Why early modern print typography breaks search algorithms — and the workarounds to bypass it.

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Turns out the Bayeux Tapestry is really just an embroidered family album.

Sometimes adulting is dragging yourself to town on foot to buy healthy food and get fresh air and a modicum of exercise because principles even though you’ll now be too shattered to cook later so you’ll have crisps for dinner but at least this way the possibility exists for you to do better tomorrow

I finished the first draft of my first novel yesterday! 🥳🥂📚

I’m going to take a moment to celebrate, I just have to cut one chapter, rewrite two scenes and get started on book two first…

Hey, you gotta strike while the iron is hot, right?

Note to self: Monster first. THEN brush teeth. Then write write write.

Lovely day of writing at the library with a friend today. Bizarre how much more I get done when I work next to her - you’d think it would be the other way around! I really ought to pay her to sit next to me when I work, lol. 👩‍💻📚 #amwriting #writingcommunity

The plan for January was to finish writing my first novel. The plan for February was to edit it. But all I’ve done so far this year is more research, a lot of fact checking and making sure the timeline works (it does — phew!) #writingprocess #writerlife

Working on cutting 1,600 words from an extract… just 115 to go, provided I don’t get inspired again and start adding more!

Listening to your audio notes as part of #preptober and getting increasingly annoyed with your bad ideas and how you are now wasting your own time for the second time around… #novnov

Bitterly cold polar winds today, but oh my god, the air quality!! If you’re in the UK, get yourself outdoors and breathe it in - if smells like childhood. Even London has amazing air quality today: www.iqair.com/gb/uk/englan...

Wishing you all a wonderful 2025!
(Who else is watching the #blitzchampionship even though they don’t speak chess at all?)

My friend just lost access to her #goodreads account; a particularly horrific and cruel twist of fate. Have now spent 2h backing up all my books and reviews as html pages - with 15 folders full of the 1488 cover photos. Thank goodness for Dropbox!

I think Santa misheard me - I definitely did NOT say “all I want for Christmas is flu”! 🤧

Finally, the trick to writing great literature.

By the way, #Ikea has started selling Center chocolate from #Cloetta, aka the best caramel chocolate in the world. You’re welcome. 😋🍫

True luxury is found in the simplest moments.

I only use AI for historical research, it is fairly good at that if you ask very specific questions, but it does suggest some nonsensical things sometimes. I don’t use it to help me write. My words are my own. #Writing is an art form.

Well, at least I’m not procrastinating my writing by setting up a Bluesky account about my writing.

Almost done with my first novel, now not sure whether to continue writing the second novel in the series or begin editing. #whattodo #writingcommunity