UnCoveredMyths

@UnCoveredMyths@writing.exchange

I am a multi-disabled author.

Gail Brown writes paired science fiction internal journey stories and novels full of hopes and dreams.

Abby Brown writes paired internal coming home journey stories and novels.

#DeafBlind, and feeling fine, most of the time.

#EDS, #MCAS, #CFS, #Fibro, and more damage my joints, and cause pain spikes that drain my brain and memory.

A #PowerChair preserves my joints, so I can function a little more.

My Autistic Profile is: https://autistics.life/@UnCoveredMyths

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UnCoveredMyths, to random

I see people wishing the Internet Archive would go away.

All I can think of is the Library of Alexandria. And how the secret of Roman concrete was lost.

Because there was no archive. Directions weren't saved.

So much culture, and valuable history has been lost because it was kept locked away.

Someday, those in charge will want to know - How were Iphones (for example) designed?

We can almost guess. What were the missing steps?

Lost and locked out of cultural memory.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

Was sending submissions out this morning.

Last time I sent to a specific market, it was an email. Story rejected.

This time, they have moved to DuoSoma, and charging fees. They are a no pay market.

No where on their submission guidelines page do they say they moved to DuoSoma, or that they added a fee. For a no pay market!

Charging authors to potentially publish. Not a good look.

Wonder what they would have done, if I had just followed the email directions I had saved?

UnCoveredMyths, to random

For and month, I recommend https://autisticbookshop.com/ for books, coloring books, and more by autistic authors.

This site has ebooks and paperbacks for people of all ages - including Slipper The Penguin by Amy Marschall.

There are various journals and coloring books, several by Ashley Lauren Spencer.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

It's a holiday. Of sorts.

If you would like a great gluten free banana pudding recipe - I have a free downloadable pdf version on my website - https://uncoveredmyths.wixsite.com/uncoveredmyths/pudding.

There is even a link on another page to make the gluten free cookies.

https://uncoveredmyths.wixsite.com/uncoveredmyths/cookies

Enjoy!

If you need a Word document for accessibility, please let me know. I don't have both on the site at the moment.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

Seen on a market website this morning:

" " Market is open until " ".

"All submissions will be deleted without response."

Guess I won't send the ones I had marked.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

I am working on a project today.

Can anyone honestly, visually, see the difference between a period and a comma?

Even in Arial Rounded MT Bold, it has to size 36 to even begin to distinguish a visible difference.

Which is one reason I still advocate for two spaces after a period. So that paragraphs don't look like run on sentences.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

How can my brain feel so empty?

Sure, I was sick over a week ago.

I don't like an empty brain.

Still a frozen brain.

Maybe is it just PTSD still from forever ago. That never goes away.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

As usual, I will be dreaming of being warm and cozy.

Unlikely to happen in this lifetime.

Not sure how much time I will be online in the next few days.

I may stay offline, and do some cleaning and reading.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

Been busy this morning.

Was trying to find my books on Amazon.

How does anyone find any books on Amazon? What a mess!

Even with my name and the book title, it couldn't find them.

Just other books by authors who had friends to start them out at the top of the charts.

I truly think the only way to find a book on Amazon is with the direct link. That maybe one person other than me knows.

Anyway, off to save off the blank royalty reports for last month.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

Good morning writing friends. I will be offline today.

Oh, and if you updated your iPhone recently, check your settings!

Under General, then Air Drop, they turned on a setting called Bringing Devices Together was automatically turned on.

Unless you want everyone you walk near accessing your phone, turn it off until, and unless, you need it!

sharonecathcart, to random
@sharonecathcart@sfba.social avatar

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/can-we-stop-the-republican-war-on?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

UnCoveredMyths,

@sharonecathcart @starbreaker

Definitely. Although noise and confusion, schools were mostly my safe place. Where being awake was allowed. Where access to food kore than once a week was allowed.

There were some bad ones, yes. And I went to 12.

However, they were safer than home.

Of course, I graduated before fenced in schools where students were so terrified of shooters, they had active PTSD against each other.

UnCoveredMyths,

@sharonecathcart @starbreaker.

I almost went to college to be a teacher. So glad I changed to anything else, even if it still didn’t pay a living wage.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

Good news!

My short story - Aldanian Geometry by Gail Brown is now available in Issue 25. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL4ZGVKD

UnCoveredMyths, to random

Just got notice that another magazine shut down. I have lost track of how many recently. So sad.

johnshirley2024, to random

Should there be a disable replies feature on mastodon? No.

Disabling replies ignores the fact that mastodon is social media. Some people would use it as a kind of bullhorn in your face. It will allow conspiracy theory misinformation to go unchallenged. It will be used for the viler sort of product pushing. It'd be like creating wikipedia without public editing.. Allowing people to block others is enough. Of course people shouldn't jump at every chance to reply. it's called self restraint.

UnCoveredMyths,

@johnshirley2024

It doesn’t bother me.

Disabling replies would prevent a lot of the “How dare you reply!”, “Don’t share advice”, or “I don’t want a solution. You can’t possibly know…”.

Several servers actually advertise in their rules to not acknowledge the poster or offer a helpful response. People on these servers could get what they want.

There is nothing worse than spending time and energy crafting a helpful reply, only to be blasted for acknowledging the post.

Abusers can be blocked.

UnCoveredMyths,

@johnshirley2024

I can imagine that.

An “I’m only here for the likes!” Banner on their posts, and on servers who request it. Not sure how they ever post with people from other servers.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

Good afternoon.

I don't post often, mostly like and reply.

I am happy to announce that I have had five short story sales this year. Here is a link to my webpage that will share links to them as they become available. https://uncoveredmyths.wixsite.com/uncoveredmyths/gailsshortstories

Off to work on two short stories.

Am planning to work on finishing Trails 6 this winter, if possible.

grammargirl, to random
@grammargirl@zirk.us avatar

Editor friends have given me two cool tricks for detecting possible plagiarism. (I'm not sure at this point if they will detect AI writing or not. I'm still doing more research.)

  1. Look for text that has invisible white highlighting or color behind it. This happens sometimes when you paste text from a website. You can see it by changing the background color of your document. (Credit: Jeanette Fast Redmond)

1/x

UnCoveredMyths,

@grammargirl

I found some never finished short stories in a really old program. When I copied and pasted to Scrivener, the formatting went nuts!

UnCoveredMyths, to random

Good morning.

Still having a slight seizure reaction affecting my spelling. I apologize.

I mostly use and for publishing research.

I wish I had something for the new Spooky magazine. I don't.

I have a couple of magazines I am unsure if the are still open.

The Hallowzine - last update was October 2022.

Dead Fern Press - last update was October 2021.

I only had one chance before Cossmass Infinities and Fantasy closed.

1 of 2

roxanneshirazi, to random

I’m increasingly convinced that all services and most jobs would be improved with more staff. Literally, just more people.

More people sitting around getting paid with nothing to do, until there is in fact something to do.

Pay people to staff all those windows at the post office and bank and then celebrate no lines. Pay people to bus the tables, and other people to seat the guests, and still more people to take the orders and run the food.

I’m so tired of seeing one person doing it all

UnCoveredMyths,

@roxanneshirazi

I have a vague memory from pre-adulthood, probably the 80's, when stores had customer service representatives who just provided customer service. There to answer questions, get things from shelves too high or too low for the customer to reach.

When stores and businesses knew they needed employees to have customers.

And yes, now those employees are expected to be in 6 places at once, and always yelled at for missing something, or someone.

grammargirl, to random
@grammargirl@zirk.us avatar

In my poll from a few days ago, nearly all of you thought it was not wrong to use the verb "contacted" in the sentence "She immediately called an officer at the Naval Intelligence Service, who in turn contacted the FBI."

I was surprised to learn that decades ago, people objected heartily to using the word "contact" as a verb.

This came up when I interviewed Steve Kleinedler, formerly of the American Heritage Dictionary for the Grammar Girl podcast this week. 1/X

UnCoveredMyths,

@grammargirl

I must have been on the cusp of that change. I don't remember contact ever being anything other than a verb.

Except a movie title.

UnCoveredMyths, to random

I have spent a few days on a complicated project.

Scoured each genre Scrivener, and tried to match all short stories to potential markets.

This led to creating another Scrivener for Drabbles and poetry.

I have a potential market for about half the short stories originally published in Concurrent Earths.

One market for each is plenty, since they are already in a book. Reprints will only go out once.

I am amazed at the number of primarily fiction markets that are no pay, and no reprints.

UnCoveredMyths,

@johnshirley2024

I have a Scrivener project for each of the major projects I write - Fiction, Light Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative, and now Drabbles and Poetry.

I have one with all of my short stories in it, in one place.

UnCoveredMyths,

@johnshirley2024

It is a great organization tool with nested folders, pages, etc.

For each market, I keep the submission guidelines so I can see them at a glance, and it can easily include the cover letters, and rejections nested under each market and each short story.

I used to have one for blogs, and other marketing stuff. I also use one for keeping copies of my wbesite pages.

Much easier to work with than folders in folders on the disk drive.

I can see so much at a glance.

UnCoveredMyths, to Writers

check your sites well.

The blocking craze is going strong.

Yesterday, one market called an AI and does not want your work if you use spell check. Doesn't every use spell (and grammar) check?

Another claims if they suspect the story is AI, they will block your email, and not even reply or verify.

, , , cognitively disabled, and people for whom English is a second language will be left forever waiting on a reply.

UnCoveredMyths,

@raymccarthy

And yet, one particular publication specifically said it was.

That is where the confusion lies. Some count them, some don't.

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