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My Appalachian crime novel, GOOSE CREEK HOLLER, has a featured spot in the Gritty Crimes promo. Grit defines my Appalachian story of a sheriff's dark deeds in an isolated community deep in Appalachia and a powerful, unique lawsuit. The book is based on my research of actual bad actors in law enforcement in Appalachia. From the BookLife Review for Publishers Weekly: "Hayden lays bare the ingrained tyranny of a closed-off region in GOOSE CREEK HOLLER, reveling in its deep-seated villainy."
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The only book I have on Kindle Unlimited. Flicka's LOVERS is featured in today's promo: https://books.bookfunnel.com/allsteamyromanceallkunov/ty4daks9co
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#ScribesAndMakers 8/11: Suture?

Childbirth?

••⋅☾ #俳句 ☽⋅••

Candles newly lit
Raw sutures still exposed
Will recovery unfold

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov. 8: Suture?

I have been fortunate enough to have never needed any.

#ScribesAndMakers NaNo (2/2)

I brought my daughter to a write-in when she was a year old, but soon after was the pandemic. Meaning even less free time than before, so I kept in touch with the group but shelved the event. Then came the controversy.

The group did cut away too, I'm still part of the Discord, but really have no time to check it. So I miss having people actually asking me how writing is going, but life's too busy to miss much else.

#ScribesAndMakers 7: Ever NaNoWriMo? (1/2)

Bit of history there, as I don't take up a challenge I have no hope of completing. November being the third worst month of the entire year for free time, I started with JulNoWriMo 2012. Succeeding with "University Witch". Having thus proved it was possible under ideal conditions, I felt I was okay to fail under abysmal conditions, and then did it for several Novembers. Mostly for the group, as no one in my RL cares much for my writing. (cont'd)

#ScribesAndMakers 11/7, Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

I did participate a few times. I failed twice and succeeded once. I do miss the excitement about everyone preparing and doing writing sprints together.

I do think it's helpful to have that 1667 (or whatever) word goal per day, but it's not sustainable at that level for me.

Ellipsus has a goal setting feature that I'm usng now on a much smaller scale which I am enjoying :D

#ScribesAndMakers 11/7, Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

I tried it maybe once back before they let plagiarizing robots enter. It didn't help that November is the worst month for me to write, too many other obligations bottle-neck for me that month.

I think I got to about 35K out of the target 50K words and I was left with a pretty decent start to a novel for me to abandon.

Now, there are a few writing challenges I participate in, but never really a pound-a-book-out-right-now sort of thing. If I could afford less distraction in my life and dedicate some time, I might get something out of it, but I'm perfectly fine without it.

#scribesandmakers November 7—Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

Yes, I am! I did NaNoWriMo successfully for many, many years, and mentored many local writers through it as well. All but 1 of my published novels started life that way. I really miss the community and camaraderie, and the fun and energy of being part of a really big creative endeavour.

November 7: "Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo?"

NaNo-like things don't scratch an itch for me. The most fun I had creating was doing a daily comic, and hijacking illustration prompts for daily flash fiction.

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#ScribesAndMakers November 7: Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

Of course not. I have never heard of novel writing month, don't write novels, would not take part if I did, and what the f*** is NaNoWriMo, anyhow? It sounds like an old fashioned police siren.

#ScribesAndMakers 7Nov—Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

I tried one time. Wound up writing three plays. Don't know how that happened, but it did.

#ScribesAndMakers 7, Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

Nope, not my thing. I purposefully write slow AF. Preferably in cursive. And, if I'm honest, I never really understood the allure. For many, it seemed to be a typing competition, instead of an actual writing competition.

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Sometimes the seeds of a novel are there long before you recognize them. 🌱

I recently found an Earth Day dream fragment I posted ±10 years ago: salmon, trains, young people, the North.

Years later, those threads found their way into Rail: A High Speed Adventure, the third novel in my ecofiction trilogy. I hadn’t even been to Svalbard when I wrote the dream.

Now all three novels are out in the world, alongside my art and nonfiction. If you’ve read one, a rating or review on Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Indigo helps other readers discover it.

Books + art: www.mkbcstudio.com

#Books #ClimateFiction #Ecofiction #IndieAuthor #ScribesAndMakers #Writing

#ScribesAndMakers 7Nov—Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

No, I’m in rewrites now. I did actually sign up and participate once many years back (mainly because I was writing something new already). The collective excitement was nice. The slop incursions spoiled that spirit, which is a damn shame. I know there’s a new community effort going and I hope it encourages and inspires many writers.

#ScribesAndMakers 7 Nov: Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

No, I perfer stability over sprints. It works for some people but I can't imagine doing it myself.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers Nov 7: Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

My writing brain gets less flexible under pressure. Even if I'm blocked somewhere, and just forcing myself to write *something*, I'm writing because I want to write. Deadlines are annoying, so I don't really do challenges like that.

#ScribesAndMakers 7. Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

Yes, I'm writing the first draft of a novel this month, and so far it's going much better than I think it's ever gone before. Yay!

I think I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time in 2008 or 9 and "won" a handful of times over the years. I kinda miss the old forum, I guess?

#ScribesAndMakers -7. Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

Yes, I did once participate in NaNoWriMo, but I don't think it is a good way to write a novel. A novel should not have a deadline, and hastily written sections that lack inspiration are not easy to rewrite later.

#ScribesAndMakers 7Nov—Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

Not this year. I won at NaNo once or twice but I often travel I'm November and I don't write while I'm on the road.

Also I feel no need to "prove" myself that way since I death-marched the first draft of "The Annihilation Score" (at 110,000 words) in 18 days one July (then blew that year's NaNo).

#writingprompt #amwriting #writesky #ScribesAndMakers inventingrealityediting.com/2...

#ScribesAndMakers Nov 7: Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

I've never participated in NaNoWriMo, partly because of what a friend of mine wrote here: https://freaknation.com/essays/anti-writing.php

#ScribesAndMakers 11/7. Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

No, no aaaaand no.

Writing an entire novel in ONE MONTH? Are you trying to give me a nervous breakdown?

#ScribesAndMakers 11/7. Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

No, yes, not really.

I did it… three times, I think? And failed at least once more. First alone in high school in December, then in college with a club formed for NaNoWriMo.

I never really got a *novel* out of it, just a lot of words. Couldn’t tell you anything about any of them.

#ScribesAndMakers November 7: Are you participating in novel writing month?

No. Not this time. I have in the past and have two novel manuscripts to show for it. I enjoyed NaNoWriMo very much in the past. I wouldn’t have been able to write those without it.

I’m in a bit of writer’s malaise right now, but if I can climb out, I’ll edit one of those instead.

As my girlfriend says, “no new novels — we have novels at home.”

#ScribesAndMakers 2026-11-6 (Catchup) Share a sentence you read, heard, or wrote recently that resonated with you; give credit if it's not yours.

'Do not spill the sorrow.'

Spilling it would be a waste of resources, for this alchemist. It is possible that while manipulating it, he'll cry, but that would be a waste of resources too, so he probably won't. He's very dutiful.

@JallBarret I like that one.

Those #ScribesAndMakers prompts are fun and can lead to unexpected places.

#ScribesAndMakers November 7: Are you participating in novel writing month?

Nope. I'd like to again but since my daily writing goals are more than what is needed to get 50K written in a month (not that I'm hitting all of those lately) it's not pressing for me.

#ScribesAndMakers 07 pt2
novel writing month

I have these scattered on my computer and need to organize them.

For nostalgia’s sake, here’s what NaNo looked like back in the day. This is a screenshot from NaNo 2017, which was my 4th. I did nine of them, the last in 2023.

Bring back memories? Yeah. Back then, I was a part of a community. We’d check in with each other every day and provide encouragement. Those were fun times.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

#ScribesAndMakers November 7: Are you participating in novel writing month?

No, and never have. November is filled with family celebrations and events, so it's always the worst time to prioritize writing.

#ScribesAndMakers Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo; if so, is there anything you miss about it?

I uhm, sort of forgot it existed. Wasn't there a whole thing abt AI and Nano tho?

#writing

#ScribesAndMakers November 7: Are you participating in novel writing month?

I'm still working on editing The Novel and recording the audio book for it so I won't be able to put in the time on a separate novel-length project.

Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

#WritersCoffeeClub November 7: How detailed are your plans before you write?

Up to the point where I need a second level in my chapter outline but no deeper. If I get too detailed, either the work is wasted or the fun is all out of it.

For shorter works, I may just sit down and knock them out, doing complete discovery as I go. The snake story I did for #ScribesAndMakers the other day was one of those.

#ScribesAndMakers #WritingCommunity November 7: Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

I’m not participating this year, I’ve got too much on my plate.

If you take a look at my earlier post in response to the subject of today’s #Fantastic Prompts you can read a little bit about my experience last year.

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#ScribesAndMakers 11/7. Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

I have mentioned from time to time that I respond well to external deadlines - probably a consequence of being a magazine editor for 20+ years.

So I am pretending this month is giving me a deadline to write 50K, and I have the enthusiasm of "Her War of the Worlds" so the words are flowing easily.

Yes, I did NaNoWriMo every year almost from the beginning until they committed suicide and also ScriptFrenzy which they ran for a few years. But I never really got involved in the community side of it. I'm just not that sort of person.

Apparently I don't miss it since I can manage without but only in November - now if I could just transfer this "external deadline" thing to other months... 😄

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#ScribesAndMakers 7/11: Are you participating in novel writing month? Did you ever participate in NaNoWriMo, and if so, is there anything you miss about it?

No and no. I've never had any trouble finishing a book, or not since I finished the first one anyway, but I like to take my time over it. And also November is not a good time for me. Work is hectic in November.

#scribesAndMakers -6. Share a sentence that you read, heard, or wrote recently that resonated with you. (Please give credit if it isn't yours.)

Too big to rig; too real to steal.

or

Break not the ICE on Sieves Mill Pond nor dredge its foul depths

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

This was shared online today by the Charles M. Schulz Museum. We've all felt this.

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#ScribesAndMakers 06
a line that resonates with me (mine)

That floundering nation, facing a towering mountain if it wants to reclaim its heart and soul, has at last managed to find the trailhead.

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#ScribesAndMakers 6/11: Share a sentence that you read, heard, or wrote recently that resonated with you. (Please give credit if it isn't yours.)

Here’s one, in the words of Oscar Wilde, "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.'

I guess that's the reason we're all here...

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#ScribesAndMakers 11/6: Share a sentence that you read, heard, or wrote recently that resonated with you. (Please give credit if it isn't yours.)

My love, please go out of the pages of my notebooks, and out of the sheets of my bed, and out of the coffee cups, the sugar spoons… So that I may find the strength to go out to work.

(My humble and free translation of a short lyrical excerpt by Nizar Qabbani).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Qabbani

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November 6th

Share a sentence that you read, heard, or wrote recently that resonated with you.

(My boss as I asked him if I could take all my summer vacation days at once because I want to make a 7000 km / 3450 miles road trip to Norway.)

“In a car!? You crazy!?”
Yes.
Yes, I am.

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6th Nov 2026. Share a sentence that you read, heard, or wrote recently that resonated with you. (Please give credit if it isn't yours.)

The Al Jazeera headline yesterday about why voters in the USA have swung away from their ultra right wing government:

"It's Gaza, Stupid."

#ScribesAndMakers 6/11: Share a sentence that you read, heard, or wrote recently that resonated with you. (Please give credit if it isn't yours.)

The democrats won't save you if you're drowning.

Carsie Blanton

(I am not the least bit American, but it seems everything they do affects the whole world.)

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/117555502449386218

#ScribesAndMakers 2026.11.04 — Link to or summarize yesterday's poll. If the poll was about a current decision, how do you feel about the choice the majority went with? If it was a past decision, did the majority agree with your choice?

The majority by 78% to 33% of the second vote getter picked, "Reread the parallel timeline novel; record plot, mining ideas," which is what I am primarily doing(!)—discovering how great a story the original story in the series was. Surprises me, but I'm always a harsh critic to please. The SC POV story will make a great complement to the original. Second choice was "Revise chapters," to regain the inspiration that wrote them.

Really, what's best? That enough cared to vote. I feel I've been cheered onwards.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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