SSkeel.Writer
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Favourite line ever came from Alice's Caterpillar: "Whooo are youu?" Still working on that one. Learning from the greats: Poe, Philip Roth, Coetzee, Lawrence Durrell, Anthony Burgess, Peter Cary, Ian McEwan ... #writerslife #writing
Bit disappointed with #DavidSzalays #Flesh as @thebookerprizes.com winner. Read that and #TheLandinWinter and felt Andrew Miller's book was unique and exemplary. Flesh was fun. .... #writingcommunity #books #writers #greatbooks #blueskybooks
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Bit disappointed with #DavidSzalays #Flesh as @thebookerprizes.com winner. Read that and #TheLandinWinter and felt Andrew Miller's book was unique and exemplary. Flesh was fun. .... #writingcommunity #books #writers #greatbooks #blueskybooks
Now for something different. For #writers a form of meditation that is captivating in its reality and honesty. #BenMarkovits tells a tale many may relate to. Love it. #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #books
October 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Now for something different. For #writers a form of meditation that is captivating in its reality and honesty. #BenMarkovits tells a tale many may relate to. Love it. #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #books
Acerbic wit at its best is shown by one of the main characters in Stephen Benatar book When I was Otherwise. You'll positively wince....and laugh. Red hot! #writingcommunity #writing #books #blueskybooks #amwriting
October 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Acerbic wit at its best is shown by one of the main characters in Stephen Benatar book When I was Otherwise. You'll positively wince....and laugh. Red hot! #writingcommunity #writing #books #blueskybooks #amwriting
A good friend in California Sent out 45 queries over many months to #literaryagents for her novel. And she just got asked for the full script by one! Keep at it fellow writer Rottweillers! #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife #books #writing
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October 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A good friend in California Sent out 45 queries over many months to #literaryagents for her novel. And she just got asked for the full script by one! Keep at it fellow writer Rottweillers! #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife #books #writing
#Quilt my oldest,dearest friend from #Canada (home of the free!) made for me. Quite something isn't it? #happymonday, #writing community #writing #writers life #amwriting
October 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
#Quilt my oldest,dearest friend from #Canada (home of the free!) made for me. Quite something isn't it? #happymonday, #writing community #writing #writers life #amwriting
This man is WILD! #willself rips out your funny bone and chews it to oblivion. Just keep a #dictionary on hand. Highly recommended. #books #blueskybooks #writingcommunity #writers #amwriting
October 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This man is WILD! #willself rips out your funny bone and chews it to oblivion. Just keep a #dictionary on hand. Highly recommended. #books #blueskybooks #writingcommunity #writers #amwriting
How about that. Just on a London tube and seated were: 3 people reading #BOOKS, 10 staring into space or on headphones. Only THREE on their phones. A quiet revolution.? #writingcommunity #writerslife
September 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
How about that. Just on a London tube and seated were: 3 people reading #BOOKS, 10 staring into space or on headphones. Only THREE on their phones. A quiet revolution.? #writingcommunity #writerslife
Writer #WillSelf is a riot. Take this description of an #Anglican church out of his #book Liver: "with their tepid air of state assisted piety". And the #Catholic : "musty battlefields where lust and repression fought it out, in the process of torturing wooden effigies". #writingcommunity #writing
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
September 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
Enough of the mad orangutan. Time for #Goodbooks! Oldie but goodie this one. @marksarvas.bsky.social presented this in class as a good eg. Of subtext. Writers take note. #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #writerslife #blueskybooks
September 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Enough of the mad orangutan. Time for #Goodbooks! Oldie but goodie this one. @marksarvas.bsky.social presented this in class as a good eg. Of subtext. Writers take note. #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #writerslife #blueskybooks
Cutting funds, controlling material....Trump does not want children educated to think for themselves. #writingcommunity #education #trump
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Trump’s war on America’s schools
The US president wants to destroy them, but most Americans still support them
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September 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Cutting funds, controlling material....Trump does not want children educated to think for themselves. #writingcommunity #education #trump
#richardrusso writes people like noone else. A few sentences and I care about them. An artist! #writing #writingcommunity #books #greatbooks #writerslife #blueskybooks
September 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#richardrusso writes people like noone else. A few sentences and I care about them. An artist! #writing #writingcommunity #books #greatbooks #writerslife #blueskybooks
Perfect novel sentence - 'He and Paula had been married for 30 years, thanks in large part to a mutual willingness to let an arched eyebrow do the heavy lifting of a soliloquy." #richardrusso in Trajectory. #writingcommunity #amwriting #perfectsentence #writing #greatbooks Got to 😍
August 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Perfect novel sentence - 'He and Paula had been married for 30 years, thanks in large part to a mutual willingness to let an arched eyebrow do the heavy lifting of a soliloquy." #richardrusso in Trajectory. #writingcommunity #amwriting #perfectsentence #writing #greatbooks Got to 😍
Love these #pictograms at #Japanhouse in #London. They've ruled!! from hieroglyphics to the #Olympicgames to #emojis. #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscafe
August 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Love these #pictograms at #Japanhouse in #London. They've ruled!! from hieroglyphics to the #Olympicgames to #emojis. #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscafe
Where are all the children? And the parents? I was at a fairground in #hampsteadheath yesterday and hardly any of the rides had kids. Are fairs passe? Beaten out by computer games? So sad. #writingcommunity, #kids #amwriting #fun #writerscafe
August 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Where are all the children? And the parents? I was at a fairground in #hampsteadheath yesterday and hardly any of the rides had kids. Are fairs passe? Beaten out by computer games? So sad. #writingcommunity, #kids #amwriting #fun #writerscafe
#Bookerprize nominee? This is far from Percival Everetts best book. I feel the Booker is now more about politics than excellent writing. Yeah? Nay? #writingcommunity #books #booksky #writing #bookprizes
July 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#Bookerprize nominee? This is far from Percival Everetts best book. I feel the Booker is now more about politics than excellent writing. Yeah? Nay? #writingcommunity #books #booksky #writing #bookprizes
How the big booze brands survived prohibition. Or at least it was a good front. #writingcommunity #innovation #drinking
July 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
How the big booze brands survived prohibition. Or at least it was a good front. #writingcommunity #innovation #drinking
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Okay. Y'GOTTA read this book #GoingHome by @tomlamont.bsky.social Rare I say that, but if you write, if you love to read, to think, to know a life, this is it kids! #writingcommunity #books #writing #writerslife
July 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Okay. Y'GOTTA read this book #GoingHome by @tomlamont.bsky.social Rare I say that, but if you write, if you love to read, to think, to know a life, this is it kids! #writingcommunity #books #writing #writerslife
Stumbled on this George Rodrigue exhibition in New Orleans. Not a soul in the room! Just all these Blue Dogs. #writingcommunity #writerslife
July 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Stumbled on this George Rodrigue exhibition in New Orleans. Not a soul in the room! Just all these Blue Dogs. #writingcommunity #writerslife
Exploring the old plantation homes in Louisiana. Has anything changed? #writingcommunity #amwriting
July 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Exploring the old plantation homes in Louisiana. Has anything changed? #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Surprise, surprise
Notice how troops were sent to LA for political theater, but none were sent to Texas to help find the missing people who were swept away in the flood?
July 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Surprise, surprise
Love #KingCharles for his speech in #Canada He says, The True North Remains Strong and Free. APPLAUSE. Yeah man!!! #politics #trump #writingcommunity
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May 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Love #KingCharles for his speech in #Canada He says, The True North Remains Strong and Free. APPLAUSE. Yeah man!!! #politics #trump #writingcommunity
I was wondering where all this junk was from on my feed. Then realized I was on X. Glad to be done with it. #writingcommunity #writerslife
May 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I was wondering where all this junk was from on my feed. Then realized I was on X. Glad to be done with it. #writingcommunity #writerslife