mastodon 4.7.3Mechanics of life: you stumble about awkwardly until finding your spot in the most unexpected place. ♾️
Flash fiction & essay writer. Newly devoted poet.
Words in Neon & Smoke, Pictura Journal, Calibre Audio, King River Press, and elsewhere. 💬
Ardent follower of abstract art & hardstyle music. 🎵
📚 #Freelance writer for hire. 📚
🪷 Helping craft #WritersCoffeeClub questions 🪷
Volunteer mod & post-processor.
If u'r able to chip in, I'd be deeply grateful
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~ Philosophy: I ponder & question
~ Manuals: for a training
~ Read romance...
Read poetry? That's nirvana.
~ Read bad poetry: hm.
~ Read great poetry: I bow to the craft.
~ Read my own poems: it's ok, my rhythm still needs a little dance.
💒"I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
~ Terry Pratchett, born today, 1948.
That's the hill. 🪷#ScribesAndMakers ~ Leviathan?
Ruling the abyss isn’t a personality trait, Levie. Please stop thrashing. You’re not a storm god; you’re a large, grumpy sea cucumber. 💒
#WritersCoffeeClub May ~ What wisdom do you wish you could share with your younger self?
Keep showing up. Healing isn't linear, but it's always possible. And sit still in your own shadow before anyone else can see your full light. 💒
"I don’t read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don’t know."
~ Suzan-Lori Parks, born today, 1963.
#WritersCoffeeClub ~ Do readers need to understand a character's motivations to understand the story?
Perhaps not 'understand', infer is better. Let the reader build character. 💒
"My theory is that everyone, at one time or another, has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who’s different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common."
~ Alice Hoffman, born today, 1952.
#WritersCoffeeClub ~ What's your most effective method for connecting with readers?
I hire a troubadour to reenact with melody my flash story outside their window at 3 a.m. Works every time. 🧑🎤
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"You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place."
~ Bruce Sterling, born today, 1954.
"Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."
~ David Hume, born today, 1711.
#ScribesAndMakers ~ Our next featured creator writes Science Fiction. What's a feature of Science Fiction that you find interesting?
* Weaving the past into the future ~ e.g. Stargate. 🎇
~ How one rebel teenager can hack the entire global surveillance system with their tablet. 👓
This the rhythm. 
#WritersCoffeeClub ~ How does being a writer influence your life outside of the work?
It doesn't. Life influences writing, remember? 🧬
Writing is a side effect of living in a world that insists on being poetic. 💕
"Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it."
~ Roddy Doyle, born today, 1958.
"The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read."
~ Tom Clancy, born today, 1947.
Donation appeal ~
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"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better."
~ Anne Lamott, born today, 1954.
Message from my post-processing (PP) manager ~
"On the PP side, your corrections were great, and that's not the issue at all. I offered to help with the images, and it sort of snowballed."
Post-processing (PP) a botanical book, with 300 images, into epub...
300! This is Sparta! 💫
𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩
𝘉𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘐𝘵 𝘛𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘐𝘵
𝘕𝘰 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘕𝘰 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸
A bustle.
"The solar system is not only huge – it is a time machine powered by light."
The solar system, akin to a film where the light projects yesterday's recording, and no one can pause.
"Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot."
~ Iain Banks
