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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me)

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Wordsmith and poet, Indie author, Tolkien nerd, kiwi in the Inner Hebrides, she/they. River Daughter (meander phase) Relationship status: single [malt] 🥃 #RingsofPower #Tolkien #LOTR #Poetry #Poem #IsleofMull https://mybook.to/OnWildAir

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · Oct 17

I'm going to hang my shingle out properly by 'fessing that I've been reading Tolkien, and about Tolkien, for over half a century, and I'm currently obsessed with Rings of Power

Mother of Uruks
River Daughter
Stone-singer in Training

She/they

I play DnD/BG3 & recommend Vampire Therapist

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 1d

They are tasty by all accounts but one of my colleagues ate some and ended up with liver flukes, so I'm in no hurry to try it

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell I'm only a tourist, because I'm ridiculously excited about this kangaroo with a big joey in her pouch, hanging about in my dad's front garden in Western Australia

A kangaroo with a well-grown joey in her pouch, in Australian bush

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 1d

And their flowers are so big and pretty. You go, little insect-eating plantlets! Have your moment in the sun

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think so, though I was thinking more about some Scifi/horror I've read than any RL species

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 1d

Every where I go in Western Australia, these tiny, unassuming, ground-dwelling Drosera (sundews) have begun a mad race up the nearest object (like an ant infected with Cordyceps) to put out out sprays of completely unexpected flowers. I almost feel if I stand still they'll be scrambling up me

Tiny ground-growing sundew plants growing tendrils and scrambling up the nearest object to flower

White flowers of a sundew plant (Drosera). Western Australia in spring

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, honey 🫂

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Oh very yes

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Trust you to think of that 🤣

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 14d

Today I'm launching a Crowdfunder with the incredible Grace Quantock.

The aim of this is to get Grace's book "Living Well with Chronic Illness" into health centres across the UK.

We be so grateful for your support.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/86e1e73e29...

The front cover of Grace's book "Living Well with Chronic Illness"

Here's Grace with her very cute medical alert and response assistance dog Wilfie.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Good answer 👏

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

It's a fun way to hang out with (and wind up) my mates

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

*bookmarks and follows*

a man sitting in front of a screen with the number ten on it

Alt: a man leaning his head on his hands, eagerly awaiting whatever will happen next

media.tenor.com

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

How to write:

Read
Read
Think a bit
Read
Go for a walk
Write
Read some more

Everything Joanne says here is true and invaluable advice

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

It cracked up

I cracked up (apparently I shouted some surprising words)

Then my dad cracked up (he had to get dressed and drive me to the ferry that was just about to leave. Between us we were running an entire country's allocation of adrenalin

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Very much so 😟

Also, I have a habit of hitching up my trousers with two fingers under the belt. Ask me how I found out I have this habit 😥

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

I feel very stupid. It happened in a split second when a drinking glass cracked in my hand, and I looked at my finger before the bl**d started and thought, "that's going to need stitches" 🤔

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 2d

Progress of my hurty finger. The wound and stitches are clean and dry (I won't share those pics). Picking up a malleable foam and metal splint from the pharmacy has freed my left middle finger, but I'm still not allowed to cook or wash the dishes 😁

A bandaged left hand. The injured index finger is using the middle finger as a splint, and they are bandaged together

A bandaged and splinted left index finger. The splint is made of foam and soft metal that can be pressed into shape around the finger

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 3d

What would we do without you?

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 5d

Today I'm not in my lovely local farm café. I'm thousands of miles away, in the Ragged Robin Café, Albert, Western Australia, with a frittata so good I wolfed down 90% before remembering to take a pic 😂

View across Alberta houses to the Blackwood River estuary, W Australia

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 5d

A lego Rivendell scene. Sam, with frying pan in hand, stands over Frodo, who is lying on Elrond's bed holding the Ring. The caption reads 'Sam and his frying pan introduce a surprising plot twist'

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 5d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, Amelia. Saved me the trouble of reading the article 🤣

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 5d

Isn't that... where we live?

Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 6d

I know 😔

Poor little fingie (index finger only, the other is being its splint)

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