jgsurma.bsky.social
ESL teacher, stage 3 triple-neg breast cancer fighter, and YA fantasy writer who owns far more 📚 than shelf space (she/her) Minnesotan
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Someday that's gonna...
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The trick is to also add Legos for her 😁
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What a gift!! 💕
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😆
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Congrats! What made it harder to write?
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Some kind of lily, gorgeous color!
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That's a brave step!
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Did someone put you in a starter pack?
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But if you're 40+ and still have boobs, get 'em checked.
Younger? Check yourself - that's how I saved my own life, though I didn't find the cancer until it was stage 3b
(40+ should self-check too!)
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Wow, those colors!
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Congrats!
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I queried agents who didn't ask for a synopsis for the first 3 months! 😆
Best synopsis trick: start small. Write a minimal list of key plot points, then make them sentences and split them into paragraphs. Then you can revise by adding to meet word count instead of cutting
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As I understand, it's fermented. The fermentation itself creates a sourness like a pickle, but for pickling you add vinegar from the start.
That said, I'm not a kimchi expert (I make sauerkraut and pickles, but not kimchi), so please someone correct me if I'm wrong! 🫠
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I mark anything AI as missing and treat the assignment like it was never turned in, because that shows up in reports to parents. I've had students beg me to give them a zero instead! They don't want help figuring out the work, they just want it off the missing list so they can play minecraft again
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I'm gonna be so sad when I give up my manual transmission car for a hybrid or EV. It'll be the right move, but I'll miss the control driving snowy roads!
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Which one do you find most user-friendly as a reader?
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Love it!
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It's like the doors became visible when they popped off the secret portal they were locking. I wonder what escaped...
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Aaaahhh!
Good luck 😁
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Omg yes!!
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Boycotting Amazon is only career suicide until enough people do it that the company loses dominance in ebooks. Look at the huge increase in publishing success on itch!
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Kopi luwak
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Query letters are the worst for that! 😆 I read my latest so many times, it just became a heap of nonsense to me
Best of luck as you enter the trenches!
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You could make it a bit clearer what they stand to lose. Who do they love? What are they invested in that would devastate them to lose?
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Ooh, interesting!
P1: I think you mean back of his mind?
P3: part of the issue may just be that the sentences are so phrase-heavy, which makes them harder to understand. You introduce a bunch of new elements, but that might be OK with clearer syntax to show how they relate
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So true 😆
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That's my city yard too! Seven big pines, a bunch of prairie, and the grass is mostly taken over by buckthorn that's weirdly happy to live as a ground cover instead of a shrub
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That sounds violent 😆 perfect for a dystopia
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Scent?!?? That's cool! I feel like I could learn so much about your book's world and characters just by how they interacted while playing that game
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All too true! 😆
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Readers won't go all-in on a story unless they feel the author is also all in.
Torture the readers.
Have fun! 😆