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Write4Eddie

@write4eddie.bsky.social
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Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors. NYC! 🏙️ Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton

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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Finished The Lost Metal, closing out phase two of #Mistborn. Wayne belongs among the pantheon of rich and captivating literary characters. I don’t know who’s waiting in phase three, but they’ll have to coinshot their way out from under a big shadow. #Sanderson #Booktok
Book cover of The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Barron Trump is increasingly reminding me of Paul Dano’s character in Little Miss Sunshine.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The poet Ruth, her rich, tyrannical husband growing too old and tired to control her, celebrates vicarious freedom through her two young daughters.
A description of a character’s two daughters and the idyllic life she can share with them
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It is 4,000 years ago in the Indus river valley, and a dying leader, shot through with arrows, gives advice to his successor. #WIPSnaps #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
A scene from my novel
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It’s 1780, and Eunice, son of a New York loyalist, learns of the prison ships on the East River. More US colonists would die in these ships than in battle. #WIPSnaps #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
During the Fenian raids, America’s Irish immigrants were #ready after the civil war to invade Canada and hold it hostage in exchange for a free Ireland, as is depicted in this scene from my novel. #AmQuerying #WIPSnaps #WriteSky
scene from novel depicting Fenian raids
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#NaturePhotography is trending today. I live in Queens. Here’s a goddamn pigeon. #birds
A majestic pigeon in flight.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
During the Irish hunger of the 1840s, families often migrated through chain migration, sending one family member at a time, like in this scene of my novel. #AmQuerying #WIPSnips #WriteSky
Scene from novel where father tells family he’s leaving them for America, and will send money when he gets there
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
What force pulls us together? Something constant… Multiplying itself By my mass… And your mass… And we look down and see How the great distance between us is… Squared… And that is Newton’s formula… For #gravity #vss365 #WriteSky #poetry
Formula for gravity. Force equals gravitational constant times mass one times mass two over distance between them squared
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The year is 1611. Our character has lived many lifespans, inhabiting the minds of different ancestors. Whole watching a performance of The Tempest by #Shakespeare, they get a sense of what the fuss is all about. #WIPSnaps #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Osgard, a timid fisherman of the 4th century Angles, is thrust into a leadership role when the chief hears of his plan for a raid on the Jutes. #WIPSnaps #AmQuerying #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Excerpt from novel Past is Prologue
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
In the Trump era, “Gunman killed while firing shots at White House” doesn’t make the top five hot topics. We are burned out. The news has been too crazy for too long.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Sylvia volunteers to try out an experimental MRI machine to get out of small talk with her colleague’s girlfriend. She doesn’t know about the harrowing journey she is about to experience. #thought #WIPSnaps #AmQuerying
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The character Samuel (formerly a C-135 pilot who dropped Agent Orange in Vietnam) meets his girlfriend’s parents, including her hawkish, elderly, and rich father. #disappoint #WIPSnaps #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity
excerpt from novel
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The year is 1845. A group of children play games built around Irish legends. They don’t know the hunger that is coming. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying
Excerpt from novel describing children playing a game about Irish legend Finn McCool
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The word #feral came back to me a second, when I wrote a villanelle based on a freewriting exercise earlier today. Here’s my article about the #poem and the process of writing it. #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #MediumWriters #poetry medium.com/illumination...
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It is fifth century Ireland. The new Christian religion is now encroaching on the faith that Meadhbh’s parents still hold dear, and she has grown up with them in the seclusion of the #forest. In this scene, she discusses her future with her mother. #WIPSnaps #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The character Sylvia thinks back to the time in high school, when her father found out she was gay. #WIPSnaps #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmQuerying
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
During the Irish Hunger, family members often emigrated to the US one at a time. In this scene, a young man is learning what happened to the sisters he left back home. #WIPSnaps #WritingCommunity
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Recently finished Ishiguro’s eerie and tragic Klara and the Sun, after hearing that Taika Waititi was planning a movie version. It’s my third Ishiguro novel, and I’m impressed with how effortlessly he builds intricate, deeply human characters. Taika will do wonders with this. #BookSky
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Two Civil War soldiers—one an immigrant from Ireland and the other from Germany—debate the absurdity of war. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Writing #Querying
excerpt from novel
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
For my #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt of the day, a depiction of the Irish Hunger. It was much worse than your history teacher made it seem. #writing #Ireland #WriteSky
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
One of the great #MothersDay #poems comes from Langston Hughes, star of the Harlem Renaissance. The things mothers do to give their children a step up. #literature #poetry #writing
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
In this scene, not long after the death of St. Patrick, a once renowned druid and his family living in self-imposed exile mourn the dying world they knew. #WIPSnips #Ireland #writing #WritingCommunity #writesky #fiction #querying
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Eamon, having survived the Irish hunger, the journey to America, and the NYC draft riots, was conscripted into the Union Army. Hours after killing a rebel soldier, he is debating with his friend the value of fighting and killing in another nation’s war for freedom.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In this scene from my novel, a stoic philosopher slave bought by a Roman senator as a tutor is helping the senator’s son nurse a bird to health. (Parallels between Caligula’s reign and Trump’s are not accidental. Or subtle.) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Querying
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I have been keeping a tally of the #books I’ve read since January 2025 and displaying it in my classroom to show I put my money where my mouth is. What’s on your list? #booksky
Posters with handwritten list of books and authors
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
#WIPSnips post from my manuscript. In this scene, we have the perspective of the Emperor Charlemagne as he reflects on his legacy after the death of his son Pepin. He is speaking with his biographer, Einhard.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
In this scene from my #WIP a character, a former artist and #poet, is in the early stages of dementia.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#TuckerCarlson be like… (The answer is yes)
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
He’s my second pick, to be honest, but happy to show up for @bradlander.bsky.social because New York stands together and doesn’t fuck around. Leave Cuomo off that ballot.
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
If you don’t mention him by name, #ChatGPT complies. #shame.
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