“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

moment of stillness... a snowflake gently touches my soul ~ Lena K, Dandelion Girl, @moscowdandelion // #Photography ‘Misty Landscape With Trees and Fog’ by Jani Riekkinen #vss365 #haiku #poetrysky

“Keep the #story problem center stage. Let your reader see, hear, taste, smell and viscerally feel emotional responses to the obstacle… Make those strong enough and it hooks the reader. Make them personal enough and they will not want to stop reading.” https://buff.ly/42HH6me

“I arrive in my #writing room at ten every weekday… That way, my muse always knows where to find me. She doesn’t have to go looking for me in the bars or on the beach or along the boulevards. She doesn’t always show up, true enough, but she knows where I’ll be.” ~ Tom Robbins #writesky

winter dawn a calling wren is trying to wake the sun ~ Ellie Krupich, @EllenKrupich.bsky // #Photography: "Winter Solitude" by Mikko Lagerstedt, @MikkoLagerstedt / mikkolagerstedt.com #vsss365 #haiku

“I had to learn how to trust that deep #presence, to look into the blank page and begin… The intolerable everything could, for a short duration, fall away… and out of the near #silence could come something new, something untold.” https://cme.sh/note-writEr @seventydys #writinglife

“Everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter… a book, a phrase learned.” ~ Anaïs Nin

subsisting on scanty sustenance from us — our humble Earth ~ Nitu Yumnam // #Photography ‘The Heart’ by Ole Henrik Skjelstad (@ole.henrik.skjelstad) / http://lonekheir.photocentra.com #haiku

“Let your characters do stupid things, make bad decisions, take risks… Let your reader be afraid for them… Give us something to worry about… If there’s a secret sauce to #NovelWriting —give your readers a reason to care about your story.” https://darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/stakes #writingtips

“They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.” ~ Cormac McCarthy

cold fresh snow blanketing my thoughts of the day ~ BA France (@B_A_France) // #Photography: ‘Winterland’ by Lauri Lohi, IG: @laurilohi / http://lauri-lohi.pixels.com #haiku #vss365

December fog we silently slip into winter ~ Rural Italics (@ruralitalics) // #Photography: ‘#Winter Landscape With Sunset And Smooth’ by Jani Riekkinen #haiku #poetrysky

“How can you arrive at a destination if you don't know how to get there? The trick, I soon learned, is to put your faith in your characters and trust them to take the lead… Just remember it's your story… mold it however you want.” https://www.writersdigest.com/when-pantsing-pays-off-for-writers/

“Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.” ~ Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See #booksky

blank page - the lone set of prints are my own ~ Rural Italics (@ruralitalics) // #Photography by Vassilis Tangoulis (@vtango_photo) / http://vassilistangoulis.com #vss365 #haiku

“Writers can evoke wonder by zooming in and slowing time… As with all great writing—the key is specificity. Every noun, verb and adjective is chosen precisely for the experience it will evoke in the reader. Wonder is all around us if we know how to look.” https://buff.ly/iLDaF6B #writingtips

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” ~ Jeanette Winterson #amreading

every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. ~ Sylvia Plath #writesky

“Focus on #writing and find your own voice… Once you’ve finished a draft… embrace the collaborative nature of the process, get good feedback… You don’t have to take every suggestion… Trust your instincts.” https://nathanbransford.com/blog/2024/01/how-to-balance-writing-to-market-and #WritingTips

“But she could only hear the heavy-laden branches moving up and down in the garden; a cow lowing; a bird chirping, and then, to her delight, the liquid call of an owl going from tree to tree looping them with silver.” ~ Virginia Woolf

before the doorbell crunching snow ~ Leon Tefft, @leontefft.bsky / Published in The Heron's Nest (March 25): https://buff.ly/ViXcKzs // #Art ‘Tranquil Path’ by Kaoru Yamada / kaoru-creation.com/work-1 #vssnature #haiku

“It’s not the fear of #writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well… Good things take time. And writing, like any craft, involves an apprenticeship period. It’s not a block. It’s a learning curve. Embrace the mess.” buff.ly/3OdygFV @DarlingAxe.com #writingtips

“Write constantly. It's like playing a musical instrument. You won’t get there if you don’t practice. And the other piece of advice is don’t listen to me. Or anyone else. A writer has to find her or his own way.” ~ Mark Kurlansky #writesky

quiet snow until peace is all there is ~ Ellie Krupich, @EllenKrupich // #Photography: ‘Solitude’ by Mikko Lagerstedt, @MikkoLagerstedt / https://buff.ly/RmoS94k #haiku #vss365

“What makes choice such a powerful #narrative moment are the stakes… There’s no option to ‘do nothing’ because the failure to act also has a consequence… Some of the most interesting moments in #literature are centered around this kind of plight.” https://buff.ly/VEEQ5c1 #writingtips #writesky

“Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them... The important thing is not to censor them. What they are talking about may not seem to have anything to do with what you as a writer are #writing about but it does.” ~ August Wilson

“The plot is only the framework. The true essence that keeps readers turning pages is everything else: emotional appeal, character motivation, and the protagonist’s relentless struggle toward a goal.” https://darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/writing-a-synopsis-101 #Synopsis #WritingTips #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

blue morning I pull the clouds back over my head ~ Elisa Bobbiesi, @wildolivewrites.bsky.social // #Photography: ‘Stepping Stones’ by Zack Clothier / http://zackclothierphotography.com #vss365 #haiku #3lines

“At its heart, voice is about style…a flow, a rhythm, a cadence to the writing…recognizable style… We leave fingerprints all over our work. That part of you is what makes it something that no one can duplicate.” https://nathanbransford.com/blog/2010/05/how-to-craft-great-voice #writesky #writingtips

“I don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most #artists create #art in order to explore, not to give the answers. #Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.” ~ Lucille Clifton

Autumn stories Beautifully lost Among the trees ~ Joe F, @frghtndmn // #Photography: ‘Komorebi’ By Martin Rak, @martinrak.bsky / #haiku #vss365

“We’re bound to each other by the smallest filaments of hope & possibility… Live the creative life you’ve built—then get back to #writing or whatever it is you do—we’re an #art-making species—no one but you can make your art.” https://poormansfeast.substack.com/p/please-stop-and-take-a-breath-please

“And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything… while the wind kept blowing… and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us from being swept away into the night.” ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

rainy night  I listen to  the solitude ~ Andrea Cecon / amazon.com/stores/Andrea-Cecon/author/B00955O0CA // #Photography: 'Man in the Fog' © Stephen Colbrook #haiku #poetry

“A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice lines the stroke of an artist's brush—is the thumbprint of her whole person—her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms.” https://nownovel.com/finding-your-writing-voice-5-points-to-consider #writingtips

“I turned the silence and night into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.” ~ Arthur Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer #WriteSky

Autumn stories Beautifully lost Among the trees ~ Joe F // #Photography by Martin Rak, @martinrak.bsky / linktr.ee/martinrak / #vss365 #haiku

“You’re not writing a finished book today. You’re writing words… Editing is where you make art. Drafting is where you mine the ore.” https://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/plan-smart-write-fast-finish-strong-my-guide-to-writing-a-novel-in-30-days @rozmorris.bsky.social #WritingTips #WriteSky

“It's the clichés that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise then should I call it love?” ~ #JeanetteWinterson

a quiet night in my cup a sip of stars ~ Tanja, @joypops.bsky.social // #Photography by Zack Clothier / zackclothierphotography.com #vss365 #haiku

“Write toward that moment when your #characters surprise you… when they’re so real that readers will want to follow them—the Robert Frost no surprise for the #writer, no surprise for the reader… It’s always about the characters.” https://advicetowriters.com/interviews/eyonsvan7j1vfli15h1od3xui5oja5

“The objective of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.” ~ Stephen King #writersky

morning fog… this urge to find my place ~ Hifsa Ashraf, @hifsays / http://hifsayz.wordpress.com/author/hifsaku // #Photography by Vanda Ralevska / mylenscapes.uk #vssnature #haiku

“When you’re trying to write your way through to that teetering stack of a finished draft, a quick injection of suspense is a great way to keep your #story’s engine fuelled. Suddenly, you’ll very much want to write on to find the answer.” https://buff.ly/2bB8HBH #writingtips

“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