Here are 20 journaling prompts I've been using:

1. Where am I standing in my own way?
2. What’s the smallest step I can take toward a big thing today?
3. Why am I so worked up about this?
4. What blessings can I count right now?
5. Will my faults die before I do?

— Matthew Vere (@matthewvere) February 14, 2021

I've spent the last decade researching creativity. ⁰
For the last five years, I've been deconstructing renown electronic artists on YouTube. ⁰
Here is a thread of the best things I've learned about creativity, imagination and developing style ↓

— Matthew Vere (@matthewvere) February 5, 2021

Here's a thread of the best things I've learned from Neil Gaiman's (@neilhimself) masterclass on writing, storytelling and creativity.

1. You have a million bad ideas as an artist, it's your job to get them out so the good ones can follow.

— Matthew Vere (@matthewvere) February 4, 2021

Here are 40 words you've never heard.

1. Logodaedalus = a cunning wordsmith.
2. Prickmedainty = a person affectedly dressed, dandyish, or narcissistic (later shortened to 'prick').
3. Scrithe = to come or go, to glide, or simply to wander.
4. Ennead = a group of nine things.

— Matthew Vere (@MatthewVere) February 23, 2021

Here's the story of one of the greatest feats of criminality in history.

In 1971, D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727.

Extorted $200,000 in ransom (worth $1.3m today) from the FBI.

Then vanished into thin air, despite a 45-year search.

How did he do it? 🧵

— Matthew Vere (@MatthewVere) February 28, 2021

I've been learning about cumulative sentences.

Cumulative sentences allow you to add information that could make the sentence easier to read or expand on/refine the main point.

Here are a few pointers for using them from the book Building Great Sentences by Brooks Landon:

— Matthew Vere (@MatthewVere) March 1, 2021