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I'm leaning into Octavia Butler's words lately. "Don't make excuses about what you don't have or what you would do if you did, use that energy to 'find a way, make a way."💯 #creativity #quotes #writingquotes

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My muse is cooking tonight. She's doing whatever she wants to do, and I'm letting her get away with it. We'll see how this ends. #amwriting #amrevising #amwritingfantasy

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Mariah said you'll always be my baby

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Eating kimchi so hot that I'm literally sweating. I love it here 🥵🤌🏾

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📚Our New Voices Award writing contest is open for submissions! ✨Lee & Low is looking for unpublished authors of color or Indigenous/Native writers hoping to break into the publishing industry for the first time with their picture book manuscript. 💻Learn more: www.leeandlow.com/blog/new-voi...

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YOU are NOT PROTECTED when a non citizen is denied due process. If there is no due process, how do you confirm YOU are an American? You can’t. Now you rot in El Salvador or whatever God forsaken hell hole you’ve been deported with no recourse or hope.

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I'm the epitome of "I'm with you when you're right" but I'm also so grown that I'm not arguing with you. So if you're wrong and adamant about it, Sure Jan 👍🏾

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I always go back to make sure the scenes I write will make enough people cry. I have goals 🤣

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Sh!t.... Senator Booker might have just talked me out of resting 😭

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@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

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"I retain the floor." Y'all better run this like you ran "Reclaiming my time". Because I am 😏

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Thank you, @booker.senate.gov.

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𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙚. Even when you’re overwhelmed by the nonsense. 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚. Even when empathy feels ill-advised. 🖤 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚. Even when the chaos feels distracting. ✍🏾🎨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩. Even when victory seems impossible. 👊🏾 𝙒𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬.

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My MC would tell me to square up if she saw me IRL, and I can’t blame her. I put this girl through EVERYTHING 😵‍💫😵‍💫

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Just wrote the swooniest scene about two people who have been in love since forever but are still falling for each other. Girl.

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This was A BOOK. No spoilers except to say you better get your copy!!!!!

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Omgosh...sitting down to write and just being all "how do I do words?"

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Rodney Taylor is a beloved Georgia barber who came to the United States from Liberia with his mother when he was only two years old. He applied for citizenship but was denied. But this year, ICE arrested him, locked him up, and has scheduled him to be deported to a faraway country he's never known.

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I'm 67% in, and all I know is that by the time I'm 100% done, I need book four to be downloaded to my brain. I dont make the rules 🤷🏾‍♀️ #Oathbound #Booksky #BVM

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Authors, take note

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Whenever anybody questions literally anything in my mermaid-ish fantasy novel. Girl...

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Between reading Oathbound and playing Split Fiction with my husband, my inner child is healing 🍃🍃

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We went to early vote today. An elderly Black woman saw us walking toward the polls and, with the brightest smile, said, "Y'all going to vote early?" Us: "Yes, ma'am." Her: "Yall want to know the Black vote?" Us: "Yes, ma'am." And now, back to resting. #92percent

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About to start Oathbound this weekend 😈🔥🗡

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The only good thing about this is that the logs will still exist, including who was granted write access, who granted it, and what they did with it since those logs typically have 5+ year policies attached.

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It finally happened to me. I'm knee-deep in revisions, and I'm cutting 10 chapters in a row since they don't work in this version. One of those chapters holds my favorite lines that I've ever written. I'm gonna cry 😭 But I will find a way to work those words into another story 🙃 #bvm #amwriting

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I'm resting. My nerve wants to respond to what I'm seeing because I was raised at marches and knocking door-to-door for candidates and causes. But my spirit wants rest. This isn't just about the 2024 US election results. It's about 400 years of telling them so & still winding up here. So, we rest 🖤

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Just so you're clear, the Montgomery Boycott started as a one-day event. "90% of the black community stayed off the buses on 5 December, prompting calls for...a larger protest campaign" later focusing on "voter registration, local school integration, and the integration of public facilities."

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NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

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This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇 @housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.

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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the 1890 Scholarship program for HBCU students. The White House previously halted the program as part of Trump’s anti-DEI initiative.

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I need a go-to book. One that's so chock full of one-paragraph or one-page gems that I can pick it up after months or years of finishing it and still feel something special. Thinking bell hooks or someone like that might have what I need, but it also would take forever to find the one. Le sigh.

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Looking thru my TBW (to be written) file. So many of the latest entries end with the words: THIS ONE CAN BE A STANDALONE. You know you're tired of your epic fantasy series revisions when you're like "make the next one anything but that".

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Suits (original) is my favorite show in a dead heat tie with The Network. So I'm always a little iffy on remakes. There was a South Korean remake that only worked for me because Park Hyung-sik is a convincing Mike, and he's one of my fav S.K. actors. But this new Suits show is making me nervous.

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