Chloe Cook

Lit Fiction Writer and Fine Artist | #amwriting my first novel.

[Chloe Cook @Chloe_sc_Cook]

‘I wake at 3 a.m., the hour no one
wants. Really, it’s my heart that wakes me
beating its way out.’

Excerpt from Plastic by Matthew Rice.

[noor unnahar @Noor_Unnahar]

not everyone
gets to keep their joy
               the way they find it.

[Chloe Cook @Chloe_sc_Cook]

Thrilled to have two pieces of flash fiction published with @nationalflashfd
One recounts how a lost thermometer leads to unemployment. In the other we follow a daughter and mother separated by different contents on Christmas: https://t.co/eIVBjdSZaX & https://t.co/g1vJadXUz0

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“never knew how fast you could run until it was home chasing you”
- Isabelle Baafi

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What a great National Flash Fiction Day.
Responding to the writing prompts from The Write-In forced me out of my comfort zone and freed up my mind. I didn’t have to toil over a theme, I just had fun flitting into fleeting worlds.

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Writing with a view.

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‘Sometimes, raindrops on the window would reach out for each other on the way down. On those days, I knew.’ - Isabelle Baafi

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Editing old poems brings me so much joy. It’s like finding five pounds in your pocket: better for being forgotten.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

From the very first, we love like this

—Jenny George

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Recipe for the perfect morning: a city away from home, toasted banana bread, warm coffee and three unadulterated hours of writing.

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

from god’s lips to your ear

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Tonight, I watched a screening of Prima Facie at the cinema: a captivating one-person play that boasted some exceptional writing and pacing. Peppered with comedic reprieve, Jodie Comer’s performance was equally haunting and raw. So glad I got to see this!

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Late night dip on the Cornish coast was very short lived.

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An evening spent carving this lino block has earned me a nice bath, wrinkling while I read.

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Found the cutest second hand bookshop this past weekend inside Hyland Park 🌹

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Today, I am returning to a piece of writing that I haven’t touched in months and am thoroughly enjoying the slow remembering of how these characters work and think.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

you should get a certain number of “reading days” per year along with your allotted sick days, so that you can phone your boss and say “I can’t come in to work today, I’m reading in bed” and then you spend the day reading in bed

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Had such an uplifting and serene time in North Yorkshire. Exhibited a piece of artwork at Badger in the Wall gallery, saw a barn owl in flight, a heron in a stream and speckled hens resting with sheep.

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@Peggy_Riley Thank you, Peggy!

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Looking forward to this weekend when I will be seeing my art in a gallery for the first time and gazing over all the other lovely pieces selected for the exhibition.