RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossiblities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossiblities</span></a> 633 — How did you choose the title for your story, and what significance does it hold for you?</p><p><em>Mars Needs Women</em> was a 1968 schlock female-exploitation film. The title has had staying power (pun intended) even if the film didn't. My feminist SF short novel (now in revision) is about a woman from an endpoint technological religio-fascist society (2024 thru the 2100s) that takes biblical patriarchy seriously and leaves women few options but to be exploited. I wanted to show how women might run a society differently if they could get their chance. </p><p>The title came to me quickly, with the verb set instead to the past tense: <em>Mars Needed Women.</em> This is because women were contracted for colonization purposes, to have children. It's from a recruitment poster early in the story. When the colonization effort goes bankrupt and men die disproportionately compared to the imported women, the dynamics of power change. Over the 25 year span of the story, women and their predominately female native Martian children take over the jobs and then governing. When the women declare themselves an independent matriarchal nation, Earth's patriarchy slanders (ring a bell about modern time?) Mars' women so as to have an excuse to put down the "rebellion." </p><p>However, women don't fight like men. War isn't a game when you are keeping your children alive… This is why Mars needed women to survive. </p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSMarsNeededWomen</span></a></p>
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J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:<p>I think one thing that separates "writers" from "people who write" is that writers sometimes have a <em>need</em> to write, like an alcoholic needs a drink or a addict needs a fix.<br>A sentence or an idea will sneak up and grab hold of you and just violently drag you to the floor. It screams in your ear, blinds you, triggers your fight or flight response.<br>And you can fight it if you want to. You can resist. You can say "I have to cook dinner" or "I need to finish folding these clothes". You can put it to the side but like a toddler it keeps nagging and nagging.<br>You can probably strangle it, suppress it so long and so hard that it goes away.<br>But the shame.<br>The doubt.<br>Are they worth it?<br>No.<br>You <em>have</em> to write. You <strong><em>have</em></strong> to.<br>Without that, you are probably just someone who writes. Someone who writes can be very successful, perhaps <strong>more</strong> successful because they have their muse tamed.<br>But, damn, nothing beats the rush of <em>writing that shit down</em>. Just fingers flying across a keyboard or running the ink out of a pen or going through an entire pencil lead.<br>Rapture.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://autistics.life/@Ferrous" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Ferrous</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyautistic</span></a></span> <br>Yep. Everything here, and the double-empathy, too. I personally think it's my superpower, but shhhh! </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
masukomi<p><a href="https://connectified.com/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> &/or <a href="https://connectified.com/tags/Historians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Historians</span></a></p><p>I need your 🧠s to figure something out.</p><p>Given a modern US with 1800s style slavery, attitudes towards slaves, & also having free states & slave states‡.</p><p>Assume protagonist is running an underground railroad. How the eff do the slaves find out about it?<br>--<br>‡ anti-bigoted book, slaves also aren't black people.</p><p>🧵1/2<br><a href="https://connectified.com/tags/WritingComunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingComunity</span></a> <a href="https://connectified.com/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://connectified.com/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History April 2, 1840: Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist was born. He was also a liberal activist, playing a significant role in the political liberalization of France, and in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer falsely convicted and imprisoned on trumped up, antisemitic charges of espionage. He was also a significant influence on mid-20th century journalist-authors, like Thom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and Joan Didion. Wolfe said that his goal in writing fiction was to document contemporary society in the tradition of Steinbeck, Dickens, and Zola.</p><p>Zola wrote dozens of novels, but his most famous, Germinal, about a violently repressed coalminers’ strike, is one of the greatest books ever written about working class rebellion. It had a huge influence on future radicals, especially anarchists. Some anarchists named their children Germinal. Rudolf Rocker had a Yiddish-language anarchist journal in London called Germinal, in the 1910s. There were also anarchist papers called Germinal in Mexico and Brazil in the 1910s.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/zola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zola</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/germinal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>germinal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dreyfus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dreyfus</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>france</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Nick East (Indie Writer)<p>I'm choosing to define 'making stuff up' as 'research' 😁 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>writing</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/humour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humour</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingMemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writerdons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writerdons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writinglife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@petergleick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>petergleick</span></a></span> <strong>Word choice counts.</strong> Now isn't the time to cover your ass when you state the facts. Using words to soften, hedge, or weasel out of stating what is true or proven is <strong>journalistic malpractice.</strong></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a></p>
Noel J. Penaflor<p>US <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Review</span></a> </p><p>Though some logic issues abound (how DID they get all those scissors and make those outfits?), Us is more visually confident than Get Out and Luptia Nyong 'o gets the Toni Collette award for 2019 for Best Performance not nominated for an Oscar.</p><p>Full Review <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Link" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Link</span></a> Below-- This Us (2019) Review Is Just Like This Is Us But Less Whiny. </p><p><a href="http://hub.me/amEHg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">hub.me/amEHg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorFam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horrorFam</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/cinemastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cinemastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Film</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>films</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/filmmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filmmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horrorCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorMovie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horrorMovie</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorMovies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horrorMovies</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorFilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horrorFilm</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horrorFilms</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrormastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horrormastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>article</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>read</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funny</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/jordanpeele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jordanpeele</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p>My feminist SF web-novel <em>Mars Needed Women</em> is complete! 23,300 words in 31 chapters, one chapter posted each day throughout March, the last posted 23 minutes ago as I write this. Check out the cover art.</p><p>To read, either use the hashtag <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSMarsNeededWomen</span></a> or this link to the first chapter: <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/114088945266387178" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894</span><span class="invisible">5266387178</span></a> The full novel is in the thread. Just scroll to read.</p><blockquote><p>“A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”</p></blockquote><p>I'll leave it up for you to read for at least a week. After that, I'm revising it for later secondary publication.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writever</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceOpera</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> fiction <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
Inkican<p>Writing a book was meant to be a dream – but publishing it turned into a nightmare<br> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/unbound-publishers-administration-authors-books-adhd-kat-brown-b2717886.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/voices/unbou</span><span class="invisible">nd-publishers-administration-authors-books-adhd-kat-brown-b2717886.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writerscommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writerscommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativeprofessional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativeprofessional</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativebusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativebusiness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativebusinessowner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativebusinessowner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creative</span></a></p>
Der KamikaZEN :dustbunny:<p>How does one patch up a broken reality? (Waves hand at everything around) If I felt poetic, I could say something profound regarding Kintsugi, the Japanese art of restoring broken ceramics artistically using silver and gold. But the truth is, most of the time all we have around is scotch tape and hope.</p><p><a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/IdleThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IdleThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/Journaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journaling</span></a></p>
Inkican<p>Self-publishing is no longer the last resort for literary rejects</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/self-publishing-is-no-longer-the-last-resort-for-literary-rejects-dck2cj70l" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thetimes.com/culture/books/art</span><span class="invisible">icle/self-publishing-is-no-longer-the-last-resort-for-literary-rejects-dck2cj70l</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writerscommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writerscommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativeprofessional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativeprofessional</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativebusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativebusiness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativebusinessowner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativebusinessowner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creative</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 31, 1809: Nikolai Gogol, the Russian-Ukrainian novelist, was born. Gogol was one of the first authors to use surrealism and absurdism (see “The Nose,” “The Overcoat,” and “Nevsky Prospekt.”) Many of his works satirized Russian political corruption, like “Dead Souls,” and the “Government Inspector.” He influenced several generations of writers, including Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Nabakov, Kafka and Flannery O’Connor. The gypsy punk band, Gogol Bordello, took their name from him.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gogol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gogol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surrealism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kafka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kafka</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dostoevsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dostoevsky</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/courruptiohn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>courruptiohn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punk</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 31, 1883: Cowboys in the Texas panhandle began a 2-and-a-half-month strike for higher wages. Investment firms from the East Coast and Europe were taking over the land and cutting benefits that cowboys had accustomed to, like keeping some horses for themselves and holding some of the land for their own small farming. New ranch owners were more interested in expanding holdings and increasing profits, forcing their hands to work entirely for wages, and maintaining all livestock entirely for the profit of the owners.</p><p>Media from as far away as Colorado accused the cowboys of being incendiaries, threatening to burn down the ranches, attacking ranchers, and indiscriminately killing cattle.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cowboy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cowboy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wages</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Nearlyknowledgeable 👻<p>Today is the 5 year anniversary of NearlyKnowledgeable! I am grateful for all the support I've received on this journey! Being able to share Shropshire's story means so much to me. I'm feeling rather emotional thinking about how far I've come!</p><p><a href="https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-sin-eater.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blo</span><span class="invisible">gspot.com/2020/03/the-sin-eater.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shropshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shropshire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Folktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folktales</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fandom.ink/@Rozzychan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Rozzychan</span></a></span> <br>Legal isn't the issue. "Is it constitutional?" is the question. Trump is making laws. That's a legislative function, Congress' prerogative. Trump is supposed to enforce only those laws, but if he refuses to do so, what's left? </p><p>The federal justice system is constitutionally under the executive branch and uses his delegated power, but he IS NOT faithfully upholding the laws. The justice system is made of tens of thousands of people who invidually want to keep their jobs. They have a constitutional right to refuse, and be fired. </p><p>They won't do that, because they are just people. </p><p>This happened in Germany in the 1930s. </p><p>That's the dimension of what's happening. Nothing can be more un-American than this.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>constitution</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><strong><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TTMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTMD</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sfwrtr</span></a></span></strong></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@ianscraper" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ianscraper</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>Many authors incorporate their own experiences and autobiographical elements into their stories. How is it with you? Which of your works contains the most of your personal experiences?</p></blockquote><p>I hate to admit it, and I know a lot of people would disagree, but I don't consider myself a particularly interesting person. It may be one of the reasons I'm so bad at parties. Small talk. Scary. They'll think I'm an airhead. My shyness doesn't help that.</p><p>That said, I will admit some of the internal dialogue in my 1st person characters greatly resembles the character of my own. (Oh noes, now people will really give me dirty looks.) I do cook; that's definitely in my stories. I am rewriting a main character in an epic fantasy to be a fine art and event photographer because I can relate. I've done it; I can give details. I've even gotten paid. An evil character in a published book was my experience of my evil† stepfather. It provided a certain verisimilitude.</p><p>I'm not going to write about being a programmer, though, or sitting at a desk writing stories, or exercising each morning. Too, blah.</p><p>To say whether or not any story is even close to being autobiographical, or having more than the most peripheral personal experiences, is impossible.</p><p>I am Walter Middy.</p><p>Well, not really, but you get the idea.</p><p>————<br>† He was evil.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/chef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chef</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
Der KamikaZEN :dustbunny:<p>A good friend wrote and illustrated this graphic novel on William Burroughs… it really blew my mind. And now, of course, I have to re-read “The Soft Machine” 😅</p><p>Yes, my reading habits have been called chaotic. Why do you ask? 🤣🤣🤣</p><p><a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastoart.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p>Whilst I try to only rarely cross-announce on the various writer challenge game hashtags I frequent, I'm doing so because March 30th, today, I am answering questions asked of me on <strong>Talk To Me Day</strong> hosted by <strong>Scribes and Makers.</strong> To ask, please include a question and these three items:</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TTMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTMD</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sfwrtr</span></a></span></p><p>Follow the two hashtags to participate in the answers and fun. </p><p>Here's the announcement: <a href="https://indieauthors.social/@saposcat/114240655183968909" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">indieauthors.social/@saposcat/</span><span class="invisible">114240655183968909</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilites</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writever</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelAuthors</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 629 — How did you break into publishing? (If you’re already published, of course.)</p></blockquote><p>I think I've answered this elsewhere over the few years I've been on Mastodon, but I've more followers now. I burnt out in 2001 and am re-starting my career again now, but I that means had to have broken into publishing once:</p><p>I wrote my first SF story, a novella, in 1975, then some short stories. I found I liked writing but knew if I wanted a career, I needed to write novels.. I soon completed two. Not finding success sending out the shorts to magazines (back them a viable intro to breaking into the business), I decided to attend writer events. Back then publishers organized mini-event to promote books, which agents attended. This was in 1980 or 1981. I took my latest ms and managed to peg an agent. He looked at the manuscript and said something to the affect that he saw I could write and complete projects. He gave me his card and told me to send him the <em>next</em> novel I completed.</p><p>I completed something soon after (1982) and sent it to him. A week later we met at my house and I signed an agent contract. Two weeks later he sold it to one of the top houses in New York because the editor-in-chief fell in love with the story. Two years later, it was in print (competing against a Marion Zimmer Bradley classic, but it sold well regardless).</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
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