Today in my area a winter storm is raging. First, there was snow and now there is rain. We slept in and are still drinking coffee after noon. Reading is a top priority today.
The Bradbury Trio [reading a poem, an essay, and a story every day] fuels my writing.
This trio structure works for me because I am inspired to write after I read.
I hope the reading you do today leads you to writing that could not have been created any other way.
Here is what I read today.
Poem: Crows by Mary Oliver
Story: Balance in SmokeLong Quarterly
Essay: Think Like a Norweigan
Bonus SubStack Recommendation:
Cait’s Essay on Being Tired in the New Year
I have read both Cait’s books and revisited Adventures in Opting Out this morning.
What will these pieces inspire you to write!?
What are you writing in your notebook today?
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is currently working on a short story collection. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.
I love the Bradbury Trio! Substack definitely helps me get in my daily essays. :) Poetry is wonderful. Short stories, well, I read fiction every day, but I need to make sure I get in a short one every day, too.