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Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Mar 3

both & more --

Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Mar 3

#writing #RachelCusk

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Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Feb 27

Five planets in Pisces new moon -- talk about emotional overload -- #Astrology #Pisces

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Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Feb 13

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"…when I asked Tyler, who is 83, what clubs or activities she’s joined at the sprawling facility, her answer was an apologetic “Nothing?”
"Tyler doesn’t teach, attend conferences, participate in social media or belong to a writing group or a book club."
#writing

At 83, Anne Tyler Has a New Novel. She’d Rather Talk About Anything Else. (Gift Article)

While many of her contemporaries are playing canasta, she’s releasing her 25th book. There’s no mystery to it, Tyler says: Start on Page 1, then keep writing.

www.nytimes.com

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Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Feb 12

…were I a writer, I should allow only my heart to have imagination, and for the rest rely upon memory, that long-drawn sunset shadow of one’s personal truth.

-- Vladimir Nabokov Spring in Fialta

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Nabokov #memory

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Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Feb 9

The beginning of Hieroglyphic Stairway by Drew Dellinger
#poem #poet

Hieroglyphic Stairway by Drew Dellinger
it's 3:23 in the morning
and I'm awake
because my great great grandchildren
won't let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth was unraveling?
surely you did something
when the seasons started failing?
as the mammals, reptiles, birds were all dying?
did you fill the streets with protest
when democracy was stolen?
what did you do
once
you
knew?

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Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Feb 8

Another day, another woman. "A lawsuit filed by Letitia James, who is the attorney general of New York, and other attorneys general cited social media posts they say showed Elon Musk’s intention to stop federal funding."

Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Jan 23

Will have to repeat what I posted earlier:
Ann Telnaes, Michelle Obama, Karen Pence, AOC, and Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde 🩵

Blue-Eyed Susan ❌ @susandtom.bsky.social · Jan 23

Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Feb 5

Published and querying soon, includable?

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Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Feb 4

I have learned we do better when we’re not trying so hard—there is nothing more deadening to creativity than the grim determination to write a story. -- Abigail Thomas

#writing #WritingCommunity

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Cloud @hauntingblue.bsky.social · Feb 2

"Two people of opposing views can’t even talk calmly about the weather anymore — there’s climate change, you know. Unless it’s a hoax!"
#writing

David Wesley Williams @davidwwilliams.bsky.social · Jan 30

I have an essay in The New York Times Magazine. It's about dueling. Yes, pistols at 20 paces. Online now or in print Sunday. (Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/m... #dueling #essay #letterofrecommendation