“Habit is persistence in practice.” wrote Octavia E. Butler, Congratulations, #5amwritersclub! We made it to midweek! #amwriting #writingpractice
May 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
“Habit is persistence in practice.” wrote Octavia E. Butler, Congratulations, #5amwritersclub! We made it to midweek! #amwriting #writingpractice
What cult recovery taught me about recovering the inner space now targeted by capitalism for complete colonization.
#writingpractice #innervoice #digitalminimalism #cultsurvivor #attentioneconomy
#writingpractice #innervoice #digitalminimalism #cultsurvivor #attentioneconomy
July 23, 2026 at 2:10 PM
What cult recovery taught me about recovering the inner space now targeted by capitalism for complete colonization.
#writingpractice #innervoice #digitalminimalism #cultsurvivor #attentioneconomy
#writingpractice #innervoice #digitalminimalism #cultsurvivor #attentioneconomy
Tiny peek into a craft essay I've been drafting on non-western narrative structures. I keep oscillating between keeping it casual and being all lecture-y and experiment-y.
#amwriting #craftessays #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #personalessays #authorsky #writingpractice
#amwriting #craftessays #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #personalessays #authorsky #writingpractice
September 20, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Tiny peek into a craft essay I've been drafting on non-western narrative structures. I keep oscillating between keeping it casual and being all lecture-y and experiment-y.
#amwriting #craftessays #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #personalessays #authorsky #writingpractice
#amwriting #craftessays #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #personalessays #authorsky #writingpractice
This is the kind of niche stuff I slide down the drain into at 3 am on the weekends.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writingpractice #writerslife
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writingpractice #writerslife
September 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This is the kind of niche stuff I slide down the drain into at 3 am on the weekends.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writingpractice #writerslife
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writingpractice #writerslife
Here is another short story it's titled Love. Again please give feedback if you can. #booksky #writingpractice
September 17, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Here is another short story it's titled Love. Again please give feedback if you can. #booksky #writingpractice
November 29, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Short story poem link:
open.substack.com/pub/shawnell...
#writing #writingcommunity #poem #poetry #writingpractice
open.substack.com/pub/shawnell...
#writing #writingcommunity #poem #poetry #writingpractice
September 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Short story poem link:
open.substack.com/pub/shawnell...
#writing #writingcommunity #poem #poetry #writingpractice
open.substack.com/pub/shawnell...
#writing #writingcommunity #poem #poetry #writingpractice
Coastal Moments.
Some mornings arrive like a reminder: the world keeps offering new beginnings, whether we’re ready or not.
A quiet sunrise, and the thought that stories, like days, start in the smallest light. #writerslife #creativeprocess #amwriting
#writingpractice #storytellers #authors
Some mornings arrive like a reminder: the world keeps offering new beginnings, whether we’re ready or not.
A quiet sunrise, and the thought that stories, like days, start in the smallest light. #writerslife #creativeprocess #amwriting
#writingpractice #storytellers #authors
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Coastal Moments.
Some mornings arrive like a reminder: the world keeps offering new beginnings, whether we’re ready or not.
A quiet sunrise, and the thought that stories, like days, start in the smallest light. #writerslife #creativeprocess #amwriting
#writingpractice #storytellers #authors
Some mornings arrive like a reminder: the world keeps offering new beginnings, whether we’re ready or not.
A quiet sunrise, and the thought that stories, like days, start in the smallest light. #writerslife #creativeprocess #amwriting
#writingpractice #storytellers #authors
Five-minute writing practice: a comedy scene, at a bus stop, involving a red umbrella, using the word “almost.” Let the constraints spark your next choice.
#CreativePractice #WritingPractice
#CreativePractice #WritingPractice
September 24, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Five-minute writing practice: a comedy scene, at a bus stop, involving a red umbrella, using the word “almost.” Let the constraints spark your next choice.
#CreativePractice #WritingPractice
#CreativePractice #WritingPractice
Here is a short story from the pov of the monster under the bed please give feedback #booksky #writingpractice
September 12, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Here is a short story from the pov of the monster under the bed please give feedback #booksky #writingpractice
Try this five-minute writing prompt:
Genre: mystery
Location: a closed café
Object: one red glove
Word: “return”
Write one scene. Let the constraints open a door.
#WritingPractice #CreativePractice
Genre: mystery
Location: a closed café
Object: one red glove
Word: “return”
Write one scene. Let the constraints open a door.
#WritingPractice #CreativePractice
September 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Try this five-minute writing prompt:
Genre: mystery
Location: a closed café
Object: one red glove
Word: “return”
Write one scene. Let the constraints open a door.
#WritingPractice #CreativePractice
Genre: mystery
Location: a closed café
Object: one red glove
Word: “return”
Write one scene. Let the constraints open a door.
#WritingPractice #CreativePractice
More writing practice hope you like, and please give feedback as that will help.
#booksky #writingpractice
#booksky #writingpractice
September 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM
More writing practice hope you like, and please give feedback as that will help.
#booksky #writingpractice
#booksky #writingpractice
Running out my pen on the classics. #WritingPractice
March 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Running out my pen on the classics. #WritingPractice
Hello #5amwritersclub. In the little paddock of desi life, aunties are inevitable. Aunties are unavoidable. A little ode to being surveilled by women unrelated to me.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice #writesky #essays #litfic
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice #writesky #essays #litfic
The Not Really Aunties
A youth of being surveilled, shamed, and kept safe by women not related to me.
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August 17, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Hello #5amwritersclub. In the little paddock of desi life, aunties are inevitable. Aunties are unavoidable. A little ode to being surveilled by women unrelated to me.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice #writesky #essays #litfic
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice #writesky #essays #litfic
This week, LeGuin wants us to play with narrative POV and flashback, so here it is! The Old Woman, Part 1. #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #UrsulaKLeGuin #WritingPractice
theunglamorouspart.substack.com/p/the-old-wo...
theunglamorouspart.substack.com/p/the-old-wo...
The Old Woman, Part 1
If you want a job done right....
theunglamorouspart.substack.com
July 3, 2026 at 12:40 AM
This week, LeGuin wants us to play with narrative POV and flashback, so here it is! The Old Woman, Part 1. #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #UrsulaKLeGuin #WritingPractice
theunglamorouspart.substack.com/p/the-old-wo...
theunglamorouspart.substack.com/p/the-old-wo...
Here's a short story based on my previously posted illustration if anyone cares for a quick read 💀💜
www.glintinthedarkart.com/short-storie...
#writing #shortstories #freewriting #writingpractice #justforfun #fiction #creativeexpression #writer
www.glintinthedarkart.com/short-storie...
#writing #shortstories #freewriting #writingpractice #justforfun #fiction #creativeexpression #writer
The Swan of the Lake — Glint in the Dark
Today, a battle took place. A great battle, one for the ages or at least, that was how it would be described in the years to come. But, this knight no longer revelled in the talk of honor ...
www.glintinthedarkart.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here's a short story based on my previously posted illustration if anyone cares for a quick read 💀💜
www.glintinthedarkart.com/short-storie...
#writing #shortstories #freewriting #writingpractice #justforfun #fiction #creativeexpression #writer
www.glintinthedarkart.com/short-storie...
#writing #shortstories #freewriting #writingpractice #justforfun #fiction #creativeexpression #writer
My morning pages don't care if I'm brilliant. They only care that I show up. This might be the most radical relationship in my life. #WritingPractice #BlankPage
May 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
My morning pages don't care if I'm brilliant. They only care that I show up. This might be the most radical relationship in my life. #WritingPractice #BlankPage
Choose a genre, a place, an object and one word. Write for five minutes. Constraints don’t shrink creativity; they give it somewhere to begin.
#WritingPractice #CreativePractice
#WritingPractice #CreativePractice
September 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Choose a genre, a place, an object and one word. Write for five minutes. Constraints don’t shrink creativity; they give it somewhere to begin.
#WritingPractice #CreativePractice
#WritingPractice #CreativePractice
DONE for the night! Yes 🙌🏾 I can now stretch this back, take meds, and get in the bed. Today drained me.
#AmWriting
#WritingPractice
#AmWriting
#WritingPractice
July 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
DONE for the night! Yes 🙌🏾 I can now stretch this back, take meds, and get in the bed. Today drained me.
#AmWriting
#WritingPractice
#AmWriting
#WritingPractice
When you sprain your wrist, don’t quit, just switch hands!
#ambidexterous #art #writingpractice #alphabet #lefthanded #ouchies
#ambidexterous #art #writingpractice #alphabet #lefthanded #ouchies
August 25, 2026 at 2:17 AM
When you sprain your wrist, don’t quit, just switch hands!
#ambidexterous #art #writingpractice #alphabet #lefthanded #ouchies
#ambidexterous #art #writingpractice #alphabet #lefthanded #ouchies
Be fine with taking a break.
Be fine sleeping in.
Be fine drinking tea.
Be fine just reading.
It's your time.
Do you.
#poem #poetry #shortwrite #writing #writingpractice
Be fine sleeping in.
Be fine drinking tea.
Be fine just reading.
It's your time.
Do you.
#poem #poetry #shortwrite #writing #writingpractice
March 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Be fine with taking a break.
Be fine sleeping in.
Be fine drinking tea.
Be fine just reading.
It's your time.
Do you.
#poem #poetry #shortwrite #writing #writingpractice
Be fine sleeping in.
Be fine drinking tea.
Be fine just reading.
It's your time.
Do you.
#poem #poetry #shortwrite #writing #writingpractice
I have been writing 1+ sentence daily for 12 days & 2 years.
#dailywriting
#writingdaily
#writingpractice
#writinghabits
#stepbystep
#Blackskywriters
#Blackwritersky
#dailywriting
#writingdaily
#writingpractice
#writinghabits
#stepbystep
#Blackskywriters
#Blackwritersky
January 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I have been writing 1+ sentence daily for 12 days & 2 years.
#dailywriting
#writingdaily
#writingpractice
#writinghabits
#stepbystep
#Blackskywriters
#Blackwritersky
#dailywriting
#writingdaily
#writingpractice
#writinghabits
#stepbystep
#Blackskywriters
#Blackwritersky
Sometimes writing about the most mundanely personal Saturdays is cathartic and healing. There's some delicious food in this one.
And it's #5amwritersclub somewhere....
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice
And it's #5amwritersclub somewhere....
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice
Most Ordinary Saturdays: Journal Entry, 13 July 2026
Writing but also everyone should know what Panta Bhaat is
open.substack.com
July 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Sometimes writing about the most mundanely personal Saturdays is cathartic and healing. There's some delicious food in this one.
And it's #5amwritersclub somewhere....
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice
And it's #5amwritersclub somewhere....
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice
Hello #5amwritersclub, the first big girl apartment will always be a fond memory. Slicing fingers open on cutters, swallowing Sellotape and eating khichdi in the middle of the night under battering rain.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice
Glue and Other Highs
The first apartment where I wrote novels and burnt khichdi
open.substack.com
August 2, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Hello #5amwritersclub, the first big girl apartment will always be a fond memory. Slicing fingers open on cutters, swallowing Sellotape and eating khichdi in the middle of the night under battering rain.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #personalessays #writingpractice