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"What I want in fiction is a virtuoso demonstration of the use of our messy, malleable, beautiful language" Jane Friedman"I don't want realism. I want magic!" Tennessee WilliamsHeader: Craster harbour, Northumberland, UKAvatar: Gogerddan, Ceredigion, CymruMy writing hut has come to rest in the East Midlands“There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."<a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/amWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#amWriting</a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/amWritingFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#amWriting

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Post #2191246
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 25: Share your current biggest creative frustration So many things have to align for me to write: external circumstances and internal weather, who else is around, what might be going to happen in an hour, three hours, the following day Currently, they are not aligning #WritersCoffeeClub
Post #2191245
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@BBC3MusicBot/116476530285790990 Probably my second most favourite waltz of all time #RosesFromTheSouth #JohannStraussII #ArnoldSchoenberg #classicalMusic #waltz
Post #1207093
The birch trees golden With catkins drop their pollen Yellow on the path #haiku #spring #catkins #pollen #birchTrees
Post #1207091
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@BBC3MusicBot/116365039463224024 Requiem In case you need it
Post #1207077
Nottingham Writers’ Studio https://www.instagram.com/nottswritersstudio?igsh=MXFxZDdsb2prbzJmMg== #writers #Nottingham #NottsWritersStudio
Post #957126
This joy: a song thrush Singing in Criftin Lane, gnats Dancing in the sun #haiku #spring #birdsong #songThrush #gnats
Post #951216
"Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Tak...
Post #794134
#WordWeavers Mar 18: Tell us about a time when your MC failed In novelx3, Dr Andrew Bridges, the climate scientist, is walking St Cuthbert’s Way in Northumberland on a pilgrimage to Iona (it’s complicated) when he finds himself in Coldstream Coldstream is not on St Cuthbert’s Way That’s apart from the fact that he had failed to persuade the government to take appropriate action over global warming #WordWeavers #novelx3 #ClimateBridges
Post #794131
S&amp;M18 If your creative work could speak, what would it say about you? He’s a nice bloke, really Uses too many words Takes ages editing And he’s a total coward when it comes to getting any of us published #scribesAndMakers
Post #794119
WritersCoffeeClub March 20: Who is your ideal reader? Generous, kind souls who always look for the good in people But know a bad one when they see one #WritersCoffeeClub
Post #794118
#PennedPossibilities 962 If there was ever going to be a film or a series based upon your WIP, what do you imagine the soundtrack would be like? What genre? Debbie Wiseman or Pride &amp; Prejudice (Classic BBC version) or Dawn French as a vicar - what was that called?? #PennedPossibilities
Post #517706
The icy morning Has given way to sunshine A big bee buzzes past 🐝 #haiku #bee #spring
Post #516132
I have this irrational belief that art will save the world Don’t know why Don’t know how But #art #writing #painting #sculpture #performance
Post #503705
A question for &amp; about authors who identify as #actuallyAutistic #authors #writing https://lovelace.social/@NineIsntPrime/116083887844535693
Post #492155
A full moon rides high at last light, the sky cloudless, branches blossom bare #haiku #March
Post #439253
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk Brilliant piano playing In every sense of the word #ElizabethPion #piano #pianist
Post #393175
Today’s Classical mixtape listing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kgz8 #classicalMixtape #BBCRadio3
Post #393139
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@BBC3MusicBot/116127144528469181 This one is pretty special Listen if you can #BBCSounds #BBCRadio3 #classicalMixtape
Post #392174
International Booker Prize long list https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/international/2026 #InternationalBookerPrize #longList
Post #375880
Is writing novels make believe? https://mas.to/@philcolbourn/116120126217143558
Post #340214
@Elijah_Praise@mastodon.social Hi Elijah Welcome to Mastodon If you can, add some info to your profile and do some posts (toots) and you’ll get along fine - start with an introductory toot to get things going and always use some hashtags! #welcome #newToMastodon #introduction #hashtags
Post #262570
I've realised today that the only place I truly relax is inside a story It can be my own story or someone else's - writing, editing, reading - it doesn't matter. Inside a story, everything else falls away and I am, for that time at least, completely at peace. It is an escape, a refuge It is why I write and why I read #story #writing #reading #amEditing #actuallyAutistic #AuDHD #innerPeace
Post #211469
@petergleick@fediscience.org One for #climateDiary
Post #208171
In the apple tree Celebrating Candlemas A robin singing #haiku #Candlemas #February #poetry #birdsong #robin
Post #206193
@wynlim@kopiti.am Thank you for this It reflects my own situation - late id & reassessment It’s very helpful to see it put into words