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Septimus Brown

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Senior editor at the DarlingAxe.com. Blogging at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Author of WHEN THE SKY BREAKS. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️‍🌈

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 37m

On Oct 23, a small sassy dragon is coming to brain-theatres everywhere!

Join Glimm as he manages a band of blowhards set on breaking into Frostvale and toppling the government in this satire about the US-Canada trade war.

Kindle pre-orders are live 🐲
mybook.to/dragoneggs

We've Come For Your Eggs book cover (dragon flying across the sun)

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 18m

Please caption our conversation 🐶😎

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 28m

As Bill Hick's once said
matter is dense energy
and we are all one.

#haiku

a photo of a sign: we're not really strangers

Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 34m

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Dolly Parton: I ain't dead yet!

PBS reply posts: Same, Dolly, same.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 37m

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 17d

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"Most Canadians will love this book. And maybe... about 50% of Americans."

😄😄😄

We've Come for Your Eggs
Launches: October 23

Pre-order: mybook.to/dragoneggs

Book Cover: We've Come For Your Eggs (And Other Reasons to Annex the North)

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 56m

Awesome! Thanks :) :)

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 8h

Unfiltered Narrative: Strengthen Your Fiction by Minimizing Filter Words

"Filter words are verbs that refer to a character's senses or cognition, such as seeing, hearing, or thinking."

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#writingcommunity

Unfiltered Narrative: Strengthen Your Fiction by Minimizing Filter Words

By reducing unnecessary sensory and cognitive verbs, you allow your audience to slip into the shoes of the protagonist and experience events as they unfold, without redundant reminders that the scene…

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 1h

"Fizzle" comes from Middle English "fis," which was an imitation of the sound of breaking wind 💩 💨

#etymology

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 10h

"The future was with Fate. The present was our own."

—The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Dana 🌀 @danaarroyo.bsky.social · 23h

thought + action = change 🦋

Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

"Action may not always be happiness," said the general; 'but there is no happiness without action."

—from Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

Timeline cleanse!

Introducing: Mino's buddy Yoda

Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

"Action may not always be happiness," said the general; 'but there is no happiness without action."

—from Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

New post up on the Chopping Blog 🪓🪓

Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 1d

Want versus Need: Another Way to Think About Story Structure

"Plot is the transformation of the internal by the external."

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#writingcommunity #booksky

Want versus Need: Another Way to Think About Story Structure

Plot is the transformation of the internal by the external.

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 1d

Want versus Need: Another Way to Think About Story Structure

"Plot is the transformation of the internal by the external."

darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/w...

#writingcommunity #booksky

Want versus Need: Another Way to Think About Story Structure

Plot is the transformation of the internal by the external.

darlingaxe.com