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Announcing the first ever Hammer.ink short story writing contest!

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My latest weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up for free on Substack. If you subscribe you can get it in your inbox.
https://maureencrisp.substack.com/p/guarding-the-process-of-creativity?r=8opd8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up.
Staying Hopeful Despite The Evidence
https://buff.ly/wpIfcqP
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Time for a mental health break. Enjoy some fantasy fiction.
Witch's Familiar & Whimsical Stories includes a sardonic talking cat and a cross-dressing witch:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CVQTPYSS/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tfQoz8HnKf2VombwqWN6ceNs9aoSJw0fCg6SP_N95VaUXN9mBlHPTh43SnuWTlJZ8GUmJmEgUtqkTU54yC0ofnkSLHBRIr3cSPU4yYu8mY_03qVChv-WFP3p2X5DIs528wt14gm8wp2njj9s8TQuljFTydNwLkI5v1lThRBvCc15NqXMD1hBUT-MEkyVjK-dHbGFc8c1EgXbYbxWM00ahQ.NAHE-CcYMjQsp3w8LXhwxz0aJlYUf40fxJbxXqYq7cc&qid=1725151995&sr=8-1

#Witches #cats #fantasyfiction #whimsy #LGBTQIA #acecharacters #asexual #asexualcharacters #feministfiction #fantasy #cozyfantasy #Halloween #Samhain #whimsical #whimsicalfiction #Wicca #WritingCommunity #fiction #writing #indiebooks #bookish #books #booksbooksbooks #witchbooks

Witch cottage miniature rooms with a stack of copies of my book Witch's Familiar and Whimsical Stories--which has the same miniature witch kitchen illustrating the front cover

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54d

Flew in to bug us
Googly-eyed and curious
Summer Cicada

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Cicada #Bug #Insects #TrueBug #Fauna #Nature #Curious #MotherNature #September #Summer #Akron #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

September 21, 2026

Color image of a cicada. Image shows a close view of a cicada (periodical cicada, any of the seven species of the genus Magicicada of eastern North America, the 13- and 17-year cicadas; they are periodical because nearly all individuals in a local population are developmentally synchronized and emerge in the same year-cicadas belong to the taxonomic order Hemiptera (true bugs), suborder Auchenorrhyncha), in green to white, wide-set eyes looking at the lens, six legs clinging to a vertical doorway surface.

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#Today 21

Good day!

We’ve returned to the sunny part of our repeating cycle, having just left the cloudy portion, which will return.

The days are mild with sun, cool with clouds, the nights comfortable regardless. It’s the perfect time of year here, actually.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday

From atop a ridge of honey colored grass, the view looks over heavy clouds filling a canyon at a silhouetted mountain, small puffs of clouds drifting past it. The sky is cloudy and backlit, giving it a volatile appearance.

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53d

#Today 22

Good day!

This is my favorite time of year to focus on the forest floor, rather than in the trees.

That’s where stuff is happening, including color changes.

Not that I’m an expert. More like the opposite. Oh, but curiosity…

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Moss #Lichen #Fungi #TextureTuesday

A mushroom that’s ivory in color and thick grows amidst pine cones and pine needles. It’s extremely bulbous and was bigger than my splayed hand.

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#Today 23

Good day!

At last, autumn has arrived, but not just any autumn.

Be safe out there.

I wish it was different. I wish none of this was happening. I wish a lot of things.

Wishing doesn’t accomplish anything. It never has. Autumn is here and it’s almost time to vote.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

A view through a pine forest where the undergrowth is a muted yellow to contrast with the green trees and brown bark. The sky is gray.

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51d

Fall's cloud-surfing sky
Seasons change in an eye-blink
Autumn's on us now

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Flora #Seasons #Season #September #Autumn #Fall #Akron #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

September 22, 2026

Color image of a single drifting cloud against a gauzy fall morning's sunrise, Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, USA 22 September 2026. Image shows a cloud's dark belly and orange/brown edges as the sun begins to rise, coloring the sky greens and oranges and browns in the dust, the branches of pines and oaks framing the shot.

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51d

It's mesmerizing
Courthouse > simple symmetry
Comfort in thy gaze

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September 23, 2026

Color image of the Summit County Courthouse, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA, circa 1908. Image shows the view from the first floor lobby under the atrium, with the main level and the two floors above housing several courtrooms, and the fourth floor serving as the County Law Library, located at the same height as the atrium's skylights, the library surrounding that skylight on all four sides. Floors and pillars are marble, sandstone, and granite, with plaster ceilings and iron railings surmounted by chestnut tops, restored in 1984.

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51d

#Cooking not #writing today, all ye of the #writersOfMastodon and the #writingCommunity. This is Argentine chicken ~~stew~~ soup. Contains chicken, stock, carrots, leeks, parsnips, napa cabbage, corn, basil, cilantro, and seasoning. About 16 bowls worth. With ingredients and 4 hours of labor, about $12.50 a serving, but deeelish! We freeze "bricks" for anytime heat-to-eat din-din.

Spouse's recipe, but I wrote it down and will publish it soon.

#BoostingIsSharing

#photo #photography #food #writer #author

Argentine Chicken Soup with glistening broth and vegetables in pot with a black spoon on top.

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Soup parceled out to 14 3-cup containers for freezing.

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51d

#Today 24

Good day!

There’s nothing like seeing the end of the world at your feet and hope in the distance simultaneously.

Except, reaching hope requires new standards.

Leave the lying and the greed behind? Leave the tolerance for both? Yeah, I’ll step through that portal.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

A wide trail on a grassy ridge seemingly comes to an abrupt end where it meets the clouds, but there’s a small gap that allows seeing a distant summit and blue sky.

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50d

Sun's early blazing
Setting the clouds afire
Waking the city

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Sun #Sunrise #Clouds #Sky #Cloudy #Ignite #Fire #Blaze #Blazing #City #Akron #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

September 24, 2026

Color image of sunrise in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA, 24 September 2026. Image shows the sky orange at the horizon lighting up a long, thin gauzy cloud deck in brilliant orange, red, yellow, gray, and blue hues, blue sky above brightening at dawn, with the city still asleep below, the buildings still lit by their overnight lighting.

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How do you describe textures? Objects, sure. Colours, no problem. But what about those accumulations of fine details that add real feeling to a location?

#writing #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #texture #life #photography

Lobster traps. Old and worn, with rusted wire holding them together, patched with lime-green plastic cord.

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#Today 25

Good day!

Autumn colors in the forest atop Pengelly Ridge, this image taken about one minute before I emerged from the trees and discovered clouds pouring down the canyon.

This was also immediately following the steepest part of the hike.

Big effort, big reward. 😃

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

A trail passes straight through the forest where the undergrowth is shades of red, orange, and yellow. The pines largely block the gray sky above and ahead.

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Morning's valley view
Ancient river courses north
City to city

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Valley #Cuyahoga #CuyahogaValley #Landscape #River #RiverValley #City #Akron #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

September 25, 2026

Color image of a view from downtown Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA, across the Cuyahoga River Valley. Image shows a view north across the Cuyahoga River Valley from downtown Akron across the broad valley between Akron and Cleveland, downtown Akron sited on the continental divide between water flowing to the south into the Tuscarawas River, which goes into the Ohio River watershed, into the Mississippi River, then into the Gulf of Mexico, and water flowing to the north, into the Cuyahoga River, into Lake Erie and the Great Lakes, finding its way into both the St. Lawrence River and Seaway and from there into the Atlantic Ocean (a lesser amount flows into the Erie Canal and, eventually, into the Hudson River, and into the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Hudson's entry at New York). The sky is bright blue above the valley, white wispy clouds high above a sunny and shadowed treeline of mostly native leafy trees.

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#Today 26

Good day!

I call this, The Lower Saddle.

Behind me is the trail to Mt. Sentinel and Pengelly Ridge.

On the left, beside the broken sign, is the trail down to Hellgate Canyon.

Back left is the trail up to University Peak. Back right descends to Pattee Canyon.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography

A small clearing of dirt and pine cones is surrounded by pines, and joined by several trails. The sky is cloudy.

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Marathon runners
Gorgeous day in Autumn too
Thousands gathering

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September 26, 2026

Color image of the finish line for the Akron Marathon in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA 26 September 2026. Image shows the finish line stretching across South Main Street for the Marathon, Half-Marathon, and Marathon Relay runners on a gorgeous blue-skied fall day, downtown buildings braced against the morning's gorgeous light.

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48d

#Today 27 #SilentSunday

Yeah, it was like that…

Be everwell.

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From atop a grassy perch of honey-colored grass, a pine tree to the right, the view looks over the clouds at a distant mountain range where there is blue sky, yet from atop the perch, there are clouds overhead.

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Misty nature runes
Foretell the coming Autumn
The plants know the rules

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Autumn #Fall #Flora #Plants #PlantLife #Nature #MotherNature #Runes #BathTownship #SummitCounty #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

September 27, 2026

Color image of fall foliage greeting the mists of a foggy morning in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, USA 27 September 2026. Image shows low plants in the foreground shadowed against the misty fog rolling across the meadow below, the trees beyond above the fogline.

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#Today 28

Good day!

I guess that in the life equation, when output exceeds input, you have a night like I did last night, where you climb into bed and don’t move until the next morning.

I slept like the dead sleep after a long day spent chasing the living. 😱🙀

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography #MountainMonday