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Saw this the other day -

“If you ever worry that you don’t have what it takes to be a writer, you were born to be one. Normal people literally never think about writing.”.

And that just made some things click.

Out: Write drunk edit sober

In: think about writing to the point of obsession while drunk but be incapable of crafting a coherent sentence and then shut down after getting no work done and then wake up the next morning with no recollection of any ideas you had the night before

Sometimes it helps me to act out the scene myself (even if it's not out loud), giving each character a voice and flow really helps me out!

Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's fine. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to set myself on fire.

I’ve only read a little but it’s great so far, can’t wait to finish it! :) I used to vacation in Tawas every summer and have visited that exact spot many times myself, super neat to see it set there.

Congrats!

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If You Like Workplace Fatalities, You'll Love This GOP Plan To Kill OSHA! Make falling to your death from a burning building because your boss locked the doors great again.

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Too many Americans "did their own research"

Front page of the nyt

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.

Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

Don’t be a sheep. Be a chupacabra in a field of goats.

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later

Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

👋Writer and environmental science major here!

Me 24/7:

merry christmas🎄🤍

Some will declare fealty publicly. Some privately.

Make no mistake, they will all protect their own interests before defending the country that made them rich.

Kiss me passionately in the secluded corner of a used bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Prague during a raging thunderstorm, or kindly stop wasting my time.

I mark mine by how good I feel about it the next day, if it’s something I can see putting in the final draft I see that as a big mark of progress! Of course I still watch word count too just because it’s important for me to get any ideas out, no matter the initial ‘quality’ 🥰

I‘ll probably have to wait a few weeks to purchase it on Amazon with the holidays coming up (we have 3 birthdays in the family too🥲), but I’d love to support you by getting a paperback when I can! If you’d like to send me the pdf in the meantime I can get to reading it sooner, just shoot me a dm!☺️

That’s actually some of the best advice I’ve seen yet, so simple but so real. ☺️

If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.

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