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Tag Archives: #Storytelling
Soul Screaming in America
A weekly newsletter about being creative in the widening gyre Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide … Continue reading
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Tagged #amreading, #amwriting, #author, #authorlife, #books, #Goldenglobes, #popculture, #publishing, #pushingwritinglimits, #Storytelling, #writerslife, #writingtips
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Soul Screaming Deep Dive
Ultimately, Stranger Things celebrates our love of story. We need more of all this in our lives By Christopher Ryan SPOILER WARNING: Yeah, I’m going to discuss details from the end of the Stranger Things finale. If you haven’t seen … Continue reading
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Soul Screaming
A weekly newsletter that today offers gifts for you In lieu of a newsletter this week, I humbly offer three gifts I hope you choose to enjoy over this holiday season: All the best to you and yours this holiday. … Continue reading
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Tagged #amreading, #amwriting, #author, #authorlife, #books, #Christmas, #publishing, #Storytelling, #writerslife, #writingtips, family, fiction, love, short-story, writing
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Soul Screaming
Soul Screaming A weekly newsletter about writing fun stories while the world gets weirder America feels sort of like Charlie Brown right now, reluctant to run and kick that football that Government Lucy is holding the Epstein football in position. … Continue reading
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January 3, 2023 – Fussing Comes to an End and a Project is Complete
by Christopher Ryan I should have been editing Soul Scream. Or completing the uploading of Genius High. But opportunity called and I dove back in to … poetry. Dark horror crime poetry about the most modern of monsters. And I … Continue reading
Posted in #amwriting, #community, #inspiration, #productivity, America, Bukowski, crime poetry, fiction, horror fiction, horror poetry, Jim Carroll, narrative poetry, poetry, pop culture, wife, writing
Tagged #amediting, #America, #AmRevising, #amwriting, #author, #authorlife, #crime, #crimepoetry, #EditGoal, #EditingGoal, #horror, #horrorcrimepoetry, #horrorpoetry, #modernmonsters, #Mystery, #publishing, #Storytelling, #Suspense, #WIP, #WriteGoal, #writerslife, #writestuff, #WroteToday
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Music Monday – Wandering YouTube Yields a Moving Tom Petty Documentary
by Christopher Ryan It had been a long day working on final fussing over a narrative horror poetry collection, planning the final forms of a horror fiction series, wrestling with publishing schedules for those and two novel reboots, and discussing … Continue reading
Posted in #amwriting, #community, #inspiration, #productivity, #television, classic rock, healing, horror fiction, independent publishing, pop culture, TomPetty&TheHeartbreakers, writing
Tagged #amediting, #America, #AmRevising, #amwriting, #author, #authorlife, #classicrock, #EditGoal, #EditingGoal, #IndieAuthor, #publishing, #selfpublishing, #Storytelling, #tompetty #tompettyandtheheartbreakers #tompettywildflowers #YouTube, #WIP, #WriteGoal, #writerslife, #WriteTip, #writingtips, writing
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Jan. 1, 2023 – a Pause Before Leaping (and a Cover Reveal!)
Today isn’t a new beginning, nor is it the turning of a page. I have been planning all this for a long time. What I am about attempt is to spend 2023 doing is neither guaranteed to work nor a … Continue reading
Posted in # thrillers, #amwriting, #productivity, Book lovers, book recommendations, digital publishing, ebook publishing, fiction, High school, horror fiction, independent publishing, pop culture, self-publishing, teenagers, writing
Tagged #Amazon, #amediting, #America, #amwriting, #author, #authorlife, #books, #EditGoal, #EditingGoal, #ePubChat, #eReaders, #getcaughtreading, #IndieAuthor, #IndiePub, #Kindle, #Pubit, #publishing, #ScienceFiction, #selfpublishing, #Storytelling, #Suspense, #WIP, #WriteGoal, #writerslife, #writestuff, #WriteTip, #writingtips
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Music Monday: Roger Waters’ Comfortably Numb Video Makes Me Wish He’d Pull a Taylor Swift
I wandered onto YouTube last night and amid the “new releases” there was a video of “Comfortably Numb” by Roger Waters. Liking both the artist and the song, I innocently hit play. Mind blown. Not because it was part of … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Music, pop culture, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb, The Wall, classic rock, writing
Tagged #amwriting, #classicrock, #ComfortablyNumb, #ComfortablyNumb2022, #Dystopian, #music, #PinkFloyd, #RogerWaters, #RogerWatersComfortablyNumb2022, #Storytelling, #TheWall
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Bono and The Idea of America
by Christopher Ryan U2’s Bono spoke at the 23rd annual New Yorker Festival last night. Well, first he riled up the crowd, and sang, and recited new poetry, and sang some more. And then he ignited my soul. During his … Continue reading
Posted in #amwriting, #community, #reading, #U2, #WeThePeople, America, Bono, Book lovers, digital publishing, ebook publishing, Faith, fiction, horror fiction, Music, New Yorker Festival, politics, pop culture, self-publishing, Spirituality, writing
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