#WhyWeWrite

[athenanfaymont]

🔥 Another nighttime dalliance: Slow burn is not just a cliché, it's a philosophy 🧘

Love not as lightning, but as architecture.

There’s a reason we keep coming back to the slow burn.

Not just because it’s romantic. Not just because we like to suffer (though… we do). But because at its core, the slow burn isn’t just a storytelling device. It’s a worldview. ✨

It tells us that love isn’t always a thunderclap or a glance across the room. Sometimes love is built. Quietly. Brick by brick. Sometimes love is a choice made over and over, across battles and betrayals and misunderstandings and time. ⏳

It’s a philosophy that says: Love is not the thing that hits you. It’s the thing you learn. It’s patience. It’s attention. It’s noticing. It’s two people who don’t immediately get each other, but who keep showing up anyway.

🌱 Slow Burn is trust. It’s knowing that if you build something slowly, it’s less likely to fall apart.

🔥 It’s tension. Because when characters don’t fall in love instantly, we get to watch them fall. In bits. In pieces. In stolen glances and shared silences.

🛠️ It’s work. Because it asks for vulnerability, for change, for self-reflection. A slow burn couple will teach each other things they didn’t know they needed to learn.

And that’s powerful.

We see this everywhere in fiction:

💞 Aziraphale and Crowley — literal centuries of ineffable tension. 💞 Kagome and Inuyasha — from bickering and misunderstandings to trust, friendship… and something much deeper. 💞 Superbat (if you feel it) — they start at odds. They grow through challenge. 💞 Feyre and Rhysand — from enemies to lovers, navigating trauma, trust, and love in a relationship forged slowly and carefully. 🌙💖 💞 Anne and Gilbert, Mulder and Scully, Pining Steve Rogers, Jane Austen’s entire bibliography — all slow burns at heart.

The slow burn says: You don’t have to fall fast to fall deep. That you can want someone before you understand why. And that maybe the best kind of love isn’t the one that erupts— —it’s the one that endures. 💖

[Hello Clio]

[evannanders-blog]

I'm beyond thrilled to have my poem "A Barista Training Manual for Essential Workers" in the #whywewrite fall issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.

This poem is dedicated to the baristas who sailed with me through holidays, doubles, clopens, birthdays, and brew room mid-shift drinks.

There are too many people to list, but you're all here with me, working the line. All the beautiful ghosts are here. Thank you.  ❤️❤️

[secretsinthedarkthepodcast]

🎨 What does it mean to live with a piece of art? Art hangs on our walls, unmoving—while time, people, and lives slip away. It bears witness to love, loss, and change, yet remains untouched. In my latest poem, I explore how a painting becomes more than just an object—it becomes a silent keeper of memory. 📖 "Even when I escape, they can't. I roam the world, and they sit, lights off, waiting for return." Art doesn’t just decorate our spaces; it holds our histories. It watches, listens, and stays long after we try to move on. #Poetry #ArtAndMemory #WritingCommunity #Storytelling #ThePowerOfArt #PoetsOnLinkedIn #CreativeWriting #WhyWeWrite #ArtThatSpeaks

[flowingpoetry]

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

-Anaïs Nin

[pothepandeywrites]

WHY WE WRITE

We write to speak In a world that tries to silence us To let them know, we've had enough

For children Paying the price of mistakes Made centuries ago

We write For people in power Who have turned a blind eye To those who need attention the most

We write for our only home Depleting each second Even right now, as I speak

We write for hope in this hopeless world We write For peace For love We write for change

[scriptwriters-network]

This Saturday's event: One-On-One with Writer, Director and Producer William Gilmore who will discuss a variety of topics, including writing and producing Reality TV shows and more. Click this link for more information. Don't miss this event! Join us!

William Gilmore is an industry multi-hyphenate jack-of-all-trades. He began his career in the proverbial mailroom, or in this case, the reception desk at MTV, where he answered phones inside the fiberglass rock of Rock n’ Roll. While at MTV, William managed to talk his way into a production assistant’s position on Jon Stewart’s first series, You Wrote It, You Watch It. Within a matter of weeks, he surreptitiously began submitting sketches to the writer’s desk and re-editing the executive producer’s packages. It was a gamble that paid off with a promotion in credits to segment producer, director, and writer but unfortunately no increase in pay.

For more information on this Speaker and to RSVP for this event, please click here.

[yeahimwiththeband]

all readers are good readers :)

[intermountainexile]

#writing #amwriting #whywewrite #writerslife #writer #writersofinstagram (at Fremont, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnCNnumF8et/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11bfzsahdjwyo

[howwildandwonderful]

Poem a Day 2021: 23/31 -- Scabs

[gasstationb]

Francine du Plessix Gray, who was born September 25, 1930, started her writing career as a journalist and worked as a freelance writer for a number of magazines as well as a staff writer at the New Yorker. She’s contributed fiction and nonfiction pieces to a number of magazines and has written several novels. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her novel, “At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life.” 📚 #gsbauthorquotes #gsbquotesfrancineduplessixgray . . . . . . . . . . #gasstationburrito #books #bookish #bookstagram #bookworm #booknerd #bookaholic #booklove #bookquotes #authorquotes #quotes #booksofinstagram #Bookporn  #literaryhistory #onthisday #dailyquotes #francineduplessixgray #whywewrite #revenge #todream https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkR3qWBk69/?igshid=1n4c9jymvi0ob

[secretsinthedarkthepodcast]

No one reads long poems anymore. So I wrote one—with four voices, layered like a fugue. What does love sound like when it's questioned, craved, and pulled apart? I’ve always felt like poetry could do what music does—especially when voices contradict and harmonize. So this poem? It’s a conversation between yearning, grace, doubt, and obsession. Here’s a glimpse: Y: Look over there, at how beautifully the moon shines G: What is love, if not born of worship? R: Nothing is selfless. B: Will it still be love if you gave it all to me? We’re all in dialogue with the moon. Some of us want to love it. Some just want to be seen. ✨ Would you read a poem like this to the end? #PoetryOnLinkedIn #CreativeWriting #ModernPoetry #FugueStyle #ArtistOnLinkedIn #WhyWeWrite #NaPoWriMo #nationalpoetrywritingmonth

[iguessaj]

Posted @withregram • @mixtusmedia How are you challenging and scaring yourself a bit with your writing? 📚📝⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #mixtusmedia #writerscommunityofinstagram #communityofwriters #ilovewriting #ilovetowrite #writinggoals #writerslifestyle #writershelpingwriters #writingsociety #writersunite #writersden #aspiringauthor #writersonig #lifeofawriter #writergram #instagramwriters #writerlife #whywewrite #writeeverything #authoradvice #writerproblems #authorquotes #sundaymotivation https://www.instagram.com/p/CBbpJyeAMB6/?igshid=18r6iz3jnvseq

[scriptwriters-network]

Next Week Event: One-On-One with Writer, Director and Producer William Gilmore. Click here for more information.

Event Date: Saturday, November 9, 2019 || Speaker: William Gilmore || Check-in: 12:30 pm ||

This event is with a Writer, Director and Producer who will discuss a variety of topics, including: writing and producing Reality TV shows, writing characters, creating a compelling premise and/or story, finding your voice, hooking your reader, script development, among other topics.

William Gilmore is an industry multi-hyphenate jack-of-all-trades. He began his career in the proverbial mailroom, or in this case, the reception desk at MTV, where he answered phones inside the fiberglass rock of Rock n’ Roll. While at MTV, William managed to talk his way into a production assistant’s position on Jon Stewart’s first series, You Wrote It, You Watch It. Within a matter of weeks, he surreptitiously began submitting sketches to the writer’s desk and re-editing the executive producer’s packages. It was a gamble that paid off with a promotion in credits to segment producer, director, and writer but unfortunately no increase in pay.

For more information on this Speaker and event, please click here.

[mommymogultea]

I had to do it! I love this quote! Here is why we write! #neilgaiman #neverwhere #novels #reader #books #whywewrite #writenow #readersgonnaread #writersgonnawrite #bookish

[author-kimberly-swartz]

Character flaws: Flaws are the one part of characters I relate with the most. They aren't perfect, just like me. The only problem I have with flaws are people who make their characters having a mental or physical disorder as their great flaw. Flaws are important, they can lead more into their story and the plot. I'm going to give an example from Marvel's Infinity War but also mention Guardians of the Galaxy, just so your warned. Peter Quill is arguably one of the best characters in my MCU and there is a reason for this. He is an underdog. He is the only human in his world out in space. He interacts with many other species of aliens and he never returns home. He is a human, with no powers, giving it his best to survive. Over Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 1 & 2, he learns that his team is the bets family and they can't let emotions control their actions. Flash forward to Infinity War, it's the big battle against Thanos and they group might just win bit Peter messes this up but getting emotional when Thanos tells him that he killed Peter's girlfriend and his adopted daughter. Peter loses it and it screws up the plan and they lose. He makes a choice to get emotional, even through the last two movies show that it's never good to let their emotions go and control their actions. Peter Quill is an amazing character even though he makes this mistake. He has many flaws but this was a very big thing to me. What's your favorite flaw and what's your favorite Marvel character? #authorlife #authorsofinstagram #marvel #whatwritersdo #peterquill #whywewrite #writeeveryday #flaws #characterflaws https://www.instagram.com/p/BvS-U_3HFaT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1orufi1prhc6s