Rebecca D. Martin
@rebawrit.bsky.social
* Books * Poetry * Houses * Neurodiversity * Teaching * American Lit
#actuallyautistic
Homes+Neurodiversity Memoir seeking publisher
Disabilities+Wales+MagicalBooks YA Fantasy novel coming soon
https://rebeccadmartin.substack.com/about
#actuallyautistic
Homes+Neurodiversity Memoir seeking publisher
Disabilities+Wales+MagicalBooks YA Fantasy novel coming soon
https://rebeccadmartin.substack.com/about
Planning today's creative writing lesson in the bookstore where I wrote this found poem. Something magical about found poetry, the convergence of words in the wild to make extra meaningful meaning. Can't wait to see what my middle schoolers come up with today. rebeccadmartin.substack.com/p/found
November 15, 2023 at 6:04 PM
Planning today's creative writing lesson in the bookstore where I wrote this found poem. Something magical about found poetry, the convergence of words in the wild to make extra meaningful meaning. Can't wait to see what my middle schoolers come up with today. rebeccadmartin.substack.com/p/found
Document 0 / Writer 1
Writing fantasy that uses Welsh names and words = document shouting loud red and blue squiggly lines at me. Mistake mistake mistake! No, I smile. I know exactly what I'm doing. #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #YAfantasy #Welshlanguage #Welsh
Writing fantasy that uses Welsh names and words = document shouting loud red and blue squiggly lines at me. Mistake mistake mistake! No, I smile. I know exactly what I'm doing. #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #YAfantasy #Welshlanguage #Welsh
November 15, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Document 0 / Writer 1
Writing fantasy that uses Welsh names and words = document shouting loud red and blue squiggly lines at me. Mistake mistake mistake! No, I smile. I know exactly what I'm doing. #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #YAfantasy #Welshlanguage #Welsh
Writing fantasy that uses Welsh names and words = document shouting loud red and blue squiggly lines at me. Mistake mistake mistake! No, I smile. I know exactly what I'm doing. #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #YAfantasy #Welshlanguage #Welsh
The teens I write with on Saturdays are so bought into their creative ideas. They develop plot & characters & magical giftings with the gusto of humans who haven't yet learned to fit in above all else AND IT WORKS. I tell you, write fantasy with teenagers. It will change you. #amwriting #teenwriters
November 12, 2023 at 12:47 AM
The teens I write with on Saturdays are so bought into their creative ideas. They develop plot & characters & magical giftings with the gusto of humans who haven't yet learned to fit in above all else AND IT WORKS. I tell you, write fantasy with teenagers. It will change you. #amwriting #teenwriters
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I feel like most of us are Trying Our Best but also that most of us are Kind of Weird so you end up with some really strange Bests
November 8, 2023 at 6:23 PM
I feel like most of us are Trying Our Best but also that most of us are Kind of Weird so you end up with some really strange Bests
A small, sweet, brave essay of mine has gone live today, but I'm not yet ready to share it with People Who Might Know Me . . . but I also want the warm comfort of hearts and way-to-go's and "Beautiful!" Online high fives will be received at this time☺️
October 30, 2023 at 3:51 PM
A small, sweet, brave essay of mine has gone live today, but I'm not yet ready to share it with People Who Might Know Me . . . but I also want the warm comfort of hearts and way-to-go's and "Beautiful!" Online high fives will be received at this time☺️
I got to spend this afternoon workshopping with three teenage writers. Guys, the future of writing is bright with creativity, critical thinking, and generosity of spirit. Look for phenomenal new books in the next five-ten years! #writing #writingworkshops #taketeenagersseriously
October 28, 2023 at 11:50 PM
I got to spend this afternoon workshopping with three teenage writers. Guys, the future of writing is bright with creativity, critical thinking, and generosity of spirit. Look for phenomenal new books in the next five-ten years! #writing #writingworkshops #taketeenagersseriously
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“In the dark times / will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times.” Bertolt Brecht
October 27, 2023 at 12:55 PM
“In the dark times / will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times.” Bertolt Brecht
I'm overhearing my husband explain my book writing and editing process to his brother on the phone, and he just called beta readers "Super Readers." I like that. I like it. #amwriting #ameavesdropping #betareaders = superheroes?
October 25, 2023 at 12:25 AM
I'm overhearing my husband explain my book writing and editing process to his brother on the phone, and he just called beta readers "Super Readers." I like that. I like it. #amwriting #ameavesdropping #betareaders = superheroes?
A beautiful essay by @kelliedbrown1.bsky.social :
"The roots of this practice may have come from Celtic mythology, which claimed that bees helped humans connect with the spirit world, and so those needing to get a message to the dead could use the bees as their interlocutor."
"The roots of this practice may have come from Celtic mythology, which claimed that bees helped humans connect with the spirit world, and so those needing to get a message to the dead could use the bees as their interlocutor."
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October 25, 2023 at 12:04 AM
A beautiful essay by @kelliedbrown1.bsky.social :
"The roots of this practice may have come from Celtic mythology, which claimed that bees helped humans connect with the spirit world, and so those needing to get a message to the dead could use the bees as their interlocutor."
"The roots of this practice may have come from Celtic mythology, which claimed that bees helped humans connect with the spirit world, and so those needing to get a message to the dead could use the bees as their interlocutor."
Some days, you rewrite the first chapter of your novel--and you feel really, really good about it. #amwriting #yalit #killyourdarlings
October 23, 2023 at 6:46 PM
Some days, you rewrite the first chapter of your novel--and you feel really, really good about it. #amwriting #yalit #killyourdarlings
A SACRAMENT
Become that high priest,
the bee. Drone your way
from one fragrant
temple to another, nosing
into each altar. Drink
what's divine
and while you're there,
let some of the sacred
cling to your limbs.
Wherever you go
leave a small trail
of its golden crumbs.
1/
Become that high priest,
the bee. Drone your way
from one fragrant
temple to another, nosing
into each altar. Drink
what's divine
and while you're there,
let some of the sacred
cling to your limbs.
Wherever you go
leave a small trail
of its golden crumbs.
1/
October 16, 2023 at 2:45 PM
A SACRAMENT
Become that high priest,
the bee. Drone your way
from one fragrant
temple to another, nosing
into each altar. Drink
what's divine
and while you're there,
let some of the sacred
cling to your limbs.
Wherever you go
leave a small trail
of its golden crumbs.
1/
Become that high priest,
the bee. Drone your way
from one fragrant
temple to another, nosing
into each altar. Drink
what's divine
and while you're there,
let some of the sacred
cling to your limbs.
Wherever you go
leave a small trail
of its golden crumbs.
1/
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Okay y’all. I’ve been derelict. Publication is one week from today! Pre-order code should still be good (15PRE for 40% off). Tried to write it clearly enough that if you have a hangover from Saturday it will still make sense.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650639...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650639...
October 8, 2023 at 1:08 PM
Okay y’all. I’ve been derelict. Publication is one week from today! Pre-order code should still be good (15PRE for 40% off). Tried to write it clearly enough that if you have a hangover from Saturday it will still make sense.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650639...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650639...
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"Don't fuck with us."
-plants
-plants
October 6, 2023 at 6:08 PM
"Don't fuck with us."
-plants
-plants
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Folks, celebrate your friends. I know you probably know this, but it's easy to forget. Take joy in their successes and cheer on their moments in the sun, and always let them know they make your life better. It matters.
October 3, 2023 at 2:11 AM
Folks, celebrate your friends. I know you probably know this, but it's easy to forget. Take joy in their successes and cheer on their moments in the sun, and always let them know they make your life better. It matters.
There's so much good #writingcommunity stuff from Twitter that I want to repost over here. Dah!
September 22, 2023 at 3:43 PM
There's so much good #writingcommunity stuff from Twitter that I want to repost over here. Dah!
Doing the first big picture read through of my just-finished novel manuscript. Both loving and hating it and wondering if I can cut the entire first chapter. #amwriting #writingislife #writingisbananas
September 20, 2023 at 3:51 PM
Doing the first big picture read through of my just-finished novel manuscript. Both loving and hating it and wondering if I can cut the entire first chapter. #amwriting #writingislife #writingisbananas
Doing my annual September #Tolkien reread, as I do, while also having lost my head and trying to move to a ridiculously shambling 1870 house with no plumbing and I'm feeling this old essay of mine hard: www.curatormagazine.com/rebeccamarti...
Shire Reckonings
Like Frodo on that first and only night in his Crickhollow house, I look around this temporary place and say with some effort, “This does look like home.” I try to mean it.
www.curatormagazine.com
September 20, 2023 at 2:31 PM
Doing my annual September #Tolkien reread, as I do, while also having lost my head and trying to move to a ridiculously shambling 1870 house with no plumbing and I'm feeling this old essay of mine hard: www.curatormagazine.com/rebeccamarti...
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“One summer I was a living mandala, / folding t-shirts all day on one side of a table / while tourists unfolded them on the other. / If beauty is impermanence, my table and I / were the most beautiful couple the dock had ever seen” @fklein907.bsky.social “Resume” sheilanagigblog.com/poetry-archi...
Frances Klein
Frances Klein (she/her) is an Alaskan poet and teacher writing at the intersection of disability and gender. She is the 2022 winner of the Robert Golden poetry prize, and the author of the chapbooks N...
sheilanagigblog.com
September 19, 2023 at 11:23 AM
“One summer I was a living mandala, / folding t-shirts all day on one side of a table / while tourists unfolded them on the other. / If beauty is impermanence, my table and I / were the most beautiful couple the dock had ever seen” @fklein907.bsky.social “Resume” sheilanagigblog.com/poetry-archi...
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“Did you ever read Howards End? For Forster, you go on trusting at the risk of being robbed. Whatever you lose is ‘rent to the ideal.’ This is all a workshop I'm paying for.” —Joanna Penn Cooper, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis” https://www.facebook.com/629882237/posts/10161231387012238
August 6, 2023 at 1:46 PM
“Did you ever read Howards End? For Forster, you go on trusting at the risk of being robbed. Whatever you lose is ‘rent to the ideal.’ This is all a workshop I'm paying for.” —Joanna Penn Cooper, “The Itinerant Girl’s Guide to Self-Hypnosis” https://www.facebook.com/629882237/posts/10161231387012238
I'm just a girl standing in front of a new social media app asking it to show her how to find people 😂
Looking for my #actuallyautistic and #writing community peeps!
Looking for my #actuallyautistic and #writing community peeps!
September 19, 2023 at 2:37 PM
I'm just a girl standing in front of a new social media app asking it to show her how to find people 😂
Looking for my #actuallyautistic and #writing community peeps!
Looking for my #actuallyautistic and #writing community peeps!