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Kate Bown's avatar

I loved watching the Octopus teacher, a beautiful story and there is much life and writing wisdom there too.

Thank you for this wonderful Substack. I like your focus on curiosity and the shock of new and different activities / experiences, then quick ways to record thoughts and things you have noticed. I am a new writer but I am getting better at listening to the world around me, collecting snippets of conversation, images of the sky, interactions btw the natural and human, things that spark my curiosity. The tricky part is finding ways to thread these things together.

What’s sparking my curiosity — the morning sky, I made a commitment to wake before sunrise and run with friend. So much joy while the world is waking up.

Also cold water swimming and saunas - we are building a sauna and I have just started going down to the beach for a dip when I can. Though I’m not quite up to free diving in freezing water just yet!!

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Danika Bloom (she/her)'s avatar

Fabulous list. It took me several published novels before i could identify the recurring themes in my stories. Funny how thta can be .. it's so much part of who we are we can't see it!

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