Melanie Stormm
@melstormm.bsky.social
Multiracial Saponi-Cherokee. Weird Fantasy & Weird Science Fantasy. Writer X @ File770. Last Poet of Wyrld’s End. Formerly of Keith Secola’s Wild Band of Indians. Goofy mom. I will post beadwork. Deal with it.
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While you're posting your award eligible stories, feel free to drop me links to your SFF works between 3400 and 5200 words as I'm still looking for stories for S13 of LeVar Burton Reads! (There are additional requirements so don't get too excited!)
December 15, 2023 at 8:38 PM
While you're posting your award eligible stories, feel free to drop me links to your SFF works between 3400 and 5200 words as I'm still looking for stories for S13 of LeVar Burton Reads! (There are additional requirements so don't get too excited!)
Why wear white when you can put your whole arm in a dirty saucepan?
December 8, 2023 at 9:13 PM
Why wear white when you can put your whole arm in a dirty saucepan?
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You don’t own digital content. As long as the companies can take it away without your consent, you’re just renting it. Buy physical whenever you can.
December 2, 2023 at 2:51 PM
You don’t own digital content. As long as the companies can take it away without your consent, you’re just renting it. Buy physical whenever you can.
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Buy my books! Found family, polyamory, spaceships! They make excellent holiday reading. You can get the straight from the publisher, a small press: www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/in-the-...
December 1, 2023 at 12:19 AM
Buy my books! Found family, polyamory, spaceships! They make excellent holiday reading. You can get the straight from the publisher, a small press: www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/in-the-...
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"Writing is editing" causes grumbles, yes, but if editing is viewed as flow and magnificence, you can start to have fun with it!
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November 25, 2023 at 1:10 PM
"Writing is editing" causes grumbles, yes, but if editing is viewed as flow and magnificence, you can start to have fun with it!
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Omg @sheasullivan.bsky.social. 😂
How To Be a Writer, #46763:
Day 1: Get up at 6 am to work on WIP
Day 2: Get up at 5 am to work on WIP and secondary project you just started
Day 3: Get up at 4 am to work on WIP, secondary project and new shiny thing you thought about while you were lying awake
Tea.
Day 1: Get up at 6 am to work on WIP
Day 2: Get up at 5 am to work on WIP and secondary project you just started
Day 3: Get up at 4 am to work on WIP, secondary project and new shiny thing you thought about while you were lying awake
Tea.
November 24, 2023 at 8:15 PM
Omg @sheasullivan.bsky.social. 😂
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🎵 Take a look, it's my right hook 🎵
November 16, 2023 at 6:41 PM
🎵 Take a look, it's my right hook 🎵
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If you’re faculty and a student isn’t showing up to class or turning in the work, 9 times out of 10, it isn’t about you. It’s easy to be righteously indignant and self important; it is harder to listen, and seek to understand the reasons behind students’ absenteeism.
November 2, 2023 at 4:47 PM
If you’re faculty and a student isn’t showing up to class or turning in the work, 9 times out of 10, it isn’t about you. It’s easy to be righteously indignant and self important; it is harder to listen, and seek to understand the reasons behind students’ absenteeism.
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Reminder that we are OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS all month! Send us STORIES!!!
It's (just about) November, friends, which means: we are OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS!
General subs call, so: fantasy stories <6k, originals or reprints. You can send one of each at a time, and submit as soon as you're rejected, so get sending!
Full guidelines linked below!
General subs call, so: fantasy stories <6k, originals or reprints. You can send one of each at a time, and submit as soon as you're rejected, so get sending!
Full guidelines linked below!
November 14, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Reminder that we are OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS all month! Send us STORIES!!!
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but wounds frequently pass as virtues. Have a peaceful rest of your day, and decolonize yourself with love and grace. ❤️
November 10, 2023 at 9:06 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but wounds frequently pass as virtues. Have a peaceful rest of your day, and decolonize yourself with love and grace. ❤️
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For my Nov 8th 🇨🇦 book I've loved, I'm sharing the fantastic 'Green Fuse Burning' by @tiffmorris.bsky.social! This one is dark, textured, introspective & absolutely unnerving!
November 8, 2023 at 2:45 PM
For my Nov 8th 🇨🇦 book I've loved, I'm sharing the fantastic 'Green Fuse Burning' by @tiffmorris.bsky.social! This one is dark, textured, introspective & absolutely unnerving!
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Check out @ClowderofTwo’s recommendations of “Interlude: Shelter From the Storm” by @RajivMote (@rajivmote.bsky.social) from @BCSmagazine and “A Name is a Plea and a Prophecy” by Gabrielle Emem Harry from @strangehorizons. See more short fiction recs - locusmag.com/2023/11...
Bluesky
See what's next.
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November 6, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Check out @ClowderofTwo’s recommendations of “Interlude: Shelter From the Storm” by @RajivMote (@rajivmote.bsky.social) from @BCSmagazine and “A Name is a Plea and a Prophecy” by Gabrielle Emem Harry from @strangehorizons. See more short fiction recs - locusmag.com/2023/11...
This week in Writer X: NaNoWriMo (or NaNoMoMo as X calls it) has begun. Unfortunately, X still doesn’t know what she’ll write for the month. Fortunately, some fellow fantasy writers have gone missing, and X and her demon BFF Tryxy are on the case!
Emails From Lake Woe-Is-Me — Fit the Ninety-Fifth
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November 6, 2023 at 5:03 PM
This week in Writer X: NaNoWriMo (or NaNoMoMo as X calls it) has begun. Unfortunately, X still doesn’t know what she’ll write for the month. Fortunately, some fellow fantasy writers have gone missing, and X and her demon BFF Tryxy are on the case!
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Thread for A Ruin of Shadows by @ellethevillain.bsky.social!
🧑🏿Older Black woman badass protagonist
🗡 Assassin army
🧞 Wise-cracking djinn
🦏 War rhinos
🏞 Lush world-building
⚔️ fighting, revenge, chases, escapes!
✨ a little bit of magic, a bit more gore
🧑🏿Older Black woman badass protagonist
🗡 Assassin army
🧞 Wise-cracking djinn
🦏 War rhinos
🏞 Lush world-building
⚔️ fighting, revenge, chases, escapes!
✨ a little bit of magic, a bit more gore
November 5, 2023 at 10:02 PM
Thread for A Ruin of Shadows by @ellethevillain.bsky.social!
🧑🏿Older Black woman badass protagonist
🗡 Assassin army
🧞 Wise-cracking djinn
🦏 War rhinos
🏞 Lush world-building
⚔️ fighting, revenge, chases, escapes!
✨ a little bit of magic, a bit more gore
🧑🏿Older Black woman badass protagonist
🗡 Assassin army
🧞 Wise-cracking djinn
🦏 War rhinos
🏞 Lush world-building
⚔️ fighting, revenge, chases, escapes!
✨ a little bit of magic, a bit more gore
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Folks should read this book.
November 5, 2023 at 2:02 PM
Folks should read this book.
Do you suffer from writing stories that have amazing vibes but never seem to go anywhere? Try Martin K. Hootey’s Conflict Drops! Learn why the BEST WRITERS trust Martin K. Hootey’s Conflict Drops.
This week in Writer X…
This week in Writer X…
Emails From Lake Woe-Is-Me — Fit the Ninety-Second
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October 10, 2023 at 6:07 PM
Do you suffer from writing stories that have amazing vibes but never seem to go anywhere? Try Martin K. Hootey’s Conflict Drops! Learn why the BEST WRITERS trust Martin K. Hootey’s Conflict Drops.
This week in Writer X…
This week in Writer X…
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And this plays into the flawed cultural notion that art is "easy" to make and therefore easy to replicate.
Bro excitement over “AI” art strikes me as another example of the notion that an “idea” is worth more than execution, as in “I’ll give you my idea, you write it, and we’ll split the proceeds 50/50.”
Ideas are cheap. The execution of ideas is the part that takes skill, & skill that makes great art.
Ideas are cheap. The execution of ideas is the part that takes skill, & skill that makes great art.
October 1, 2023 at 7:06 PM
And this plays into the flawed cultural notion that art is "easy" to make and therefore easy to replicate.
Fifth day with NO VOICE 😫😫😫
This has exposed major gaps in my parenting approaches. I’m realizing I never taught my kids basic sign. Either that, or I have, and they’re pretending I didn’t. 🧐
This has exposed major gaps in my parenting approaches. I’m realizing I never taught my kids basic sign. Either that, or I have, and they’re pretending I didn’t. 🧐
October 1, 2023 at 7:28 PM
Fifth day with NO VOICE 😫😫😫
This has exposed major gaps in my parenting approaches. I’m realizing I never taught my kids basic sign. Either that, or I have, and they’re pretending I didn’t. 🧐
This has exposed major gaps in my parenting approaches. I’m realizing I never taught my kids basic sign. Either that, or I have, and they’re pretending I didn’t. 🧐
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My new Genre Grapevine is out and examines why X, formerly known as Twitter, is driving the genre community to Bluesky and should be called X-Twitter (spoiler, X-Twitter is dying). Also tons of other news on AI, genre magazines, book bans, and much more! www.patreon.com/posts/90100302
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September 30, 2023 at 9:10 PM
My new Genre Grapevine is out and examines why X, formerly known as Twitter, is driving the genre community to Bluesky and should be called X-Twitter (spoiler, X-Twitter is dying). Also tons of other news on AI, genre magazines, book bans, and much more! www.patreon.com/posts/90100302