Wordlander
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Wordlander
@wordlander.bsky.social
Fiction writer (fantasy/horror/literary) & newbie traveller

Visit wordlander.com for writing tips and trips related to famous writers

Follow my travels on YouTube - youtube.com/@CHRANDALF

Ebooks:
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Hi there! I'm Wordlander (or Rae) and I'm a writer. On my blog wordlander.com, you'll find writing advice and tips, and visits to places related to famous writers like Jane Austen, JRR Tolkien and Roald Dahl. I also have a couple of fiction ebooks on Kindle, which you'll find linked there.
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Writing Advice and Inspirational Places
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Here's a link to our YT channel if you want to follow our travels - youtube.com/@chrandalf?s...
Chran and Rae "Hit the Road"
On 1 April 2025, we left the UK and set off on an epic round-the-world adventure. Starting in Europe, we'll then head to Japan, New Zealand, Australia - and maybe some other places too. Oh and we'll ...
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September 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Woah...I haven't posted for a while! Still travelling - completed our road trip of Scotland - still editing and posting vids from that on our YT channel!
Now though we're actually in Montreal! Long haul where we don't get back till next year😲. #amwriting #travelling #montreal #canada #worldtour
September 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Anthropic has agreed to pay affected authors a record $1.5 billion in a settlement, following its use of pirated books to train its AI. We'll share more details with members in the coming days

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What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Final days! 🌊 20% off all Salt books until 31 Aug.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Working on a book about the Americas? 🌎

Apply for the Writer's Award residency. Winners will get exclusive access to our collection, platform their work at Hay Festival events around the world, and £20,000 to develop their publication.

Submissions close 12 Sep: bit.ly/BL-WritersAward2025
August 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I write on a computer or laptop 99% of the time - but it can hinder your creativity. Find out how writing "offline" can help give your writing a boost.
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Why You Shouldn’t Just Write On A Computer
I love my laptop – I’m writing this blog post on it. I can certainly type fast, so for the most part it makes sense for me to write straight into it. But, there’s something to be …
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August 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Sometimes I find it nearly impossible to focus on my writing. The world today has many distractions and pressures. Here are some tips to help you if you're finding it difficult to concentrate on your words.
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7 Ways To Focus On Your Writing
We all want to write – right? But our brains have other ideas. We’re surrounded by so many things all jumping for our attention – work, kids, family – and then TV, books, an…
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August 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Dialogue can make or break a story. Here are 5 tips for writing good dialogue that brings your tale to life. #amwriting #writing #writer #amreading #books #writingadvice #writetip #writesky
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5 Tips For Writing Good Dialogue
At their most basic, stories are made up of two things – description and dialogue. What, how, and when your characters speak can do a lot for your writing. Dialogue can say something about th…
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July 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If there's one tip I think helps writers above all else, it's probably this one - read your work out loud.
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Reading Out Loud
A good writer has to be a big reader. But I think a good writer also needs to get comfortable with the sound of their own voice. Yes, you need to start reading out loud. But why? I hear you whisper…
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July 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We're in bonnie Scotland! But before we got here, we were in Yorkshire and we've got a wee vid of our journey up including a visit to Hardwick Hall, home of Bess of Hardwick, who survived 4 hubbies and ended up v v v wealthy! youtu.be/4VcCUvLPg8g?... #travel #travelvlog #roadtrip #yorkshire #uk
Scottish Road Trip Vlog Part 1: Hampshire to Yorkshire Moors
YouTube video by Chran and Rae "Hit the Road"
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July 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
People experience the world through their senses and so should your characters. Describing beyond what they see will help make your writing more real. #amwriting #writing #writingadvice #writetip #characters #writesky
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Make Your Writing Real Using the Five Senses
Creating a world your reader can truly be sucked into depends on your depiction of how your characters experience it. And this they do primarily through their senses. Here’s how to use them t…
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July 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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If you’re feeling let down by legacy news, try these outlets for excellent independent journalism.
Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.
It’s been a weird time for the papers of record. The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post have all made compromising to catastrophic judgment errors. Most recently, …
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July 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Your first draft can be exciting - and incredibly frustrating. If you're struggling, here's some advice to help you push through. #amwriting #writing #writers #writingadvice #howtowrite #writetip
Stuck on Your First Draft? Try This Technique to Get it Done
In ‘The Hours’ by Michael Cunningham, one storyline follows Virginia Woolf as she spends, well, hours pondering over the first line of her book, “Mrs. Dalloway”. It’s …
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July 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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ICYMI: A tiny new bookshop that has been decorated to look like the books are on the outside is attracting a lot of attention in Germany 👇 #BookSky
Tiny bookshop painted to look like bookshelves turns heads in German town
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June 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The arts are all connected. Learn how a musical soundtrack can help to inspire and enhance your writing. #amwriting #writing #writers #howtowrite #writingadvice #writetip #writingblog
Why You Need to Create a Soundtrack for your Book
Some people love to listen to music when they write, others prefer silence. But whichever camp you fall in, a book playlist or soundtrack could really help you get into your writing zone. Here are …
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June 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Explore the oldest covered theatre in the world with us! A Renaissance gem in Trento, Italy. #amwriting #italy #travel #theatre #travelvlog #playef="/hashtag/playwright" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#playwright #play #olympictheatre #trento
The World’s Oldest Covered Theatre – Olympic Theatre, Vicenza, Italy
After stumbling across the world's oldest library in Verona, we then discovered the world's oldest covered theatre not far away in Trento - clearly, there's a lot of old things in Italy. The Olympic Theatre (or Teatro Olimpico) was built between 1580-1585. It's still in use, and still has in place scenery from the first play performed there, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex"
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June 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I am indeed very pleased with this new information
If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.
June 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooks for sale!
Three different books about prickly STEM lesbians having adventures in space! All available now!
June 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Do you need anything in particular to be a writer? Hm, well there are probably a few things it's useful to have - in fact here are "5 Things You Need to be a Writer"
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June 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM