Shona Ray

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

[Shona Ray @ShonaRayWrites]

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

[Tolkien Universe @tolkienzone]

Some biologists have discovered this strange tree in New Zealand. According to experts, it is heading to Isengard to destroy Saruman.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“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

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"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

[Tóbi Bítàn🌻 @Tobi_Bitan]

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.

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
- C.S. Lewis

(art: Natalya Mosyagina)

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Ed Perkins

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."

- Elizabeth Lawrence

[@QuirkyBird @quirkiebird]

Cecil Kennedy 🖌
Christmas Roses {detail}

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Björn Bernström (Swedish Artist, born 1966)

"Creek", 2024.

Watercolor Painting .

[Shona Ray @ShonaRayWrites]

@Clare_Draycott @franquinn 🤣🤣🤣

[Shona Ray @ShonaRayWrites]

@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 😄)

[Shona Ray @ShonaRayWrites]

@ReaRhine_ Well if you don't feel Christmassy before then, you certainly will after!

[Shona Ray @ShonaRayWrites]

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

[Shona Ray @ShonaRayWrites]

@kpbooksnstuff I know the feeling! It's like the less time I have the more I squeeze in

[World Scholar @WorldScholar_]

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)

[Rebecca Papin @RebeccaPapin]

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

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

2013 temporary crochet installation by textile artist Carol Hummel #WomensArt

[Shona Ray @ShonaRayWrites]

@AliceNebularis Ha! I did wonder about the scale!

[Shona Ray @ShonaRayWrites]

@BexBookaholic Used to love those! We lived near the Cadbury factory in Bourneville so went quite a lot 😋