Ask your parents and grandparents about their memories of a time when…we took our lack-off and turned it into plenty.
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I am gifted beautiful journals every year, and year by year, I only have random scribbles and shopping lists in them. Yet on bits and pieces of tissues and torn scarps, I have written profound poetry. Once, I even wrote a line...that grew into a 60,000-word novel.
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I have been doing the querying this week for my novel Under the Jamun Tree and Other Stories. Querying is tougher than writing, it needs the same meticulous attention as editing. And it gets sent out with a hope and a prayer:-) even if one is not religious.
#writer #booksky #query
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AI will never replace writers, its impossible! My senses, the way I move through the world, are based on my experiences over the decades. My fiction is a lyrical outpouring in vignettes and stories of moments.
I have felt the ages, lived the ages, loved in the ages.
#writers #booksky #sambacchus
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We are driven by fear or boldness. We have a choice. Today, as yesterday, and tomorrow. Never choose to bow to others.
#wise #words #writer #sambacchus
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The Caribbean Sea, she's got a power like no other. Gorgeous and enticing in her most tranquil turquoise hue, beckoning one into her warm embrace. Into the power of mile-high gentle waves pulling you deeper and deeper.
Beauty & danger. Irresistible.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky #Mexico
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Reading Tai Pan again, this time on my libby app, is just as good as the first time when I was 14 and in awe and amazed and taken away to another different place!
I love James Clavel's work.
#TaiPan #libbyapp
I would never choose digital over hard copy, ever! But not bad.
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Touring a Mayan ruin really reminds one of how less than bright we are. Modern-day humans run around thinking such silly things...like we are more evolved. The news reveals the truth of us.
#SamBacchus #Humankind
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#Writer
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A great book to disappear into? Pillars of the Earth. What an amazing, well written, well researched book with beautiful storytelling. When the world hands you exploitative dirty politics, read about 12th century anarchy.
#SamBacchus
#KenFollet
#CaribbeanLit
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Finding balance through books. I'm always intrigued by what others read when no one is watching.
Sugar is bad for me, who falls into a coma and wakes up babbling like a fool.
Others can eat all the goodies and not feel a thing.
And
I love Irish storytelling!
#nosugar #Irishstories
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Back when we had to run to the one neighbour who owned a landline. Ours was a stoic lady who gave people privacy.
My friend, in another part of town, now she had the phone neighbour who actually put a glass and ear to the wall to hear better.
Warbled gossip was hilarious.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit
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I can't get dragged into the angst of politics, I really can't. Cancer loves this stress, and the first time around, it made the cancer explode in me. For now, I will write about farmers and the wonderful work they do in keeping us alive.
And #fiction, yeah #CaribbeanLit before 1985
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Remember in the old days when there would be a bunch of young lads causing ruckus at the corner 7/11? They would be slurping their slurpees, rubbing their hairless chins, and acting big-up. Then a mama pops by, and they all go running home?
Cute back then.
In politics today? Dangerous
#SamBacchus
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Today, #writing about tropical heat, a teeming rainforest and passionate South American souls...and outside my windows is this. Writers do so love juxtaposition. We thrive on it. We create dreams when the world is stark and cold and beautiful like a snowstorm in #Vancouver #SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit
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In anticipation of tariffs and the fact we may never taste tropical fruits and vegetables again, I have booked 10 days in the Mexican Riviera to eat my fill. Cheers to canning and preserving again. And Botulism.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit
#Writer
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I find the most wonderful stories in old tomes, or dry as heck theses, or in the records of history. It's like walking through a museum. It's not the relics, it's the story fleshed out around it.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #Booksky #Writer #Guyana
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Peace and quiet.
Running from the horrendous, jaw dropping headlines.
#BritishColumbia #SamBacchus
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In Guyana there's a saying...If you drink the creek water of a place, you will never leave.
Warm sunny days, birdsong all day, golden sand, vibrant foliage, a literal green and gold paradise + fresh fruits of a thousand names, & no device need apply.
#Guyana #SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky
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Deep forest trekking...We drank creek water from a leaf, and the guide plucked food...magical-delicious fruits and leaves and whatnot from the literal air. Oh yeah, and the fish caught themselves while we napped in hammocks under the trees by the river.
#SamBacchus #BookSky #CaribbeanLit #Guyana
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AI is the most insidious thing, like a snake it enters and wraps itself within and around an industry until the life is squeezed out of it, and then it controls. Creativity is dead, new writers dreams and hopes dashed to the rocks.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky #Publishers #PenguinRandomHouse
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Guyana...real events are the backdrop for my fictional characters. Colonialism, Post Colonialism, Socialism, and Independence. History.
Meanwhile dark history has flowed back into a country that prides itself on being a leader into the future.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky #HistoricalFiction
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Driving down the East Coast road along the seawall, breeze whipping into the Suzuki Sidekick. The Eagles blasting on the cassette player. Minibuses honking madly, horse and carts competing for road space. The scents of sweet flowers and ripe mangoes
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #Booksky #Guyana #1980s
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Look up, look out, all around us. These are the things that inspire me when I need a breather from whatever.
#Bluesky #lavender #sunset #SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #Vancouver
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You know that fist pump, that "Yes!" When you get a sentence just right?
I'm addicted to it.
#SamBacchus
#CaribbeanLit
#Booksky
#WritingJourney
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When the characters actually ask the writer to take a break so they can gather themselves for the next rollercoaster of a ride.
#SamBacchus
#CaribbeanLit
#BookSky
#WritingProcess
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Writing to make sense of the world is the best therapy.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky #BookSky
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I'm from an era when it was polite to never publicly speak about our politics, religion, and sex life.
Back then, we got to know each other on a deeper level. We lived and laughed more than people do today, that's for sure.
That's why I write period fictional pieces about real things.
#SamBacchus
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The beauty about being in my 50s... My characters are so full of life and pragmatism. Of losses and triumph and laughter.
Idealism exists, but in a literary sense, in retrospect, in the silliness of youth
#SamBacchus
#CaribbeanLit
#Booksky
#Booktok
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We should not get so consumed by politics that we forget what we have.
Our neighbours, each other, people everywhere. We are still here, still citizens, we still love and care for each other.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #Booksky
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#BlueKind
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I've got autonomy on #Bluesky
It's not meta. I can keep my community clean and real, so I can interact on an honest level.
That means I have discovered the joy of blocking bots, I love it!
Sex nonsense and bots begone, you are hereby banished 😂 thanks @Bluesky
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#CaribbeanLit
#Booksky
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