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The text editor: https://iwl.me/
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I've been obsessed with @grantamag.bsky.social's podcast to the point that I started looking forward to chores because that's when I listen to it. It feels like being wrapped in an atmosphere of thought, literature and discoveries. Here's the link:
granta.com/explore/?cat...

#podcast #books
Explore Granta | The Magazine of New Writing
From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalists, Granta publishes the best new literary writing and art.
granta.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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iwritelike.bsky.social
Does your soul sing when you see a typewriter? My soul is singing now that there are typewriter sounds on I Write Like. Try it!
I’m so in love, I’m melting 🫠.
(I’ll attach the screenshots showing how to enable the feature.)
#amwriting #WritingCommunity
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
What a wonderful and heartbreaking story that lets a reader piece together what happened through thoughts and phrases that drop seemingly randomly during a fight over what a gravestone should say.
'Corners' by Etgar Keret published in @vqr.bsky.social
www.vqronline.org/spring-2025/...

#shortstory
Corners
And then they started fighting about what the gravestone would say. Noam’s dad wanted “Son, something, and friend, plucked in the prime of his life.” He didn’t know what the “something” would be yet, ...
www.vqronline.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
What are your thoughts on publishing the letters of famous people after their death? At what point does a private life become cultural material?
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
iwritelike.bsky.social
Before you start reading this, ensure that your surroundings are suitable for explosive laughter.
Absolutely brilliant and hilarious. Thank you, Elizabeth Schambelan, and @nplusonemag, for this experience.

#shortstory #funny
December 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
"The first words I typed were not on a computer keyboard or a glass screen, but on an old mechanical typewriter."

About typewriter sounds in I Write Like:
blog.iwl.me/2025/12/13/t...

#writing #editing #app
A still-life photo focusing on a desk setup. In the foreground, a pair of white wireless headphones rests next to a clear glass mug containing a tea-colored liquid. The background is cluttered with items, including a tall green and white tumbler (possibly a Starbucks cup) on the left, candles, and what appears to be part of a plant. In the center-right, a silver MacBook Pro laptop is open, displaying text on its screen. The laptop is stacked on two books: one yellow and black titled "ABSOLUTE FREEBSD," and another red and black titled "THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FREEBSD OPERATING SYSTEM." Below the books is a black mechanical keyboard.
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
Gabriel García Márquez on Kafka's Metamorphosis

#quotes #books
A screenshot of a text file titled "Márquez on Kafka.txt" open in a web browser. The text displays a quote from Gabriel García Márquez:"The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago."
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
iwritelike.bsky.social
I've just read this story, and it's so good! Such a perfect portrayal of the narrator through his thoughts. I now want to read more by Vivek Shanbhag.

#shortstory #storytelling
grantamag.bsky.social Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · Nov 7
‘He introduced me: “Mr Manmohan, my boss, but more importantly, a famous Kannada short-story writer.” I listened for any trace of sarcasm.’ 

Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur.

granta.com/a-measure-fo...
A Measure of Martyrdom | Vivek Shanbhag | Granta
‘I didn’t mention Shami to my wife, I am not sure why. Maybe, deep down, I wanted to keep her a secret.’ Fiction by Vivek Shanbhag translated by Srinath Perur.
granta.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
Today I learned that some elements of sci-fi appeared as early as 2nd century CE in True Story by Lucian. I always thought it was a modern genre.

#books #history
December 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
In 1986 Pennebaker and Beall studied the effects of journaling, calling it 'expressive writing'. They found it produced small but reliable benefits, such as better mood, reduced stress. New studies come to the same conclusion. Times change but stress remains, and so do the attempts to write it out.
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
iwritelike.bsky.social
Does your soul sing when you see a typewriter? My soul is singing now that there are typewriter sounds on I Write Like. Try it!
I’m so in love, I’m melting 🫠.
(I’ll attach the screenshots showing how to enable the feature.)
#amwriting #WritingCommunity
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
Do you write your first drafts by hand?

"Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity"
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

#writing #brain #science
Frontiers | Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom
As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human brain. Brain ele...
www.frontiersin.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
iwritelike.bsky.social
Do you discuss with anyone how you write?

#WritingCommunity
December 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
I noticed the texts I love the most have this essential contrast in them: If the topic is tough, the language is minimal, straightforward. If it's an everyday event, it's described with such intricacy, I feel like I'm seeing the underside of life.

#writing #books
December 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
iwritelike.bsky.social
Isn't this handy?

#app #amwriting #editing
December 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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nebullama.bsky.social
My favorite Lovecraft quote:

"There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other."

Just brilliant 🤌

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #Lovecraft
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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#WritingCommunity
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
This is such an awesome new feature on I Write Like! I hate rewriting my numbers, and quotes used to be a separate stalling distraction. Not anymore!
Try it here: iwl.me/transform

#editing #writing #text
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
iwritelike.bsky.social
I think I'll stick to classics and indie authors in the upcoming year.

#books #reading
December 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
The best books of 2025
www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-i...

#books
The best books of 2025
New novels from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ian McEwan, plus the return of Slow Horses and Margaret Atwood looks back … Guardian critics pick the must-read titles of 2025
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
iwritelike.bsky.social
My favorite book by Margaret Atwood is not The Handmaid's Tale, though, but this one.

#author #literature #book
Front cover of the novel The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. The top half features the title in red, stylized script above the text "Winner of the Booker Prize." The bottom half displays the author's name, "MARGARET ATWOOD," in large, bold, white serif lettering. The background image is a painting of a woman with a 1930s-style wavy bob haircut, wearing a backless black dress, looking over her shoulder toward the viewer against a muted blue-green backdrop. Heading: "The bridge" in italics. Paragraph text: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. The bridge was being repaired: she went right through the Danger sign. The car fell a hundred feet into the ravine, smashing through the treetops feathery with new leaves, then burst into flames and rolled down into the shallow creek at the bottom. Chunks of the bridge fell on top of it. Nothing much was left of her but charred smithereens."
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
"she believed the plot was “bonkers” when she first developed the concept for the novel because the US was the “democratic ideal” at the time."

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

#author #life #literature
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale has become ‘more and more plausible’
Canadian author discusses US under Donald Trump and says setting of dystopian novel has ‘become much closer’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
iwritelike.bsky.social
Writers used to have writer's block. Now they probably have writer's scrolling inertia.

#WritingCommunity #socialmedia
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
iwritelike.bsky.social
This is so puzzling. So "romantasy" is not "fantasy" and both of them are not "fiction" if they are all separated in this list?
www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...

#books #reading
Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards!
View the winners across all 15 categories now!
www.goodreads.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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jenthorne.bsky.social
Oh yes, I've read them!
December 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM