Tag: Writing
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Happy Poetry Break Day
(Yes, that’s official. I just checked with the Muse. She nodded.) Some days are for productivity.Some days are for inboxes.And some days—quietly, rebelliously—are for poetry. Poetry Break Day on January 13 is the pause button you’re allowed to press without explaining yourself. It’s the moment you stop trying to be useful and let language be…
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International Word Nerd Day
In Defense of Exactly the Right Word There’s a holiday for everything now, which is fitting—because naming things is one of humanity’s oldest tricks. Today, January 9, happens to be International Word Nerd Day, and if that makes you smile a little too knowingly, welcome. You’re among friends who get unreasonably excited about etymology, who…
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National Old Rock Day
In Defense of the Patient Ones Today, January 7, is National Old Rock Day, which sounds like a celebration invented by geology professors and sentient mountains—but it turns out to be surprisingly relevant to how the world works, how stories work, and how some planets refuse to be rushed. Old rocks are not just “rocks…
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Take a Poet to Lunch: A Brief (and Slightly Hungry) History of Poetry
Today, January 6, is National Take a Poet to Lunch Day. Long before poetry was something you encountered on a greeting card or scrolled past on your phone, it was how humans remembered who they were. Poetry began as breath and rhythm—spoken aloud around fires, carried across generations before writing even existed. The earliest poets…
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Happy National Science Fiction Day
National Science Fiction Day (today, January 2) feels like permission. Permission to look up from the practical, the predictable, the already-mapped—and ask, what if the universe has a sense of humor? I’ve loved science fiction for as long as I can remember. As a child, I was captivated by Star Trek: The Original Series—not just…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 