Vivian Park
@vivianpark.bsky.social
Professional nerd by day. Amateur historian, costume & jewelry enthusiast, romance/fantasy/mystery writer.
Another stop on my upcoming vacation museum tour will be the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. I've wanted to go there for a long time. art.thewalters.org/object/57.876/ #HistoricalRomance #AmWritingRomance
Chatelaine (Ornamental Chain) with the Figure of Judith with the Head of Holofernes | The Walters Art Museum
Online Collection
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April 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Another stop on my upcoming vacation museum tour will be the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. I've wanted to go there for a long time. art.thewalters.org/object/57.876/ #HistoricalRomance #AmWritingRomance
Another thing I'm planning for my vacation is a long overdue return visit to the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman museum. They have an amazing virtual tour online my.matterport.com/show/?m=TXcF..., but there's nothing like going in person. #HistoricalWriters #AmWriting
Explore Welcome To The Banneker - Douglass - Tubman Museum Annapolis, MD in 3D
Matterport 3D Showcase.
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April 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Another thing I'm planning for my vacation is a long overdue return visit to the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman museum. They have an amazing virtual tour online my.matterport.com/show/?m=TXcF..., but there's nothing like going in person. #HistoricalWriters #AmWriting
Really looking forward to visiting the Maryland Center for History & Culture on my vacation. The costume collection is small compared to some museums, but it has some amazing items like this coat. www.mdhistory.org/resources/co...
April 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Really looking forward to visiting the Maryland Center for History & Culture on my vacation. The costume collection is small compared to some museums, but it has some amazing items like this coat. www.mdhistory.org/resources/co...
If AIs are profiling our search history, I hope someone somewhere realizes that writers search for some pretty weird stuff. I was just looking at my search history last night, and it paints quite a picture.
April 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If AIs are profiling our search history, I hope someone somewhere realizes that writers search for some pretty weird stuff. I was just looking at my search history last night, and it paints quite a picture.
Finally scheduled my first full week of vacation in nearly 9 months. I need R&R and drafting time, but there's gotta be time for museum and bookstore visits, too.
April 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Finally scheduled my first full week of vacation in nearly 9 months. I need R&R and drafting time, but there's gotta be time for museum and bookstore visits, too.
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I needed to hear this today.
writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.
March 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I needed to hear this today.
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
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April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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If you're buying from Kobo and read lots of indie books, consider a VIP membership. $10/year and you get 10% off indie books.
*The discount applies to some books through publishers too, but in general, not the Big 5. But for romance readers: you get 10% off Sourcebooks titles!
*The discount applies to some books through publishers too, but in general, not the Big 5. But for romance readers: you get 10% off Sourcebooks titles!
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March 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
If you're buying from Kobo and read lots of indie books, consider a VIP membership. $10/year and you get 10% off indie books.
*The discount applies to some books through publishers too, but in general, not the Big 5. But for romance readers: you get 10% off Sourcebooks titles!
*The discount applies to some books through publishers too, but in general, not the Big 5. But for romance readers: you get 10% off Sourcebooks titles!
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Hi! Here's a little bit about who I am and what I write!
April 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hi! Here's a little bit about who I am and what I write!
I've watched so much drone footage of the settings where this contemporary romance series occurs that I've nearly talked myself into buying a drone. It looks so fun! #amwritingromance #writingcommunity #amwriting
April 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I've watched so much drone footage of the settings where this contemporary romance series occurs that I've nearly talked myself into buying a drone. It looks so fun! #amwritingromance #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Because writing is a tough journey, it's easy for writers to build up one book or one opportunity as your Big Break. Your One Shot. The truth is, there is no one big break. There are always more opportunities.
#writingcommunity #amwriting #MondayMotivation
#writingcommunity #amwriting #MondayMotivation
April 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Because writing is a tough journey, it's easy for writers to build up one book or one opportunity as your Big Break. Your One Shot. The truth is, there is no one big break. There are always more opportunities.
#writingcommunity #amwriting #MondayMotivation
#writingcommunity #amwriting #MondayMotivation
Some days it's like the words are coming out through an eyedropper, but I'm determined to hit page count tonight. Found some drone videos of the coastal area where the story takes place, so hopefully that'll keep me going. #amwriting #contemporaryromance #amwritingromance
January 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Some days it's like the words are coming out through an eyedropper, but I'm determined to hit page count tonight. Found some drone videos of the coastal area where the story takes place, so hopefully that'll keep me going. #amwriting #contemporaryromance #amwritingromance
Sent the short-short on its way, finally. Most of the time after I've sent in a submission I have the keep-checking-email, what's-going-to-happen thing going on, but I've got so much draft to get out on other projects that I may not have the cycles for fretting. #writingcommunity
November 30, 2023 at 3:56 AM
Sent the short-short on its way, finally. Most of the time after I've sent in a submission I have the keep-checking-email, what's-going-to-happen thing going on, but I've got so much draft to get out on other projects that I may not have the cycles for fretting. #writingcommunity
Just looking at the sales numbers for the non-fiction books whose covers I recently designed for some friends, I get the impression that certain colors sell better. The book I thought had the least interesting content is outselling the rest by a mile because I gave it the prettiest color. 🙄😄
November 29, 2023 at 5:52 AM
Just looking at the sales numbers for the non-fiction books whose covers I recently designed for some friends, I get the impression that certain colors sell better. The book I thought had the least interesting content is outselling the rest by a mile because I gave it the prettiest color. 🙄😄
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Woman's jacket, English about 1610–15, with later alterations. Linen plain weave, embroidered with metallic threads and spangles; metallic bobbin lace. MFA Boston.
November 26, 2023 at 8:42 PM
Woman's jacket, English about 1610–15, with later alterations. Linen plain weave, embroidered with metallic threads and spangles; metallic bobbin lace. MFA Boston.
Just finishing up a super-short I wrote on a dare. My usual ratio is 10x words of draft to usable copy, which I think is kinda high, and I'm trying a new method that may be more efficient. But although the quality on this short piece is decent, I don't know how that'd hold up across 100K.
November 28, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Just finishing up a super-short I wrote on a dare. My usual ratio is 10x words of draft to usable copy, which I think is kinda high, and I'm trying a new method that may be more efficient. But although the quality on this short piece is decent, I don't know how that'd hold up across 100K.
For the first time in my adult life, we have a holiday tree and a wreath up before December 1st. For the last few years, we didn't decorate at all, so this is quite a change for us. 🎄
November 27, 2023 at 8:01 PM
For the first time in my adult life, we have a holiday tree and a wreath up before December 1st. For the last few years, we didn't decorate at all, so this is quite a change for us. 🎄
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Embroidered cream coloured silk with coloured silk & metal threads, England, 1740-45. Originally a court mantua, the ensemble was altered for fancy dress in the late C19th. Full description & images via V&A here collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O71800/... #fashionhistory #dresshistory #1740s
November 26, 2023 at 12:44 PM
Embroidered cream coloured silk with coloured silk & metal threads, England, 1740-45. Originally a court mantua, the ensemble was altered for fancy dress in the late C19th. Full description & images via V&A here collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O71800/... #fashionhistory #dresshistory #1740s
Watching the Season 5 finale of Unforgotten, and this show is so grim that I'm gonna need a palate cleanser, something funny like Agatha Raisin or maybe even Hallmark. It's well done, no question, but really dark.
November 23, 2023 at 1:53 AM
Watching the Season 5 finale of Unforgotten, and this show is so grim that I'm gonna need a palate cleanser, something funny like Agatha Raisin or maybe even Hallmark. It's well done, no question, but really dark.
My maternal grandmother was into scrapbooking before it ever was a thing, and the ones she kept for her senior citizens group were beautiful but also surreal in a "Does she know how odd this is?" kind of way. I wish we'd made photos of the pages before we donated them to her group.
November 21, 2023 at 5:57 PM
My maternal grandmother was into scrapbooking before it ever was a thing, and the ones she kept for her senior citizens group were beautiful but also surreal in a "Does she know how odd this is?" kind of way. I wish we'd made photos of the pages before we donated them to her group.
Really cool list, with a few writing books I (surprisingly) don't have. I didn't know Elizabeth George wrote a book on writing! #writing
November 21, 2023 at 6:06 AM
Really cool list, with a few writing books I (surprisingly) don't have. I didn't know Elizabeth George wrote a book on writing! #writing
Instrumentals are my tried-and-true writing music, but I was already listening to Faouzia's Stripped EP when I started writing tonight...and now I'm wondering why the hell I haven't done this before.
Thanks, Universe.
#writingcommunity
Thanks, Universe.
#writingcommunity
November 21, 2023 at 4:30 AM
Instrumentals are my tried-and-true writing music, but I was already listening to Faouzia's Stripped EP when I started writing tonight...and now I'm wondering why the hell I haven't done this before.
Thanks, Universe.
#writingcommunity
Thanks, Universe.
#writingcommunity
At the hair salon waiting for color processing and wondering what these edits via Canva for Android are going to look like on a real monitor. I fear the worst. 🙄🤣
November 20, 2023 at 8:47 PM
At the hair salon waiting for color processing and wondering what these edits via Canva for Android are going to look like on a real monitor. I fear the worst. 🙄🤣
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She vowed to clear strangers’ medical debt in a posthumous viral post
Since her diagnosis in 2019, Casey McIntyre befriended dozens of other cancer patients who, unlike her, had piles of medical debt as they underwent treatment.
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November 19, 2023 at 8:44 PM
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