Day 112
Identity selection means you get to decide who you want to be.
So, if you want to be a writer, you don't say:
"I'll be a writer someday." Because when is that magical "someday"?
If you write, you're a writer. Say it. Believe it.
600 words every day from Aug 3 to Dec 31
#600X150
24.11.2025 13:33 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
LP Kindred is a talented writer and a kind-hearted human being. Please help him continue his studies. Literature needs him. Thank you!
24.11.2025 09:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Of course! Best of luck to you!
24.11.2025 05:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LP Kindred is a non-traditional student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in need of help with tuition.
They're in their 40s & working on a BFA in Writing. Their work has appeared on LeVar Burton Reads podcast, Carnegie Hall's Afrofuturism Festival & they're a 3x Ignyte Award nominee.
24.11.2025 01:46 — 👍 17 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
So glad! Enjoy.
23.11.2025 18:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Day 111
Your brain treats statements as instructions.
You have to speak and think good things about yourself & your creative work.
Likewise, you must only surround yourself with people who uplift you and your creativity with their words.
600 words every day from Aug 3 to Dec 31
#600X150
23.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Agreed! Glad I finally got to see it.
23.11.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by The Art Institute of Chicago
The Neapolitan Crèche | Artwork Spotlight
youtu.be/udCT4CSdncQ?...
23.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Neapolitan Crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago - Museum room, wooden floor, bench in center, being around. To the far back, a cabinet, with glass and figurines.
Neapolitan Crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago - Elaborate wooden cabinet and inside numerous hand painted terra cotta figurines.
Terra cotta figurines, hand carved, hand painted wearing delicate silks
Terra cotta figurines hand carved and hand painted between the 1700s and 1800s.
The Neapolitan Crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago is only on display a few weeks each year. I saw it yesterday.
Items in the crèche were created between the 1700s & 1800s. It was compiled around 2011, a cabinet built and then shipped from Naples to Chicago.
What’s a crèche? A Nativity scene.
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😍❤️
23.11.2025 01:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
new & restocked horror now available at b&n sioux falls!
23.11.2025 00:47 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation.
I enjoyed reading about Danish writer Solvej Balle.
Here is the gifted link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
22.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Day 110
There are 40 days until Jan 1st. What do you need to write in those 40 days? What do you need to say? How can you commit time and space to yourself in those 40 days to complete a draft by the New Year?
Jot down that plan. Make it happen.
600 words every day from Aug 3 to Dec 31
#600X150
22.11.2025 13:43 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Greater Chicago Good Depository - $300 Donated Thank You
For Everyone in Chicago
A Place at the table
Chicago skyline
Green background
Image
With the help of an Instagram fundraiser, I was able to donate $300 to the Greater Chicago Food Depository today. Thank you!
www.chicagosfoodbank.org
22.11.2025 04:10 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
WHAT IS THIS!? 😃 I’ll check it out. Thank you!!
21.11.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m reading it and annotating it … for fun 🙃 because why not?!!
21.11.2025 23:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The Count of Monte Cristo 🥰
21.11.2025 23:53 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 1
Whoever sent the high school kids in my neighborhood with food home for the school break ahead, thank you. Thank you for taking care of our kids ❤️
It doesn’t take much to be a light in someone’s life.
#Chicago
21.11.2025 21:16 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Day 109
Control your subconscious mind or someone else will control it.
Curate who you allow to have access to you, what you read, watch, and listen to.
You’re not meant to be exposed to everything and everyone.
Protect your creative mind.
600 words every day from Aug 3 to Dec 31
#600X150
21.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
😂⛄️
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Thanksgiving pies and cookie sign as well as I noticed that reads coffee with Krampus December 6
I saw this and I propose an idea —
Hear me out StokerCon … Coffee with Krampus AT StokerCon?
@horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social
Discuss amongst yourselves.
21.11.2025 18:46 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
Fátima Bosch, Miss Universe / Miss Mexico
👑
21.11.2025 05:08 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
CHIRBy Awards - StoryStudio Chicago
StoryStudio Chicago & the Chicago Review of Books are pleased to host the CHIRBy Awards, a fundraising ceremony honoring writers of Chicago.
December 11th, if you're in Chicago join us at the 10th Annual CHIRBy Awards!
My novel, Vanishing Daughters, is nominated in the Fiction category, which is an absolute honor.
Let's celebrate Chicago and Chicago literature.
I hope to see you there.
www.storystudiochicago.org/chirby-awards/
20.11.2025 23:07 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks! I have enjoyed your countdown posts about 600 words a day. I am possibly more chaotic than you, I've been writing anywhere from 200 to 2,000 ish words a day according to TrackBear. Total weekend warrior here. Whatever works, right?
20.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
You’re doing great!! Just keep doing what you’re doing!
20.11.2025 20:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Success! 🥹✨
20.11.2025 20:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You finished a draft! Congratulations! 🥹✨
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