Love this book. An easy read. With an important message.

My alliterative definition of “Story”: A character we care about confronts complex challenges created by a compelling crisis concluding with a climactic catharsis. #screenwriting

Feeling a bit frazzled? Go somewhere noisy and do the Sounds and Thoughts meditation

Blimey. Call The Midwife. Makes the John Lewis Christmas ads look steely-eyed and cynical.

Goodbye and thanks Call The Midwife. One of the good guys.

Why can’t the world be more Call The Midwife? 😢😭🥰

It’s never too late to start writing. The Never Too Late Award celebrates writers aged 60+ and offers £500 to the highest-placed entrant in our poetry, short story, flash fiction or novel categories. You don’t need to apply separately — simply tick the box when entering. www.bridportprize.org.uk

If you add Sting's bank balance to mine, I'm not skint any more.

Go Jade! Tell him. And not once has Matthew apologised for being so vindictive towards her. #Traitors #TheTraitors

The Reading Agency now endorses our book 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' amzn.to/2JIpu41 In US amzn.to/2JGyCWT Available via your GP as part of #ReadingWell Books on Prescription scheme. Pls RT. #mindfulness #ArtOfBreathing

Northern Lights over Greenland 🇬🇱

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” (paraphrase of Cicero) writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #books #reading

‘Why should we use all our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate.’ — Brenda Ueland writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

My thoughts too.

Jessie is just the best - so much care for Reece #Traitors

Our mental health is so important. If you’re struggling please reach out. UK numbers: Call Samaritans: 116123 National Suicide Prevention helpline: 0800 689 5652 The Calm Zone: 0800 58 58 58 Under 25? Call The Mix: 0808 808 4994 Under 35? Call PAPYRUS: 0800 068 4141 SwitchboardLGBT: 0300 300 0630

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas is also a great hashtag to check out on Christmas Eve/Day for some smiles. Some unlikely and fun sleeping places for people visiting others at Christmas. Here's one of my favourites from last year.

Your annual reminder that if you want someone to chat or have a laugh with over the Christmas period there will be lots of folk on the #JoinIn and #DuvetKnowItsChristmas threads. 🎄

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

This time of year is fucking hard. The holidays are a fertile ground for dark thoughts. Loneliness can drown you, even when you're surrounded by people. Take care of yourself. If you feel like you're drowning in darkness, please talk to someone. Friend, family, stranger. Anyone. You deserve love.

Happy Winter Solstice ❄️ Make sure to get outside today, make use of every bit of daylight we have and when the night comes, know that tomorrow will be that little bit lighter 🙌🏻 📸 Lesley Marshall

Kate Winslet is talking to @laurenlaverne.bsky.social on this morning's #DesertIslandDiscs! 10am on Radio 4

Door 21 of Shedvent: the Winter King, in his crown of green oak and mistletoe and red holly berries; here to welcome you to his hall. He hands you a bottle the size of your thumb, closed with an acorn stopper. "Here, on the heels of the longest night, is a gift of light: use it well. And shine..."

I love summer but the winter solstice is my favourite day The lowest point of the year, but knowing tomorrow the days will be on the turn This quote from Camus is not necessarily optimism or denial. But rather joy as an act of resistance in a world that seems dark & cold #quoteoftheday #solstice

Aren't you glad they released the E████ ███?

@lisaholdsworth.bsky.social watching MM - only just discovered it. Love the time taken to tell a tale, the fairly gruesome happenings & the killer explaining their motivation at the end. This ep you wrote… Red In Tooth & Claw. Got some stellar actors in. Seems a lot of actors cut their teeth on MM.

A glitter-ball party here - we all want Karen & Carlos to win! She has improved & excelled the most. And Carlos is so sweet… saying that Kaz makes him a better dancer. #SCD #Strictly

Right, she may have played for Birmingham City (and sadly not Aston Villa) but can you all vote for Karen Carney this evening on #strictly. Not least because she has the most beautiful Brummie accent, and she is an absolute star and deserves to win outright.

Who brings a tear? Who makes me want to do their dance? That’s my winner. Kaz! And Carlos. #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing #SCD

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Jim Jarmusch: “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/on-writing-4... #writing #screenwriting

The poets and the dreamers are remembered long after the despots are gone. Goodnight good people.

Support human art. Support the plurality of voices. Trans rights are human rights. We are all in this together. Resist what you know is wrong.

Carlos crying mid dance is new levels of peak Carlos #strictly #scd

Oh just give Kaz & Carlos the trophy ❤️ #Strictly

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Hear! Hear! Re feckin Boris Johnson. Just watched all 4 episodes. Had tears through most.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 26800: Querying is a slow, anxious process. Don't make it worse by stopping work. Start something new. Have fun with it. At worst, having a new project will take the sting out of rejection. At best, you'll have a second half-finished book when your first is accepted.

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BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! I'm not on social media much at the moment, working hard on my new book, which I feel sure will be my best one yet when it's done! In the meantime, I'm giving away signed copies of all my books so far. Follow & repost to enter, and say which book you'd like & why. Closes Dec 5!

Over at my YouTube Channel there are 11 poetry workshops, ideal for teachers teaching poetry. In toto, they've had 336,000 views. Looks like some people are finding them useful! www.youtube.com/c/MichaelRos...

Happy "WTF do you mean it's already November???" to all who celebrate.

“I’ve just had a lasagne!” will forever be my go-to excuse to get out of anything. #CelebrityTraitors

No fog on the Tyne today.

Well, this was a treat. Really enjoyed it. Rosie & Gemma were excellent. I got goose bumps at the end.

September highlights. #Acer #RokerPier #FaustoManifesto #FirstEverMedal for walking 30 miles for @cancerresearchuk.org

Happy Bookshop Day, an annual celebration of bookshops, booksellers and the joy of shopping local. Where would we be without them?