“I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it.” ~ Hanamoto Hagumi

It's midnight for me. Is it midnight, too, for you? The stars laugh and laugh. ~ Amy Billone, @AmyBillone // #Photography by Marcin Zajac, @mrcnzajac / marcinzajac.square.site #haiku #vss365 #micropoetry

“I think about that famous quote from John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars: Pain demands to be felt… Hope has to be chosen. Our #writing likely won’t heal the world, but if it makes someone else feel less alone in it, then maybe it’s done its part.” https://buff.ly/r0oc2iD #writingtips #writesky

“I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.” ~ Carl Jung #Photography: ‘Atlantic Ocean’ by Artur Pastor #monochrome

a hint of jasmine the rest is moonlight ~ Caroline Skanne // #Photography by Yuichi Yoshimoto #haiku #vss365

“When you’re deep into reading a book…the images pass through your mind and leave a permanent impression…the images tell the #story. Ultimately, these are more important and enduring than the writer believes.” Don’t Write Scenes–Write Images https://buff.ly/2HQBAEt #WritingTips #WriteSky

“I would like to be small enough to hear the dawn breaking, the tulip opening, the sand as it shifts under each tide, the long dream of rocks.” ~ Theodora Goss

a pebble sinks into its silence river dusk ~ Caroline Skanne // #Photography: ‘Loch Bà & Glencoe Mountain, #Scotland’ by Michel Liesegang / tafelzwerk.de / buff.ly/43pkR40 #haiku #poetrysky

“The best way to learn to write is by reading. Reading critically, noticing paragraphs… how your favourite #writers use verbs, all the useful techniques. A scene catches you? Go back and study it. Find out how it works.“ https://buff.ly/3RtuXdV @judieannrose.bsky.social #writingtips #writesky

“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” ~ Anaïs Nin

Alt text: A calm, misty lake, with several trees reflected in the still water, under a night sky filled with stars

“We don’t often acknowledge how profoundly #writers are changed through the process of #writing [stories & novels]… To reckon fully with a character is to brush up against your own choices and contradictions and desires.” https://www.writersdigest.com/sarah-domet-you-should-always-write-for-yourself

“Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.” ~ Mike Rich #writingcommunity

at the top of the mountain a bird shows me how to translate my poems into the language of clouds ~ Barry Goodmann, @BarryGoodmann // #Photography by Marek Piwnicki #tanka #短歌 #micropoetry

“Structure holds stories together and helps them make sense and flow to maximize the emotional impact by the end… If structure’s the recipe—stakes are how and when we apply the heat… timing makes the difference between a masterpiece and a mess.” https://buff.ly/3zUGHU0 #writesky

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” ~ Franz Kafka

Winter solitude— In a world of one color The sound of wind. ~ Bashō // #Minimalist #Photography: ‘Arctic Silence’ by Patrick Ems / visual-decadence.com #haiku #vssnature

“I realized that good editorship […] might just be about bringing yourself as close as possible to the author, recognizing the effort they’re trying to undertake, and helping them realize their own vision instead of yours.” Rishi Janakiraman https://cme.sh/romance-writing #authors #editors #writesky

“I prefer #winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole #story doesn’t show.” ~ Andrew Wyeth

fading mist revealing a scene soaked in silence ~ James Welsh, @JamesWelsh3 //#Photography by Dave Massey / davemassey.photography #vssnature #haiku #micropoetry

“You’ll never be able to create an engaging plot with deeply nuanced and compelling characters simply by using a formula… One of the hallmarks of the #literary novel is experimentation with narrative structure—a significant part of the #art of the novel.” https://buff.ly/3LwzL2M #writingtips

“Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow…” ~ T.S. Eliot // #Photography ‘Brush Stroke’ by Ash O’Malley #poets

ballroom moon-- the clouds glide across the sky ~ 𝙻𝚊𝚏𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 (@lafcadiopoetry) // #Photography by Martin Rügner / ruegner-photography.de IG: @martinruegner_photography #haiku #vss365 #micropoetry

“The drafting process is about letting go so words can flow. Fixing and refining comes later… You might hit a point where you doubt yourself… Keep #writing and trust the process… Strong stories take time.” Write A Novel in 13 Steps https://buff.ly/Xc6yot4 @AngelaAckerman.bsky.social #writingtips

“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.” ~ Lisa Cron #WriteSky

Stay with me entirely, dearest, stay for me as you are. ~ Franz Kafka #Valentines #SanValentín

“There are no rules for a first draft. That’s the key to going the distance (and letting the #creativity in)… When you’re #writing that first draft, you’re writing for yourself. Later, you’ll edit for your reader. That’s when “the rules” are important.” https://buff.ly/PAT94mX #writesky

“The essence of plotting is obstructing desire.” ~ Meg Gardiner #writesky

rainy night I listen to the solitude ~ Andrea Cecon (@andreochka) / https://buff.ly/3EmpAsV // #Photography: 'Man in the Fog' © Stephen Colbrook #haiku #micropoetry

“Reading is one of my life’s greatest instructions. As I tell my writing students, good #writers are your best teachers… Learning to read like a writer can deepen our understanding of the #writingprocess and help us improve our own work.” https://cme.sh/hyper-evolution #writingtips

“Never are voices so beautiful as on a #winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.” ~ #VirginiaWoolf

I clutch the frail hand that once clutched mine—
 winter dusk ~ Anna Race Vosburgh
 // #Photography by Patrick Zephyr #haiku #micropoetry

“Writing a novel is all about making promises to your reader… Foreshadowing is a way to both make those promises and keep them. It can create cohesion in a #story, build momentum, and keep your reader turning pages.” https://buff.ly/12G3hqo @DarlingAxe.bsky #writingtips #writesky

“I was still water, held by my surroundings. I am now a river, carving my own path.” ~ Scott Stabile

light leaking from clouds pooled rain on the river-road a silver ribbon ~ Catherine Baker, @CatBake.bsky // #Photography by Alex Ugalnikov #haiku

“It gave me a whole new respect for many of my favorite #authors who silently bore lifelong diseases, pushed through & created powerful #art — & inspired me to speak up about the realities of being chronically ill.” https://writerunboxed.com/2019/02/26/yes-im-still-sick-writing-with-chronic-illness/

“The #art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.” ~ Alan Sillitoe #writesky

delicate trees in their winter shapes snow moon ~ B. L. Bruce, @the_poesis // #Photography: ‘Enchanted Forest’ by Ales Krivec #haiku #vssnature

“Presence allows us to absorb the textures of a place—the light, the scale, the silences—and translate them into emotional truth on the page.” Oisín McKenna https://www.writersdigest.com/the-power-of-presence-walking-the-roads-traveled-by-your-historical-characters #Literary #WritingTips #WriteSky

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” ~ Franz Kafka #amreading

An echo of now Surrounded by those stories Told by distant stars ~ Joe F, @joe—f.bsky.social // #Photography by Mikko Lagerstedt, @MikkoLagerstedt.bsky / mikkolagerstedt.com #nightsky #haiku

“It means writing the first page of your book—even if you cringe the whole time you’re #writing. It means painting—even if you hear your #innercritic screaming… It means putting yourself out there—even if you’re terrified of being rejected.” https://laurensapala.com/despair-creatively-blocked-pull/

“This business of being a writer is ultimately about asking yourself, how alive am I willing to be?” ~ Anne Lamott #writesky

the evening sky before darkness falls — murmuration ~ Andō, @AndoMcDonnell // #Photography by David Smith, for beautiful #Brighton prints → photosbydavid.org ❥ #haiku #micropoetry

“The drafting process is about letting go so words can flow. Fixing and refining comes later… You might hit a point where you doubt yourself… Keep #writing and trust the process… Strong stories take time.” https://writershelpingwriters.net/2023/11/write-a-novel-in-13-steps/ @AngelaAckerman #writesky

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.” ~ Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

playing a slow, soft tune winter stars ~ Rosie Mann // #Photography by Masaki Kaji #haiku #3lines

“Don’t worry about your talent or capability: that will grow as you practice… If you want to write a novel, write a #novel. If it’s essays… or short stories, write them. In the process of writing them, you will learn how.” #NatalieGoldberg https://buff.ly/3UrEzXJ #writingtips #writesky

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.” ~ Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

The stone day fractures A thin, silver ink Drips through the cracks Staining every hour #ও☉❢☉✑ #poetry #writing #micropoetry #blueskywriters #writingcommunity