#Writers

Sara Barnard

saramegan

Writers of contemporary fiction - YA, MG, adult - who are currently writing a book: what are you doing about... all this? Are you attempting to incorporate it or not?

LL McKinney

ElleOnWords

If you don't mention the race of every character in your book, I don't wanna read it. I'm done with things that reinforce the white default. There are a few

seth

nosferatique

I was watching a movie with my friend today and the protagonist, a white woman, had dated 20 men. Only one was a black man, all 19 others were white

Loria, Queen of the Undead 👑🧟‍♀️

VerdantDreaming

I know everyone is about done talking about this, but I just wanted to get out this last little bit before I shut the book on this nightmare viewing experience.

Victoria/V.E. Schwab

veschwab

If I could remind writers of one thing, it would be this: for the vast majority of us, our careers will be defined not by a single book, but by

🌵🌈 Nibedita Sen, a smol potato ☕️🖕🏽

her_nibsen

Cheers and congrats to all the winners! Hugs and beaming to all my fellow nominees! I fucking hate that your glory was cut up by the whiny little death-rattles of

Terri Kopp

TerriKopp2it

To staff or not to staff. A thread.There's been some talk in my feed today about aspiring TV writers who want to skip over staffing and go straight to selling

𝚁𝚢𝚎 ;

WorthlessGoals

ㅤ 𝙒𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙀𝙍’𝙎 𝘼𝘿𝙑𝙄𝘾𝙀 :: # 0 0 1 — 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤, 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨.ㅤ A bit overdue after a month of considering where to start,

Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld

AlysonRosenfeld

Aly’s guide to talking to Voice Actors: 1) Before you hit send on that email/tweet/DM, ask yourself these three questions:Is what I’m about to say true?Is it necessary? Is it

lucie herondale ⚔️

zoyasevlyn

You can agree with jk rowling arguments or not, idc. But trying to erase her work, pretending that she didn't write a saga who marked generations, trying to take advantage

Naben Ruthnum / Nathan Ripley

NabenRuthnum

I'm sure this will result in some great new work being available to readers, and good for @McClellandBooks for making efforts https://quillandquire.com/omni/ms-announces-anti-racism-action-plan-featuring-special-edition-of-the-journey-p

Kaito-124 ⭐

kaito_says

// okay here i go!= THREAD: shit you'll need in your profile =this is hypocritical of me given that THIS account is pretty sloppy but my other account (@/THESPROTIS) is

Timothy Wilcox

PreCursorPoets

I posted last week this reading of a Wordsworth poem (with some notes contextualizing it with other poems). But then...https://twitter.com/PreCursorPoets/status/1319723749902614529 ...With bpNichol, I gave a bigger picture, not even just

mkfoolish

translixie

Hey! Ao3 is currently overrun bc of the pandemic (staying home means more fic reading) and so to be able to keep the site up they are stopping to count

dallie 🎃 pumpkin fucker 🎃

troubadorer

shipping has never been about canon. that's not why we do it. this sudden shift to the idea that you can only ship something if it's got a high chance

Davon Loeb

LoebDavon

Writer-parents, let’s start a thread for tips & tricks for how you find time to write with a family.If you want to contribute, comment & quote tweet or retweet.Check out