Laura McHale Holland

@lauramh
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I write stories long and short, true and untrue that tend to bend reality. I love to cheer on inspiring people and projects I come across. For details on my books and blog, please visit https://lauramchaleholland.com.
the work item I stressed over and put off for months took 11 minutes.
This was taken about 30 minutes before sunrise today on Glastonbury Tor. I don't know whether it was the mist but the colours in every direction were so vivid. Like a lilac cloud around the Tor.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #lilacsky #sunrise #sunrisephotography #mist #mistysunrise

Sometimes I encounter writers talking about their early work as cringe or something to ba ashamed of, while laughing about it

And after this many Accelerated Resolution Therapy sessions where I have encountered a profoundly hurt young version of myself in the wreckage of a past trauma, please please please love what younger you wrote. It’s the seed you grew from. Expecting it to be professional caliber work *hurts* you.

Be gentle to the prologue of your artistic life, friends. It’s your magic.

I've been having fun creating images at NightCafe. Here's one I generated with my novel in progress in mind. It's set on the fictional Shinbone Lane in San Francisco.
As part of a St. Patrick's Day giveaway, I've joined with a slew of authors from diverse genres to offer folks who love to discover new writers a chance to win a virtual gift basked of ebooks, a Kindle reader or a paperback book. Here's a link if this happens to interest you: https://authorsxp.com/giveaway
Giveaway

Weekly Book Giveaway - win a virtual gift basket of books! New genres every week, book giveaways, kindle reader giveaways and more!

AuthorsXP - The Authors Experience

NEW: DISINFORMATION FOR HIRE - a Four-part Series Examining the Driving Forces Behind Global and Local #Disinformation Campaigns, including a discussion of how those who spread #Fakenews can be hired, and how their work can be recognized and mitigated.

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#Misinformation #AI and #Mitigation efforts

In-Depth - Disinformation Week

Disinformation For Hire An Article Series Examining Driving Forces Behind Global and Local Disinformation Campaigns Part 1 – Shifting Political and Economic Winds Help Stoke Global Disinformation Growth Part 2 – How False Information...

Disinformation Week
One of my friends has been writing a poem a day for about a year and is still going strong. I once wrote a flash fiction story each week for a year and thought that was a good challenge. I'm wondering, could I pen a quick story each day while also revising a novel and holding down a full-time job and training a puppy? Is that possible? #writing #fiction #amwriting #impossiblegoals
Anybody else failing at technology that seems to be simple for everybody else? I joined last week using the indieauthors instance, tried to switch that to mastodon.social today and wound up creating this new profile without succeeding in transferring the other one. Now, I can't log into the other, so I'll probably just leave it hanging. I am an indie author, but I have wide interests and think the more general handle is better for me.