So, Clarice. Have the lambs stopped screaming?
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Feel free to have a little fun this #Sunday and caption this yourself.
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#Funny #floater #mastodon

Off to play #BoardGames with my group, today! What should I take? A worker placement game, or some nice point salads? Hmmm. Decisions, decisions.

#TabletopGames #gaming #games #BrettSpiel

#ScribesAndMakers
We have some new people in the community. Re/Introduce yourself and tell us about your creative work

I'm just really excited to be here.
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I did acting for many years, directing, writing plays and short stories. The pandemic killed my life in London, and I moved in with my parents in rural Tasmania. Quite the shift.
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Now I design #BoardGames and write #books.
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Two novels: Cruel Provocations (F) & Somebody Keeps Callin'(S). Desolation (SF) is my series of novellas.

#WritersCoffeeClub for 3rd July 2026

What's the sign of a good critique?

A good critique will give the reader an Idea of whether might or might not enjoy the book. Regardless of the reviewers opinions on the book. Do you like this kind of story? This is for you. It has this style of writing, so if you don't enjoy that, don't read it. But if you do, go buy it. etc.

What about punctuation? Do you just go with commas and full-stops? Maybe stretch to the occasional emdash? Have you ever used a semi-colon or something a little more exotic?

#Writing #punctuation #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Managed to get to a boxing class at the local gym yesterday. I am so unfit. I used to do three hour martial arts sessions, now I can barely manage punching things for an hour. I gotta work on that. Fortunately, the rural Tasmanian town of Deloraine has a local gym.

#fitness #WritersLife #tasmania

Wow. A whole procedure with Windows creating massive files on my SSH, slowing down and killing apps. Got it fixed. I mean, I'm old and a bit out of the loop, but I know how to bring up the old cmd prompt...

Scale. Do you use scale in your writing? Something we're used to thinking of as a certain size, make it way bigger, or much smaller. Extend this to social concepts and mannerisms. It's very important to tip your hat to someone. What do you mean you don't have a hat?
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Always fun.

#WWI #biplane #airplane #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity