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writer | editor | photographer 
33 years a journalist; 12 years a coach of kids & teachers; now a novelist, #HiramFalls is finished and with agent. I would like to help build a #WritingCommunity & will follow links to your work. #writer #amwriting #photography #firstnovel #WIP #writingwonders #mastoprompt #writing

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geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jun 06, 2025

81 years ago today hundreds of thousands Allied soldiers risked and gave their lives the invasion of Normandy in the fight against fascism. I wonder what they would think of the world today.
https://www.geoffreygevalt.org/p/fred-june-6-1944

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Mar 09, 2025

Greetings from Mexico.
I’m thinking of staying.
#silentsunday #photography #writingcommunity

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geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 16, 2025

@ninetiger@writing.exchange and the flag remain at half-mast

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geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 16, 2025

@Emmacox@writing.exchange that's cool.
#photography led me to this man who then gave me a brief, taut response to my questions that told of his grief. In the post I add that I was watching from afar because so many people were coming up to him. At a lull, I asked if I could take a picture; he then gave me that jolting answer. ... Since more people were lined up, I backed away and his answer and sorrow haunted me all day and by the time I drove home that night, I had the story and dashed in and wrote it.

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geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 16, 2025

At the fair, I was taking pictures of this farmer at the cow barn and asked him, mainly to distract him from my lens, whether he had any cows in the barn.

"Nope. Sold ‘em all off this summer after my son passed." …

The answer haunted me all day. And it led to writing a story for stage, to resuming my novel, Hiram Falls and to writing about the process: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com/p/3-journal-a-photograph-unlocks-me

this is the third installment of my free monthly series.

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 14, 2025

“…My failed first draft had led me to develop a plan and a timeline. I was now ready to embark again on writing Hiram Falls. Or was I?

"No.

“Self-doubt was in overdrive, a gnawing in my belly, an insecurity about my writing that sometimes is so severe I wonder if I have any talent at all. I needed to put a few things in place to help me combat it….”

Three things actually: audience, a team and a tool to maintain consistency. For more: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com/p/4-journal-dealing-with-demons (free)
#writing #fiction

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 12, 2025

@davidtoddmccarty@me.dm ahh. thanks.

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 12, 2025

up in #vermont, up on the little hill I live on, we are and have been for the last few days, in a state of perpetual snowing. quite lovely. large fluffy flakes sometimes. pelting windy sometimes, light fine floating down sometimes, adding up, mounting up, plow guy has been here three times, skiing in the woods. winter. finally.

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 12, 2025

@SJHoodlet@writing.exchange
(1)you are the third or fourth to remind me that we tend to be introverted. True that.
And wary. careful. cautious.
when i ran a nonprofit for teen writers, I was bowled over by how quickly they connected with each other, supported each other, encouraged each other, how civil and engaged they were simply because I had created a site where they were safe, meaning they were treated with respect.

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 11, 2025

@SJHoodlet@writing.exchange
Sarah, thanks for your thoughts.

But, more importantly, thanks for all of your interactions with me and other writers in your time here. You've added a great deal to this 'community' of writerlies.

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 11, 2025

@mkj@social.mkj.earth @nlowell@zirk.us @arjaybe@mastodon.cloud

mkj, the scrolling on urge is so much easier than responding or following a link.

it then gets down to what are we scrolling for? what are we looking for? Or are we just filling time?

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geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jul 10, 2023

Replying to @acwise@writing.exchange

@acwise @thedeadlands This is a fabulous story and thanks so much for sharing -- and for writing it. I was intrigued with the POV; it brought me right inside the character. Folks: Follow her link. Definitely worth the reading time: https://thedeadlands.com/issue-26/diner/

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Mar 10, 2023

Replying to @Miriamm@mastodon.social

@Miriamm@mastodon.social So so true. Here's another view of that day, with my father, a doc in the second wave on Utah beach, standing in the center left, trying to gain composure, a dead soldier at his feet. My Dad never talked about that day. By a series of odd coincidences, I have since learned what his day was like & why the battle was so important, from a handful of witnesses, like my Dad, have passed on. It's important also to gather the history from the direct witnesses before they aren't around.

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 05, 2023

Replying to @geoffreyfowler@federated.press

@geoffreyfowler @washingtonpost nah. Twitter ain't broken.

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Jan 05, 2023

Replying to @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org thanks for pointing out and explaining what I had noticed but not given much thought.

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Nov 30, 2022

Replying to @SarahKite@mastodon.social

@SarahKite@mastodon.social thanks for bringing it up. Be well. Be safe.

geoffreygevalt @gg@writing.exchange · Nov 30, 2022

Replying to @SarahKite@mastodon.social

@SarahKite@mastodon.social I mask all over, at the store, at the post office, anywhere public. I do so because the disease is still here, I am older and vulnerable and because my oldest daughter, once a performing musician, is still struggling after 33 months. This is not a disease to fuck with. It did not go away. It is still killing people. It is still messing with people's bodies. We should mask to respect others. To protect others. And to protect ourselves. It's really not that great a hardship.

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