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Pretty cave, huh? It's full of carnivorous glowworms. Arachnocampa luminosa fill natural caves and abandoned mines in New Zealand. After hatching, the larva spin silk nests on the roof and walls of caves. Their soft light lures prey: wired.trib.al/rEK0Qpb 📸 Joseph Michael

Exploring the ice caves of Iceland.

A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope.

Most writers don't struggle for ideas. They struggle to remain true to one of them for long enough to write the book before the horde of other ideas overwhelm them with their demands for attention.

Thinking about the ways we say "I love & respect you" to our chosen family. My upcoming middle-grade has a chimera who uses "they" because the nature of the chimera is not bound to a singular gendered pronoun. (Looking at you, Brennan Lewis, & thinking about long ago talks.) XO

this tweet should probably go in textbooks: 3 sentences, laid back to back, by the same publication and ask students to note which use the active and which the passive voice

Nailed it!

I can't remember who originally wrote this, but the saying "If you ever wondered what you'd do during the Civil Rights movement or 1930s Germany: congratulations, you're doing it now" is ringing in my head today because TRUTH.

Y’all worried about losing followers??? JESUS HAD 12.

CLOCHÁN ‘a causeway’ is based on CLOCH ‘a stone’ Clochán na bhFomhórach ‘the Causeway of the Fomorians’ is an historical name for the Giant’s Causeway, Co. Antrim. The Fomorians, opponents of the Tuatha Dé Danann, are said to come from under the sea🌊 dil.ie/9555

I’m beginning to think “hindsight is 2020” was some kind of message from a future time traveler that we all misunderstood.

In Budapest there's a fountain that looks like a book: every few seconds a sheet of water blasts forth from the book's spine, arcing from one side to the other, creating the illusion that an invisible force is turning the pages of this marble tome [gif: buff.ly/2mO1hj6]

Your word of the day is: AHENNY n. The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves. From 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd (1983) "A dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet".

You've been stuck on that scene for days and it's like pulling teeth and you want to do anything else but write it. The scene just isn't good enough. It's not interesting. Fiddling with words won't help. Stop polishing and start over from scratch. You know I'm right.

One thing I've been learning about writing is how to *feel* the difference between digging and fighting. Digging is where you have to push yourself to do better, go deeper, be more vulnerable, try harder. Fighting is where you try to force yourself to be something you're not.

Fighting pushes you further away from your voice - it's born of insecurity that says your voice isn't enough. Digging is an acknowledgement that your true voice IS enough, and it's worth pushing through discomfort to reach. But sometimes it's hard to know which way you're going.

The marketing team clearly intended this to be a "scary, look it's so scary that the roles are reversed here!!" poster for a contemporary psychological thriller/horror movie, and all of us took one look at this poster and said "sexy historical? sexy historical."

Subtle Moments Only Book Lovers Will Enjoy: youtube.com/watch?v=K4p1o1…