The Dani Writer

Joined April 2019

340 stories

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Explores words to create worlds with poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Writes content that permeates then revises and edits the heck out of it. Interests: Freelance, consultations, networking, rulebook-ripping. UK-based

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Why Do Writers Say That and Why Aren’t We Doing Something to Revise/Edit/Modify It?
Keep writing. Everyone says it. Heck, I’ve said it. Written it, actually. But recently, I’ve started to look at this common advisory guidance with a little more scrutiny.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Journal
Accidental Heat-seeking Spells of Spring
For what I deemed mere accident all senses lay in ruin. I live by practicality. I do not fall in love. Such ascent requires more majesty than I can conjure,
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Poets
The Mission and the Memo About It
You are going to make my day. Live on forever in my thoughts and steal grins long after I have left and am at home boiling water for tea.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Humans
Scribblefungus
Cognitive creative breakdown. Not to be confused with writer’s block. Nah. Can write loads but it’s all utter crap.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Poets
The Owliest
They think me old and feeble Incapacitated by moonless night I’ve sired many over seasons Weakened fledglings, hidden reasons
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Poets
Here's to Waaaaay More Fun!
Apparently, I missed it. National Festival of Sleep Day on January 3rd. There’s a whole following. Not a huge loss as I routinely sleep well, (apart from occasional nightmares as a child and after the birth of my first child.) But to spend the day in pajamas knowing others around the world are doing the same might have been pretty synchronicity cool.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Motivation
While the Laws Protecting Rest Were Sleeping...
When you look behind you and have lost the fixed point where exhaustion last stood motionless on the precipice of collapse.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Motivation
What She Did
She ransacked his heart. Plundered its chambers. Ripped out pericardium inspecting vascular tissue with calculating eyes.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Poets
Inevitability
I’m now confusing myself over late fees from a cocoon prematurely entered. Constraint cutting circulation gotta be uncomfortable,
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Poets
Why I Still Read Children’s Books and You Should Too
I cannot part with the ones that are a complete gigglefest. Or are thought-provoking. Or involve imagination overloading.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Journal
Unexpected Days of Irish Coffee
Creativity involves letting your imagination run wild, right? Ingenuity on naturally occurring adrenaline. “Well Karla, part and parcel of why the arts are considered therapeutic.”
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Fiction
When You Can't Keep Your Thoughts to Yourself
I’m about to say it out loud. All the thoughts I've been thinking concerning two global issues bugging me. Maybe someone else ‘outed’ their thoughts in another forum, another corner of the world. Chatted about it in a quaint café to an enrapt listener. Presented a PowerPoint to infuse community activism.
By The Dani Writer4 years ago in Earth