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SSkeel.Writer

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Favourite line ever came from Alice's Caterpillar: "Whooo are youu?" Still working on that one. Learning from the greats: Poe, Philip Roth, Coetzee, Lawrence Durrell, Anthony Burgess, Peter Cary, Ian McEwan ... #writerslife #writing #amwriting

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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With #books I have to be honest. Great idea in this one, but ... please let the reader enjoy the thrill of interpreting what characters think. Too much, everything, is spelled out. No fun in that. Some may enjoy it. #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife #politicallyincorrect
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm sure it's on his list. Lot of good people he still has to try to shut down.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liz Stroud's Tell Me Everything is OK. But with her new #TheThingsWeNeverSay shortlisted for the #BookerPrize I have to ask: Why do the same authors get accolades over+over, while some #Greatbooks are ignored. It upsets me. #writingcommunity #books #politicallyincorrect
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not So sure about the 'shockingly funny' review on Nell Zink's #Mislaid, but 'odd' is fair. Couldn't feel much for the characters or get intrigued by the plot in the mass of clever language. But clearly some love the book. Unique, yes. #books #writingcommunity #writers #amwriting
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Super line from #ZoeHeller 's Notes on a Scandal: 'My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me ... does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.' So true. Yes? #writingcommunity #writing #books #writerslife #greatbooks #women
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Names #novel is a clever idea and quite fun to read. I'll admit it got a little too sentimental about its characters later in the book for my taste. Well written and many are enjoying it. #writingcommunity #writing #books #goodbooks
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
William Golding wanted to write about boys as they really are. They're scary. #writingcommunity #books #writing #BooksWorthReading #writerslife
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Beautiful line from @stephenfry.bsky.social in #Odyssey. "While it's very hard to believe or make sense if fact, fiction is highly credible. #writingcommunity #writing #writerslife #books #reading
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I hear #Odyssey the film is overdone w special effects. But @stephenfry 's book is a delight. Some footnotes are a hoot. In one he quotes from #BeatrixPotter Tale of Flopsy Bunnies as proof of his theory. Fun!! #writingcommunity #books #writing #writers
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'll admit I didn't see this end coming. An oldie but goodie. #writingcommunity #books, #writing #writerslife
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Bailey G. Albreit @baileygalbreit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's false advertising, I tell you!
I hate it when TV shows say they contain "adult situations" but then don't show anyone going to work, paying their bills or cleaning up after their kids.
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Evan Abrahamson (American, 1985) "Sunlight Clouds" Acrylic, Oil, Pen & Ink.
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Sima Acan, 🇨🇦 MP Oakville West @simaacan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Team Canada, you made us all so proud. #TeamCanada #CANMNT #WorldCup #OakvilleWest
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Sounds like the Start of a book
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Didn't used to be that way.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Aside from #books, one of the wonders of life are these gorgeous animals. Arabian stable in #Israel moshav. They're non-political by the way. #horses #writingcommunity #writerslife
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The trauma of rejection , the lengths one will go to escape it...all beautifully written up in Edouard Louis #book Change. A world few of us really know. #WritingCommunity #writing #books #writerslife
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Uuuuuuughhhh. No escape
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Careful..there's sharks out there
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Yes...it is terrible what Hamas did on Oct 7. And that they want to wipe out all Jews.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Who the hell is LotR? I bought this stock at $12... sold at 18. Now it's what....140 plus? Definitely a bad guy stock.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
But you have quiet. Who could ask for more.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Without a doubt.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
You never know how awful things can be until it happens. What a horror
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Go go go!!!
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Isn't the point that we don't forget?
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Encouraging to see this got retreated 1.6m times.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Bit desperate ain't it?
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Like???
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It'll be tricky not to be too smaltzy...but if you can pull it off, plenty of people feel the same.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
John Rogers Cox (American, 1915-1990) Gray and Gold, 1942 Oil on canvas 91.5 x 151.8 cm (36 x 59 3/4 in.) Cleveland Museum of Art #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Don't know about you, but I find a lot of what I add in my editing I delete the next time. Be careful. :)
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The insider traders who made a bundle are particularly radiant.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
In #WhatWeCanKnow, the futuristic book by @IanMcEwan he writes of "a crisis in realism in fiction between 2015 + 2030..when...new forms were needed to frame the physical + moral consequences of a global catastrophe". I think he's on to something. #Fantasy #writingcommunity #books
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a pixel art of a cat with the words " don t worry about it "
ALT: a pixel art of a cat with the words " don t worry about it "
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Looking forward to going through it.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Keep on chugging...
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Heading that way asap. Love it.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Appreciate the honest and clear list. Though I hope a new popular trend starts soon .. I don't understand how literary fiction can be specifically excluded from any agents list. ?? There are always readers... and it endures. #writingcommunity
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I'm with you on that. Not posting when I get mad is the hardest part.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Go girl! So glad to hear it.
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Weeping with me, the Hanging branches dripping rain, Delicate return. #SenseWrds #Prompt197 #haiku #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sensewords.bsky.social
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Getting inside the head of a serial killer is never easy, but #DanyaKukafka did it well here. Got a bit lost with all the characters, but I'm bad that way. Good read. #writingcommunity #writers #writing #books #crimebooks #WritingLife
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#PhilipRoth, writing of a 90 yr old friend: 'He has entered vigorously into competition with life; now, becalmed, he enters into competition with death, drawn down into austerity, the final business.' Nobody writes like Roth. RIP #WritingCommunity #writing #writers #books
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Wish I were there.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Israeli fighter jets flying overhead down here in the Negev desert at 6.30am today. #Israel #Iran #attackonIran #nowarplease
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is true. Long as you don't get hand cramp
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Man unravels a small mystery from his past regarding a friend who committed suicide.
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Writing that doesn't sound like writing. #JulianBarnes has the talent in spades. Loved joining him on this journey in #TheSenseofanEnding. #writingcommunity #writing #writerslife #books #amwriting
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SSkeel.Writer @sskeel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Maybe it has no volume,????
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