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The Tiger and the Cage is out now! Editor @Screen_Door_R . Visit me at

https://t.co/heRZA65yFx

Joined March 2008

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Emma Bolden

7 months

The Tiger and the Cage came out one year ago today, and I’m feeling incredibly grateful for all of the conversations about endometriosis I’ve had since then. This book is about what it was like to deal with a disease in silence, alone, and I’m grateful that silence is broken.

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2 years

i just need people to understand that before cell phones we had to call landlines and your friend's parents would answer and YOU HAD TO TALK TO THEIR PARENTS until your friend came to the phone

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me, recommending a book: this book DESTROYED ME. this book RIPPED MY VERY BEING APART. i read the end sobbing in a fetal position on the floor and i didn't move for three hours. please read it HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT

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2 years

in completely normal news, a doctor just told me i'm not in pain due to a herniated disc compressing my sciatic nerve and spinal bone spurs but ... because i'm emotionally damaged because i had a hysterectomy before i had children and never got married.

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4 years

we don’t talk about the fact that c3po essentially wears a crop top nearly enough as we should

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10 months

i just found out a group of fireflies is called a sparkle and i have never felt such joy

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2 years

like they would ask you about SCHOOL and your FAMILY and sometimes hit you with a trick question that accidentally got your friend in trouble IT WAS A WHOLE DEAL PEOPLE

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2 years

i wish every pet owner would release an album of songs they make up for their pets

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2 years

i believe in one hard and fast universal writing rule: em dashes are amazing and you should use them whenever possible

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2 years

OH and also because i don't understand my own feelings about being childless, unmarried, and uterusless because i'm not introspective enough to have examined my feelings, which is news to ... my entire body of work.

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Emma Bolden

5 years

WAKE UP if you don't think poetry is Extreme Intensity, THIS IS THE SIZE OF AN ALBATROSS, Coleridge was MAX REAL and POETRY IS NOT F*CKING AROUND

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2 years

this blew up so let me tell you i had a crush on a friend’s brother and one time he answered the phone and i didn’t know what to do so i pretended it was a wrong number and then got in bed and cried

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3 years

it has taken me three hours to realize that the Bad Art Friend Discourse, the Kidney Discourse, and the Group Chat Discourse are in fact the same Discourse

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Emma Bolden

2 years

for more completely normal and ok stories like this, check out my memoir, The Tiger and the Cage, coming out from @softskull 10/18/22 bc i guess i might as well get a plug for pre-orders out of this bullshit

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2 years

(also if you're in the greater birmingham area and want to know what practice this is, dm me)

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2 years

we have strayed so far from god’s light it can no longer reach us

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1 year

everyone please look at the face my new cat makes, i love him

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2 years

holy shit this blew up, just a clarification bc people have asked: this doctor isn’t a gynecologist, he’s an orthopedic surgeon

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3 years

i love how cat adoption stories are always like, “this furry demon spat in my face and told me my hair is dumb, welcome home, Spaghetti Casserole”

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Emma Bolden

6 years

Ok #FlashbackFriday to my neighbor’s dog who was the most good-natured spy pretty much 24/7 because I needed to see this picture today and thought you might need to see it too @dog_rates @darth

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4 years

if I see one more rich white woman talking about what the coronavirus outbreak is here to teach them. m'am the virus is not your hot yoga instructor.

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7 months

@ambernoelle also SO MANY PEOPLE threw up in the theater?!?

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2 years

when i cut large passages i paste them in a separate just-in-case document so it's like i'm no longer killing my darlings, just cryogenically freezing them

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5 years

what if pterodactyls are what alligators imagine as angels

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5 years

@Nicole_Cliffe She said she'd bought me the quartz so I'd remember that, and that a stranger believed in me enough to give it to me so I'd learn how to believe in myself. I just bawled because I really did feel like a failure. 17 years later, that quartz is still in my purse every day.

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5 years

When someone insults you, let it roll off your back. Be like a duck. Be like a goose. Be like an angry hissing goose of vengeance. Steal their glasses. Destroy their home. Terrorize their town.

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3 years

being vaccinated does NOT mean you can start a theme park on an island populated with dinosaurs cloned from dna found in prehistoric mosquitoes, so preoccupied with whether you could that you didn't stop to think if you should.

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2 years

@moirareviewing i've never filed one before but this may indeed be the time.

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3 years

YOU DON’T KNOW I MIGHT NEED THAT JAR: a memoir

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Emma Bolden

2 years

for those of you asking here is one book that recently destroyed me:

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow a book by Gabrielle Zevin

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Sam and Sadie--two college friends, often in love, but never lovers--become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where...

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4 years

IT'S EMILY DICKINSON'S BIRTHDAY, TIME TO REMEMBER THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN QUIET BUT HER EVERY WRITTEN WORD WAS THUNDER AND IF WALT WHITMAN CHALLENGED HER TO A CAGE MATCH SHE WOULD 150% WIN, NO QUESTION, AND IN THE FIRST ROUND.

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2 years

my best writing advice: learn to see your work as a liquid, not a solid. until you’re holding the final published book in your hand, things can, will, and should change.

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2 years

i never get nostalgic about past relationships but once a week at least i dream wistfully of a sandwich i used to get when i was in college

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5 years

IF YOU DON’T THINK EMILY DICKINSON WOULD F*CKING DESTROY WALT WHITMAN IN A CAGE MATCH YOU 👏🏻 NEED👏🏻TO👏🏻THINK👏🏻AGAIN

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2 years

ok i know i did not use an em dash in this tweet — i am flawed — i have sinned against the dash of em

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2 years

the great british baking show is the weighted blanket of television shows

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4 years

I’m sorry but can we just admit that colleges knew they’d probably have to shut down but wanted to get deposits first I mean can we just admit that

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Emma Bolden

5 years

@Nicole_Cliffe I went to a witchy shop on my 21rst b'day and talked to the owner about how I'd just been feeling inadequate. As I left, a woman came over, apologized for eavesdropping, and put a piece of pink quartz in my hand. "I know you think you're a failure," she said, "but you aren't."

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6 years

OKAY FOLKS LET’S GET THIS TUESDAY STARTED, I’VE HAD TWO DAYQUIL TWO CUPS OF COFFEE AND THIRTY EIGHT YEARS OF OPPRESSION FROM A PATRIARCHY I AM DAMN WELL GOING TO SMASH

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5 years

brb watching #PelosiClap on a loop for the rest of my sentient existence on this planet

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5 years

Bukowski is the Axe Body Spray of poetry.

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2 years

i just wanted to say thank you for all of the kind responses to this thread and also to say that reading these stories from people who've have similar experiences is absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating.

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2 years

@heyitsgogi FIRST PLACE FOR YOU!

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2 years

and this book reached into my body, pulled out like half my organs, made me question and appreciate every damn aspect of my life until i was motionless:

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The Ensemble a book by Aja Gabel

"Pitch-perfect." --People "You won't be able to quit these characters." --goop The addictive novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of classical music and their complex...

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2 years

my least favorite but most often played game is See How Little Time It Takes To Do The Thing I Have Avoided For Six Months

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2 years

just seems rude that i’ve written so many poems for the moon and the moon has never written one for me

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4 years

ok but why are vampires supposedly sexy, aren’t they just person mosquitoes

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4 years

I think the best advice for any writer is to follow your obsessions without shame or apology.

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5 years

HEGEL IS TRENDING time to tell you that in my undergrad philosophy class one student got high during our lunch break, got a bagel from the lunchroom, ceremoniously put The Phenomenology of the Spirit between bagel halves, lifted his palms in the air and said, "HEGEL BAGEL."

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2 years

@bigu JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY, that’s horrible and I’m so sorry

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2 years

completely fascinated by how the new @florencemachine album speaks to this moment in history by using history, an extremely nerdy 🧵

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3 years

GOOD MORNING, TIME IS A CONCEPT, A CLOCK IS A FALSE PRISON WE ALL DWELL INSIDE

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2 years

every april i assigned a project to my poetry students where they had to put poetry in a public place (internet included) and let me tell you every single year they completely blew my mind.

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2 years

just got a poem accepted in a journal i’ve been submitting to for SIXTEEN YEARS, this is MAX TAURUS ENERGY

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2 years

ahhh thanksgiving, the day guy fieri dresses like a turkey and flies around the world to pour gravy down our chimneys

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3 years

get in loser, we’re going crying to songs that made us sad when we were 18

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5 years

Me: The ocean: Me: The ocean: ARE YOU HERE TO HAVE DEEP THOUGHTS AND CRY OR ARE YOU HERE FOR A HOLIDAY Me: .... yes

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2 years

i just want to say that the @JortsTheCat account is the brightest beacon of light in these dark days

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@continuants I like how she holds her legs so they don’t get lost while she’s asleep

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3 years

can’t wait until midnight when it is still march 2020

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2 years

@BebeHouseman I’M CRYING one of my friend’s dads did EXACTLY THAT

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4 years

every day since March has been Halloween if you think about it: •masks •fear •terrifying tv programs •ominous warnings •strange outfits now acceptable •screaming •eating too much candy while sitting on your kitchen floor in the dark crying

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5 years

Dear Poetry People, I am here to tell you that today, I did the most important thing a writer can do. I wrote a hugely, tremendously, majorly, awesomely, splendidly shitty draft.

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3 years

why does asking for a day off feel so illegal

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3 years

of COURSE i made a dune themed cocktail, are you kidding me?! behold the kwisatz sazerac!

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3 years

honestly CANNOT overestimate the importance of bribing yourself. right now if i finish my weekend to-do list i finally get to watch dune and the POWER of this motivation, oh my GOD

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5 years

You can read Sylvia Plath’s poems like the Beastie Boys and it 100% works. *extremely Mike D voice* YOU DO NOT DO, YOU DO NOT DO, ANY, MORE, BLACK, S H O E

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3 years

GUESS THE FUCK WHAT the thing i have been avoiding for FOUR MONTHS took LESS THAN TWO MINUTES

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1 year

“you seem like you were the kind of kid who didn’t get excited about the scholastic book fair” is my cruelest insult

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6 years

is your child texting about Emily Dickinson?!?! How to tell: WTF: Weather -- the Field OMFG: O! More -- Freedom groans GTFO: Gift -- the Fear -- Ogres IMHO: Is Mine -- His Owning LMAO: Let Memory -- angry Omen SMDH: Sleep! My Death -- Hurdle TTYL: To Try -- yon Liniment

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5 years

Guy Fieri is the Santa Claus of Thanksgiving and there is nothing in his sleigh except turkey nachos and gravy

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3 years

honestly i'll never get over how awesome reading is? like you're looking at squiggles on dead tree sheets or listening to sounds someone made out of air and then YOUR BRAIN JUST FULL-ON HALLUCINATES A WHOLE OTHER WORLD, THAT IS SO COOL?!?!?

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5 years

JUST A PIECE OF THAT BIRD WOULD F*CKING DESTROY YOU BUT THE MARINER LIVED ON TO RIME ABOUT IT

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6 years

If you can look at your social media for more than 20 seconds this week and still say you don’t know why women don’t report sexual assault, you are dead beyond dead to me.

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5 years

I'VE GOTTEN THREE REJECTIONS ALREADY THIS MORNING AND I'M ON MY THIRD CUP OF COFFEE, BUCKLE UP MICROSOFT WORD BECAUSE I'M COMING FOR YOU WITH THE FULL FORCE OF CAFFEINE-POWERED REVISIONS

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5 years

IF I WEAR ENOUGH RED LIPSTICK NO ONE WILL KNOW I AM TIRED: a memoir

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8 months

don’t let the poets know

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8 months

reading the new yorker article about bees & they just dropped this tidbit like it was NBD

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1 year

someone said my twitter account wasn't professional and i was like "your mom isn't professional" and in retrospect i still can't think of a better response

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2 years

i cannot express how incredibly, vitally important it is to have narratives about infertility that do not end in parenthood.

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4 years

one of the biggest and most dangerous myths about capitalism is that hard work will be rewarded.

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2 years

starting a club where we watch batshit documentaries and just sit around saying “omg what the FUCK” for an hour afterwards

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2 years

my playwriting teacher said once that if you’re worried your audience will keep asking a question, a character should ask the question and i honestly use the advice ALL THE TIME in ALL THE GENRES

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2 years

@dan_hoyt just extremely glad i had someone with me as a witness

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2 months

you know what? i'm not going to crush it this week. i'm not going to kill it. i'm going to treat it gently. i'm going to pour it some tea and ask it how it's doing.

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2 years

PLEASE KEEP TELLING ME WHAT BOOKS DESTROYED YOU, I WANT TO KNOW EVERY SINGLE ONE

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Emma Bolden

4 years

would love to write something high fantasy that gets super popular but give all the fantasy powers silly names so reddit discussions would be like "no you canNOT spoodlefee without first receiving the scudnut of oodlebong, GREG"

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I'm thrilled, honored, and humbled to announce that my memoir, The Tiger and the Cage, is forthcoming from @softskull Press. I'm so grateful to and can't wait to work with @sarahlynwrites , who's my dream editor. And I can't thank my agent, @cassmannes of @HowlandLit , enough (1/3)

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5 years

LISTEN UP FOR REAL Emily Dickinson going up to the attic was a total 19th century power move, “oh you want me to clean for you? cool cool cool HOW ABOUT I GO UP HERE AND WRITE ABOUT VOLCANOES AND GOD INSTEAD”

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5 years

I'm so bad at titling poems I've decided to just give them people names like Edna then at readings, I'll be like "Y'all this is Edna, just a warning, Edna's a little rowdy and she curses a little."

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5 years

@JaredRizzi I went third party and voted for the raven

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5 years

please allow my hairdresser’s dog to cleanse your timeline

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3 months

just a reminder that your worth as a writer and, more importantly, as a human being is in no way tied to what you’ve published, where you’ve published, how much you’ve published, or if you’ve published at all.

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5 years

We have strayed so far from God’s light it can no longer reach us

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4 years

just realized I’m the same age as miss havisham and now I’m all kinds of pissed, where’s my ruined mansion, why am I not wearing a wedding dress and one shoe, where’s the girl I get to train to break men’s hearts

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5 years

@ChristinaKohn1 @Nicole_Cliffe It’ll stay safe and sound in the owl pouch, I promise!

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4 years

sorry I haven't been on twitter as much lately, I've just been really occupied with actual screaming

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1 year

by the time you’re in your 30s you should have established one chair to hold clothes you might be able to wear one more time before you do laundry

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5 years

we have strayed so far from god's light it can no longer reach us.

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'Sexy Mr. Rogers' costume drops just in time for Halloween 2019

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2 years

omg this blew UP, the laws of twitter state that i must post that i have a book coming out in october that could possibly destroy you:

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The Tiger and the Cage

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6 years

One of the most undervalued but important traits to the health of the writing? Kindness. Even if you don’t know who someone is, even if they never publish a thing, be kind. We’re all engaged in this same strange and mystical struggle, shiny CV or not.

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3 years

how do i get a job as a cicada, sleeping for 17 years then waking up to scream sounds like the ultimate goal

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5 years

@conductress @JaredRizzi but — but I thought he was going to legalize milk of poppy

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2 years

honestly i am most appreciative when a book is already weird and the author’s like, what if … i made this … WEIRDER

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