Okay, I guess it's been a productive evening! Over an hour of writing done. Only 380 words, but they're setting things up. (And I had to do some research to make sure of just what that garment is that Jessie's wearing to keep her legs warm. I really do not want to ever be featured on r/menwritingwomen.)

And hey, that's on top of the tool-building earlier. I should give myself a pat on the back.

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🎉 Just Released! Master the Magic of 369 — Your Manifestation Journey Begins Now!

https://medium.com/readers-club/just-released-master-the-magic-of-369-your-manifestation-journey-begins-now-a2222161cab1

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Ain't lost on me that the name "Hogwood" could just as easily be translated into "Pig pecker" were one do inclined. It suits that slimy bigot bastard just fine. :3

Gregaro McKool reflects on writing a novel he didn’t expect to write and finding his voice in the process.

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https://countyfencemagazine.com/that-naked-dream-or-men-writing-women/

#PennedPossibilities 730 — 2nd Anniversary Edition: Share a blurb, summary, or tiny snippet explaining your WIP to everyone in the hashtag.

Congratulations, @floofpaldi Two years of prompts is pretty dang amazing! Since you were asking for a tiny snippet explaining my WIP, I actually got pulled to a steamy single paragraph that oddly puts the book into perspective (or so its author would claim). I decided that without permission, I'd not post that to the hashtag. 🫣

This instead here's a blurb providing the gist (maybe) of a novelette I'm trying to get started, which is taking up my head space at the moment.

Bolt was framed for murder and forced to fly messages for the mob; she wonders often if going to prison might have been the better choice. She's blacked out her memories of bad things for a dozen years. She lives for the rare moments she grabs for her street photography—the capturing of the faces and the camaraderie of a normalcy her stupidity denied her. When a newspaper reporter breaks his camera and Bolt is hovering at the scene of a weird disaster, with a perspective to see more than she should, her quirky photos end up on the front page and seem a ticket away from a life of apathy toward friendship. When her mob boss wants her to shadow the unusual teenage woman she photographed walking out of the erratic star gate, she learns the secret of her blackouts. Boss Mead knows the teenager, whom Bolt soon realizes has whole different take on apathy, one that endangers her reporter friend, her horrible job, and likely the city itself.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

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Why darkness can only tear like this,
deep down into the abyss

Now the steps are heavy as stones
Hard to carry, so sore

Plagues and thoughts
now become pain, make themselves known

Does not let the brain hope
Soul does not run smoothly

Thoughts should be wiped away
Solutions that are then human and colorful

si_irini

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