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Alyssa W.

@akwwrites.bsky.social

Writer by night, office drone by day

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Literary magazines will come back 3 years later to tell you they didn’t want your story. Like bitch why. What story. Who the fuck are you

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14.08.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One thing about living in NYC is that the dog barking:man barking ratio is not as lopsided as you might hope

11.08.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Writing is like stand-up comedy with a much longer lead time

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07.08.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Make sure you get two friends to beta read your manuscript so that you can hear completely opposite things about every part of it

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03.08.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just got my copy of @jacobinmag.bsky.social so I’m officially a Socially Conscious Intellectual now. Catch me on NPR next week if it still exists

01.08.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Writing is fun cause sometimes you spend 18 hours sweating over a terrible story and sometimes you crank out something great in 45 minutes

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31.07.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heyyy girl. Are you one of those handy dykes. Cause you can move my box

28.07.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

After 8 hours of day job: I still have energy left for drinks

After 30 min of writing: time for bed

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25.07.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They say there’s no such thing as a synonym but idk the words all seem pretty similar to me after 2 hours of staring at them

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24.07.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I should have a podcast with the voices in my head. We’re pretty funny together

23.07.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New Story_DRAFT (1) (2) Beta/Chapter 6 Edits ver 2.docx really do be hitting different rn

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21.07.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It feels scary to give someone a manuscript to beta read, but don’t worry! Nothing they’ll say will possibly be as cruel and crushing as what you’ve already told yourself about it

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20.07.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes instead of editing I like to ram my head repeatedly into a wall. It’s the same effect

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16.07.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes I take a break from fiction to read nonfiction books about the state of the world. Then I remember why I don’t do that

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16.07.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s very defeating when you type up 30 pages of handwriting and it turns out to be 1 paragraph of print

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14.07.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I’ve been surprised by this month is the bromance between my 2 shut in roommates who never go outside. They’ve become besties

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11.07.2025 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Writing is like dentistry: sometimes you gotta keep going even if there’s a little blood

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11.07.2025 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What if you wrote a 700 page Ulysses-style tome but the middle third was just a bunch of stuff copied from the dictionary. How many agents would you have to submit it to for someone to figure it out

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03.07.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I get my best ideas on space mountain personally

02.07.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finding inspiration as an author is easy. Just wait for a time to come when it’s absolutely impossible for you to write anything down

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02.07.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Living in New York really broadens your horizons. I’ve learned that no matter what someone’s race, gender, class, or creed, they are equally capable of behaving like an absolute mouth-breather in the subway

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01.07.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love the song Yesterday, but the lyric β€œwhy she had to go I don’t know, she wouldn’t say/I said something wrong/now I long for yesterday” makes me think that Paul McCartney DEFINITELY knows what he said wrong and is denying it

#music #beatles

01.07.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes I like to write by hand in a spiral notebook because then I can pretend my story is some kind of insane political manifesto

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26.06.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Dating apps be like the ugliest person in a 5 mile radius wants to suck yo toes

25.06.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Breaking: the sticker that stuck to the bottom of your shoe 2 miles ago and then stuck to your hand when you tried to get it off has endorsed Andrew Cuomo

24.06.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s important for kids to be digitally literate so that’s why I’m naming my son Lincoln Bio

22.06.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have a comedy show coming up at The Woods in NYC! Tuesday at 8 :)

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21.06.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Desire to finish the old project is no match for the urge to start the next one

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18.06.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Authors write books with a lot of pages so that readers will assume some of them must be good

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15.06.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You should be able to post dumb things on BlueSky but then they should charge you money

14.06.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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