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Katie Morrowick

Greetings, Enchanted Wanderer.
I'm Katie, here to share in the joy of books, writing, art and inspiration.
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Who else has been watching season 2 of Shadow & Bo

Who else has been watching season 2 of Shadow & Bone?!🤩

I watched episode 1 with my dad today and love it so far!! I really enjoyed season 1 when it first released, and I just read books 1 & 2 for the first time (+ half of Six of Crows), so I was excited to see how they'd bring in characters like Wylan and Sturmhond. (They are perfect!)

The visuals and cinematography are even more beautiful this season. I was admiring the the colour coordination of Alina & Mal's outfits and room, the camerawork on the fight scenes, and the Victorian vibes of the Crows!

I also love how much dimension they've added to the Darkling's side of things, as I think he's a fascinating character (though I am 100% for Alina + Mal!) Here's a little edit of me doing ✨sun summoning✨ with the Darkling as seen in season 1.

Which Grisha power would you want to wield?

❤️Heartrender - sense when people are lying, slow or stop their hearts, help keep someone warm, save their life

💅Tailor - alter your appearance, change what someone else looks like (it wears off after a while), heal small wounds

✨Sun summoner - banish dark creatures, light your way through shadowed places, easily fight any opponent, live an immortal life, be a saint to many people

I'd probably say heartrender! They can both heal and kill invisibly, without needing to even be too close.

As I near the run-up to the 'showdown' of my book

As I near the run-up to the 'showdown' of my book draft, it's like trying to weave a tangle of invisible threads together that don't fit yet. Like any craft, it's a process. Much of that process feels like drifting, reaching out for tangled plot strands. Some we reach for snap, while others we pass too many times before realising they weren't serving us.
Gradually, we watch them knit together, before unknotting them again and trying those pieces elsewhere.

I'm discovering more about my characters as I go, and I feel like the story is getting closer to what I've wanted it to be from the start. It's ever-changing from the vision in my head to how it appears on the page, and that process feels uncomfortable sometimes; unfinished - but that's the point. It's shifting into what it needs to be.

✍️If you're writing, what form is your story taking at the moment? Is it changing before your eyes?

These aesthetics certainly chimed with my heart! H

These aesthetics certainly chimed with my heart! Have you tried searching your name + 'core' on Pinterest to see what appears? I'd love to see the aesthetic it picks out for you!🌳

I'm always wary of using Pinterest pictures in my posts, because they are ultimately someone else's photos. I don't have time to this evening, but I'd like to find the original creators of these photos and credit them if possible. But anyways, besides the first video and last photo, these are all from Pinterest.

(Thank you @hadas.knox and @annesvintagediary for inspiring the format! Also thanks @kabyburton_music, my long-suffering filmographer, for capturing the opening video😂)

Additionally - happy International Women's day to my wonderful fellow Witches of the wood, Fairies of the forest, Sirens of the sea and Princesses of the castle across the lands. You all exude magic and marvellousness; may you all be the heroes of your own stories✨

Do you use Pinterest for inspiration? What aesthetics tend to come up for you?

As I wandered through some streets on the south si

As I wandered through some streets on the south side of the Thames this morning, spotting buildings I hadn't seen before with ornate details and fascinating colours, I was reminded of how freeing it is to let the mind drift without any goal other than to dream. I had accidentally booked my train tickets for today instead of tomorrow, but decided to make a day of it and explore for a while.

Because I didn't have a particular purpose in mind for the journey, my whims decided which direction I took, which paths I walked, and as a result my creative eyes blinked into focus. I passed so many curious buildings, each of which flicked tiny sparks of inspiration into the hearth of slowly-weaving stories in my mind, and my notebook returned with five pages of words. I hadn't properly restocked my bank of ideas for a long while, so this felt like a good day's 'harvest', if you will, - and it isn't even Spring.

When was the last time you allowed your mind time to drift and gather ideas without a goal? Where did you go that inspired you?🏛️

What is home, for you?☕ This is a question I'm

What is home, for you?☕

This is a question I'm often pondering. I've asked a few of my friends and family recently what they view as home, and though their answers have varied, the main theme at their centre is: comfort. Whether the things we take with us when travelling, a little spot where our world felt peaceful, the people who feel kindred to our souls, or a house tied to our oldest memories, home can take many forms. It's something we reach into the past for, perhaps - either recalling one we had or searching for a new one. Then it's also of the future; something we seek, or wish to maintain. Most of all, though, the feeling of home is a very 'present' one - the peace of returning to your comfort place after a long day is powerful, as is the heart-wrenching longing of homesickness when somewhere far away.

For me, home is daylight through the kitchen window, talking with my family or friends over a warm cup of tea, snuggling into a cosy blanket on my bed, dancing through open grassland and sharing in synchronised laughter. It's watching the sun setting over the rooftops, cuddling close ones on the sofa, spotting a bookshop on a street corner or wandering into a vintage gallery. It's the patches of soil in our garden where I danced around fairy circles when I was young, the chair in my sister's room where I sit and read, the constellations I pointed at on starlit evenings around a barbeque, and my favourite pair of boots. It's someone knowing just how I like my hot chocolate or predicting what I was going to say, a shared moment of understanding, raindrops running down the car window, and moonlight above the street-lamps. It's an "I'm glad you're here", "let's sit for a while" and "what are we going to do today?"
It's a source of peace, sometimes challenge, but familiarity and most of all, comfort.
It's a centre of all things; a place you come back to.

I would love to hear your view on 'home'. Do you have many places and pockets of home, or are you still searching for the feeling of one?
The quote in the reel is my character Zoe's perception of home - something nostalgic, perhaps slipping away, yet still vivid, and something to be recaptured again.

🌳✨

There's something behind you, emerging from the da

There's something behind you, emerging from the dark...
but it's okay because you've packed your iron chains and magnesium flares, the ghost in the skull-jar has warned you telepathically from your backpack, and you've practiced your rapier manoeuvres because you're a trained agent from an independent ghost-hunting company.
The job done, you'll be returning home to 35 Portland Row for biscuits and, of course, a cup of tea.☕

This was a fun shoot to do - thanks to my dad for taking the photos and sticking with me despite the cold (and the ghosts, of course!)

If such adventure sounds fun, you might like Lockwood and Co on Netflix! 8 episodes, based on the book series. If you've watched it, what did you think?👻

As you might've seen from my story posts, I'm very

As you might've seen from my story posts, I'm very excited about the Lockwood and Co. TV series! I watched the first 2 episodes with my family and a friend yesterday, setting up the living room with green photography lights ('ghost lamps'), the 'thinking cloth', tea and donuts😁

It's 8 years since I read the first book and it became my favourite book series. To finally see it come to life on-screen yesterday was such a thrill and comfort at the same time. The books encompass those two feelings for me, as they balance spooky and cosy (which you can probably tell from my account is a combination I resonate with!). So, I did this little setup last week to capture that amidst my anticipation of the show. I made the skull-jar last year with green fairy-lights, cotton wool and a Halloween decoration, in a jar I found at a garden centre! He looks pretty ghostly in real-life😆

So far, I love how much the show is sticking to the books and enhancing some aspects! The portrayals of the characters are better than I could have hoped for.
I'm so excited to watch more this evening, savouring each scene as I don't want the 8 episodes to be over!

Sorry to keep rambling about it🤭 Thank you to those who have shown such interest and are telling me their thoughts as they watch, even if they have mixed feelings. That's making my heart so happy!🥺 These three are my ultimate comfort characters, and stepping into that world, in whatever form, feels like home to me.

Is there an adaptation of a favourite book of yours that you adore? I'd love to hear about it!✨

Over the past few days, I've been reminded of the

Over the past few days, I've been reminded of the sanctuary of this community. Instagram sometimes feels like an empty place, occasionally even a heartless one. We can feel like our art gets engulfed into a void, our hope with it - but here's the thing: if you post here and share your world... YOU are the heart.

I've been thinking carefully about how I want to inhabit this space this year - not just my 'aesthetic' but how I use it. The nature of the app's workings can make it exhausting sometimes, but I'd like to suggest a shift of focus from the 'consuming' of content to the 'embracing' of content. Recently, as I was going back through old posts of mine and visiting the pages of others, I let the framework of Instagram fall away and just looked at the art. I marvelled at the photos of some of my favourite accounts and felt a reverence for the fact they took the time to share that.

Before Bookstagram, I'd never known what it was like to be surrounded by like-minded people who appreciate art deeply, who are passionate about writing and photography, who love finding vintage things and quoting movies and being inspired by fictional characters. I didn't know others who enjoyed the specifics of grammar and who felt like old souls. I never imagined I'd have friends who would write me letters that were as many pages long as the ones I like to write, who would dance with me randomly or send me a gift just because. Yet here, I've found that. So I'd like to remember this when I interact in this space. It's not "Instagram"; it's a meeting-place of kindred spirits. When you've found those accounts that make you feel at home, cosy and safe - tend to those and surround yourself with them. Then Instagram might just feel like the community you want it to be again.

Seeing your photos and reading your words enriches my life more than I can express, and when I see clusters of that wonder in the same place...magic happens. You and your art are important here - keep doing it and sharing it.

As the beginning of this year has felt like a warm hug for me because of that, I'm sending a warm hug to all of you❤️

This time last year I set an 'intention goal' for

This time last year I set an 'intention goal' for 2022, choosing the phrase "quality over quantity", to focus on value and depth. Aside from having to read a lot in a short time for uni (breadth rather than depth), I definitely feel that this year was one of quality and depth; contemplation and warmth - in friendships, in family and in the things I was doing.

📝My goals for next year include being more organised with projects and uni work, trying to schedule and balance them better, instead of spending too long on one and running out of time for the rest.
🎨I'd like to set more time aside for writing and art. I hardly painted this year and I've missed it.
📷When it comes to Instagram, I've enjoyed the posts I did this year, being less critical of them - but I'd like to continue that even more in 2023. I hope to focus on community and connection over whatever this app is doing nowadays😂 - looking to the small but important things, as opposed to the big commercial ones.

So, that speaks to my 'intention goal' for 2023: Moments

Moments over materials,
Moments in messiness
Moments of meaning

It's cliché, but life is made up of moments - so if we can find meaning in each moment, we have a meaningful life.

I so often feel like I'm 'catching up with myself', but I also try to enjoy the moment even if it's one where I'm halfway through something. This year, that was often *being ill*, so I missed time - but that's okay; there's next year. We're always halfway through SOMETHING - that's life! It's the substance that keeps our day-to-day ticking over. But instead of thinking 'after I've done this, THEN I'll be sorted', I'd like to embrace the messiness and really enjoy the steps of a process over focusing on the end goal.
It makes me think of a Hook quote from Once Upon A Time, where he says "There is always a crisis. Perhaps you should consider living your life during them, otherwise you might miss it."

So, I hope 2023 brings you good moments alongside all the messiness that can come with life; moments of calm, moments of meaning, moments of excitement, contentment and peace.

Farewell 2022! Here's to the next one🕯️

What is your 'intention goal' for 2023?💕

𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒚-𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒋𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎, 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒋𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒊𝒓...🕯️

I know experiences of this day vary greatly, as all have different circumstances and associations with the season. However, if you celebrate, I wish you a fun and festive day filled with the magic of childhood. I've felt that today; eating chocolate before breakfast, staying in my pyjamas all day, and rewatching 'Mickey Mouse's Once Upon A Christmas'.
If you don't celebrate, or if the celebrations look a little different for you, I wish you warmth and comfort and the gentle hope of a new year to come.

We're about to have our Christmas dinner, then watch a festive film✨

Winter wishes, Enchanted folk☃️

How have you spent the day?☕🎄🕯️

Posting even though it's late in the evening, beca

Posting even though it's late in the evening, because I still enjoy the creative moment of putting a photo and caption together, regardless of the changing landscape around us here. I've always loved how it marks an instant of time, and I can usually remember how I was feeling and what was going on at the time I posted each photo. They're like stepping stones in a memory map.

With the end of the year drawing near, I always like to reflect a little.
I've just been looking back at my feed and seeing which posts were my favourite; gathering inspiration from them for next year, and reminiscing on the time that has passed. It feels like I've been on here a long time, but really it's just over 2 years, and I feel like so many positive things have come of being in this community.

Sometimes we can be critical of ourselves, but when we look back and see how far we've come, we see how valuable each of those steps was. I still cringe at reading back my own words sometimes, or raise an eyebrow at the colours I chose for an edit - but ultimately, I'm glad I did it anyway, because now I can look back and be inspired by my past creativity.

Wishing you a cosy Christmas Eve tomorrow💕🎄

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Have you been inspired by your past self lately? What would you tell them, knowing what you know now?☕

I've made a little YouTube video! Coming soon (tom

I've made a little YouTube video! Coming soon (tomorrow!) Here's a tiny excerpt from it, about writing.
I've been wanting to create in video format for a while - imagining cosy settings and stories and visuals I could put together. Finally, I've made an 8-minute narrated video and it's a kind of recap of October and November, along with ponderings about life, art and writing.

For ye fellow quill-wielders out there...
Write the story you want to read💕☕

What's your favourite thing about stories?
a) - They inspire you to write your own
b) - They are an escape from the mundane
c) - They teach valuable lessons about life
d) - all of the above!

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