mjj-writes.bsky.social
Writer. M for Marie; M.J.'s fine. Words in EMBALM/Myriad, Tales to Terrify and Gwyllion Magazine. Pseudonymous. 🏳️🌈 she/her
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Hey, you got there. I dream of being brave and resilient enough to face all that rejection and pull through anyway!
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That is truly a two-sentence horror story.
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It is indeed! Thank you again for your critique :)
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"Someone will love this just the way it is" is permanently stamped on my brain. It took another two years to sell that story but I found the someone ❤️
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Pretty sure I have at least one memorised, so you're not alone.
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Mine is virtual too! But the dice are an essential part of the process. Rolling dice with Google is not the same.
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As someone who has not been submitting for even half that time, this was really thought-provoking - and strangely comforting - to read. Thanks for sharing this, I'm really glad I came across it.
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I only have one set, which were a gift - I didn't think I was playing enough to justify a proper set of my own - and they make me smile every time I roll them. Dice make such a difference!
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I actually don't know enough about Lewis or his work to know the context or have a real opinion of Sayers' judgement there, but it makes me snort with laughter every time.
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I am eternally delighted by Dorothy L Sayers affectionately skewering Lewis (in a letter to a friend of hers) with "I do admit that he is apt to write shocking nonsense about women and marriage. (That, however, is not because he is a bad theologian but because he is a rather frightened bachelor.)"
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It's a fun thought that - just as you can't edit a blank page and have to put SOMETHING down on the paper - you can't build a life without having a go and seeing what works, either.
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It's funny how you feel like you can't write so much as a word, and then you write a word, and another word pops up after it like a mushroom, and another, and then it's 3am.
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I guess it's better to know sooner rather than later if you're in bell-book-and-candle territory?
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My Welsh Duolingo was optimistically teaching me to say "Wales won the Six Nations championship" yesterday. I didn't have the heart to correct it.
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You're welcome! The repetition of it being Hera's fault, and the glimpses of shattering grief over his family (that he killed) (that he mourns) genuinely chilled me
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After something like that the very least you deserve is a snack!
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Congratulations!!
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can't begin to explain how much of a benefit knitting is for my mental health; I get to be creative, I get to experiment, I get to MAKE SOMETHING that has an immediate usefulness for myself or for others
it connects me to history. people have always made things, no matter how dark the world is
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Forbidden water is always tastier! Especially when it inconveniences a human.
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My mind is blown because I write short stories, so my strong prior association with this man was that he's the guy who set the standard for formatting stories. Basically all submissions guidelines refer to Shunn modern/Shunn classic formatting. The bomb threat is brand new information to me 😂
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"How's the view from your glass house, Sir Walter??"
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So did the leech 🤢 I deeply wish someone could confirm whether they got all the eggs out.
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Oh, that's a shame. I loved the fiction Hexagon published and was really hoping I'd find the right story for you one day. Congratulations on everything you've built, and good luck with the next venture!
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Awards season has passed me by, but I can imagine that's another level of aargh - with the additional skincrawling awkward of self-promotion 😂
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I tend to spend all my time at writing groups doing the administrative bits 😬It's not very glamorous but it is necessary, and it's a lot easier to motivate myself to write than it is to motivate myself to track down new markets, reformat files, and monitor submissions...
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Ah hello! Followed. :)
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