Little Readings

Fine little readings stumbled upon by health social worker and young adult fiction author Steven P O'Connor.

[Ste Scribbles @SteScribbles]

A nice approach to diary writing...
#amwriting

[Ste Scribbles @SteScribbles]

Showing and telling...
Let readers draw their own conclusions. Don’t draw them for them.
#writing

[Ste Scribbles @SteScribbles]

First draft of my next book complete. Hooray!
Bubbling around 96,000 words.
Now working through the *many* notations I made along the way (for fear of breaking my rhythm). #amwriting #amediting

[Ste Scribbles @SteScribbles]

Where do ideas come from?
They come from here and they come from there. They come from any and every where. If you catch one and give it a home, after a while, and some care, it may learn to trust you, open itself to you, and grow into something you can share. #writing

[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

'People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.'

#BreneBrown (Rising Strong).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

The dream was haunting me: standing behind me, present and invisible, like the back of my head, simultaneously there and not there.

#neilgaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.

#neilgaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

... as poet Mizuta Masahide wrote, “Barn’s burnt down / now / I can see the moon.”

#BreneBrown (Rising Strong).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

Snow had begun to settle high upon the mountain and with it the advent of winter pressed close upon the village. Clouds hung sluggish in the sky above; it was as if the weather were holding its breath.

#megmckinlay (A Single Stone).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

Hanging on the wall of Pixar’s Story Corner display were these three sentences: Story is the big picture. Story is process. Story is research.

#BreneBrown (Rising Strong).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

She took me in through the front door, and into their enormous kitchen, sat me down at a huge wooden table, so stained and patterned that it looked as if faces were staring up at me from the old wood.

#neilgaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

To survive in this fascist police state ... you gotta always be able to come up with a name, your name. ...That’s the first sign they look for that you’re wired, not being able to figure out who the hell you are.

#philipkdick (A Scanner Darkly).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

#neilgaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane.)

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

Above, the canopy of trees was thick enough that hardly any light penetrated. From here, you could almost believe there was no such thing as sky.

#megmckinlay (A Single Stone).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

Time had seemed to stop. There was a moment when she felt that if she could just take a step back she might unstitch something, reverse it. That there must be something she could do to put this right.

#megmckinlay (A Single Stone).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

The first lazy fingers of light would filter through the Pass and the line would gather for the harvest.

#megmckinlay (A Single Stone).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

The moon was an ashy white, and looked about ready to fall to earth, its job complete.

#Murakami (1Q84).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

Usually he could stay up as late as he needed. But tonight, sleep was bearing down on him from above, like the stone lid of an ancient coffin.

#Murakami (1Q84).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

Decisive people, minds fixed on the task, clothed in thick, gray uniforms, working silently from morning to night to make clouds, like bees make honey, spiders make webs, and war makes widows.

#Murakami (1Q84).

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[Little Readings @LittleReadings]

The pistol against her back was as hard and cold as death, and the feeling soothed her.

#Murakami (1Q84).

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