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toddedillard.bsky.social
“Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, poetry editor of The Boiler, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
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the driver that does not drive into a lake has internalized the moral code of the oppressor

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Hey, I'm accepting book pitches for @barrelhouse.bsky.social for our new nonfiction series, For What It's Worth. Book-length essays (25-30K words) on a pop cultural obsession, ideally with a personal angle that makes the book something only you could write.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

but who is going to write the poem

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Today's listing of the day is: Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

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delighted to discover Mike White of White Lotus fame also wrote School of Rock

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the face of someone whose favorite chair has been at the pool all day and is finally back

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porting over my “banger novel openings” thread from the bird site

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I seriously want to write this novel now. I just might.

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We here at NAWP talk a lot about poetry, but we are fully supportive of the prose arts as well.

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One of the most important things to ever happen online: Todd's collection of "this post should be a novel opener."

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porting over my “banger novel openings” thread from the bird site

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I’ve heard through the grapevine the stamp looks like this 😩

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*eavesdropping on my 9-year-old playing with my 4-year-old* 9yo: sometimes people fall asleep and they don’t wake up 4yo: TIME FOR ANOTHER BATTLE *sound of toys clashing*

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I just talked to Caroline Kepnes. She doesn’t have a substack, @rollingstone.com. Also, JD Barker was asking women to get naked with his book on TikTok last year. Not a single quote here. This whole piece is shit. Not a single person fact checked this trash? That’s sad. And stupid.

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“Just because this poem uses the ‘I’ doesn’t mean it’s confessional” the poem:

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😅

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“Just because this poem uses the ‘I’ doesn’t mean it’s confessional” the poem:

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“Rather than write the thing, I created an outline, edited AI OUTPUT extensively myself and with an editor over weeks, and what I turned out looks mid at best in the most complimentary of light. Roughly 17 hours of work that could’ve been done better in about 4. Everyone is doing this I assume.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

well I guess main characters of the day are back

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment