“I read everything… One does learn a great deal about #writing this way… I’m still learning how to write. I don’t know what technique is. All I know is that you have to make the reader see it.” ~ #JamesBaldwin // ‘Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone’ https://buff.ly/2O2dlFw #writesky

“Cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of #writing to emerge.” ~ Pamela Erens #writingcommunity

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tranquil daybreak
mirrored on the still lake
fractured cumulus clouds

~ Brian Tomas // #Photography by Ole Henrik Skielstad / lonekheir.photocentra.com #vss365 #haiku

“If you’re writing a novel, write the blurb even before you start. If you’ve already started, write it now… This blurb will act as your compass. If you can do that, you know the core of your story. You know where to go if you get lost.” https://buff.ly/4c93Qig #writingtips

“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.” ~ Dorothea Tanning

#art #creativity

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evening star—
fold upon fold
the quiet blue hills

~ Mary Lee McClure // #Photography: ‘Rhythm Of Mountains’ by Mei Xu #haiku #poetrymonth

“Emotion is part of our essence… We crave it, connect over it. So when we expose our character’s raw emotions to readers, we open a private window into who they are, revealing their hopes, dreams, insecurities and deepest needs.” https://buff.ly/3zaLVtM @AngelaAckerman.bsky.social #writingtips

“One of the truly best things about #writing is that all that is required is a passion and drive to create what lives in your heart. You don't need formal training to create a powerful #story.” ~ Joy D. Fanning #writingcommunity

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she walks
under the soft stars
singing

~ Tanja @joy_pops / @joypops.bsky.social // #Photography: ‘Under The Stars’ by Ilari Tuupanen #haiku #vss365

“It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing or how they’re doing it. The practice of #writing fits each of us, uniquely… There’s no “good enough.” There is only you, right now, and whatever that is, it’s enough.” https://buff.ly/44GAZ2a #writingtips

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for the ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” ~ #VirginiaWoolf, A Room of One’s Own #writesky

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fragile moon…
losing myself
into the silence

~ Andrea Cecon, @andreochka.bsky.social // #Photography by Jerad Armio, @awayiflew.bsky.social https://buff.ly/e2q2t44 #haiku #vss365

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“A finely crafted story, whether a #shortstory or #novel, is a dance between the ear of the story, the narrative POV and perspective… Ultimately the work is in service to the reader—who’s chosen to enter into a relationship with the story and its writer.” https://buff.ly/3YwIC7X

“Pace is crucial… the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves… Films can help. Most #novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.” ~ Sarah Waters #writesky

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light of dawn
I inhale and exhale
the silence

~ Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐 @ericcoliu, https://buff.ly/3mm41Tq // #Photography by Craig Breakey #haiku

“Internal conflict… It’s the buried vein of gold—the why behind what a character decides to do and how they feel about it—and possibly even why it matters… You will create an essential connection—that’s at the heart of all engaging stories.” https://buff.ly/3vhumXG @DarlingAxe.bsky.social #writesky

“Who wants to become a #writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything… It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished…to cherish the oddities… to make something, to make a great flower out of life.” ~ Enid Bagnold #writesky

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winter ends —
a tapestry of stars
in the village pond

~ Hifsa Ashraf, @hifsays.bsky.social / https://buff.ly/rse6YCB // #Photography by Alyn Wallace / alynwallacephotography.com #haiku #poetry

“Write toward that moment when your characters surprise you… when they are so real that readers will want to follow them—the whole Robert Frost no surprise for the #writer, no surprise for the reader thing… It has to be what’s organic to the characters.” https://buff.ly/3NTe6m0 #Authors #WritingTips

“I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it.” ~ Hanamoto Hagumi

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It's midnight for me.
Is it midnight, too, for you?
The stars laugh and laugh.

~ Amy Billone, @AmyBillone // #Photography by Marcin Zajac, @mrcnzajac / marcinzajac.square.site #haiku #vss365 #micropoetry

“I think about that famous quote from John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars: Pain demands to be felt… Hope has to be chosen. Our #writing likely won’t heal the world, but if it makes someone else feel less alone in it, then maybe it’s done its part.” https://buff.ly/r0oc2iD #writingtips #writesky

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“I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.” ~ Carl Jung

#Photography: ‘Atlantic Ocean’ by Artur Pastor #monochrome

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a hint of jasmine
the rest
is moonlight

~ Caroline Skanne // #Photography by Yuichi Yoshimoto #haiku #vss365

“When you’re deep into reading a book…the images pass through your mind and leave a permanent impression…the images tell the #story. Ultimately, these are more important and enduring than the writer believes.” Don’t Write Scenes–Write Images https://buff.ly/2HQBAEt #WritingTips #WriteSky

“I would like to be small enough to hear the dawn breaking, the tulip opening, the sand as it shifts under each tide, the long dream of rocks.” ~ Theodora Goss

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a pebble
sinks into its silence
river dusk

~ Caroline Skanne // #Photography: ‘Loch Bà & Glencoe Mountain, #Scotland’ by Michel Liesegang / tafelzwerk.de / buff.ly/43pkR40 #haiku #poetrysky

“The best way to learn to write is by reading. Reading critically, noticing paragraphs… how your favourite #writers use verbs, all the useful techniques. A scene catches you? Go back and study it. Find out how it works.“ https://buff.ly/3RtuXdV @judieannrose.bsky.social #writingtips #writesky

“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” ~ Anaïs Nin

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Alt text: A calm, misty lake, with several trees reflected in the still water, under a night sky filled with stars