When you meet a stranger, who had the same reactions and responses to a book that you had, that connection makes it feel like you know them. It’s like their family in a way. There should be a word for that feeling. I came up with bookinship, but maybe there’s a better word. What do you think it should be? #booktok #book #booklover #bookliver #bookliver #bookmeeting #sharingbooks #readersoftiktok #bookfan #neologism

Either/or thinking traps, the creative imagination, prevents it from birthing novel ideas and forms. ##Artist##Writer##Creator##Creative##Creativity##artistsoftiktok ##writersoftiktok##CreativesOfTikTok##ArtistLife##WritersLife##CreativeLife##CreativeHappyLife##CreativeLifestyle##Novelty##Inspiration##noveltyinspiration##Exploration##NovelExperience##nonbinarythotprocess

My Art Retreat Process #art #artist #Miniatures #Paintings #TinyArt #TinyPaintings #MarkerArt #SharpieArt #ArtOfTheDay #beinganartist #OriginalArt #FineArt #OriginalArtwork #Arte #DailyArt #ArtDaily #DailyPractice #tuscany #Creativity #artretreat #artistretreat #artistresidency

So mind-blown by this part of the fantastic Locus Magazine review of Knife Witch. “It’s a beach read for all us geeks who grew up with a copy of Bulfinch’s Mythology in one hand and a Terry Pratchett novel in the other, with a History Channel documentary on Blackbeard or the PBS’s Power of Myth playing in the background, for company. In fact, this reader would go as far as to assert that Knife Witch is the book for all the readers who felt unseen as they tore their way through Treasure Island, or any of those books, full of adventure and excitement, but which felt squarely tailored for the cis-boys.” #booktok #booktoker #fantasy #fantasynovel #fantasybooktok #fantasybookrecs #fantasybookreview #fantasybookreviews #authortok #bookreview #bookreviews #bookreview2023 #knifewitch #susandirende

And one of the things when I turn 60 as I’ve visited all the places that ever lived in my life to gather the memories in sift through them. My visit to Williamsburg, where I went to college was a real surprise because the turmoil of emotions I put myself through mostly wanting things that I was sure I couldn’t have even before I tried, had evaporated over the years, not leaving the least residue. #lifelessons #memoir #artistlife #artist #writer #memory #lifejourney #nomadiclife #over60 #over60women #lookingbackatlife

How to be here on social media as a celebrant of the creative spark, this mosaic of humanity, all our graces and all our failings on display. #Creativity #MillionsOfCats #wisdom #philosophytok #insight #fyp #freshperspective #unlockcreativity #hero #perspectives #artisticvision #gainingperspective #artist #artistlife #CreativeInspiration #coaching #ArtistCoaching #ArtistEncouragement #Encouragement #writersoftiktok #Writer ##ImposterComplex #Motivation #ArtistMotivation #artistsoftiktok #fyp #fypage #WiseWords #ArtistInspiration #WritingInspiration #WriterWisdom #CreativityMaster #Growth #WiseWomen #DailyInspiration #DailyWisdom #Inspiration #writersofinstagram #WritersLife #CreativeLife #CreativeHappyLife #CreativeLifestyle #socialmedia

If you write stories, Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse is at the top of my must read list. Not because it tells you how to structure a story, but how to conceive of the heroes transformation in whatever story you write. ##writing##philosophy##philosophytok##culture##infinitegame##finitegame##finiteandinfinitegames##writertalk##writertok ##everydayinspiration##insight##fyp##freshperspective##unlockcreativity##hero##herosjourney##artisticvision##JamesCarse##CreativeInspiration##CreativeGrowth##CreativeJourney##creativejourneytiktok##transformation

No featherdusting! (A particularly egregious example of telling-not-showing). #featherdusting #story #storystructure #Writing #WritingIdeas #StoryIdeas #HowIWrite #WritingProcess #MyWritingProcess #pantser #MyProcess #Writinglife #creativeprocess #Imagination #FYP #WritingCoach #womenwriters #WomanWriter, #WomenWritersOfTikTok #Writingcommunity #WritersOfTikTok #CreativeWriter #playwright #playwriting #fictionwriting #writingtips #writingtip #writingtipsandtricks

To get your conflict-writing muscles warmed up, put two characters in a situation, each of them wanting something different and encountering resistance. Then see how it plays out. #Writing #WritingStories #Writer #WritingResponse #Writingcommunity #WritingAdvice #WritingConflict #writingtips #writingadvice #writinglife #WritingPlot #PlotTip #PlotTips #WritingTipsAndTricks.#WritersOfInstagram #WritersOnInstagram #WritersOnWriting #Womenwrite #WritingcommunityOfInstagram #Writingcommunity #pantser #PlotStructure #WriterHabits #WritingAdvice #writersoftiktok #Instawrite

And agreeable nature can be a block sometimes in writing fiction, because a necessary part of the growth of your main character is enduring and overcoming difficulties even disasters and you might find it easier to make things easy on them rather than hard. #Writing #Writer #WritingStories #WritingConflict #Conflict #agreeableness #AgreeablenessTrait #Creativity #CreativeStrength #masterclass #writingmasterclass #CreativityUplift #Uplift #fyp #writinglife #CreativeLife #CreativeHappyLife #CreativeLifestyle #Advice #transformationtuesday #transformation