
Deon C. Visser
@awriterly
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Back row thinker. Teaching English, learning Spanish, writing my way through burnout and into whatever chaos comes next. Thailand-based, world-curious.
South Africa
Joined October 2016
After years of silence, I’m writing again. Not polished. Not perfect. Just honest words from the middle of change. Here’s why it happened—and what’s next. https://t.co/X5mWOinLWe via @awriterly
#WritingCommunity #HealingJourney #BurnoutRecovery #amwriting
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I know it’s been a long time. I finished my master’s in creative writing in 2020, then COVID happened. Since then, I’ve been drained, fatigued, and creatively empty. I went to Ind…
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Big goals are longer missions. The ones that can take years to achieve. Think Big Dreams. You see this is where it starts to get difficult for me. I always have too many things nagging me. My goals look like my Google Chrome tabs!
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"talking about a goal significantly reduces your chances of achieving it." Mannnnnnn. I see this. And I need to remember this. From now on. Have an idea/goal. STFU #goals #amreading #PersonalGrowth
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"Big goals outperform small goals ... vague goals." Steven Kotler - The Art of Impossible I have goals, perhaps just too many of them. I need a BIG umbrella-sized goal! #writerscommunity #amwriting #PersonalGrowth
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When you see kids struggling in your classroom and do nothing, you're part of the problem. "it's not my subject" accompanied with a shrug is not an intervention. Speak up. Do something. #Education #Teaching #teachersofx #StudentSupport #ClassroomLeadership
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Armageddon on a mountain // I'm just a kitten on a mountain Actual lyric: I'm getting on a mountain @mothermother
#Mondegreen #MisheardLyrics #Music #SongLyrics #RandomThoughts #MusicFail #ListeningFails
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Creativity for me. Not clean inspiration → execution. More like: scribble → forget → rediscover years later → play → let it split into multiple directions. Full process post on the blog: https://t.co/g0GdG8wxAw
#WritingProcess #Poetry #CreativeJourney #India
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Sometimes creativity doesn’t happen in a single sitting. Sometimes it takes years for an idea to find its final form. In 2023, during my yoga teacher training in India, I wrote a haiku in my …
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"Cellular memory speaks. Blueprint of becoming forms." We emerge not from nothing, but from currents that hold us and wisdom encoded before we began. #Poetry #VisualPoetry #Healing #Mindfulness #poetrycommunity
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Hedonic well-being asks: Do you feel good? Eudaimonic well-being asks: Are you living aligned with your values? #Psychology #WellBeing #Eudaimonia #PersonalGrowth #Philosophy #Mindfulness
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Fractured discord, growing whole in stillness, rewoven river. #Poetry #Haiku #HealingJourney #Mindfulness #India #Rishikesh
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Enlightenment Interrupted Read more on: https://t.co/LV3HWJDLhw
#Poetry #Spirituality #Rishikesh #Ganges #AmWriting
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Red Alert > writing today #LazySunday #RedAlert #RetroGaming #Procrastination #WriterLife #Early2000s
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I thought having a day job would give my writing 'stability' but it has just given my procrastination a really good excuse. #amwriting #Writing #WIP #WritingCommunity
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The point is to be so bold that people can’t tell if you’re brilliant or crazy.
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Downstairs in the basement, at the bottom of a pile of dusty boxes, in the twilight of my mind. Is a manuscript that needs to get published! #WritingCommunity #WIP #AmWriting #ThrowbackThursday
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when I go quiet = work is eating my soul not mysterious, not busy, not focused just mentally dehydrated #TeacherBurnout #Teachersof𝕏 #TeacherLife #TeacherProblems
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15 years of buying fruit for co-workers across 3 countries. Amazon → Dad's company → Thailand schools. Started unconsciously, became conscious care, evolved into personal signature. Read more on: https://t.co/QbpJTOAYAh
#Psychology #Habits #WorkplaceCulture #PersonalGrowth
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A small habit that has travelled with me from Amazon.com to Thailand.
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"Flow follows focus." Then it makes sense that distraction and doom scrolling is like anti-flow. #psychology #Flow #WritingCommunity
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