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Writer Stuck in A Loop Did you hear the story about a writer who got stuck in a confusing loop as he was editing a story. He was using a synonym dictionary to help avoid repetitive word usage. He accidentally typed synonym as the word into the search dictionary and got stuck as he kept reading it over and over. He thought he typed in the word he wanted to replace, he kept asking himself, why is it spitting back these useless suggestions . . .another word . . .alternate word . . .alternate expression. I know what I want! I did it once, but I didn’t really get stuck. |
BOOK LAUNCH! BOOK LAUNCH! BOOK LAUNCH! Just in time for Christmas. Check out my story, The Hitchhiker, in a new Anthology, Hellbound Highway
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Incredible Writing Milestone If you didn’t catch it! S🤦♂️   has just had his 100th Traditionally Published Short Story released. A testament to persistence and skill. Drop by his Notebook and give him a scribble |
Major Publishing News from Amazon Max Griffin 🏳️🌈  keeps going and going and going .......
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Is It Ever Too Late? A man is struggling to make ends meet and is dealing with regrets from a lifetime of bad decisions. Is it too late to change his life? Even as life throws more challenges and temptations his way. If this story sounds interesting, give it a read and give me your thoughts about it. Just under 2000 words.
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House of Dynamite and the President Late this month the movie “House of Dynamite” came out in theaters. One of the themes, founded in reality is the short time frame a president has to make a decision to launch nuclear weapons in the event of an actual or suspected attack on the United States. The public literature from experts in this area suggests time frames from ten to thirty minutes. A decision that is made by a president without any checks and balances, that could nearly end life on the planet. This week President Trump stated, “because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.” Department of War and nuclear weapons testing, sounds ominous. Experts and advisers were shocked, dismayed, and confused. Nuclear testing involving detonation of devices has not happened in 30 years, what is he thinking? What do you think about President Trump having his finger on the button? Go to the political taboo forum "Trumps Finger on the Nuclear Button"  by Damon Nomad and give your views. |
ATTENTION HORROR WRITERS LOOKING FOR A REAL CHALLENGE According to the Horror Tree, an anthology based on the setting of the Shining is in the works. Apparently, there will be an open call soon, capped at 500 submissions and accepting one story, the others are filled by invited writers. Paying $2000 ahead of royalties according to the article. This is out of my league, but someone on WDC might be game. From the Horror Tree: Screenwriter Jamie Flanagan is putting together an anthology based on the infamous hotel from Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’ and it already features work from: Michael Bailey, Chelsea Cain, Johnny Compton, Mike Flanagan, Christopher Golden, Justina Ireland, AI Jiang, Alma Katsu, Brian Keene, Daniel Kraus, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Chuck Palahniuk, and more with Ellie Pritchett editing. Source https://www.horrortree.com/advance-notice-full-call-will-be-posted-when-availabl... |
THE EXCITING ROLLER COASTER RIDE OF TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING I have had a long string of rejections, and as usual, the good news seems to come in clusters. This week brought a new book launch. Today brought an email with an acceptance and contract offer to publish a new story in an upcoming anthology. This is one of those stories I stuck with through previous rejections and refined and tweaked it. In a twisted sort of way, the rejections make the acceptances more meaningful. WRITE! SUBMIT! REJECT! PUBLISH! REPEAT |
BOOK LAUNCH! BOOK LAUNCH! BOOK LAUNCH! A publisher just released a new anthology with my story, BONE STEW. It’s been a while since I have had a new one go out. Feel free to purchase and publish great online reviews of my story.
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Dead Presidents and US Currency The decision to place a person's likeness on US currency, including coins, has been a decision treated with dignity and careful thought. The US Treasury is considering a one-dollar coin commemorating the 250th anniversary of independence (1776-2026) for next year. Of course, dead presidents were considered the front-runners. In 2016, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco confirmed that "a living person may not appear on U.S. currency." "To avoid the appearance of a monarchy, it was a long-standing tradition to only feature portraits of deceased individuals on currency and coin." (Emphasis added by me.) Front-runners amongst presidential historians are said to be Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Imagine their shock and awe, surely, when the US Treasury recently confirmed the proposed design of the new coin is, yes, of course, the current president. The reverse side of the coin is particularly fetching, the president's fist raised with words FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT. I wonder whose idea this was? I would direct any discussion and commentary to the forum "TABOO forum: politics" |
Amethyst Snow Angel  - He's not kidding. It's not even the most disgusting thing the King Orange One has done this week. |
| Amethyst Snow Angel - See news articles www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/treasury-department-trump-dollar-coin-00593368 www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/03/donald-trump-commemorative-coin-legal/86504452007/ |
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