Mary Shurtleff (has a book out 👀)

Dragon-like hoarder of words. Creating, editing, and querying a variety of #speculativefiction.

Soli Deo Gloria.

#amwriting #WritingCommunity

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I'm just going to pin this with the link.
https://t.co/JAUmiMJr42

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Lindsey Elende is a countess.
Ronalde Garrone is a radical.

When revolution erupts, two unlikely friends will become either desperate enemies or vital allies while the ax hangs close over their heads.

#PosterPit #A #P #SPF #R #SecondaryWorldHistorical #EnemiesToLovers

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^^ This is me getting in the revolutionary spirit for Barricade Day coming up

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A Tale of Two Cities 1958 is actually so good. It's obviously shorter than the book, so a few things are cut, but they got the characters down.

(They also understood Carton needed to be attractive, just saying)

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@Bethyo Mine might be too, that or stress. Cocoa isn't a bad idea

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Anyone have tips on how to deal with summer brain fog? I feel like when I'm working I want to come home and write, but have not time.
But now that I'm off, my brain is just fog.

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Somehow, with absolutely nothing that I must do immediately, I still manage to stress myself out

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REPORT:
The bird babies on my porch have been had! Repeat, the bird babies have been had!

I was worried bc I hadn't seen the mom in a while...welp. Gurl was out getting food. I saw a parental unit hovering over these gaping little triangles today.

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Definitively done some of this. The best way I make myself do something is attach it to already established routine.

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This woman set up her bathroom with systems that actually work with her ADHD brain — and honestly, a lot of these ideas are just smart, period.

She keeps a phone mount in the shower so she can watch a show while she’s in there (because she hates showering otherwise). She also keeps her water flosser, face wash, and even cleaning supplies in the shower so she can knock out a few tasks while she’s already in there.

She also uses a 3-section laundry hamper (dirty colors, dirty whites, and clean clothes she doesn’t feel like putting away yet) so nothing ends up on the floor.

ADHD or not, these are some really practical ideas.

Have you ever set up a system in your home specifically because it works better for how your brain works?

[Mary Shurtleff (has a book out 👀) @mshurtleffwrite]

@threnye Thanks, and yeah hey writing be like that

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Clearer? Slightly less impactful, but what do you to? I could also just cut out Lev's reaction. He'll have plenty later, haha.

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Hey Frens,
I need help with this sentence. I really like it, the two different states of mind it reads (hers and his), the implications....but it's clunky to read.
I'm tempted to leave it, but I know every single reader is going to get tripped up over it.

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@BeccaACarter Bravo!!!!!!!

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I have wildly different denominations show up on my feed with similar takes and multiple times have had to back up commenting like "oh wait wrong church for that"

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@MadelaineLucyH Pretty sure I know this guy. Or five. 😆

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Military fam. Honestly, you learn a lot having lived coast to coast.

Also, there's more if we counted airports

[Royal Blue Raptor @RoyalBlueRapto1]

Florida was only very short visits over the border from Alabama, and Missouri was Kansas City, which barely counts 😆

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@AbigailFalanga I love when I see it bc it's the embodiment of Romanticism, which so few people appreciate it. So I get excited like, "Ah! Romanticism! Being appreciated!" every time I see it

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@once_darkness Most my "loves" are mainstream, but I have a niche one! I don't like reading it exactly, but I love writing Selfish Sacrifice--Person A's sacrifice is about themself + toxic attachment more than person B. It's wildly dramatic to get lost in writing especially in B's perspective😅

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The Vesdat is going to need some kind of warning to readers that Lavenia uses exclamation points every other sentence.

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@FullAsMuchHeart Oooo new things!

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Social anxiety level: Expert

I haven't been writing outside as much because I don't want to bother the poor mama bird in her nest on the front porch

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I know the proper answer is no, but I would have to give it to someone to toss into the ocean for me bc I have the kind of curiosity that gets people into horror story situations in cautionary tales

[Morgan Wright 💎 @byMorganWright]

Oh, interesting question👀🤔. Would you??

[Mary Shurtleff (has a book out 👀) @mshurtleffwrite]

There's really nothing in The Vesdat, other than a very vague eastern European vibe, to indicate that The Brothers Karamazov was a major inspiration for it

...Except maybe the chaotic structure. 😅

[Mary Shurtleff (has a book out 👀) @mshurtleffwrite]

I volunteer to be the liege lord for anyone missing the peasant life

[Elijah the Middleborne @TheMiddleborne]

He can literally have that life today! Go live in a one room, 300sqft shack(with nicely lime washed walls) and work either on your own fields or for the local land owner in his fields from dawn to dusk, and honor him as your liege lord.
Eat whatever you’re alloted at the generosity of your liege or from trading the fruits of your fields.
If you hunt deer you’ll be hanged
Simple as