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✒️Author of KISS AND REPEAT🖋 | AuDHD | PhD student at FSU | Managing Editor @ Southeast Review | she/her
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This is my last semester of coursework before prelims and dissertation work (2-3 years). I’ve been in school since Jan 2017. I’m exhausted. But on Fridays, I get to meet with 17 interns and lead them through publishing discussions. Every week, Friday makes me willing to keep going.

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An ability to describe things in the world is a basic creative writing skill you can isolate to learn much as an artist learns by, say, sketching a bench or trees in a park. It requires sustained practice and it's easy to tell who hasn't done it.

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Starting my mornings with pirate music… not a coping strategy I predicted for the year, but it’s helping.

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Alongside a trail at St Mark’s

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We talked about crowns of sonnets in workshop, so this week I took crowns to class and we all wore them while discussing poetry. 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

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Them: Your manuscript should be cohesive and make sense as a complete book My Manuscript:

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I woke up with a story in my head. My writing has suffered this year, and hearing a character talk to me feels so good.

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

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"In the treehouse, Calla stretched out across the boards, knees bent so her bare feet rested flat against the wood of the floor. Jade used her cell phone light to read one of Darlene’s magazines." Heather Truett, Spoon Knife 8 autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

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#zucked

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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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I spent this evening tabling an event with a few interns from the journal I work for. It was a fundraiser for a local queer bookstore, and being in that space was like aloe on a sunburn.

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Last night, my dream was basically the plot of a romantasy. I was having a difficult pregnancy. A magical one. The father was some sort of shape shifting wolf king. He wasn’t a nice guy. I was a little scared of him and a lot attracted to him.

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