today's mantra 🖤✍️📝

#booksky #WriteSky
#ArtSky #indieartist
#PoetrySky
#MemoirWriters
#CreativeWriting
#IndieAuthorLife
#ZineWriters
#IndieAuthors
#SelfPubSky
#AuthorLife
#writingcommunity
#WritersOfBluesky

just a small reminder to keep on’ writing ✍🏽 …. the world needs our words, our voices, our art, and our stories

💚

#booksky
#ArtSky
#PoetrySky
#MemoirWriters
#CreativeWriting
#IndieAuthorLife
#ZineWriters
#IndieAuthors
#SelfPubSky
#WriteSky
#AuthorLife
#writingcommunity
#WritersOfBluesky

Federal judge rules copyrighted books are fair use for AI training But, the judge ruled, AI companies shouldn’t be pirating the books they’re training on.

Precisely 👇🏾 why I’ve delayed my book’s distribution … now that this court ruling is official, I’m 💯 rethinking book publishing approaches 🙏🏾 especially for creative vs factual works #booksky #indieauthors #selfpubsky

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

unrip your gaping wounds
and seal your trickles dry,
for you’ve found your whole truth;
and nothing more can make you cry

~ my ✍🏽🤍

#poet #poetry #poets #poems
#poetrycommunity
#Contemporearypoetry
#poetrysky #writersonsky #indieauthor #indiewriter #selfpubsky #creativewriting #amwriting

Anyways, I don’t have clearcut answers, but I do understand why #indieauthors #indieartists like me hesitate or have concerns. Bc to put our works out there in a way feels like enabling the system. I’ve been contemplating ways around these challenges in between my #selfpubsky #writing ✍🏽 🤔

🐶 Sunday canine time w Reina … the world’s most adorable pooch everrr 🐶🤍🐶 I read my writing drafts out loud to her & she slobbers all over me in hugs & appreciation 🤍🙏🏾 #amwriting #writerslife #authorlife #indieauthorlife #writersofbluesky
#indieauthors
#selfpubsky
#writesky
#poetrysky
#memoirwriters

wonderful afternoon 📚🙏🏾 at the Reston Used Books Store at Lake Anne Plaza … bc sometimes u just need a little inspo #authorlife #amwriting
#writingcommunity
#writersofbkuesky
#indieauthors
#selfpubsky
#writesky
#creativeweiting
#indieauthorlife
#writersonsly
#poetrysky
#memoirwriters

cappuccino-fueled cursive ✍🏽☕️✅ vs keyboard ⌨️🚫 (at least initially) for 2nd book intro 🤍 bc sometimes you hv to FEEL the writing!
#amwriting
#weitjngcommunity
#writersofbkuesky
#indieauthors
#selfpubsky
#writesky
#authorlife
#creativeweiting
#indieauthorlife
#writersonsly
#poetrysky
#memoirwriters

young aspiring writer and artist at his desk

look at my 19yo’s draft writings wallpapering his own wall 🙏🏾 i guess like mother, like son 🤍 following in his mom’s author-artist footsteps … #indieauthor #writingcommunity #writersofbluesky #selfpubsky #writesky #authorlife #writersonbluesky #indieauthorlife #soproud 😘

absolutely invaluable lesson 💡🙏🏾 I’m still having to remind myself of this almost daily … what about you? #art #writingcommunity #artist #amwriting #artsky #artinspired #creativeprocess #artcommunity #authorlife #selfpubsky #writesky #writersofbkuesky #indieauthorlife #indieartists #blueskyartists 🤍

I guess I should tag this #booksky
Is there a #selfpubsky? #Indybooksky?
Some drop-your-pants amazing cover artists/artists in general in the replies here