Kate Blackwood
@katenblackwood.bsky.social
Writing, running, reading and keeping a sense of humor in the face of darkness. Your life is not online. kateblackwood.com
'Tis the season: I thought of two horror story ideas this afternoon and I'm scaring myself thinking of possible endings 🦇
October 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
'Tis the season: I thought of two horror story ideas this afternoon and I'm scaring myself thinking of possible endings 🦇
Reposted by Kate Blackwood
Sharing again for my #booksky friends! Check out Jesi Bender's luminous novel CHILD OF LIGHT. Set in 1896 and obsessed with love and electricity, it provides an important perspective: Technological progress doesn’t make us any less human. 📚💙
from @whiskeytit.com
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
from @whiskeytit.com
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Sharing again for my #booksky friends! Check out Jesi Bender's luminous novel CHILD OF LIGHT. Set in 1896 and obsessed with love and electricity, it provides an important perspective: Technological progress doesn’t make us any less human. 📚💙
from @whiskeytit.com
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
from @whiskeytit.com
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
I couldn’t get away from butterflies this month. They were suddenly everywhere, so I started to pay attention.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I couldn’t get away from butterflies this month. They were suddenly everywhere, so I started to pay attention.
kateblackwood.com/2025/09/the-...
kateblackwood.com/2025/09/the-...
CHILD OF LIGHT, Jesi Bender's new novel, is out this week. It’s marvelous – historical fiction set in Utica, NY with a story about electricity at its center ⚡ Check it out and support this independent press!
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
August 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
CHILD OF LIGHT, Jesi Bender's new novel, is out this week. It’s marvelous – historical fiction set in Utica, NY with a story about electricity at its center ⚡ Check it out and support this independent press!
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
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A beautiful review by @katenblackwood.bsky.social of the stunning new novel out this week by Jesi Bender, from @whiskeytit.com!
I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press!
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press!
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
Love and electricity: The novel ‘Child of Light’ – Kate Blackwood
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August 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A beautiful review by @katenblackwood.bsky.social of the stunning new novel out this week by Jesi Bender, from @whiskeytit.com!
I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press!
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
I agree 💯 with Kate that it's marvelous. Get yourself a copy and support this independent press!
kateblackwood.com/2025/08/love...
"For the better part of a year, Monet got up at 3:30 am and painted haystacks."
A writer walks through the Art Institute of Chicago and this is only one of the insights we get. I'm bookmarking this Substack for return visits.
from @juliafgreen.bsky.social
writingisjoy.substack.com/p/my-kind-of...
A writer walks through the Art Institute of Chicago and this is only one of the insights we get. I'm bookmarking this Substack for return visits.
from @juliafgreen.bsky.social
writingisjoy.substack.com/p/my-kind-of...
August 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"For the better part of a year, Monet got up at 3:30 am and painted haystacks."
A writer walks through the Art Institute of Chicago and this is only one of the insights we get. I'm bookmarking this Substack for return visits.
from @juliafgreen.bsky.social
writingisjoy.substack.com/p/my-kind-of...
A writer walks through the Art Institute of Chicago and this is only one of the insights we get. I'm bookmarking this Substack for return visits.
from @juliafgreen.bsky.social
writingisjoy.substack.com/p/my-kind-of...
Never bring nonfiction about the arctic on vacation to Albania. Especially if it’s a library book.
I'm trying to decide what to read on vacation – blog post
kateblackwood.com/2025/07/what...
I'm trying to decide what to read on vacation – blog post
kateblackwood.com/2025/07/what...
July 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Never bring nonfiction about the arctic on vacation to Albania. Especially if it’s a library book.
I'm trying to decide what to read on vacation – blog post
kateblackwood.com/2025/07/what...
I'm trying to decide what to read on vacation – blog post
kateblackwood.com/2025/07/what...
The most thoughtful examination of AI I've seen 👇 ... and I hope to come across more of this. From Cornell Media Studies and the World According to Sound.
MEDIA OBJECTS episode 5 // Artificial Intelligence, as metaphor //
with Gili Vidan, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, and The World According to Sound
with Gili Vidan, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, and The World According to Sound
Media Objects 05: Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1
With today’s so-called generative artificial intelligence, we’re being told that we have finally arrived. We’re now beginning to build true “thinking machines,” machines that will do everything a huma
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July 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The most thoughtful examination of AI I've seen 👇 ... and I hope to come across more of this. From Cornell Media Studies and the World According to Sound.
Committing to a group pulled my novel draft across the finish line. Same thing with my latest marathon. #5amwritersclub #amwriting #running #IllinoisMarathon
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May 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Committing to a group pulled my novel draft across the finish line. Same thing with my latest marathon. #5amwritersclub #amwriting #running #IllinoisMarathon
kateblackwood.com/2025/04/pace...
kateblackwood.com/2025/04/pace...
Sally, the box turtle who's lived in the garden outside my house for 30 YEARS (we only moved in 9 months ago -- did not know a turtle came with the house), emerged from her winter hybernation hole this morning 🌞 We gave her a worm party. #reptilepetsofbluesky
April 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Sally, the box turtle who's lived in the garden outside my house for 30 YEARS (we only moved in 9 months ago -- did not know a turtle came with the house), emerged from her winter hybernation hole this morning 🌞 We gave her a worm party. #reptilepetsofbluesky
Sweet, sweet Virginia. I drove there and back from Illinois in three days with my mom last week for a family funeral. A sad occasion, but we sped headlong into spring and had some exciting moments together. I think the break added some perspective to my writing #5amwritersclub 🦋
April 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Sweet, sweet Virginia. I drove there and back from Illinois in three days with my mom last week for a family funeral. A sad occasion, but we sped headlong into spring and had some exciting moments together. I think the break added some perspective to my writing #5amwritersclub 🦋
“I don’t dream about hot planets,” my three year old told me. “I only dream about Earth.”
His preschool astronomy education is proving that my adult astronomy knowledge is nowhere near complete.
New blog post with fun fridge art and Voyager 2 planet photos!
kateblackwood.com/2025/03/i-do...
His preschool astronomy education is proving that my adult astronomy knowledge is nowhere near complete.
New blog post with fun fridge art and Voyager 2 planet photos!
kateblackwood.com/2025/03/i-do...
April 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“I don’t dream about hot planets,” my three year old told me. “I only dream about Earth.”
His preschool astronomy education is proving that my adult astronomy knowledge is nowhere near complete.
New blog post with fun fridge art and Voyager 2 planet photos!
kateblackwood.com/2025/03/i-do...
His preschool astronomy education is proving that my adult astronomy knowledge is nowhere near complete.
New blog post with fun fridge art and Voyager 2 planet photos!
kateblackwood.com/2025/03/i-do...
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Good morning -- is #5amwritersclub still here? I've been on a roll this week.
February 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Good morning -- is #5amwritersclub still here? I've been on a roll this week.
Happy new year, everyone! I began 2025 by going for a run in an unfamiliar city AND NOT GETTING LOST. Predicting a year of taking on navigational challenges and breaking out of old paths?! I want it to. Today, I embark on a new year of writing. I'm with you in spirit if you're doing the same. ✏️
January 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Happy new year, everyone! I began 2025 by going for a run in an unfamiliar city AND NOT GETTING LOST. Predicting a year of taking on navigational challenges and breaking out of old paths?! I want it to. Today, I embark on a new year of writing. I'm with you in spirit if you're doing the same. ✏️
“We could all stand to be a little less fearful and a lot more joyful as we go about the work of our daily lives.” Author Sarah Sawyer in Chapter Break substack, who also says: “I love to write but sometimes I don’t have a lot to say…and that’s fine.” Same! www.chapter-break.com/p/the-import...
The importance of writing with joy 😊
Today's guest is author Sarah Sawyer.
www.chapter-break.com
December 27, 2024 at 2:43 PM
“We could all stand to be a little less fearful and a lot more joyful as we go about the work of our daily lives.” Author Sarah Sawyer in Chapter Break substack, who also says: “I love to write but sometimes I don’t have a lot to say…and that’s fine.” Same! www.chapter-break.com/p/the-import...
Yesterday, I cooked all afternoon and ruined two of the three projects by forgetting baking powder in a cake & by leaving an entire batch of a meat dish out on a counter overnight. Now I'm writing, happy that a novel can't go bad no matter how many attempts it takes to get it right. #5amwritingclub
December 9, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Yesterday, I cooked all afternoon and ruined two of the three projects by forgetting baking powder in a cake & by leaving an entire batch of a meat dish out on a counter overnight. Now I'm writing, happy that a novel can't go bad no matter how many attempts it takes to get it right. #5amwritingclub
Wow, I peep back into Bluesky 🦋 after five days of travel and it's like a big old family reunion here! Hello everyone : ) Good to see you.
December 2, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Wow, I peep back into Bluesky 🦋 after five days of travel and it's like a big old family reunion here! Hello everyone : ) Good to see you.
Good morning, #5amwritersclub... How has your week been?
November 22, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Good morning, #5amwritersclub... How has your week been?
Reposted by Kate Blackwood
“Bluesky is an echo chamber!”
Our Reply: Echo chamber? Nah, we prefer to call it surround sound for facts.
Our Reply: Echo chamber? Nah, we prefer to call it surround sound for facts.
November 19, 2024 at 1:53 AM
“Bluesky is an echo chamber!”
Our Reply: Echo chamber? Nah, we prefer to call it surround sound for facts.
Our Reply: Echo chamber? Nah, we prefer to call it surround sound for facts.
Time and courage. Give me time and courage. (A writer's prayer.)
November 20, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Time and courage. Give me time and courage. (A writer's prayer.)
If you could do undergrad all over again, what would you major in? Me: theater and eastern European history...but that might change tomorrow ; )
November 14, 2024 at 12:17 PM
If you could do undergrad all over again, what would you major in? Me: theater and eastern European history...but that might change tomorrow ; )