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All things books and writing. Sifting through all the writing advice to find a voice of my own. Posting the journey. #WritingAdvice #Writers #AmWriting #CreativeWriting

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tom Perotta - author of 'Election' and 'The Leftovers' talks writing. #Writing #WriterSky #ScreenWriting #NovelWriting #CreativeWriting

Tom Perrotta's Advice to Writers | Big Think

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jonathan Franzen answers the question 'How Do You Write' #Writing #WriterSky #ScreenWriting #NovelWriting #CreativeWriting

How do you write? | Big Think

YouTube video by Big Think

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Author Paul Auster on reading like a writer and the biggest trap for beginning writers. #Writing #WriterSky #ScreenWriting #NovelWriting #CreativeWriting

Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego | Big Think

YouTube video by Big Think

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Robert McKee - screenwriting seminar instructor, and author of 'STORY: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting'. Talking here about the state of writing in our age. #WritingAdvice #Writers #WriterSky #AmWriting #Screenwriting

Writers Make Sense Out of Chaos

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Insatiable as a flame, I burn and consume myself." - Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), Friedrich Nietzsche

that girl is on fire

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"I await God, hungrily." - Arthur Rimbaud French poet (1854-1891) A Season in Hell / Bad Blood

A dining place set

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Vole

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

George Orwell Valentine: Big Brother's Not the Only One With His Eye On You

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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Red and Orange Streak by Georgia O'Keeffe via DailyArt mobile app

What’s happening in this mysterious, glowing painting? Two broad arcs of orange rise from the lower left and shoot out toward the upper right, framing a bright yellow zigzag shape that seems t

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Come join your fellow writers in St. Louis for our regular Monday Meeting. Check out TheMonarchWriters.com for more info! #Writing #StLouis #STL #SaintLouis #WritingGroup #Meetup #Writers #WritersGroup #STLEvents

Writers Meetup - St. Louis 12/29 6607 Chippewa 63109 Bread Company 6PM - 8PM

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

#ReneDaumal #RenéDaumal #Writing #BookQuotes #Quotes #LiteraryQuotes

a knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. - Rene Daumal

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Darkness Pauls 🎃 @paulle.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Like years before, I've curated stories from 10 classic children's anthology horror books. They're perfect for Halloween. Read more at @bloody-disgusting.com

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Another 10 Classic Children’s Anthology Books Worth Revisiting for Halloween

Growing up, my Halloween experience wasn’t complete without ghost stories. Long before I could get my hands on horror movies, my Halloween thrills were largely found in books. Little did the parentals...

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Happy Halloween!

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Edgar Allan Poe's life story is fascinating. #EdgarAllanPoe #FictionWriters #Authors #Biography #Writing #Writers #WriterSky #Books #Horror #Gothic #DetectiveStories

Tragic Life of Edgar Allan Poe | Full Documentary | Biography

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

#HorrorStory #Meme #WritingMemes #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #HorrorFiction

six word horror story - evil shoes worn by evil baby

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

#Art #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #AuthorSky #Painting #Creating #Artists #Creativity #MeaningOfLife

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away - Pablo Picasso

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better - Andre Gide

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

#Art #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #AuthorSky #Creating #Meditating #Consciousness #ArtistMind

If you can expand the container you're fishing in, your consciousness, you can get bigger fish - David Lynch

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

#Art #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #AuthorSky #Painting #Creating

Light is the most important person in the picture - Claude Monet

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Take a look at this 'Horror Beat Sheet' to see whether the spooky movies you're watching for Halloween follow this pattern in their own ways. And let's see how analyzing these patterns can help us write compelling tales of our own. #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #StoryBeats #Plotting #Fiction

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Taking Your Writing Ideas Further With Beat Sheets

Looking at structures, or ‘beat sheets’ for stories. And since it’s Halloween, THE HORROR BEAT SHEET Bwwoooowhhooo! 👻

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

#Cats #BookCats #Kitty #Books

My cat Theo

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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Two Interviews with Sheila Heti

A look at writer Sheila Heti and inklings of her process.

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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Michael Chabon, Zadie Smith, and Ira Glass in Conversation

Writers Michael Chabon and Zadie Smith, and the host of public radio’s ‘This American Life’ talk writing and life.

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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Chappell Roan launches The Midwest Princess initiative in support of trans rights and LGBTQ+ communities

Chappell Roan has announced the launch of The Midwest Princess initiative which is an organisation launched to provide support and needed resources for trans youth and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Zadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides on Writing - A short video, but a good one. #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #Books #WritingHelp #WritingAdvice #WriterDiscussions

Zadie Smith and Jeffrey Eugenides on Writing | The New Yorker Festival

YouTube video by The New Yorker

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Started reading this book 'Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate'. So far it's spot on. By Anna Bogutskaya. #Books #Reading #Writing #BookSky #WriterSky

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Whenever we encounter students of writing, it's so hard to teach them to care, to care over and over, about each draft, each word, what something looks like on the page, how something comes together--the assemblage of a book." Writer Souvankham Thammavongsa in conversation with Sheila Heti. #Write

Sheila Heti | Appel Salon | April 25, 2022

YouTube video by Toronto Public Library

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

#WritingPrompts #AmWriting #Writing #WriterSky

guy in a suit with an exploding head

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #WritingHelp #WriterSky

a rainbow of boots

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"I put stories in envelopes on the subway... and hoped that... And I mailed them to people out of the phone book. I just wanted to feel like somebody was reading them--like it wasn't... That there was a possibility they had an audience, even if it was one random person..." #ParisReview #Writing

Sheila Heti’s First Time

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Halloween

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It's Spooky Season. Let's look at the #Pagan #History of #Halloween

The Frightening Pagan History of Halloween | Full Special

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

#Writing #WritingHelp #AmWriting #WritingAdvice #WriterSky #AuthorSky #StephenKing

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. - Stephen King

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I found this interesting, and well delivered. #Writing #AmWriting #WritingHelp #Storytelling #Fiction #WriterSky #AuthorSky

How To Write Any Story - Why Pacing Is Everything

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#Life #Quotes #Humility #Humble #Weakness #Books #Seneca #Cruelty #WriterSky #AuthorSky #BookSky #Philosophy

All cruelty springs from weakness. - Seneca

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#Life #Quotes #Poetry #RainerMariaRilke #Writing #AmWriting #LifeJourney #AmWriting #WriterSky #Authorsky #BookSky

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #AuthorSky #Drama #Comedy #PhoebeWallerBridge

Disarm the audience with comedy, then punch them in the gut with drama, when they least expect it. - Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#Life #Quotes #Ideas #Writing #AmWriting #WriterSky #BookSky #Authorsky #Freud #Love

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved - Sigmund Freud

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The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"In sum, we shall see how the peculiar properies of animal-naming stopped language from going entirely to the dogs." Ben Parsons, "Introducing Medieval Animal Names" (@uniwalespress.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social) 🧑‍🍳💋<chef's kiss> #Booksky

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I loved this book and hope to find more like it - #TheYearWithoutSummer documents the volcano eruption that blacked out the sky, changing weather around the world. And how this inadvertently led to the writing of the book #Frankenstein by #MaryShelley. #Books #Booksky #Reading #AmReading

the year without summer - 1816 and the volcano that darkened the world and changed history - William K Klingaman and Nicholas P Klingaman

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#Life #Quotes #Kierkegaard #Laughter #Writing #AmWriting #MoralOftheStory

the only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it. - Soren Kierkegaard

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#Love #Life #Writing #MoralToTheStory #Quotes #Inspiration #AmWriting #Writers

ir order to love yourself, you must behave in ways that you admire. - Irving Yalom

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Live Deliberately #Writing #AmWriting #Style #Whimsy #Character #Love

not right now babe, I'm cultivating whimsy

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#Writing #AmWriting #AuthorSky #WriterSky #ElementOfSurprise #Writers #WritingHelp

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
---William Golding----

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#Writing #AmWriting #AuthorSky #WriterSky #ElementOfSurprise #Writers #WritingHelp

ALL GREAT LITERATURE IS ONE OF TWO STORIES; A MAN GOES ON A JOURNEY OR A STRANGER COMES TO TOWN.
LEO TOLSTOV

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#Writing #AmWriting #AuthorSky #WriterSky #ElementOfSurprise #Writers #WritingHelp

THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING AND WHAT KEEPS ME INTERESTED IN WRITING. I CAN FEEL IF I’VE WRITTEN THAT PREDICTABLE OR BORING LINE, AND I WILL CARRY THAT AROUND WITH ME ALL DAY
PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE

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Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

#Art #Artists #Writing #Books #WriterSky #AuthorSky #AmWriting

art is not beauty, art is seeing things differently - Virginia Woolf

Punch The Keys @themonarchwriters.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

no artist tolerates reality - Nietzsche