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Fragments of Cloud Speech
Gathering
No Neutral Stories
There's a certain section of the population who tend to get furious when a tv show or film casts anyone but straight white dudes. These people tend to be right wing straight white dudes who twist themselves into knots to argue any casting that diverges from their demographic is political. Or some such nonsense. It happened with the Ghost Busters remake in 2016, so much so that one of it's main stars, Leslie Jones, was bullied off Twitter. It has only really got worse since then.
Beautiful Entropy
https://youtu.be/yIHC-ZMhmHM
Shaped by Ghosts
Thanks, Autocorrect
This was written in a slow single waltz
before the next one
The early bird catches the worm
CW: Very brief allusion to suicidal thoughts
The Power of Interlinking
In a recent post, Austin Kleon writes about how other writers sort through their work:
Red Ink: Stuart Buck
This is a series where I interview poets about their process in regards to a single poem. Today we have the exceptional Stuart Buck, a brilliant poet, illustrator and editor of the very strange and wonderful Bear Creek Gazette. Here is a poem from his new collection, Blue the Green Sky
Never Finishing
I enjoyed Cory Doctorow writing about the lessons he has learned over twenty years of blogging. He describes how quickly the writing practise adds up and how useful it is as an external memory: