Liz Larson

Since we have the Milwaukee Brewers, I feel like we need the Seattle Roasters. A beverage-based rivalry would really round out the league.

Nothing brings more peace than a well-organized spreadsheet ☺️

Are you even an actor if you haven’t pumped gas while dressed like an Elizabeth in bar wench?

Sour patch kids with my coffee. Must be a show day 😜.

a man in a black jacket is sitting at a table with a tree in the background . ALT: a man in a black jacket is sitting at a table with a tree in the background .

Society is crumbling… must be time to binge-watch Supernatural again…

Nothing reminds you of the steady march of time like legal research. Just had to update my date cut off from 2001 to 2010 😵.

This must be why partners stop doing their own research…

Remember to realize that time is an arbitrary construct tonight. Free yourself. Miss every appointment. People will be so mad at you

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations.

When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

YES! I miss the heyday of 140-character punchlines. #MakeTheInternetAbaurdAgain!

You know it’s a good workout class when you have to run out to your car to make 7-minutes worth of voice notes with ideas for your writing projects ☺️

So is everyone thinking about Jonathan Swift daily or is it just me?

Just me?

Ok then, stayed tuned for a Modest Proposal 😏

I’m not her. Sorry

Dreams are just your brain telling your body a bedtime story.

My body has apparently deeply angered my brain…

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Not all of us get to live out our dreams or reach the goals we've worked so hard for, but every day life is going to give you the chance to BE the person you've always dreamed of being - brave, kind, noble, just, empathetic, heroic. That's something neither life nor circumstance can ever deny you.

The fact that I cannot find a Saquon Barkley Eagles jersey for my dog is a seriously missed opportunity… #GoBirds

Save Your Darlings.docx Save Your Darlings: Editing Strategies to Reduce Your Word Count Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Literary Agent Marsal Lyon Literary Agency Email: cathie@marsallyonliteraryagency.com Queries: querymanager....

#writingcommunity Here’s a #queryingtip for you: with the rare exception, I start to get hives at anything over 100K words. When it hits 120K, I have a full outbreak. By 130K, regardless of genre, it’s a hard no.

Here’s a doc that might help you cut words:
www.tinyurl.com/saveyourdarlings.

Alright, writers. Take a cue from Lynch: go be your weird damn selves and leave some fucking art in this world before you're gone.

Nothing makes one confront their control issues quite like being swaddled in an infrared sauna blanket by a stranger like a trapped microwave burrito.

Is this enlightenment? Or delirium?

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉

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It’s called Koffeteria, and I will be going there very soon 🤤

So, like, where’s the good spot for comedy on this app? Like, absurdist, maybe dark, clever comedy?

Writing Shakespeare-inspired fiction is all fun and games until you try to write 3 flipping lines in trochaic tetrameter 😫

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I sent out the first query for my academic rivals-to-lovers romance meets Shakespearean sketch comedy (and tragedy) opus 😬. Here we go again 🤞🥂 #amquerying

Shakespeare & The Great Elizabethan Fear “O, thou well-skilled in curses, stay awhile, and teach me how to curse mine enemies.”

Have I mentioned I have a Substack blending Shakespearean criticism and sketch comedy?

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Current mood:

Brain: The manuscript just needs one more pass.

Muse: Dun wanna

Brain: But—

Muse: No way, Jose!

Brain: Would you do it for new office supplies?

Muse: 😍

Pants are for the office only. Real writers pen their works sans pants. Hardcore writers pen their works going commando.

Thoughts from the dentist chair:

I could never be a hygienist. I can’t color inside the lines…