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I’ve just started on a new short story that I may try and turn into a novel. I’ve been agonising about a daily word target and 500 feels about right. It’s manageable even on a bad day and I’m being more consistent with output and quality. #writing www.thecut.com/2018/06/if-y...

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Evening in Nara, by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1933 #Japanese #Art #Ukiyo-e

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The planet held a strange sense about it, as though a #latent evil awaited, just below the surface. Dylan had sensed this sort of thing before. A place too quiet, with little to no life, but the sensor sweep had said nothing about what lay here. He shouldn’t land, but he was going to. #vss365

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#Latent was having a hard time. Not only had its opposite and rival, Manifest, been named Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year, it was now being toyed with by a bunch of writers on social media. “It’s like there are these latent forces shaping my life,” Latent mused. #vss365 #vss #writing

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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs #FilmSky #Movies 🎬📽️ #moviechallenge 4/20

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“Vestibule.” You watch a man with an ‘Uncommitted’ badge shuffle out the elevator. Ding “Limbo.” You step out into a meadow wearing a stolen ‘Unbaptised’ badge. Behind you, your wife, now wearing your ‘Traitor’ badge screams as the elevator continues its #descent through hell. #vss365 #dante

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Yes, perhaps it's time to write surreal stories while the world spins out of kilter. #amwriting #writingcommunity lithub.com/the-craft-of...

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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs #FilmSky #Movies 🎬📽️ #moviechallenge 3/20

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A planarian worm on the internet explains that the nature of pain is subjective, and how it likes to be cut into little pieces, because, in the realm of immortality, a little pressure never hurt anyone. #vss365

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Cleave me in two … if you think you can hurt me. Break me down and scatter my body to the wind … if you think that will stop me. You think me only a simple #planaria. That you are better than me. But unlike me, please never lose your head. For while I’ll be reborn anew you’ll be dead. #vss365

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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs #FilmSky #Movies 🎬📽️ #moviechallenge 2/20

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They call us #creepers. Too fragile to stand tall and face the world alone. We find our own ways of seeking out the light. Sensitive to others, we grow where our support is strongest. Because when we feel secure we’re fast and fun. And flower together facing the sun. #vss365 #vss #writing

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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs #FilmSky #Movies 🎬📽️ #moviechallenge 1/20

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I packed up and drove into the wilderness because I needed to discover the world inside me, away from all the noise. If only you’d have come with me we could have discovered ourselves together. Then I would have returned to the world with you, instead of leaving it behind. #vsspic #vss #writing

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What are the #parameters for this #vss365? You need to use the word parameters and keep it to 300 characters. And how do I make it good? Get straight into the action and suggest a larger narrative. If I write it you’ll let me live? Depends on the number of likes. A gun clicks and is raised

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 20 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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Humankind is central to existence. Or so some believe. But what are we really? Compared to the largest living organism on Earth. One that seeks to sustain not destroy. What value intelligence if the intention is wrong? What value the word #mycelium without a human left to speak it? #vss365 #writing

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 19 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 18 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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Soaked, Alan waited by the ‘Welcome to Little Piddle’ sign, speed camera gun in hand. A loud engine roar woke him from a daydream about the pointlessness of his existence. His own number plate. His wife. Alan raised the gun. He’d always prided himself on being a good #citizen. #vss365 #writing

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 17 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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It was Tony’s big day. He’d been on the space station for weeks but it had seemed like years. Tony was a #tardigrade of action-the toughest of the tough, and today he would prove it. The first of his kind to space walk. Him not Tim! The airlock opened and Tony floated into the void. #vss365

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 16 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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He never went anywhere unless he felt certain he would be safe. They said it stemmed from his childhood and he needed to say #yes to life more. But they didn’t know that others wanted to hurt him. That he saw them at his window late at night. That he could hear them talking to him. #vss365

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 15 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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She clutched the #souvenir to her chest as the plane started its descent into Tokyo. Of all the omomori to let expire, it had to be the one that gave her travel protection. She would go straight to the temple and renew them all. Outside she could see a large flock of gulls. #vss365 #vss #writing

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What is #home for you? Is it the physical place you live most of the time, or the haven you run to to escape it? For some, home can be found in far away places. In a reconnection with who we are and a long forgotten vision of the world we once knew as children. #vss365 #vss #writingcommunity

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 14 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 13 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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I feel the ghost #train coming towards me. Sunshine fades to black and I am in hell. Shadows of animated corpses toil by torchlight. Men pule in pain. The stench of death. The #train carries on down the track and the sunshine returns but I will not forget Hellfire Pass. #vss365 #writing #vss

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 12 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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“You can talk to me, I’m a prole just like you.” “I think it’s better if we don’t talk don’t you?” “You can trust me brother. Are you happy since you relocated to Airstrip One?” “I couldn’t be happier.” “And your new job at the Ministry of Truth?” “I CAN’T #complain.” #vss365 #vss #writing

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 11 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 10 #booksky #writingcommunity #bookchallenge

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