“Nothing’s getting reinvented here, but if you like tuneful, melodic distortion, catchy choruses and slacker joie de vivre, you’ll enjoy Creative Writing,” writes Jennifer Kelly. https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/796035020751011840/creative-writing-true-90s-meritorio #Music #creativewriting

Why do I write?
Because writing is thinking made visible. Because these words should exist.

I write because I lost someone & I'm grieving. Because I'm heartbroken & healing. Because it's the deathversary of 2 of my cats & 1 of the lizards!

I write because my hypnotist isn't available & I needed to guide myself through the pain. Because my (love) life coach asked "was it true love or a trauma bond?" and I'm still figuring out the answer.

I write because I'm tired of crying. Because I'm a creative & this is how I metabolize what hurts.

Kafka said a book must be "the axe for the frozen sea within us." I'm not chasing immortality. I'm breaking the ice.

Maybe someone's having a shit day & my words help them breathe. Maybe an introvert feels less lonely because I named their experience.

Simone Weil said attention is the rarest form of generosity. Arthur Ashe said do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

Right now, I might be shaping someone's thoughts.
So I keep writing.

#CreativeWriting

You know what...

*cracks open a beer, flicks the cap across the room*

...I'm dating a knight from Hell! Let's fuckin' go!

#zacharyfoxx #writing #creativewriting #inspiration

Wired to experience the world through words – talking to multilingual novelist, short story writer and memoirist Claire Polders

If you’ve read my memoir collection Not Quite Lost, you’ll know I am laughably inept at foreign…
https://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/wired-to-experience-the-world-through-words-talking-to-multilingual-novelist-short-story-writer-and-memoirist-claire-polders/

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Wired to experience the world through words – talking to multilingual novelist, short story writer and memoirist Claire Polders

If you’ve read my memoir collection Not Quite Lost, you’ll know I am laughably inept at foreign languages. So I greatly admire people who can navigate a language that isn’t their inborn tongue. Esp…

Nail Your Novel

This week's post on my author newsletter is a short story culled from my archives. Hope you enjoy it...

https://markcantrellauthor.substack.com/p/sinners-in-streaming-video

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Sinners in Streaming Video

Why burn books when you can incinerate the minds that make them?

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