Stephanie Vanderslice

When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult because I imagined that adulthood would be a time when no one would interrupt me when I was trying to read.

If I could go back in time, I would tell that little girl she has never been more wrong about anything in her life.

Fake Unicorns and Real Llamas, Open Mike Eagle, Pickup Truck Opera: The Week's Best Events - Racket Plus a rebranded and expanded Pillsbury House.

"If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Man, I’d really love to get a camper, pack up my stuff, and head into the Canadian wilderness with my two cats,” then Karen Babine’s new book is going to speak to you with stunning specificity."

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🌞 Find a balance 💪

#WritingCommunity #Inspire

You sure do favor her.

Must say I'm so happy to be connected with All the wonderful women from all over the world here on BlueSky.... ❤️

Wishing you a Happy International Women’s Day !!!

#womensday #InternationalWomensDay
#HappyInternationalWomensDay

She looks just like the kind of teacher all the kids would have adored.

We are not alone!

Watching Love, Meghan on Netflix. I like it! It’s no more or less awkward than Barefoot Contessa which I also like. There, I said it. Could we lay off the Sussexes?

New way to think about stress dreams: the opportunity to wake up and think, well whatever happens to me today, it probably won’t be as bad as that.

Me: Friday’s going to be such a productive day! 30 degree temperature drop induced headache: Not so fast!

Happy to send it, really.

On days you feel low, organizing and cuddling your old work can feel good. You will see personal growth and remember how you felt actually writing some things. You will also find writing you have zero memory of ever writing. The mystery of YOU is real. #writingcommunity #writers #inspiration

A screenshot of a news article about Artificial Intelligence, which reads: “OpenAl says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor. White House Al tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft.”

Tech bros: “So we stole creatives’ IP on a grand scale to train our AI. So what?”

Also tech bros: “DeepSeek stole our IP! Waaaaaah!”

Karma, baby. It’s DELICIOUS. ☺️

💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity

I also pubbed a book that deals with this a lot. I still have some copies, dm me your address and I’ll send you one.

I know this may not be helpful but as a creative writing teacher, most of the people who felt they were bad writers were far from it. It’s the people who feel they’re already great writers we need to worry about. You may still need a break. You are just at a different stage.

This!

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 1.29.25 from Nora Roberts www.nancychristie.com/my-books-for... #writingprocess #writingadvice

Reckoning With This Vicious World Don’t let it make you anxious or merciless or indifferent. This moment requires balance, compassion, and love from each and every one of us.

I needed this. Maybe you do too. Seize joy.

Just knowing it's something I might someday find is heartening. Recently discovered the regular dark chocolate bar.

Interview: Heidi Czerwiec - CRAFT I started writing lyric essays long before I knew the language for what I was doing. Working at the intersection of poetry and prose, I wrote about big emotions (love, grief) because I wasn’t sure how...

Check out @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social's interview in CRAFT on the lyric essay: "all of these different lyric elements…sound or visual images, smell, or doing strange things with time…engage with the reader in a different way than a more traditional linear narrative would."
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There's a BROWNIE BAR?

Interested in how this goes, please keep us posted.

It does!

All it would take would be adding, "btw. I am grateful for the partner whose health insurance allowed me to do this." Reminds me that comedian Leanne Morgan does this all the time, talking about her husband with a regular salary.

Listening to podcast with an artist I admire. How she's stayed true to her art in her long career. Unmentioned: her partner's income stability & health ins. Asking again, could we PLEASE be upfront about this? For those of us who ARE the partners with the health insurance etc.w/out such flexibility.

How: The Cost of Living Looking at sample French budgets from around the web

New substack: Sources to help you determine what it would cost to live in France.

Grr. Everybody meets on Monday nights, when I teach.

Writing Tip:
Consider drawing your world. You don't have to be an epic artist to do this, just create a rough map of where things are geographically. A visual representation can really help iron out the details of your worldbuilding, and you can update it as you go.
#writing #writingtips #writesky

Unmoored Jane Eyre would dig a good packing cube. In fact, she’d probably identify with one. Compact and useful, the cube is neither fussy nor proud. Its task-directed presence, quietly doing its duty, contain...

For your reading pleasure. You’re welcome. literarymama.com/articles/dep...

If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
Writing.
2. your initial major?
English
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
Human Development (Psych, Eng. minors)
4. what do you do now?
Writer, Writing prof. Creative writing pedagogy scholar