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Henry India Holden
@henryindiah.bsky.social
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Author🏳️‍⚧️They/Them🏳️‍🌈💖💛💙ADHD | My 📚 in progress: CR queer/sapphic solarpunk & hopepunk eco-romance wonderfiction F/NB MCs 🌏Cast | I write to uplift by putting love and hope into the world 💟🌸💗www.henryindiaholden.com
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I rarely make statement about what ppl should or shouldn't do, but this one seems like a sound question anyone can ask themselves about their cast of mind: contempt or contentment?
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#love #understanding #peace #peace #healing #positivevibes #helpingothers
A sign with a garden fence and pink and purple flowers spilling over the top. The words are: contempt - "the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn. Or? Content - in a state of peaceful happiness. Eg: "they seemed more content, less bitter."
October 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Yeah, the world is kinda unhinged right now. But hope isn’t fairy dust. It makes the heart more loving, lighter and stronger.
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#love #positivity #romancebooks #hopepunk #thiswildandsoulfullove
The word "hope" in pink on a white background. An outstretched arm, holding a poppy makes the "o" in hope.
October 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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As writers, it's important that we keep thinking outside the bot.
A line drawing of a 60s depiction of a smiling robot standing inside an open box with the words, Think Outside the Bot.
October 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Never forget, as writers, we have more influence than we may realize. We have the power to put love, hope, goodness and a vision for a better world into words. Blessings to us all.

Read free on Medium with my friend link.

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#writing #love #hope #politics #freedom
2025 Is a Dish Best Served Bold
Shapeshifting between strength and gratitude, love and hope
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August 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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@ninageorgenovelist.bsky.social

This account attempted to catfish me by impersonating you. I reported it to Bluesky & posted a warning on my profile.
I knew I was being catfished when I saw your brilliant writing. It would be ludicrous to think that you would ask to swap pages with this unknown.
August 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Writers beware!

FlüsterndeNina @booksforeverr.bsky.social is impersonating author Nina George on Bluesky, offering to swap chapters. Nina George warns on her official site that this is a scam. The real author's account: ‪@ninageorgenovelist.bsky.social‬

#NinaGeorge #writing #authorscam #catfishing
August 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Lilla and I slow-hike the Pacific Northwest coast, holding hands. She touches leaves, calls to birds, breathes in green scents with bliss. “Isn’t this great?” Her smile is wide. Heat drops through the canopy, bringing moisture to her lip. I lean in—wait, I’m the writer! She’s kissing Sydney, not me.
A watercolor-style painting of a woman. A sunlit forest trail leads into the gentle foothills of the PNW. The woman leans against the thick trunk of a tall pine with the kind of smile of pure joy that spending time in nature elicits. Her strawberry-blond hair is short and tousled. She wears a blue T-shirt and backpack, with mountains, tall evergreen trees, and colorful wildflowers in the background. This is Lilla, one of the MCs from the eco-romance WIP "This Wild and Soulful Love." We can assume she is gazing at Sydney, a nonbinary climate worker and her lover and best friend.
August 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Is this not just perfect?

“You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun."

(from, Dogfish)
― Mary Oliver

#MaryOliver #writing #poetry #ecology #nature #love
A watercolor of sunlight in hues of pale yellow and white with Mary Oliver's poem superimposed: Is this not just perfect? “You don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun. And anyway it’s the same old story - - - a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason. And nobody gets out of it, having to swim through the fires to stay in this world. (from, Dogfish)” ― Mary Oliver
August 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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What big thing did I learn from my characters while writing my current romance novel? I thought I knew how they’d feel at certain points—but when we got there, they were deeper than me. I had to listen closely and humbly to what they were actually going through, and what they needed to say about it.
Watercolor flowers below the following text: What big thing did I learn from my characters while writing my current romance novel? While plotting their arcs, I thought I knew how they’d feel at certain points. But when we got there, I realized they were much deeper than me. I needed to listen closely and level up to understand what they’re actually going through, and what they needed to say about it.
July 31, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Finished my first draft and felt so peaceful--
for a day! One day, people!

#theend #romancenovel #writinglife
Colorful book cover with nature and city.
July 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Am I wrong? Tired of all the literary writing that laments the meaninglessness of modern Life. Okay then, take it as a given already. And then *make* meaning. Otherwise, this is just wallowing.
Close up of a chickadee standing in the open palm of a man's hand. A lush, green hedge is in the background.
June 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Just dropped my first Medium.com essay this year. It's a callback to my NYE message for 2025. It’s giving a soft boi summer debrief, and some ‘how do we heal / what do we do’ energy.”
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Read free by tapping the link.
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#hope #love #life #spirituality #war #philosophy #politics
Summer Surreal
Halfway through a strange year
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June 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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By moving from oppositional to additive writing, writing becomes a place of healing and integration.

#writinglife #romancebook #love #loveofwiting #writingnerd
June 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Sydney, one of the love interests in my book. Externalizing what they look like helps me write them. Interestingly, they keep subtly changing.

#writing #romancenovel #love #writinglife #characterreveal #WIPCharacters
An illustration of a White nonbinary person in their early 30s. They are standing at the beach, wearing a light three-piece suit with the blue ocean and a lighter blue sky in the background. Their hair is dark, short and wavy. They look friendly and a little pensive.
June 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Finding precious gems during garden cleanup: a perfectly blue Robin's egg shell. Always making sure we wait until after the end of mating season.
An empty Robin's egg shell in a hand, gloved in orange work gloves.
June 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Almost done with draft 1 and rewrites have begun. I'm learning that revisions aren't simply a flesh-out/fill in & clean-up job. They're an emotional, spiritual, psychological, and philosophical, emergent discovery process. So thrilling🧡🍊

#writing #romancenovel #love #writinglife #revising #editing
A fountain pen and notebook with the words "Revision is Revelation" laying on a rumpled white sheet, strewn with wildflowers.
June 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Just some of my family. Listening to chapter 49 and loving it, hahaha, because that's where all the good things are coming together.
June 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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To me, writing feels like patterning.
A feeling arises, then its resonance.
Structure lives not in plot as sequence,
but emerges as a relational field,
gathering meaning.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife
A pale green background with leaves with the post's words on the left. And on the right, a stylized typewriter with undulating paper, sitting on a beach blanket with muted orange and gray stripes and fringes.
June 2, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, or because everything she does is golden. A writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway." Junot Díaz

#writing #writer
A watercolor painting in muted shades of beige, gray and brown of a pensive girl writing in a journal with these words superimposed: "In my view, a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because, even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway." — Junot Díaz Dominican-American writer Professor of Writing Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2008
May 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Biden said "Don't question the motive, question the action," worked for him in politics, yet the bad guys won.
Now, let's admit that the dominant US actors are operating in bad faith. And let that motivate love and compassion—
for the victims, for the planet, for ourselves.

#love #politics #truth
Water color of a forest with words superimposed: Biden often said, that "Don't question the motive, question the action," got him through working with Republicans. Well, now we know how that story ends: The bad guys won. So, let's try the opposite: Admit that the dominant US actors are operating in bad faith and let our action arise from that knowledge. Not with hate for them but with love for those who are suffering and afraid. Let it not lead to distrust: Once we admit their bad faith, there is no need for further distrust because we have identified the evil. Let that remind us how necessary our love and compassion are— for each other, for the planet, for ourselves.
May 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Needed now: Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evening pink sky fading to dark blue. A deep green coastal forest sinks into twilight with the silhouettes of seven birds rising into the sunset. Plus the words of Emerson's poem.
May 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Congrats Canada 🇨🇦
& Australia 🇦🇺. And thank you, Australians 🦘💗and Canadians 🦫🐴💗.
The people of two major nations did not allow a move to the right. What a relief!
May 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Just wanted kindness, peace, equality, love, inclusion, hope, and diversity to grace my feed today, and add compassion, empathy, curiosity, and connection 💗🌹💗🌹💗🌹💗.
May 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Still not working, hehe.
April 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Today's challenge: not to work a stitch. Join me?
April 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM