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🧵 Thursday Thread: Books! Poems! Essays! Stories! Albums! Songs! Movies! TV shows!
It's time for a GIANT round-up of everything keeping us saner right now; let's share our riches as if our lives depend on it, because they might
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread: What Now?
Beyond vote, write letters, join demonstrations, donate, support mutual aid, support independent journalism, and boycott, what can we do to stop the…
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread: Dream With Me!
Let's make a vision together for the year ahead at Writing in the Dark!
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread: Can we talk about the holidays?
Holiday memories—whether poignant, uproariously funny, quietly devastating, or full of unexpected tenderness—are rich fodder for creative work
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread: WITD CLASSIFIEDS
If you like piña coladas, getting caught in the rain ... just kidding (sort of) because you never know what you might find in the classifieds. Let's…
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread | What is it About Birthdays?
When you're a writer, everything is material, including the mere (and not so mere) passage of time
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread | What Are You Working On? | Plus, last chance to register for Telling Hard Truths by Writing Hot Cold, Today 1-4 PM…
Let's talk about our writing projects and practices: what are you working on, or what do you wish you were/want to be working on?
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread | There Goes The East Wing?
Hi, Friends,
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread | Where Do The Lost Things Go?
If you could hold one lost thing again, what would it tell you now?
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread | Giant Recipe Swap!
It's a good time of year to cook and bake. What are you making, or going to make? What should we be making too?
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread | Autumn’s Quiet Magic: Rituals That Carry Us Through the Dark
What rituals do you return to each fall, and why do they matter to you? Or, which memories of all rituals sustain you now, even if those memories are…
 • Jeannine Ouellette
🧵 Thursday Thread | The Friendship Experiment, Revisited
In times of uncertainty, finding your people is more than just personal comfort—it's a powerful statement against the forces that would prefer to see us…
 • Jeannine Ouellette
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