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Welcome to all our new writers! 👋 Glad you've found our little spot in the fediverse.

If you ever need help, feel free to reach out to me or anyone else in the community. Also: an avatar, bio, and post will go a long way toward helping you connect with more people 😊

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Sometimes you want to take a picture, capture how the morning light looks filtering through the trees; your cooled skin; the sound of birds.

But you can never smell the air in that photo. You can't look around to see the rest of the world from that spot you stood, capturing a split second of light.

The only way to remember it is to sit for a while; feel it as deeply as you can; accept that it'll never be as good as it is right now.

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And I've just sent out my first Patrons-only post on Patreon! This one talks about a potential name for the open source version of , and progress on that so far.

Going forward, I'll post more behind the scenes, development-oriented things for $5+ patrons over there.

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Eight months ago I left my job to work on @write_as full-time. It wasn't an easy decision to make, but it's meant that ever since, I get to wake up every day and do work that I truly love.

If you'd like to support what I'm doing, including fediverse projects like @read_as and our Writing.Exchange instance, here are a few ways you can help:

: liberapay.com/writeas

: patreon.com/writeas

: paypal.me/writeas

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marcela

Greetings! Most of my writing nowadays comes in the form of fanfiction/roleplay both in/out of the game (my RP partner and I utilize discord to RP). I’d like to expand and have people read some of what we write, if I am brave and if there is interest :)

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Eirene

Hi there! I'm Eirene! For the past few years I've been living in Athens and working in an art gallery. I love writing (mostly poetry) and reading as well!

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bobby_shaftoe

New to Mastodon. Here to write about this and that. Mainly my byte-sized ideas. Let's see how it goes.

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Liz Castro

Hi. I’m Liz. I am a writer and publisher. Very interested in democratic, non-violent activism, Internet communties and collaboration and Catalan independentism. Yeah and I sew and knit and garden. Based in Barcelona but with half a foot in Massachusetts.

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Lottie

I'm Lottie. I write things. poems mainly. I look forward to maybe sharing some things with you, and getting to know you all.

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Zac Bath

I'm new to mastodon. I came here to share my poems with you beautiful people. I write micropoems almost every day! So let's trade follows. I want to meet you!

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leo

Hello, I don't write often but going on holiday tomorrow. I like comedy and sci-fi and want to write a TV series but haven't figured out the story yet.

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WhoAmI

It feels weird to be typing this. Social media never was my thing, but I feel like it could be helpful. I've written since I was in elementary, and I've never looked back. I'm much better than I was back then but I still have a long way to go. I hope I can become active on here and find people to help me improve and maybe even help others to do the same if I get the chance.

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Write.as

Now that the app is launched, I'm looking to build native apps for and next.

I already started on the macOS app (written in ), but I need help polishing the UI and packaging it up. For the Windows app, I'm not sure where to start. So I'm looking for that can help with either!

If you're interested, feel free to send me a message. Otherwise please pass it along to anyone you know!

Also, these are paid projects. All code will be -licensed.

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Polterbot

Have you ever just stopped and appreciated how you type? That at some point, the fluency of movement becomes so deep in your instincts the words don't come through your hands, or even really your conscious actions.

They pour like water spilling over the lip of a cup and you alter the universe to accommodate it through arcane gestures that can exist in that way and no other way.

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Returning to paper.

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Write.as

I'll officially be at in Portland, Oregon next March! If you're going, I'd love to chat in real life. More info about where our booth will be and everything else coming soon.

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Write.as

The app is out now! :linux:

Version 1.0 has the basics:

* Simple editor
* Auto-saving single draft
* Choose between three fonts (serif, sans-serif, monospace)
* Dark mode (on platforms that support it)
* Save draft as another file
* Publish anonymously to :writeas: Write.as and manage posts via the CLI

Download / install it here: write.as/apps/desktop

Get the code here: code.as/writeas/writeas-gtk

Read more: @blog

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Write.as

Big announcement coming tomorrow 🙂

(no surprise if you've been following @writeas_dev 😉)

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paulagouveia

Hello has anyone tried publishing in Amazon Direct Kindle Publishing? If so what did you think of it? Thank you so much in advance :)

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I'm just a visitor here.

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I didn't take pictures at the moments I felt the most -- I could only capture a shadow or an interesting corner of a room, anyway. things that would only make sense to me.

Those real moments included the first day in Madrid among the crowds and music and old streets; the last night in Sevilla, getting lost down narrow corridors and sitting on the bank of the Guadalquivir, meeting a group of strangers and trading languages.

But for the visually appealing moments between:
snap.as/matt/iberia-18

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d.Riggs

Hello Writing Exchange community. Here is a thing I wrote: write.as/danriggins/one-last-t

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