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Writing inspiration: Read their inspirations
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Writing inspiration: Read their inspirations
#authorship #creativewriting #editing #editingtips #fiction
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Writing Inspiration: Read Thei... -
Writing inspiration: Read their inspirations
#authorship #creativewriting #editing #editingtips #fiction
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Writing Inspiration: Read Thei... -
Writing inspiration: Read their inspirations
#authorship #creativewriting #editing #editingtips #fiction
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Writing inspiration: Read their inspirations
#authorship #creativewriting #editing #editingtips #fiction
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Writers: Make Conflict Sharpen Your Theme
Most writers think of supporting characters as helpers, villains, or comic relief. John Truby argues they're something more: competing moral philosophies that sharpen your protagonist, strengthen your theme, and generate richer conflict. That single idea forced me to rethink scenes I'd already considered finished.https://nlbryar.page/2026/07/08/writers-make-conflict-sharpen-your-theme/
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Writers: Make Conflict Sharpen Your Theme
Most writers think of supporting characters as helpers, villains, or comic relief. John Truby argues they're something more: competing moral philosophies that sharpen your protagonist, strengthen your theme, and generate richer conflict. That single idea forced me to rethink scenes I'd already considered finished.https://nlbryar.page/2026/07/08/writers-make-conflict-sharpen-your-theme/
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Writers: Make Conflict Sharpen Your Theme
Most writers think of supporting characters as helpers, villains, or comic relief. John Truby argues they're something more: competing moral philosophies that sharpen your protagonist, strengthen your theme, and generate richer conflict. That single idea forced me to rethink scenes I'd already considered finished.https://nlbryar.page/2026/07/08/writers-make-conflict-sharpen-your-theme/
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Writers: Make Conflict Sharpen Your Theme
Most writers think of supporting characters as helpers, villains, or comic relief. John Truby argues they're something more: competing moral philosophies that sharpen your protagonist, strengthen your theme, and generate richer conflict. That single idea forced me to rethink scenes I'd already considered finished.https://nlbryar.page/2026/07/08/writers-make-conflict-sharpen-your-theme/
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Writers: Make Conflict Sharpen Your Theme
Most writers think of supporting characters as helpers, villains, or comic relief. John Truby argues they're something more: competing moral philosophies that sharpen your protagonist, strengthen your theme, and generate richer conflict. That single idea forced me to rethink scenes I'd already considered finished.https://nlbryar.page/2026/07/08/writers-make-conflict-sharpen-your-theme/
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A setting is a character that can’t talk. But it always has something to say. The weather, the walls, the empty chair by the window, they carry mood and memory just like a person does. A place can foreshadow, grieve, comfort, or warn. Stop treating setting as backdrop and let it speak. Writing tip of the day. 😊
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #WritingTips #worldbuilding #creativewriting
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A setting is a character that can’t talk. But it always has something to say. The weather, the walls, the empty chair by the window, they carry mood and memory just like a person does. A place can foreshadow, grieve, comfort, or warn. Stop treating setting as backdrop and let it speak. Writing tip of the day. 😊
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #WritingTips #worldbuilding #creativewriting
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A setting is a character that can’t talk. But it always has something to say. The weather, the walls, the empty chair by the window, they carry mood and memory just like a person does. A place can foreshadow, grieve, comfort, or warn. Stop treating setting as backdrop and let it speak. Writing tip of the day. 😊
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #WritingTips #worldbuilding #creativewriting
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A setting is a character that can’t talk. But it always has something to say. The weather, the walls, the empty chair by the window, they carry mood and memory just like a person does. A place can foreshadow, grieve, comfort, or warn. Stop treating setting as backdrop and let it speak. Writing tip of the day. 😊
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #WritingTips #worldbuilding #creativewriting
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A setting is a character that can’t talk. But it always has something to say. The weather, the walls, the empty chair by the window, they carry mood and memory just like a person does. A place can foreshadow, grieve, comfort, or warn. Stop treating setting as backdrop and let it speak. Writing tip of the day. 😊
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #WritingTips #worldbuilding #creativewriting
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Mist
a lake filled with fish shadows swimming in dark depths across a bottom covered with green creeping algae weeping willows press close moss hangs from branches looming over the water where the wet roots of the trees grip fungus covered rocks a mist slowly rises pale and thick from the glistening surface forms appear and vanish within weaving to and fro like ghosts swimming up into the night sky a white blanket spreads slowly over the sleeping countryside swirling around houses and slipping into chimneys across the silent hearthstones until the rising sun burns it away From the collection "Words at 16 (1983)" - edited June 2026
#1983 #algae #atmosphericWriting #countryside #CreativeWriting #darkNature #earlyWriting #eeriePoetry #Fear #fishShadows #fog #ghostlyImagery #gothicNature #gothicPoetry #hauntingLandscape #lakePoem #memoryAndMist #mist #Nature #naturePoetry #nightLake #oldPoems #poeticImagery #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #ruralGothic #shadowAndWater #teenagePoetry #weepingWillow #WordPressTagsPoetry #Writing -
Mist
a lake filled with fish shadows swimming in dark depths across a bottom covered with green creeping algae weeping willows press close moss hangs from branches looming over the water where the wet roots of the trees grip fungus covered rocks a mist slowly rises pale and thick from the glistening surface forms appear and vanish within weaving to and fro like ghosts swimming up into the night sky a white blanket spreads slowly over the sleeping countryside swirling around houses and slipping into chimneys across the silent hearthstones until the rising sun burns it away From the collection "Words at 16 (1983)" - edited June 2026
#1983 #algae #atmosphericWriting #countryside #CreativeWriting #darkNature #earlyWriting #eeriePoetry #Fear #fishShadows #fog #ghostlyImagery #gothicNature #gothicPoetry #hauntingLandscape #lakePoem #memoryAndMist #mist #Nature #naturePoetry #nightLake #oldPoems #poeticImagery #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #ruralGothic #shadowAndWater #teenagePoetry #weepingWillow #WordPressTagsPoetry #Writing -
Mist
a lake filled with fish shadows swimming in dark depths across a bottom covered with green creeping algae weeping willows press close moss hangs from branches looming over the water where the wet roots of the trees grip fungus covered rocks a mist slowly rises pale and thick from the glistening surface forms appear and vanish within weaving to and fro like ghosts swimming up into the night sky a white blanket spreads slowly over the sleeping countryside swirling around houses and slipping into chimneys across the silent hearthstones until the rising sun burns it away From the collection "Words at 16 (1983)" - edited June 2026
#1983 #algae #atmosphericWriting #countryside #CreativeWriting #darkNature #earlyWriting #eeriePoetry #Fear #fishShadows #fog #ghostlyImagery #gothicNature #gothicPoetry #hauntingLandscape #lakePoem #memoryAndMist #mist #Nature #naturePoetry #nightLake #oldPoems #poeticImagery #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #ruralGothic #shadowAndWater #teenagePoetry #weepingWillow #WordPressTagsPoetry #Writing -
Mist
a lake filled with fish shadows swimming in dark depths across a bottom covered with green creeping algae weeping willows press close moss hangs from branches looming over the water where the wet roots of the trees grip fungus covered rocks a mist slowly rises pale and thick from the glistening surface forms appear and vanish within weaving to and fro like ghosts swimming up into the night sky a white blanket spreads slowly over the sleeping countryside swirling around houses and slipping into chimneys across the silent hearthstones until the rising sun burns it away From the collection "Words at 16 (1983)" - edited June 2026
#1983 #algae #atmosphericWriting #countryside #CreativeWriting #darkNature #earlyWriting #eeriePoetry #Fear #fishShadows #fog #ghostlyImagery #gothicNature #gothicPoetry #hauntingLandscape #lakePoem #memoryAndMist #mist #Nature #naturePoetry #nightLake #oldPoems #poeticImagery #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #ruralGothic #shadowAndWater #teenagePoetry #weepingWillow #WordPressTagsPoetry #Writing -
Mist
a lake filled with fish shadows swimming in dark depths across a bottom covered with green creeping algae weeping willows press close moss hangs from branches looming over the water where the wet roots of the trees grip fungus covered rocks a mist slowly rises pale and thick from the glistening surface forms appear and vanish within weaving to and fro like ghosts swimming up into the night sky a white blanket spreads slowly over the sleeping countryside swirling around houses and slipping into chimneys across the silent hearthstones until the rising sun burns it away From the collection "Words at 16 (1983)" - edited June 2026
#1983 #algae #atmosphericWriting #countryside #CreativeWriting #darkNature #earlyWriting #eeriePoetry #Fear #fishShadows #fog #ghostlyImagery #gothicNature #gothicPoetry #hauntingLandscape #lakePoem #memoryAndMist #mist #Nature #naturePoetry #nightLake #oldPoems #poeticImagery #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #ruralGothic #shadowAndWater #teenagePoetry #weepingWillow #WordPressTagsPoetry #Writing -
How to Format Your Paperback: Quick, Easy to Understand, Practical Tips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingfeedback #indieauthor #indieauthors #CreativeWriting www.amazon.com/dp/1948872269
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How to Format Your Paperback: Quick, Easy to Understand, Practical Tips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingfeedback #indieauthor #indieauthors #CreativeWriting www.amazon.com/dp/1948872269
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How to Format Your Paperback: Quick, Easy to Understand, Practical Tips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingfeedback #indieauthor #indieauthors #CreativeWriting www.amazon.com/dp/1948872269
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How to Format Your Paperback: Quick, Easy to Understand, Practical Tips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingfeedback #indieauthor #indieauthors #CreativeWriting www.amazon.com/dp/1948872269
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W3 Prompt #219: Wea’ve Written Weekly
Intro
Dear friends,
Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish.
You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version:
Part I
The main ingredient of W3 is a weekly poem written by a Poet of the Week (PoW), which participants read before participating in the prompt.
Part II
The second ingredient is a writing guideline (or two) provided by the PoW. Guidelines may include, but are not limited to: word counts, poetic forms, inclusion of specific words, and use of particular poetic devices.
Part III
After five days, when the prompt closes, the PoW shall select one participant’s poem as the W3 prompt for the following week, and its author becomes the next PoW.
Simple enough, right?
Kindly note: All entries for the W3 poetry prompt must be the original work of the submitting author. AI-generated poetry is not permitted.
Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing!
I. The prompt poem:
‘Freedom’ by Violet Lentz
at fifteen i didn’t question your packing up my life in a garbage bag and sending me to gramma’s i wanted my freedom i saw being sent away as you giving it to me i thought i had won at twenty five i didn’t question abandoning my marriage and two children to recapture the freedom i perceived as having been stolen from me surely the end would justify the means at thirty five i didn’t question getting clean i knew it was either quit- or die so i quit- because too much freedom had in the end taken me hostage at forty five i looked into the eyes of a woman i had never seen before she told me: that fifteen year olds don’t get garbage bags full of freedom that twenty five year olds can disappear- but never really leave- (their children behind) that thirty five year olds never really get clean,, they just quit using…. and that the only way to ever really catch freedom is to stop running…
II. Jodi’s prompt: Tell it slant
This week, we take our inspiration from Emily Dickinson’s famous poem:
Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —For this prompt, write a poem in which every line is a lie — except one.
You may take this playfully, seriously, mysteriously, or emotionally. Your “lies” might be obvious falsehoods, gentle self-deceptions, exaggerations, masks, evasions, myths, dreams, denials, or things the speaker wishes were true. Somewhere in the poem, however, let one line tell the truth plainly.
Extra credit: Try writing your poem as a Golden Shovel.
A Golden Shovel poem borrows a line from an existing poem and uses each word from that borrowed line, in order, as the final word of each line in your new poem. For example, if you use Dickinson’s line “Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” your poem would have eight lines, ending with: Tell / all / the / truth / but / tell / it / slant.
As always, let the prompt lead you where it wants to go!
III. Submit: Click on ‘Mister Linky’ below
In order to participate and share a poem, open up this blog post, outside of the WordPress reader. At the bottom, just below these words, you will see a small rectangular graphic with the words ‘Mr Linky’. Click on that to submit.
Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, July 13, 10:00 AM (GMT+2)
Last week’s W3 poem
This week’s W3 prompt poem (above), composed by Jodi, was written in response to last week’s W3 prompt poem, which Benji wrote:
‘The scent of herbs’ by Benjamin Nambu
returning home on foot after work through a shortcut behind houses poorly planned bumped into a lady burning weed after sweeping her backyard the scent of herbs reminds me of my childhood when I used to follow dad to the farm my happiest moments were in the afternoons when we paused for the lunch of roasted yam with agushi stew A mouse or two hovering over hot coals from their long poles as if in prayer, dripping with oil here I was, a city boy missing village life some village teen seated somewhere in a village daydreaming of life in a city they might never see
#Community #CreativeWriting #Freedom #Inspiration #Poem #Poetry #Prompt #Routine #Silence #W3 -
Stakes are not about danger, they are about cost. If your character can walk away from the story unharmed, with nothing lost and nothing risked, the reader has no reason to lean in. Give them something they cannot afford to lose, then make the story threaten it. The fear of losing it is what keeps people reading. Make leaving cost something. Writing tip of the day. 💯
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #writingtips #creativewriting #writersofmastodon
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Stakes are not about danger, they are about cost. If your character can walk away from the story unharmed, with nothing lost and nothing risked, the reader has no reason to lean in. Give them something they cannot afford to lose, then make the story threaten it. The fear of losing it is what keeps people reading. Make leaving cost something. Writing tip of the day. 💯
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #writingtips #creativewriting #writersofmastodon
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Stakes are not about danger, they are about cost. If your character can walk away from the story unharmed, with nothing lost and nothing risked, the reader has no reason to lean in. Give them something they cannot afford to lose, then make the story threaten it. The fear of losing it is what keeps people reading. Make leaving cost something. Writing tip of the day. 💯
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #writingtips #creativewriting #writersofmastodon
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Stakes are not about danger, they are about cost. If your character can walk away from the story unharmed, with nothing lost and nothing risked, the reader has no reason to lean in. Give them something they cannot afford to lose, then make the story threaten it. The fear of losing it is what keeps people reading. Make leaving cost something. Writing tip of the day. 💯
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #writingtips #creativewriting #writersofmastodon
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Stakes are not about danger, they are about cost. If your character can walk away from the story unharmed, with nothing lost and nothing risked, the reader has no reason to lean in. Give them something they cannot afford to lose, then make the story threaten it. The fear of losing it is what keeps people reading. Make leaving cost something. Writing tip of the day. 💯
#writingcommunity #amWriting #writing #writingtips #creativewriting #writersofmastodon
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Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon: Book Review
I’ve reviewed this book, a really useful and practical guide for creators looking for exposure, on Medium. You can read it, without cost, using this link:
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Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon: Book Review
I’ve reviewed this book, a really useful and practical guide for creators looking for exposure, on Medium. You can read it, without cost, using this link:
Rate This
#Author #BookReview #Books #CreativeWriting #Writing -
Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon: Book Review
I’ve reviewed this book, a really useful and practical guide for creators looking for exposure, on Medium. You can read it, without cost, using this link:
Rate This
#Author #BookReview #Books #CreativeWriting #Writing -
Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon: Book Review
I’ve reviewed this book, a really useful and practical guide for creators looking for exposure, on Medium. You can read it, without cost, using this link:
Rate This
#Author #BookReview #Books #CreativeWriting #Writing -
Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon: Book Review
I’ve reviewed this book, a really useful and practical guide for creators looking for exposure, on Medium. You can read it, without cost, using this link:
Rate This
#Author #BookReview #Books #CreativeWriting #Writing -
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