Harriet Ward
@harrietward.bsky.social
writer, world traveler, some assorted other things.
27 | She/Her | I feel like there should be a third one so I wrote this
All photos taken by me.
27 | She/Her | I feel like there should be a third one so I wrote this
All photos taken by me.
September 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Fireworks off dadaocheng park. The crowd was absolutely insane
September 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Fireworks off dadaocheng park. The crowd was absolutely insane
I think I'm going to pause short fiction for a little while to focus on editing my novels. I'm so close to done at this point, one of them will be ready for pitching after this last revision 🤞
September 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I think I'm going to pause short fiction for a little while to focus on editing my novels. I'm so close to done at this point, one of them will be ready for pitching after this last revision 🤞
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This writer must be having the most batshit day
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...
www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...
We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
www.jezebel.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This writer must be having the most batshit day
My first published story is up in Quills and Tales magazine! You can subscribe for free to get it and the rest of the issue in your inbox.
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Quills & Tales
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August 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My first published story is up in Quills and Tales magazine! You can subscribe for free to get it and the rest of the issue in your inbox.
quills-tales.kit.com/signup
quills-tales.kit.com/signup
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"moby dick" is how fans shorten the title it's actualy mobile suit richard
August 21, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"moby dick" is how fans shorten the title it's actualy mobile suit richard
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DO SOMETHING ALREADY, the writer yelled, hoping for action, choice, revelation. His characters did not hear, lost as they were in pages and pages of senseless interiority, dreaming of sprawling backstories, of dialogue they decided not to say and of things they would not actually do, ever ever ever.
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
DO SOMETHING ALREADY, the writer yelled, hoping for action, choice, revelation. His characters did not hear, lost as they were in pages and pages of senseless interiority, dreaming of sprawling backstories, of dialogue they decided not to say and of things they would not actually do, ever ever ever.
Salted almond ice cream and specialty coffee in Taipei
August 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Salted almond ice cream and specialty coffee in Taipei
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*first day of class
“Hey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*”
*Milton’s Paradise Lost
“Hey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*”
*Milton’s Paradise Lost
August 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
*first day of class
“Hey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*”
*Milton’s Paradise Lost
“Hey, everyone, if you liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, you will LOVE our first text!*”
*Milton’s Paradise Lost
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I installed a camera to see what was going on with our water feature that kept being taken apart at night (I recently filled it with rocks with a central fountain so it wouldn’t be constantly muddy), figuring I’d see a raccoon. I hadn’t expected an all-night pool party! 😂
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝
August 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I installed a camera to see what was going on with our water feature that kept being taken apart at night (I recently filled it with rocks with a central fountain so it wouldn’t be constantly muddy), figuring I’d see a raccoon. I hadn’t expected an all-night pool party! 😂
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝
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Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
July 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
<3 I just got my first acceptance
July 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
<3 I just got my first acceptance
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A modest request: can we just not with “smut” as a popular term for romance novels? Especially in a moment when queer authors are being called pornographers for just writing?
July 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A modest request: can we just not with “smut” as a popular term for romance novels? Especially in a moment when queer authors are being called pornographers for just writing?
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Sunrise pictures from my apartment window. I really need to go on a sunrise or sunset hike and take pics before I leave...
July 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sunrise pictures from my apartment window. I really need to go on a sunrise or sunset hike and take pics before I leave...
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Page One in Scotland.
July 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Page One in Scotland.
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Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP
July 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP
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Samwise Gamgee would be proud of Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Samwise Gamgee would be proud of Stephen Colbert.
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You're laughing? Someone who pretended to write a book but didn't want to do any work used a program that pretended to write a book but didn't do any work, and you're laughing??
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
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July 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
You're laughing? Someone who pretended to write a book but didn't want to do any work used a program that pretended to write a book but didn't do any work, and you're laughing??
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Throwback to 2019 (🤮) when @katbaumann.bsky.social and I made this little short comic about love, depression, ghosts, and the end of the world: THE LOVE REMAINS.
July 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Throwback to 2019 (🤮) when @katbaumann.bsky.social and I made this little short comic about love, depression, ghosts, and the end of the world: THE LOVE REMAINS.
John Scalzi was really onto something with the setting design in Annihilation. Why make everything grim and bleary when you have reality bending at your fingertips? My eldritch abomination turned the world neon and pastel.
July 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
John Scalzi was really onto something with the setting design in Annihilation. Why make everything grim and bleary when you have reality bending at your fingertips? My eldritch abomination turned the world neon and pastel.
Which means. That I need to try query agents interested in fantasy romances that don't follow the romantasy formula or have much in the way of "heat". Battles: I've picked one. 😅 If anyone has any suggestions, hmu
July 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Which means. That I need to try query agents interested in fantasy romances that don't follow the romantasy formula or have much in the way of "heat". Battles: I've picked one. 😅 If anyone has any suggestions, hmu
I'm considering marketing the novel I'm querying as an ace-spectrum fantasy romance because I'm ace spectrum and, while I appreciate why people like it, have zero interest in adding spice or a more sexual focus to my novel
July 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm considering marketing the novel I'm querying as an ace-spectrum fantasy romance because I'm ace spectrum and, while I appreciate why people like it, have zero interest in adding spice or a more sexual focus to my novel
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Important.
Incredibly important report on AI training & copyright released today by the European Commission. It gets lots right, slamming the idea that creators should be required to opt-out of having their works used for free by AI companies.
It says:
- Generative AI must be based on opt-in consent
🧵 1/n
It says:
- Generative AI must be based on opt-in consent
🧵 1/n
July 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Important.
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Another great story from Vajra Chandrasekera and from Sunday Morning Transport; all the stories they're publishing this month are free to read and you should freely read this one when you get the chance:
Death and Liquidity Under the New Moon
It’s our fourth July bringing you four great, free, Sunday Morning short stories!
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Another great story from Vajra Chandrasekera and from Sunday Morning Transport; all the stories they're publishing this month are free to read and you should freely read this one when you get the chance: