@JustineBateman adapting Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women?
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H.S. Cross
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H.S. Cross
@HSCrossSav
Novelist. AMANDA (Europa 2025), GRIEVOUS (FSG 2019), WILBERFORCE (FSG 2015) https://t.co/7POS4Dzcku
the South Beigetreten Nisan 2009
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@signulll why don't you get a sodastream and make your own sparkling water with your own water and no additives? Pour in a splash of kombucha or lemon/ginger or whatever.
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@mtaibbi the way men of a certain age expect you to listen to them endlessly in social situations, expect you to find everything about them fascinating, like they're reliving glory days when they had accolytes, singing through their repertoire with nary a thought of you.
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Question for women: what do you hate most about men, and what's the worst example of typically male behavior you can remember? Non-criminal division. Asking unironically.
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@peaklass1 Oh! One of the places on Flanders & Swan's Slow Train ❤️
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Glowing in the early morning light, this is the hamlet of Miller's Dale, nestled alongside the Derbyshire River Wye and surrounded on all sides by high limestone hills. The water rushed and bubbled through the valley and birds sang out from the trees whose shadows fell on the road, but otherwise all was perfectly peaceful as the day began in this little corner of England.
📍 Peak District, England
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Anything can happen. Who needs prayer?
Justine Bateman@JustineBateman
Good morning. If you’re feeling lost or blah or bored or anxious, throw a prayer up for a few of the people in this chain. Your mood will change.
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@svershbow you must have had a good writing teacher somewhere along the road, Sophie.
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Other than using Otter for transcriptions (which I confirm) and basic spell check, I cannot fathom employing AI in my writing process. Research is the point. Picking the best quotes is the point. Thinking through the outline is the point. Writing a shitty 1st draft IS THE POINT.
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I've been thinking so much about AI journalist discourse and must say, as someone who clawed their way to a freelance writing career alongside a demanding full time job, no one is making you do this and a million people would kill for the staff position you're occupying.
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Convince me to buy your book by showing me your pet.
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my friends, it is time:
in conjunction with @avemariapress and a new book they released, i spent the last few months illustrating the entire structure of the summa theologica, by thomas aquinas.
in my shop here: owen-cyclops.myshopify.com
can i show and tell you, in this thread:
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Writers, show me your book. No links. No blurbs, just your cover with a hookline that will make the readers want more. 📚🤓
Mine are in the comments. ❤️
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What's a novel filled with transcendent beauty that you recommended?
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@dlongenecker1 keep records and then call the lender when you need a citation and ask them to look it up for you.
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I have lots of books. I loan them to friends and family. I'm writing an article and need to verify a quote. I look for that book. Someone has borrowed it and not returned it. What do I do? Set up a library loan system? Fine people? Refuse to lend out my books?
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@Prof_Cooper @paul_jkrause I discovered this as late as 10th grade and was obsessed. In 11th grade I moved on to LOTR.
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What is a "kid's" book that you loved that you swear by as great literature? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM...
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If you know of a modern novel which engages so deeply with the classics & its philosophical and literary forebears such that rereading it is always a new, rich experience, you should share it with me. My list is pretty short (Piranesi, Secret History, Till We Have Faces)
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If you are struggling with the difference between U.S. and UK English, I offer this helpful comparison:
U.S.: After the theater program, I met Dr. Shawn P. Cooper.
UK: After the theatre programme, I met Dr Shawnne P. Coopre.
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H.S. Cross retweetet
Why did the men in trenches write poetry? Because in the most inhuman situation ever, it was their lifeline to being human.
David Marcus@BlueBoxDave
“More than anything, we must get the notion out of our heads that poetry, and writing, and wondering at impossible beauty is somehow a low-T activity, because, let's be real: Very few of us are in a position to test our masculinity against the WWI poets of the trenches.”
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Looking for something for the anglophile on your list? Come inside to 1926... @EuropaEditions
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Tidying up and re-read this from @HSCrossSav - hope is real. Sometimes you just need to be reminded of that fact!
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