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A Hierarchy of Needs

I'm back momentarily to share one quick update, and something I recently learned which may help you as much as it has helped me. #autismawaremess #mentalhealthmatters #amwritingfantasy #writerslife #neurodivergentauthor

I’m back momentarily to share one quick update, and something I recently learned which may help you as much as it has helped me by boosting my confidence about Life interrupting what is important to me over these last few years. In one of my recent sessions, my therapist and I were discussing ways to help communicate my needs during this time of learning about my autism since my diagnosis, and…

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Glass Ball, Rubber Ball

Back on a Thursday to share a brief update. I need to step away and take a brief hiatus to let this diagnosis settle. Click to read more details on what I’m anticipating that looking like. #autismawareness #neurodivergent #autisticauthor

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Sneaking in here before #Shabbat to remind everyone that today’s #FictionFriday release has been delayed.

New dates are pending! The next short will be released in February, so stay tuned for those updates!

#Shabbat shalom, darlings!!

More details here:

https://writinglynn.com/accepting-my-own-neurodivergence/

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Accepting My Own Neurodivergence

I know it's Thursday, but there's something I need to share and a few changes it temporarily brings. Better late than never, right? Hello, my name is Lynn, and I have #autism. Read more about this diagnosis by clicking the link below. #neurodivergent

Hello, my name is Lynn, and I have autism. Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels.com Like many of you, this came as a shock to me, but then again, it didn’t. It rather came with a sense of relief, vindication, mingled with grief and indignation for not knowing sooner. You may recall how I have spoken about being an INFJ at great lengths, emphasizing that was the reason for my difference in…

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Rabellah & the Carpenter: a Myth of Ada'mah

It's here, my first #shortfiction of the year, Rabellah & the Carpenter! A cozy #Jewishfantasy retelling of Jacob & Rachel, click below to pay and read for only $0.99. Happy reading! #FictionFriday #shortfiction #romantasy #Jewishmythology

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The Hidden Power of Yud

Some #musings to start off the #NewYear, specifically how I've noticed patterns in my life and how they correspond to a rich concept in #Jewishmysticism, or #Kabbalah. I'm no expert, but I also don't believe in coincidences. Read to find out what I mean!

I don’t have much to share that I haven’t already said in either of my last two blog posts where I both announced the upcoming changes to my blog—to be released later this month—and some changes at my day job, which proved to help amend the distress and attacks I endured earlier last year. (Still feels weird to think it, officially, was last year now.) In fact, I’m not sure I have much to share…

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Sneaking in here on a Thursday evening instead of my usual Wednesday morning to share a brief update!

No blog post this week, just announcing my first Jewish fantasy short fiction will be published to my website January 2024! (Can you believe it’s less than a week away?!)

Stay tuned for more this next year!!!!

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WOMS: The Pomegranate Gate

It's been too long since I shared my latest read, and I cannot wait to tell you more about it. Allow me to introduce you to my new favourite, The Pomegranate Gate by @ae_kaplan. Click below to read! @ErewhonBooks #bookreview #Jewishfantasy #Jewishfiction

It’s been too long since I shared my latest read, and I cannot wait to tell you more about it. Allow me to introduce you to the novel, and also the beginning of a new series, which has stolen my heart in every way imaginable: The Pomegranate Gate by A. E. Kaplan. Rich, imaginative, lush, exquisite—I could gush about this book, but let me get to the substance of how it is all those things and…

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Good Intentions

Some of you may recall the antisemitic experiences I endured earlier this year at my job. Well, there have been several attempts to make amends. Click below to read what they are, and how it ties into #Chanukkah and #parasha especially. #musings

This past [Gregorian] year has been one of the more challenging I’ve experienced, and I say that even after my husband’s and sister’s unexpected health issues which transpired and dominated most of 2020 and 2021 for us, respectively. Needless to say, I’ll be thrilled to say goodbye to 2023 this coming December 31. I’m looking forward to 2024 and all it has to offer, especially since 5784 has…

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"Make Some Light"

Announcement time: Coming January 2024, I'll begin offering new paid content featuring my short fiction! Click to read how you can be a part of helping me "make some light." #amwritingfantasy #fantasyshortfiction #Jewishfantasy

Photo by Karol D on Pexels.com I once attended a class on blogging, and the instructor shared her personal philosophy she held before embarking on creating her own blog—she would only do that which cost her nothing. Granted, for her blogging was merely a hobby. That makes sense. The instructor, now author, never intended her blog to develop into a platform which would launch a successful…

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I had planned today to be able to make some announcements of a few projects I’m working on to bring y’all some, what I assume would be, fabulous content. (I mean, I wrote it. Why wouldn’t it be?)

All jesting aside, alas, the holiday weekend took more from me than I anticipated. Instead of wasting an entire blog post on this, I’m just sharing my blurb here. That said, these exciting new offers I have in the works will have to keep stewing for the time being, but they are coming! It might even be a special, non-Wednesday, announcement so you’ll have to stay tuned!!!!

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Dare to Linger

Been feeling a lot of rage lately, so instead of bottling it all up, decided to turn it into a blog post instead. #musings #amquerying #writerslife #Jewishfantasy #writingcommunity

I miss the kittens. Beyond that I’m thinking and feeling so many different things right now it’s ridiculous. I woke up today [Tuesday] and during my morning commute when I take time to talk with Hashem and prepare for my day, I discovered how enraged I am. Photo by ‫omer shatz on Pexels.com What has me particularly perturbed at the moment is the acceptability of “ghosting” in today’s culture.…

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The Kitten Invasion

Finding the courage to write has been difficult this past month. Thankfully, we had a distraction last week which reminded me of something special. Click below to read why kittens were the answer, at least for me. #musings #BringThemHome #kittenrescue

It feels weird to have both the time to sit down and right again. Not when the world is in upheaval. Not when there are still babies in captivity, stripped away from their mommies. Finding the courage to write, to put thought to paper, has been difficult this past month. (Yes, that’s how long it has been since H@mas stole away so many lives with their heinous cruelty.) How can I write when the…

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Three Weeks

Trying to find the voice, the words, to write again. Even when my heart is heavy. Even though I’m grieving. #Israel #AmYisraelChai #NeverAgainisNow

It’s been three weeks. Three weeks since they screamed, Begging to be saved. Three weeks since they bled, Entire families slain. I want to write. I want to find the light. Chanukkah is coming, Not Tisha B’av. I can’t find the words, the momentum. I feel snuffed like chaff Thrown to the wind, Blown about in a storm. All that comes to me are snippets. Moments. A line here, a thought…

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Stand with Israel, Stand with Jews

I'm breaking away from my usual schedule to share my thoughts about the current #IsraelHamasWar, specifically how non-Jews can help support Israel in her time of need. Click below to read how you can donate and help save lives today.

Since Saturday morning, I’ve succumbed to a barrage of emotions. What should have been a day of joy and celebration for the holidays suddenly turned to one of sorrow and despair. By now, most of you should have heard of the horrific war which has broken out in Israel. If you haven’t, you live under a bigger rock than me. This war is the result of an organized terror attack by the terrorist…

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WOMS: The Wolf and the Woodsman

This week, I’m reviewing Ava Reid’s The Wolf and the Woodsman, but I also share a little about my own querying journey, too. Click below to read! #amreading #amquerying #romantasy #bookreview

This week’s book that’s on my shelf is Ava Reid’s The Wolf and the Woodsman, a novel suggested to me by a fellow writer friend when I asked for good examples of fantasy romance, or as it is quickly becoming, romantasy. It’s a good thing, then, I’m entitled to my own opinion, one which I’ll share now, because I’m not certain I would classify this as that. Then again, perhaps my tastes are too…

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Joy Comes in the Morning

A new year has come and gone, and with it some life-altering news and a flood of emotions. Click to read the little I can share now as we enter into this new season, and may you all be inscribed and sealed for a good year! #musings #RoshHashanah

Photo by S Migaj on Pexels.com A new year has come and gone, and with it I hope the sorrows of the past. This time of year always brings with it a flood of emotions, but none are more potent than my joy mingled with grief. Last year was probably one of the most painful of my life. Even now, as I write, I’m still grieving; hoping, praying it will be fully released by the end of Yom Kippur next…