Telling as a form of showing something else is basically how unreliable narrators work-- also why so many of those are first person, which is actually distancing rather than intimate-- and it's just a matter of knowing what choices you're making for the text and why. It's fine!

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This is, as they say, A Mood.

literally the only draft that needs to be any good at all is the last one

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If a call for submissions has a deadline that's midnight tonight (such as several I am regrettably going to miss) I get what that's going for but that is a huge mistake. Everything gets an automatic January 4th extension, bare minimum, for everyone's sake, like come on.

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what was your favorite book or publication in 2020? indie/emerging/underrepresented artists only, please ✨

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Everyone arguing about which dystopian novel was most prescient

it's time! submissions are open once again for our spring issue, "Out of Balance" send us your words, lovely #writers, we are hungry 🖤 littledeathlit.org/submit

if i were accused of using terf rhetoric in my latest column i would simply not go full mask off transmisogynist in the comments. that is of course only me and i’m not famous and the only trans nyer writer so what do i know

seems illogical and unfair that adding and deleting words is writing but opening and closing a word doc isn't??

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harsh writing advice: dracula is public domain so he should be in what you’re writing

the literary genre spanning job cover letters, residency project proposals, and individual funding applications is called auto-fanfiction

Truly a dream to see FAMOUS MEN WHO NEVER LIVED in paperback. I'm so lucky! Imagine making something up and having the privilege of seeing it in the world as a physical object, and then hearing that other people connected with it.