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The #WIPSnips word for November 11th is "burger"

Don't have burger. Food is the best I can do

from Pandora's Secret

Anderson vs holiday photos

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
While she didn't claim to understand holidays, at least some good food was just down the road. She suspected she should be smiling at this point. She’d seen colleagues’ photos from holidays on their phones. Thousands of them. All with smiling idiots doing something pointless.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Its #football ffs I think the #bbc might be need a thesaurus as well as a new dg… if it doesnt contain a thinly veiled death threat, it aint ominous - as a writer friend just said to me.
#writingcommunity what unnecessary word salad have you seen today… 🤦🤣
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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The #WIPSnips word for November 7th is "movement"

From Pandora's Secret

Anderson vs the biometric scanner.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Then, decision made, she reached for his lower right arm and bent it up and around behind his back. Something snapped. But his fingers were still facing the wrong way. So, she grabbed his hand and twisted it at the wrist joint, in a rotating movement that arms are not designed to do. Bones crunched. Sinew snapped. Finally, his fingers were facing the way she could use them.
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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When did we become so childish about science....

i don't get it
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Another non phone set day today. Just back. At the top of these emergency exit stairs was the box we collected them from before coming down them.

#ShotOnAniPhone #photo
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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A little late to the party today..

The #wipsnip word for November 3rd is "nice"

Pandora’s Secret one more;

Anderson vs meaningless words

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
“So, how was it?” Anderson wiped her hands with a now fat stained napkin. “It’s was ni —“ “If you’re about to say ‘nice’”, she interrupted her with one of Esme’s own annoying double air quote fingers things. “I will shoot you.”
November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Are you a #panster or #planner

i'm an 11 on the panser scale.

But I do a lot of #research and thinking, which I normally enter on my phone. My next one is about cannibalism.... cheery eh!

How do you approach your next #wip?

#writingcommunity #authorchat #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
October 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Guess which one of these #pumpkins I carved?

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None
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I really really don't like #Halloween 😂

I am alone here? i fear so ....
Just call me halloscrooge 👍🤣
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for October 31st is "monster"

I didn't have monster; the closest I have is animal.

From Pandora's Secret once more:

Esme vs Woo girls

#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
“So,” Anderson wanted to get something off her chest. “The rescue was you lot. Those stupid animal masks and the Barbie pink-shipping-fucking-container nightmare.” “And all the knocking us out!” Esme joined in. “I had nothing to do with that,” H mumbled. “So, we’ve done your dirty work. Saved the day. Wooo!” Anderson clapped and wooed loudly, like spring break drunks celebrating a new round of beer. “I hate woo girls.” Esme shuddered.
October 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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The #WIPSnips word for October 30th is "spell"

Don't one of those, but do have Magic(ician!), so running with that.

Pandora's Secret again

Shields vs Houdini

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
“I will in a moment,” he was almost whispering now. “I need you to call this number.” He read out another number to her. “It will go to voicemail.” “Okay.” She sounded less sure of herself. But she continued, “And what should I say to this voicemail?” “Houdini.” He held his breath and awaited pushback. Questions he couldn’t answer. “Houdini. As in that magician? That’s it?” She didn’t even sound puzzled. “Yes.” “I can do that.” The phone went dead.
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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I can't tell if this is satire or if Premier Inn (a UK hotel chain) has ever seen a horror film.

Or is it just a great #writingprompt? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Because damn, if I walked into a hotel with folk wearing these, I would walk out—whatever their cancellation policy was...🤦
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Not sure how real this is, but it made me laugh anyway...

This advert is supposed to have been made by the German company that made the ladder the thieves used to break into the Louvre the other day....
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The mentor/agent is reading next chapter & I am toying with an edit idea. Anderson in the current #WIP is dyslexic & neurodiverse; I wanted to capture that. So I was thinking of using👇 at some points, but more chaotic.
#writingcommunity #authorchat #readers: will that just get irritating fast?
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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It's the first day of 👻spooky🎃 week on #WIPSnips!

The word for October 27th is "blood-curdling"

Pandora's Secret once more

Anderson vs empathy

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Probably reloading. Move. Now. Anderson grabbed the woman she'd tackled to the floor by the back of her shorts and half-dragged, half-lifted her towards the entrance of the café. The woman tried to struggle free, and when she couldn’t, she began screaming, not words, just an animalistic, wailing, blood-curdling sound. Anderson ignored her. They moved towards the dead waiter’s body, which freaked the screaming woman out even more. She suddenly managed to wrench herself free from Anderson’s grip and seemed to try to jump over the waiter’s body but failed. Her leading foot slipped in the puddle of blood from his neck, and she tripped, landing heavily, flat on her front, on top of his body. “Get up now!” Anderson shouted at her in Spanish.
October 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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The #WIPSnips word for October 25th is "lottery"

Didn't think I'd have this one—but lo, there it is.

So I'm calling this one: Anderson vs the Lottery

#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
October 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for October 24th is "total"

From Pandora's Secret again

Anderson vs Ugly crying

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
October 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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This is the GCSE framework approach to constructing a prompt for Copilot or any AI.

Goal, Context, Source, and Expectation

Try it on something you're researching —it's not perfect, but #AI is definitely a powerful research and planning tool when used intelligently and its answers cross-checked.
October 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Using #AI as a #writer. Is there a place for it, not in your writing, but in the steps that follow? Maybe that elusive #Agent or #publisher hunt? It's all about your prompt. Here's an example of 1 I created for Copilot, along with its response.
#WritingCommunity. Would you ever use it like this?
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Had a session with my writing mentor, who's also an #agent, last night - Without fail, he will look at a chapter and immediately find one way to tighten it. His basic message in each session is always about the #energy in the read
#writingcommunity #booksky- how do you keep your readers' attention?
October 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I said just now I’ve never heard of Stanley water bottles - then my daughter said, but you have one & brought this down from my office.

Erm. Not a water bottle but ok busted 😜 I had no idea it was a Stanley tbh 🤦

sadly currently empty.

#writingcommunity #BookSky what would you put in it?
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Did some #Copilot #training #consultancy 2day for some money to allow me to #write 😜
In it I asked it to come up with 4 day plan for #Legoland #denmark & lelandia hotel & it came up with this after a few reprompts… eventually… 🤣
#writingcommunity how do you earn your magic beans if not from writing?
October 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Discovered a big diff re Word #Mac & Word #Windows.

On Windows, I can click & drag my chapters around in Document Map - the whole chapter moves. Mac? No, you can't do that.

Why! Sob.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #authorchat
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity - what irritating thing have you learnt today 😂
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for October 21st is "second"

From Pandora's Secret

Limo vs Bridge

#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
A few seconds later, the limousine entered the single-lane bridge and, in a scream of metal on metal that you could hear above the wind, engines and floodwaters, tore into and through the upstream side truss of the bridge. The meltwater below seemed to reach up and swallow the shattered metal truss as if it were an oversized Tic Tac.
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Weeeell that’s put a spanner in the works of a quick bit of #writing before jumping on a casting meeting. Bugger.

Hello Monday, you bastard, I see you.

How’s your day starting #writingcommunity?
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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The #WIPSnips word for October 18th is "dodge"

From Pandora's Secret once more

Col Shields on the run...

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
His mother’s body was about four blocks away to his right. He thought briefly about going to see her. But quickly dismissed the idea. He’d have to process all that later. Right now, they just needed to get the hell out of dodge
October 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM