<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Writing on wyrd</title><link>https://wyrd.im/tags/writing/</link><description>Recent content in Writing on wyrd</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-ie</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://wyrd.im/tags/writing/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>journal club</title><link>https://wyrd.im/posts/journal-club/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wyrd.im/posts/journal-club/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;em>He blushed, and smiled at himself. How conceited.&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="blather">blather&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>These were written, stream-of-consciousness style, during a 15 minute window during a weekly body-doubling&lt;sup id="fnref:1">&lt;a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1&lt;/a>&lt;/sup> writing/journaling session using the prompts&lt;sup id="fnref:2">&lt;a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2&lt;/a>&lt;/sup> provided.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="the-petunias-have-been-gossiping-again-dot-dot-dot">The petunias have been gossiping again&amp;hellip;&lt;/h3>
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&lt;p>Prompt: A person who insists their houseplants are plotting.&lt;/p>&lt;/blockquote>
&lt;p>Don&amp;rsquo;t give me that look, I know you heard them too!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I don&amp;rsquo;t think they&amp;rsquo;ve got the hang of it though&amp;hellip;they keep complimenting my shoes.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>buttons</title><link>https://wyrd.im/posts/buttons/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wyrd.im/posts/buttons/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="trevor">trevor&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>I&amp;rsquo;ll call him Trevor. Trevor was from Sligo: take a right beyond the Pale and if you start swimming you&amp;rsquo;ve gone too far. Probably.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Trevor wanted to raise two twins, one given the best of everything, the other, they&amp;rsquo;d stay in Sligo. Then he&amp;rsquo;d gift them each half the planet, and watch the fun ensue.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>It was a little red button, paint chipped to reveal a blue something beneath. The little gnome from some 80s kids show looked precisely like a Trevor. Little red face, curly locks of a &lt;em>Fear Bolg&lt;/em>, cute menacing grin. He might do you, but he&amp;rsquo;d be shy about it. Decent sort.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>