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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“At its heart, #voice is about style…style in the sense of a flow, a rhythm, a cadence to the #writing… We leave fingerprints all over our work. That part of you in your work is what makes it something that no one else can duplicate.” nathanbransford.com/blog/2010/05/ho…

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.” ~ Helen Oyeyemi #booksky

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“The best way to learn to write is by reading. Reading critically, noticing paragraphs… how your favourite #writers use verbs, all the useful techniques. A scene catches you? Go back and study it. Find out how it works.“ buff.ly/3RtuXdV @judieannrose.bsky.social #writingtips #writesky

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Indian summer— one last precious gasp before drowning in winter ~ Leon Tefft, Haiku Traditions (@leontefft) leontefft.com/books // #Photography by Eliza Brannin #vss365 #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“But it was still summer. I didn't want to sleep. I never wanted to sleep these days. Then I didn't want to wake up. I didn't want the leaves turning, the nights turning dark early.” ~ Louise Glück #poets #writesky

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

bus stop tea I sip the last drop of summer ~ Andrea Cecon / ‘Short’ buff.ly/hhEmz15 #haiku #haibun #3lines

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“There is no one right way to write a book and not even necessarily one right way for you… What really matters is that you give yourself permission to experiment and see what works for you for the story you are currently telling.” ~ Meg Pennerson cme.sh/1GN2aN #authors #writesky

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Write it down… and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions… I will simply open my #notebook and there it will be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world.” ~ #JoanDidion #writesky

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

humming birds around the feeder— the blur of summer weeks ~ Haibunation, @haibunation.bsky.social // #WildlifePhotography by Paulo Andres Garcia instagram.com/biiopaulo #vssnature #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Think of the story that you desperately want to read—for yourself—and then write it… There is a #story out there waiting to be told—a story nobody else on the planet has the capacity to tell—waiting for you to have the courage to tell it.” ~ Nathan Gower cme.sh/JcAUL6 #WritingTips

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"It was September, the season of the dog. Our parents didn't know where we were and didn't care. It was spectacular." ~ Tim Tharp #writersky

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

river bank – the smooth flow  of my poems ~ Ana Drobot // #Photography by Mark Bauer buff.ly/IZ0AJFk #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“I see many people with the desire to write but needing a plan… some prior guarantee. Write. If someone ever reads it, you did what had to be done. By focusing on the activity, it frees the #writer from the pressure of performance that limits our #art.” buff.ly/Qh2el38

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper." ~ Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

fat moon having swallowed up every star ~ Brett Brady // #Photography by Gary Blackman #haiku #3lines

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“If you begin to doubt your words as a #writer, your inner critic’s volume increases… Write without hesitation and judgement… Come back to the work and improve it at a later time.” 6 Steps to Achieving Zen-Like Writer Efficiency buff.ly/2nUHrzN @annerallen #writingtips

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Sometimes, when she’s out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name… in any known language.” ~ T.C. Boyle

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

staring through a dying tree— stars ~ C.X. Turner, @lover_poetic // #Photography by Albert Dros, www.albertdros.com #nightsky #vss365 #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Never fall in love with your first draft. Too many #writers with great ideas end up settling on an early draft when they really need to keep revising their story. I remember revising the first chapter […] over 50 times. It was brutal, but essential.” buff.ly/yh7tqbL

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Give yourself permission to write imperfectly. You can always revise, and you can always write something new. But there is no way to grow unless you start from where you are now.” ~ A.R. Gillespie #writingcommunity

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

fragile moon… losing myself into the silence ~ Andrea Cecon (@andreochka) // #Photography by Jerad Armio (@awayiflew) / awayiflew.com/portfolio #vss365 #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“#Writing is more than putting words on a page—it’s about creating a rhythm that keeps readers engaged. Long, flowing sentences can create a sense of immersion, while short, punchy ones build tension—guiding readers through calm and intensity—like music.” buff.ly/jwtsYdb

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

August dusk how slight the shape of the moon ~ B. L. Bruce // #Photography by Lianhao Qu #vss365 #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“I [learnt] being curious wasn't just a personality trait but an active practice… Because once you learn how to make curiosity a practice, you'll never feel blocked again.” www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/c… #writingtips

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“It’s worth the work to find the precise word that will create a feeling or describe a situation. Use a thesaurus, use your imagination, scratch your head until it comes to you, but find the right word.” ~ Isabel Allende #writingcommmunity

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

snagged on the power lines thick clouds and perhaps, a moon ~ Geethanjali Rajan (imaging an absent moon satori) // #Photography by Mark Bauer buff.ly/IZ0AJFk #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly… Accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.” Jennifer Egan on #Writing, the Trap of Approval, and Discipline buff.ly/3KdBIQ1 @brainpicker #writingtips

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.” ~ Michael Ondaatje

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

all day in flint clouds light was explaining itself in terms of water peat-gold at the edge of dawn brimming bone-blue pools at dusk ~ Catherine Baker, @catbake.bsky.social // #Photography by Mark Littlejohn / marklittlejohnphotography.com #tanka #micropoetry

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question… The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.” ~ Virginia Woolf

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“I don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most #artists create #art in order to explore, not to give the answers. #Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.” ~ Lucille Clifton

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“There’s only one true way to develop your natural voice, and that is to practice #writing… Work at being as honest as possible to who you are and how you say something… Write regularly… Rewrite… Read more genres, writers, styles.” nownovel.com/finding-your-writing-v…

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cosy bed, and to love and be loved in return.” ~ Starra Neely Blade

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

summer night— in the nascent darkness, your voice turns into moonlight ~ Ellie Krupich, @EllenKrupich.bsky.social // #Photography by David Smith, @photosbydavid1.bsky.social / photosbydavid.org #vss365 #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

summer romance the rose moon keeping secrets ~ Leon Tefft (@leontefft) // #Photography: ‘Strawberry Moonrise’ by Michael Wake #3lines #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” ~ Lao Tzu #meditation

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

river bank – the smooth flow  of my poems ~ Ana Drobot // #Photography by Mark Bauer buff.ly/IZ0AJFk #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“When you feel the #story is beginning to pick up rhythm—the characters… you can see them, you can hear their voices, and they do things you haven’t planned… then you know the book is somewhere, you just have to find it and bring it—word by word—into this world.” buff.ly/4WKFCuD #writingtips

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“Emotional reasoning plants readers in the character’s perspective, helping them understand the why behind a decision… of the character’s inner struggle and vulnerability, which fortifies the reader-character bond.” Compelling Inner Conflict buff.ly/3QMlxMG #WritingTips #WriteSky

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.” ~ Victor Hugo #writingcommunity

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

disappear just for a while... summer moon ~ Mueder Krieger, @muederkrieger82 // #Photography by Adam Clark, @oleadam #3lines #haiku

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Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“Creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into #writing.” ~ #AnäisNin buff.ly/3tUOeMF #creativity

Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire