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Wildflowers, a couple of springs ago, in the churchyard in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This is actually a very spooky spot in winter as it's the resting place of the allegedly Satanic Squire Richard Cabell - inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Baskerville legend - whose corpse is boxed in by a somewhat incongruous structure, a little pagoda-ish, but also not unlike the kind of public toilet you might find in a small British town, which sits on the south side of the church. Do NOT walk around it backwards as the Devil will bite your fingers and Cabell will release his hell hounds. Also, the church has been burned down by Satanists not once but TWICE in the last couple of centuries. (I wrote about all this in more detail in my book 21st-Century Yokel, and a couple of the scarier gravestones inspired bits in my novel Villager.
Wildflowers love dead people.
It should be illegal for any other concerns to enter our brains before #5amwritersclub
Got to admit, until very very recently I assumed this was going to be reopened half-empty and barely staffed and with all this stuff cut. Nice to have my cynicism about local gov stuff periodically kept in check
The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall.
Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber.
High drama and high CAMP!
Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops!
BACK THE BOOK TODAY!
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Good morning and happy Saturday. Think I'll do some workshop reading this morning. Though I'm up earlier than 5 so maybe reading and writing.
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A stained glass window consisting of rectangle and diamond shapes of turquoise, orange and purple colors.
Today is shaping up to be a good one.
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Oh no! I wish you swift plumbing service.
Two notebooks, one significantly smaller than the other. On top of the notebooks are three fountain pens, one significantly smaller than the other two.
I've had to downsize recently as I'm on the go more often. But the idea come regardless.
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Can't believe I didn't get any pictures of the snow yesterday. And just like that it's gone. What ephemerality can you capture today?
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Whichever gives me the best dopamine hit. 60 pages might not sound like much, but 18,000 words does. Look at all those zeroes! Or only two more pages left and I'll hit 200! Keep those writer juices flowing.
Hedgehog with with hat and staff under a full moon. Pencil and white paint on toned paper.
Or, if you prefer, here is a hedgehog withch.
A cartoonish depiction of a zebra with a red mane and tail.
Dream of how you want the world to be.
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Seeing a new book newsletter touting "genre trends: female anger" as if the justified rage and action taken to tear down the oppressive patriarchy is a fun way to sell books, just lights a different anger heat lamp inside me.
This is fun! Takes me back to college. Try reading it out loud when you hit the rough patches.
It's a real shame to feel sick and still be awake at 5. My body says it wants sleep, my brain is awake. Neither are going to help me type the words. Rude of them.
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You don't have to be awake at 5. But if you check for that hashtag or I think 6am has a crew too, you can see who's posting when.
I'll dm a link to the discord if you want to see when people are around chatting, doing sprints.
Good morning, #5amwritersclub
There's a whole group of people who participate in #5amwritersclub and since it happens all over the world there's almost always someone online writing.
There's also a discord.
The blade of a knife with the word "utopia" printed on it.
We can find it anywhere.
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1. blue starry sky with large blue planet, griffin, transgender glyph, goddess figure, and foglifter logo. text reads, "Queer Mythologies. Call for Submissions. Online Exclusive Issue 1.2. February 15 - April 15."
2. blue planet background. text reads, "Call for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, scripts, visual art, multimedia. foglifter.submittable.com"
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Been there. It never feels good at the time, but your work will be stronger for it! Promise.
A cartoon drawing of a goose with a monocle.
Don't let reality hold you back.
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A landscape of flat white snow with a flat blue sky, no clouds, only slightly broken up by trees and houses in the distance.
Sometimes we glimpse forever.
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Don't trust the puns in your dreams. They're never as clever as your dream self thinks.
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A blue plastic shard with gray heart shaped paw print lying atop brown grass.
Leave tracks.
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A turtle garden ornament made of gray cement with reflective eyes and blue and black dots of paint on its shell
Witness and reflect.
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An art installation consisting of tall silver metal poles onto which are "tied" colorful metal ribbons.
Remember that you're doing your best.
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I read this out loud to my spouse and he cackled. Then said, "Actually, 'Lox Pratt' would be too nuanced for her."
Especially the good ones.