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#FromTheArchive #CraftCapsule no. 23: Tayari Jones shares insights into building the protagonist of her novel, An American Marriage (@algonquin). “On the level of craft, it just didn’t work. For one thing, you can’t write a compelling novel about what someone doesn’t do.” at.pw.org/2BbSM6q
Craft Capsule: Every Novel Is a Journey
Authors share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: Tayari Jones completes the journey of writing her novel An American Marriage.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
As we approach Remembrance Day, our photograph #FromTheArchive shows the unveiling of the KRRC and RB memorial at Calais in 1951.
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#FromTheArchive #CraftCapsule no. 51: Novelist Emma Copley Eisenberg celebrates the magic of reporting as a research tool: “You ask the right person the right question at the right time, and they’ll tell you something that has never before been told in the history of the world.” at.pw.org/IRL
Craft Capsule: Researching IRL
“You ask the right person the right question at the right time, and they’ll tell you something that has never before been told in the history of the world.” Emma Copley Eisenberg celebrates the magic…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
On my Patreon, I just added my latest Doctor Who on BBC Video, the TV Movie.  If you are interested in just seeing my new TV movie video, it is $7 in my Patreon shop and there are other videos there too that are exclusive to Patreon you could buy too. https://www.patreon.com/c/fromthearchive/shop
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#FromTheArchive #CraftCapsule no. 79: “Against Universality, in Praise of Anger” by poet Chen Chen. In this capsule, Chen Chen breaks expected form to explore the question “When the term universal comes up, ask: Whose universe?” at.pw.org/AgainstUniversality
Craft Capsule: Against Universality, in Praise of Anger
The author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities embraces and develops a queer Asian American poetics.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#FromTheArchive #CraftCapsule no. 244: In “Writing on Grief: Robert Frost,” poet Ellen Bass reflects on the lessons Robert Frost offers us when writing about loss. Find an analysis of Frost's poem "Home Burial" and an accompanied writing prompt for your own poem. at.pw.org/4lunLwO
Writing on Grief: Robert Frost
The author of Indigo (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) reflects on the lessons Robert Frost offers us when writing about loss.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Combining both of #BirdOfTheDay themes for today
(Long Beaks on the Rocks)

1. Asian Wooly-necked Stork.
2. Black Stork

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #FromTheArchive #RockinTuesday #ClassicMono
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
#Pigeons for #BirdOfTheDay theme — so here's an old picture of my hand and a pair of pigeons on it

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #FromTheArchive
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#PWFictionPrompt: Try your hand at writing a scary story based on a real-life experience. Consider how to sustain suspense and incite fear in your readers. 🎃 #FromTheArchive: at.pw.org/TrulyScary
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Happy Halloween! 👻 We hope you have a delightfully scary weekend, and we'll be back next week as usual. We've dug out a classic #FromTheArchive for you: a Rifleman from KRRC (1936/7) with a seasonally appropriate friend.
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Derwentwater
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October 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This week's image #FromTheArchive shows exactly how we've felt a few times this week with all the rain! Lt Paul Luckhurst enjoys 'ablutions' on return from patrol, Crossmaglen c.1977.

We hope your weekend is a little drier!
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Autumn walk in the neighborhood

Transylvania, Romania
October 2022

#autumn #forest #forestpath #phonephoto #fromthearchive
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
#PWNonfictionPrompt: Think of a memory that continues to haunt you like a ghost and write a personal essay that uses a frame technique—the telling of a story within a story. #FromTheArchive: at.pw.org/FramedStory
October 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's photo #FromTheArchive is of "B" Coy London Rifle Brigade at Rushmore Camp, 1929.

Raised in 1859 as a volunteer unit, the LRB was at various times connected with KRRC, The Rifle Brigade, and The Royal Green Jackets. Its lineage continues today as part of the 7th Battalion, The Rifles.
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“When we take in our first breath, it is a promise to take on this human story... Breath is our entrance into story making—it is a promise.” #FromTheArchive In the 2021 September/October issue, Joy Harjo discussed the power of breath within poetry. Read more: at.pw.org/42zK3Xy
October 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This week's photo #FromTheArchive shows a very photogenic A Coy, 1RGJ in Cyprus in 1976. We don't have any names recorded for this photo - anyone spot any faces you recognise?

Have a great weekend!
October 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
October 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The road home

Transylvania, Romania
October 2021

#Autumn #PhonePhoto #FromTheArchive
October 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I’ve just shared something special on my Patreon for subscribers — a preview from an episode that won’t be seen for several months.

Money really does help what I do. It starts as low as $3/month 

Watch the exclusive excerpt here: https://www.patreon.com/c/FromtheArchive
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Syvfallene, Lillehammer for #RockinTuesday

Lillehammer, Norway
August 2021

#PhonePhoto #FromTheArchive
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Wellness Tușnad, a thermal spa in the middle of a small mountain town in Transylvania.

Băile Tușnad, Romania
October 2021

#BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #PhonePhoto #FromTheArchive
October 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
In an ongoing project of cleaning up the archives, I sometimes find fond memories. Morning walks in Transylvania are among my absolute favourites.

Transylvania, Romania
October 2023

#fromthearchive #morningwalk #foresttrail #mistyforest
October 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM