#WritersCoffeeClub 5 Have you ever dreamed about characters in your work?
All the time. When I was writing the Kate Clifford books Kate and her mother would wake me with arguments. I wonder whether it's more common when writing series--I've lived with Owen Archer and many of the regular charactes in the series for 30 years; they are family.
"We have to acknowledge that our minds get overwhelmed and aren’t entirely our own. This is not an easy process, but one that one can train in. It’s not possible for painful feeling to become pleasant feeling. But painful feeling can arise and pass, this is possible. Can you give it the time and the space to do that?" Ajahn Sucitto 💚 🙏
The Seattle Public Library was hit with a ransomware attack. A library that has offered youth across the country access to its digital holdings with a special library card. Curious. Sickening. It's still open for physical books, using paper forms for borrowing. Bring your library cards or at least the number!
Support libraries--they are places of wonder and lifelines for the community. @bookstodon @books #books#libraries#ransomware https://shelftalkblog.wordpress.com/today/
Breaking it down by branch numbers though, Seattle has the most funding of all mentioned libraries (#TacomaPublicLibrary & #PierceCountyLibrary included). Though, #JBLMlibrary is the 1 exception since it's funded by DoD; federally funded.
I am going to be pondering this quote for a long while:
"She fears that present-day deforestation might result in the loss of that traditional knowledge.
"'The forests have always been our pharmacy, but they’re killing them as if they were people,” Pachaka said of the nearby settlers." #ClimateChange