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When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult because I imagined that adulthood would be a time when no one would interrupt me when I was trying to read. If I could go back in time, I would tell that little girl she has never been more wrong about anything in her life.

"If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Man, I’d really love to get a camper, pack up my stuff, and head into the Canadian wilderness with my two cats,” then Karen Babine’s new book is going to speak to you with stunning specificity." racketmn.com/fake-unicorn...

🌞 Find a balance 💪 #WritingCommunity #Inspire

Must say I'm so happy to be connected with All the wonderful women from all over the world here on BlueSky.... ❤️ Wishing you a Happy International Women’s Day !!! #womensday #InternationalWomensDay #HappyInternationalWomensDay

We are not alone!

Watching Love, Meghan on Netflix. I like it! It’s no more or less awkward than Barefoot Contessa which I also like. There, I said it. Could we lay off the Sussexes?

New way to think about stress dreams: the opportunity to wake up and think, well whatever happens to me today, it probably won’t be as bad as that.

Me: Friday’s going to be such a productive day! 30 degree temperature drop induced headache: Not so fast!

On days you feel low, organizing and cuddling your old work can feel good. You will see personal growth and remember how you felt actually writing some things. You will also find writing you have zero memory of ever writing. The mystery of YOU is real. #writingcommunity #writers #inspiration

Tech bros: “So we stole creatives’ IP on a grand scale to train our AI. So what?” Also tech bros: “DeepSeek stole our IP! Waaaaaah!” Karma, baby. It’s DELICIOUS. ☺️ 💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity

This!

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 1.29.25 from Nora Roberts www.nancychristie.com/my-books-for... #writingprocess #writingadvice

I needed this. Maybe you do too. Seize joy.

Check out @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social's interview in CRAFT on the lyric essay: "all of these different lyric elements…sound or visual images, smell, or doing strange things with time…engage with the reader in a different way than a more traditional linear narrative would." buff.ly/3E3ikoJ

Listening to podcast with an artist I admire. How she's stayed true to her art in her long career. Unmentioned: her partner's income stability & health ins. Asking again, could we PLEASE be upfront about this? For those of us who ARE the partners with the health insurance etc.w/out such flexibility.

New substack: Sources to help you determine what it would cost to live in France.

Writing Tip: Consider drawing your world. You don't have to be an epic artist to do this, just create a rough map of where things are geographically. A visual representation can really help iron out the details of your worldbuilding, and you can update it as you go. #writing #writingtips #writesky

For your reading pleasure. You’re welcome. literarymama.com/articles/dep...

If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? Writing. 2. your initial major? English 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Human Development (Psych, Eng. minors) 4. what do you do now? Writer, Writing prof. Creative writing pedagogy scholar

I have already preordered and cannot wait for this book to come out in May. But look! We get a sneak peek!!!

I'm proud to have a new story in this splendid issue of @literarymama.bsky.social, which left us for a brief time, but has returned just when we need it most, as we face -- as editor @ajfields.bsky.social says -- "the hard, often uncomfortable work we need to do."

I need everyone in the world to STOP what they are doing and look at this dog's markings! 🖤 Her name is Bridgette, and she deserves to be someone's Valentine. Available at Best Friends of Baker in Baker City, Oregon. #dogs #ValentinesDay

Life giving interview.

"Writing a little bit each day is akin to leaving the faucets dripping on a cold January night; while the ideas are flowing the creative pipes won’t freeze." ~ @marthasilano.bsky.social

Because it’s awesome and you should read it!

Mister Rogers never misses

We are beyond excited to announce the establishment of our new imprint, HOUSE OF KEL, to elevate finely crafted manuscripts of sci-fi, fantasy, and romantasy genres. Now accepting submissions. #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #romantasy houseofkel.com

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Happy holidays, #writingcommunity! As a holiday gift, I'm writing to let you know that my #submission tracker SubTracker is always available for free. Track your submissions in a database on your own computer with help from @libreoffice.bsky.social kendalldunkelberg.com/subtracker-2/

snowball fight, italy, ca. 1400

the more books I own & have yet to read, the more immortal I become

Merry Christmas to me, excerpt from memoir in progress up at The Lascaux Review, tw: health crisis. lascauxreview.com/back-to-me/?...

📚 Library patrons! Please check out a book you plan to read someday, but not right now. We won’t be able to tell you haven’t read it, it’s good for our metrics, and it prevents good books from getting weeded when they still have a kindred spirit out there.

If anyone wants an update on how my efforts to go back in time to survive the present are going: the 1984 video on the making of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is available on YouTube and it holds up pretty well.

Alice Notley

me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk] my boss: and the other one me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]

“crimes. If, for just one generation, we took seriously violence against women and children, do you know what an impact that would have on society? If you believed women just for once, instead of believing the clichés men say about them to cover up their crimes. “

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

I know no one wants to do this, but please wear an N95 in planes, trains, buses, & airports/stations this holiday. You don’t want to pick up illness on the way to vacation or to grandma. These masks work. I have not had a virus of any kind in over a year & I have been on many planes & trains. 😘

Sending this nugget around again.

If you cannot send a holiday card write a review, "I like this book"! #flowersong

Innocent me in the early 20-teens before everything went to hell, “I mean, l like the Diane Rehm show as much as anyone but she needs to retire and make space for others.” Me today: “Diane Rehm has a podcast!? Why am I only finding this out NOW?!”

So I also have a substack. It's about France. Last summer we bought a house there.

There's something about the focus of a congealed male ego around the resentment of women. That scabby comfort blanket to cover the paunch and the mediocrities that age reveals. The misdirected self-pity of the pub bore.

In my professional experience, the ones you really have to watch out for are the misogynistic turds of a certain age.

Weather-scare stories are the last bastion of the tabloid hack. You can basically terrify a pensioner without any legal comeback. The beauty is that the weather isn't going to sue you if you write hyperbolic bullshit that doesn't transpire, and, hey, you might even be right once in a while.

Me Monday: Ah, so much writing time this week. I can’t wait. I’ll just get that first Shingles and pneumonia shot out of the way. . . Me Thursday: Might finally be coming out of it. (PS Still glad I got the shot & had time to recuperate, husband got the same shot w/no side effects whatsoever).

So a really cool thing has happened—I just signed on as a Poetry Editor-at-Large for Texas Review Press today! This means I’ll have full freedom to acquire one poetry book a year and to edit one-on-one with the author throughout the whole process. I’m so so excited.

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!