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Shay Galloway

@thegallowcat.bsky.social
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*Artisanal Author* - My writing is not funny, but I am. THE VALLEY OF SAGE AND JUNIPER Professor of words. #MomsWritersClub shaygalloway.com linktr.ee/shaygallowayauthor

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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My husband researching cars: it does 0-60 in 3.2 seconds and carries 350 horses and 5 torques and the truck is 3.7 cubits and the windshield can take 4gs. Me: Car fit family? Car fit budget? Car goes? Car goes good? Car goes good long time?
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#MomsWritersClun Q5: What's one of your own favorite recently spun lines? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#MomsWritersClub Q4: (8/12) We all have fantasies about our writing. What's yours? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#MomsWritersClub Q3: on the flip side of the previous question, what is the biggest struggle of being a writer? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#MomsWritereClub Q2v (8/12) As we head into a new school year and need new people, it will inevitably come up that you're a writer. What would you say is the best part about being a writer? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#MomsWritersClub Q1: 8/12 As we come to the close of the summer, our schedules are likely to shift again. What is your regular writing routine and how will it shift? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Welcome to #MomsWritersClub night, parent writers of BlueSky! First tell us a bit about yourself! Remember our chat goes on 24 hours to accomodate for schedules and time zones! #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Tracy Grant @tracygrant.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Welcome to #MomsWritersClub night, parent writers of BlueSky! Tonight we're talking about main characters. First tell us a bit about yourself! Chat goes on 24 hours to accommodate for schedules and time zones! #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
See you here in 2 weeks, #MomsWritersClub!
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Q5: what's a creative thing you've done for yourself other than writing recently? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Q4: Do you have any overarching writing goals for the season? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Q3: Summer often is a time of increased travel for many families. Are you good at keeping up with your writing routines when you travel or do you vacay from writing as well? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Q2: keeping in theme with summer. Does the season's weather make you more or less- inclined to write? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're now fully mid-summer, and often in writing projects, we tend to slump in the middle. How do you stay motivated at that point? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Welcome to #MomsWritersClub night, parent writers of BlueSky! First tell us a bit about yourself! Remember our chat goes on 24 hours to accomodate for schedules and time zones! #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Tracy Grant @tracygrant.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Welcome to #momswritersclub ! Pour a drink, settle in, and share where you're joining from and what you're working on!
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
See you here in 2 weeks, #momswritersclub!
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#momswritersclub 6.10 Q5: Do you have any writing goals for the summer? If not, go ahead and set one now! #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#MomsWritersClub 6.10 Q4: One of the best ways to stay accountable as a writer during the flux season of parenting is being involved in writing communities. What communities are you part of?
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#MomsWritersClub 6.10 Q3: For a lot of parents, summer means kids home more than usual, more interruptions. How about you, do you find summer more or less productive for your writing? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#Momswritersclub 6.10 Q2: Sometimes life requires us to take a step back from our standard writing habits. Do you ever take a break? What do you do during those breaks?
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#MomsWritersClub 6.10 Q1: Do you have to work in one place or can you write anywhere?
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Welcome to #MomsWritersClub night, parent writers of BlueSky! First tell us a bit about yourself! Remember our chat goes on 24 hours to accomodate for schedules and time zones! #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Tracy Grant @tracygrant.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Welcome to #momswritersclub! Introduce yourself and share where you're joining from and what your working on! Chat goes 24 hours and more to accommodate all timezones. Tonight we're talking about inspiration with a special shout out to musical inspiration.
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
see you here in 2 weeks #momswritersclub !
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub 4.29 Q5: What's a "behind the scenes" you'd like to share with readers?
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub 4.29 Q4: Have you ever changed part of your project because you learned something new about a topic you were representing? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub 4.29 Q3: What is something you had planned to put in your project (research, name, character,scene, etc) that you ended up not using? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub 4.29 Q2: What was one thing you most hated to see go from a project? Why did you feel it needed to go in the end? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub 4.26 Q1: Some stuff just doesn't make the cut after editing. What do you do with all that material you remove? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Welcome to the 4.29.26 edition #MomsWritersClub night, parent writers of BlueSky! First tell us a bit about yourself! Remember our chat goes on 24 hours to accomodate for schedules and time zones! #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Tracy Grant @tracygrant.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Welcome to #momswritersclub! Introduce yourself and share where you're joining from and what you're working on. Chat goes 24 hours and more to accommodate all time zones. #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub Q5: (This says 6, but it seems I've lost the original Q5!) What three colors would you associate with your WIP? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub Q4: Have you ever taken something from the journey of one project and used it to spark another? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub Q3: It's pretty notorious that in books and films regular bodily functions get ignored. Do you have any scenes of your characters eating? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub Q2: How do you know when you're done with a project, whatever "done" means?
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#MomsWritersClub Q1: When you're drafting do you write chronologically or as the scenes come to mind? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Welcome to #MomsWritersClub night, parent writers of BlueSky! First tell us a bit about yourself! Remember our chat goes on 24 hours to accomodate for schedules and time zones! #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite
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Tracy Grant @tracygrant.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Welcome to #momswritersclub! Chat goes 24 hours and more to accommodate all time zones. Introduce yourself and share where you're joining from and what you're working on. #parentwriters #writingcommunity
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Q5: if you could write one woman's story, living or dead, who would it be?
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Q4: speaking of the literary canon, what female characters from other books have stuck with you the most and why? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Q: The literary canon is full of (sometimes misrepresented) tropes when it comes to how women interact with each other. What things do you try to stay away from in those interactions, what do you try to highlight?
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In honor of Women's History Month, we're talking about female relationships and characters! Q1: How integral are your MCs female friendships in their journey? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Welcome to #MomsWritersClub night, parent writers of BlueSky! First tell us a bit about yourself! Remember our chat goes on 24 hours to accommodate for schedules and time zones! #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
See you here in two weeks #momswritersclub! @tracygrant.bsky.social will be hosting on February 18th
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
2/4 Q5: the world in which characters live operates on its own set of values. Do your characters uphold or resist those values? Maybe it's only their own values? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
2/4 Q4: Exposition can come from different angles. Do you gravitate toward a certain presentation of exposition? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
2/4 Q3: Sometimes the genres we write in come with some established world building, which allows us to focus on the characters intimate world. Some require a lot more external exposition. Which are you now? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
2/4 Question 2: What do you struggle with in world building? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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Shay Galloway @thegallowcat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Tonight we're talking #worldbuilding! First, how much does world building play a part in your genre? #amwriting #momwriters #parentwriters #writingcommunity #momswhowrite #MomsWritersClub
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