Write4Eddie

Write4Eddie

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Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors. NYC! 🏙️ Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton

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The epilogue to my 2020 book is posted. You can now view all the essays on Medium. Six years ago, an agent said it wasn’t marketable because contemporary political books need to be relevant for at least four years. Who knew nothing would change. edwardrstapleton.medium.com/epilogue-b35...

edwardrstapleton.medium.comEpilogueThe following is the epilogue to an unpublished memoir I wrote in 2020, following a road trip around the USA at the height of the pandemic…

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Hello cryptic crossword people on bluesky :) I’m Macaroni, I got into cryptics a couple years ago, and was just made aware of the community here! I look forward to getting to know you all. Heres a topical clue: X (originally Twitter) by soulless Elon (3) #cryptic #crosswords

Hello #WeeknightWriters! I have written a novel about a professor who is forced to live out the lives of her ancestors. Currently querying, but find it difficult to pitch a novel that straddles science and historical fiction, which may not have overlapping audiences.

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Hello #WeeknightWriters ! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going! Or not going, that's valid too

“When was the last time you stood before something so powerful, so immense, or so startling that the breath in your body froze like a startled deer, when your feet refused to move, and when your heart fluttered?” #WriteSky #nature #WritingComminity edwardrstapleton.medium.com/the-rarefied...

edwardrstapleton.medium.comThe Rarefied Mountain Air: A Lesson in BreathlessnessThe following is from an unpublished political and travel memoir I wrote in 2020, following a road trip I took with my now ex-wife at the…

Finished The Lost Metal, closing out phase two of #Mistborn. Wayne belongs among the pantheon of rich and captivating literary characters. I don’t know who’s waiting in phase three, but they’ll have to coinshot their way out from under a big shadow. #Sanderson #Booktok

Another submission to #Descritables from author Shrirangdangre. This week’s #writingprompt asks you to describe a rock concert. To submit, seek out the publication, follow it, and request with a comment on Medium. medium.com/descriptable...

medium.comLIVE IMPULSES..Just a pull on the codes is all it takes to lift the electricity in all veins. The energy of thousand suns gathering for a performance. The ground seems to break with the steps than follow the rhythm....

If the Knicks win, New York can celebrate. But if they lose, we get another chant. My proposal: Our mayor’s still Muslim. Our bagel’s still Jewish. Our president makes us sick. Knicks in six.

Explaining injuries when I was younger: “I was riding my bike across an intersection...” “I was at a Muay Thai class…” Explaining injuries in my 40s: “I was opening a window…”

He finds the will to go about his day in a flood of fear and anxiety because the #horror of being seen is just vaguely surpassed by the horror of being invisible. #vss365 #WriteSky

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#vss365 #prompt for 7 June 2026 is #horror From the cradle to—the grave. #Horror holds a special place in the imagination. It entertains in books and films; but it has another character altogether in the dead of our nights. Use it carefully.

In 2020, mid-pandemic, I visited Yellowstone and encountered a tiny pond on the continental divide called Isa lake, with different sides of the pond draining into different oceans. A perfect metaphor for America. #politics #Trump #MediumWriters #WriteSky edwardrstapleton.medium.com/isa-lake-544...

edwardrstapleton.medium.comIsa LakeThe following is from an unpublished political and travel memoir I wrote about America following a road trip I took in 2020 at the height…

During the Fenian raids, America’s Irish immigrants were #ready after the civil war to invade Canada and hold it hostage in exchange for a free Ireland, as is depicted in this scene from my novel. #AmQuerying #WIPSnaps #WriteSky

The #WIPSnips word for June 2nd is "ready" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Love is a #gamble And life is a choice. Give laughter a stage And sorrows a voice. And when you get old, Look back in wonder At the burdens and pains You’ve crawled out from under. And cash in your chips And settle your debts. You leave here with nothing If you don’t place a bet. #vss365 #poetry

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#vss365 #prompt for 2 June 2026 is #gamble Bet on the ponies, throw the dice, spin the wheel of fortune—fall in love. It’s no fun to play it safe. But the choice is yours—or is it? Today’s prompt is #gamble.

On a #midnight walk Through misty woods We dreamed and talked, And sang of good And wondrous Things we’d do Far from ponderous Truths we knew. Then night grew dark, Your grip grew tight, Your eyes a spark Of mad delight. I awoke alone On a dewy field Scarred and prone, Deep truths revealed. #vss365

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#vss365 #prompt for 1 June 2026 is #midnight Once upon a midnight dreary…or merry, frightful, loving, sleepless perhaps? Go where your muse takes you, and take us all along.