Autumn Bauman
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Slipstream SFF writer // options trader // D&D gamemaster // all my happy places are dystopias // rep: @askamycollins at Talcott Notch
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I'm thrilled to announce that I am now represented by the magnificent Amy Collins (
@askamycollins
) at Talcott Notch! ✨
My sci-fi novel featuring a young woman's determination to secure her colony's future against a labyrinth of hyper-political actors will soon be on sub!
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A Big5 editor is submitting my book to agents on my behalf, and I'm over here completely *blown away* by her generosity and faith in this book. 🥹
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Dystopian thought of the day: How long before ebooks have ads in between chapters?
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A painful update: For the past few months, an editor at a SFF imprint of a Big5 fell in love w/ my novel & sought to acquire it, but ultimately, the publisher passed on the book. I'm upset, because this is the second time an editor wanted the book, but it wasn't meant to be. 🧵
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So, I've heard repeatedly that you cannot read in dreams, but I've had many dreams where I do exactly that?
Anyone else? If anyone reads in dreams, it has got to be folks in the
#WritingCommunity
, right?
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A thought experiment for writers and readers: Would you take the Faustian bargain of ads in ebooks if it meant authors could earn enough to write full-time?
Dystopian thought of the day: How long before ebooks have ads in between chapters?
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If you're struggling with writing that dreaded synopsis, I've put together a worksheet for boiling your story down to just its bones. Check it out. 👇
#WritingCommmunity
#amquerying
#writers
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Y'all have NO IDEA how freaking excited I am right now. Excuse me as I wheel this party bus over to ✨VAGUE TOWN, USA✨
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
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THIS EVENING IS SUCH A WHIPLASH.
I received my first full rejection today (😭), only to get another full request JUST NOW (🤩). AND I was invited to query an agent today I've always wanted to query but couldn't due to location restrictions (🥳).
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
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Fun Facts:
- Your lung can spontaneously collapse w/o trauma!
- You can walk around for a week with it while mostly fine
- You can have the same extremely painful tube procedure 4x because the first 3 attempts failed
- You can learn the hard way fentanyl gives you panic attacks
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Ended up hospitalized last night so the thoracic surgeon can snip off the top of my lung, staple it, then “hot glue” it to my chest wall with talc powder tomorrow.
Pretty sure I’ll be okay as long as I get a head pat and a lil’ sticker for being “very brave.”
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@vicdwrites
Private place: bathroom
Public space: restroom
If someone says "washroom," I know they're not from the West Coast (at the very least).
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I don't want to give up on writing, but being in the query trenches this long has felt like driving through a minefield on a kiddie cart with square wheels.
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Apologies for the moody, meandering nature of this thread. I feel like an amnesiac, freshly awoken, squinting up the gibberish of AI-generated road signs, for I simply do not know what to do next...
#amquerying
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I'm staring at this scifi novel, knowing it's a solid story (I was told 5 other editors at the imprint also read and loved it) but also that it's about to have a Viking's funeral in my kitchen sink.
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After five nights in the hospital, I am finally DISCHARGED!
My lung is still only at ~33% of its capacity, but with further spirometer use, it should return to normal.
Now to go take a big ol’ nap in my own bed…
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do I write the sequel, despite my not knowing what to do with the first book? Or return to the New Weird Appalachian thriller I was writing prior to this? Or revise the comedic/epic romantasy I wrote years ago?
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@sewistwrites
I unfortunately fell prey to their sister site, Emery Rose, and am still angry at myself for having bought from them. (At the time I wasn't aware of Shein or the controversy around them, either).
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Because there was interest in making the book into a trilogy, I've spent the last two months outlining a sequel that I'm beyond excited to write and believe is a perfect continuation of the story. Now, I'm unsure what to do —
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Want to take the sting out of of query rejections? Try out my Query-Pass Punch Cards.
Check the link below for free punch card templates, ideas for prizes, and why you should be rewarding yourself for all those red frowny faces of doom on QueryTracker.
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“If I die prematurely, I want you to take my notes and finish the novel.”
#WritingCommunity
The notes:
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Whoa, hey, if I hit 1,000, I'll post some cute pics of my cats. Eh, sound good?
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@Jelenawrites
Sure, 3rd present can be trickier than other POV/tense combos, but to wholesale reject it is a strong take.
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Update: Still leaking air, so they're giving me one more week with this sexy tube to see if I heal up. If my lung continues being a little brat, then I'm off to the OR, where the surgeon literally scratches up my lung lining to inflame it and teach it to stop throwing hissy fits.
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How am I celebrating turning 35 today? 🎂 BOOK BUYING SPREE.
Looking forward to reading
@Lyons_Pen
's Starlight Jewel once I have some time!
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This counts as therapy, right?
#amquerying
Yeah these are way too fun 🤣 laugh so you don’t cry right? 😅
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A pest control guy once came to my door to tell me he was spraying my neighbor's yard & asked if I wanted in on it. I went full-blown DRUID on him and said all the victims of his poison campaign were welcomed to shelter in my backyard.
First time I've seen a speechless salesman.
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@askamycollins
There's an app I love called "Too Good to Go" that tries to fight food waste by letting restaurants/bakeries sell what they would have otherwise tossed for cheap.
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A good friend just sent me this super kind feedback, and I am TEARING UP. 🥹🥹🥹
"Not done yet, but this book really is a triumph. A gorgeous parable. I feel like you've managed to write a contemporary brave new world or 1984..."
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I freaking *inhaled*
@edashtonwriting
's ANTIMATTER BLUES in, like, half a day. It's such an enjoyable fast read, and it scratched my huge itch lately for first contact scifi. Wonderfully paced, lovable characters, fun twists, and many delightful moments of hilarity. 5🌟
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@SBLitAgent
I think what writers are reacting negatively to here is that we WANT writing to be our career, but often we end up feeling like everyone who is our "gatekeeper" to that goal gets to have a "career in books" by using our work to make that possible.
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Just finished reading Mickey7 last night, and THOROUGHLY ENJOYED every page of it. Excellently paced and loved every aspect of the layered worldbuilding. Mickey7 himself ended up being highly relatable, and I kept thinking of actual people he reminds me of.
Big recommend.
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Do you ever just sit in quiet contemplation and conclude, "Yeah, I'd probably be the hostage who'd develop Stockholm syndrome"?
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Over the weekend, I spent almost 12 hours straight getting together with various friends and chatting one on one. I nearly lost my voice.
Is there some sort of medal they hand out to introverts who've accomplished this feat of strength?
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I finished
@YuvalKordov
's ALL OF OUR SINS and🤯. Yuval has a GIFT for connecting the reader directly to a character's central nervous system — you can FEEL each physical and psychological torment the cast suffers while facing Hell. Gripping, unnerving, suspenseful. BIG RECOMMEND!
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I’m going to be house sitting for a friend who lives in the desert, so I peeked at the temperatures out there.
If you need me, I’ll be in the morgue.
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@BThatGeek
@mikesroberti
And who's deciding which beliefs of a woman are "preconceived" rather than genuine and objective? What if it's your own preconceived views that are leading you to misjudge others' perspectives?
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Want to know how to get an introverted gal out of her shell during a party? Introduce her to a LIZARD GENETICIST.
Wild conversation about how a big chunk of cows' genome comes from snakes, the mysterious "junk DNA" within humans, and why study Cambodian geckos.
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You know what's worse than eating a hotdog at a beach swarmed with seagulls? Tying to eat smoked salmon in your own house with four cats.
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For four months, my neighbor's DIY project was concreting over his entire backyard, which meant 4-5 hours daily of non-stop squealing and rumbling from his concrete mixer.
He then sold the house.
Now, the new neighbors are jack hammering out all that concrete.
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To distract me from my anxious waiting, my mom gifted me a 1,000 piece puzzle, where half of it (and most of the border) is pure black, and now I'm wondering how many responsibilities, meals, and decades-long friendships I can ignore in my quest to defeat this whale of a jigsaw.
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Entire thread is full of gold, but I wanted to highlight this one particular point. The best aspect for querying authors of being part of X's
#WritingCommunity
is the HUGE opportunity here to network and make connections. I can personally vouch for why you should NOT be timid! 📢
3. Lastly, I wish I hadn’t been afraid to interact with agents and other pub professionals on here. While querying, I felt like there was an ocean between them and me. I felt so small and like I couldn’t build industry relationships, just because I was a querying author. 9/?
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As a reminder, this is why the Federation won't allow us to have tribbles. 😭
🚨
#BREAKING
: Hundreds of thousands of Tumbleweeds have taken over a Utah neighborhood
📌
#SouthJordan
|
#Utah
Currently, crews are actively working to clean up after high winds has caused hundreds of thousands of dried-up tumbleweeds to pile up in a neighborhood in South
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@HFLane_writing
There's an inherent bias in the numbers: too few agents and too many writers.
IMO, the answer to this is not hand wringing but technology. Query Manager seems to be improving the querying process for both agents & writers.
The timeline transparency helps IMMENSELY.
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Okay, I was initially upset with this chest tube dangling out of me, but now it's making a kazoo sound every time I cough, so now I can't stay mad.
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@MandyLamWrites
Set up a reward system for rejections. Like using a query pass punch card, where you gift yourself something for every 5th rejection:
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(For clarity, I would not take this bargain, as I think anything that brings misery to the reading experience is ultimately harmful to authors, but a few people embraced this in the other post, so I thought it worth a ponder.)
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I have a strong superstitious belief about querying: The trenches must break you before you can break through.
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@BonTheWitch
If people can't actually leave honest reviews, it'll end up being the death of literature.
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@SandraProudman
True, but needs a tweak: *will bring you nothing but heartbreak UNLESS you learn to cultivate resilience.
For most people, resilience is a skill that has to be learned and built up. And it's okay to acknowledge that it's not often a fun process.
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Someone please help me solve this mystery:
Between 10:30-10:45pm at NIGHT, my neighbors were out with a flashlight and a sledgehammer. They were whacking something along the fence (but not the fence itself). Dull thuds, no cracking noises. What on earth were they doing?
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A picture of your pet and who they were named after
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Because someone ticked me off, I'm going to try and write this book in under six months. I'm a slow writer, but I am organized and persistent.
#WritingCommmunity
#amwriting
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Anyone else flip back and forth between the physical and audiobook copies of a book while they're reading through it?
It feels like finding a cheat code.
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@amanda_cotroneo
*I* was the bad date:
We were poor college kids at the time, and we ate at Bakers, went on a walk, and were having a pleasant time together. There was a lull, and I suggested we invite our mutual friend to join.
He stared at me and said, "This is a date."
I had NO idea it was.
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Mystery solved: They ripped out the concrete planter so they could fit a massive RV into their backyard. Now the mountains I used to look out at while writing/working are blocked by this hideous beast.
My friend did suggest adding these googly eyes, though, which is NOT helping:
Someone please help me solve this mystery:
Between 10:30-10:45pm at NIGHT, my neighbors were out with a flashlight and a sledgehammer. They were whacking something along the fence (but not the fence itself). Dull thuds, no cracking noises. What on earth were they doing?
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@ceciliaclyra
Helpful: Subgenres, tropes, TV/film comps, list of what you don't want, specific topics you want to see explored or feelings elicited, challenging vs. easy reading
Not helpful: Overly specific MSWL, relying solely on a list of very recently published books, overly vague/open
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Thanks, y'all! As promised: A TROVE OF CAT PICS. 🐈🐈⬛
Whoa, hey, if I hit 1,000, I'll post some cute pics of my cats. Eh, sound good?
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Anyone else deal with the type of insomnia where you keep waking progressively earlier and earlier? For a week now, I've been waking at 4:30am and cannot get back to sleep. I need tips on how to make this stop. 😭
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An NPC gave my D&D players a heavily reinforced wagon that they must escort though a Mad Max-esque landscape with strict instructions to 1) never open the wagon; 2) destroy it if it falls into anyone else's hands.
I'm their DM. I have NO IDEA what's in the wagon.
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Y'ALL, I JUST PAID $0.80 TOTAL FOR ALL THESE.
I managed to stumble into our local library's end of the year sale, and I seriously cannot believe what a steal this haul ended up being.
#WritingCommmunity
#BookTwitter
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Malachite plays a major symbolic role in my novel, and a friend/beta reader gifted me this GORGEOUS pendant in honor of some good news. She's also rocking her own matching pair of malachite earrings, and I'm freaking hyped that my friends are hyped about this book's future.❤️🔥
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Okay, one more....
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US healthcare in two parts:
Act I: Compelled into a wheelchair upon admittance to ER, despite neither needing nor wanting it
Act II: Needing and wanting a wheelchair upon discharge from ER, but not provided one
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@SavageKairn
Halve them, brown them in a cast iron skillet with butter, add bacon, parmesan, and pine nuts
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@budman_mark
Is the issue that the term "prologue" is no longer in vogue or is it opening the book before the story's actual start / with someone other than the MC?
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This hurts as bad as you’d expect. I maxed out all pain meds they gave me.
They also found necrotic tissue on my lung instead of a bleb, but it will take a week for pathology to determine what it was.
Surgery otherwise successful.
Ended up hospitalized last night so the thoracic surgeon can snip off the top of my lung, staple it, then “hot glue” it to my chest wall with talc powder tomorrow.
Pretty sure I’ll be okay as long as I get a head pat and a lil’ sticker for being “very brave.”
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Quick, someone write an eclipse book so this can be the cover.
#MSWL
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Sorry, I've been inattentive to X lately, because our asshole neighbors moved out and abandoned one of the SWEETEST cats on earth.
We've been working on integrating Nyx into our home, despite having three other cats already. She loves to chirp, meow, and "sing."
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just found out that the cat we rescued months ago year is in kidney failure (prognosis currently poor); she'll be hospitalized tomorrow
and my own x-rays show a new pneumothorax
really need this shitstorm to end
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@cocoskeeper
FYI, an easy way to always mitigate this is to add a space after the word you're replacing. (You may have to do a second run through if the word is a plural or has possessives.)
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Pity goes to all these bears and strange men who are stuck in this forest with me and my fierce determination to master the kazoo.
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Did you know that if you combine ✨ really good news ✨ with too much espresso your heart arrhythmia will feel like Wagner is conducting Flight of the Valkyries inside your chest cavity?
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Y’ALL, I think my mother is unsubtly trying to manifest all upon my life today.
Me: Happy Mother’s Day!
Mom: And same to you!
Me:
Mom:
Me: You *know* I don’t have children. 🤨
Mom: *tries (fails) to a suppress a grin, says nothing*
AND WE HAD THIS SAME EXACT CONVO TWICE.
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@DNicholsAuthor
The sheer amount of competition there is to snag an agent (seriously, I've brand new agents open and have over 1k queries in their first week).
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@gnilwoce
It's a great painting, but is it appropriate for a royal portrait? My first thought seeing this was, "does the painter think King Charles is a war criminal?"
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THANK YOU
#WritingCommunity
for all of your supportive and encouraging comments. ❤️🔥You've cheered up this heavy heart. 🥹
I also wanted to give a BIG shoutout to Amy Collins (
@askamycollins
), who has been extraordinarily generous and helpful throughout these past few months. 1/2
A painful update: For the past few months, an editor at a SFF imprint of a Big5 fell in love w/ my novel & sought to acquire it, but ultimately, the publisher passed on the book. I'm upset, because this is the second time an editor wanted the book, but it wasn't meant to be. 🧵
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My SO is teaching himself how to rebuild his Mustang's engine, and I'm over here all like
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I recently learned of the phrase "water seeks its own level," and I can't stop thinking about it — especially in light of the recent
#WritingCommunity
kerfuffle.
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When, after your 2nd revision you find that one plot hole that affects the whole book.
#WritingCommunity
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@ARFrederiksen
So much this. Sometimes a writer manages to luck out with a book that's perfectly timed with the current hot trend. Folks need to remember: Just because someone got extremely lucky with an opportunity doesn't mean you, your book, your talents are diminish in any way.
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@unusual_whales
@AustinScottGA08
I lost a good chunk of change on $FCEL. Maybe as Speaker you can use your special position to give us plebs some of your insider stock tips.
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Finished this last night, and whoa, the WORLD BUILDING. Never thought I'd want to spend THIS much time on the edge of Hell. The heart-wrenching characters, the creepy god-tech, the visceral feel-it-in-your-teeth prose—all of it comes together magnificently in THE HAND OF GOD. 5🌟
Hey
#SPFBO9
readers!
The world ended—twice. Only Esther, the Eternal One, saw it all happen. As head of the powerful Revenant Sisterhood, she shepherds humanity from Cathedral, the Last City. Except Cathedral isn't the last city, and her sisterhood's power is far from holy. 1/4
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@jon_cronshaw
Scifi, but OH GOD YES. Mostly symphonic metal, though. Unleash the Archers, Amberian Dawn, Xandria, Nightwish, Epica....
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I know this homemade barbacoa is finally spicy enough for me when I can feel each and every cell of my lips whenever I inhale over the next four hours.
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Hi
#WritingCommunity
, I'm Hazuroot, an eldritch entity skinwalking via this insufferable humanoid. I'm writing a memoir about my addiction to devouring fertile galaxies. Also working on a MG story about being misunderstood as a cosmic horror. Would love to connect w/ you all. 🐙
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Rate my breakfast:
Garlic naan topped with melted Velveeta, a fried egg, and spicy furikake.
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Apparently, if you just skip that opening chapter you've been struggling to write and start on chapter 2, all your problems go away because you're starting where you *should have* originally. - Vol. III of "My Achilles Heel Is Always Chapter 1" 😭
#WritingCommunity
#writerslife
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@doctorbeewrites
Red flag. Their job is to sell the rights of your book to a company whose job it is then to sell your book to the market. Otherwise, you're doing the work of an independent author but not getting paid for it.
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