Writerly Ways

Jun. 15th, 2025 10:23 pm
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We invited cousins out for an early dinner at 4. It's now 10:30 and they just left. So nothing but links today because my brain is very very tired.


Open Calls


Five Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in June 2025

Ghost Light Lit: Now Seeking Submissions

Mistletoe and Vine Fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror (no scifi) between 100-500 words

Mythaxis July 2025 Submission Period Diverse sci-fi and fantasy fiction.

Last Girls Club Fall Issue Theme: Monkey’s Paw/Answered Prayers

Sapphic Horror Anthology due in two weeks but some of you might have one waiting in the wings (i'm out)

Cosmic Horror Monthly July 2025 Window Weird and cosmic fiction

Solar Punk Magazine July 2025 Window

35 Publishers that Accept Direct Submissions of Speculative Fiction

Star Crossed a shared universe project


You can always check out the Submission Grinder



From around the web


here.How to Identify and Fight the Demon of Perfectionism

Own the Title of Writer (Don’t Add “Aspiring”)

5 Myths of Writing and Publishing Success

How To Make Your Main Character Likeable Even if They’re Not Always a Good Person by Laurel Osterkamp

Be Brave Under Threat: Wise Words from Margaret Atwood

Why You Can’t Write Fear Without Feeling It First.

A Guide to Book Typesetting Services

10 Important Parts of a Book for First-Time Authors


From Betty


Choosing Music and Instruments for Your Culture

Five Common Problems With Metaphors

Think more about whether you like a prospective agent than whether the agent will like you

Successful Queries: Henry Dunow and “The Fire Concerto,” by Sarah Landenwich

Ingredients for brilliance

Continuing a Series: Enticing Readers to Return

Millennial Slang for Writers

When the Second Draft Feels Like a Step Back

Chekhov’s Gun: Does Your Story Have A Forgotten “Gun”?

How to Color Your Map Using SCIENCE!

Use These Foundational Truths to Encourage Other Writers and Ourselves

Necessary Items that Make the Novel You're Writing Work

Three Reasons Every Writer Should Work with a Writing Coach
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"This would be the first time since I was a kid that I haven't bought a new console on day one..."

"STOP! You don't need to succumb to consumerism! You can always buy one in a year or two!"

"Psh, Nintendo? That shit's for babies. Go buy cigarettes."


Blurb: A man ponders buying a new Nintendo, only for his inner angel and demon to discover new feelings for each other.

Why is it worth your time?: It's cute, short, and free!

Plural Tags:abuse not mentioned, nonswitching, nonhumans (an angel and a devil), romantic relationships

Content Warnings: Beefcake. That's presumably what you're here for.

Access Notes: available on tumblr! Page 1, and page 2. Also backed-up on the Wayback Machine, but not screenreadable.
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Video for all of them, too, that’s impressive!

I recognize a couple of the early ones (1937 was the Jeeves & Wooster theme song, and 1939 was Somewhere Over The Rainbow), but it’s not until 1960 that a switch flips and I go “oh, okay, I’m familiar with all of these.” (Doesn’t falter until the ’00s, when I start not knowing some of the rap/hip-hop songs, and then in the past 10 years I guess I’m just not listening to new music enough.)

The Beatles have the most winners, they’re in here 4 times. Fred Astaire has 2, Judy Garland has 2, Elvis has 2, Queen has 3, Eminem has 2…probably a couple other repeats I missed, there doesn’t seem to be a text list. Genuinely surprised Taylor Swift never shows up — her output as a whole has to be a bigger deal than a lot of the winners from the past 2 decades, they just had at least one breakout hit each.

“Link the most-recognizable song from the year you were born” could be a fun meme…except that if I link mine, you’ll think I’m kidding.


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"ARTICLE III: The man going by the name Brother Francis is charged with claiming to have begun life miraculously, without father or mother, in the body of a boy about thirteen years of age."

Blurb: An epistolary short story about the fall and rise of Brother Francis/Leopold Graz, who in a post-nuclear apocalypse preached brotherhood and kindness: condemned, burned alive, and then beatified... at a cost.

Why is it worth your time?: Pangborn is a kind writer who tells the story of a boy, his invisible Companion who urges him to great things, and the major front switch that occurs when he is thirteen, which leads to his fall and rise under the pseudo-feudal fundamentalist church afterward. It's pretty good!

Plural Tags: abuse not mentioned, switching, serially singlet, spiritual voices, visions

Content Warnings: contain spoilers; see comments

Access Notes: Only officially available on paper, but anthologized multiple times; one of them, Still I Persist in Wondering, is screenreadable on archive.org. (Please ignore the pulpy cover.) Available in German and Italian.

Fandom5K Pinch Hits Due 13 July

Jun. 15th, 2025 06:48 pm
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Event: Fandom5K is a multi-fandom gift exchange for fic with a 5,000-word minimum and comics with a 5-page minimum.
Event link: @fandom5k
Pinch hit link: https://fandom5k.dreamwidth.org/tag/pinch+hits
Due date: 13 July

PH 1 - Blue Lock (Manga), 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 4 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agatha All Along (TV), Wicked (Movie 2024)

PH 5 - Hannibal (TV), 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

PH 7 - Path of Night (Podcast), Vampire: The Masquerade - Various Authors (Choice of Games), Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga (Podcast)

PH 8 - 終わりのセラフ | Owari no Seraph | Seraph of the End (Anime & Manga), Blue Lock (Manga), Fairy Tail

PH 9 - 琅琊榜之风起长林 | Nirvana in Fire 2: The Wind Blows in Changlin (TV), Original Work, 永夜星河 | Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (TV)

PH 11 - The Fugitive (Movies), Crossover Fandom, Father Brown (2013), Forever Knight (TV 1992)

CLAIMED - PH 12 - Star Wars: The Acolyte (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)

PH 13 - Code Vein (Video Game), 神さまのいない日曜日 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi | Sunday Without God (Anime & Manga), Octopath Traveler II (Video Game), 刀使ノ巫女 | Toji no Miko | Katana Maidens (Anime), よるのないくに | Yoru no Nai Kuni | Nights of Azure (Video Games), Xenoblade Chronicles (Video Game)

PH 14 - Call of Duty (Video Games), 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Teen Wolf (TV), 9-1-1 (TV)

Write Every Day Day 15

Jun. 15th, 2025 12:20 am
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This meme feels so right to me.

Another [community profile] getyourwordsout Yahtzee story that I thought would be 1K but I wrote another 2080 words today.


Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day fourteen -[personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] nafs, [personal profile] the_siobhan,


other days )

Can You Hear Me? - Doctor Who icons

Jun. 15th, 2025 01:26 pm
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20 Doctor Who icons from 12x07 Can You Hear Me?

   

Check out the rest here. <3

It's been a lot of rain

Jun. 14th, 2025 09:26 pm
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Like a lot. Like buckets. The dog birthday party was canceled. We did go out with my brother and SiL for the parentals' anniversary and my upcoming birthday. It wasn't bad. Got to play with their crazed kitten.

My brother taped my leg up to see if part of this pain is a fibular nerve entrapment.

Last night Dad liked my hair (because inside it looks brown) but tonight outside noticed hey it's violet and of course it becomes 'you sure know how to attract attention to yourself.' (i.e. how dare you?) Did not engage.


I found a few fun things mostly for [personal profile] spikesgirl58 but I think we can all 'enjoy' these.

As for this one, I want to know what combo of drugs you're on to come up with this combo. And also what possessed anyone to publish this recipe.


Speaking of I can't believe they published it, here a easy dinner for when you h ate your family of 4

Trail Cooking Clean and Green

Jun. 14th, 2025 06:14 pm
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I finished textually transcribing and posted Ro and Joanna Piekarski's zine, Trail Cooking: Clean and Green, published in 1995 and seemingly impossible to find. I found it in a free box, and while the Piekarskis are apparently the kind of people who categorize raisins and unsweetened carob chips as "dessert," their thing about light, cheap, vegetarian backpacker food seemed like it shouldn't be totally lost to the void.

Check it out if that interests you!

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