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LauraBWrites
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They/Them. Librarian, Writer, Editor, RPGs
Cast on Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast (@techdiffpg / patreon.com/techdiffpodcast)
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#Goals for 2025

#write 500 words / day until draft is done, then #edit into a manuscript I'm happy with
#read 20 books off the to-read list
#cook through 5 cookbooks
keep the #blog up

#WriteSky 💙📚 #FoodSky #CookingSky #writingcommunity #reading #readers #books #culinary_vagabond #food #foodie
#Grateful for lazy evenings snuggling on the couch (as long as the dog leaves enough room!)
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
#Grateful that when my ability to Do ebbs for a bit, my partner can and does pick up the slack. I hope I do the same for them.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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A shape moved ahead, and though I was supposedly protected by the shield of gold, I startled backward into the wall. A black splotch shifted, deeper than any shadow.

In a blur of #movement, it scurried forward and into the flickering tongues of the firelight.

#WIPSnips
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#Grateful to currently be employed and not worrying about where the next paycheck will be coming from.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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New Episode! Sometimes, all it takes to change a character's perspective is a simple world-shattering transcendental experience.
Reign - Nagalisitu - Agents of ALIS - Part 34 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
In this combined two parter, first, Silent Reading has gone... somewhere after messing around in the ruins. He's going to go on a bit of a journey of discovery. In the second part, the rest of the Age...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
#Grateful for friends visiting!
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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New One Shot! It's a Trophy Dark game from @signalstation.bsky.social ! Sometimes you rob the grave, sometimes the grave robs you...
Trophy Dark - Die, Grave Robber, Die — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
This playthrough will include body horror, desecration of corpses, (off screen) violence to animals, and mind control. Listener discretion is advised. In a Victorian-type era, a well regarded person ...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
#Grateful for fun weekends with my kid
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
#WIPSnips | trial

It was rather a trial keeping her hands to herself when the white-and-black spotted rat was standing on its hind legs looking at her from the cage buckled in next to her. She was surprised how cute she found the little guys.

#WriteSky #AQR
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social)
Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 13th - 19th Please remember Alt Text on graphics & Trigger/Content warnings when necessary. Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine. As always, no…
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October 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#WIPSnips | dodge

Reagan losing popularity was just the icing on the not having to dodge a magical registration draft cake. Toasting ‘magic’ becoming the popular term… well, that felt like celebrating the NASA scientists’ misfortune of the piranha press descending on them.

#WriteSky #AQR
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social)
Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 13th - 19th Please remember Alt Text on graphics & Trigger/Content warnings when necessary. Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine. As always, no…
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October 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
#WIPSnips | loaf->bread

Carinen nodded at the dough, which he continued to forcefully shove and twist. He was certainly putting a lot of his feelings into the bread. They were going to get a highly developed gluten structure at this rate.

#WriteSky #AQR
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social)
Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 13th - 19th Please remember Alt Text on graphics & Trigger/Content warnings when necessary. Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine. As always, no…
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October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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New Episode! Borges imagined heaven would be a library. What would he have thought about a library that's made out of meat, run by a dragon, and highly addictive?
Heart - The Gorgon - Part 10 — Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast
In the campaign we deal with themes of body horror, cosmic horror, cptsd and ptsd, war, depression, debt, and more. Listener discretion is advised. The delvers get ever closer to the dragon's library...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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#WIPSnips Oct 16: Such a functionary word means plenty to choose from! This one's from a fairly early scene.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#WIPSnips |might

‘Dating’ a boy would be kinda rough on them. If they didn’t know it was a ruse to throw her parents off. They might get really mad at her, if they figured it out. All of them were taller and bigger than her.
Maybe one of the boys also needed to throw their parents off?

#WriteSky
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social)
Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 13th - 19th Please remember Alt Text on graphics & Trigger/Content warnings when necessary. Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine. As always, no…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025.

www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...
Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions
ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: contact@aroko.coop THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
#WIPSnips | care

Judith’s magic is twining through Carinen’s & flowing out between their fingers on the fabric.
They feel the love and the care and the magic in the weave. Something is there, hopefully what the stall keeper says it is.

#WriteSky #AQR
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social)
Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 13th - 19th Please remember Alt Text on graphics & Trigger/Content warnings when necessary. Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine. As always, no…
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October 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for October 14th is "ultimate"

#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#WIPSnips | ultimate
MC has some heavy thoughts on Christmas:

Was that how she saw God? As the ultimate principal of humanity, doling out punishments for misbehaving? What a ridiculous simplification.

#WriteSky #AQR
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social)
Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 13th - 19th Please remember Alt Text on graphics & Trigger/Content warnings when necessary. Synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine. As always, no…
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October 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#Grateful to be able to afford aging so far. (I got new glasses - now the proud owner of my first progressive lenses. Just don't ask me to tell you how close the curb is to my toes. Yet.)
October 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
#WIPSnips | push

Local agencies in the District of Columbia have been pushing back against the President’s declaration of a State of Emergency, complaining that the White House has not provided any guidance on what they expect the agencies to do

#WriteSky #AQR (might be a bit on the nose...)
October 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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And from my fantasy WIP for kids
Henry knew these monsters were on his side. Instinctively, he pushed his right foot forward and down on the front horn of the triceratops, as if it was an accelerator pedal. And the beast began to lumber forward.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#WIPSnips | hope

Letter to the MC's brother:

I hope Carrie and Vivian like their presents—Vivian is still easy to shop for, I just have to remember what I got Carrie at that age and not duplicate books! Hopefully Carrie doesn’t already have the explorer biographies I found for her.

#WriteSky #AQR
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social)
Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 6th through October 12th. They're not quite as fun as last week. 😂 Sorry for the super late post. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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October 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
#WIPSnips | welcome

“You know the house for sale down the street?” Judith asked. “There’s folks moving in now. We could take them some sauce and produce as a welcome to the neighborhood.”
“There’s a pair of witches two streets over,” Jenny said, frowning. “Don’t you give witches, uh, tribute?”
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social)
Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 6th through October 12th. They're not quite as fun as last week. 😂 Sorry for the super late post. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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October 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#WIPSnips | prize->bonus

Eric said, “but I might as well put my jerk dad’s insistence that I learn car maintenance and household handyman skills to use. Something something real men fix their own things. Bonus points for annoying him using them all for a dirty hippie commune’s benefit.”

#WriteSky
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social)
Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 6th through October 12th. They're not quite as fun as last week. 😂 Sorry for the super late post. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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October 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM