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When Can You Call Yourself a Writer?. Top Story - November 2025.
Let’s face it, we have all asked ourselves the same question: when can we call ourselves a “writer”? After all, when we tell our friends and family that we are writers, some of the first questions that we get back are things like, “Oh, what have you written?” and “Where can I read your stuff?”
By Stephanie Hoogstad3 months ago in Writers
Lost Between Mirrors and Time
Here Luccian Layth is reflecting on what the self may be re-refracted in its mirror, between trial and betrayal, between inner death and inner light, the existential question takes place towards eternity, nothingness, and the Creator. It is a poetic excursion, between suspicion and definite affirmation, between obscurity and radiance, in which the way itself is the creature and the creature is the way.
By LUCCIAN LAYTH3 months ago in Writers
The Night I Found Myself Again
It was past midnight, the kind when the world seems paused, and even your thoughts whisper softly. I sat alone in my small room, staring at the dim light of my screen, feeling the weight of everything I had carried for years. The quiet was comforting but also unsettling, like staring into the depths of my own mind and realizing just how far I had drifted from the person I wanted to be.
By Shahab Khan3 months ago in Writers
The Voice Refined Through Another Medium
For centuries, words have been the vessels of human thought, the means by which understanding passes from one heart to another. From quills and typewriters to keyboards and screens, the tools have changed, but the mind behind the message has not. Now, in the age of artificial intelligence, some claim that words refined through its assistance cannot be fully human. They say that if an essay or reflection has been shaped, polished, or expanded by an AI tool, then its authenticity is somehow diminished. Yet that belief mistakes process for purpose. The truth of writing does not depend on how the words are arranged, but on who the words come from.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 months ago in Writers
The Enduring Allure of Romantic Poetry: The Character and Use of Love, Emotion, and the Language of the Heart. AI-Generated.
The Enduring Allure of Romantic Poetry: The Character and Use of Love, Emotion, and the Language of the Heart Learn about the beauty of Romantic poetry - how it depicts, reveals, and genuinely expresses the nature of love, passion, and connection to human beings. Discover what Romantic poetry has meant to so many throughout history; explore its evolution of emotional meaning and capacity for inspiration in 2025.
By Hustle Nest3 months ago in Writers
How the Build Your Best Self Fellowship is helping young professionals reimagine their futures
Authors: Angelina Adut | Emmanuel Bida In early August 2025, over twenty young South Sudanese logged onto Jitsi Meet from their homes, offices, and internet cafés across Juba. Some were still students, some fresh graduates still figuring out their next steps; others were young professionals eager to climb the career ladder.
By Excellence Foundation for South Sudan3 months ago in Writers
A Catena Rondo Challenge
Introduction This was suggested by Calvin London. This will run til the last day of November, and five random dollar tips will be awarded to five random Catena Rondo poems that are posted in the comments with a link to this piece in your poem.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 months ago in Writers
Practical Steps to Improve Local Search Visibility in 2025. AI-Generated.
Practical Steps to Improve Local Search Visibility in 2025 In 2025, local search continues to be one of the most valuable channels for small and medium-sized businesses. Whether you’re operating in Lahore or beyond, the ability to appear when customers are actively looking for your services can make a significant difference. This guide outlines practical, low-cost steps you can implement today to boost visibility, improve engagement, and attract the right audience.
By Time N Space Media3 months ago in Writers
I Survived the Version of Me That Wanted to Quit
There was a time I didn’t recognize myself. I looked in the mirror and saw someone exhausted, defeated, and ready to give up. Every day felt like climbing a mountain with no summit, like swimming in water that kept pulling me under. I was tired of trying, tired of hoping, tired of pretending. The version of me that wanted to quit was loud, convincing, and relentless. And for a while, I almost listened.
By Kashif Wazir3 months ago in Writers
Here Comes Judge!
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts — The Exercise - Look in your files for a story that seems stuck, a story that has a story block. Next, write at the top of a separate sheet of paper the two words. What If. Now write five ways of continuing the story, not ending the story, but continuing the story to up your thinking about the events in the story. Your what if's can be as diverse as your imagination can make them. More than likely, and this has proved true through years of teaching and writing, one of the what if's will feel right, organic to your story and that is the direction in which you should go. Sometimes you will have to do several groups of what if's per story, but that's okay as long as they keep you moving forward. The Objective - To illustrate that most story beginnings and situations have within them the seeds of the middle and end. You just have to allow your imagination enough range to discover what works.
By Denise E Lindquist3 months ago in Writers
Saint Nobody
One night while I was in graduate school at the College of Charleston, I was hanging out with some friends from home who had also relocated to Charleston. We were at Brad and Alicia’s on James Island. Alicia and I took Geology together in undergrad, and I used to work at the jazz club next door to Brad’s bar. Fio and I had daughters around the same age, and they had attended a church day school together as toddlers. I had known her husband, Patrick for quite some time, and I hated her ex-husband, Todd, almost as much as she did, for different reasons.
By Harper Lewis3 months ago in Writers
