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Los pinceles "pata de pollo" (雞距筆) de China de los siglos IV-V d.C. llegaron a Japón, donde se les llamó "cabeza de gorrión" (雀頭筆). Estos son del periodo Nara (710-792) de Japón. 
Shōsō-in #china #escritura #writing #japon #japan
they've dug the pavement up
with a grey-gap-toothed mouth
trenched the full street
pedestrians shifted to the road
under the flimsy protection
of orange plastic fences
massive spooled cable
giant cotton-reel
hi-vis men milling
amid generic vehicles
coiling cigarette smoke
sweetening generator fug
and none of us would know
if they were not supposed to be here
#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 4 April 2025 - lay
https://wdldiamond.blog/books-at-stories/coming-from-the-shadows/
The Coming From the Shadows Series - A Dark Fantasy, Horror Adventure Series that attempts to blend History and Contemporary settings in an attempt to create something new and mysterious
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.04 — What are some tips and tricks you use to convey strong emotions?
I think this is where my use of Grammar B helps me. Strong emotions, even things like anger, I think are associated with confusion and levels of self-doubt, which leads to cycles of justification or re-evaluation on the fly, quickly, immediately, erratically. or it just might conceivably—or very possibly since MURPHY in all things, right?—get worse, far worse; that type of thing.
The last sentence is a short example of a Grammar B run-on. It is non-grammatical; your high school English teacher would grade it a Fail. What it does is breathlessly fire off thought after thought in a continuing sequence, no sequence dependent on the sequence before. It flows. Like a speech. The reader never needs to backtrack to deduce meaning. Such a construct could be cut into individual sentences, standardized. But. Why? Rhythm of any sort drives the reader forward. It creates tension. All useful when writing emotion. A flood of description to overwhelm the senses, like the emotion itself.
Another construction I think works, usually mixed carefully with the run-on to break repeating rhythms, is telegraphy. I used that in the previous paragraph. Did you. Notice? Short, non-grammatical sentences. Missing a verb, a noun, or what not. It works like a drumbeat, focusing the reader on individual word or unsupported phrase meanings—and you get extra credit if you use a word with multiple meanings that could conceivably apply in context; emotion is confusion, innit?
In a sense, Grammar B is like finding poetry in prose. Used right, it uniquely depicts emotion. This is why I call myself a "prosaist."
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Dr. Nnmandi Bello was far from home. If one could ever consider home a place and not the memories? He idly wondered if he'd ever travel far enough to lose the memories.
“This is it. The old Reva ranch.” The driver drew his attention back to the here and now.
Nnmandi had to work to get anyone to remember where the ranch was. Now, after a quarter century of rain, sun, and wind turned it to just another stretch of Mexican scrub lands.
Another place that was just memories.
Hooked by Les Edgerton - an excellent read that covers key factors towards writing openings to hook your readers. Placing it in the same league as Stephen King's On Writing. Edgerton focuses on book openings and includes advice from some prominent Agents/Publishers. Highly recommended read.
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For the past week I've been writing a mega essay (probably ending up at 8000 words) about the habit of reading. I am planning to release it in time for world reading day. I thought it would take me longer to write the first draft, but I've been so inspired I might be writing a bit too much 
. Can't wait to share it!!
Sometimes you need to slow down and take in what's going on around you. #blog #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #sifaswriting
https://e8thespresso.blogspot.com/2025/04/poem-making-time-to-marvel.html
https://sifasevenwriting.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/poem-making-time-to-marvel/
#WritersCoffeeClub Day4: What are some tips and tricks you use to convey strong emotions?
Word choice and character action. There are many ways to convey a character saying "I'm disappointed in you."
A mobster holding a gun at a character saying "I'm disappointed in you" is different to a mother saying that to a teenager while she's distracted by a call on her iPhone.
#ScribesAndMakers Day 4: Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down?
My family is traditional Asian, so I was brought up to downplay any praise or demur any compliment that came my way. It's only recently that I've been able to take any sincere compliment in stride.
Something that I hate about online critic culture is the way that it discourages critical thinking, In the sense that part of being able to critically analyze a story is critical thinking. But what I feel like often happens instead is lots of people just buy and fully believe whatever their favorite online critic says. And because of that, don't critically analyze media beyond their online favorite personality has said about it
#WordWeavers Day 4: Whose writing advice would I follow?
I'll listen to advice, but it doesn't necessarily mean I'll follow it. A lot depends on who gives it. Beta readers, editors, If it's meant in good faith to improve. I've had work torn apart by those who didn't know/care about what was best for the story.
Interesting read: "Five solutions to link rot in my personal note collection"
https://writingslowly.com/2025/03/30/five-solutions-to-link-rot.html
#ScribesAndMakers 2504.04 — Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down? CW: self-analysis
Oddly enough, this devolves to gender roles and the confusion an autistic can discover in any social illogic. As a child, I quickly evolved into a listener, observer, and a pleaser with my shyness providing me an escape route from any confrontative situation—things I worked on (had to!) as I became an adult. Wanting to be an author is not entirely compatible with these personality traits regardless of gender—there is a definite forwardness and egoist nuance to insisting on communicating one's ideas—and I couldn't rely on others to meditate for me.
I got praise growing up, especially when doing well in school. Then again, my mother had me convinced I'd die if I didn't bring home top marks. I mostly got to hide from praise. It's not that I don't, didn't, like it, but I could better process it unobserved and generally make it appropriately and comfortably undeserved. A pleaser can't accept being pleased well!
Yeah, I got help. If you've heard of EST, I did that.
Now my reaction to praise is a Venn diagram of who, what, and where. If it is online, where nobody has to see me physically react, I'm a lot more copacetic with it. In person, it can be uncomfortable. I can still find ways to minimize the input but as I get older I'm better at fairly assessing my abilities. I do remember having this one fan at conventions that would greet me. She really wanted a sequel. Maybe she sensed I was shy, I don't know. But I grew to like her reminder.
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Lights, camera, but will there be any action at the Imperial on East 14th Street? Julian George dims the lights in The Movie Lovers.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-movie-lovers-julian-george
Image: Krish Shah
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2025.13: Introduction (Again!)
https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2025/04/2025-13-introduction-again/
video: https://youtu.be/2YIil1Bksns
#Writing #Speaking
