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A.M. Obst - Fantasy Author & Editor
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I see things in my head, then try to wrestle them into words.

Author of the Serpentstone epic fantasy duology... and more to come.

Experienced Copy Editor and Proofreader, too - visit my website or get in touch.

https://amobst.com

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A.M. Obst - Fantasy Author & Editor @amobstwriter.bsky.social · Apr 26
A reminder that my epic fantasy duology isn't expensive! Available from a range of online stores including Smashwords, Apple Books, Kobo, Amazon and B&N.

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At some point in one’s life
the #number of yesterdays becomes greater than the number
of your tomorrow's.
Cherish the today's.
Fill them with joy,seek for that which warms a heart .
Until every last one
of your yesterday’s blazes so bright that it lights up every one
of your tomorrow's
#vss365
At some point in one’s life the #number of yesterdays becomes greater than the number of your tomorrow's. Cherish the today's. Fill them with joy,seek for that which warms a heart . Until every last one of your yesterday’s blazes so bright that it lights up every one of your tomorrow's *Sun shining on a field with its rays lighting up the sky clouds and landscape. My image my words. #vss365 #Poet #words #Landscape #BlueSky #Photography #Story #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #sky #Light #time #poem
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Rory wasn’t one for putting too much emphasis on the statistics of a character, analysing critical probabilities and damage points.
He just did things and if they made monsters die faster, great! He didn’t pay attention to a #number unless it was bigger than what he already had in the stat.

#vss365
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

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Word for November 13, 2025: #CRAB

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Digital painting of a blue crab with an olive colored shell and gold and grey-blue highlights on its legs. It is crawling out of an ocean wave onto a sandy beach.
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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#vss365 #prompt #Nov13

Good morning.
Today's word is another from the index of my 60yo Xword solver's book, and I've made up a clue for it.

Clue: Anaesthetic you can count on.

Have you worked it out? You should, being wordsmiths!

Answer: #Number.
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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funnyfrogget.bsky.social
I am a #myth maker,
inventing stories, sagas
and fables. Yesterday,
it was the Pegasus,
today it's the Mind Flayer.
Let's see what I'll
come up with tomorrow.

#vss365
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The frost writes #myths with sullen blades
‘Til sunrise melts the chill.
What dreaming world this landscape is
When left to nature’s will.

#vss365 #micropoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #writing #writer #writingcommunity #landscape #nature #creativewriting #frost #autumn
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for November 11, 2025: #LAVENDER

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Drawing of purple lavender blooms with frilly green stems. There are gold and black bees flying around and landing on the plants.
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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youngliz.bsky.social
#vss365 #prompt

Good morning.
#November11th is the day we remember with gratitude the immeasurable numbers of people who died fighting fascism. We vowed it would never happen again - but here it is. I pray it doesn't prevail.
Today's word is #measure
a butterfly flies over a field of red flowers at sunset
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November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for November 10, 2025: #CURLY

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Drawing of curly green ferns with delicate white flowers and one tiny red ladybug.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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youngliz.bsky.social
#vss365 #prompt #Nov10

Greetings! I didn't want to wake up this morning,but here I am with today's word - #literature. According to Collins that is any writing of artistic merit,which isn't much help when deciding on the genre of my books.Are they literary or pulp fiction?
I may go back to bed now.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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derickijohnson.bsky.social
My house had seen
So many years
I wished
That it could talk

And then one night
I heard it speak
As ghosts
Went for a walk

Tho I can’t
Understand it’s words—
Especially
When it shouts

I’m tryna learn
It’s #language
So we can
Have Heart-To-House
#vss365
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November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🌸beep boop 🌸

For no reason at all

50% off all my books on itch

Or $20 for everything

Now through midnight EST Sunday 11/9

Go nuts!

itch.io/s/167176/hal...
Dani Finn layout with 6 rows of books. The Maer Cycle (hollow road, the archive, the place below); The Weirdwater confluence (the living waters, the isle of a thousand worlds, unpainted, the world within); The time before (the delve, jagged shard, wings so soft, cloti's song); winnie and crela: barrow maid, sleeping willow, little deaths, untethered; short stories: user not found, fly by night, the last solstice gift, the witch's flute; new worlds: they of the west, grey angel, disposable magic; WATCH THIS SPACE
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
amobstwriter.bsky.social
The delegates stared at each other. Support staff shifted ij their chairs. Negotiations for a treaty to end Galactic War XIV had stalled.
Not due to a lack of common ground; no, it was because some admin assistant had loaded the wrong #language into the Transl-8-R (TM) device.

#vss365
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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whistprword.bsky.social
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for November 8, 2025: #STARRY

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Drawing of a quoll, a small marsupial with dark fur and white spots that look like stars against a night sky.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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youngliz.bsky.social
#vss365 #prompt #Nov8

Here we go again! The start of my second week as host - hundreds of works of genius read, more screen hours than is healthy, many new friends.
Today's word from my Xword book index is #language.
Off you go - surprise me!
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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whistprword.bsky.social
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

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Word for November 6, 2025: #CHARACTER

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Stylized drawing of a marabou stork, a tall bird with long beak and legs and swooping black wing against a white chest which makes it look something like it is wearing a fancy cape. Overall, it looks quite the character.
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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derickijohnson.bsky.social
Maybe
Life’s big secret
Is hidden
In this verse

Tiny map
Of how
To navigate
Our universe

All of us
Rushing ‘round
To run
A human Race

Worried
Despite efforts
We may not
Be keeping pace

The #geography’s
Divine
If you
Find your place

Relax
My fellow humans
Or miss out
On life’s taste
#vss365
a book is open to a page that says ' i 'm sorry '
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November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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#vss365 #prompt #Nov6

Good morning! The next word from my Xword book index is #geography - not one of my better subjects from school, though I enjoyed drawing maps.
I still prefer real maps - if I don't know where I am now, how can GPS tell me where to go next?
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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It is not an exaggeration to say that we should be acting on the climate crisis on the same scale that we would a war. It will cause that kind of damage. Instead, we’re treating it as if it’s a Tidy Towns competition.

#SpéirGorm #ClimateChange
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for November 5, 2025: #MATE

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Drawing of a pair of pink flamingos facing each other beak to beak against a turquoise background.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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#vss365 #prompt #Nov5

Morning all!
When I flew from my then home in Tenerife to meet an agent, my kids hoped I'd become rich and famous. Unfortunately he turned out to be a scammer, which is partly why I have self-published my books. At least I can trust me!

Today's word is #famous. Have fun!
a woman wearing sunglasses and a blue shirt is making a funny face and saying `` no autographs please '' .
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November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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#vss365

Voicivorous

education begins
in the mouth,
vowels like lust,
rolling between sharpened teeth,
the alphabet sweating in the throat.
grammar bends,
breath
forgets itself,
syntax meltsintosaliva.
I conjugate touch,
translate each ache,
and learn the plural
of hunger.

#education
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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There were options, within the game, to perform small quests, or big ones, for people and organisations and, as part of the reward, they would provide an #education in certain skills.

Rory didn’t want to take those shortcuts with Esme. He wanted her to learn her skills naturally, by doing.

#vss365
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM