#flashnonfiction — Public Fediverse posts
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I just read some NY Times "Dear Diary" stories of encounters in the City. I think we might all request our local newspapers offer something like this Metropolitan Diaries feature of up to 300 words from readers.
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Wrote a new flash piece. Going to start submitting tomorrow. Also need to send around a piece that was just rejected…again. Sigh… #AmWriting #amquerying #FlashFiction #flashnonfiction
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Working on my newsletter is hands down the best part of my week. Everything I'm writing, reading, listening to, thinking, feeling, and making goes into it, and sometimes it actually turns out to be interesting lol.
If you feel like checking it out, you can subscribe below:
https://www.duanetoops.com/newsletter/
#reading #Writing #newsletter #blog #art #poetry #flashnonfiction
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Working on my newsletter is hands down the best part of my week. Everything I'm writing, reading, listening to, thinking, feeling, and making goes into it, and sometimes it actually turns out to be interesting lol.
If you feel like checking it out, you can subscribe below:
https://www.duanetoops.com/newsletter/
#reading #Writing #newsletter #blog #art #poetry #flashnonfiction
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We are the atomic weight of the things we carry. The mass of who and what we have been. An arithmetical expression of the elements that make up who we are.
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We are the atomic weight of the things we carry. The mass of who and what we have been. An arithmetical expression of the elements that make up who we are.
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To be a writer, to be an artist, is to heed the call of something nameless. To respond in search of an unknown tongue. To hear an answer in the language of silence.
To be a writer, to be an artist, is to be a prayer.
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To be a writer, to be an artist, is to heed the call of something nameless. To respond in search of an unknown tongue. To hear an answer in the language of silence.
To be a writer, to be an artist, is to be a prayer.
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Working on next week's newsletter, reading and writing are the only ways I know how to connect with the world and the only ways I know how to give back to it. If you're interested giving it a read you can subscribe below:
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Working on next week's newsletter, reading and writing are the only ways I know how to connect with the world and the only ways I know how to give back to it. If you're interested giving it a read you can subscribe below:
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We dream about starting over. Wishing for ways to make amends. But, “Fresh starts”, Ali Millar suggests, “are a lot more complicated than they look.” Sometimes things that look so solid turn out to be made of straw. Sometimes straw can be spun into gold. Sometimes what looks like a house of cards can withstand a storm, and sometimes we’re dealt a bad hand that we do our best to play.
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We dream about starting over. Wishing for ways to make amends. But, “Fresh starts”, Ali Millar suggests, “are a lot more complicated than they look.” Sometimes things that look so solid turn out to be made of straw. Sometimes straw can be spun into gold. Sometimes what looks like a house of cards can withstand a storm, and sometimes we’re dealt a bad hand that we do our best to play.
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Our lives are simply a series of iterative measures made in an effort to find the mark. The heart, like an arrow, is equal parts discipline and art. It requires an awareness that is open and without illusions. A self lost and offered-up completely. It demands an aim without an ego.
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Our lives are simply a series of iterative measures made in an effort to find the mark. The heart, like an arrow, is equal parts discipline and art. It requires an awareness that is open and without illusions. A self lost and offered-up completely. It demands an aim without an ego.
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Some thoughts on what it means to be writer and an artist...
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Some thoughts on what it means to be writer and an artist...
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The real problem isn’t the mechanics of aiming. The problem is not knowing what you’re aiming for.
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The real problem isn’t the mechanics of aiming. The problem is not knowing what you’re aiming for.
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There is no ideal-you. No Platonic realm of perfect forms in which to discover your faultless self. One that is clean and whole. One that is unblemished and unscarred by every tool that chiseled you into shape; every trauma, every misfortune, every mistake. It never leaves. We are sharp and splintered. Rough edges and exactitude. Fractured and complete.
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There is no ideal-you. No Platonic realm of perfect forms in which to discover your faultless self. One that is clean and whole. One that is unblemished and unscarred by every tool that chiseled you into shape; every trauma, every misfortune, every mistake. It never leaves. We are sharp and splintered. Rough edges and exactitude. Fractured and complete.
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There is motion and there is motive. There is a difference between the two. There is reactivity and there is response. There is a space that satisfies a deeper need.
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There is motion and there is motive. There is a difference between the two. There is reactivity and there is response. There is a space that satisfies a deeper need.
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I published one of my rejected pieces of #flashnonfiction in my newsletter earlier this week. It felt good for it to see the light of day I think I may put another one in next week's newsletter.
If you have any interest in reading it and sharing your thoughts, you can subscribe here:
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I published one of my rejected pieces of #flashnonfiction in my newsletter earlier this week. It felt good for it to see the light of day I think I may put another one in next week's newsletter.
If you have any interest in reading it and sharing your thoughts, you can subscribe here:
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Put out a Newsletter earlier today, first one in quite some time.
Decided to share one of my rejected pieces of #FlashNonfiction
Link below if you'd like to subscribe, I'd love to hear your thoughts:
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Put out a Newsletter earlier today, first one in quite some time.
Decided to share one of my rejected pieces of #FlashNonfiction
Link below if you'd like to subscribe, I'd love to hear your thoughts:
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I am reckless without a mark. Too taut. Too eager. Too clumsy. Too restless. Too ready to launch at anything that moves. I am something feathered captive too long in a quiver.
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I am reckless without a mark. Too taut. Too eager. Too clumsy. Too restless. Too ready to launch at anything that moves. I am something feathered captive too long in a quiver.
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Building a tower of rejection letters...just got another. Oh well, on to the next.
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Building a tower of rejection letters...just got another. Oh well, on to the next.
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Love defies our logic and rationale. A dream of light, shining across 8000 thousand miles of darkness and sea. It makes perfect sense in that it makes no sense. And yet, there it is, glistening. Proof that when it comes to the inexplicable mystery of love, all our cumulative knowledge amounts to precisely fuck-all.
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Love defies our logic and rationale. A dream of light, shining across 8000 thousand miles of darkness and sea. It makes perfect sense in that it makes no sense. And yet, there it is, glistening. Proof that when it comes to the inexplicable mystery of love, all our cumulative knowledge amounts to precisely fuck-all.
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...and another rejection letter...
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...and another rejection letter...
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“The heart is an arrow”, Leigh Bardugo says. It is elegant and precise when given direction. It is goodness, and beauty, and truth.
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“The heart is an arrow”, Leigh Bardugo says. It is elegant and precise when given direction. It is goodness, and beauty, and truth.
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Just got another rejection letter to add to the pile...
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Just got another rejection letter to add to the pile...
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3 rejection letters over the weekend, 2 more submissions put in today...
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3 rejection letters over the weekend, 2 more submissions put in today...
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Welcome to all the new folks joining after Elmo's latest attempts to find new depths.
Since it's #FollowFriday: For anyone interested in writing, especially writing from personal experience, my mom (Sheila Bender) is a poet, essayist and teacher of writing and she's on Mastodon!
#CreativeWriting #poetry #PersonalEssay #FlashFiction #FlashNonFiction
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Welcome to all the new folks joining after Elmo's latest attempts to find new depths.
Since it's #FollowFriday: For anyone interested in writing, especially writing from personal experience, my mom (Sheila Bender) is a poet, essayist and teacher of writing and she's on Mastodon!
#CreativeWriting #poetry #PersonalEssay #FlashFiction #FlashNonFiction
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And bonus #FollowFriday for anyone interested in writing, especially writing from personal experience. My mom (Sheila Bender) is a poet, essayist and teacher of writing and she's on Mastodon!
#CreativeWriting #poetry #PersonalEssay #FlashFiction #FlashNonFiction
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And bonus #FollowFriday for anyone interested in writing, especially writing from personal experience. My mom (Sheila Bender) is a poet, essayist and teacher of writing and she's on Mastodon!
#CreativeWriting #poetry #PersonalEssay #FlashFiction #FlashNonFiction
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Made some revisions and submitted another piece of #flashnonfiction for publication... we'll see...
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Made some revisions and submitted another piece of #flashnonfiction for publication... we'll see...
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Submitted a piece of #flashnonfiction for publication earlier this week...just got the rejection letter...
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Submitted a piece of #flashnonfiction for publication earlier this week...just got the rejection letter...
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I like writing prompts with nuance, not just think of this or that. On Medium, I have posted five writing prompts using childhood games as a diving board into your material.
https://medium.com/@sheilabender/use-childhood-games-as-writing-prompts-37b0675b650
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Just learned I'll be teaching in Cinque Terre May 27-June 2. Full details here: https://medium.com/@sheilabender/visit-cinque-terre-for-a-week-and-write-may-27-to-june-2-2023-93af078a9517
#poetry #memoir #personalessay #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #creativewriting
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Just learned I'll be teaching in Cinque Terre May 27-June 2. Full details here: https://medium.com/@sheilabender/visit-cinque-terre-for-a-week-and-write-may-27-to-june-2-2023-93af078a9517
#poetry #memoir #personalessay #flashfiction #flashnonfiction #creativewriting
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Looking for places to submit #flashnonfiction - I have a few pieces that I’d like to get out there. #writing #submitting
