Trump-driven fuel up. Gallons: 23.160, Price: $92.62.

Thank you, Dear Leader.
#MAGA #Trump #fascism #incompetence

Yellow sign that reads "No Kings."

#NoKings
https://www.nokings.org/

A badge: I eat rejections for breakfast.

"I eat rejections for breakfast."

I wrote a post on the topic I tweeted about earlier today.

errantruminant.com/blog/rejections-for-brea...

#writing #submitting #rejection #breakfast

Redacted rejection letter.

I eat rejections for breakfast. Who's hungry!
#writing #rejection #submission #persistence

Black turkey vultures in an oak tree.

Here's to Sunday Morning Sex.

https://errantruminant.com/blog/sunday-sex/

#littlefreelibrary #nature #vultures #farmlife #books #life #sex

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116212764694043220

The most infuriating thing about the #Trump era is the ability for politicians to knowingly lie and there are zero consequences for it and everyone just shrugs and moves on.

There is literally more evidence that Trump raped children, than […]

For about two years, I couldn't figure out why Scrivener kept turning off while I wasn't looking. It was baffling.

Apparently, the Windows* version has an option that says "Turn off after 30 minutes of inactivity," and it's on by default.

Maybe the Apple version does, too, but it never came up […]

A surreal image of a basebal pitcher in a blur of motion.

I pitched my novel to a publisher.

The long and short of it: I was asked to share pages, but only after another round of edits on the novel. A BIG round of edits. It's great to get the validation that my idea is a good one. Now I need to follow through! […]

[Original post on writing.exchange]

That same image gets posted every time I post ANY link from my website. *grumble* Trying to figure out why that is has been challenging. Meh. Regardless … check it out. :)

I just added a "resources for writers" index page on my website: a how-to + templates for The Industry Standard Manuscript, a cheat sheet of sorts in support of the Chicago Manual of Style (w/ a focus on the narrative writer), and a discussion about Grammatical TAM. Fun stuff. Check it out […]

https://toddwarner.io/blog/fresh-juicy/

Took a solid week, but after YEARS of procrastination, I updated my website. Refreshed and Juicy. Added things like commenting, a real newsletter, and a renewed emphasis as an "author" website rather than a GP website.

Is it all worth it? Who knows […]

Microsoft is infuriating. They are more open than the worst offender, Apple, but they are rather poor corporate citizens. They have little interest in doing what is right for the consumer if what is right for the consumer doesn't maximize profits. Vendor lockin is unethical. Full stop.

Adjacent […]

I eat rejections for breakfast!

Today, I received a rare personal comment within a rejection response (creative nonfiction writing contest):

"Though your entry did not win this year's contest, we did want you to know that it was one of the few finalists chosen, an honor in and of itself." […]

We finally received our FOSS Awards 2025 trophy 🏆 and goodies from @20i!

A huge thank you once again to our amazing community 💙

Your votes, contribution and support made this possible.

We’ll keep working hard to do our best for the community in 2026, and […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

@joplinapp I want some goodies! :)

Go to Configuration > Synchronisation, and select Joplin Cloud, all you have to do is connect your account and you're done!

Seamless Sync, Powered by Joplin Cloud 🔄☁️

Keep all your notes perfectly synced across every device.
Reliable, private, and end-to-end encrypted — no complex setup, just smooth synchronisation. 🔐

Also scalable for teams with Joplin Cloud Teams.

I'm down for the count. Again
#reading #writing #injury #life #farmlife

https://toddwarner io/blog/down-for-the-count/

Historic farm house covered in a blanket of snow, a tail of smoke rising from one chimney.

First real snow on the farm in years. It is pretty. Now … begone! ;)

Meme sign: America was Pretti Good before Trump.

#America was #Pretti #Good before #Trump / #MAGA

Fascinating. The mass-market paperback era is drawing to a close. I have mixed feelings about this—all purely nostalgic, of course. Mass-market paperbacks are effectively disposable and ebooks have subsumed that market segment […]

ABC Music Notation Support ABC Musical notation now works natively from the editors and published notes

🎼 ABC Music Notation Support
What used to be a plugin is now part of Joplin itself! You can now use ABC notation directly in published notes and within the Rich Text editor perfect for music notation workflows in notes

Joplin new release! What’s new in 3.5 ?

What's new in Joplin 3.5? 🚀
This update brings a host of refinements across desktop and mobile from a more powerful editor to smoother navigation and better sync reliability.
Let’s dive in 👇
https://joplinapp.org/news/20260111-release-3-5

@joplinapp you need to update this. :)

The Reason for the Season Happy Midwinter!

Happy Midwinter!
https://toddwarner.io/blog/the-reason-for-the-season/

An Irving Penn Portrait for the Coldest Days of Winter: “Peter and Dagmar Freuchen” | The New Yorker
An Irving Penn Portrait for the Coldest Days of Winter: “Peter and Dagmar Freuchen” | The New Yorker https://share.google/A7u3LB1US2Z4vQJuE

I love this so much. Cheers to the truly interesting […]

One Good Paragraph #1GP? #OGP?

We, as writers, need to share snippets of our work more often than we do, IMHO. And so, today, I am doing just that. Maybe I shall do more of this in the future. This bit is from my novel WIP, a paragraph kicking off scene #102:

"Sunlight streamed from a series […]

The End is Just the Beginning Here we are once again. It marks a moment to pause and celebrate before moving on to the next step.

I forgot to share the all-important 'The End.' :)
And … I wrote a post about it. :)

errantruminant.com/blog/the-end-is-just-the...

Promotional graphic for the Grammar Girl podcast featuring Mignon Fogarty and guest Peter Sokolowski. The title reads, “Do print dictionaries still matter?” A red Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary appears between them, set against a green background of bookshelves. The top includes icons for Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and QDT.

Merriam-Webster just released the first new print edition of its Collegiate Dictionary in 22 years — and it weighs five pounds! So of course, I had questions. :)

In today's podcast, I talk with Peter Sokolowski about why print still matters.

Watch […]

[Original post on zirk.us]

Well. I say "hard part" rather cavalierly. Writing the damn thing was rather hard.

Notebooks: novel, handwritten

Wine and laptop at the cafe.

Finished the first-ish draft of my novel Saeculum (working title). Now, the hard part begins. ;)
#writing #editing