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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · 1d

Morning, blueskyfolk. Does any HUMAN here have Canadian experience writing & illustrating a children's book (reading level grade 2-3)?
~grace & inspiration to you all~
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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · 7d

Never Sell

cut me down, my shoots will grow
scatter me, my seeds will blow
and live to curse the killing hand
you should never have sold my land

final verse written for one thing, applies to others

#songwriter #writingcommunity youtube laurie-writes-songs

Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · 13d

the latest twist in my hate:hate relationship with digitization has me posting SCRATCHY recordings of my songs on youtube. mid-life OH just keep that to yourself. Anyway, if you've seen my lyrics on bsky & wondered how the tune goes... @ laurie-writes-songs

#songwriter #writingcommunity #musician

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · 16d

cloaked in green or any other hue, the magic is temperature. Monet conveys it too, so close you feel it on your face - this viewer finds Cezanne immersed as voyeur the shadow of his landscape

#writingcommunity #synesthesia

Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · 18d

now war
would make his company rich
while he strips our souls of every last stitch
hold on - hold on - that's no way to live
hold on, war is no way to live

so if he speaks the words of angels
but does not love - he does not love -
remember, he is: nothing

#songwriting #writingcommunity #musicians

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Sep 25

Hi bluesky - still here, just busy with the stuff of life which transmogrifies into the writing of life

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Sep 20

you wake up and find yourself president of your fate

Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Aug 31

eyes north

invisible sun spatter
magnetic tickle
night dissolves into dancing
aurora

prep for possible beautiful things aug 31 through sep 2

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Aug 29

the break-neck pace of world news leaves me beset with plot ideas. 1 Hippie retiree "snowbirds" who accidentally defeat fascism in their thoroughly self-absorbed ignorance. 2 Narco rivals whose political machinations lead to the closure of a draconian detention centre.
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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Aug 25

ahhh, like a deep breath of bluesky, reading the jotted notes & notions of my fellow word wranglers. thank you for being the optimistic invisible friend i didn't know i needed
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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Aug 15

if you're interested in sea-washed southern Nova Scotia, i have the place

Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Aug 15

"peri-historic fiction", because why not make up a genre AND draft a novel? There's probably a name for this category already. Yup

latest song chorus:

when the night leaves you thirsty
I can't watch it kill you softly

dropping it at the pub was hopefully not offside
#writingcommunity #songwriter

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Aug 12

making my music hearable: livestreamed a BUNCH of my songs today with vital help from cerra_alba , on twitch. Wretched sound quality, but great in so many other ways for me, hopefully for listeners too.
digital footprint massive step forward? something like that

#writingcommunity #songwriter

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Jul 26

simple goal: make a website where i present my creative whatever, writing, songs, art, etc. Then I can promote it here in #writingcommunity
complicated truth: this has been top of my "do it!" list for about 4 years

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Jul 22

I sang a song in D, and finally found the key
to explain the way we made our misery
Why did we pick hate over love?
the answer's D, all of the above

final verse in a new 4-key song ready for Open Mic. It makes no sense alone, but who does? shy about your tunes? Share them anyway
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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Jul 3

"don't be fooled by hate; no one is saved alone"
José (Pepe) Mujica, former president of Uruguay
A timely reminder that decency and leadership CAN coexist, and an inspiration to write something as lovely as this man's end-of-life words
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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Jul 2

thank-you, every one of you in #writingcommunity. your existence reminds me to bat away the dizzy diversions & settle back into writing

#writing

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Jul 2

i capitulated and provided my email to this platform.
May this offering appease the Gatekeeper and allow me to murmurate among the creatives kiting the #bluesky

#privacywillrisefromthedead

Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sloshing between moons
pulled by love. Productive writing while doing all the relational life stuff is oil and water so back to the coast i go.
pushed by creative agency. Surfing the tides of mid-life

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Jun 26

ctrl-alt-del, the last resort as my writing needs a re-boot. Like too many open browser windows, colliding crises in the lives around me snarled the flow. Unable to collate, this hardware is heading to the beach

Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Apr 25

bluesky seems a little further from reach than when I joined a few months back but I still like the vibe. This is the only social media platform I'm on, but before I ditch here too let me try one last time to save the world:

stop shopping

#writingcommunity #earthday #everyday

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Apr 15

'purr'?

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Apr 14

sidhttw #4, which is the outer wrapper for #1 :
a writer creates the scenario in #1 and launches it into the anonymous creative embrace of bluesky, hoping someone with coding skills will be inspired and society will rediscover what facetime means.
#writingcommunity #thisismymedium

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Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Apr 14

ssidhttw #3
Rivers/watersheds as defining the cultural map of North America, somewhat still true today although it sounds like/relates to a previous system. We are of our landscape - this is how people.
#earthmatters #writing #reallyreadthemap

Vyv Alcraft @vyvyan.bsky.social · Apr 14

sidhttw #2
an unexciting seaside village harbours a collective superpower: the regular townsfolk all become riveting musicians after dark. the catch: the phenomenon defies technological attempts to capture it - everyone just looks like a fisherman or realtor etc on video. live music lives
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