lmao someone in the replies already hit me with a good ol’ “if you write grocery lists, you’re a writer!”
Please read what I said before you reply to what I said. Like, you should probably do that every time you interact with a person.
What an odd thing to say in this thread…?
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For Whom the Edible Hits
It’s okay, normal, and fine to change your mind about what your dreams are and what you want to do in this world.
While the sentiment is nice, blanket statements like “Once a writer, always a writer!” are just…not true. I wrote seven manuscripts as a young person, queried six of them, signed with a literary agent, and went on sub. I haven’t written much (if any) fiction for the better part of a decade.
interesting recession indicator I just spotted: the year is 2026, and the recession began in 2007 and at no point did it meaningfully abate for the vast, vast majority of people
This is already on my “please don’t send” list, but I’m getting a lot of mystery, thriller, and horror queries lately. There are several better fits for those genres at my agency—please look into those agents instead!
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
gonzo the muppet wearing a suit. he is inside an ornate floral frame. below the frame is text that reads "gender failure". the image is textured to look grainy and printed.
gender failure gonzo
My perfect tabby cat Monroe looking right at the camera
Good Monroe morning
A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s
Looks we love
Why doesn’t monkey rhyme with donkey? 😔
Like, saying this with love as one of you, but at a certain point the answer has to be weed or a medically induced coma
Book people are so funny because at all times they’re like, “Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?” “I’ve written seventeen novel manuscripts. Do I count as a writer?” “Is it okay to be an author who doesn’t write every day?” “Is it okay for me to ask my agent a question?”
My boyfriend and I are both autistic, which means when he comes home from the grocery store, I greet him like he’s returning from war
a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there
Almost signed off on an email as Nark
The older I get, the more I can believe it’s not butter
Taskmaster is a delightful U.K. game show in which five comedians compete at various silly tasks, and it’s all on YouTube!
“I am happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you as a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is.”
me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all
I’m sorry but like. WE, the queers, are supposed to be the weird ones. Please stop encroaching on our territory. Thank you.
Hello, I’m gay and just found out that sometimes straight couples track and monitor each other’s location all of the time, and like, from the bottom of my heart, praying 4 u
MELANIA: You want me. Out of nowheres. To remind every one. Of my best friend, and child sex monster. Jeffrey Epstein?? (squints evilly)
NATHAN FIELDER: (voice over) The First Lady loved my idea.
Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is.
Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.
My perfect tabby cat Monroe lounging about
Let’s be clear: meow
ME: the opposite of antibiotic is unclebiotic
PHARMACIST: the opposite of probiotic is amateurbiotic
*we kiss*
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•Ryan La Sala
•Becky Albertalli
•Kelly Loy Gilbert
•Victoria Aveyard
•Gabe Cole Novoa
•Lydia Kang
•Varian Johnson
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