Slyvia Rose (Aimie McAllester)

Heckadoodle! It’s gonna be such a fun read for you I bet!

Sometimes I wonder why I put in so much effort to be something just so I can someday say “Hey! I somehow managed to not waste all the time and effort spent on supporting my survival!” And where this driving desire to succeed came from

#somedaysucceed
#alliteration
#writingcommunity
#writer

I have decided that my spiritual animal must be a packrat cuz I have this obsession with collecting and curating things (specifically information and content related to my fixations)

At any rate, guess it counts as contributing to society if I save others time from doing it themselves

#different

I find it funny that instead of being depressed in the winter like most, I struggle with it during the summer since where I live, it’s actually harder to get sunlight and fresh air due to oppressive heat and humidity. So I’m looking forward for the changing of the season!

The mania siren song is powerful and persuasive isn’t it ?

Is there anyone down to be an accountability partner specifically for submitting my work to places?

And would there be any interest in seeing the massive collection of submission opportunities that I have somehow obsessively curated?

#writingcommunity #poetry #writertok

Aimie Rose Aimie Rose has 531 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath...

I finally updated my GoodReads account after not touching it for ten years because I thought it was a touch clunky to use. Now it’s trendy but still unintuitive (take my opinion with a grain of salt)

#writingcommunity #booktok

Check out my profile on Goodreads!
www.goodreads.com/user/show/30...

I can feel my brain brewing something that will hopefully make it feel like all this time and energy has a point to it, that I haven’t been wasting time but instead have been quietly absorbing the ideas I needed and unconsciously expanding on them…

#writingcommunity

I’m similar in a way! I always feel like I’m an imposter because while I have been writing as long as I can remember, it was never The Main Thing in my life. It was just assumed that whatever I did, I was writing in the background of it. Now Im fully focused but a touch lost.

The fact that the official P&W peeps responded to my post had me massively fangirling ngl #writingcommunity

Just occurred to me that maybe hopping on the idea of #summerofsubmissions could be a way of holding me accountable for continuing to try and get my voice heard… anyone know of a sort of official challenge or something for it? Totally possible it’s a trend I never heard of.

#writingcommunity

“"The mentor/and the student/feed off each other."

#AnneSexton #poetry #quote

A poignant reminder that I wish to one day have a mentor who will push me to be my best…I ache for the chance to learn from the best and always have. Every day I chafe against my own limitations.

“"I write poems for you the way other people bring flowers to graves."

@tristamateer.bsky.social thank you for sharing your talent 💕

#poetry #quotes

Just want to say that one of the best things I ever did for myself was to form a place to bury any kind of words/sentences/ideas that moved me. Not only did it make me consciously look for quality content to keep and emulate, but also serves as reminder to keep going. #writingcommunity

I needed this reminder as one of my ongoing fixations of late is the fact that I feel I have squandered my life already.

My #1 struggle is that I have no idea how to title my poetry. Literally every work has been numbered and ordered but ask me to basically synthesize the whole thing before it gets read feels so silly to me.

I feel this way too after receiving only rejections so far on the poetry I’ve sent out. It’s hard not to internalize it! Remember tho that even Slyvia Plath had to remind herself that “I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.” And that’s the important point

Oh! So when I was first getting into writing I also had this problem, I ended up making it a point of having different stages of editing where I shifted my focus. The first stage generally involved clarifying and expanding, and the second stage was primarily focused on efficiency and specificity!

I’ve found that sometimes the brain needs to be able to absorb and sit on its creative potential from time to time! Sort of needs to sublimate concepts before it becomes able to be expressed. Like a cooked steak resting before being served to guests!

Wait there’s houses that have proper insulation and don’t have to pay an arm and a leg just to find out that they have been providing ac for the colony of squirrels who throw nuts at the anyone thinks they have a right to use the front door to get in and out?

I am forever thankful for the fact that I got to read this as a “baby” writer. It’s like a hack to skip the very basics of the journey to become a writer!

I think you would like this idea of mine that what attracts us to art is that it has a sort of richness due to the fact that it is created with intention, and then layered by the intention of those who consume it. Every time this happens it adds layers of meaning. It explains why the urge to create.

Maybe it’s a sort of way to cope with the fact that for a majority of the population, there is a lack of ability to control any aspect of their lives, so it serves as a way to keep them from becoming even more vindictive of the people who seemingly have chances that they don’t.

#freetheferal another reminder that maybe I don’t have to hide the fact that my personality is a pack of rabid raccoons in a trench-coat spam pushing buttons to mimic a functional human

#writing and aggressive #journaling

An ape reminder that for the regular person that this is their reality, the world is irrelevant until it intrudes on their existence in the day-to-day ^.^

One of my fav stories about being a poet stems from a anecdote about #RobertLowell who reported, upon being told that a family member was stuck in a bog and needed help, said “We are all stuck in a bog!” And it took a while for him to understand that it was not a metaphor #poetry #writingcommunity

she asked
what my haiku meant-
so I bit her
#haiku #poetry

I feel like I am in desperate need of inspiration specifically from those who do poetry…I’m curious about your writing routine and how you handle the detailed work on poems…generally writing routines focus more on the short stories and fiction part than just poetry #writingcommunity
#poetry
#inspire

I love using Canva for designing stuff for marketing my shenanigans. It’s so therapeutic and intuitive to use! Anyway, I’m pretty sure that Canva has some great resources in their help center to look at, but it’s mostly going to come down to playing around and getting a feel for it!