really just wanna hang out with the moon

Oh.

I'm editing early chapters and found a comment, inside a Word doc from May 2018, that says "see hand written notes on how this section needs to work". WTF! Where? and Why? would I have done this? #amwriting #writing #writingcommunity

Quarantine sucks in a house that's haunted because a message suddenly appears in blood saying "YOU USUALLY LEAVE AT 7:45."

Provoking. A rich little weekend treat.

Day forty-whatever of shelter-in-place, I finally got my act together to share squid science with the neighborhood! From each according to her ability . . .

In this eerie global moment of stillness, a wonderful read on the art of waiting brainpickings.org/2018/12/17/jas…

Keep making art

*giggles* not because it’s funny of course but ...

It's fine if you want to write big important best selling books but it's also ok if you just want to write weird little books a few other weirdos like. ~ Lucie Britsch

I drove to the ocean. I walked along the shoreline. Talked to strangers of all ethnicities. Even toddlers! When the waves hit I didn't back away. I just dug my fingers in the wet sand and realized if this is a test, we are going to pass it.

If you're not smoking over a typewriter in an ugly sweater with a bad haircut are you even a writer?

A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.

When will card companies start packaging sympathy and ‘thinking of you’ cards in 10 (or even 20) packs? It seems like new sorrows are necessitated weekly. #sad #heartbroken

I’m not kidding, I read this once and then immediately went back and read it a second time.

I'm tripping. Last year we awarded writer Nicky Gonzalez a summer sausage for her first publication in Hobart. We then pubbed her in TBQ3. Now she's in the Kenyon Review, a journal renowned for publishing some of our most important writers. Write màs... kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issu…

Do you realise what a radical thing libraries are? Publicly-funded spaces where you can access information, countless books, and the internet even if you are homeless? There is a reason why people in power want to convince you they are superfluous and should be defunded.

Note: I turned the pretzels 180° between the ink drawing and the finished version at the request of The New Yorker’s fact-checkers.

Thread: A slow weekend turned interesting when a student at Columbia, in response to a tweet suggesting the SAT and ACT were "good, actually" posted this chart.

3 in 90 - what a way to start the weekend! Thank you Kathy Driskell! I’m thrilled to have 3 new pieces to develop.