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cathiemullen.bsky.social
International educator, lover of words and stories and trees and cats! Stinging Fly Summer School, The Mersey Review. Currently finishing a memoir.
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So much life! šŸ‘

A Poetā€˜s Life: a perch and a pillow! šŸ˜

ā€œHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.ā€ ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ The people you least expect, will be the bravest in all this. šŸ¦‹ (winter camellia in my garden)

We are an abomination of a species.

My year of Russian novels! Iā€™m loving this one! And then? Suggestions, please!

'Thoughts'! Oh my! Here's to that very first book @josephfasano.bsky.social and to the parents who treasured it!

I agree!šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the wholeā€”passages, moments, episodes, memoriesā€”til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.

An excellent summary - a story of disinterest, disbelief, denial, sexism and ignorance in the medical professionā€™s response to CFS/ME.

This is just great! Reading on my kindle but will have to have a paper copy! amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...

Thirty pages in and Iā€™m in awe! Beautiful, moving stuff.

Meet my mentor! Seriously!