Beautiful style

Ended up on leaderboard in all 3 rounds of @twistinthetale.bsky.social tournament - and 🥉 in the 100 word round. 7th overall!

a man is putting a blanket on a bed next to a boy . ALT: a man is putting a blanket on a bed next to a boy .

There are actually a lot of things about that film that haven't aged well!

Congrats Ed and Amanda -- and all the smutty storytellers who penetrat--- er entered the comp and the category winners! (Stoked to score a 3rd placing in comedy.)
Extra shout out to ED for the EDiting of the 1743 hours of mostly Amanda giggling. 🍆🍑💦

Yeah it’s a good point. I have gone from never beta-ing any stories to now often micromanaging every sentence with a handful of ppl i trust and I know it has improved my stories.

Run for President

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David Bowie/Jareth and his wiggling brows would like to remind you that #FuriousFiction will kick off again this Friday.
Don't be late, or he keeps the baby. (What babe?... etc)

Jerboa Lit

Oh, I recently won JerboaLit's 250-word story comp!
250 is prob my favourite wordcount so I was stoked to get the win.
@jerboalit.bsky.social runs 500-word and 250-word comps (next one late April), with live-drawn prompts, lotsa fun, so jump on it! (Or whatever jerboas do? Hop?)
www.jerboalit.com

And the FIFA World Cup. And the Olympics.

A good stack of stories at the pump this month

Hahahaa! R1 you spent 63 of the 72 hours lamenting why oh why you'd not rerolled and oh god I can't start again now. And then you got your shit together. Both strategies can work if you're not busy having a tanty. 🫠

Yeah same, in 2!

Thanks! @akscotland.bsky.social keeps harping on about the fact "Knickerless Spanks" would be better, but the golden rule of punning is to not stray more than one step from the source material. (E.g. "Stephen Kingfisher" for a horror-writing bird, but not "Woodhen Kingfisher"...)

Heeeey look who (with the punny pseudonym) made the @notquitewrite.com Flesh Fiction longlist!
❤️😎

Wow congrats! The drought has been broken!

Flesh is here.

He's right.

The drought is almost over... RESULTS incoming!

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Up for a tiny writing challenge? The 7th annual 100-word Microfiction Challenge by @nycmidnight.bsky.social kicks off on March 20th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/100
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Yay!

@writingbattle.bsky.social

Congrats! Me too 😎

Stoked to score an HM is this comp for my 500-word story, “The Permanent Collection”. A pleasant surprise to start the year! 😎 Thanks Jerboa!

Hahahaaa I've been soooo bad at reading, I also have a pile of bookmarks and RR to work through!

I won! 🔥 @writingbattle.bsky.social

OK, I checked and that one made the LL (and a shout out from me in that ep I think) -- it was Josh Lowe's "Tell Me What The World Looks Like"...!
So, not your story, but congrats on YOUR LL too!

December is your month!

Yeah it's annoying but verbatim for this one!

You got this!

My granny supermarket heist "Aisles 11" is through to the finals of Autumn writing battle! @writingbattle.bsky.social