MJ Donnery

#booksky

All Things George Eliot November 22 was George Eliot's Birthday.

17 Great Books by Author George Eliot's (Mary Anne Evans)
#GeorgeEliot #readthis #bookbuzz #AuthorUproar #BookBoost #BooksWorthReading #booklovers #MustRead #writerreality

Blogging is still a great way to reach readers Blogging is old hat now, but it's still a great way for authors to communicate with readers--both established readers and new ones.

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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

—C.D. Wright

May Morris

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

5 Myths About Tarot That Storytellers Should Know | Jane Friedman Like love and creativity, the best things in life are intangible. It’s the same with intuition, which the tarot helps us access and develop.

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Not my meme but made me laugh.

Photograph of the setting sun, captured by the river, through a leafy window of little trees and bushes. The red and orange colours of the sky are reflecting in the rivers water.

- we were dreamers -

"What others found in art,
I found in nature. What others found
in human love, I found in nature.
Very simple. But there was no voice there.

Winter was over...

Come to me, said the world. I was standing
in my wool coat at a kind of bright portal"

Louise Glück

Friedrich, The Garden Terrace. 1798

Tropes and Archetypes vs. Cliches Tropes and Archetypes are familiar story elements and character types that have been with us since storytelling began. Use them wisely.

No argument from me, @annerallen.bsky.social. There’s no shame in treading familiar paths, and being overly focused on “originality” can stifle a great many worthy stories before they’re even written.

I don’t need permission to be called an author Authors who haven’t published often like to think of themselves as an “aspiring author,” an “aspiring novelist,” or an “aspiring writer.” They act as if by not being published they are somehow less…

#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #author #writerscommunity #indieauthor #authorsky

A.I. comes for the book world (This week in books) This week! Books! First up, some very distressing news regarding two famous authors. The late Alice Munro’s daughter Andrea Robin Skinner published an essay about how Munro stood by Skinner’s stepfath...

Disturbing allegations about two famous writers, the NY Times' Top 100 (literary) books in the 21st Century, A.I. is coming for the book world, and more of the best writing and books links from the past week:

Blank Pages By Becky Jo Gesteland Two years ago, I started writing morning pages, per Julia Cameron’s suggestion in The Artist’s Way. I wake up early every—well almost every—weekday morning and encounter a new sh...

When nothing will come of nothing. Or: how to face down the blank pages. Becky Jo Gesteland at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2024/07/10/b... #WritingCommunity #writingtips #authorlife #creativewriting

Tips on finding the right agent Landing an agent is a tough, long process. Literary Rambles is a blog that can help you find the right ones to query.

Looking for a literary agent to represent your book? Helpful post from Natalie Aguirre at @annerallen.bsky.social annerallen.com/2024/07/tips... #writingcommunity #publishing #authorcommunity

Mood.

Mood.

gouache painting of a pale-skinned, blonde-haired fairy sitting atop a mushroom wearing a bright yellow, red and blue plaid dress and holding a little bunch of dried berries in her hands

A fun little collaboration with Pyne and Smith featuring one of my favorite dresses from their fall collection 💛

Episode 42: Carolyn Hembree (Of Long Poems, Inger Christensen’s Alphabet, and Writing Disaster) Carolyn Hembree, author of For Today (LSU Press, 2024) Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google, and Elsewhere Read: April 2020 Purchase: For Today (LSU Press, 2024) Carolyn Hembree's third poetry collec...

Of floods, of apricot trees, of quarantine, of Inger Christensen, of abecedarians & Fibonacci sequence, of Rachel Zucker, of reading poems in orange bikinis on street corners in NOLA & MORE!

Episode 42: Carolyn Hembree (Of Long Poems, Inger Christensen’s Alphabet, and Writing Disaster) is here!

Photo of the poet Muriel Rukeyser

“These roads will take you into your own country.
Seasons and maps coming where this road comes
into a landscape mirrored in these men.
 
Past all your influences, your home river,
constellations of cities, mottoes of childhood...
 
What one word must never be said?”
– Muriel Rukeyser

#poetry

A frozen dew drop hangs from a conifer branch on an early cold morning.

Haiku: When Forest Holds Its Breath

Silent frost-glazed trees
Stillness embraces the dawn
Frozen dew drops dream

A frozen dewdrop clung to a needle's tip, awaiting the sun's gentle embrace.

Sur ce sentiment inconnu dont l’ennui, la douceur m’obsèdent, j’hésite à apposer le nom, le beau nom grave de tristesse.

Françoise Sagan

New years pheonix
A blessing for you all

Grey skies hang heavy,
Whispers of rain in the air,
Tuesday begins slow.

#haiku #poetry

we need a season
like an old Japanese print
a little village
a welcoming inn beside
a road in new fallen snow

#tanka #poetry #japan #homecoming

Print by Kiyoshi Saito, Winter in Aizu, c. 1960

Marsha Hunt on the cover of Queen (UK, Dec 1968)
Photo by Patrick Lichfield