First, it's in your head...
Then, it's in the pen...
Then, it's on paper...
Then, after a million hours... it's here! 🙌🏾🎉🙃🥳🙏🏾
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I trust no writer who doesn’t read. In fact, I won’t ask when was the last time you WROTE something, I'll ask when was the last time you READ something? 📔
To the writer from a reader: Don’t water down one word. Require me to use a dictionary. Force me to think outside the frame. Allow me to see beyond the standard. Make me envious of your pen. 📔
I lose not one book sale by complimenting a fellow writer. Not one. I can celebrate you, throw confetti in the air in your honor, revel in my accomplishments, AND still hustle for my own success. Again, it’s not a library if there are only three books on that shelf. ❤️📚💫
Writers on the craft: Have you ever come up with the title, first, and then decided to write an entire story centered on that? 🤔✍️🏾
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Happy Day!🌻🤗So, when you go to the market, now, do you only go to “Self Check”? Or, do you still [or occasionally] go to the lines w/ human clerks for a human interaction?🧐🤔No wrong answer, just seeing a lot more people in “Self Check” these days… P.S. Don't forget the milk!
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Anyone have a recent publication, or an upcoming book that I should be on the lookout for? 🤔 Starting early and generating a book buying list for the holidays...
~Signed... a Poet who reads, reviews, and buys 📚...
Having the courage to write your story, in YOUR own way…. and in your most authentic voice—despite how others with receive or perceive you— is one of the most daring and courageous acts of noncompliance there is.
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Happy Day!🌤️ When someone says the words: “a LONG, long time ago”, what are you thinking? Twenty years? Thirty-seven? Over eighty? 🤔 I have one connotation. But, I asked a child, recently. And, their “long time ago” is MUCH different from mine. Time is funny. Enjoy yours! 😀👋🏾💫
You know that expression, "Dance like no one is looking"? Well, write as if the critics don't exist.
Even the ones who sometimes reside in your own head. ✍️🏾
Good Morn! 👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾
DON’T just sit there! You’ve got characters to kill and couples to reunite and heroes to torture and villains to overthrow and puppies to save and endings to mull over.
So, what I need to know is: Have you had your coffee and breakfast burrito this morn? 🤪
It does not advance me one bit to not applaud for your success. Your success is my success. It means there’s still an audience for our thoughts, feelings, words, and emotions. ✍️🏾
Happy Day!🥳 Friday is the transition day where I abandon one persona to morph into another. The Mon-Fri grind has its requirements, & so does the weekend. 🤸🏾♀️I put a little more seasoning on the weekend’s activities. I’m not clock watching, but by 4, it’s on! Happy Fri-YAY!😀👋🏾💫
Happy Day!🌤️Do you put soup in the starter, or the main course category? And, do you only reserve soup for winter? Also, do you mix saltines, or oyster crackers in the concoction? Soup, to me, is an event. Ready for comfort food. And, yes: I’m having this for lunch! Toodles😀👋🏾💫
Happy Day!🥳🙌🏾If you were ever considered “weird”, you would have been welcomed at my H.S. lunch table. Were we all “weird” [to others] & just didn’t know it? Were we all “weird” & misinterpreted it as, somehow, wrong, or bad? My weirdness is my most *redeeming* quality🤪B/U 🤸🏾♀️💫
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I cry because, growing up, I didn't see this enough. I cry because, currently, I still don't see this enough. I pray the next generation won't be able to say that. They are beautiful. They are talented. They are beyond extraordinary. ♥️
I don’t skim through books, rushing through pages. I take my time, gushing over every syllable. It’s like a subtle courtship. And, I like to be wooed through print. 😉💞📚
People may wonder why I constantly say, “Keep going. You’ve got this.” It's partially because one minute I was planning my life & the next, I looked up, and a decade had past. An entire decade. And, we only get so many of those.
This is your dream. So, pursue it.
Keep going✨
G' Morn!☀️
Have you ever seen a random shoe left on the side of the road & wondered the backstory? And, do you ever wonder where its partner went? Is that how your mind works? Do you create backstories for strangers you encounter on your travels? To the thrill of imagination!😉
Happy Day! ☀️ Wishing you the warmth of a kind sun. I hope Sunday charm finds you in happy spirits. Remember your greatness. 🙏🏾And, don’t forget: it’s not about perfection, but about progress and happy moments in your journey! Stay cool! 😀👋🏾💫
Happy Day!🌤️Saw this random quest., initially laughed, then pondered: Question: “Would you accept a sizable amount of $ to travel back in time & live before internet/cell phones?”🧐🤔Y’all be coming up w/ some good ones! And, yes I would. I’d still have 🖊️/paper, right?😉❤️✍️🏾 U?
Happy Day! 🌻 You’re enough. And, that’s not just a statement. You. Are. Enough. 🙏🏾Sometimes, I’m, entirely, TOO much. [But, that’s a conversation for another day.🤪] S’times, we edit, & question, & doubt, & stifle our dreams. Be your own cheerleader. You are… enough. 😀👋🏾💫
I want ALL of my writer friends [and, artists in general] to succeed. That will mean that the industry is still viable and that people are still reading books and watching films and enjoying poetry and attending plays, and...
Wishing you well. 🌺
Me: glasses askew, with a pencil stuck in my afro bun. There’s words on the page [I don’t do writing counts…]. The paragraph is in scribbled handwriting [cursive “doctor” script] and I’m sipping on detox tea, which makes me wish I drank coffee…
I'm a mess and having fun.❤️✍️🏾💫
I stopped worrying about being considered weird when I realized that it’s oftentimes the “weird ones” who get things done. So, when someone, now, calls me weird I re-write it in my head to mean “unique”. 😉
Here's to uniqueness! 🥂
Happy Day! 🌤️ If you can see this, know that, as you're scrolling, I’m waving in your direction and hope you’re enjoying an amazing one. 🤸🏾♀️Happy creating! All the best! 😀👋🏾
Happy Day! 😀👋🏾The more I take things off my plate, the more things get piled onto my plate. That ever happen to you? Well, today, I’m [metaphorically] ignoring the “plate” and will revel in calm and relaxation. Wishing you joy and bidding you a happy day! 🌻💫
G Morn!✨
Stop where you are & take inventory. There IS someone out there who is going to simply LOVE your work. They'll flip to the back cover & see your photo & wonder how you could dream up such stuff. And, then they'll tell a friend who'll do the same.
Optimist me, right?🥳
Happy Day! 🌤️🤸🏾♀️I hope the day encourages your smile. Allow the midweek energy to refuel you! Because of Monday, to me, it feels like Tuesday, or Thursday, or… Anywho, [Other than me, who says “anywho”?🤪] I’ll get it together by Friday. Until then, take care of you! 😀👋🏾💫
Happy Day! 🌤️ I’m not an influencer, but a writer who likes writing, a reader who likes reading, an artist who loves creating, and a human who adores Art in all forms… Creatives: “You Matter….” is not, simply, a phrase. You REALLY do… 😉🤸🏾♀️💫
Good Morning! 🤗
So glad to see you, All, here today... I've got my Afro divided into two Afro puffs and my glasses sloped down to the tip of my nose. My pen is three-fourths filled with ink and the Muses promise to cooperate.
I'm about to slay! 😆🙌🏾
Happy [Terrific] Tuesday!!!! 🥳🤸🏾♀️I hope the day finds you well. Keep pushing yes, Yes, YES on your dreams! I hope September is YOUR season! All the best... 👋🏾💫
Happy Day! 🌥️⛅️🌤️☀️ I saw a t-shirt that said: “I read past my bedtime.” And, I approve that message… 🙌🏾
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😀👋🏾I hope you're experiencing a rein of joy. 🙏🏾 And, I hope the day finds you well... 💫