I cannot stay silent about #Minneapolis. My February musing is as grim as I look. #ICE #entitlement #pastor_martin_niemoeller #FirstTheyCame
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Whoo-hoo! An old friend's memoir is filmed. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... @lidiamiles.bsky.social
#TheChronologyofWater #LidiaYuknavitch #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
New musing up on substack. Enjoy!
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Focusing on a #campussuspensenovel – NOT submitting #shortstories to #litmags. Yet this a.m., I opened #bluesky to announce an acceptance! NO! WAIT: just last night's #DREAM!
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Sunset in an alpine valley. The grassy valley floor, it's decommissioned airstrip, and the lower, forested slopes of the mountains are in evening shadows. The dark slopes form a V that frames the silhouette of the distant Weisshorn bathed in gold light and capped by horizontal layers of clouds touched golden and silver and blue.
Last year slipped by—along with my attempt to finish a #novel. This year, I'm nearly done with my #2nddraft. A #WIP, but I'm hella farther along & loving the process & progress.
#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #SwissAlps #Weisshorn #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #writersky #authorsky
After an October #blog break & being on the road, I'm back with a post about traveling + a bonus message . . . Enjoy! #Musing #retirement #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #litfic #WIP #campussuspense #writersky #authorsky
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#PubDay #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #militarybrat #usafbrat #VietnamEra #VietnamWar #LineofAdvance #MiddleWestPress #ColonelDarronLWrightMemorialWritingAwards #vestwrite #writersky #authorsky
Enjoy this brilliant read! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻(And greetings from #AuxerreFrance!)
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Heading up north to #EuropeanWritersSalon in #Brussels! Excited to meet new & #SM friends & to talk nerdy #writer stuff!
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Latest #macbookpro #wordupdate & I'm getting #pinwheels. Excessive numbers! Annoying! 🤬🤬🤬
You, too?
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Text superimposed over the cover of a manuscript of adult literary fiction: “My September #musing is shaped by the Wonderland of #AI, but not the writing of it.
My September #musing is live!
#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP, #BonnieGarmus, #LidiaYuknavitch, #emailscams, #campussuspensenovel, #AI, #ChatGPT, #writersky #authorsky
Sunrise colors the bellies of clouds, purple, pink, orange, and yellow. The landscape is of a lawn and a large fir tree to the photographer’s left, and to her right, a contemporary Swiss house with a red tile roof. A paved driveway leads the eye straight to a distant village, silhouetted against the sunset and the colorful horizon.
Wishing everyone a bright, colorful day! #5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
I’m happily #editing my #campusnovel, #suspensenovel, my #poet #protag undermining the patriarchy!
A bright yellow garden gnome flips the finger. He smirks, too.
Editing my #novelinprogress & not here much but thinking of you & hoping your #writingprojects are progressing well.
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Here's to self-doubt:
From a mowed, grassy ledge, the view of water cascading through rocks and brush where two mountain slopes come together.
Looking southwest and from 500 meters up from the valley floor, Obergoms, lushly green, and forested mountain slopes. The sky is partly overcast. In the foreground, a trail cuts through turf, and a sign is posted with directions.
Looking up toward the Furka Pass from a rough, two-track road flanking a mountain slope. Just visible is a mountain bike handlebar. Just up the path is a pole with trail mustard yellow signs.
This morning , #editing on my 2nd draft & a bike ride in the afternoon.
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#obergoms #switzerland
New personal musing up. Enjoy !#5amwritersclub, #writingcommunity, #amwriting, #amwritingfiction, #flashfiction, #womenwriters, #MeredithWrites, #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
Oh, yes, grateful to be working on a new chapter of my #WIP in the best company & with wine & fries. Chatter was minimal, of course. 🤣🤣🤣
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A screenshot of an Instagram post for a Substack post. Superimposed on a photo of a sieve filled with tiny ted and white strawberries is the title, “A Full Empty Nest”and a lede, “For three weeks, our lives brimmed with young people. My early morning house, I shared. And our gorgeous country, Switzerland, as well as our place in the Alps, we shared. I don't mention it in this piece, but we shared a bout of flu, too—all during a heatwave.” Included is a link to the Substack post: https://meredithwadley.substack.com/p/a-full-empty-nest (1) A Full Empty Nest - Meredith Wadley
New musing up on my Substack page! Enjoy!
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#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingfiction #flashfiction #womenwriters #MeredithWrites #literaryfiction #novelinprogress #WIP #writersky #authorsky
A closed MacBook Pro covered with left-leaning stickers—Ruth Ginsburg, Literaturhaus Zürich, I VOTED, Powell’s Bookstore, and a colorful dia de los muertos skull—sits on a walnut wood desk facing a window overlooking an out-of-focus garden. Between the laptop and window is a stack of books: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine, The Boat Not Taken by Joanna Choi Kalbus, The Lights of Shantinagar by Nidhi Arora, and Ran’s Daughters by Kaitlin Felix.
Family visits end soon 😭😭😭 & my #reading & #writing rhythms return 😎😎😎
I’ve been staying up late and spending my mornings watering the garden. #heatwave
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A loose and sparse bouquet of pink peonies, dark purple lavender, pink red valerian, and yellow daisy-like sneezeweed are in a rectangular slab-glass vase. An open pink peony is sunlit. Only the nearest flowers are in focus. The out-of-focus vase sits on a French tablecloth, printed cotton of bright and colorful counterpanes. Each square pane is a different solid color, coral, purple, green, yellow, and pink with contrasting-colored geometric patterns. The squares are bordered in white printed to resemble patterned ribbons. The background—a sunlit oak dresser—is out of focus.
Confession: I love writing in the morning dark. When it's light at 5am, I go for a walk before sitting down to write. It's gorgeous outside, after a cold & wet few weeks. Happy writing!
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Photo and text generated by Substack advertising a recent post. The photo is of a lily pond and lush mixed forest with blooming rhododendrons and azaleas, red, orange, and yellow. The text reads: A Mother’s Day Outing (title) I was in for a treat. In a swath of sunken land shielded by deciduous trees and evergreen hedges, there were glimpses of explosive pinks, purples, yellows. Rhododendrons; my favorite flowering bushes. (Lead) This year, on Mother’s Day, which in Switzerland is observed in May, barely, my son and youngest daughter came home for a visit. (opening paragraph) Superimposed over the opening paragraph in a larger font is: New musing up. Enjoy!
A fresh musing up on #substack, #meredithwrites. Enjoy!
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Then there’s perfecting a chapter to decide immediately the whole thing has to go
🤣 🤣🤣
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The saturation of morning light when I get up now equals the saturation of evening light as I go to bed.
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A #word can be precious in one sense to the writer and precious in another sense to the reader.
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The original #NYT #Opinion title: "As Europe Speeds By on Rail, America Is Stuck in Traffic"
Fixed: "As Europe Speeds By on Rail, America Is Stuck in Traffic and Excuses"
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Received a stunning rejection that made me feel almost as good as an acceptance?!?! Wish all rejections gave me such good feels!
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A blue covered book on a shelf under a window of a train speeding past the red-tiled row houses of a Swiss hamlet. The bucolic setting outside is full of green trees, forested hills in the distance, and a spring-perfect blue sky with plump white clouds.
A train ride into #Zürich is always #readingtime. Loving an immersion into #SmallRain by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social.
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In HS, I dreamed of writing like #JohnSteinbeck. In grad school, I dreamed of writing like #ChristaWolf or #JamaicaKincaid. Now, I dream of writing like @garthgreenwell.bsky.social.
When will I ever learn! 🤣🤣🤣
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My May Musing is live! Enjoy!
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View from a neon yellow kayak (its front in the foreground). The calm, dark green Rhine River reflects a Herrschaftshaus. a medieval watchtower, and a modern bridge. The sky is a light blue decorated with faint clouds.
Two kaysks approach an outcropping of rock surrounded by the waters of the Rhine River. One kayak is neon yellow, and only its triangular tip is in the foreground. The second kayak is turquoise and powered by a Caucasian man with short white hair. The dark green water shows barely a ripple.
An evening on the #RhineRiver. #Switzerland
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A great listen!
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