Writer of gothic/horror/weird. Jericho Friday Night Live SL 2024. Thinker, wanderer, ex-anthropologist. Lawyer in my spare time. More on 🦋, same handle. #pwme
I keep accidentally writing haikus during mindfulness meditations:
A thought on Twitter
Passes on, quick as storm clouds
Bringing in the rain
Does writing a poem count as doing or being?
#haiku#poetry#amwriting#mindfulness#being#doing
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
— Franz Kafka
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake."
~ Francis Bacon
Rays of Light in the Forest
🎨 Igor Sakharov
Please, read books. Not just captions, or carousel posts, or what made it to the top of your feed. Read books. Long ones. Complex ones. You cannot build a mind with weight on the back of social media ephemerals. Intellectual depth demands patience.
@Clare_Draycott @franquinn Loads of fake accounts starting to join there now... my bot follower count has sky-rocketed (pun not intended but pleasantly surprising 😄)
Genuine question: what are assessors looking for in diversity writing opportunities? Quality of writing? Potential? Greatest need? Greatest commitment? A story about the diversity characteristic? A combination? The criteria are never set out in detail
#WritingCommunity#writers
Art Nouveau doesn't get the attention it truly deserves.
So here are 18 masterpieces that show its beauty, glamor and prestige... 🧵
1. Gran Hotel Ciudad de México, Mexico City (1899)
Thankful for my fellow writers, creatives, dreamers, for those of you who look challenging writing days in the face and say, “I’m not giving up. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.” Thankful for those of you with fighting spirits and warrior souls, laptops and big dreams. Write on