Jo Malby (semi hiatus)
@WriterJoMalby
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Writer—health advocate—earth/human rights activist—traveller—artist—observer—journalist—poet—purveyor of love & lover of life with all its challenges, inc. CRPS
Brighton
Joined October 2012
7 Reasons You Should Meditate if You Write or Make Art http://t.co/sbSrOFmg5e Feat. @losapala @OrnaRoss #meditation #authors #MondayBlogs
inspireportal.com
A consistent meditation practice infuses and informs everything life, offering you a creative freedom quite unmatched by any other practice. Through stilling your mind and relocating your centre, in...
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“The act of #writing triggers more inspired writing. Plus, the act of revision sometimes leads to completely unexpected writing… Instead of waiting for inspiration, start writing to find inspiration.” https://t.co/mjNO4RT5Ks
@robertleebrewer #writingtips
writersdigest.com
The Writer’s Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we’re starting this series to help identify them for other writers (along with strategies for avoiding the mistake)....
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foggy morning-- the mist softens the voices in my head ~ Lafcadio, @lafcadiopoetry // #Photography: ‘Soft Thoughts’ by Marilyn Hunt #senryu #vssnature
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“A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world.” ~ Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza
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“It's a delicate balance between taking yourself seriously, being disciplined about having a #writing routine, but also remembering to have fun and be playful… I find that this approach, combined with showing up at my desk every day, works.” https://t.co/xj8JBYGa4h
#writingtips
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falling leaves I'm learning to let go ~ Random Rain, @randomrain25 // #Photography by Janek Sedlář #vss365 #haiku
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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” ~ Virginia Woolf
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“You’re not writing a finished book today. You’re writing words. If you don’t know, guess — your subconscious often knows before you do. Editing is where you make art. Drafting is where you mine the ore.” @Roz_Morris’ guide to #writing a #novel in 30 days
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flaunting her new curves the old river ~ Meraki, @Meraki_k // #Photography by Aaron Reed / https://t.co/I8672ACvFo
#haiku #3lines #InkMine
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“Read great sentences until you can tell when one isn't. Read great paragraphs until their rhythms get stuck in your head.” ~ Lily Rothman
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“Your writing is art—it doesn’t need a prescription to succeed… The best writing happens when a writer is discovering what happens as they’re creating… We can advance the process… but to do that effectively, we must be engaged in discovering ourselves.”
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mid-autumn- the free fall of time ~ Dandelion Girl (Lena K.), @moscowdandelion // #Photography by Martin Rak, @martas_ / https://t.co/nMdDCvrBzr
#vss365 #haiku
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“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.” ~ Paula Danziger
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“Readers connect to a protagonist’s motivations like it’s a north star within the scene. They enable us to contextualize what we’re seeing, help us understand why it matters and get us invested in the outcome.” How to Write Sharp Action Scenes https://t.co/HFlcy215YX
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In this fog I stumble To imagine ~ Joe F, @frghtndmn // #Photography by Vanda Ralevska / https://t.co/wL2C3n2rqt
#vssnature #haiku
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“The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.” ~ Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
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“Write toward that moment when your #characters surprise you… when the characters are so real that readers will want to follow them—the Robert Frost no surprise for the #writer, no surprise for the reader… It has to be what’s organic to the characters.”
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Autumn stories Beautifully lost Among the trees ~ Joe F, @frghtndmn // #Photography: ‘Komorebi’ By Martin Rak, @martas_ / https://t.co/kWFz4u6juQ
#haiku #vss365
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“Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.” ~ J. B. Priestley #writingcommunity
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In the midst of tears I found there was within me an invincible smile In the midst of chaos I found there was within me an invincible calm no matter how hard the world pushes against me within me there's something stronger pushing right back —#AlbertCamus #CRPSorangeday #CRPS
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“Your character’s goal can be anything… The only qualifier is to make this goal meaningful so they have strong motivation to achieve it. When obstacles appear, or adversity and conflict batters them—hope keeps them on course.” https://t.co/tsqtLBTSQt
@AngelaAckerman #writingtips
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