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Writer—health advocate—earth/human rights activist—traveller—artist—observer—journalist—poet—purveyor of love & lover of life with all its challenges, inc. CRPS

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14 Feb 2022723267870466508

evening chill
the heat of your hand
in mine

~ Petro C.K., @petro_ck // #Photography: Edouard Boubat, Paris 1964 #SaintValentin #ValentinesDay #DíaValentin #haiku

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13 Feb 2022364367329570889

“#Writers are masters of self-doubt… We revise endlessly, pick apart every sentence…a deeply ingrained work ethic makes it hard to slow down and trust the process… If you forget to play—be still—you’re cutting off the very thing that fuels great writing.”

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11 Feb 2021644163876323511

“Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.” ~ Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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10 Feb 2021281893572857923

“There are no rules for a first draft. That’s the key to going the distance (and letting the #creativity in)… When you’re #writing that first draft, you’re writing for yourself. Later, you’ll edit for your reader. That’s when “the rules” are important.”

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Write your first draft for yourself: there are no rules

Don't obsess about that first chapter or first draft. This is you telling a story to yourself. Worry about your reader later.

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5 Feb 2019469826641531270

“As #writers [we] will be misunderstood. We’ll be criticized by strangers. Sometimes even by people we love. Writing is an act of exposure, and writing about something this personal, this political, and this dangerous feels like standing in a blizzard naked.” @rebeccamakkai

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