There's a simple small line at the mouth of hell. It's not a big deal when you get there. It's just another step is all.
Lisa Taddeo, from Animal
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. We must purposely be kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart which goes out of itself gets large and full. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.
— Horace Mann
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WRITE 28 DAYS: DREAM POEMS - Day 11
Part of my Feb 2024 Dream Poems project.
A Small Undoing
It seems unlikely, but I spent last night in Thailand,in charmingly simple apartment rooms unlike others,a long rustic table holding space, its surfacecrowded with colour, pieces of things, the clutter of living,and our genial host is asking genial questions of usand you’re answering wildly, unaccountably. I bend forwardto hide my dismay,…
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this tweet sends me into hysterics
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There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.
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listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.
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Both are alive, but since that day they don't want to continue.
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Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried; from "A Letter To Love"
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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Got caught up in some frenzied doing. Now there's some undoing to be done. No longer available on B&N. All titles in the Future Quest series are now Kindle Unlimited.
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I didn't know what was wrong with me, but every day was worse.
Rebecca Makkai, from I Have Some Questions for You
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don't get me wrong, i love all the positivity around being aro, like "be proud of being aro!! love who you are!!", but we never talk about how hard it is to reach that spot. so here's to the aros who are still trying to understand themselves, who aren't proud of who they are yet, who are still coming to terms with their new identity.
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disclaimer: the worst interpretation of leon you'll ever see.
crazy for the idea of fuckboy leon who's an absolute douche at first but then u realize he's a giant baby softie boy who wants to hold ur hand
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You go back and back and back, back to the beginning. You start over, you investigate what went wrong, you rewrite. You bang your head against the wall. You drink, you cry, you laugh hysterically. You scribble your revisions on napkins and receipts and torn printer paper. You can’t find the way through. You learn there is no going back- that it was written the only way it could be written, and undoing it would require an act of god, the kind of thing you gave up on years and years ago.
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