Nell Arthur
@nellarthur.bsky.social
Writer of speculative fiction. Currently polishing draft 7 of my novel ready to start the querying process.
Today, I've been working on the epilogue. I've got the ending now ✨️
a man standing in front of a pile of tires with the words this week in yellow letters
ALT: a man standing in front of a pile of tires with the words this week in yellow letters
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September 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Today, I've been working on the epilogue. I've got the ending now ✨️
I've put aside some time for writing tomorrow. It's time to translate my notes over the last few months into word count.
a woman in a suit and pink shirt says let 's do this .
ALT: a woman in a suit and pink shirt says let 's do this .
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August 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I've put aside some time for writing tomorrow. It's time to translate my notes over the last few months into word count.
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👀 Get your work recognised and your name out there
🗓️ Practice writing to a deadline
✍️ Sharpen your writing skills
🏆 The PRIZES
❤️ Because you love to write!
Want to know more? 😍 Find out what prizes we have on offer 👉 bit.ly/AURORAPRIZE
July 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Here's why you should enter our writing competition:
👀 Get your work recognised and your name out there
🗓️ Practice writing to a deadline
✍️ Sharpen your writing skills
🏆 The PRIZES
❤️ Because you love to write!
Want to know more? 😍 Find out what prizes we have on offer 👉 bit.ly/AURORAPRIZE
👀 Get your work recognised and your name out there
🗓️ Practice writing to a deadline
✍️ Sharpen your writing skills
🏆 The PRIZES
❤️ Because you love to write!
Want to know more? 😍 Find out what prizes we have on offer 👉 bit.ly/AURORAPRIZE
In the zone of swirling thoughts of things to do. None of them concrete. Everything is still dancing around the perimeter just tantalisingly out of reach. Really, though, I need some sleep. Sleep, then action. It's not time yet and that's ok.
#postpartum
#postpartum
July 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
In the zone of swirling thoughts of things to do. None of them concrete. Everything is still dancing around the perimeter just tantalisingly out of reach. Really, though, I need some sleep. Sleep, then action. It's not time yet and that's ok.
#postpartum
#postpartum
I ticked a longstanding item off my to do list today. Celebrating the win of achieving a simple task with a 3 month old baby and a 2 year old. Go me.
a man in a cowboy hat is driving a car with the words gotta enjoy the little things written below him
ALT: a man in a cowboy hat is driving a car with the words gotta enjoy the little things written below him
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June 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I ticked a longstanding item off my to do list today. Celebrating the win of achieving a simple task with a 3 month old baby and a 2 year old. Go me.
Coffee date with my notebook ✨️
May 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Coffee date with my notebook ✨️
Book haul from #TheReadingRoomGrantham ✨️
May 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Book haul from #TheReadingRoomGrantham ✨️
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 534:
In a good story, everything contributes. Every description, every piece of information, every gesture, every detail is linked somehow to some part of the whole. If you come across something in your work that isn't, then bin it. Useless ballast weighs you down.
In a good story, everything contributes. Every description, every piece of information, every gesture, every detail is linked somehow to some part of the whole. If you come across something in your work that isn't, then bin it. Useless ballast weighs you down.
May 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 534:
In a good story, everything contributes. Every description, every piece of information, every gesture, every detail is linked somehow to some part of the whole. If you come across something in your work that isn't, then bin it. Useless ballast weighs you down.
In a good story, everything contributes. Every description, every piece of information, every gesture, every detail is linked somehow to some part of the whole. If you come across something in your work that isn't, then bin it. Useless ballast weighs you down.
Got some notes down for draft 7 edits today. Postpartum potato brain will not stop me! 🤓
May 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Got some notes down for draft 7 edits today. Postpartum potato brain will not stop me! 🤓
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Oh hey, today is your LAST chance to get your hands on any and all of the gorgeous things donated by brilliant people in our community in Part 1 of the Genre Creators For Trans Rights charity auction. This phase of the auction ends midnight BT, today, Friday 2 May www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans.
May 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Oh hey, today is your LAST chance to get your hands on any and all of the gorgeous things donated by brilliant people in our community in Part 1 of the Genre Creators For Trans Rights charity auction. This phase of the auction ends midnight BT, today, Friday 2 May www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans.
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I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.
May 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.
Finished watching the documentary, Jack The Ripper: Written in Blood on the weekend. It was eye-opening to be shown it from the perspective of the journalists from The Star newspaper. Now, to see from the perspective of the women.
#TheFive #HallieRubenhold
#TheFive #HallieRubenhold
April 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Finished watching the documentary, Jack The Ripper: Written in Blood on the weekend. It was eye-opening to be shown it from the perspective of the journalists from The Star newspaper. Now, to see from the perspective of the women.
#TheFive #HallieRubenhold
#TheFive #HallieRubenhold
Spotted in the wild #I'llNeverTell by the fabulous and talented @philippaeast.bsky.social at The Reading Room in Grantham ✨️
April 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Spotted in the wild #I'llNeverTell by the fabulous and talented @philippaeast.bsky.social at The Reading Room in Grantham ✨️
Went for my first solo walk in a while. Blue skies and windy with Royksopp as a soundtrack. Not too shabby.
April 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Went for my first solo walk in a while. Blue skies and windy with Royksopp as a soundtrack. Not too shabby.
Really in the mood to do some drawing, if only I could find my sketchbook!
April 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Really in the mood to do some drawing, if only I could find my sketchbook!
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My 1st book on writing, The Alchemy, has been a kindle bestseller for 16 months now. (I KNOW it’s Amazon & lots of bad stuff, but it’s still a significant point of data.) A small indie publisher, no big publicity budget & not reviewed anywhere - there’s even a tiny number of ratings on Amazon 💙📚
February 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My 1st book on writing, The Alchemy, has been a kindle bestseller for 16 months now. (I KNOW it’s Amazon & lots of bad stuff, but it’s still a significant point of data.) A small indie publisher, no big publicity budget & not reviewed anywhere - there’s even a tiny number of ratings on Amazon 💙📚
Set myself the challenge of reading #TheStand by @stephenking.bsky.social before my little girl is born. I hit 35 weeks tomorrow, my son was born at 34 weeks. Can I do it??
February 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Set myself the challenge of reading #TheStand by @stephenking.bsky.social before my little girl is born. I hit 35 weeks tomorrow, my son was born at 34 weeks. Can I do it??
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We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵
February 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵
Today's writing task is structural changes, reordering progressive complications to maintain momentum. A little too much of how I would deal with things has crept in (observation and analysis), rather than an active protagonist.
two men are standing next to each other and one of them says i won t avert my eyes not again
ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them says i won t avert my eyes not again
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February 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today's writing task is structural changes, reordering progressive complications to maintain momentum. A little too much of how I would deal with things has crept in (observation and analysis), rather than an active protagonist.
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So pleased that we've just made our first £100 donation to our nominated charity Read Easy UK, with the profits from our second short story anthology #Unbound. Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy so far, and if you haven't done so yet, you can grab one here! www.amazon.co.uk/UnBound-fant...
February 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
So pleased that we've just made our first £100 donation to our nominated charity Read Easy UK, with the profits from our second short story anthology #Unbound. Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy so far, and if you haven't done so yet, you can grab one here! www.amazon.co.uk/UnBound-fant...
In floods of tears watching the finale for series 2 of Big Boys. Absolutely superb television.
January 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
In floods of tears watching the finale for series 2 of Big Boys. Absolutely superb television.
@nemmersis.bsky.social
Just what we were talking about!
Just what we were talking about!
I’ve heard you’re deep in burnout when you’re having trouble consuming media, watching new shows, etc. So helpful to think about your creativity as more than grinding out stories, but also receiving art with pleasure.
Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617:
Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel.
Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.
Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel.
Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.
January 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@nemmersis.bsky.social
Just what we were talking about!
Just what we were talking about!
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Oooo! The paperbacks of #LittleWhiteLies and #IllNeverTell (by me😆) are currently both on offer!
Grab ’em here: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...
Grab ’em here: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...
January 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Oooo! The paperbacks of #LittleWhiteLies and #IllNeverTell (by me😆) are currently both on offer!
Grab ’em here: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...
Grab ’em here: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho...
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
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20 days until publication!
Would you like a signed copy of my debut novel NEPHTHYS?
You can pre-order one from the wonderful @GoldsboroBooks. These are limited, so pre-order now to secure your copy:
goldsborobooks.com/products/nep...
Would you like a signed copy of my debut novel NEPHTHYS?
You can pre-order one from the wonderful @GoldsboroBooks. These are limited, so pre-order now to secure your copy:
goldsborobooks.com/products/nep...
January 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
20 days until publication!
Would you like a signed copy of my debut novel NEPHTHYS?
You can pre-order one from the wonderful @GoldsboroBooks. These are limited, so pre-order now to secure your copy:
goldsborobooks.com/products/nep...
Would you like a signed copy of my debut novel NEPHTHYS?
You can pre-order one from the wonderful @GoldsboroBooks. These are limited, so pre-order now to secure your copy:
goldsborobooks.com/products/nep...