#inspirations — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inspirations, aggregated by home.social.
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Layer Cake: Writing Historical Fiction
Dateline: Budapest. Inspired by a recently discovered fresco in Pompeii depicting a delectable flatbread on a platter with a large goblet of red wine, a Budapest pizzeria crafted a pie using only ingredients that would have been available in ancient Rome. Although it wasn’t until the 1800s that the city of Naples introduced a street food of tomatoes, cheese, and herbs baked on a thin crust of leavened bread, Titus Caesar in his 79 A.D. toga could have eaten focaccia topped with nuts, savory sauce, dried fruit, herbs. More French Laundry than Dominos.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/04/20/layer-cake-writing-historical-fiction/#CRAFT #Inspirations #adviceforwriters #inspiration #writinglife
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Reality…But Better: Never Let Facts Get in the Way of Fiction
The holidays before these last holidays, my wife and I, our kids, and my in-laws went to Ecuador to cruise around the Galapagos Islands. As wonderful as that sounds, full disclosure, I had some doubts. The Galapagos Islands are far away, vacationing there is insanely expensive, and I personally have a long, sorted history of getting violently ill at sea. My wife, though, really wanted to go, so, well…off we went. I can’t tell you how happy I am that we did. For two reasons.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/03/10/realitybut-better-never-let-facts-get-in-the-way-of-fiction/#Inspirations #REALWORLD #inspiration #MatthewNorman #writinglife
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The Sentence and the Story: A New Year’s Fable
The Sentence
The sentence sat, unmoving.
The sentence was dissatisfied.
The sentence knew that it had untapped potential, but wasn’t using it.
The sentence longed to be metaphorical but it was feeling stuck, like a bluebottle in a room with walls of flypaper.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/01/07/the-sentence-and-the-story-a-new-years-fable-2/ -
Fusilli calamari e piselli.
Disegno a inchiostro su cartaccia da fotocopie, scansionato e colorato in digitale.
#risma_2024 #RecipeIdeas #illustrazione #FoodForFoodies #IllustrationFood #calamari #fusilli #piselli #drawing #art #artist #arte #disegno #inspirations #green
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All That Glitters Is Mostly Gold Foil
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https://writerunboxed.com/2025/08/26/all-that-glitters-is-mostly-gold-foil/#Inspirations #adviceforwriters #ElizabethHuergo #readingsforwriters #REALWORLD
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