Shutterstock Starting September 19th, Twitter is about to see a pretty drastic change. Once limited to 140-characters, Twitter will now go much further, as the company plans to begin rolling out changes next week that result in images, GIFs, videos, polls, and other links not counting towards your 140-character limit. The date of the changes…
via Twitter’s New System For Counting 140 Characters Is Coming On September 19th — Real Stories – UPROXX
I’ve toyed around with Reddit several times over the years, but I have struggled to really get into it. I’d create an ID, look at it for two days, never really post or comment anything, and then forget my login information. My husband, once a heavy Redditor, stopped cold turkey for a while, but the seemingly endless supply of terrible jokes lured him back. He reads things off Reddit to me and it “seems” like there could be a little more there than I found before – perhaps I just needed to give it more than a couple of days?
Determined to find value in Reddit beyond terrible jokes (seriously, some of the worst jokes every known to man), I have decided to give Reddit another try. I’ll probably lurk for a while before I comment, but we’ll see. I haven’t yet looked to see which of my friends and followers are on Reddit, but if you are, please feel free to send me a message or comment with your username. (Helpful tips and advice always welcome, too!)
One of the things that intrigues me (other than the Aww Subreddit that’s full of cute baby animal pictures and videos) is the AMA (Ask Me Anything) feature. For example, The Microsoft OneNote team will be doing a AMA over in /r/iama on September 1st @ 1PM EST. If you want to ask questions of celebrities, experts, random weirdos, this is the place. They have several AMAs per day. Here’s a Google Calendar of upcoming AMAs And here is the Twitter link for AMAs.
The other thing I think I’ll investigate more this time around is customizing my subreddits so I see more of what interests me (and hopefully get less overwhelmed by that crazy noisy UX nightmare of a front page). For my writer and book junking readers, here’s a small sampling of subreddits on books, literature, and writing I’ve discovered in my first full day of being a Newbie Redditor.
Book reviews, recommendations, stories about books or book technology, etc.
A subreddit for the participants of the 52 Book Challenge (one book per week for a year) to discuss their progress and discoveries.
As one might expect, this is a place to casually discuss books!
Welcome to /r/literature, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels. Discussions of literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, and critical theory are also welcome–strongly encouraged, even.
Welcome to /r/Literatures, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels **in languages other than English, or English in translation**. This is a sister subreddit to /r/literature, focused on literatures from around the world originally written in any language other than English.
All are welcome at r/writers: fiction writers, nonfiction writers, bloggers and more! Get critique on your work, share resources, ask questions and help fellow writers.
If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave commentary for other people’s works.
The home for writers. We talk about important matters for writers, news affecting writers, and the finer aspects of writing.
Welcome to the Writer_Well. Here you are free to write stories, short stories, poems, plays, song lyrics, and so forth
Jobs for writers.
This reddit is dedicated to those of us who are writing in the fantasy genre. Anything related to creating your own works of fantasy is acceptable.
A sub reddit to get ideas flowing for Artists and Writers. Where Artists can post their work to prompt ideas forWriters and Writers can post stories to prompt ideas for artists.
This is a place for the writers of Reddit to showcase the stories of other writers!
A place for young writers to learn, discuss, and generally have fun with the craft of writing.
A peer-critique community for writers from India. * English, vernacular and hybrid-language writers welcome.
A friendly community for writers for novel, short story, script and poetry writers only.
Post links to writer’s guidelines, calls for submissions, writing contests, etc. See sidebar for rules.
A corner for all female writers.
A place to discuss just about everything in the world of indie books.
A place where TV writers can ask questions about the industry, exchange and provide feedback on scripts, and discuss shows, writers, and ideas they like.
If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This quick, easy read had me turning pages and staying up late to finish. Most characters are well-crafted, and while the protagonist’s mother seems overly stereotyped, a story told from a teenager’s POV makes this completely acceptable. I thought at first this novel might have ended up categorized as young adult simply because of the young protagonist (as, unfortunately, so many novels lately have tended to fall). As I read on, however, I felt myself wanting to go back and edit this book to encourage the author to rewrite it or an adult audience. The book *almost* makes there… and the places it doesn’t quite get there are SO easily identified. As a young adult novel, it ends up somewhere near a Flowers in the Attic-type of read -a bit too salacious for the teenage set, a bit under-written for more advanced readers. Not a bad read by any stretch (I couldn’t bring myself to give it 3 stars), it easily could have been better.
When you’re writing a character, it’s important to know why she is the way she is. Knowing her backstory is important to achieving this end, and one of the most impactful pieces of a character’s backstory is her emotional wound. This negative experience from the past is so intense that a character will go to great lengths to avoid experiencing that kind of pain and negative emotion again. As a result, certain behaviors, beliefs, and character traits will emerge…
Continue reading: http://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/06/emotional-wounds-entry-stalked/
In February 2006, a proposal writer started working at an engineering firm in Knoxville. In May 2006, an IT guy joined that same firm in Columbia. A few months later, the two found themselves in a ridiculous meeting where the IT and marketing departments argued about the “quality” of the printers.
These two coworkers struck up a friendship that grew, strong and consistent, over the next few years. Eventually, these (now best) friends realized they were actually head over heels in love with each other. The rest, as the saying goes, is history.
Because life is full of surprises, my husband decided to celebrate our 10 years of friendship with a vacation full of surprises. From a weekend at the Ritz to a morning at Mount Vernon. From a relaxing cruise on the river to a quiet afternoon writing blog post drafts and Yelp reviews sitting in a pedicure chair. The trip has been absolutely fantastic…and it’s not even over yet!! 💜
Tomorrow we’ll wander around Washington, DC, one of our favorite places we’ve been visiting together for years. Friends, if I ever have had any advice worth anything, it’s this. Marry your best friend.
As I sit here posting some of the writings from this afternoon, listening as my best friend/husband falls asleep, I’m overcome with gratitude, as I’m clearly the luckiest woman alive.
When you’re writing a character, it’s important to know why she is the way she is. Knowing her backstory is important to achieving this end, and one of the most impactful pieces of a character’s backstory is her emotional wound. This negative experience from the past is so intense that a character will go to great lengths to avoid experiencing that kind of…
via Emotional Wound Entry: Being Bullied — WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®
In Silicon Valley, software engineer is synonymous with eye-watering compensation. Monthly salaries for engineering interns (about $81,600 per year annualized) are about twice the median wage in the rest of the country. While the reality of high-paying coding jobs is not wrong, programming isn’t the only way to climb Silicon Valley’s career ladder, and it’s…
via The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not software engineers — Quartz
I love when people acknowledge the tie between physical and mental. When I can’t run for some reason or another, the first thing I notice is the change in my head space.
I follow Louisa on Instagram. http://instagram.com/louisaruns Check out her blog, too. https://louisaruns.wordpress.com
As part of my blog I (MM) believe it’s important to share common and similar experiences. With over 22k Instagram followers and acting as an advocate for the equality of physical and mental health. I’m so inspired by the work she is doing. I’d like to introduce you to Louisa (LE).
MB: In 2013 you started training for your first marathon, which was London 2014, what advice would you give other people attempting their first marathon?
LE: Yes it was London 2014. My main advice would be to set reasonable goals. I gave myself a year to change which I felt was beneficial as I didn’t put to much pressure on myself and was able to go at my own pace. At the beginning I could only run three/four miles non-stop so I definitely had my work cut out. But I set small goals, I made sure I started covering…
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I showed a friend some of Ben Flint‘s artwork and that friend wanted me to show another friend who showed it to… well, on and on. There’s a ton of interest because Ben is really good. Seriously.
Right now, Ben is working on a graphic novel series, but I think he could be convinced to fit in some cover art if any of my writer friends are interested. The series below represents some of his older work (circa 2009), but I really love how it depicts Mary Shelley’s (not Hollywood’s) Frankenstein.
http://benflintjr.blogspot.com/2009/01/frankenstein.html
(ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE) — Pope Francis says he won’t describe Islam as “terrorist” since that’s “not fair and not true.” Francis was asked Sunday why he never uses the word “Islam” when denouncing extremists’ killings like that of an elderly French priest during Mass in France last week. He was speaking to reporters aboard…
via Pope Francis Says It’s Not Right to Identify Islam With Violence — TIME
Erika for President 
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