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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 11h

Me finally doing the thing I've been dreading and putting off for months:

✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s what the kit cones with: at first glance, it looks like it should be enough to make everything. The colors are brighter than I expected from the package. I am pleased to see that it comes with a metal #crochet hook (3mm) and a metal tapestry needle.

Several balls of yarn in Halloween colors, a pattern book, a metal crochet hook and tapestry needle, and a bag of stuffing.

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 12h

I picked up this little #crochet kit from Aldi and I thought it would make a cute Halloween advent (ish) project! I plan to do a little part of it each week, to finish it by #Halloween! 🎃 👻

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Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy October 1st, suckers! 🧄⚰️🦇

Collage with books, robe, turntable, coffin, candles, blood bags, and wine glass.

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

having a moment trying to accept that there are all sorts of awesome hobbies out there and i do NOT have the time to get way to deep into all of them

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love when the weather outside matches the scene I'm writing. Rain dripping over ancient, mossy stones in my book, and heavy gray clouds outside my window. Today's #writing soundtrack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHXh... #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #music #noai

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[NO AI]Path of the Ancients |Hand-Painted Fantasy Ambience & Hauntingly Beautiful Instrumental Music

YouTube video by Moonlight FanTaisia

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The first of the leaves have started to turn, the pumpkin spice is in the air, and I am ready for the cool weather to finally show up, please and thank you #itsfallyall

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Time for another cup of coffee, then back to shooting dirty looks at the heat index #amwriting

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every time I read Poe I realize that I really should read Poe more often

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I need to make a map for my current WIP. I'm planning to use the dice method, but do you have any other methods you like? This one needs plenty of oceans. #worldbuilding #writingcommunity #writesky

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Writing more than usual with my fountain pens today because I want to finish up these summer ink colors and transition to the fall palette. A shallow motivation, but if it works it works. #amwriting #writesky

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The woods are dark, but something darker lurks within the ruined temple. If there were another choice, they never would have come here. #wipsnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #dark #writesky #fantasy

When the darkness grew so thick that we could go no further lest one of us break an ankle on some errant stick, at last the tress parted and we stepped into a moonlit clearing. At the center stood the crumbling ruins of the temple. Even now, partially collapsed, it stood three times as tall as any building in Ashworth. By rights, the forest should have crowded in as closely around the temple as it did in any other part of those woods, but here the trees stood back. I think, now, that perhaps they knew: the distance was their deference. Even when humanity had forgotten the Ancient Ones, nature could not.
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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I love being able to trace the moment I fell irrevocably in love with a character, and I just hit it on my Star Trek Voyager rewatch: "There's coffee in that nebula." #ohcaptainmycaptain Quote post this with your moment! When did that character become your blorbo?

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You will never guess which crochet project has spent the entire summer languishing. (And it’s staying in timeout until the weather cools down!)

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m still putting together this list! It’s a mix of knitting and crochet patterns. I’ll include ravelry links.

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stehvee @stehvee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Would you rather have 100 fountain pen sized guys or one guy sized fountain pen?

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

*knitting a stuffed witch* ah yes, my witch craft

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/08/2026

Reminder: 1. You don't need to have an opinion on everything, especially stuff you don't know enough about 2. You don't need to have a PUBLIC opinion on everything 3. It's okay to focus on one or two things and let others take up the slack elsewhere 4. It's okay to take a break when overwhelmed.

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John Jupin @vols71.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

💙📚 Friday Fraud Focus.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/08/2026

Yup. This is where I note to people that the "books vs audiobooks" debate is a nonissue for the vast majority of authors, we're delighted you come to our work whatever the format. Also audiobooks opened up a whole new revenue stream for us, which we also, you know, tend to like.

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As excited as I am to see #Halloween stuff in stores, a lot of this is too “cute pumpkins” and not enough “memento mori” #moreskullspls

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

The real enemy isn’t your buddy who is using AI to make a book cover; the enemy is the Powers-That-Be who thrive on dividing everyone, especially in the United States. Look at how divided everyone in the US got over politics over the past ten years, and it’s now trickled to other countries. No more, are you a fellow human? Nope, it’s who did you vote for? Well, then you must be a hateful asshole. Instant block.

But who’s the asshole?

Every week, the gatekeepers of horror writers have some new witch hunt. Sometimes it’s a good thing to suss out shitty publishers, editors, and agents. Yet, not ALL shitty ones are sussed out because, you know, there are consequences to getting all the shitty people shut down. Some people still like the opportunities to get published or represented even if it means going with the most despicable people because the gatekeepers didn’t get them shut down, or sometimes, don’t even notice. It all depends on who is buttering the toast.

The past few weeks have been so tedious with all the gatekeepers out in full force. They are whipping people up into a frenzy, and more division is happening when it comes to AI. Of course, the irony is that the gatekeepers are denouncing AI, yet they are doing it on Facebook, which uses AI. They are likely typing their pretentious screeds on their phones, which also use AI. They likely sell their books on Amazon, which also uses AI.

AI is here. It’s been coming since I was typing on a manual typewriter. You can let the robots win by becoming less human by cutting out all your friends, fans, family, and readers because they dared to try out AI, or you can be a human being and let people explore and figure things out for themselves.

Hollywood is already embracing AI.

Many companies use AI.

AI can be useful for tedious tasks such as creating listings on eBay or Poshmark. Do you shop or sell on those platforms? They totally use AI now, so you’d better boycott them too.

I went to the AI panel at Stokercon, and of course, most of the panelists were vehemently anti-AI. An audience member stood up and pointed out that they learned about the panel because they saw it on Sched, which is the app that the HWA/Stokercon uses, and THAT is AI. Doesn’t HWA have an anti-AI stance? Oh, but of course, THAT is okay; it’s all the other AI stuff that isn’t.

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Marielza @marielza.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"...prompting your way to art or to writing is not the same as having a new tool that allows you to make art or tell a story. AI, here, is not a tool — It’s not allowing you to do the work. You’re allowing it to do the work. Which is to say, you’re the tool." 🔥

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I had a lot of success with my summer #WIPdown of #knitting and #crochet projects (we won't discuss my sewing WIPs) and I've been browsing new patterns on overdrive like "Ravelry Queue? I don't know her."

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I feel like the modern whimsigoth and y2k styles are seriously underestimating the appropriate amount of dragonflies in their inspiration eras. Seriously, there were dragonflies everywhere.

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ate a popsackle today and thought about this tweet

A screenshot of a tweet from birdsrightsactivist @probirdsrights which reads: “I been working on my summer bod: it the same as my regular body, but this time more popsackles in it.” End ID.

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

So far, I'm at 3/4 of these (no thunderstorms yet!), but I have a delightful addition to the list: reading a book to my kiddo in a pillow fort

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Imagine cancelling your cake-tasting event because you thought fans of cakes would show up. This post is about Stargate.

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

✨The Shortlist 2026!✨ DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, Matt Dinniman THE DREAM HOTEL, Laila Lalami LUMINOUS, Silva Park THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION, qntm WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN, E.J. Swift THE SALT ORACLE, Lorraine Wilson This year’s winner will be announced on Weds 12 August.

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The best thing about querying is that I get to work on a new WIP while I send my prior book around #amwriting #writesky #amquerying

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The problem with big crochet projects like blankets is that if I don't manage to finish the project before summer starts, it will have to wait until fall because I Cannot sit buried in a wool blanket in the heat

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

There's nothing like the excitement of signing up for the summer reading program at the library. Mine has one for the adults, too!

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Very annoying that the best way to improve anything is consistency. Just day after day effort. So boring and unsexy and yet so effective.

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Really excited for unstoppable summer fun such as: sitting outside reading a book, sitting by a pool reading a book, sitting inside during a thunderstorm reading a book, sitting under a tree reading a book

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

*surfaces for a gasp of air before diving back into editing* #amediting #sendcoffee

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✨ Grace is Querying ✨ @writingwithgrace.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

#wipsnips #writingcommunity #sff UNDER COMPLIANCE Maki must continue moving forward. "The streets grew quieter as the night crept into the silent hours before the first blush of morning. I dropped a pin at the service entrance to HQ and followed the breadcrumbs on my interface in a sort of haze."

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Being part of the fiction jury for the Pulitzer Prize means you read A LOT of books. Inevitably, there’s more excellent work than you can count. Since the prize has been announced, I’m recommending five other books that I read and loved during the process. Read ‘em all!

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

murderbot day

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Wowzerz 🦔 @wowzerz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Today is the only day you can read Dracula

Page 1 of Dracula by Bram Stoker. The joke is that the book starts on May 3rd.

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