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Book Wyrm 📚🐉 Indie Author 📖✍️Content Curator🔎🖼️ Often "Gone Reading and Writing." https://gonereadingandwriting.blogspot.com/
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ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 6
My 2025 Short Fiction Challenge
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ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · 14d
Getting ready for Novel November 2025! ✍️😆
#NovelNovember #NovelNovember2025
#novnov #novnov2025
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ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 17
#vss365 #wings #pixie #pummel
Folded wings, the Book Wyrm reads about pixies and drinks tea. Long gone are the days of pummeling castles with fire. Hopefully.
ecamie.bsky.social ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 14
#vss365 #laugh #poetry #grumpy #mystical

Grumpy mystical poetry always made the Book Wyrm laugh.

#monostich

🎨 Scott Gustafson
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 15
The latest ChatGPT is supposed to be ‘PhD level’ smart. It can’t even label a map
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The latest ChatGPT is supposed to be ‘PhD level’ smart. It can’t even label a map | CNN Business
Sam Altman, the artificial intelligence hype master, is in damage-control mode.
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 14
#FantasyIndiesAugust D14:
Romance in WIP? Star-crossed lovers, I’m afraid.💔 One of them was never meant to exist. I suspect it'll all end in tears & the destruction of the world as they know it. However, this is just the first draft; their chances may improve as the story develops.😉
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 14
#vss365 #laugh #poetry #grumpy #mystical

Grumpy mystical poetry always made the Book Wyrm laugh.

#monostich

🎨 Scott Gustafson
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 10
Practical Tips for Authors to Protect Their Works from AI Use

Self-published and indie authors can help protect against unauthorized training uses by including a short "no AI training" notice in their books.
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Practical Tips for Authors to Protect Their Works from AI Use - The Authors Guild
This post was originally published on September 8, 2023, and updated on August 13, 2024. Text-based generative AI technologies require the ingestion of vast amounts of data, including tens or hundreds...
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 9
#vss365 #spider
There was a spider under the staircase in the Book Wyrm's library.
"Shall I remove it?" the new helper asked.
"Please, don't," said the Book Wyrm.
"Oh! Is it a pet? Does it have a name?"
"It does," said the Book Wyrm. "Insecticide."
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 8
#2025ReadingChallenge
Just finished book 50 of 50!📚🥳
#amreading #readingforpleasure
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 8
Stone tool discovery could offer new clue in mystery of ancient ‘hobbit’ humans

Researchers have a theory about the identity of this unidentified ancient hominin, who might represent the earliest evidence of ancient humans crossing oceans to reach islands.
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Stone tool discovery could offer new clue in mystery of ancient ‘hobbit’ humans | CNN
Ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi represent the oldest evidence for humans living there 1 million years ago.
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 8
Just realized that #FantasyIndiesAugust is on Bluesky as well!😀
Goals:
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_Write at least one new short fiction piece every week.
_Draft the first version of a new fantasy novella.
_Start working on a new version of an old speculative fiction novel.
📚
_Read the last book of my 2025 reading challenge.
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 8
#vss365 #prank #brownie #rules
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 7
Ghost of a Genius (1922) by Paul Klee (December 1879 – 1940)

#aughost #arthistory
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 7
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (Venice, 1646 – Padua, 1684) was the first European woman to receive an academic degree from a university. In 1678, she was proclaimed Magistra et Doctrix Philosophiae (PhD) by the the University of Padua.

🎨Portrait of Elena Piscopia (author unknown)
ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 7
More about this topic:
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Timeline of women's education - Wikipedia
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 7
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 1886: Anandibai Joshee from India (left) w/ Kei Okami from Japan (center) & Sabat Islambooly from Syria (right). All 3 completed their medical studies and each of them was the first woman from their respective countries to obtain a degree in Western medicine.
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 7
🎨A dragon (my idea of what a book wyrm could look like) by Scott Gustafson, and a brownie sweeping with a handmade broom by Alice B. Woodward.
ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 7
#vss365 #brownie 2/2
All the Book Wyrm had to do was leave a bit of supper on the hearth and stuff cotton in both ears before going to bed, because, let's face it, a family of brownies sweeping the floor is anything but quiet.
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 7
#vss365 #brownie 1/2
There was a family of brownies living in the Book Wyrm's house, which was quite unusual (they tend to be solitary creatures). The Book Wyrm didn't mind, though. Each night, the brownies would come down from their hiding places to take care of the housework.
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 6
#vssmystery

When the street urchins discovered that the terrible Zasius #Beast was made mainly of paper and roasted poultry, they used the most flammable parts of him to start a fire and had the rest for dinner.

🎨The Lawyer, possibly Ulrich Zasius (1566), by G. Arcimboldo
ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 6
Book Worm vs Book Wyrm:
A Book Wyrm burns through #books like there's no tomorrow.📚🐉😄
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#readingforpleasure #2025readingchallenge
🎨Scott Gustafson
ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 6
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (5 April 1527 – 11 July 1593) was an Italian Renaissance painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books. (Wikipedia)

🎨 Self-portrait (c.1570)
ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 6
Summer (1563) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 6
Why you should never consider yourself too old to start a #writing career! by @karenmckellar.bsky.social

"Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are huge classics of the fantasy genre, right? But did you know that Tolkien was 45 when he published The Hobbit?"

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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 6
My 2025 Short Fiction Challenge
gonereadingandwriting.blogspot.com/p/2025-short...
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ecamie.bsky.social
ᑢᗩᘻIᘿ @ecamie.bsky.social · Aug 6
#2025ReadingChallenge #ReadingforPleasure

This month (among other books) I #amreading Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury, who was born on August 22, 1920.

Happy Ray Bradbury Month!🥳

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(Yes, there are two RB months/year: August and October.😉)
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