"I'd like one of my colleagues to have a look at you. Would you mind removing any jewellery?"

"S-sure, Doctor."

I was surprised by the request, but removed my wedding band and silver earrings.

My doctor returned with a young man sporting a three-day beard.

"This is Mr Michaels," she said and stood back.

"Take a deep breath, please."

No chitchat. I inhaled deeply and as I exhaled I could swear he sniffed my breath.

"Can you raise both arms high?"

This was getting bizarre, but I complied. He definitely sniffed at my armpit!

"Doctor, what’s–"

"Does type II diabetes run in your family?" Mr Michaels cut me off.

"Yes, but the tests showed I didn't–"

"The tests will catch up in a few months." He turned to leave.

"Thank you Mr Michaels."

The doctor turned back to me. "Our early diagnostics have improved dramatically since we began hiring werewolves."

#microfiction #werewolves #writing

Colette: The most beloved French writer of all time

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230125-colette-the-most-beloved-french-writer-of-all-time

#writing #literature #writers

Colette: The most beloved French writer of all time

An icon in her native France, Colette's scandalous life and works still captivate readers 150 years on from her birth, writes John Self.

If you were outbid on Joan Didion’s sunglasses, fear not—you can still buy her apartment.

https://lithub.com/if-you-were-outbid-on-joan-didions-sunglasses-fear-not-you-can-still-buy-her-apartment

#authors #writing #literature

If you were outbid on Joan Didion’s sunglasses, fear not—you can still buy her apartment.

If Joan Didion’s estate auction taught us anything, it’s that people will pay a wild amount of money to own a piece of the writer. (Because, as we all know, both talent and ineffable co…

Rebels helper

The brief leaf bare to inherent a complexion, radiant lime devours to mind in those flowers, as it was dream, the unarming exposure sate, glossary perfect, played the ethereal boarders, cohort designer roses.

The zealous folds ripple the orange placed, curvaceous porous with impunity, spheres quest, the matrix threads a chill, sublime garnished corpus, the fasting floral ambiance, tables the wares grief.

Satellites navigation, mascaras a fashion swain, violet reprisal, my velvet revolver, closure the arrests reprisal. Aptitude the vagrant windows of dreamers, should failure invite your arrival.

#writing #painting #poet #mywork

http://adamblewett.blog/2023/02/02/rebels-helper/

Rebels helper

The brief leaf bare to inherent a complexion, radiant lime devours to mind in those flowers, as it was dream, the unarming exposure sate, glossary perfect, played the ethereal boarders, cohort desi…

Having offered a link to my "Words" page, I revisited it after 11 years and found it ...
still fun and with many still-live reference and research tools. But a few links needed updating (after 12 years!)

I found some of my old-favorite pages that are no longer with us, courtesy of the Internet Archives / Wayback Machine & Updated my page. Here's one I enjoyed while immersed in writing, teaching, coaching... I'll try to link my main page reference below, but hoping this will lead write to the somewhat-shrunken but still list lesson:

"How to Write Good" / gooder

#words #writing #language #grammar #linguistics reading #books

[ Words Reference Page: http://fenichel.com/words ]

#socialjustice

#writing

(https://www.thedailybeast.com/horror-writer-thomas-f-monteleone-booted-over-racist-transphobic-rants?source=arts-and-culture&via=rss)

Kelly Link on Ursula K. LeGuin and The Lathe of Heaven

https://lithub.com/kelly-link-in-praise-of-ursula-k-le-guins-genuine-magic

#books #writing #scifi #sciencefiction #LeGuin

Kelly Link in Praise of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Genuine Magic

Originally, The Lathe of Heaven appeared in two installments in Amazing Stories, a pulp magazine started in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback. Ursula Le Guin, born in 1929, read Amazing Stories as a child and…

Suffrage

My mean time appears with tutelage, intuitional or patronage of the thoughts, sublime seasons replenish to nourish a vale, hamlets concord a belies the expedience they superimpose the ingredient, patron to shoulder in jasmine tea.

Melancholy grievous submitting soul, burden to import rendition, a prelude forfeiting consul, big and fashioned out the forecast, replacing the sensory modem, exchanging fashion for cake, bodies and reliant machine made mediums. Kitting or threshold generates the appeased, islands impose temperate weathers, foreclosures akin to solitude in, assembled to host with the maintenance proviso.

Hours foundation, disclosure hosted to the suffrage of the informative abreast. Official rights verbal the modem, toils the connective spoils, replacing wishes regress all a ambitious solitude, regressions cake, the wealthier hath a patronage, injustice equal to modem without rendition.

http://adamblewett.blog/2023/01/30/suffrage/

#writing #painting #copyright

Suffrage

My mean time appears with tutelage, intuitional or patronage of the thoughts, sublime seasons replenish to nourish a vale, hamlets concord a belies the expedience they superimpose the ingredient, p…

What the River Teaches Me: Thoughts from Barry Lopez

https://orionmagazine.org/article/syntax-of-the-river-barry-lopez-book-excerpt/

#nature #books #rivers #writing #environment

Orion Magazine - What the River Teaches Me: Thoughts from Barry Lopez

Barry Lopez had no illusions about the seriousness of our global crisis, yet he also felt a deep conviction about the power of hope and the sources of

Another one I've tried to read a few times...and always put it back down

https://www.wired.com/2022/11/geeks-guide-fire-upon-the-deep/

#books #novels #scfi #sciencefiction #writing #writers #authors

‘A Fire Upon the Deep’ Is Mind-Blowing Space Opera

Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel also foretold a lot of social media discourse.

Stardust

#writing #painting #art

http://adamblewett.blog/2023/01/27/stardust/

Stardust

The eternal them, they see the captions of lasting to recapture those with starlight, earth galaxy or the galaxy with belonging to have you thus with orbit. Words pain to surfeit the empty heart, c…

How to refill a fountain pen ink cartridge from bottled ink.

https://shuttersparks.net/refilling-fountain-pen-ink-cartridge/

#HowTo #tutorial #FountainPen #ink #cartridge #DIY #writing

Spring Plowing
by Ted Kooser

West of Omaha the freshly plowed fields
steam in the night like lakes.
The smell of the earth floods over the roads.
The field mice are moving their nests
to the higher ground of fence rows,
the old among them crying out to the owls
to take them all. The paths in the grass
are loud with the squeak of their carts.
They keep their lanterns covered.

"Spring Plowing" by Ted Kooser, from Flying at Night. © University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Reprinted with permission

#poem #poetry #literature #writing

welfare

The eternal them, they see the captions of lasting to recapture those with starlight, earth galaxy or the galaxy with belonging to have you thus with orbit. Words pain to surfeit the empty heart, closures a bot of remembrance, as pretty lasting to hear you are nearer the age of inhibition, forecasting a manicured world, superficial intelligence kindly them or tears: Answers facing the complex juxtaposition, trials imposing time, they remain the fertile land, castles exposed to the gravity of dust building in time. Them my benign to end self absorbent inclusions, harms way is disclosures receipt made by me, necessitated those productive of knowing the world wronged; indiffernce was the familiar experience you exercise to word in a meal, revealed to matters of your id. The experience you receive by acknowledging the worth of disseminating youth for fearing exposing the concrete tears of reduction, matters the world in replication. Participate to respect the granted never wish to be granted, my parody is the dying star, fulfil your wish, or remain conceited to live with worldly contrition, void of all that is my ambition.

Copyright 2023

#writing

Writing is difficult when you dip your quill in your own personal inkpot.

https://notesandsilence.com/2020/01/04/in-the-inkwell-of-the-self

#writing #creativity #meditation #mindfulness #silence #zen #silence #peace

In the Inkwell of the Self

Writing is difficult when you dip your quill in your own personal inkpot. Ideas get glued up and go lumpy. They end up tied in tight knots. It then takes a tedious efforts to let them come undone a…

(draft)

Retrospective
by
Kenny A. Chaffin
All Rights Reserved © 2023 Kenny A. Chaffin

If I die at 81 like Crosby just did
then I don’t have much longer

The closer you get the
darker it gets and

the more important the past
and what might have been.

You’ll have to settle
whether you like it or not

Life makes no promises
and is never fair.

Kenny A. Chaffin – 1/21/2023

#poem #poetry #literature #writing #mywork

Started watching this last night...interesting

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space

Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms.

https://www.pbs.org/video/zora-neale-hurston-claiming-a-space-zpgqfr/

#anthropology #authors #writing #books #fiction #stories

American Experience | Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space | Season 35 | Episode 2 | PBS

The influential author and anthropologist whose work reclaimed and honored Black life.

Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers

https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/stephen-kings-20-rules-for-writers.html

#writing #rules #writers #advice #learning

Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers

Image by the USO, via Flickr Commons In one of my favorite Stephen King interviews, for The Atlantic, he talks at length about the vital importance of a good opening line. “There are all sorts of theories,” he says, “it’s a tricky thing.” “But...

CRAFT ESSAY
Prose Poems, Paragraphs, Brief Lyric Nonfiction

and one of my favorite Flash Nonfiction Pieces - Moving Water, Tucson by Peggy Shumaker

https://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/brief-lyric-nonfiction/

#writing #flash #nonfiction #literature

The Sounds of Words

The Craft of Writing

https://link.lithub.com/view/602ea77d180f243d6532f731i14y2.956/8b4b4b20

#literature #writing #craft