A thread on the writing skills
Author: Альона ꑭ Шевченко
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✍️ Writing is the single most important skill that anyone who wants to tell a story of their community should develop.
💌 It's a constant loop of practicing it 🔄 feedback.
✅ The main rule that I intuitively abide to, as cliché as it sounds - is authentic communication.
What skills do you have that you'd be willing to contribute to telling the story of your community? Would you?
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When I write huge 🧵s, I never draft them in advance.
🤬 If I'm angry - I let myself be angry and write in that state.
💔 That stream of consciousness in the moment only has a response from the people reading it because they can sense that emotion in what I say.
1/ Ukrainians don't complain much but I hope they don't mind me saying this: I speak 4 languages and none of them has words that can describe how much it hurts to be one of us these days.
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Each of us has been in agony from 1000s propaganda cuts. Literally, lie on a lie on a lie.
Another crucially important thing is keeping it personal - not reducing the damage to the number of casualties.
❌ It's not just "X people died on this day in Odesa."
❗️It's my loved ones that russians launch cruise missiles at in their HOMES.
cryptodrftng.substack.com: Day 59. Odesa & Mariupol.
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And yes, I hate russians. Not all of them, but I'm under no obligation to be looking for 🦄 at the moment.
❓Ask yourself: wouldn't you hate them right now?
❓Would you be worrying about "russophobia" while being killed in your home?
No fucking way.
13/ Last but not least @brokenpixelua video where he explains why Ukrainians shouldn't listen about "russophobia", and russian people being "victims" or god forbid "heroes".
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"It's too late to be a hero."
Thank you for your attention. #ArmUkraineNow https://t.co/VB38Ks5SiD
All my "russophobic" stuff here:
1/ Hey @NikaMelkozerova, making you a whole 🧵 about why I hate everything russian as a russian speaker born and raised in Eastern Ukraine, why Ukrainians have the right to hate and why no one has the right to lecture us about how we should feel. I hope you find it helpful. https://t.co/4bRfhlSUVC
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