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  #ScribesAndMakers ~ Share something you've been working on this month. I wrote one haiku, one longer-form poem and this week a new stream of consciousness-style prose poem. I favour flash prose poems. I'm aiming for more prose poems this month. #Haiku #ProsePoem #Writing

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  "In Gaza, in the rubble of an active genocide and through 13 displacements, Omar Hamad has built the Phoenix Library. Books were passed hand to hand through rubble, preserved across each forced relocation and carried when almost nothing could be carried and when others were reduced to burning their books for cooking fuel. Gaza’s first library since the genocide began – built not after, not in the aftermath, not when it was safe – but during." #Gaza #Library #Books #OmarHamad 1/2

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  #WritersCoffeeClub ~ How does what you read influence what you write? It depends on the genre I read. :booky_1: ~ Philosophy: I ponder & question ~ Manuals: for a training ~ Read romance... Read poetry? That's nirvana. ~ Read bad poetry: hm. ~ Read great poetry: I bow to the craft. ~ Read my own poems: it's ok, my rhythm still needs a little dance. 💒

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  #WritersCoffeeClub ~ What are good examples of texts written from a non-human point of view? ~ Les Fables de Jean de la Fontaine: timeless ~ The wolf POV in Jack London's book ~ Life of PI, but this might be a stretch 🦋

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  "A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing." ~ Garrison Keillor, born today, 1942. #GarrisonKeillor #Quote #Today

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  "I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions." ~ Diane di Prima, born today, 1934. #DianediPrima #Today #Quote

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  Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop' Snapchat has joined the likes of YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack in a growing effort to combat fake writing, images and videos that are entirely created by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77g6dm5pr8o #AI #AI_slop

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  #AmorakHuey #Poetry

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  "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty." ~ David Hume, born today, 1711. #DavidHume #Quote #Today

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  #WritersCoffeeClub ~ Do readers need to understand a character's motivations to understand the story? Perhaps not 'understand', infer is better. Let the reader build character. 💒

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  a stranger's spiffiest smile under the pinkish and baby blue sky #Smile #Sky #Haiku

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  When your mind's on a musical loop. Today: A Perfect Circle. #Music #APerfectCircle

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  "Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it." ~ Roddy Doyle, born today, 1958. #RoddyDoyle #Quote #Today

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  #WritersCoffeeClub May ~ What wisdom do you wish you could share with your younger self? Keep showing up. Healing isn't linear, but it's always possible. And sit still in your own shadow before anyone else can see your full light. 💒

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  "I don’t read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don’t know." ~ Suzan-Lori Parks, born today, 1963. #SuzanLoriParks #Quote #Today

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  #ScribesAndMakers ~ Leviathan? Ruling the abyss isn’t a personality trait, Levie. Please stop thrashing. You’re not a storm god; you’re a large, grumpy sea cucumber. 💒

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  "I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it." ~ Terry Pratchett, born today, 1948. #TerryPratchett #Today #Quote

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  #WritersCoffeeClub ~ What's a (maybe silly) hill you're willing to defend? That true connection between two souls doesn't necessarily equal to finishing each other's sentences ~ it is accepting each other's uniqueness & tolerating each other's munching sounds. :ncatchan_biglove_io: That's the hill. 🪷

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  "You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place." ~ Bruce Sterling, born today, 1954. #BruceSterling #Quote #Today

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  "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." ~ Anne Lamott, born today, 1954. #AnneLamott #Today #Quote

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  A bustle. #Bustle

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  The World of Trance. Ministry of Sound ~ Anthems Trance. #Trance #MinistryOfSound

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  #ScribesAndMakers ~ Our next featured creator writes Science Fiction. What's a feature of Science Fiction that you find interesting? * Weaving the past into the future ~ e.g. Stargate. 🎇 ~ How one rebel teenager can hack the entire global surveillance system with their tablet. 👓

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  "Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." ~ Iain Banks #IainBanks #Quote #Empathise

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  "The solar system is not only huge – it is a time machine powered by light." The solar system, akin to a film where the light projects yesterday's recording, and no one can pause. #SolarSystem #Film

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  Donation appeal ~ Further to the message from our admin, stickers are also available if you'd prefer to support our node via this purchase: -> Lemmy.world stickers -> Mastodon.world stickers A pack of ten can be ordered for $5 / €5 /£5 by sending @ruud a DM. #Mastodon #Lemmy #Fediverse #Fundraising #Donations

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  #WritersCoffeeClub ~ What's your most effective method for connecting with readers? I hire a troubadour to reenact with melody my flash story outside their window at 3 a.m. Works every time. 🧑‍🎤 🪷

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  𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘉𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘐𝘵 𝘛𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘐𝘵 𝘕𝘰 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘕𝘰 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸 #BakeryTVShowsAndPlays #hashtaggames

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  Message from my post-processing (PP) manager ~ "On the PP side, your corrections were great, and that's not the issue at all. I offered to help with the images, and it sort of snowballed." Post-processing (PP) a botanical book, with 300 images, into epub... 300! This is Sparta! 💫 #PostProcessing #Epub

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  #WritersCoffeeClub ~ How does being a writer influence your life outside of the work? It doesn't. Life influences writing, remember? 🧬 Writing is a side effect of living in a world that insists on being poetic. 💕