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I’d encourage anyone who feels down about their stats to think about the number of people as like...actual people rather than stats. Your fic ’only’ got 30 kudos? How many
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you know there's a problem with the way writing is handled in schools run by boomers; when half of the kids have wrist pains and everyone only knows how to
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THREAD ALERT: FF is opening to subs again in March, so I thought it might be useful to talk a bit about story openings that hook me. 1/ You might
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I’m at the audiologist. My hearing has significantly deteriorated since I was here last and I now need hearing aids in BOTH ears instead of just my left and have
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WHY YOU SHOULD READ CSM [A THREAD] [Introduction]This story starts with an orphaned boy and his dog. A tried and tested formula. But
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Goodbye to Dawn Wells, who was charming. We are told that it was by Bob Denver's insistence that "and the rest" was changed to "the Professor and Mary Ann," and
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I am on track to referee ~100 manuscripts this year across a few different journals. Quick thread (in no particular order) listing my top five most common issues with manuscripts
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Getting ready to live tweet this. You're welcome. Oh God, one of the speakers just finished White Fragility. It took her a month to read. It's like 150 pages long.
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twitter is cursed because people go “you can have Basic Empathy when you’re 13; people saying they went through an anti-sjw phase are lying and anyway don’t expect marginalized people
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Just read the EU - Astra Zeneca contract for the Oxford Vaccine.EU state that their agreement takes precedent over other agreements (no first come first serve) Astra claim that the
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The more I play Cafè Enchante, the more I realize that I read entirely too many articles/books about writing interesting, natural-sounding dialog in gamesAnd not a single one about *pacing
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Thread: The argument on the merits of the farm reform bill are anyway compelling, and validated by experts. Self described “Pro-reform” people in commentariat have hence latched on to the
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I’ve seen so much of this lately. I’ve also seen a lot of, I have an offer and so can you get back to me this in a few days...https://twitter.com/laurenspieller/status/1331255000249602050
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kind of weird It is fascinating how much the political repliers are trying to read into the words "kind of weird" Leftists are taking this as proof that the
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A Defense of the Canon in K12 SchoolsSome books are better than others. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion but alas it is and so I write. There have been
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Many folks have asked me about Stormé DeLarverie over the last couple of days. Mostly about pronouns. Stormé was a Black Butch Lesbian who threw the 1st punch at Stonewall.Stormé
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