#Write

GENTLE WRITING ADVICE:Write at your own pace. Progress is progress, sometimes in inches, sometimes in miles. It’s okay that it’s hard. Other writers are cheerleading you on just as you
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My latest is up now on @19thnews. I got an earful yesterday from the Black women who tell me that for them, a Black woman VP on the Democratic ticket
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Really, fuck a load of that #HarshWritingAdvice. Here’s a corrective: a list of the worst, most bullshit-stuffed, unhelpful & destructive writing advice I’ve received. Here goes.1. “If you were going
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Anonymity isn't usually a great thingBut the reason anonymity is an asset on twitter is because in our society personal attacks are never too far off for the slightest "zara
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working toward a world where teens will want to read YA because the books are written for them and not 40-year-old white women i love that teens are gravitating more
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I know this is going to be huge news but sexism & misogyny affect middle aged & old women too. We have the same issues of judgemental attitudes towards us,
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A little thread - I was sorting out my inbox and I found a rejection email from an agent. They said that my writing was ‘vivid & engaging’ but my
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The worst question to hear when you get an email back?“Can I see your previous work?”Ugh, how annoying. Wait, what if you don’t have any??Create your own!(Thread) 1. Creating your
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alright listen. white folks? you do NOT get to write people off. you don't. it's one thing for POC to say white people are hopeless and i refuse to work
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A short thread:I am a big believer in giving your elected representatives an earful when you have strong opinions about the state of the nation. I am aware that I
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So, Rebecca’s session is on increasing pupil participation in online lessons. She starts with point that you can never get the kind of ratio of pupil participation that face to
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There are more important things happening in the world but I just felt like telling the web that I've been learning how to read and write music and it is
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That anti-fanfic thread was actually a pretty good collection of dishonest argumentation tactics and logical fallacies. Faulty assumption: Assuming without supporting evidence that fanfic teaches you to write worse. Tautology,
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I really want the pandemic “moms are suffering” pieces - which I totally agree with and am glad they’re being written - to look at two mom households. I think
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Playbooks are always so interesting to me because the sum total of the playbooks you have in a game is always a declaration of who gets to have their stories
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A journalism student recently asked by email: How do you become a columnist? Do you have any advice? Here is the answer: 1/n The most important thing is never to
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