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Charlotte Clutterbuck
@wordfinch.bsky.social
Writer, editor, wife, mother, grandmother, birdwatcher, star-watcher, kayaker, on a mission to keep stuff out of landfill.

My stone-age novel, 'Twin Stars' on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Twin-Stars-Gannet-Quartet-Book-ebook/dp/B0CCT7VLD9
Kate DiCamillo 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.' So so confidently, yet simply, written. The fable of the heartless rabbit who learns to love has, like so many of the great 'children's' books, timeless, ageless appeal, accessible to anyone who was ever a child.

#Bookvember 30
#Bookvember 30

So, convert is a loaded word. 🙃 I'm not banging on people's doors spreading the good word lest their semi-literate souls are damned to library hell or anything. But, if someone were receptive to trying a fantasy book, I would recommend recommend Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. 🧵
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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#Bookvember 30

So, convert is a loaded word. 🙃 I'm not banging on people's doors spreading the good word lest their semi-literate souls are damned to library hell or anything. But, if someone were receptive to trying a fantasy book, I would recommend recommend Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. 🧵
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The young man tossed his head, ‘One day we’ll make a clan of our own.’
Fiada raised an eyebrow. ‘All four of you? Parsa only a child, and deaf? You need ten strong adults to be recognised as a clan, as many as the fingers on two hands.’
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November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
‘Sagart will never accept a lame Healer,’ Sulaire said bleakly. ‘She’ll never let me make the Moon Ceremony, have the blessing of the Goddess.’
‘The Goddess sees beyond ceremonies,’ Oran said. ‘You are a true healer. You listen with your heart.’
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November 30, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The #WIPSnips word for November 29th is "dedicate"

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November 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Day 30: Mountain hares. When I realised that hares, like rabbits were introduced by the Romans, so my Mesolithic characters didn't have them. Also polio (seen in Egyptian art); and realising that you can't sharpen flint with a stone, but you must knapp it with a bone.

#NovemberWorldbuilder
#NovemberWorldbuilder D3:
Holdren fur.
Their fur patterns range from various mixes of a darker sandy gold, medium orange, and often white undersides to varying degrees. The only marking that is universal is red tail tips for all, and also red tail bands just below the tips for all males.
Here are your #NovemberWorldbuilder prompts!

It has come to my attention that I am not annoying enough about these and some of my worldbuilder friends don't see them😭

Therefore, I am going to be EXTRA annoying and post these every day next month.

I am not sorry
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
TBR: Oliver Sachs, Uncle Tungsten

TBW: Fetch of Wind, Volume III on The Gannet Quartet, just starting to get a grip on the introductory chapters.

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November 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
‘Sulaire! I’m coming!’
Ruad leaped into a slithering run down the wet slope, bounding from tussock to tussock, placing his feet with care so that each landing launched him safely into the next leap.

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November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for November 28th is "zigzag"

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November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
“A the dawn of time, there were Twins, the boy Speir, and the girl Seren. Seren knew every blade of grass by the stream, and every flower on the heath, and every leaf in the forest. And Speir was the best hunter in the world, except for Ullr, the God of the Hunt.”
.#NovemberWorldbuilders
#NovemberWorldbuilders

I feel like we have been building to this one! The big, world changing event: the disappearance of the dragons!

As far as most of the world knows, they all just vanished one day. Having withdrawn from humanity before this point, they were not seen often, so it took time 🧵
Greetings, #NovemberWorldbuilders. Tell me about a legendary event that happened in your world's history. Perhaps a terrific cataclysm, or maybe something good like the growth of an amazing tree or the greatest rock concert ever. Something that the storytellers in your world love to sing about.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Bhòid stood at the head of the cairn looking out over the sea. The stones placed over her were so cold, so hard, the wind piercing through them.
'We were together,' his heart cried, 'from before our mother’s womb, like Seren and Speir, the Sky Twins, from the dawn of time.
#NovemberWorldbuilders
#NovemberWorldbuilders

I feel like we have been building to this one! The big, world changing event: the disappearance of the dragons!

As far as most of the world knows, they all just vanished one day. Having withdrawn from humanity before this point, they were not seen often, so it took time 🧵
Greetings, #NovemberWorldbuilders. Tell me about a legendary event that happened in your world's history. Perhaps a terrific cataclysm, or maybe something good like the growth of an amazing tree or the greatest rock concert ever. Something that the storytellers in your world love to sing about.
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Hello out there. Is anyone else currently writing books set in the stone age?

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November 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
‘Mostly, birth-shock makes the baby gasp and breathe. If not, slap its bottom. Suck the muck from its nose and breathe the life in, very gently. When I had the wasting fever, you dealt with the mess and the pain. There’s no other man I’d ask.’
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Frenemies take on high school, witchcraft, and daemons–both personal and magical.

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November 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A sly character?

'I lack the skill,’ Leukos said, ‘to draw my mind's image clean on the bone.’
Volpo fingered the lines of an adder. 'They have a rough beauty, your images.’
Bhòid heard something taut in Volpo’s silky voice, like a line with a fish on the end of it.

#NovemberWorldbuilder
26. This is more relavent to the north, but Lumivuora exists because their founder preached the gods had abandoned them. This led, to put it mildly, to some shit. Oh, and their queen is supposedly immortal and there are no men at all. The usual. #NovemberWorldbuilders #writingcommunity #writesky
#NovemberWorldbuilders Heya, friends! In your fictional world, are there any lies or conspiracy theories (or maybe just incorrect beliefs) about a historical event? Is the government of your (fictional) world hiding anything? Please keep it fictional! No real-world stuff here, please!
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I'd say The Secret Garden, but others will think of that. How about Mary Grant Bruce's Billabong books with a great sense of rural Australia in early C20, great books of their time.

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26. For this one, I have to go with Mansfield Park, which is actually my favorite Austen for this reason. The comparison of country and city, the way locations reveal so much about character and drive the plot foward, is what I love so much about it. #Bookvember #writingcommunity #writesky
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 26!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

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November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Bracing herself, Sulaire placed her foot under Sagart’s armpit, grasped her wrist with both hands, and pulled. Sagart screamed in rage and pain, but Sulaire pulled harder, heard a grating sound, felt the shoulder go back into its socket.
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🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Frenemies take on high school, witchcraft, and daemons–both personal and magical.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips #Q #F #YA #AmQuerying #witch
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The 'Custom', perhaps:

‘You’re closer to the Goddess than Sagart is. Surely the gods don’t care about rank, or even the Custom. They care about the heart. Sagart might stop you making the ceremonies, but she can’t take away your healing power.’

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November 25th – system

#AnthropomorphicNovel, today!

Ray is having a bad day.

cw: fire, death

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November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Kent from 'King Lear'. Honest, blunt, faithful, even if Lear doesn't listen. Plus he has my favourite insult to Oswald: 'thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!'

#Bookvember 25
#Bookvember 25

Gotta shout out my guy Haymitch from THE HUNGER GAMES ❤️

Yes, he is a pretty shitty mentor for Katniss & Peeta. But he's also quite a good mentor in a lot of ways too, especially considering his massive trauma & alcoholism. He definitely had some influence on my grouchy Icozoue 🖤🖤🖤
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 25!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

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November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I must imagine Mesolithic skirmishes:

‘We yowled like devils and pelted them with slingstones, and they ran as if we were the hammers of Perkwunos. Tonight they’ll tell their friends they escaped from an island haunted by giant bird-ghosts and trees that throw stones.’

#NovemberWorldbuilders 25
#NovemberWorldbuilders 25

About 1200 years before my main story, The War of the Dragons took place in which a Northern King, Anahkten, murdered his co-monarch Eraaksis & set off a conflict between the northern clans that eventually escalated to other regions of Atalantis. To boost his legitimacy,🧵
#NovemberWorldbuilders Does your fictional world have any wars in its history that are now over? What was the conflict about? What were the repercussions of it?
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
‘We don’t know anything about Leukos,’ Ruad protested. ‘We should leave him to die.’
‘Too late,’ Bhòid said. ‘We’ve given him his life. We may not take it back.’
‘Sulaire?’ asked Ruad.
‘I’ve started his healing. He’s one of us now.’
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November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In 'Middlemarch' the feckless Fred Vincy helps Caleb Garth in surveying for the railway line, gets hot and dirty, and realises that this is what he wants to do instead of taking the 'gentlemany' path of being a token clergyman.

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Welcome to #Bookvember Day 24!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

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November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I have a problem: no documented mesolithic events or characters. But Ruad travels to the east (modern Hungary):

As soon as his strength returned, he joined in the work, tending Menn’s plot of the strange einkorn grain that made a sweeter, softer porridge than hazelnuts.
#NovemberWorldbuilders
#NovemberWorldbuilders Let's talk about how the world's history directly impacts your main character (or some other important character in the world you're developing). Do they have an important ancestor? Was there a specific event, say a war or diaspora, that impacted their current life?
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My lot have trouble seeing beyond the English Channel:

Leukos said ‘I come from far to the south of this land––beyond the hills and valleys and the great channel. I crossed from the Land-beyond-the-Water with my father.’

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The #WIPSnips word for November 23rd is "global"

And let me just take a moment to say that I love how global our little community is here!

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November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, by JonScieszka. The wolf has such a Damon Runyon voice!

www.penguin.com.au/books/the-tr...

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November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The closest I come is gold.

Parsa turned the pebble in his hand––small, rounded beads of hard, white, river-pebbles stuck into something yellowish ––hard and shiny, glinting in the sunlight––as if one pebble had mated with another.

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November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM