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An empowered #MayDay to you all! Here's a an excerpt from my #YA sci-fi #WIP with "cup." #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

My brain when I could be working on my #WIP... I have too many worries. I have all this other stuff to do. This pile of laundry is messing with my vibe. I don't know what the heck I'm doing in that chapter. I'm too cold. I don't have enough chocolate. 🙄 Really, brain? Really?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Life fell apart for a minute, but I've now reached 38K in my Greek myth-infused sci-fi #YA. And I have a new-and-improved outline I feel good about. Onward.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

As I flail, battered by the winds of five jobs and no money, shrinking from the fingers of authoritarianism in it's snickering baby stages, an image comes to me from the blue, bringing me back to story, back to art-making. "The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation." - Jonathan Larson #WIP

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Inside, the Tenement is an infinite maze of halls and doors. Outside, there is... Nothing. When Noah Walker's mother disappears one night, he sets out to unravel the secrets of his surreal world... even it means bringing the whole thing down. #PosterPit #PosterPitW #YA #D #M

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Never, ever, ever give up.

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"To a very sad degree, Supreme Court justices and members of Congress are already complicit in this experiment in state terror. They might find their way back to an America in which their offices have meaning, but only with the help of we the people." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

She’s an aspiring children’s book author!! Free her.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, new strategy when I'm so stressed and overwhelmed by work, life, the news, that I can't make myself write a word: "If I write, I will have an easier time falling asleep." #WIP

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Agree. This student reminds me of so many of my students who are working hard and to have the government do this to you for no reason other than racism and xenophobia is... disgusting.

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i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

submitted 25 days ago • 719 comments

Words cannot express how enraged I feel when I hear about Harriet Tubman's picture and quotes erased from the National Park Serivces website. Erasing history must not be tolerated. "Black / White cooperation." Are they 🤬 kidding? There is no business as usual here. www.yahoo.com/news/nationa...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I don't have enough hands for the number of signs (and messages) I'd like to carry on Saturday... Who's getting in some "good trouble"? www.newsweek.com/hands-off-pr...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I'm up to 32K in this YA sci-fi #WIP. Apparently, I must have a crew of mysterious piratey-folk dragging protagonists out of the roiling sea in every story I write. A virtual, highly-polluted sea, in this case. Anyhoo, one of my teenage kittens fell asleep on me weirdly. I'm highly amused.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Share your thoughts, and thank him for taking a stand!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.

submitted 32 days ago • 376 comments

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

submitted 35 days ago • 65 comments

This attempt to defund and shutter museums and libraries is predictable yet terrifying. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ShowUpForLibraries #FundLibraries #writingcommunity

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 35 days ago • 2088 comments

Tonight, for the #YA #sci-fi, I'm researching to find out exactly what (if anything) is scary about sheep.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

When I first read this, I thought it said EM wrote on a website that he was, personally, undermining civilization. And I thought, "Ah, he admits to it..." I'm a little sleepy, but I'm sure my take is accurate.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

And here's the Fundraiser to save it...! www.fundlibraries.org/campaign/243... #writingcommunity #kidlit #YA

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

My actor-fairy MG fantasy is tighter than ever at 54K. I'm ready to start querying again. 😁🎭🦋 The MG market is tough right now, so please send positive vibes. I need a boost of encouragement! #MGtyDucks, you still out there somewhere? #kidlit #writingcommunity? Help me out! #amquerying! 😅

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Have any of you noticed something unusual while filling out fields in Query Tracker lately? When I paste my query and pages, a line of <formatting cues> appears across the top of the field. If I delete the <cues>, the formatting stays. Not sure if I should delete it. Thoughts?😬 #amquerying #WIP

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

My 82yo mom could lose half her monthly income. My spouse's college loan debt could... ? My kiddo could lose her accommodations. The universities I work at could... ? A zillion other things. Friends. Family. Students. But still #writing, eating breakfast, staying cheery for the kiddo... Right?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Kid's going away to camp, and I'm worried about my mom, and I'm worried about my friend, and I'm worried about seventeen other completely horrible things because I read the news multiple times today... but somehow I will try to write and get some sleep... 🌛🌟☹️

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 45 days ago • 1039 comments

Finally finished watching Kaos. Ooh, that ending. I'm envisioning the second season in my head (too bad it shall not be produced.) But it lives in my head nonetheless. 🔥

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Great session with my writing group this morning. So glad to still be meeting with these folks. Going strong for, what is it... two or three years?! Am now up to 22K in the YA dystopian sci-fi. 🤖 #amwriting #WIP #writingcommunity #kidlit

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

So, I guess I'm not the only one having trouble reconciling my cuddly, purring cats with the annihilation of everything... 😵‍💫

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