Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
@dewhaley.bsky.social
artist::writer::learner::vegan::swimmer::yogi:: peloton-addict::american-studies::literature::cinema::pop-culture maven::author of BWiS.
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In honor of the spookiest month, consider writing a horror story! Even if you're not normally a writer. It doesn't have to long or even necessarily good. But give it a try! Think about what scares or unnerves you. Explore that (in a safe way) and put it to the page. You might just surprise yourself!
October 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
In honor of the spookiest month, consider writing a horror story! Even if you're not normally a writer. It doesn't have to long or even necessarily good. But give it a try! Think about what scares or unnerves you. Explore that (in a safe way) and put it to the page. You might just surprise yourself!
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Good writing comes from passion. Not passion to make a dollar or passion at being noticed, but passion about the subject matter. Passion about the work itself. That is where good storytelling comes from.
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Good writing comes from passion. Not passion to make a dollar or passion at being noticed, but passion about the subject matter. Passion about the work itself. That is where good storytelling comes from.
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If you buy this book, in a few days your Alexa will beep and say, "You have one new notification from Amazon.com. A no-good worthless book has arrived." #amwriting #writingcommunity #kidlit #inventingreality www.amazon.com/gp/product/194...
October 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If you buy this book, in a few days your Alexa will beep and say, "You have one new notification from Amazon.com. A no-good worthless book has arrived." #amwriting #writingcommunity #kidlit #inventingreality www.amazon.com/gp/product/194...
Happy Wednesday!
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media.tenor.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Happy Wednesday!
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No Quill
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe
#Spooktober #weapon #31DaysOfHalloween #ClassicMono
#photography #vintage #EastCoastKin #DangerousDays
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe
#Spooktober #weapon #31DaysOfHalloween #ClassicMono
#photography #vintage #EastCoastKin #DangerousDays
October 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
No Quill
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe
#Spooktober #weapon #31DaysOfHalloween #ClassicMono
#photography #vintage #EastCoastKin #DangerousDays
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe
#Spooktober #weapon #31DaysOfHalloween #ClassicMono
#photography #vintage #EastCoastKin #DangerousDays
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Remembering EDGAR ALLAN POE - who left us 176yrs ago today
October 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Remembering EDGAR ALLAN POE - who left us 176yrs ago today
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Edgar Allan Poe died on this day in 1849.
Doom.
Plague.
Despair.
Madness.
Creeping existential horror.
He would have loved 2025.
Doom.
Plague.
Despair.
Madness.
Creeping existential horror.
He would have loved 2025.
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Edgar Allan Poe died on this day in 1849.
Doom.
Plague.
Despair.
Madness.
Creeping existential horror.
He would have loved 2025.
Doom.
Plague.
Despair.
Madness.
Creeping existential horror.
He would have loved 2025.
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“Painting and novels to my mind are basically wed. You can’t take them apart from each other.” Brandon Taylor discusses his new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” which follows a young painter in the years after the supposed racial reckoning of 2020.
Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art
The author discusses his latest novel, “Minor Black Figures,” and the discourse around racial subjectivity.
www.newyorker.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“Painting and novels to my mind are basically wed. You can’t take them apart from each other.” Brandon Taylor discusses his new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” which follows a young painter in the years after the supposed racial reckoning of 2020.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ~Edgar Allan Poe
October 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ~Edgar Allan Poe
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Bernardine Evaristo on a writer’s freedom and the sensitivities of storytelling, in conversation with Ostap Slyvynsky at Lviv BookForum 2025 this weekend.
October 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Bernardine Evaristo on a writer’s freedom and the sensitivities of storytelling, in conversation with Ostap Slyvynsky at Lviv BookForum 2025 this weekend.
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Teacher, scholar,
he had worked a true task when all alive…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod”
New Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
Today is #WorldTeachersDay. In this poem Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, celebrates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School
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he had worked a true task when all alive…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod”
New Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
Today is #WorldTeachersDay. In this poem Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, celebrates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School
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October 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Teacher, scholar,
he had worked a true task when all alive…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod”
New Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
Today is #WorldTeachersDay. In this poem Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, celebrates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School
1/4
he had worked a true task when all alive…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod”
New Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
Today is #WorldTeachersDay. In this poem Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, celebrates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School
1/4
“At degree level, students are still reading whole novels and plays. However, there are lots of initiatives to help students read. Some universities do reading resilience courses.”
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
www.thetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“At degree level, students are still reading whole novels and plays. However, there are lots of initiatives to help students read. Some universities do reading resilience courses.”
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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OpenAI is risking pissing off a lot of Hollywood with the next update of Sora, which will allow you to generate videos with copyrighted content (Iron Man, Shrek, etc.) unless the owner specifically opts out.
Scoop with @keachhagey.bsky.social and Berber Jin
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Scoop with @keachhagey.bsky.social and Berber Jin
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
www.wsj.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
OpenAI is risking pissing off a lot of Hollywood with the next update of Sora, which will allow you to generate videos with copyrighted content (Iron Man, Shrek, etc.) unless the owner specifically opts out.
Scoop with @keachhagey.bsky.social and Berber Jin
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Scoop with @keachhagey.bsky.social and Berber Jin
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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Sometimes teen boys go looking for extremist content online. Often, it finds them. Julie Jargon and I
spoke to young men who fell down dangerous Internet rabbit holes and came out the other side. www.wsj.com/tech/how-two...
spoke to young men who fell down dangerous Internet rabbit holes and came out the other side. www.wsj.com/tech/how-two...
How Two Young Men Got Pulled Into Internet Darkness, and How They Got Out
Teens and men in their 20s look for belonging in corrosive online spaces but often end up feeling more isolated. “The beliefs themselves instilled loneliness,” one says.
www.wsj.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sometimes teen boys go looking for extremist content online. Often, it finds them. Julie Jargon and I
spoke to young men who fell down dangerous Internet rabbit holes and came out the other side. www.wsj.com/tech/how-two...
spoke to young men who fell down dangerous Internet rabbit holes and came out the other side. www.wsj.com/tech/how-two...
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The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...
L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie
Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.
www.wsj.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
—Samual Johnson
—Samual Johnson
October 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
—Samual Johnson
—Samual Johnson
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"As for my approach to writing comic fiction in general, the simple answer is that I try to make myself laugh."
@chayab77.bsky.social interviews Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ed Park on his Debut Short Story Collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House).
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@chayab77.bsky.social interviews Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ed Park on his Debut Short Story Collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House).
➡️ buff.ly/FH5A2MY
October 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"As for my approach to writing comic fiction in general, the simple answer is that I try to make myself laugh."
@chayab77.bsky.social interviews Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ed Park on his Debut Short Story Collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House).
➡️ buff.ly/FH5A2MY
@chayab77.bsky.social interviews Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ed Park on his Debut Short Story Collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House).
➡️ buff.ly/FH5A2MY
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"I became a writer because, as a Houston high school teacher, I wanted my students to find books with characters they could relate to" writes Ashley Hope Pérez in the @houstonchronicle.com, "people looking to create vibrant lives in difficult circumstances." www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
First Texas schools banned my book. Now it's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
The problem isn't just the new state law. It's how some school leaders are reacting to it.
www.houstonchronicle.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"I became a writer because, as a Houston high school teacher, I wanted my students to find books with characters they could relate to" writes Ashley Hope Pérez in the @houstonchronicle.com, "people looking to create vibrant lives in difficult circumstances." www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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#selfpublishing #indieauthor #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
Why writers need to carry business cards
We’ve all experienced this before: You want to get hold of someone but don’t know how. You could look them up online and probably find their email and phone number, of course…if only you could…
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October 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The latest Pasts Imperfect has @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social taking on ancient & medieval monsters 🐉. Then, a new book on art from ancient India & the Greco-Roman world, Barnard profs defend free speech, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & Joy Connolly eulogizes Michael Putnam.
Pasts Imperfect (9.25.25)
This week, historian of science, art, information, and monsters Surekha Davies discusses monster-making in the past and the present.
pasts-imperfect.ghost.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The latest Pasts Imperfect has @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social taking on ancient & medieval monsters 🐉. Then, a new book on art from ancient India & the Greco-Roman world, Barnard profs defend free speech, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & Joy Connolly eulogizes Michael Putnam.
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Video games 🎮 can allow people to do the right thing—and to learn about cultural heritage. edition.cnn.com/world/africa...
Video game lets you return African artifacts from Western museums | CNN
In “Relooted,” players plan a heist to reclaim real-life African artifacts held in Western institutions.
edition.cnn.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Video games 🎮 can allow people to do the right thing—and to learn about cultural heritage. edition.cnn.com/world/africa...
October 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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When I didn't know how to live I became my grandmother:
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And in my head came her raspy voice and her soft voice and her quiet voice; which rarely laughed but was always delighted with living and eighty years of reticent habits cultivated by her small hands.
- Sue Zhao
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
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And in my head came her raspy voice and her soft voice and her quiet voice; which rarely laughed but was always delighted with living and eighty years of reticent habits cultivated by her small hands.
- Sue Zhao
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
September 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
When I didn't know how to live I became my grandmother:
..
And in my head came her raspy voice and her soft voice and her quiet voice; which rarely laughed but was always delighted with living and eighty years of reticent habits cultivated by her small hands.
- Sue Zhao
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
..
And in my head came her raspy voice and her soft voice and her quiet voice; which rarely laughed but was always delighted with living and eighty years of reticent habits cultivated by her small hands.
- Sue Zhao
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀