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Danielle R. Norman
@dnormanwrites.bsky.social
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She / Her

https://substack.com/@dnormanwrites
https://www.daniellenormanwrites.com/

I write things.
I teach things
I try to learn all the things.
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This frees up my original copy for gift giving
A hand holding the delux hardback edition of This Is How You Lose A Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Mother Nature has blessed us with a surprise night painting.
A large band of pink and blue/turquoise northern lights are visible above some trees and a house.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Possibly it’s time for a new copy
The cover of a well loved Penguin Classics translation of The Count of Monte Cristo. Pages are falling out and the cover is taped together. The back of a well loved Penguin Classics translation of The Count of Monte Cristo. The spine is ripped and the pages are falling out.
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Giving this little lady extra snuggles tonight after losing her brother.
A black dog is curled up between two humans who are watching tv on an iPad. The pup is asleep.
October 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Today our family had to make the awful decision to let our 12 year old Gromit go. Absolutely heartbroken over here 💔💔💔
A profile portrait of a black standard poodle panting and smiling.
October 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Follow up
Storm clouds over mountains.
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Mother Nature was painting this morning.
A picture of storm clouds over mountains. The sunrise is turning the bottoms of the clouds orange and red. It looks like they are on fire.
October 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Feelin’ fierce with a great hairdo

#chickensky #backyardchickens
A brown and black chicken strides confidently through the frame while turning to glare at the camera and showing off her hilarious crest.
July 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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The favorite nesting box is the 5-gallon bucket we tossed in after they rejected the four beautiful wooden ones we made for them.

#chickensky #chickens
4 grumpy looking hens stuffed into a white 5 gallon bucket. They are there willingly.
June 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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A beautiful sight.

#chickensky #rainboweggs
A vertical row of eggs arranged according to color. They go from deep green to blue to light blue to white and light brown and end with a red brown egg.
June 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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A little #foundpoetry this evening. Check out my newest substack article for the dedication story of this poem as well as a super exciting announcement. Here I come #writingexcuses cruise!
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#foundpoem #aspiringauthor #writer
The page of a book is blacked out to reveal a few words forming a poem - these are called "found poems". This poem reads: There is dark beauty here where moose and grizzlies dwell. Travel mountains with rainy skies or settle down in creekside thickets of alder, willow and birch. You stand atop a land that will remain forever wild.
June 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The canine overlords demand attention.
Picture is taken facing a ceiling and two black poodle are staring down at the camera.
May 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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My kids always get a book or two for Easter. I’ve been saving this one for the right time to gift it. Now is the time.

#shepersisted #daughters #women
Book cover of the picture book She Persisted, written by Chelsea Clinton and Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger The last page of the book showing three little girls looking at portraits of women from the book. The text reads: “So, if anyone ever tells you no, if anyone ever says your voice isn’t important or your dreams are too big, remember these women. They Persisted, and so should you.”
April 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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My career counseling appointment with Toni was a delight - you can read what she said to me in the About Me section of my website. She’s lovely and I’m really excited for the style guide she talks about in this episode!

#writer #writersky #wotf #writersofthefuture
A screen shot of the cover of episode 317 of The Writers of the Future Podcast. Titled Toni Weisskopf, Baen Books, on the Future of Publishing. Includes a photo of Toni
March 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#hope #poetry
Poem by Joesph Fasano There are still your stories, still stars in the pine trees. There are still children making their way back from school, trying not to step on cracks in the sidewalk, believing it matters. There are still mothers kneeling in the ruins, promising the gunshots aren’t coming. There are still fathers alone in the night, the wounds in them like mule-deer in the orchards, trying not to clack their antlers. There is still the heart, the moon. Come, loves, let’s stand here after madness. The world is not over, only broken. There are old books, there are horses in the lemon trees. There are children, still, waiting in the classrooms, looking up with tired eyes full of wonder. Look at them. There is work we have to do.
March 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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This little lady is one of The Nuns and is grumpy that her sister got chicks and she didn’t. As revenge, she keeps breaking into the garden and then can’t get back out.

#chickensky #chickens
A hand holding a black and white bantam hen. Her coloring resembles a nun’s habit.
March 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I didn’t get to see the eclipse because of the storm, but the moon above my trees this morning was magical.
Moon in a dawn sky over snow covered trees
March 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Chicken said “nope!”
Image of chicken footprints in the snow leading out of the coop door and then right back in again.
March 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Just unwrapped this beauty! Can’t wait to #bookclub it with @michaellaborn.bsky.social!!
A hand holding the novel Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
March 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Image is split in half with a yellow stripe on the bottom, blue on top in Ukrainian colors. A young girl holding a large sunflower with a peace sign in the center is drawn in yellow on the blue stripe. Blue lettering on the yellow stripe says PEACE and the artist’s name Peter H. Reynold.
March 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Chicken probability means these littles will be roosters.
Two fluffy baby chicks snuggled in a hand.
March 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Million dollar baby!! Welcome to flock. 🐥🐓🥚
#chickensky ?
A hand holds a fluffy newly hatched chick.
March 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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#writing #writer
February 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Trying to explain to these ladies that we could be millionaires if they’d stop being broody. It’s a terrible time for babies anyway.
January 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Some writer’s humor
January 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM