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"Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with.”
Joan Didion, born on this day in 1934

adulthood is cool until adult things happen

An autumnal scene in woodlands.

When the sun shines,so too do the trees.
#photography

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

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Yes!

I like how Christmas is on a Thursday this year so there's this secret mini-week starting on 22 December that you can leave fallow in order to have a gentler entry into Christmas.

I feel like there's a sort of "funnel" to arriving at a powerful piece - (a) is it original, (b) is there structure, (c) is there build, (d) does the ending land, (e) is there atmosphere, (f) is there character, (g) are there layers etc. - so not surprised you see similar at Brilliant Flash Fiction

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(a) and (b) are the main reasons we say no to sooo many submissions at Brilliant Flash Fiction

"As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going."
George Saunders, born on this day in 1958

Yes, thanks. :)

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you don’t really know someone until you find out their favorite bird

“You can make anything by writing.”
C. S. Lewis, born on this day in 1898

"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead."
Tom Stoppard, RIP

Want some library book recommendations???

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On this day in 1899, the first theatrical production of Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur" opened at the Broadway Theater in New York City. By the time of its last performance in 1921, an estimated twenty million people had seen the play.
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It’s open!!!!!!

"These wrinkles are nothing.
These gray hairs are nothing.
This stomach which sags
with old food, these bruised
and swollen ankles,
my darkening brain,
they are nothing.
I am the same boy
my mother used to kiss."
Mark Strand, who died on this day in 2014

Leonard and Hungry Paul trivia: anyone notice that, when he's picking up his mother's ashes, Leonard (who has no surname in the book) gives the surname Dranoel (Leonard backwards).

Before I ever thought of writing a book, I used to make up stories for my kids about a little boy, Leonard Dranoel.

On the left, a narrow, glass-fronted display case with a mix of letterpress, hand-bound, antiquarian, and collectors' books; stretching off to the right, 8-foot bookcases laden with literary and contemporary commercial fiction, about one thousand books out of the 6-7 thousand in that section. LED lighting and light-colored wood cases and flooring keep the room feeling relatively spacious despite the sheer quantity of books.

Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

An orange sun tucks behind a coastline in #Greece. #landscape #sunset Happy Thanksgiving for those celebrating today

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave."
- Dakota Tribe

Pic of the day

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“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
James Agee, born on this day in 1909

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
W. Somerset Maugham, born on this day in 1874

Arabic numerals are the ten symbols (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) that form the basis of the modern decimal system used worldwide. Despite the name, they originated in ancient India and were introduced to the West via Arab mathematicians.

I love going to the public library and so should you 🫵🏾😐

We are currently open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction. Please click on the link for our guidelines #MicroMonday #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...