Magedah Shabo
@magedah.bsky.social
haiku | nature photos | nonfiction author and editor
A4a: You can include references to other cultures, but you need to do your research first. Skimming a Wikipedia article isn’t enough, especially if you hope to depict a culture that is frequently exoticized or othered. Your best bet is to hire a sensitivity editor from that culture. 1/3 #StetChat
#StetChat@stetchat.com · 3h agoQ4: What are some common mistakes that authors make with worldbuilding? For example: problematic elements, cultural appropriation, clichés, anachronisms, infodumping. #StetChat
I loooooove this blog post and the presentation that went with it btw!!! I want Kristy to do this presentation again—it was so good! #StetChat
#StetChat@stetchat.com · 2h agoIn her post “Immersive Worldbuilding Through Copyediting,” Kristy S. Gilbert (Looseleaf Editorial) says: “Copyediting choices like capitalization, italics, and more can support your epic worldbuilding or undermine it and keep your reader at arm’s length.” looseleafep.com/immersive-wo... #StetChat
#StetChat A4 Always get an authenticity reader/editor to work with if you are writing about cultures you are not a part of. Infodumping is also really common. Worldbuilding is done over chapters, not all in one. Outlining scenes and what's important to introduce per scene can help.
#StetChat@stetchat.com · 3h agoQ4: What are some common mistakes that authors make with worldbuilding? For example: problematic elements, cultural appropriation, clichés, anachronisms, infodumping. #StetChat
Gaucin, Andalucia, Spain. Crocheted umbrella street decorations which also create shade made by local women's groups #WomensArt #Summer
'Fruit in a blue delft bowl.' (1880) The Finnish painter Maria Wiik is an obscure artist even though her name is known through her friend Helene Schjerfbeck. In 1878 the art critic Carl Gustaf Estlander judged her work as 'downright excellent.'
sudden downpour the picture window becomes an impressionist painting
Week of August 3rd prompt: peony or green mountain (double summer #haiku kigo) Choose one or both for your photo, fine art, creative short, or poetry inspiration. Your depiction may be implied or literal. Join anytime by adding #PaintbyWords to your posts. #EastCoastKin #art #photography #poetry
AB’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Firsts, your earliest bird capture(s). Alt is @atlanticbirding.bsky.social’s most captured family: #Robins Another gorgeous first! I later learned these are #grackles we don't have these in CA... wasn't saved properly 😬 #birds #birding #eck @clinty1.bsky.social 🫥?
good morning 🧡 stratton pond acrylic mixed media on paper and board, 8"sq.
#PinkMon #ColorADay #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #TouchGrass #ECK #pink #flowers #photography Pastel pink flowers briefly appear among the burgundy stems of a sweet potato vine, hidden beneath layers of purple and green foliage.
who gathers all the moments I fail to notice? the smell of cedar just before the rain a shirt sleeve brushing goldenrod the brief hesitation on the edge of a stranger’s smile someone must have been awake #poetry
leafhopper nymph dancing on a petal #ColorADay #GreenSat #green #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling
#PaintbyWords #haiku #poetry buck moon an old god blushing
one river runs through my heart winter --Shinko Tokizane わが心貫き流る一河 冬 時実新子 #senryu #translation
On seeing a goose jointed for cooking atop a kitchen counter. あはれなり雲ゐのよそに行くかりもかかるすがたになりぬとおもへば O, how sad it is, that Even, into the distant clouds Once going, a goose In such a state Has ended, I feel… Kinkai wakashū 705
And then there’s Notes from the Underground with the best opening of all time: “I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased.” 💙📚
Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer@eldashraheb.bsky.social · last wk.It drives me nuts whenever people claim the Russians write miserable dreary stories. Almost everything I’ve read from a Russian author has some hilarious, amusing bits, like this intro to Ferdyshchenko. From Dostoevsky’s The Idiot #booksky 💙📚
new sun falling behind the blinds #DailyHaikuPrompt (time) #haiku #senryu #ADHD
in this world over hell . . . gazing at blossoms Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826) #haiku #micropoetry Tr. David G. Lanoue Date of #poem: 1812
Thank you to guest editor Alex Fyffe for including my senryu in this week’s Haiku Dialogue on the theme of “Man-Machine Interface – TMI.” thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog... #senryu #haiku #poetry
the summer i reacquainted myself with my bones and tendons and a hundred blossoms in my chest