OneBrilliantArc
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Media Company helping storytellers tell fearless stories, inspire without limits, and master the art of storytelling—One Brilliant Arc at a time.
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And those of us who are need to know how to tell stories well so we can spread those truths.
#writing #stories #storytellers #truth
#writing #stories #storytellers #truth
March 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
And those of us who are need to know how to tell stories well so we can spread those truths.
#writing #stories #storytellers #truth
#writing #stories #storytellers #truth
Here’s a controversial opinion from a professional editor:
Mixed metaphors are AWESOME!
Just use them purposefully, otherwise people will laugh at you not with you. 😉
#writing #editing #writingcommunity #protip #writingrules
Mixed metaphors are AWESOME!
Just use them purposefully, otherwise people will laugh at you not with you. 😉
#writing #editing #writingcommunity #protip #writingrules
March 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Here’s a controversial opinion from a professional editor:
Mixed metaphors are AWESOME!
Just use them purposefully, otherwise people will laugh at you not with you. 😉
#writing #editing #writingcommunity #protip #writingrules
Mixed metaphors are AWESOME!
Just use them purposefully, otherwise people will laugh at you not with you. 😉
#writing #editing #writingcommunity #protip #writingrules
Pain in life and fear of death unites us over stories, and stories save us in life.
#writing #writersofbluesky #poets #storytelling
#writing #writersofbluesky #poets #storytelling
March 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Pain in life and fear of death unites us over stories, and stories save us in life.
#writing #writersofbluesky #poets #storytelling
#writing #writersofbluesky #poets #storytelling
“A tale ain’t finished til the teller says so.”
And this is exactly why I find fiction—even children’s fiction—to be so vital to life.
Watch “The Wingfeather Saga”: it is delightful.
#writing #writersofbluesky #storytelling #encouragement #animation #fiction
And this is exactly why I find fiction—even children’s fiction—to be so vital to life.
Watch “The Wingfeather Saga”: it is delightful.
#writing #writersofbluesky #storytelling #encouragement #animation #fiction
March 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“A tale ain’t finished til the teller says so.”
And this is exactly why I find fiction—even children’s fiction—to be so vital to life.
Watch “The Wingfeather Saga”: it is delightful.
#writing #writersofbluesky #storytelling #encouragement #animation #fiction
And this is exactly why I find fiction—even children’s fiction—to be so vital to life.
Watch “The Wingfeather Saga”: it is delightful.
#writing #writersofbluesky #storytelling #encouragement #animation #fiction
Sometimes I get stuck in the valley of Does My Story Even Matter, too. 🫣
As a professional editor with a passion for helping storytellers find their voices, I would be thrilled to (gently) help you yank your book out of your chest. It’s always better to embark on epic journeys with a sidekick!
As a professional editor with a passion for helping storytellers find their voices, I would be thrilled to (gently) help you yank your book out of your chest. It’s always better to embark on epic journeys with a sidekick!
March 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sometimes I get stuck in the valley of Does My Story Even Matter, too. 🫣
As a professional editor with a passion for helping storytellers find their voices, I would be thrilled to (gently) help you yank your book out of your chest. It’s always better to embark on epic journeys with a sidekick!
As a professional editor with a passion for helping storytellers find their voices, I would be thrilled to (gently) help you yank your book out of your chest. It’s always better to embark on epic journeys with a sidekick!
What childhood book brutally ripped your heart out and you loved it for it?
#reading #stories #heartbreak #writingcommunity
#reading #stories #heartbreak #writingcommunity
March 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
What childhood book brutally ripped your heart out and you loved it for it?
#reading #stories #heartbreak #writingcommunity
#reading #stories #heartbreak #writingcommunity
It’s a whirlwind that doesn’t end! You’ll get there—you’re doing great! ✍️
#writers #amwriting #writerslife #firstdraft
#writers #amwriting #writerslife #firstdraft
February 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s a whirlwind that doesn’t end! You’ll get there—you’re doing great! ✍️
#writers #amwriting #writerslife #firstdraft
#writers #amwriting #writerslife #firstdraft
It’s these teeny, tiny changes that make your story really hit.
Need someone to work on your story to pull out these arcs and bring it to the next level? Hit us up! Our editors want to help you. 👩🏻💻👨🏿💻👨🏽💻
Need someone to work on your story to pull out these arcs and bring it to the next level? Hit us up! Our editors want to help you. 👩🏻💻👨🏿💻👨🏽💻
February 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It’s these teeny, tiny changes that make your story really hit.
Need someone to work on your story to pull out these arcs and bring it to the next level? Hit us up! Our editors want to help you. 👩🏻💻👨🏿💻👨🏽💻
Need someone to work on your story to pull out these arcs and bring it to the next level? Hit us up! Our editors want to help you. 👩🏻💻👨🏿💻👨🏽💻
Your first draft doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to exist.
I pinky promise you, no matter how much of a disaster your draft is, your editor is there to fix it.
You only need to worry about word vomiting onto paper. Let it be messy. Let is be bad. Let us help you worry about making it good.
I pinky promise you, no matter how much of a disaster your draft is, your editor is there to fix it.
You only need to worry about word vomiting onto paper. Let it be messy. Let is be bad. Let us help you worry about making it good.
February 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Your first draft doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to exist.
I pinky promise you, no matter how much of a disaster your draft is, your editor is there to fix it.
You only need to worry about word vomiting onto paper. Let it be messy. Let is be bad. Let us help you worry about making it good.
I pinky promise you, no matter how much of a disaster your draft is, your editor is there to fix it.
You only need to worry about word vomiting onto paper. Let it be messy. Let is be bad. Let us help you worry about making it good.
These moments with your manuscript are *chefs kiss*
Worth all the pain and suffering it took to get there.
#keepwriting #storytelling #writerslife
Worth all the pain and suffering it took to get there.
#keepwriting #storytelling #writerslife
February 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
These moments with your manuscript are *chefs kiss*
Worth all the pain and suffering it took to get there.
#keepwriting #storytelling #writerslife
Worth all the pain and suffering it took to get there.
#keepwriting #storytelling #writerslife
February 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If you’re not with me, you’re my enemy” -Me threatening my characters to behave before I make horrible things happen to them
Anyway, I hope you evil author well today! ✍️😈
#writers #sonic #authors #writerslife
Anyway, I hope you evil author well today! ✍️😈
#writers #sonic #authors #writerslife
February 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If you’re not with me, you’re my enemy” -Me threatening my characters to behave before I make horrible things happen to them
Anyway, I hope you evil author well today! ✍️😈
#writers #sonic #authors #writerslife
Anyway, I hope you evil author well today! ✍️😈
#writers #sonic #authors #writerslife
February 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
February 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
As creatives, we know we are hard to love. But we are worth it.
Heartfelt thanks on this Valentine’s Day to everyone who is brave enough to love a writer. You help us be brave enough to change the world!
❤️🩹❤️🔥🖤
#writerslife #love #mymuse #valentinesday #creativework #writers
Heartfelt thanks on this Valentine’s Day to everyone who is brave enough to love a writer. You help us be brave enough to change the world!
❤️🩹❤️🔥🖤
#writerslife #love #mymuse #valentinesday #creativework #writers
February 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
As creatives, we know we are hard to love. But we are worth it.
Heartfelt thanks on this Valentine’s Day to everyone who is brave enough to love a writer. You help us be brave enough to change the world!
❤️🩹❤️🔥🖤
#writerslife #love #mymuse #valentinesday #creativework #writers
Heartfelt thanks on this Valentine’s Day to everyone who is brave enough to love a writer. You help us be brave enough to change the world!
❤️🩹❤️🔥🖤
#writerslife #love #mymuse #valentinesday #creativework #writers
In order to write authentic stories, you can’t be afraid to be uniquely you.
#writing #storytelling #artist #creativework
#writing #storytelling #artist #creativework
February 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In order to write authentic stories, you can’t be afraid to be uniquely you.
#writing #storytelling #artist #creativework
#writing #storytelling #artist #creativework
🩸The magic of stories
They take the broken parts of life and give them meaning so they can heal others.
And yourself.
#storytellingjourney #poetry #writing #wordsarepowerful
They take the broken parts of life and give them meaning so they can heal others.
And yourself.
#storytellingjourney #poetry #writing #wordsarepowerful
February 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🩸The magic of stories
They take the broken parts of life and give them meaning so they can heal others.
And yourself.
#storytellingjourney #poetry #writing #wordsarepowerful
They take the broken parts of life and give them meaning so they can heal others.
And yourself.
#storytellingjourney #poetry #writing #wordsarepowerful
Anyone else have trouble understanding their own notes on top of reading their own handwriting? 💀
#writerslife #writingproblems
#writerslife #writingproblems
February 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Anyone else have trouble understanding their own notes on top of reading their own handwriting? 💀
#writerslife #writingproblems
#writerslife #writingproblems
“If you ain’t six feet underground you’re living it up on top…
…Let the poet bless this round…
…And we will always raise them up
To the world we dream about
And the one we live in now
‘Cause right now we’re livin’ it…”
#Hadestown #art #stories #life
…Let the poet bless this round…
…And we will always raise them up
To the world we dream about
And the one we live in now
‘Cause right now we’re livin’ it…”
#Hadestown #art #stories #life
February 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“If you ain’t six feet underground you’re living it up on top…
…Let the poet bless this round…
…And we will always raise them up
To the world we dream about
And the one we live in now
‘Cause right now we’re livin’ it…”
#Hadestown #art #stories #life
…Let the poet bless this round…
…And we will always raise them up
To the world we dream about
And the one we live in now
‘Cause right now we’re livin’ it…”
#Hadestown #art #stories #life
🥴 It do be like that…
February 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🥴 It do be like that…
What makes a good a story? Is it the bells and whistles? Craft and magic? I argue is does it honor its promise on what it will make you feel.
We talk about this and more on Monday’s episode of Let’s Talk Stories
New podcast episode coming Monday!
We talk about this and more on Monday’s episode of Let’s Talk Stories
New podcast episode coming Monday!
January 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
What makes a good a story? Is it the bells and whistles? Craft and magic? I argue is does it honor its promise on what it will make you feel.
We talk about this and more on Monday’s episode of Let’s Talk Stories
New podcast episode coming Monday!
We talk about this and more on Monday’s episode of Let’s Talk Stories
New podcast episode coming Monday!
Happy Friday, fellow writers!
What’s your distraction of choice today? 👀🙈
What’s your distraction of choice today? 👀🙈
January 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Happy Friday, fellow writers!
What’s your distraction of choice today? 👀🙈
What’s your distraction of choice today? 👀🙈
January 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM