Benn Ward ➰

➰ editor @LondonReaderMag
📚 curator #AftertheFlood & #WordsfromWithin
🖊️ on society and stories
📨 [email protected]
🙋🏻‍♂️ he/him #writingcommunity

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

Writing is easy when you've got the discipline. That's what makes it hard. #writingcommmunity

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

Love this. What a world we have witnessed.

[Matt Colville? @mattcolville]

If you're 50 years old that means you've been alive for 1% of the entire history of human civilization.

Not one tenth of one percent. One percent.

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

Without downloading any new images, show me your writing process.

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

I just sent the travel novel I wrote in 2020/21 and edited this winter out the door for the first time.

Concluding structural editing is not as satisfying as typing "The End"—it still feels like there's more I can do—but it's a milestone! 🥳

Now begins the third phase...

[The London Reader @LondonReaderMag]

PLANT LIFE features
🌱stories of plants, people, and the earth they share by @SelfAwareROOMBA @Megan_NerdNest @TyGrammarRex @APunkRockFuture @xixuan_c @isthisboring @Ziemska @AwuahMainoo @SarahFohno
🌱 interviews with @HopeJahren & @VDiffenbaugh
🌱& more
https://t.co/G0hKJUWVDm

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

We're turning a new leaf! 🌱

If you've ever wanted to get the latest edition of @LondonReaderMag in print, now you can.

[The London Reader @LondonReaderMag]

Is there something strange about that person with a hundred house plants? Or something enviable? Do plant people know something others don’t?

🌱 PLANT LIFE—stories of plants, people, and the earth they share—is out now in PRINT! 🌱

https://t.co/xPeMSkBuTI

[The London Reader @LondonReaderMag]

Is the future worth fighting for?

We have an open call for optimistic #sciencefiction submissions, and we're extending the deadline until March 12 for our followers on Twitter.

See more details here:
https://t.co/ZPxpUuPCdD

#scifi #WritingCommunity #writers #ArtistOnTwitter

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The One Cell Revolution.
By switching from farming multi-celled creatures to farming single-celled creatures, we can help stop systemic environmental collapse AND feed the world.
My new TED talk is out now:
https://t.co/OpRdeAK28O

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

@LondonReaderMag Time spent storycrafting is more important than finding the right time to storycraft.

[The London Reader @LondonReaderMag]

What is something you learned this year about writing or stories that you think every new writer should know?

#WritingCommunity #writingtips #YearInReview

[michelle huang @michellehuang42]

i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child"

some reflections below:

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

@lascelles_dr The Shadow Lines by @GhoshAmitav is a beautiful story of a boy from Kolkata finding identity in / in contrast to London.

[The London Reader @LondonReaderMag]

Is there something strange about that person with all the plants? A time lapse of a house plant shows instead a house pet. Electrical signals in a tree play a beautiful symphony.

OPEN CALL #submissions about plant people, plants, nature https://t.co/QQmK9eAx8n #WritingCommunity

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

I don't know about "fatten your income", but it's a good thread!

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

@HoosierDruid @Ulfhedrengr @Wizards_DnD A gender neutral bar????? I can't even imagine.

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

@La__Cuen I LOVE technically skillful novels that make me say Wow at least once a page and gasp with delight at the end of every chapter.

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

@CSteveSimms The least Christ-like people I have met are the people who declare it proudly to ostracize others 😪

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

The transferable talent and wisdom nurtured by a humanities education are among the most valuable a person can develop
—unfortunately they're also the first skillsets trimmed by shortterm-focused corporations in an economic downturn 😅

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

made me laugh

[im on the ither sight @jon_snow_420]

people look down on the humanities while the business section in the bookshop is like The Power of Words and This Is What Sun Tzu Is About

[Benn Ward ➰ @BennWardWrites]

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”

- Ray Bradbury

[The London Reader @LondonReaderMag]

"I have never known the police of any country to show an interest in lyric poetry as such. But when poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color lines, and colonies, somebody tells the police."

-Langston Hughes

#poetry #langstonhughes