“We’ve been moving for a long time, but the land moves with you like memory.” THERE THERE by Tommy 🍊

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) April 27, 2019

Infinite stubbornness is the ♈️ writing method. Is that the same thing as patience? #writinglife

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) April 12, 2019

Nice when you find old writing notes. pic.twitter.com/REaPr4UeIm

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) March 28, 2019

“America seems filled with violent people who like causing people pain but hate when those people tell them that pain hurts.” So much brilliance in @KieseLaymon’s #HEAVY. #amreading

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) March 21, 2019

The artwork @Daedalus_Mag selected for my story is truly dope. Thanks Daedalus & @SMCADMAN! 💚💙 https://t.co/nOp00CfS3I

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) March 18, 2019

Thank you for this embroidered #MotherWinter cover, gifted last night by the talented @MaryBreaden 🙌 pic.twitter.com/T16OOMpROD

— Sophia Shalmiyev (@sshalmiyev) February 14, 2019

I used to think that writing was the loneliest of activities. But then I got an L-shaped desk that left enough space for my cat to lounge beside me.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) February 7, 2019

College campuses are paradoxical in the same way of cities: best experienced when bustling and filled with many different energies, but also magical when emptied out and still.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) December 10, 2018

I spend a lot of my time counting down or up: words, dollars, hours, days, miles. Always counting down then counting up to the next big thing. On the first day of December at the end of the year, I'm staring at the Pacific and I'm exactly where I want to be.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) December 1, 2018

If you grew up in Eugene, you just do weird things with your hands when you dance.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) October 28, 2018

“Write for your dead.”

Inspiration for your weekend writing from @alexanderchee. 💗 pic.twitter.com/5FEY2BflrX

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) September 14, 2018

This year, I found that when hope is in short supply, a little of it went a long way, as you'll see by this thread.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) December 30, 2017

Seemingly, these stories are true only when a man admits it. #louisck

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) November 10, 2017

The weekend of the primal soul scream.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) October 14, 2017

One of my characters is getting really into Agatha Christie novels because I don't care, they are wonderful. #cozyreading #amwriting

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) September 2, 2017

Admittedly this is inspired by my own furbaby, but one of these days I'd like to write some story with a wolf in it. pic.twitter.com/2r5TDiyCjw

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) August 23, 2017

Thanks to someone's random mention of a Dr. Seuss book, I decided on a Seussian, absurd ending to this story. #amwriting

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) July 30, 2017

Was feeling unproductive writing-wise this month and then remembered that I'll have 3 new stories by end of July. pic.twitter.com/FCRUKkUdJ8

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) July 27, 2017

"We have passed the phase of seeking out conversation; now we are saving what words we have left." >> SPEAK #amreading

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) July 16, 2017

Every once in a while, I do actually smell like Teen Spirit.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) June 18, 2017

The holy #writing moment when you start to recognize and really feel something for a character who was until now a little distant.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) June 10, 2017

Listening to Thee Oh Sees while I write turns into this. pic.twitter.com/qg29BbcDeO

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) June 5, 2017

We were drummed-electrified in the night's thunderstorm & now a.m. near Green-wood Cemetery is all peaceable songbirds, foghorns, yard work.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) April 29, 2017

"You really can't make this sh*t up. But I'm gonna try." >> My new #writing mantra.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) March 4, 2017

Just typed "fear" instead of "Facebook" into the browser and, yep, that seems about right actually.

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) February 22, 2017

"How could you make an appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word … could physically survive?" [1984]

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) January 25, 2017

"Yes: when feeling unmotivated, I like to think of death." — Lydia Millet https://t.co/9uVm4uykZC pic.twitter.com/kIOhw9nFqo

— PDXX Collective (@PDXXCollective) March 21, 2016

Too much coffee and now I'm singing Fiddler songs while I submit my writing. ("Submissionnnn. Submission!") ☕ 🎶

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) March 2, 2016

"When I begin it, I shall enrich it in all sorts of ways; thicken it; give it branches & roots which I do not perceive now."–#VirginiaWoolf

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) January 30, 2016

"And the swirling waters took his words, and tossed at his feet a broken pot and a little straw." #amreading #orlando

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) January 26, 2016

The lovely @AlexKleeman spoke with me for @PDXXCollective about writing #Y2CHABLM & about the endurance of noveling. https://t.co/EhPz2RoBtH

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) January 13, 2016

If the city is her world, then her writing desk is the kingdom in which this Queen shall rule. #amwriting

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) December 19, 2015

Books, save-the-date postcards, an #MTG play mat, and photo-bomber Odie's whiskers. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn pic.twitter.com/ZnXKx3xZQe

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) December 5, 2015

One of my favorite things about cohabitation is the shared bookshelf. Share the love, share the books. pic.twitter.com/i2Zzk3ot0M

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) April 20, 2015

Setting goals for the next month is as new to me as my grandparents' mallard, my talisman, is to my desk. #amwriting pic.twitter.com/mYpTBpYE9O

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) August 16, 2015

Faithful companions. #amreading #hammocksFTW pic.twitter.com/vdRkCwKNYD

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) August 7, 2015

"Handwriting…resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin." #amreading #ATalefortheTimeBeing by @ozekiland

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) June 29, 2015

So, maybe I'll just throw in this Planet of the Apes moment. #amwriting

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) June 21, 2015

Talkin' feminism, heroism, and humor with @PDXXCollective: http://t.co/EUvlKZleXT

— Emily Schultz (@manualofstyle) May 13, 2015

A timely read which I picked up from a neighbor's free library. #crownheights #amreading pic.twitter.com/Ds4T1uKq7l

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) June 20, 2015

So many gems on writing craft! https://t.co/YZaBRNecQ1

— Mary Breaden (@MaryBreaden) May 5, 2015