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Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)
@golgaloth.bsky.social
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Rich, fascinating stories, board game designs, and random thoughts, graciously provided by David Dawkins.
#Writer #Writing #BoardGames #Fantasy #SciFi
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Out of curiosity, how often are you all backing up your work to a separate, physical drive. Mine goes to a USB stick about once a week.

#writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #backup #security
A cupboard with a bunch of shelves. Each shelf contains some fluffy material that looks like a cloud. The cupboard is labelled, "Cloud Storage."
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
golgaloth.bsky.social
Wow. $360,000 in legal fees and damages that Kim Davis has to pay to the couple she denied a marriage licence.

Ouchies.
#KimDavis #GayMarriage #News
Kim Davis is perhaps most kindly described as frumpy in her mugshot.
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Editing my current novel. That's always fun. Someone with better knowledge of grammar than you pointing out all your little mistakes.
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I am a writer. Not an imposter.

#writing #editing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Love me some #Spring time in #Australia.

#flowers #photography
Blue crocus in the foreground, with vibrant crimson tulips behind, backed by some white and yellow daffodils.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Do you spend all your time in one location? Remember to occasionally refer to somewhere else. Have something important happen there. Unless there is nowhere else in your world.

#writing #AmWriting #Australia #WritingCommunity
A map of Australia from Terrible Maps. It shows the town of Toowoomba. The rest of Australia is marked, "Insufficiently Woomba."
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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#Sunday #SundayThoughts #SundayVibes
"Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument." - Robert G. Ingersoll
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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From an RPG I was working on. #ArtShare #art
Two heroes rise from camp in swampy territory, looking unphased by the sudden presence of a group of burr'arai.
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Perhaps they were meant to be a sidekick, perhaps the villains subordinate, a passing love interest. Have you ever had to delete an entire character because they just weren't working? (Character merges count).

#writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #fail
A cute blob holds up a sign that says, "Our expectations of you were low but holy shit."
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Is your character musical? Do you include music in your work? To what effect?

#music #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
She wants the *a picture of a piano keyboard with someone pressing a key, musical annotation underneath reveals the note to be a D*
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Stone Henge tightens security after Louvre theft.

#Louvre #buffy
The villains from the TV series Buffy, staring at something.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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So, we know why your hero hates the villain, but why does the villain hate your hero? Make it personal. It's more fun that way.

#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeClub #PennedPossibilities
Hating me is so valid. I probably held you accountable for your vile behaviour which discredits your entire narrative.
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Last days of the KS for Desolation bk 2. Last chance for DISCOUNTS! A new review up on Goodreads is five stars. Come and join Hetch as she rips apart the illusions of her world:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dha...

#books #AmReading #reading #Kickstarter #SciFi #steampunk #BookSky
Stark black and deep orange are the only colours I'm using for this book of the Desolation series. The cover features a giant crab-claw, along with the text, "Desolation: Keep Your Imaginary Friends Close" "They found the way out. Getting there is the problem."
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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How do you refer to genitalia in your work, if at all?

#writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
A sign for a restaurant translated directly from Chinese as, "Royal Edible Nest".
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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"It doesn't matter how good you are with a sword if your penis is only this long."
(A Fortunino Matania's illustration from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Venus books)

Caption This #HashTagGames

#books #writing #funny
A man and woman, neither wearing very much, have a discussion.
November 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Sold out of these, 6 sign ups to my mailing list, and sold my guitar. Thanks to #TasPop #Halloween #GeekMarket for an great day! If ya'll want a copy of Desolation you can jump on the Kickstarter to get a discount.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dha...

#books #SciFi #steampunk #Market
November 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Happy Halloween, everyone!

#HappyHalloween #Halloween #SpookySeason #books
Cartoon by Mark Paris from Off The Mark. A kid dressed as a book with a horrified grown-up handing them all the candy. "I'm that book you've been meaning to read."
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Heading down to the #TasPop Geek Market in #Hobart this weekend! If any of you can't make it, don't worry, you can buy my books on my latest Kickstarter:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dha...

#Books #Australia #Tasmania #reading #booksky #writing
A man in a Panama hat with a shiny shirt gesturing to his display of books available for sale.
October 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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My mum can't carry watering cans about at her age, so I got her some plastic plants for the pots out front. She loves them. It got me thinking about what ableist idioms creep into my work. How about you? Have you noticed anything ableist in your writing?

#Writing #ableism #WritingCommuntiy
A pot with a fern thingy surrounded by tall grassy stuff. A small succulent plant with colourful leaves, surrounded by tall grass-looking stuff. I don't know plants.
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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In Dorothy Levitt's book, The Woman and The Car (1909), she recommends carrying a compact to "hold the mirror aloft from time to time in order to see behind while driving in traffic."
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Who in your world is ahead of their times?

#cars #history #writing #WritingCommunity #WorldBuilding #ttrpg
A woman with an arch smile and a fur coat leans over a steering wheel.
October 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Gender swap two of your characters.

#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #gender #photography
This may look like photoshop, but it's actually vintage drag. This was a brief fashion in the early age of photography.
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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How picky an eater is your character? This is always a fun detail to throw in, as it will create a sense of separation from the general morass.

#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #miniatures #photography
Two figures operate on a bell pepper (capsicum), making sure they remove all the pips.
October 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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At one of those uphill bits of my story where I'm having to invent everything and come up with names. Meanwhile the story roils around, desperate to get out. Once I've built this piece of the world, I expect it to burst out with terrible urgency.

#Writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
October 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Okay, hive mind. In #Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar, who is #DonaldTrump, #Trump?

#literature #history #JustForFun
Julius surrounded by people with knives, and about to have a really bad day.
October 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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The most frustrating thing, for me as a writer, is not being able to give my readers a full sense of the world. Describe this beautiful window in Morocco. That particular blue, the vivid contrast in yellow. The detail of the grill-work. The sunlight.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #writing
Now, having said that. A wall painted a rich, sky blue, and a golden-yellow window with intricate, delicate grillwork.
October 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Remember, if you're going to make your characters miserable, you should first make them happy. If you're going to make them bad, first make them them good. The inverse also applies.

#WritingTips #NegativeSpace #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
Plane Filling II" by M.C. Escher. A series of images on a sheet, where the mostly black figures form the outlines of mostly white figures.
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM