Solar Branka :mw:

Mechanics of life: you stumble about awkwardly until finding your spot in the most unexpected place. ♾️
Flash fiction & essay writer. Newly devoted poet.
Words in Neon & Smoke, Pictura Journal, Calibre Audio, King River Press, and elsewhere. 💬

Proofing / formatting / post-processing.
Ardent follower of abstract art & hardstyle music. 🎵

📚 #Freelance writer for hire. 📚

🪷 Helping craft #WritersCoffeeClub questions 🪷

Location: 3rd Rock From That Sun
Raving about:: Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosley
Flash fiction ~ 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦: https://owenberesford.me.uk/resource/elegant-code
Flash non fiction ~ 𝘊𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴: https://halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/12/01/coincidences-by-blanche-sunrise/

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2026-04-11 10:23:37 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub ~ What's your most effective method for connecting with readers?
I hire a troubadour to reenact with melody my flash story outside their window at 3 a.m. Works every time. 🧑‍🎤
🪷

2026-03-12 11:56:23 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub March ~ How do you "stress test" your work?
I change the font to a curly font set at 6pt and let my inner critic Orlando read it.
🪷

2026-03-10 11:22:44 UTC

"A wild plant ancestor: Brassica oleracea, aka wild cabbage.
The origin of cabbage, bok choy, collard greens, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and much else."
~Works in Progress
#BrassicaOleracea #Cabbage #Plant

2026-03-08 10:30:18 UTC

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Have you read Anaïs Nin?
Please read her work. 💕

2026-03-08 10:28:49 UTC

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
~ Anaïs Nin
#Anaïs Nin #Quote

2025-12-15 21:04:01 UTC

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I'd say a sarky person would say that too.
Yep, I was hoping for a Finnish word... :ablobcatrave:

2025-12-08 14:45:03 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub ~ How does your work compare to the earliest work in your genre?
I mostly write CNF. I haven't read any other essay sofa that resembles it in terms of the style. 💕
I would call the CNF I write therefore a trampoline. 🧲

2025-10-08 08:00:30 UTC

It lights up my morning when I get a reply from a publisher that's not automated fluff. ✨
When finding the one you love, bridge the gap between you with a tender, physical connection. 💝
In case you haven't sensed it in the air today: you are adored, completely and truly. 💫

2025-10-08 07:31:42 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers - How often do you go to art galleries?
To me it's similar to asking: how often do you go to shops? 🎨

2025-10-05 15:22:55 UTC

An unbold
unbald person
emerges as a
bold
bald person.
#Bold #Bald

2025-10-05 15:10:29 UTC

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Thank you kindly!

2025-10-05 10:31:06 UTC

#PhantastikPrompts - How do you create scenes?
I first wait for a full moon. Then I align the thesaurus with the grammar gods. 🥮
Very avant-garde. 💓

2025-10-03 16:05:47 UTC

You're lighting me up inside 🪔

2025-09-26 16:03:57 UTC

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Thanks a lot. I normally write my own AltText but some arty abstract photos are too complex and I struggle to depict them accurately.
I'll use it for the next image. :ablobcatrave:

2025-09-25 08:35:10 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub - How many works do you have in progress at a time?
A lot. With the one I'm not working on and am procrastinating about, always seems infinitely more brilliant. :woozy_love_letter:

2025-09-24 20:07:56 UTC

From the gentleman at the bar.
#Cartoon
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2025-09-11 13:16:49 UTC

#WordWeavers - If you had to show that a character is a good person within one scene, how would you do it?
I would have the character walk into a room and immediately apologise to the plant there for not watering it the day before. 🪴
Or get the character to have a kitten or puppy, no other action needed. :neocat_astronaut:

2025-08-13 11:40:35 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers What foods can't you stand?
Oysters. The raw mollusky runny gooey ones. 🦪
Unsure if they can be served as cooked food, haven't seen or tried that.

2025-08-12 22:22:33 UTC

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Wow, sorry to hear that, that’s such hard stuff to go through.
There may be a place perhaps that can lend tools and wood if you'd like to design one? Like a warehouse where you could show up and they let you build it?

2025-07-08 11:33:16 UTC

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Cool! I enjoy drabbles a lot too, they're tough to write but well worth it.
We get, in my writing group, weekly prompts and most of them are drabble-length or 200 words max. It's really good fun. And I get to expand on that text, just like you say, it's motivational and can be the basis for longer material.
Feedback is also a bonus. Seems that we are part of similar groups!

2025-06-23 10:19:08 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 23 June: Do you like to look at the creative projects of others as much as you like doing your own?
This is a curious question... To me it implies that:
* I stand here and contemplate my project
* I stand here contemplating other people's project 🧍‍♀️
There's movement, evolution, transformation in projects and in me that the question is not touching. :woozy_transformation_gas: