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Benn Ward ➰

@BennWardWrites

➰ editor @LondonReaderMag 📚 curator #AftertheFlood & #WordsfromWithin 🖊️ on society and stories 📨 bennward@londonreader.uk 🙋🏻‍♂️ he/him #writingcommunity

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Joined November 2017
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Writing is easy when you've got the discipline. That's what makes it hard. #writingcommmunity
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Love this. What a world we have witnessed.
Matt Colville? (@mattcolville) profile pictureMatt Colville?@mattcolville3 May 2023
If you're 50 years old that means you've been alive for 1% of the entire history of human civilization. Not one tenth of one percent. One percent.
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Without downloading any new images, show me your writing process.
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I just sent the travel novel I wrote in 2020/21 and edited this winter out the door for the first time. Concluding structural editing is not as satisfying as typing "The End"—it still feels like there's more I can do—but it's a milestone! 🥳 Now begins the third phase...
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PLANT LIFE features 🌱stories of plants, people, and the earth they share by @SelfAwareROOMBA @Megan_NerdNest @TyGrammarRex @APunkRockFuture @xixuan_c @isthisboring @Ziemska @AwuahMainoo @SarahFohno 🌱 interviews with @HopeJahren & @VDiffenbaugh 🌱& more LondonReader.uk/PlantLife
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We're turning a new leaf! 🌱 If you've ever wanted to get the latest edition of @LondonReaderMag in print, now you can.
The London Reader (@LondonReaderMag) profile pictureThe London Reader@LondonReaderMag29 Mar 2023
Is there something strange about that person with a hundred house plants? Or something enviable? Do plant people know something others don’t? 🌱 PLANT LIFE—stories of plants, people, and the earth they share—is out now in PRINT! 🌱 LondonReader.uk/PlantLife
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Is the future worth fighting for? We have an open call for optimistic #sciencefiction submissions, and we're extending the deadline until March 12 for our followers on Twitter. See more details here: londonreader.uk/2023/02/open… #scifi #WritingCommunity #writers #ArtistOnTwitter
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The One Cell Revolution. By switching from farming multi-celled creatures to farming single-celled creatures, we can help stop systemic environmental collapse AND feed the world. My new TED talk is out now: ted.com/talks/george_monbiot…
Can we feed ourselves without devouring the planet?

Can we feed ourselves without devouring the planet?

Farming is the worst thing humanity has ever done to the planet, says journalist George Monbiot. What's more: the global food system could be heading toward collapse. Detailing the technological...

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What is something you learned this year about writing or stories that you think every new writer should know? #WritingCommunity #writingtips #YearInReview
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i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child" some reflections below:
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Is there something strange about that person with all the plants? A time lapse of a house plant shows instead a house pet. Electrical signals in a tree play a beautiful symphony. OPEN CALL #submissions about plant people, plants, nature londonreader.uk/2022/10/open… #WritingCommunity
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I don't know about "fatten your income", but it's a good thread!
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made me laugh
im on the ither sight (@jon_snow_420) profile pictureim on the ither sight@jon_snow_4207 Aug 2022
people look down on the humanities while the business section in the bookshop is like The Power of Words and This Is What Sun Tzu Is About
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The transferable talent and wisdom nurtured by a humanities education are among the most valuable a person can develop —unfortunately they're also the first skillsets trimmed by shortterm-focused corporations in an economic downturn 😅
“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” - Ray Bradbury
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"I have never known the police of any country to show an interest in lyric poetry as such. But when poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color lines, and colonies, somebody tells the police." -Langston Hughes #poetry #langstonhughes
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What were those hovering lights in the night sky? What is at Area 51 anyway? But more importantly, what do these questions—and the answers we imagine—tell us about ourselves? The summer issue, UFOs: Stories of Aliens and Disinformation, is out now! londonreader.uk/ufos
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I ran a 1-hour poetry workshop for beginners on the weekend. We just did a few collaborative and free-form writing exercises. By 30 minutes in, there were already tears and hugs. Poetry has power. #poetrycommunity
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Writing with inspiration is a hobby. Writing with perspiration is the next step.
Lauren Wertheimer (@LaurenSieckmann) profile pictureLauren Wertheimer
@LaurenSieckmann9 Jul 2022
The best screenwriting advice I ever received was to set aside time each day to write, no matter how bad or how good... just write. The most important element of writing is discipline.
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I do not care if the APA manual requires that I capitalize the W in white (for race). I’m. Not. Doing. It.
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What do @annhalam @agraue @LiamJHogan @SNear23 and a @SelfAwareROOMBA have in common? They're all in the Summer issue! UFOs: Stories of Aliens and Disinformation Featuring interviews w/ @ScolesSarah @markopilkington londonreader.uk/UFOs #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity
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