I have an event for ENDPAPERS tomorrow and it's been so long since I've read it, I don't know if I remember any of it 😅

I got some excellent advice from another writer about how to solve the remaining issues in the essay I've been wrangling with for months: Walk away. Just put it down and eventually the ending will write itself. I've been thinking about this for a while, but I needed to hear it.

A majestic beast! And a wonderful time with @rpmirabella.bsky.social and our agent!

You lost me at flourless chia seed cake

We are in a fight to save our children from his sick greed.

You can, and almost certainly should, opt out of being part of Muse Image's new experiment in making the internet a worse and more invasive place.

Maybe the publishing industry should start taking more risks and finding out what the public wants to read. Just an idea.

Last night I saw My Own Private Idaho for the first time ❤️💔

"What is the story my characters are telling themselves about themselves? What does that story get right and what does it get wrong?" @mdbell79.bsky.social's latest really resonates for me and my process. This particular focus seems incredibly useful! mattbell.substack.com/p/62-the-sto...

LAST DAY LAST DAY LAST DAY OF THE AUCTION!

A haunted house that's just a disembodied voice in every room, asking you, again and again, if you're sure you're ready to submit that story/novel/poem/essay

Baby it’s hot outside 🐾

I just read a beautiful essay by @dylanlandis.bsky.social in @theflreview.bsky.social. I’ll be thinking about this one a lot.

NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

This morning I read an old story that never got published, and I still love it. Any ideas for where to send an almost-6K-word short story that hinges on a confusing encounter between a grown daughter and her estranged father, which can best be described as earnest?

I got a big ol' zero in Connections today!

My contempt for this conservative Supreme Court is extreme. They are political hacks in robes they do not deserve to wear.

This is a very bad ruling. I'm working on writing it up.

And nobody cares except us. I’m on like six unemployed black woman listservs, where everyone’s freaking out, and nobody’s like “I’m running on trying to get y’all jobs.” It’s like we’re being erased from American society.

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

All IG shows me now are bras, binders, and kittens. I've never felt so seen/validated as a nonbinary 🐱

"One morning I showed up in Mrs. Jones’s cubicle when I wasn’t scheduled to make up a quiz or exam. In my hand were six typed, double-spaced pages, the first thing I had ever written that wasn’t an assignment." Stop scrolling and read this beautiful essay by @jamestatehill.bsky.social!

I almost got up early enough to claim #5amWritersClub. Nevertheless, I'm here and ready to get to it. Happy writing, everyone!

You want pride month reads? oh my oh my. Have you read Cynthia Goméz’s MUÑECA? Have you picked up Jordy Rosenberg's NIGHT NIGHT FAWN? Have you heard the good word about Natalie Adler's WAITING ON A FRIEND? Have you devoured Jennifer Savran Kelly's ENDPAPERS?

This piece I'm working on has been vexing in every way. I printed it out this morning to get ready to blow the whole thing up and start again if needed. Instead, I'm delightfully surprised to see that it might need only a few tweaks. Complicated tweaks, but still. I can see the end. I think!

Alternately laughing & crying as I read so many takes on why the progressive left is on the rise. There's nothing radical or complicated about wanting to afford basic necessities, healthcare, & transportation and wanting to keep your community safe & ensure everyone has equal rights under the law.

the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

It's my kid's high school graduation day and he's away at a national STEM competition. I'm so happy for him because it's exactly where he wants to be and it's all fine 😭!

I'll never get over the beauty of words on a page. Sometimes it's overwhelming.

I couldn't get the Wordle yesterday and it's haunting me

Ooh! A very good deal on an excellent book! Get on it!

I just came across this response from an author whose novel I passed on a few years ago: Two hours of your time, and I will have you in joy that it is possible. If not, you may whip me with cooked spaghetti.

I say we hear it out.

Rainy day Moishe 🐾

An important reminder that words matter. I'm a production editor at Cornell UP & we also follow Chicago. But I welcome (& love) when authors think deeply about their stylistic choices. Language & the rules around it are alive. The rules are meant to ultimately reflect our values and usage.

One of the great joys of “Endpapers” is how author Jennifer Savran Kelly folds the search for artistic and gender identity into the elements of the book form.

I feel like all my writing projects are stuck, and during every writing session I'm just looking for some kind of opening.

Other places you can buy my book: your local indie, directly from PRH ww.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/719498... Ok I'm done. 😆

Trump said the repairs would cost $1.8 million. It ended up costing $14 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract that baked in a 20% profit margin. The typical federal construction contract profit margin is 6% to 12%. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

Great news for the #SkyStorians and @aseees.bsky.social enthusiasts - Philippa Hetherington's impressive and important "Circulating Subjects" is now out in the world. Find praise, more info, and how to get yours at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

For a corporate world that's increasingly embracing automation & AI, the amount of feedback surveys clogging my inbox is absurd. I got one from Staples asking how their team did during my recent visit. My dudes: I pulled something off a shelf and paid for it. Why does this require a survey?!

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

I've been going through a mid-life writing crisis & Jon Bernthal said something about acting on the Smartless podcast that I needed to be reminded of: "The only thing that's for certain is you're gonna fucking fail....You gotta own it, and you gotta acknowledge it, and you gotta work through it."

I bought a lovely, gothic piece of sand art and I misread the booklet that came with it, so now I'm flattering the sand before I turn the piece over to make a new pattern. Flatter your art if you want it to turn out better!

Recently I've stopped asking myself what makes a story or essay I've read *work* (structurally, mechanically, or otherwise) & started considering what about it *speaks to me.* It's been a hugely helpful distinction when I turn back to my own writing.

Good morning #5amWritersClub. I spent the last hour lying awake in bed. Time to tackle a project. Happy writing, everyone!

I chose sleep over writing this morning and it was good

I got to spend my lunch hour dealing with a credit card fraud alert. Don't be jealous.