He got some blisters
on the flats of both his hands
not used to weed weed
#Mastoprompt
#palm
#dailyhaikuprompt
#hoe
He got some blisters
on the flats of both his hands
not used to weed weed
#Mastoprompt
#palm
#dailyhaikuprompt
#hoe
Has anyone any recommendations for tools / styling for #ebooks? I'm looking at #asciidoc to #epub but I'm wondering what the "right" way to style the epub should be
#aeonglass #writersofmastodon #ebook #writing #writingcommunity
I have introduced a canonically straight character in Winter's First Verse! OMG! Where did she come from?
She's an out-of-town friend of a lead, so very much a bit character, but it's more rep than the straights have previously had in this series :)
Another annoying writing glitch I have is when my brain seems to fall in love with one particular word or phrase. It sneaks the word into every paragraph as a perfect match. Then, during revision I harvest the repetitions, always surprised at how my own brain pranks me this way.
3 days, 3 poems. Only one of them was actually good enough to post on socials, but it feels good trying to do this every day and let them come to me, eventually a higher percentage of them will be decent I think if I just keep doing it.
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 99ff (2.3.99-100) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/83176/
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It isn't enough for poems to be things of beauty: Let them stun the hearer and lead his heart where they will. [Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto.] One of the most famous lines in the Ars Poetica. (Source (Latin)). Other translations:…