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Historical Pics @historicalpics.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

A Lady Charging Her Electric Car, 1912

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Writers of Fantasy and Science Fiction: Are you looking to improve your craft and critiquing in 2024? Do you live near Glasgow? Then why not consider a trial session at the GSFWC? With nearly 40 years of award-winning alumni behind us, our friendly folks would love to have you join! 'Mon in!

The GSFWC Christmas dinner at Ichiban in Glasgow! A range of mostly white folks sat at a table, ranging genders and aged from 20s to 70s.

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Der Kleine Häwelmann (the little Havelman) is a German bedtime story written by Theodor Fontane in 1848. It’s about a boy who uses his night shirt as a sail and his crib as a cart to travel to strange places. That crying moon used to freak me out 😆 #childrensbooks #bizarre #illustration

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

It’s the last day of the year, and like today #2023 has been so light and so dark, so bright and so exhausting, so blessed… happy #2024 everyone 🥳🥳🥳 #newyear

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Honestly, spotting your book in a shop NEVER GETS OLD.

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Revisiting an old manuscript and the characters feel like old friends… does anyone else sometimes reread their own writing just to be with those people again? #writing #author #creativewriting

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Breastfeeding supposedly saves you £15 a week because you don’t spend money on formula…. What’s not been considered there though is how much you spend on chocolate and cake instead 🍰 🧁 🍫 👶

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

I think I’m the last person to notice this, but the #butterfly has arrived 😊

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 14/12/2023

I’m breastfeeding so I have two modes: “sure, I could eat” and “IF I DON’T EAT RIGHT NOW I’M GOING TO DIE”

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

It just wouldn’t be #Christmas without that one parcel that can only be opened with an angle grinder 😆😆😆

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

😆😆😆 Alot of the camp guards would’ve probably been listening to the BBC on the sly to find out what was really going on…

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Perfume adverts are super weird 🤨

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Getting strong Dark Souls chaos eater vibes 😍😍😍

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Chaotic good, lawful evil

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

And half of it is worth deleting 😆 But it’s gotta be written first!

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Not just me then. I signed up when I joined Bluesky but never see anything on it

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Because nothing brings in the festive feeling like an image of Rudolph bleeding out in the snow 😱😱😆 Canadian Christmas card, 1888 #xmas #christmas

An old Christmas card showing three hunters around the carcass of a deer

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Definitely did that a lot when I had a main character who was a journalist… she kept going on about how she’d never write novels, because it’s easy when you make it up 😝

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

I’ve always liked the German equivalent: Nur die Harten komm’ in den Garten. Translates as: only those who tough it out end up in the garden (I.e. paradise)

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

I thought for about a decade that the term “crestfallen” was “cress fallen”… Like, when you forget to water your watercress and it droops 😄

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Oh, you have to get CJ Tudor’s The Drift… I shall say no more 😉

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

That’s my dream, right there ☝️

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

… well, I just saw your profile and you probably knew that 😄

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

A name brings a character to life. Good luck! PS: there are some fabulous name generators on the interwebs, if you’re stuck

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

I just love it when you dig out a manuscript you haven’t touched in 5 years and two things are true: 1) it’s actually not bad 😃 2) it’s suddenly right on reading trend 🤩 watch this space, folks! #amwriting #crimefiction #writing #author

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

So, you’re seriously telling me the average Spaniard does 7 💩 a day? Something tells me those stats are off 😅

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Swiss made Brazilian snacks in Germany… love it! Also, Goldbaellchen is such a cute name ☺️

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

They’re just the best moments 😍😍😍

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

I think that’s what makes you a true writer. When it’s a compulsion. It’s a career that chooses you, not the other way round. Mind you, I’m also the biggest procrastinator and sometimes have to force words out with promises of biscuits. I don’t know how that fits together 💁‍♀️

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

My friend runs a bookshop. I quote: “nominated for a Booker? Don’t bother stocking that. Will only gather dust.”

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

I feel so seen, especially when I’m on deadline and cleaning the gap under the skirting board with a knitting needle… Which is something only writers do 😆

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

It’s what keeps me sane 😆😆😆 honestly, I’m doing nothing, just gathering ideas and plotting in my head… anything to get 5 min respite from baby care! PS: I do really love my baby. Just in case I sound too negative 😏

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

I’m more confused by the fact that he seems to be holding himself as a baby. Or was there another baby with a halo I’m not aware of?

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

And now try being an author with a 4 month old baby! Baby’s finally settled after the 3am feed, you’re drifting off to sleep and BAM!!! New idea!! You think it through, write it down, close your eyes, and realise you have about 45min until baby wakes up again… 😆😆😆

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

“Is there no gold in these mountains?” He gives her a look, then, that sets her on edge.  “No gold,” he says finally. “Nothing at all.”  #ThisWildWildCountry - paperback is a perfect Christmas gift 🌲 🎁 🎅   www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1838...  #crimefiction #books #amreading

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Sadly, she wasn’t into it… knowing that, the image takes on quite a deeper level of meaning when it comes to what victory is and how it is celebrated.

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Welcome to the blue skies! I’m a newbie here myself 🙋‍♀️

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

My third manuscript has received its first rejection… I am floored! After two novels out, I forgot that terrible feeling 😳 Then I remind myself that I had 64 rejections before I first got #published. You have to soldier on! My heart goes out to all the #authors out there querying. Keep at it!

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

There’ll be a big difference between best-selling, best reviewed and best loved… only the first two make the lists, I suppose. I think they’re mostly best-selling, a cheap marketing boost to books already doing well.

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Yes, that would make sense. Scottish Gaelic has a lot of words that are similar to saxon as well, so it’s been shaped by different waves of immigration. I’m from north Germany, which was also at some point settled by Celtic people, yet ‘we’ don’t think of ourselves as celts. It’s all quite complex 😆

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Inga Vesper @wekesperos.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Interesting. I’ve had some rather spirited (i.e. whisky-fuelled) debates in my Gaelic choir about whether the ancient speakers of Scots and Irish Gaelic and Welsh would have felt any kind of Celtic solidarity the way today’s speakers do, given they were different kingdoms.

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