I have worked on this painting for a number of years, yet I have never quite felt it's done. Today I realized that I could do another dragonfly, but instead of dots of paint use pearls opposite the current dragonfly... Some pieces aren't done until they tell you
I absolutely love the idea of literary romance versus standard #romance books
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Just finished reading To Catch A Raven, the third & final novel in the 'Women Who Dare' series by Beverly Jenkins (@authormsbev.bsky.social). I enjoyed the novel and series. Highly recommended! ✍🏾📚💕
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#Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #BlackBookSky #BeverlyJenkins
You had me at hello
Spotlight on Policy & Abuse
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There is a difference between preparing someone for difficulty and convincing them to make themselves smaller before the difficulty arrives.
Writing fanfiction about media you used to love un-critically from an older and more critical lens needs to be more common.
Ok something activated me and I am now hyper fixating on this decades old fanfic I wrote that wasn't half bad and Heathers (1988)
Help.
Me.
I haven't fixated this hard since Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
H e l p.
I am a 30+ year old woman.
M a k e. It. Not.
Very weird conversation where I witnessed revisionism first hand.
Since Nick Cannon and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas are trending for supporting MAGA, we recommend reading "The Grift" by Clay Cane.
Sincerely,
A BLACK-Owned Online Bookstore
✊🏾📚
#booksky #blackbooksky #blacksky #bookstore
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How often do ya'll find books and zines outside your usual reads to enjoy?
I've been on a weird kick of diving into very niche fiction again. Gimme recs babes
“In the 1990s, a remarkable wave of Black sitcoms and sketch comedy reshaped American television. Shows like “In Living Color” and “Living Single” reflected a wide range of Black life and helped broaden how millions of viewers understood Black experiences.”
#blackbooksky
It's very weird to be told by a mentor to stop editing so close to the last draft and go work on some fanfiction to clear my brain.
Feels like when mom used to say to go play outside because she wanted the house to herself for 15 minutes without dealing with my random obsessions lol.
"Write for joy, but edit for pay."
Don't chase formulas. Chase ideas that excite you.
Don't protect your babies. Protect their capacity to grow more.
Don't follow trends that bore you. Follow the vision you intended and the one you discovered.
I needed the reminder and wanted to share it with you.
WOOO KEEP GOING! (just some random positivity to drop since this popped up in my feed <3)
I thought so buuuuut god knows I've seen serious versions of this lol the satire is too good
That makes a heck of a lot of sense. When I began a southern gothic novel, I got a grant for research and the hardest part of re-organizing (which I found unexpected). Having a system or mindset to come back and create order sounds somewhat less stressful then expecting to get organized to start
How has organizing the research been going? I find how people research their historical novels fascinating.
Is this...book....satire? No offense intended but....
Sometimes I get frustrated because I want to talk genre and so often on here people just push their books, but I do get it. I really do wish there were more spaces to talk shop, as both reader and writer.
When motivation is lacking, think of writing like a journey. You can't change the path, but you can learn to appreciate it for what it is. #writingmotivation
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Need something good to read this afternoon? Or at any point?
You should try a Christmas romance about a widowed father who meets a public relations diva who hates their shared hometown but came back for the holidays anyway. #BlackBookSky #BookSky #WriterSky
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This is so awesome! So often people make back handed comments on *any* Black Businesses
Feel free!
Introduced Papi Lobos to Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal. I look over and he's RIVETED. The show beat out the ADHD urge to multi-task
Genuinely, fell in love with him more because we both cried during the episode "Coven of the Damned".
I am intrigued!! 😁
Writing Tip:
Poke holes in your own story. Don't baby it, because your critics and readers won't. Be tough on your narrative, while still being fair to yourself. You want to find those plot holes before your readers do, so put your story through the narrative wringer.
#writing #writingtips #Booksky
"Fuck black-eyed peas, as a food, a group, and a label."
How will this play out when multiple people are in front of the tag? If I am out with my white partner, and he gets X for one price and I got X for another then that seems like a civil rights issue.
(6/11) Uber tracks battery life. Former exec Keith Chen noted in 2016 that users with low battery are statistically more likely to accept surge pricing. Uber says it doesn’t use that data to set prices, but the correlation remains a point of regulatory scrutiny. www.npr.org/transcripts/...