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Kira
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Reading, writing, and smelling the flowers 🌻
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#vss365
Here’s to the nameless muse flitting through life, unaware of their combustibility.
They are an incandescent spark that ignites our creativity and the #ash we scatter when our fire dies.
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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My son turned his “Quaker Life Notes” from his 8th grade U.S. history class into “Quaker Otes” He gets an A in my book.
October 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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🎉 Happy pub day to both Book of Cats and the newly reissued Searoad!

We will work on obtaining photo evidence of Pard with his latest bookish appearance, but in the meantime here are Bat (who matches the book) and Ziti (who is more curious about it).
October 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; “ (1 of 2)

Learned Hand, Spirit of Liberty
December 12, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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The great thing about being a writer is that you can capture all the people you love in words.

#amwriting #writingcommunity #amreading
November 26, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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If you're overwhelmed and stuck, it's like being in the same room looking at the same four walls. To make things better, breaking out is needed. Only then can you be more aware, resourceful, and empowered.
November 18, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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If anyone wants alternatives to Goodreads, I highly recommend walking out into the fields where the beehives sit in the hot sun, and telling the bees about what your reading, which characters you love, what book still haunts you all these years later. 📚 🐝
November 16, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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November 17, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1
#BookSky
November 17, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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Today's writing tip:

Stop looking for writing tips, go write.
November 16, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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This Wendell Berry #poem forever
November 9, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Baldwin: "Love has never been a popular movement."
October 9, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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nobody can stop you from writing about love, desire, and longing as a form of escape! 🏃‍♀️ ✍️
June 13, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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At least I'm not alone in this 😊

#writingjokes #reading #writingquotes #amwriting
June 13, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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#WritingTip Worldbuilding according to the venerable Ursula K. Le Guin, when to keep, when to cut:

"...what intensifies the reality of the story and what clogs it, and when enough is enough."

#WritingCommunity
www.gollancz.co.uk/ursula-k-le-...
Ursula K. Le Guin – Answers your questions for Gollancz Festival 2015
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards a…
www.gollancz.co.uk
June 13, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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a service job is just a place where hundreds of people will ask you how your day is going without actually listening to the answer you give
June 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Hey if you are interested in books and whatnot could you do me a favor and follow @andreabrownlit.bsky.social ? We are trying to migrate AWAY from Evil Empire type sites but we still get about a million percent fewer eyeballs here so it’s hard to leave — trying to boost BLUESKY! 💙🦋💙
June 11, 2024 at 9:20 PM