Alyssa W.

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

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

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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I get my best ideas on space mountain personally

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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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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I love the song Yesterday, but the lyric “why 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

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

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

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

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I have a comedy show coming up at The Woods in NYC! Tuesday at 8 :)

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

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

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