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Pitching a Novel Idea

Something was wrong with my novel pitch. Although my initial hook felt right, it wasn’t expressing the my work's essence in a captivating way. It needed reworking. And fast.
Pitching a Novel Idea
Something was wrong with my novel pitch. Although my initial hook felt right, it wasn’t expressing the my work's essence in a captivating way. It needed reworking. And fast.
meredithwadleycom.wordpress.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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quinncy.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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meredithwadley.bsky.social
I’ve ridden past Jägern, solo in their ladder stands, guns in camouflaged laps. We don’t acknowledge each other.

A new musing is up for the month of April, "A Black Forest Ride." Enjoy!
A Black Forest Ride
Me on Justin, ready for a ride in the Black Forest. Clop, clop, clop, clop, Justin’s relaxed four-beat gait, the walk. We’re on a two-track path in the southernmost reaches of the Black Forest. It’s a lazy September Saturday, warm but seasonally free of deer and horse flies and their nasty bites; biting flies don’t just go for horseflesh. The forest air is a touch too cool.
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April 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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meredithwadley.bsky.social
Enjoy my musing for April and thanks for reading!
www.meredithwadley.substack.com

#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction #flashnonfiction #personalessay #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literarynonfiction #horses #warmbloods #Germany #BlackForest #WIP #writersky #authorsky
A horse and rider in a stableyard. The horse is a tall brown and white warmblood in English tack. The rider is dressed for a casual hack.
April 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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mndymn.bsky.social
I know they are already ignoring congressional directives re funding, but it's getting even sneakier. Alt text added to images, read the thread for more! #RAdminSky
News article discussing Russ Vought's statements on a federal budget website decision. Transcribed Text: Vought pulls the plug — White House Budget Director Russ Vought has divulged that the Trump administration won’t be reviving the apportionments website after abruptly shuttering it last week. In a one-page letter to Washington Sen. Patty Murray, Vought told the Senate’s top Democratic appropriator that OMB “will no longer operate and maintain” the publicly available system that shows how the budget office is directing agencies to spend federal dollars. “Candor” killer — Vought argues that the Trump administration can’t share the spending guidance with taxpayers because it includes “sensitive, predecisional, and deliberative information," and that the disclosure has “a chilling effect” on the Trump administration’s “deliberations.” Sharing that information has “already adversely impacted the candor” of OMB communications with agencies and “undermined” the budget office’s “effectiveness in supervising agency spending,” the budget director wrote, adding that posting the information might also “pose a danger to national security and foreign policy.” Official letter from the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, dated March 29, 2025, addressed to Vice Chair Patty Murray. Transcribed Text: EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 THE DIRECTOR March 29, 2025 The Honorable Patty Murray Vice Chair Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Vice Chair Murray: I write to inform you that the Office of Management and Budget will no longer operate and maintain the publicly available automated system to which apportionments are posted envisioned in section 204 of division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. OMB has determined that it can no longer operate and maintain this system because it requires the disclosure of sensitive, predecisional, and deliberative information. By their nature, apportionments and footnotes contain predecisional and deliberative information because they are interim decisions based on current circumstances and needs, and may be (and are) frequently changed as those circumstances change. Such disclosures have a chilling effect on the deliberations within the Executive Branch. Indeed, these disclosure provisions have already adversely impacted the candor contained in OMB's communications with agencies and have undermined OMB’s effectiveness in supervising agency spending. Moreover, apportionments may contain sensitive information, the automatic public disclosure of which may pose a danger to national security and foreign policy. I value OMB's longstanding relationship with the Committee and I am committed to working with you to provide information on apportionments that may be of interest to the Committee. Sincerely, [Signature] Russell T. Vought Director
April 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
Israeli forces murdered 15 paramedics & ambulance/civil defence workers in Gaza & buried the bodies alongside their wrecked emergency vehicles.

The UK govt is supporting, arming & militarily assisting Israel to commit these war crimes.
March 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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alnaaze.bsky.social
Former MSF President Joanne Liu's presentation at NYU was cancelled because it showed the data on the number of aid workers killed around the world, the highest number being in Gaza. This was considered antisemitic. I should be surprised and shocked, but I'm not.
www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...
Ma présentation a été annulée par l’Université de New York
Mon «alma mater» a préféré jouer de surobéissance préventive pour ne pas froisser le gouvernement Trump.
www.ledevoir.com
March 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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threnody.bsky.social
i drop this when people are prone to click through to outrage bait in the nyt.

1—DON’T. that’ll make it the best performing piece of the day.

2—you don’t need to read it; jesse singal is a bigot who, like nyt, worked hard to foment this attack on trans kids

3—the nyt has always been like this
March 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
tracy-nz.bsky.social
I will enjoy bluesky if they ever enable an option to pick up where I left off in my feed.
March 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
tracy-nz.bsky.social
If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky
March 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
tracy-nz.bsky.social
I watched Adolescence last week so now my news feed is partly articles about the filming of it -- which is fascinating -- and partly by editorials from The Spectator furiously leaping through all sorts of hoops to explain that toxic masculinity is not a (or the) problem.
March 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
February 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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crowbar.wtf
We’re in Ballarat!

Where’s the best bakery?

Come see us at the market in Barkly Square ❤️🌈
February 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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crowbar.wtf
Shout out to our table neighbours (who we often see at the Gay Pride Market)

Venetia Illustrations - they do original art prints, cards & now totes.

Next at Coburg Makers Market.
February 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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crowbar.wtf
And Brick Netty who does these amazing LEGO collages among other LEGO things.

See their stuff on IG www.instagram.com/bricknetty?i...
February 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
tracy-nz.bsky.social
Movies you've watched more than six times, using only gifs.
February 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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kaitlinfelix.bsky.social
Another review for RAN'S DAUGHTERS 🗡🪓🔥⚔️
@soulchaserbecky.bsky.social is an incredible reviewer and podcaster, and I'm so thankful for her awesome review!

READ HERE: ⬇️
beckybookwyrm.blogspot.com/2025/02/beck...

#bookreview #ransdaughters #viking #histfic #blurb
Becky Bookworm Book Review: Ran's Daughters by Kaitlin Felix
Gyda Fiskwif and her all-women crew of Viking merchants set out to Al-Andalus only to discover that treachery, rather than treasure, lies ...
beckybookwyrm.blogspot.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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February 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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tom-phillips.com
going to post a largely out-of-context quote from my book every day until it's out

(if you would like the context, here is how to get, at least, some of it linktr.ee/endofthefcki...)
A quote from the book 'A Brief History of the End of the Fucking World': "...a habitual scammer with a severe conscience deficit and a low regard for the feelings of poultry, she had been inspired to stick doomsday eggs up a hen’s arse by another apocalyptic prophet..."
February 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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louismirante.bsky.social
Trans people belong in America and I love them as my friends and family. I hope every trans person knows that for each person who hates them that there are more in this country who love them, as we all strive to love all our neighbors.
February 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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tom-phillips.com
My new book is out in two weeks.

It's about the past and future of the apocalypse - how we've spent thousands years of history believing that history wouldn't be around much longer.

You can buy it here: linktr.ee/endofthefcki... Pre-orders, if course, help enormously with the algorithm gods.
Promotional image for the book "A Brief History of the End of the Fucking World". It says "The End is nigh" above a picture of the hardback book and the title, followed by the release date: "February 27, 2025“. It then helpfully clarifies that "That's the book's release date, not the end of the world. Hopefully."
February 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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rickgregory.me
Katie this account, among others, is blocked by the very good content scrapers block list - bsky.app/profile/cont... and I'd encourage folks to use that list to deny these folks attention
February 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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kibblesmith.com
Job: Hey god you killed like literally all of my kids what’s up with that

God: How dare you speak that way to the inventor of the hippopotamus
February 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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kakaruwai.bsky.social
Is this the world's first kowhai moth detecting cat?!? I'm collecting larvae at home to rear at the lab for an ecology project. Pepper helps find the ones that drop to the ground. #entomology #predatorfreenz #kowhai #bugs #catswithjobs #indoorcat
February 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
tracy-nz.bsky.social
Ok, tips for opening bluesky and not being sent to the newest post please and thank you
February 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM