#Writers

My advice for writers is to just pick one essay you like and are a little scared of and read it over and over and stop after every paragraph to
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jughead jones is demisexual, a necessary thread. incase you don’t know what demisexual means, it’s on the asexual spectrum. demisexuals can only feel sexual attraction to people that they are
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A cop friend sent me a clip from the TV show "The Neighborhood." It deals with police and racial justice by having a mother (Genna, played by Beth Behrs) talk
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BREAKING: Over 100 authors, musicians & actors - from @stephenfry to Ali Smith & Mark Rylance - call on PM @BorisJohnson to extend Right to Roam.We need greater access to
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Woken to the terrible news of John le Carré’s passing. One of the great writer of our time and imho the author of the greatest twentieth century English book, Tinker
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I went down the rabbit hole with some contemporary reactionary writing recently. Wild trip. One thing I like about the reactionary writing style is the overwrought, mystical tone (not snarking
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This is a rant about people questioning the value of romance novels. And I had to get some things off my chest. But just to be clear, romance novels are
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This is adapted from last week's Substack; go ahead and subscribe, http://nancyrommelmann.substack.com . Some of us have been writing and podcasting for a week about Donald McNeil, who left the New
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I love seeing writers making peace with rejection. I think one of the best things you can do early in your career is to go out and seek rejection. Literally,
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Some important tips for writing with #xass the story runs 24 hours from launch (11am Sunday, Australian Eastern Standard Time) each week. #xass is a lighthearted mystery. Puns, jokes, and
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Hey, Jeremy.If D&D’s first rule is “make it your own,” then uh...Care to explain Adventurer’s League?Because all your attempts at addressing bioessentialism in tieflings and orcs and whatever?Not AL legal.I’m
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Two writers that I admire, @david_perell & @Nicolascole77 have COMPLETELY different takes on where to write online (see below)David's camp is all for building your personal blog. Nicolas swears by
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Industry scale movement is long term movement & long term movement is measured in bulk of years. Say, for example, you want to develop a generation of scriptwriters to service
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I know that it’s like three media scandals ago but one of the things that really just gets under my skin about the Greenwald/Taibbi BS is that they completely misrepresent
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something i've always wanted to say: it's easy to tell new writers "don't focus on kudos/likes/retweets" but it's not as simple as that, is it? we put hours/weeks/months on our
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Popping in to tell you that “writing romance as a get rich quick” idea during a pandemic (or any time) isn’t a good one. Definitely not recommended, try lottery tickets
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