Daily Haiku Prompt for February 17, 2025: overcoat (North)
3 a.m.
wearing your overcoat
all these years.
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Daily Haiku Prompt for February 17, 2025: overcoat (North)
3 a.m.
wearing your overcoat
all these years.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #vsspoem #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #vss365 #WritingCommunity #poem #writing
Daily Haiku Prompt for February 17, 2025: joy (South)
Winter seclusion—
the joy of the full moon
in a frame.
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“There is always a way, even if it is hidden from us.”
Zero context fantasy explorations:
What do we find on an abandoned ship?
WHAT THE BEST FIRST LINES DO
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Little-known fact: ravens are better writing assistants than monkeys.
@lislegaard @andypiper @jennybm I was just thinking that you could replace the word "musician" with "writer", and the word "music" with "text." same questions.
Some very good #writing advice here, even if you are not yourself a journalist. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/jan/19/manifesto-simple-scribe-commandments-journalists
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for February 17, 2025
Treachery and magic, a history of American Chinese food, a murder inside the Louvre, and more of today's best book deals
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#PennedPossibilities 000.42 Bonus Question: Your characters have to huddle/ cuddle to endure a cold storm. Who cuddles with whom?
They'd be a big cuddle bundle. Ragtag as they are, they are a close family. Lazarus would be the most reluctant, but Helena or Hazel, or perhaps both, would punch him in the shoulder and grab him. Damien would wait until everyone is huddled together, run up, and jump right on top of everyone to join in. It's known as a Hug Attack.
The Best New Romance to Read This Month, BIPOC Edition
There has been so much happening that, for once, it feels like February is kind of dragging. From the book ...
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#WordWeavers Does your MC prefer to be indoors or outdoors?
She feels most at home with grass between her toes.
Feb 17: How do you get proofreaders/editors if you don’t pay them?
Kidnap a family member and refuse to release them until the job's done?
I do all my own work.
Kimberly Lemming: On Writing a Science Fiction Romance
In this interview, author Kimberly Lemming discusses the process of writing her new science fiction romance novel, I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com.
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Setting the Right Price for a Book: Why Many Authors Undervalue Their Work
Setting the right price for a book is one of the biggest challenges for self-published authors. Many look at what others in their genre are charging and try to match those prices, but this approach can undervalue their work. Some authors price low...
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#WritersCoffeeClub How do you get proofreaders/editors if you don’t pay them?
The same way they get free design, formatting, illustration work and proofreading from me.
2/2 gether with the same partners it's still common for Rose, Talisa, Kira and Anika, til she wants M.I.A. and occasionally J. to cuddle but it's barely enough space to that private outside the captains quarters.
Of course Arkham & Kira cuddle together later in the story. The machine room crew has a cuddle ritual to introduce people (like a sports team). Mondira isn't used to such close bonds since she comes from a pretty much cyberpunk dystopian world. Some crew members even have pure Sex meetings with others. Nobody is forced into this, and if they don't like cuddling, like Arkham at first they get their space. Sex of course is only allowed in the social units (diverse container modules installed for this mission) or quarters if given.
Ash as a Spaceship/AI can't interact the same way but Kira starts to gently touch her consoles on occasion, since they are pressure sensitive.
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Celebrate Black History Month With These Bookish Goodies
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000.42 Bonus Question: Your characters have to huddle/ cuddle to endure a cold storm. Who cuddles with whom?
1/2
Well they would come together in a big pile. This situations are called Pinguining by the Brass, but since Pinguins are gone Dodo in 2086, Most people have no idea what it means especially outside Terra if Terrans barely know.
It's not uncommon for persons in the 24. Century to cuddle. There are even cuddle meetings/cuddle clubs etc they range through all layers of society and there are simply contact once, skin contact once, naked once and even some involving consensual sexual activity.
On board the Ghoz'Tarc the lines between fellow soldier and private person are very thin Doctor Kaiden and J. regularly cuddle despite both having no romantic or sexual interest in each other. Since Rose, Talisa, Anika & Kira where all together at the academy & at different points to-
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Attn: Authors and Artists - if you have stuff to give away, or a cool video lounge for me to showcase on GSBCW - please reach out!
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