#tellingmystories

[altamirabooks]

From @thehuntingtonlibrary - Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) would have celebrated her 70th birthday on June 22. Among Butler’s papers at #TheHuntington, some of which are now on view in the exhibition “Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories,” are scores of affirmations she wrote to herself and copious notes she took while constructing worlds and imagining futures for her novels and short stories. Octavia E. Butler, notes on writing, “I shall be a bestselling writer…” 1988. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.© Estate of Octavia E. Butler. #OctaviaEButler #OctaviaButler #TellingMyStories #SoBeItSeeToIt #Inspiration #Motivation #sciencefiction #wednesdaywisdom #writer #believe #affirmations #ownvoices #goals https://www.instagram.com/p/BmxT-A9FbVV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i5meo177dzz8

[lexxdigs]

#OctaviaButler writing to her mother is all of us...this was my favorite piece in the #TellingMyStories exhibit @thehuntingtonlibrary • photo of Octavia from 1962. #dearmama (at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens)

[lexxdigs]

So much to share from yesterday's trip to @thehuntingtonlibrary for the #OctaviaButler #TellingMyStories exhibit. I'll start with this blown-up excerpt from a journal of hers... #SoBeItSeeToIt (at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens)