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The #PublishingPaidMe conversation reveals what WOC have always known, that racial hierarchies ARE perpetuated by publishing deals. As a writer from the #SWANA region, I'm dismayed by the systematic pattern
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The better you get at seeing artistic problems the better you become at preventing them before they even happen. You want speed and accuracy of sight. This is what it
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A skill we don’t talk about enough that you need to be a successful game writer: getting yourself hyped about other people’s ideas. Comic and TV writers are especially good
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Fellow writers,I wrote a Horror spec in August. Since, I’ve scored top-tier management (news soon). Said spec is at 4 major studios. My manager is EP of the film. There’s
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It’s hard to believe I’ve been at this for 14yrs. During the tougher days I try to remind myself that someday the dots will connect. Until then, I try and
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Happy Birthday to iconic abolitionist, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass. Because he was enslaved, he was never 100% sure of when his actual birthdate was, but knew it was in
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Two weeks ago I had to correct a widespread mischaracterisation of the concept of waiver of sovereign immunity. Today I see myself again forced to discuss the 2020 CAMA. So
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a lot of ppl on here talk about how hard it is to make other writer friends & a lot of writers are made of anxiety jello + don’t want
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Sometimes I randomly think of Sheila saying ‘the Dirt Sharks’ in Detectorists, and it makes me happy. I mean, even randomly thinking of Detectorists makes me happy, but that’s a
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I've known assistants who intentionally neglected their assistant duties because they "wanted everyone to think of them as a writer". Here's the thing - they do. They know that's why
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#writing #amwriting #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writersliftSteinbeck on writing:"What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft ... a kind of breaking through to glory."1/5 "With the rhythms
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pro-tip: absolutist writing advice is always wrong i'm actually not sure if I intended this to be ironic or seriousthe serious version of this is: absolutist writing advice is usually
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What to do if you are a writer and you receive a negative book review on GoodReads/NetGalley/Amazon/etc. etc. etc.:Step 1: DO NOT post ANY response on social media or reply
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Joseph Epstein -- the man who wrote the Dr. Biden piece in the Wall Street Journal, which I refuse to share -- was my professor at Northwestern. He taught me
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Did some thinking about this today.I have a pretty realistic understanding of the challenges in pop culture journalism. Even when I don't know the people involved, I can usually guess
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1) #LGBT Twitter: We need to have a conversation about putting our money where our mouth is. Today my publisher released our sales metrics and what it means for our
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