Bob Merckel

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Writer | Editor in Barcelona 🇪🇸 and Provincetown 🏳️‍🌈

I have had more reinventions than Madonna
Things I don't regret doing
✅Leaving undergrad when I wasn't ready to finish
✅Moving to a new country (twice)
✅Getting a masters degree

It's never to late to start.
Starting fresh does not equal starting over.

Currently Reading"Demon Copperhead" Barbara Kingsolver
On Heavy Roation"Surrender" Maggie Rogers

TFW one of your exam prep students Whatssapps you 1st thing in the morning to share his better-than-expected results thanks you for all your teaching.

(for those in the know, he got a solid C2 on Cambridge Advanced -- he was hoping for a C1).

I could not be happier for him.

#efl #esp #whyweteach

What's a book that really nailed a place you've lived in?

I'll go first.

New Orleans in John Kennedy Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces"

Hi #running Mastodon

Let's talk about cadence

🏃🏻‍♀️ Is 180 spm optimal? Why? why not?
🏃🏻‍♀️ Do you worry about cadence in the majority of your training?
🏃🏻‍♀️ Better to hit a specific SPM for short drills or focus on it for longer stretches?
🏃🏻‍♀️ Is it overrated?

#marathon #cadence #fitness #Training #runforrestrun

The cement lounge chairs wish you all a happy February.

#rabbitrabbit #barcelona

Whenever they talk about Blinken, I always wonder what happened to Winken and Nod.

Today’s pet peeve: “Aspiring Writer”

✅ If you are writing, you are a writer. You are not an aspiring writer.
✅ If you are paying a writing coach to help & they call you “aspiring, FIRE THEM.

✅ Maybe you’re aspiring to be published.
✅ Maybe you’re aspiring to win awards.
✅ Maybe you’re aspiring to earn a living writing.

Fine. Those are valid aspirations. Go crush them.

Until then, you are still a writer..

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
#writingcommunity

Today's writing prompt ...

For the next 7 minutes, write as many phrases/snippets/memories that come to your mind when you think of "bicycle".

Go.

Create a bank of images to pull from the next time you're writing about something, whether it be literal or metaphor.

#WritingCommunity

Thanks to @FinallyFinnian for leading such a brilliant "Queering the Flash" workshop, and to @sagetyrtle and her always-inspiring Crow Collective for hosting it.

Such a pleasure to create alongside these fine humans. 💜🖊️

#WritingCommunity #lgbtq #flashfic

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Does Bob play video games? ❌

Does Bob like zombie movies? ❌

Is Bob into "The Last of Us"? 💯

I never expected it to be so good.

#thelastofus

Who doesn’t love a Sunday project?