I just read some NY Times "Dear Diary" stories of encounters in the City. I think we might all request our local newspapers offer something like this Metropolitan Diaries feature of up to 300 words from readers.

#flashnonfiction #creativewriting
#poetry

https://tinyurl.com/2p9xhcs6

First attempt at #writing #flashnonfiction: https://dinchamion.com/a-story-of-two-pains/

Wrote a new flash piece. Going to start submitting tomorrow. Also need to send around a piece that was just rejected…again. Sigh… #AmWriting #amquerying #FlashFiction #flashnonfiction

RT @pinchjournal
The Pinch is looking for your weirdest, twistiest, and pinchiest flash pieces! Submit today!!

https://pinchjournal.submittable.com/submit

#flashfiction #flashnonfiction #experimentalwriting #poetry #flash #submitwriting #thepinchjournal

Working on my newsletter is hands down the best part of my week. Everything I'm writing, reading, listening to, thinking, feeling, and making goes into it, and sometimes it actually turns out to be interesting lol.

If you feel like checking it out, you can subscribe below:

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#reading #Writing #newsletter #blog #art #poetry #flashnonfiction

We are the atomic weight of the things we carry. The mass of who and what we have been. An arithmetical expression of the elements that make up who we are.

https://www.duanetoops.com/the-past/

#reading #Writing #blog #flashnonfiction

To be a writer, to be an artist, is to heed the call of something nameless. To respond in search of an unknown tongue. To hear an answer in the language of silence.

To be a writer, to be an artist, is to be a prayer.

https://www.duanetoops.com/to-be-a-writer-to-be-an-artist/

#reading #Writing #flashnonfiction

Working on next week's newsletter, reading and writing are the only ways I know how to connect with the world and the only ways I know how to give back to it. If you're interested giving it a read you can subscribe below:

https://www.duanetoops.com/newsletter/

#reading #Writing #blog #art #poetry #flashnonfiction

We dream about starting over. Wishing for ways to make amends. But, “Fresh starts”, Ali Millar suggests, “are a lot more complicated than they look.” Sometimes things that look so solid turn out to be made of straw. Sometimes straw can be spun into gold. Sometimes what looks like a house of cards can withstand a storm, and sometimes we’re dealt a bad hand that we do our best to play.

https://www.duanetoops.com/the-past/

#reading #Writing #blog #flashnonfiction @bookstodon

Our lives are simply a series of iterative measures made in an effort to find the mark. The heart, like an arrow, is equal parts discipline and art. It requires an awareness that is open and without illusions. A self lost and offered-up completely. It demands an aim without an ego.

https://www.duanetoops.com/an-i-living-an-invested-life/

#reading #writing #flashnonfiction #blog

Some thoughts on what it means to be writer and an artist...

https://www.duanetoops.com/to-be-a-writer-to-be-an-artist/

#reading #Writing #flashnonfiction #blog @bookstodon

The real problem isn’t the mechanics of aiming. The problem is not knowing what you’re aiming for.

https://www.duanetoops.com/an-i-living-an-invested-life/

#reading #Writing #flashnonfiction #blog

There is no ideal-you. No Platonic realm of perfect forms in which to discover your faultless self. One that is clean and whole. One that is unblemished and unscarred by every tool that chiseled you into shape; every trauma, every misfortune, every mistake. It never leaves. We are sharp and splintered. Rough edges and exactitude. Fractured and complete.

#reading #writing #flashnonfiction

There is motion and there is motive. There is a difference between the two. There is reactivity and there is response. There is a space that satisfies a deeper need.

https://www.duanetoops.com/an-i-living-an-invested-life/

#reading #Writing #flashnonfiction #microessay #blog

I published one of my rejected pieces of #flashnonfiction in my newsletter earlier this week. It felt good for it to see the light of day I think I may put another one in next week's newsletter.

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#reading #writing #blog

Put out a Newsletter earlier today, first one in quite some time.

Decided to share one of my rejected pieces of #FlashNonfiction

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#reading #writing

I am reckless without a mark. Too taut. Too eager. Too clumsy. Too restless. Too ready to launch at anything that moves. I am something feathered captive too long in a quiver.

https://www.duanetoops.com/an-i-living-an-invested-life/

#reading #writing #flashnonfiction #blog

Building a tower of rejection letters...just got another. Oh well, on to the next.

#reading #writing #flashnonfiction

Love defies our logic and rationale. A dream of light, shining across 8000 thousand miles of darkness and sea. It makes perfect sense in that it makes no sense. And yet, there it is, glistening. Proof that when it comes to the inexplicable mystery of love, all our cumulative knowledge amounts to precisely fuck-all.

#reading #writing #flashnonfiction

...and another rejection letter...

#reading #writing #flashnonfiction