Alisha Erin Hillam

doing some freelance editing rn & thought I might share a fun prose-writing trick that can help cut back on wordiness & over-explaining: approach the end of each sentence as a poet may approach a line break; i.e. try to shape sentences so that they end on the most interesting/important word possible

oh gosh I kept scrolling and there is a LOT of it

woke up to this 😭😭

this thread justifies the state of my laptop browser

This entire piece is spectacular, but this bit is a little grenade

RIP to the great Rev. Jesse Jackson. This would probably get cancelled today for being too "DEI." How far we have fallen, and what a voice we have lost

Art speaks and endures

this looks fantastic--and, having heard the author speak, can already vouch for the clarity of his insights. looking forward to reading this

My kids are constantly asking me how I know all this “random” stuff and they also gave me 11 novels between the 2 of them for X-mas and they’re so close to answering their own question lol

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

12/12

happy birthday to all of us, fellow EWS writers!!

My book is out today and I got to write an essay reflecting on disability in romance for LitHub! Check out the article below🥹

Oh my God...

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and she 😉

"The extra minute had nothing more to show than what was already present --- it showed just a minute more of that. More light but, so, all begins again. Today, there was nothing else to see but there was one more minute to see it in."

21 December, Tim Dee, Greenery, p. 15

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

This us quite something, never in my life would I have thought this could be America.

soonnnnn 👀

This dramatic seascape by Ivan Aivazovsky, titled "The Tempest," captures the raw power and fury of the stormy sea with a ship caught amidst tumultuous waves. Aivazovsky, renowned for his maritime paintings, masterfully conveys the sublime and perilous beauty of nature, reflecting his profound connection to the sea.

The Tempest https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/the-tempest-1886

there are a lot of (more important) things to hate right now, but one thing no one is talking about is how obnoxious it is to have to get a verification code to log into literally ANYTHING

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And if you can afford it, buy physical copies. Now more than ever, we need to archive what we can. Digital can no longer be trusted. Especially in this day when our own information can be easily modified or deleted. Let’s get back to actually owning things and preserve a library for the future.

a little girl is making a funny face while wearing a blue shirt with a leopard print . ALT: a little girl is making a funny face while wearing a blue shirt with a leopard print .

got some exciting news today and am all

can't waittttttt!!

We must acknowledge that the reader is doing something quite difficult for him, and the reason you don’t change point of view too often is so he won’t get lost; and the reason you paragraph often is so that his eyes won’t get tired, is so you get him without him knowing it by making his job easy for him. He has to restage your show in his head—costume and light it. His job is not easy.

Interesting writing advice from Kurt Vonnegut. Sounds almost simplistic, yet many forget it.

#writing

Małopolska Mosaic - Consequence Forum

This poem spent a little time behind a paywall, and have just realized that I never shared it now that it's out in the wild! Grateful to Consequence Forum for publishing what was, for me, a profound series of experiences

consequenceforum.org/malopolska-m...

Małopolska Mosaic - Consequence Forum

This poem spent a little time behind a paywall, and have just realized that I never shared it now that it's out in the wild! Grateful to Consequence Forum for publishing what was, for me, a profound series of experiences

consequenceforum.org/malopolska-m...

yesssssss!!

The whole point of that “First they came for the—“ poem is that they get around to everybody.

consider me educated 😂🔥