Mastodawn

Spoken Word - Not Shattered, Transformed

#spokenword #poetry #motivation #inspiration #mindset #selfgrowth #personaldevelopment #lifequotes #deepthoughts #innerstrength #resilience #growthmindset #mentalstrength #nevergiveup #keepgoing #staystrong #patience #focus #clarity #wisdom #motivationalvideo #inspirationalvideo #spokenwordpoetry #poetrycommunity #creativewriting #storytelling #lifelessons #selfimprovement #successmindset #positivity #overcome #discipline #mentalhealth

Dark Holme Publishing 4h ago

☕️coffee with Dark Holme

#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #supportindieauthors #indieauthors #horrorlit #darkfiction #creepyreads #indiehorror #booklovers #bookaddict #storytelling #writerslife #bookrecommendations #amreading #amwriting #booktok #fyp

Bich Nguyen 11h ago

“He decided to go back to Canada, and kudos to Crave who had the courage to welcome the full project...For me, that’s a great example of not being Hollywood and being authentic. Authenticity is something that really works.”
https://www.out.com/gay-tv-shows/jacob-tierney-heated-rivalry-canada

#entertainment #television #storytelling #Hollywood #romance #lgbtq #diversity #equity #inclusion

Hollywood tried to cut gay sex from 'Heated Rivalry'—so Jacob Tierney went to Canada

At a recent global film forum, international players stressed how Hollywood's conservatism is costing it storytellers like Jacob Tierney, who returned to a country with "courage" to realize his full vision.

Out Magazine

Rob Bignell, Editor/Author 11h ago

#storytelling #creativewriting #amwriting #words #story inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Create Meaningful Settings in ...

Create Meaningful Settings in Your Story

Setting is the story’s time and the place in which the plot unfolds. Sometimes it’s referred to as the “scene.”For example, in “Star Trek: The Original Series”, the setting typical…

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ConnectionWithWonder 13h ago

New one minute trailer for my storytelling show She’s Electric
(it’s about when I was the only woman electrician in the UK film industry - back in the 1990s)
#storytelling #TrueStory
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CqDcNH7oA8s

She's Electric trailer

YouTube

Hebrew by Inbal 17h ago

I just published something deeply personal… and I’m really excited to share it.

“How Everything Can Change in One Second” — a moment that shifted everything for me, and the reminder it left me with about what truly matters.

If you’ve ever had life stop you in your tracks… this one will stay with you.

👉 Go read it https://open.substack.com/pub/hebrewbyinbal/p/how-everything-can-change-in-one?r=2at7n8&utm_medium=ios

#personalgrowth #lifechangingmoments #mindfulliving #authenticity #storytelling

Bobby 18h ago

If your travel scenes seem like filler, this article will fix that. Discover how to make every journey full of tension, character development, and memorable storytelling. #WritingTips #FantasyWriting #Storytelling #Worldbuilding #CreativeWriting #AuthorLife #WritingCommunity

https://bmallane.com/crafting-compelling-travel-scenes-in-fantasy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Crafting Compelling Travel Scenes in Fantasy - Explore Fantastical Worlds

Learn how to craft engaging epic travel scenes that build tension, deepen character relationships, and immerse readers in your story.

Explore Fantastical Worlds

Content Catnip 18h ago

Book Review: Plant Magick: The Library of Esoterica by Taschen

Plant Magick is a collectors item of sublime and exquisite beauty. This is a treasury of art and plant history for lovers of nature, art history, folklore, witchcraft and magic. Psychonauts, spiritual seekers and shamanic explorers will find a lyrical home here as well.

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Spirituality, Esoterica

Publisher: Taschen

Review in one word: Esoteric

Divided into thoughtful sections and chapters, Plant Magick features visionary and universal wisdom from a broad range of scholars, witches, sorcerers and mystics about different aspects of plant magick, lore and practice.

There’s a diverse and broad exploration of magical practices using plants and fungi and how this is reflected in art across all ages and cultures. This is an ambitious ask and Taschen have delivered 100% with this stunning book.

If you or someone you know is a gardener, plant enthusiast, hedge witch or practising pagan or you simply revere and respect nature and plants – then this book will embolden and deepen your love and respect for these other-than-human beings.

The importance of plants as a part of religious and pagan rites, ritual, medicinal and transcendental spiritual purposes is explored through eye-popping and mind-bending art.

Each artwork is tactfully placed to add colour and depth to the informative essays that make up each chapter. The essays rather than being filler or less important than the artworks are a complement to them. The words are not wasted or superfluous but are instead brimming with lush and vivid detail about artists, movements and cultural phenomena throughout the ages. These allow you to understand the artworks in a much more profound way.

The sheer range of historical context explored in this book is exciting. Even if you casually flip through it, I guarantee that the hours will melt away and you will still be sitting on your sofa eyes glued to the pages, carefully turning them savouring every detail.

Bound in high quality hardcover and featuring gold inlay, Plant Magick is a part of a larger four part series by Taschen called the Library of Esoterica. Other books that might tickle your fancy in the series include Tarot, Astrology and Witchcraft. Personally, the only other one I simply had to own was Witchcraft and the review for this one is coming up on Content Catnip very soon.

Would I recommend this book to you? If you love nature, art history, folklore, paganism…then this book is a must for your collection – 5 stars!

Do you have this book or do you plan on getting it? let me know below!

Content Catnip