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Writing About Writing About Writing
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A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.

Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.

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Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social · May 11
I've got a writing book problem: When I have a book writing problem, I pick up a writing book, and since writing is hard I've read dozens of writing books in the last decade. This is my attempt to make sense of them.
#writing #booksky 💙📚
Writing About Writing About Writing
Writing book reviews and tools
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As I work on a list of books to review for next year I've been thinking again about what a great resource Murder Your Darlings is. Wisdom from 50+ writing books for the time of one!

#writingcommunity #writingabtwriting
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Murder Your Darlings - Roy Peter Clark
Clark summarizes over 50 writing books in six categories, with insightful commentary and bullet-pointed lessons at the end of each chapter.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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#Writer #amquerying #writerscommunity #authorlife #BookEditortips
December 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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maggiesbooks.bsky.social
writing an anthropology paper on return to office mandates today so that relies on facts lol #writingcommunity
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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What facts are you drawing attention to with your writing today?

#writingabtwriting #writingq #journalprompt #writingcommunity
A piece of paper is taped to a wall with a quote in blue pen: "“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.” George Orwell
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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More story recs today, combining two of my favorite things: SFF and fiber arts! Stories by @rukman.bsky.social @jenniferhudak.bsky.social @reasie.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @samtasticbooks.com @trailofleaves.bsky.social, Dee Straith
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Story recs: 8 SFF Knitting Stories to Wrap Around Your Shoulders on a Cold Day
I’ve read so many science fiction and fantasy stories this year that use knitting and fiber arts to weave together themes of community…
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December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Good advice for identifying and avoiding the kind of scams that send you bogus copyright infringement notices
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Televised sporting events have color commentary. Does your novel? Agent and teacher Don Maass explains the need, today at WU.
Keeping Score
[Note to Keith Cronin: I am dictating this post while commuting in my car, simultaneously listening to The New York Times being read aloud. I’ll finish this post by the time I arrive at my office.]…
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December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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November's #writingabtwriting Reading report contains some excellent writing advice from Chuck Wendig and Ilona Andrews, plus two fun games and some excellent reading.

🪐💙📚 #writingcommunity #reading
Reading Report: November 2025
Luddite Literature, two excellent games to try, and a pair of excellent books read in in this month's Reading Report. Now with added acountability!
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December 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Looking for a gift for a writer?
Here are my top five options.

What things are on your gift list for your writer friends?

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Writing Books to Gift Writers
Writing books sure to please your writer friends.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Today's #writingprompt for StoryADay comes from editor Tiffany Yates Martin and invites you to reimagine...the impossible! storyaday.org/2025-day-26
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 12d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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A community of writers can lift us up and, when needed, push us along. Author Harper Ross shares her gratitude for her recent experience at the UnConference, today at WU.
Giving Thanks For The Writers At My Table
On Thursday, most of us will gather around the Thanksgiving table with close family and friends, expressing our gratitude for one another and the things that bring us happiness. Today, I want to …
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November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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How do you maintain enthusiasm for a writing project, especially when they can drag on for years? The answer might lie in Begeisterung.

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Finding Begeisterung
Begeisterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived
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November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Writing Quotes. Yea or nay?

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An image of a piece of paper taped to the wall with the quote "Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." Matthew Arnold
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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What would happen if you just believed you could?

I love these videos by Struthless on YouTube for keeping myself creative and away from the doom spirals. If you're not feeling it today, worth a watch?
Self sabotage? In this economy?
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November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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*sigh* how did you know about my cable box of shame? I'd clean it out, but I might *need* a four-foot coax cable or a type B cable in the future?
jowolff.bsky.social Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13d
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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It’s this beautiful out.
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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A black and white digital ink illustration on a toned paper background. An homage to the original illustrations by Garth Williams for E. B. White’s book ‘Charlotte’s Web’. Standing in a wooden doorway to a barn is a contented looking young pig. Across the top hall of the doorway are several spiderwebs that have the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’ webbed into them. The spider who made them is hanging down on a filament at the pig’s eye level.
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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When Dwight Swain was teaching workshops my granddad was still in college. Yet much of his advice rings true today. If I was teaching a class, this is the book we'd use.

Read this #writingabtwriting to see if 'Techniques of the Selling Writer' is right for you.

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Techniques of the Selling Writer - Dwight V. Swain
A 50’s era pulp writer speed runs your writing knowledge. If I was teaching a college course today on writing fiction, this is the book we’d use as a textbook.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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In this house we share each other's work.
Congrats Erin!
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Fuck AI. Copy like an artist instead.

When you know your work isn't measuring up, but you're not sure why or how to get to the next level, use a trick from the artists and do a master study to figure out how the fuck they did that instead of stealing their work.

#writingabtwriting #mastercopy 📚💙
Tool: The Master Study
Today we are going to steal a tool from the visual artist’s cabinets and see if we can bang it into shape that works for writers. It’s called a Master Study, and it’s part copying, part analysis, and ...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Digital pencil drawing on a toned paper background of a giant African land snail (look em up!) whose shell at the front has taken on the shape of the face of a human skull. The snail is perched on top of a rock formation which later have been charged out of reading ’Maybe it will happen today’
July 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Today's tea is Yorkshire gold with sweetened condensed milk and some Sam Delaney on "Begiesterung" for an upcoming #writingabtwriting article.

"Begiesterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived."

🍵🫖 #teasky #booksky
Delaney's About Writing held open on a wooden table with a large mugh of tea. Top a computer mouse, the edge of a water bottle with a nanowrimo sticker and a Box Palma ebook. Text on the page (excerpted): "For the Romantics Begeisterung was both intellectual and bodily. A form of begeisterung was not just the initial idea or the talent one had to realize it, it was also a mode of will. To the Romantics, this enthusiasm/Begeisterung carried the artist through the work's creation. If there were things you didn't know that you needed in order to write your story, your novel, your play, with enough Begeisterung you could always go out and learn them. If your imagination wasn't throwing out the brilliant scenes and moments to make the material dramatic, with Begeisterung you could arrive at such effective material through dogged intelligence, though it might take longer and require more energy. If you lacked the verbal talent that produced vivid descriptive writing, well, there were hard analytic styles that were also impressive, which you could craft through intellectual effort though you would have to attack the work sentence by sentence. But however you employed it, Begeisterung is what carried you through the job. Begeisterung could make up for failures on other creative fronts. Begeisterung is what artists share over their otherwise endless differences: enthusiasm for a task clearly perceived.) ... The decision to be a writer is the decision to enter a field where most of the news-most of the time is bad. The best way to negotiate this situation is to have (first) a realistic view of what that situation is and (second) considerable Begeisterung. As Freud knew, Begeisterung is fundamentally neurotic. The critic Harold Bloom has suggested that what makes artists create is rank terror before the failure to create, a failure that somehow equates to death." P10-11
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM