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J Giordano - Writer
@jgiordano.bsky.social
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✨ fantasy writer
🎨 amateur painter
🍃 enthusiastic procrastinator

balancing my joy with my passions and finding the time to wallow, when I can.
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Her (Halloween) szn may be past, but Sesame remains an excellent writing companion 🐈‍⬛

#writingcommunity #fantasywriters
Black cat napping next to my leg, on top of a gray and white cozy blanket. Laptop on my lap ready to be written in!
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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spent a dreamy week roaming Scotland with my favorite writers 🤍 take me back now, please

#writingcommunity #TMSL
A grassy knoll with trees and bushes illuminated by a pale sunset. Mountains in the background dusty with light and mist. Sky filled with fluffy, heavy clouds.
October 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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waking up in a city of writers with my writing group is so dreamy I can hardly believe it

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity
Image of Edinburgh Castle on a cloudy day from far below, moody and lightly dark
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Places I’d like to live pts 1 to 3 ⛅️ bottom came out wonky, top right is from a tutorial, and I’m happy with them all!

#amateurpainter #gouache #landscape #painting
October 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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If autumn would move along and be done with all this unseasonable 75° weather, my writer’s heart would be content 🤍

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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THE MOST HEARTFELT CONGRATS TO MY BEST FRIEND OF 25 YEARS who absolutely deserves the world!!!! @alexishatcher.bsky.social 🫶🏼 cannot wait for the world to experience your beautiful words + thoughtful characters.

Plz zoom for the deets bc DANG they’re impressive 👏🏼

#writingcommunity #fantasy #kidlit
September 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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The ideal time for a reboot is ~not~ when I’m trying to join #5amwritersclub 😅
June 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Soaking into my last Sesame-cuddles before I take my writing on vacation with me 🏝️

#5amwritersclub #alittlelate
Sesame, a black cat, is curled up on my lap at my desk. My keys board is across my lap as well - she loves to get in the way. Forever trying to sneak in black cats within each fantasy I write.
May 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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For me, it’s Friday. Which makes this an excellent #5amwritersclub 👏🏼
A sunrise over a farm town. Blue and yellow orange sky with dashes of clouds in funny dotted line patterns.
May 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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nothing like some seasonal allergies to get you out of bed and to the writing desk ✍️

#5amwritersclub
A close up of a magnolia tree in bloom. Pink and white petals against a bright blue sky. They’re my favorite type of flowering tree. Whenever I see one I make it a mission to go closer.
May 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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A not-aesthetically-pleasing progress pic of this gouache cutie that I’ve been slowing building on over the last week. Trying to find the right paint consistency has been the hardest (+funnest!) part for me 🖼️

Coming from a tutorial by Paul Clark !

#gouache #painting #learntopaint
A gouache painting still in progress, with tape laid along the edges. The painting depicts a boat on solid ground beside a red-roofed seaside house, along cobbled streets. The background consists of a blue sky with (poorly done lol) fluffy clouds and the ocean.
April 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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First morning in days that I’ve managed to pop up to write 🌞 let’s see if my brain will catch up with my body today

#5amwritersclub
Sesame, a black cat, stares into the distance (probably at a ghost or a speck of dust) while my laptop with scrivener pulled up rests on my lap. My lemon blanket and large plant look cute, I think!
April 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Good morning ☀️ I snoozed twice before Sesame 🐈‍⬛ started scratching at the door, telling me it was time to write already.

#5amwritersclub
Dark bed with open laptop beside a sky with the rising sun.
April 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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We’ve got:

✅ scrivener primed + ready
✅ curled up Sesame
✅ a wild desire to complete something half decent this year

Now we hope 🤞🏼 it’s enough

#5amwritersclub
Sesame, my roommate’s black cat, is curled up on a dark gray duvet cover. My black laptop is resting in my lap with Scrivener pulled up. Extra cozy, extra ready to write some fantasy!
April 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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And dare I say… today’s a writing-in-bed kind of day ?!

#5amwritersclub
A pink duvet cover and white sheets mildly resemble ocean waves crashing on a shore. It’s my bed, and it’s lovely!
April 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Any advice on how to not snooze that first alarm would be appreciated 😴 #5amwritersclub
Sesame, a black cat, nestled within a blanket and looking cozy.
April 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Sesame 🐈‍⬛ is enjoying the view and I’m enjoying some lovely beta reading

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #fantasywriting
Sesame, a black cat, perched on her cushioned window seat starting at a sunrise. Very faint mountains in the background backlit by a yellow, orange, purple sky.
March 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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I write because I have to, because the words die if they’re not put to page, because creation is an act of rebellion + growth.

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity
Skyward image of Glasgow, with a moody, darkening sky still alight, and a clock tower illuminated against a dark building
March 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Good morning, good writing, good luck 🖤

#5amwritersclub
A dusky sky over Glasgow. City street lined with buildings and cars, with a yellow and gray sky.
March 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Wasted 7.5 hours sleeping instead of working on my @nycmidnight.bsky.social microfiction challenge.

Time to catch up! 🙈 #amwriting #writingcommunity
A cafe table with a glass of iced matcha, an oatmeal raisin cookie being broken apart by my mom, and a cast iron tea pot with ceramic mug of earl grey tea.
March 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Today’s day off in two pics:
Sesame the black cat snuggles on ~her~ bed (roommate’s bed lol). Wall with multiple pictures and prints in the background. Bed has brown knit blanket as well as vivid green and pink blankets/pillow. Me myself and I in a silly mirror selfie, featuring a white top and my favorite cozy tan pants. My golden pothos and other plant (I don’t know the name!) are off to the left, and a weaving I made years ago hangs on the right.
March 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Any tips+tricks for how to get out of bed when it’s the perfect cozy temperature would be appreciated 😴

#5amwritersclub
Shannon Chakraborty’s book The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi rests on top of a dark gray comforter, illuminated by the pale morning light from the nearby window. A second blanket is curled up beneath the book. The whole thing looks cozy and dark and lowkey irresistible.
March 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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One of my favorite pages in my notebook. These were done within the first few days of trying gouache and I was instantly hooked by the creamy, opaque vividness.

I’m always happy to be bad at something if it means I get to learn.

#gouache #learningtopaint
Three paintings over two pages of a notebook opened in front of a street. One is an orange on black background with orange and white dotted lines around it. Center is a pink and blue sunset with highlights of mauve and black. Right is a series of thick squiggly lines outlined by black and highlighted with white.
March 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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The most moody dreamy cozy rainy morning there ever dang was 🌧️ time to put some words to paper

#5amwritersclub #amwriting
A dark room with leafy plants facing a window. Through the window the world looks gray and rainy but cozy.
March 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A would-be co-writer, or a menacing, cuddly distraction?

Tbd, depending on how easy these words flow today 🫠

#writingcommunity #amwriting
A black cat curled up atop a blanket over author’s legs. An overly cozy looking moment that may be the author’s downfall as she’s right where the laptop is meant to be.
March 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM