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Welp, burned through 6500 (revised) words in 2 days. Can't tell if it's garbage or not. It's probably garbage. BUT - I think story-wise it makes sense. I just have to un-garbigify the words.

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16yo told me about this post and "did you beat the salt merchant to death" made me laugh SO HARD and now I am dying for an @adamcsharp.bsky.social thread on the subject 🙏🙏🙏

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8am meetings on the Monday after a week off should be illegal.

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I feel like my life is one long ping pong between “I am SO GOOD at this” and “omg I SUCK at this why does anyone let me do this??”

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Well. Now seems like a good time to mention that my lil sapphic gaslamp fantasy novella is and has always been on Kobo (and Kobo Plus). #queerwriters www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

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I have concluded that any media wherein the message is “rich people are frequently terrible people, actually” is not for me. I do not need a movie to tell me that. I thought that was obvious.

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Considering the trouble this lighting setup has given me, this improvised moment was pretty damn cool:

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Nation being threatened with annexation reminded to be polite to would-be conqueror's special song (Patreon Exclusive)

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I'm supposed to drive to YYZ on Thursday to catch a flight to a festival. We're supposed to get 30-40cm of snow on Thursday. Pray for me, please.

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Casting shows is the worst. Why are there SO MANY talented people???

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📣NEWS: MADDER LAKE, my Night Circus but magic painting academia book, has new rep! I’m obsessed w my two lovesick (read: in denial) horny-for-colors art students and I’m excited to try to sell this with my agent Jim McCarthy!!! #writersky #darkacademia #booknews #rivalstolovers #writingcommunity

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Every single time I hear Jesse Eisenberg talk about directing Kieran Culkin, the less I respect both of them, jesus. Emma Stone having to go to his house and drive him personally to the airport to make sure he got on the damn plane to get to set is not a cute story, it's unprofessional AF.

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Seconding!!! This is such a lovely welcoming place with great selection and a pretty great kidlit section, including a nice variety of YA!

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I need to stop doomscrolling, but every time I go to stop, there's a new doom.

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WRITING TIP: if you get stuck, try making the font really really big. This will remind you of being a baby, when you only knew twelve words and didn't know about death

submitted 27 days ago • 61 comments

Woman who agrees with Doug Ford halting US liquor also needs that liquor to deal with fact she agrees with Doug Ford

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Did Mexico just get a tariff pause by committing to put troops on the border they share with a country that's been implying it might take unilateral military action against Mexico?

submitted 28 days ago • 38 comments

Is Somebody Doing Something?! open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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I am in desperate need of more hours in the day to do all the things I want and need to do.

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Regarding trade war fuckery, the only thing that I am genuinely shocked by here is the USians - leftists no less!! - I see arguing against Cdn retaliatory tariffs with "not all Americans!!!" Like. EXCUSE YOU. Canada is ITS OWN COUNTRY and this is KINDA THE BARE MINIMUM. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT EXACTLY.

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Obsessed with the Sellsword Arts TikTok account. As someone who struggles with fight scenes, they’ve been absurdly helpful. www.tiktok.com/@sellsword.a...

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Watching JT's speech tonight made me so proud of my decision to move to Canada in 2021. 242 days until I can apply for citizenship for me and my children. I'm counting them down.

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The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

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The first draft vs The Edit

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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Got fed up with my impulse to over-complicate my book. On the left is “things that are 100% true”. The right is the 5 sentences of my plot (courtesy @rebeccathorne.bsky.social) plus the simplest method of getting from one sentence to the next. 2k words later, I’m halfway done.

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