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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 2d

Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025
12 – 1 pm EST online
register: www.brownbaglit.com/events

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 2d

Join Brown Bag Lit next week for our Oct. event!

@bookbent.bsky.social visits to read from The Belles
(@simonandschuster.bsky.social) and answer your questions about writing dark academia, finding the right agent, and surviving the emotional ups and downs of being a first-time author.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 2d

#RandomWritingPrompt:

'Tis the Horror Season!

Write a horror story or poem with a start, middle and end (which is to say, there are lots of real life horrors right now. Work to harness one that is contained and resolvable.)

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 6d

Brown Bag Lit just sent out our Oct. newsletter in which we share member news and announce our next event with @bookbent.bsky.social!
email:
mailchi.mp/ba9132731d36...
register here: www.brownbaglit.com/events
DM us if you aren't on our mailing list and would like to be.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 9d

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:

Listen to something that makes you happy (maybe babies laughing here?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiso...)

Can you write that joy?

BEST Baby Laughing Video Compilation Ever!

YouTube video by 5-minute Fails

www.youtube.com

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 9d

Love it!

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 17d

Image: Writer's BoxIn the style of Ogata Kenzan Japanese
Edo period (1615–1868)
from the Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

In the style of Ogata Kenzan - Writer's Box - Japan - Edo period (1615–1868) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 17d

Maybe you've read a lot about an aspect of craft or many books in one genre to understand some different approaches. Maybe you are good at quickly focusing.

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 17d

Let's think about your writing practice for today's #RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit:
I like to talk about a "writer's toolbox" - the skills and knowledge you have accumulated.

What's in your writer's toolbox?

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 17d

Image: Writer's BoxIn the style of Ogata Kenzan Japanese
Edo period (1615–1868)
from the Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

In the style of Ogata Kenzan - Writer's Box - Japan - Edo period (1615–1868) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 17d

Maybe you've read a lot about an aspect of craft or many books in one genre to understand some different approaches. Maybe you are good at quickly focusing.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 19d

Loved popping into @brownbaglit.bsky.social to talk multi-POV novels!! @regalhouse.bsky.social

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 19d

Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break Writers event happening now; thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for visiting!

Lunch Break: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
Miriam: miriamgershow.com

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 19d

Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break Writers event happening now; thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for visiting!

Lunch Break: www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break
Miriam: miriamgershow.com

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 20d

Today our Brown Bag Lit Lunch Break writing accountability group will participate in a small group talk about writing from various points of view with @miriamgershow.bsky.social
(Closer.)

Become a Lunch Break Writer to attend and receive more member benefits:
www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 20d

I was interviewed by Chloe Yelena Miller. Check it out!

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 21d

New from Brown Bag Lit's Milk Journal: Multi-genre author @demisty.bsky.social chats with co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social about writing her short story collection All Daughters are Awesome Everywhere from
@univnebpress.bsky.social (and other books!)
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 21d

New from Brown Bag Lit's Milk Journal: Multi-genre author @demisty.bsky.social chats with co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social about writing her short story collection All Daughters are Awesome Everywhere from
@univnebpress.bsky.social (and other books!)
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you to @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social for joining us today to discuss collaboration and their new poetry book, Q&A For The End of The World! If you missed it, and we hope you didn't!, you can catch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWOH...

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 24d

They'll share:

How to find the right creative partner

What they wish they'd known before starting

Recommendations for setting up your own successful collaboration

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 24d

Today at noon, EST!
Register: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Q&A for the End of the World
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST
@mgushuedc.bsky.social
and
@kimroberts-dc.bsky.social
will share behind-the-scenes insights from co-writing their new poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 24d

#RandomWritingPrompt from Brown Bag Lit.

The days are getting shorter. The constant news is dark.

What brings you (or your character) light? Joy? It can be the smallest bite to the deepest laugh.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · 26d

Join us on Monday! www.brownbaglit.com/events

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · Sep 4

Monday, 9/15, 12 - 1 EST:
A discussion between two poets about creative collaboration. @mgushuedc.bsky.social and @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social co-wrote the poetry collection Q&A for the End of the World (WordTech Editions).

Register:
www.brownbaglit.com/events

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking for more support and accountability in your writing? Check out our Wednesday online writing group: Lunch Break Writers. www.brownbaglit.com/lunch-break

Lunch Break — Brown Bag Lit

www.brownbaglit.com

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · Sep 8

What can you do with the plot, syntax, placement in the piece, etc., to help highlight or lead towards that heat? Notice how the other parts can work to support it.

Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · Sep 8

Brown Bag Lit #RandomWritingPrompt:
Read through your draft and find the heart of the piece. What are you writing about *really*?

Underline this moment in the manuscript and then free-write on/about that moment and the reverberations that follow or precede it.

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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations to co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social. Check out her new work here -

Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you to editors Caroline Brock and Jona Colson for including my poem, English Vocabulary: Negation, in the new anthology, America's Future: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow out from @wwph.bsky.social!

www.washingtonwriters.org/events/