Just discovered Goblin Market.

Love the idea of journals doing throwbacks! Thank you Stone Circle Review.

"how / one story becomes another"

"how / one story becomes another"

Do you think this applies to a novel?

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
- Stanley Kubrick

your shadow replaced / by a black wolf

Do you think this applies to a novel?

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
- Stanley Kubrick

"in the dark before I remember / or knew it was night"

your shadow replaced / by a black wolf

"in the dark before I remember / or knew it was night"

"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."

-Andre Gide

"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."

-Andre Gide

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

-Salman Rushdie

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

-Salman Rushdie

"Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord."

-Gimli, Lord of the Rings

"Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord."

-Gimli, Lord of the Rings

Shakespeare sonnet from 17th century found by Oxford researcher Dr Leah Veronese uncovers the version of Sonnet 116 tucked away in a poetry collection in Oxford.

"In Ashmole's version, parts of Sonnet 116 - also known as Let me not to the marriage of true minds - have been altered, and additional lines added."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

“[T]he aesthetic act cannot be carried out without some element of astonishment, and that to be astonished by rote is difficult.”

― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

As a writer who works in IT, this is super interesting. I think it's good to do what motivates you always.

Yes! My favorite way is to watch movie credits and write down names that stand out to me. Strange, but give it a try.

I joined a writing group that I now help out in as a community specialist. And honestly I learned to give feedback by giving feedback. Even feedback that doesn't work for you is valuable, I find, because it challenges what you've written and gets you to really think about your writing.

“[T]he aesthetic act cannot be carried out without some element of astonishment, and that to be astonished by rote is difficult.”

― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

I mean, that's comforting to hear.

Shakespeare sonnet from 17th century found by Oxford researcher Dr Leah Veronese uncovers the version of Sonnet 116 tucked away in a poetry collection in Oxford.

"In Ashmole's version, parts of Sonnet 116 - also known as Let me not to the marriage of true minds - have been altered, and additional lines added."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.”

– Margaret Atwood

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.”

– Margaret Atwood

I have a new hybrid (poetry and prose) chapbook I’m excited about and nearly ready to submit, any thoughts on best places to try?