Society and Its Enemies. Then ADHD! So I got a Dragon Mage, Human Acts, and the three Silo Series books. I’ve also been writing furiously. My poor TBR.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 21/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Book 12:

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 20/02/2025

On March 14, 2011, I watched an episode of House MD titled, “Out of the Chute (S7E16j.” It opened with a song by Black Lab called, “This Night.” It burrowed its way into my soul. In May of the same year, I wrote this piece of flash fiction based on the song. #booksky #vampire #werewolf #gunslinger

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This Night

Short story inspired by the Black Lab song, “This Night” (Passion Leaves a Trace; 2007).

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 20/02/2025

This is so good! There’s not tons of description (a la Anne Rice, IYKYK), but what’s there is effective/horrifying/lovely. The read was quick too. Quick enough that my autistic pattern recognition to know a story’s end didn’t stand a chance. It’s a fully fleshed story you can devour in minutes. Yum!

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a february ghost story

nobody's perfect

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 20/02/2025

“She had made him who he was. She had delivered him to the coven so that he could be reborn to the night. ‘We will be the Adam and Eve of our races,’ she had proclaimed. The truth was that they had both become Cain…” Excerpt from “This Night,” coming at 11 AM EST! #booksky #lunchtime #read

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"This Night" music video by Black Lab

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 20/02/2025

I think AI can be a great tool for writers. Need a story prompt to get your creative juices flowing? Stuck in a scene in your WIP Great new writer, but not so great an artist and want to create promo materials? AI can help. Like any powerful tool, it has to be used responsibly, though.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 19/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Book 11:

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 19/02/2025

Okay, I never thought about story writing this way, but it’s brilliant! The next time I get caught up in my head on “does this feel too familiar” in my writing, I just need to remember this. Sure, the bones might be familiar, but the meat of it is different. #booksky

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Romance Novels, Too Predictable?

The haters will say they are, but f*ck the haters.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 19/02/2025

I’ve long held the opinion that I don’t think ADHD is a disability. I medicate mine, but it’s necessary in order to function in society in its current state. I believe ADHD is just a different way of thinking. The thinking of progress. True, real progress.

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Why the world needs ADHD minds

Everyone is obsessed with AI, but it’s ADHD brains that will shape the future

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 19/02/2025

Lost a week (!!!) to a new computer, video games, and a new (to me) anime series, Frieren. Anyone else just lose time like that? Also, Frieren hit a special note with me, an autistic person, in her quest of “learning how to people.” Seriously, 10/10!

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 11/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Book 10:

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 10/02/2025

Anyhow, long story short, this book influenced me to write at my best, regardless of what the general population would think. Because money is not worth giving up my grammar police badge or soul. 😂

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 10/02/2025

And if you actually read this and enjoyed it, I am not judging you. I absolutely love the Twilight series, and it has much of the same problems. But there are a problems in 50 Shades that should be a dealbreaker for any writer, grammatically speaking.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 10/02/2025

But will I dumb myself down in order to appeal to a broader audience? No. I would rather write what I love and be able to reread it myself and still love it then feel shame because the writing is awful and aspects of the story are awful even if the overarching story isn’t half bad.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 10/02/2025

Somehow, the author got tons of money and got a movie deal. So the reason I added it as something influenced me is that it made me realize that just because my writing but doesn’t make a ton of money doesn’t mean it’s not good.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 10/02/2025

This book is poorly written. Anyone with a firm grasp of grammar will agree. It also has some problematic things in regards to the whole flow of it. It also has some problematic things in regards to his stalker-y-ness.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 10/02/2025

I love a good story. Even if there’s some problematic things, if a good story is a good story, I can get into it. I thought this story would be that story. The reason I added it as a book that influenced me is because I realized that just because a book is popular doesn’t mean it’s good.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 10/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Book 9: Also, I’m breaking the rules. See the thread…

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 10/02/2025

I guess the moral of the story is to do your writing in the cloud. Whether it’s Google Docs or something else. Big companies that host cloud tools have multiple backups. Our physical computers do not. And if we miss a setting or if something is lost before an auto save happens we’re out of luck.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 10/02/2025

I saw this in my feed. It brought back some traumatic memories! I had a hard drive failure about 15 years ago and lost so much. For some reason, decided to trust my computer again and a few years after that I had another awful failure. After that, I decided to do all of my writing in Google Docs.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 08/02/2025

I think I heard that we celebrate cats on Saturday. Or Caturday. I celebrate them all the time but okay. This is Goose. He has the best purrs.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 08/02/2025

I have a spicy story in the works for release on Substack, but it's on pause while I do some home projects. If I hyperfocus on that, I won't get anything done around the house. I hope to have it completed to share in the next week or two! #booksky

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 08/02/2025

I went back to college after my divorce in 2009. I had a creative writing teacher that told me, “After a semester of seeing what you like to write, I think you’d love Cloud Atlas.” He wasn’t wrong! Such a weird but amazing book.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 08/02/2025

No hate to Kindle; I love the power of carrying a small library around with me everywhere I go. But, I mean, look at those pages! So touchable. To dog-ear or not to dog-ear, that is the question. 💙 #booksky

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 08/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Book 8:

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

The best part is the adventure!

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

Holy cow! That would give me anxiety 😂 This is my favorite one I’ve been to: www.bookloft.com/tour-store There are more photos at that link.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

“I’m living half my life between reality and fantasy at all times.” - Lady Gaga 📚💙 #booksky

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

If he is, I don’t blame him. I’d do the same if I had to hang out with Merry and Pippin all day.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

There’s a bookstore in Columbus, Ohio I like to go to every so often. It’s used and new books, but it was built in a larger house and is like a maze. It’s an adventure to walk through there! And it has this perfect little courtyard. www.bookloft.com/tour-store

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

I love lists, research, organization, and books. And it never once to hit my radar to become a librarian. I was talking to a friend of mine who manages a college library about a year ago and he asked why I never became one and that’s when I realized how much of an idiot I am. 😂

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

Many many years ago there was a book shop/bar that was open the usual bar hours. They sold alcohol, coffee, tea, sodas, etc. And the music they played was club music. And there were tables with leather chairs (or maybe they were faux leather) scattered everywhere to sit in. We need more of those.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

Umm, that’s sounds fun! I just looked it up and it looks exactly like the buildings of my college I went to!

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

I have a lovely classical music playlist I listen to when I read. That way the worlds in my mind have a soundtrack.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

People that don’t like the smell of old books are monsters. 😂

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

Yes it’s a play, but it’s available in book form so it counts. Also, the movie is one of my all time favorites. No, not My Fair Lady… PYGMALION.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 07/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Book 7:

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 05/02/2025

Random musing: Throwing it back to when it was warm, oh, and when I still went camping. I bought my camper (Banshee) as an escape. But now that the toxicity has been purged from both my work or personal life, I don’t feel that I need her anymore, so I’ll likely be selling her in the spring.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 05/02/2025

I’m doing this #BookSky challenge, and as I think through books I’ve read and then post covers for the challenge, it makes me want to reread them all. My poor, neglected TBR. I’m so sorry.

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Skylara Wilde @skylarawilde.substack.com · 05/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Book 6:

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