John-Paul Flintoff
@jp.flintoff.org
Writer and artist.
📚 Seven books in 16 languages.
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
📚 Seven books in 16 languages.
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
6. Not allowed upstairs. (Kitchen chair blocks the way, to preserve the stitches.)
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
6. Not allowed upstairs. (Kitchen chair blocks the way, to preserve the stitches.)
Medical suit like a baby-gro
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Medical suit like a baby-gro
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2/ Did NOT want to go to the vet
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
2/ Did NOT want to go to the vet
Hello - can you explain “outgrown”?
I just started a couple of blots (?) and am enjoying it a lot… wondering what may lie ahead?
I just started a couple of blots (?) and am enjoying it a lot… wondering what may lie ahead?
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hello - can you explain “outgrown”?
I just started a couple of blots (?) and am enjoying it a lot… wondering what may lie ahead?
I just started a couple of blots (?) and am enjoying it a lot… wondering what may lie ahead?
There are not many things to read quite as satisfying as this: thank you
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
There are not many things to read quite as satisfying as this: thank you
🧵12. Want to write your own micro-memoir in 30 days?
I'm running a course that teaches you to write, illustrate, and print a hard copy of your story, whether it's about family, career, or a life-changing incident.
Daily lessons delivered by email.
DM me for details.
I'm running a course that teaches you to write, illustrate, and print a hard copy of your story, whether it's about family, career, or a life-changing incident.
Daily lessons delivered by email.
DM me for details.
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🧵12. Want to write your own micro-memoir in 30 days?
I'm running a course that teaches you to write, illustrate, and print a hard copy of your story, whether it's about family, career, or a life-changing incident.
Daily lessons delivered by email.
DM me for details.
I'm running a course that teaches you to write, illustrate, and print a hard copy of your story, whether it's about family, career, or a life-changing incident.
Daily lessons delivered by email.
DM me for details.
🧵11 The TL;DR:
Avoid stating the obvious
Answer who/what/where/when/why/how
Use specifics, not generalities
Add attitude or voice
Combine headlines with captions
Let captions work AGAINST images
Make each photo do double work
Avoid stating the obvious
Answer who/what/where/when/why/how
Use specifics, not generalities
Add attitude or voice
Combine headlines with captions
Let captions work AGAINST images
Make each photo do double work
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🧵11 The TL;DR:
Avoid stating the obvious
Answer who/what/where/when/why/how
Use specifics, not generalities
Add attitude or voice
Combine headlines with captions
Let captions work AGAINST images
Make each photo do double work
Avoid stating the obvious
Answer who/what/where/when/why/how
Use specifics, not generalities
Add attitude or voice
Combine headlines with captions
Let captions work AGAINST images
Make each photo do double work
🧵10
Or you, in a corporate training room in 2003.
The PHOTO shows a professional scene.
Your CAPTION reveals what you learned about human nature that no manual could teach.
Suddenly your reader grasps why that job mattered to you.
Or you, in a corporate training room in 2003.
The PHOTO shows a professional scene.
Your CAPTION reveals what you learned about human nature that no manual could teach.
Suddenly your reader grasps why that job mattered to you.
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🧵10
Or you, in a corporate training room in 2003.
The PHOTO shows a professional scene.
Your CAPTION reveals what you learned about human nature that no manual could teach.
Suddenly your reader grasps why that job mattered to you.
Or you, in a corporate training room in 2003.
The PHOTO shows a professional scene.
Your CAPTION reveals what you learned about human nature that no manual could teach.
Suddenly your reader grasps why that job mattered to you.
🧵9
Or your father carving stone at school.
The PHOTO shows his artistry and attention to detail.
Your CAPTION hints at the decades between that moment and when he was dying, talking about what sculpture meant to him.
Now we see what he set aside to be a breadwinner, and what called him back.
Or your father carving stone at school.
The PHOTO shows his artistry and attention to detail.
Your CAPTION hints at the decades between that moment and when he was dying, talking about what sculpture meant to him.
Now we see what he set aside to be a breadwinner, and what called him back.
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🧵9
Or your father carving stone at school.
The PHOTO shows his artistry and attention to detail.
Your CAPTION hints at the decades between that moment and when he was dying, talking about what sculpture meant to him.
Now we see what he set aside to be a breadwinner, and what called him back.
Or your father carving stone at school.
The PHOTO shows his artistry and attention to detail.
Your CAPTION hints at the decades between that moment and when he was dying, talking about what sculpture meant to him.
Now we see what he set aside to be a breadwinner, and what called him back.
🧵8
This works for any photo in your micro-memoir.
Your sister aged 16 in sunlight. The photo shows her beauty. Your caption reveals the boys on bikes across the street, waiting for a glimpse of her.
Suddenly we understand something, about her power in the world.
This works for any photo in your micro-memoir.
Your sister aged 16 in sunlight. The photo shows her beauty. Your caption reveals the boys on bikes across the street, waiting for a glimpse of her.
Suddenly we understand something, about her power in the world.
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🧵8
This works for any photo in your micro-memoir.
Your sister aged 16 in sunlight. The photo shows her beauty. Your caption reveals the boys on bikes across the street, waiting for a glimpse of her.
Suddenly we understand something, about her power in the world.
This works for any photo in your micro-memoir.
Your sister aged 16 in sunlight. The photo shows her beauty. Your caption reveals the boys on bikes across the street, waiting for a glimpse of her.
Suddenly we understand something, about her power in the world.
🧵7.
The same technique appears in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall."
Two characters have a sophisticated conversation on a rooftop.
But captions at the bottom show what they're really thinking.
The gap between image and words creates the meaning.
The same technique appears in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall."
Two characters have a sophisticated conversation on a rooftop.
But captions at the bottom show what they're really thinking.
The gap between image and words creates the meaning.
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🧵7.
The same technique appears in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall."
Two characters have a sophisticated conversation on a rooftop.
But captions at the bottom show what they're really thinking.
The gap between image and words creates the meaning.
The same technique appears in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall."
Two characters have a sophisticated conversation on a rooftop.
But captions at the bottom show what they're really thinking.
The gap between image and words creates the meaning.
🧵6. The most powerful technique:
Captions that work AGAINST the picture.
Michael Rosen's "The Sad Book" does this brilliantly. The drawing shows one thing, the caption reveals something different.
It makes you look twice - and think twice.
Captions that work AGAINST the picture.
Michael Rosen's "The Sad Book" does this brilliantly. The drawing shows one thing, the caption reveals something different.
It makes you look twice - and think twice.
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🧵6. The most powerful technique:
Captions that work AGAINST the picture.
Michael Rosen's "The Sad Book" does this brilliantly. The drawing shows one thing, the caption reveals something different.
It makes you look twice - and think twice.
Captions that work AGAINST the picture.
Michael Rosen's "The Sad Book" does this brilliantly. The drawing shows one thing, the caption reveals something different.
It makes you look twice - and think twice.
🧵5. Better still:
Use a HEADLINE and a CAPTION together.
The headline delivers attitude or emotion.
The caption gives crisp, factual description.
One punches, the other informs.
Both work together.
Use a HEADLINE and a CAPTION together.
The headline delivers attitude or emotion.
The caption gives crisp, factual description.
One punches, the other informs.
Both work together.
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🧵5. Better still:
Use a HEADLINE and a CAPTION together.
The headline delivers attitude or emotion.
The caption gives crisp, factual description.
One punches, the other informs.
Both work together.
Use a HEADLINE and a CAPTION together.
The headline delivers attitude or emotion.
The caption gives crisp, factual description.
One punches, the other informs.
Both work together.