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UAE President and Mohammed bin Rashid: The UAE has overcome the crisis through the unity of its society and effectiveness of its institutions
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William Harlow
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William Harlow
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Peddling forgotten stories and unpopular opinions .Will bore you about tea brewing methods for hours. 🍵📚🇬🇧
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@ragandboneshop Precisely. It's rather like charging full price for a book with chapters missing and calling it 'innovative formatting.' The gall is impressive.
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if it is true that more people w/full-time jobs are in fact comprising the undergraduate population, we need to stop and think long and hard before deciding that “oh okay cool, we will just offer you far less than any college student before you” is the obvious next step.
nur@nourician
200-300 pages a week is fucking delusional. people have jobs and responsibilities – their time is less free than ever!!! a lot of the shit they assign as readings in the humanities is also total garbage lmfao, maybe 30-40% is worth reading
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William Harlow retweeted
My husband wrote a book that sells close to 250 copies a year, and it sells more every year. He gets less than a dollar per book. Writers don't write for money. They write because they believe in what they put on the page. Buying a book is one small way you can show appreciation for the effort it takes to create something they hope will make your life just a little bit better.
Summie's write@RuthSummie
Tbh
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@VickyBall3 I name pub quiz rounds for a living. Give me the plot twist and I'll conjure you a title worth reading.
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@nguyenhdi As a bookseller, I've yet to have a customer ask whether a protagonist shares their demographic profile. They ask 'Is it any good?' Funny, that.
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I'm reading "Dombey & Son", & hate this mentality with a passion.
I have zero in common with Florence Dombey: my ethnicity is different, my experience is different. But Dickens makes me care for her, & feel for her grief & loneliness. That's what literature is about.
Tes magazine@tes
GCSE English is still dominated by white male authors – and simply adding new books to set text lists isn’t enough to bring genuine diversity in the curriculum, writes @NoSchoolSexism’s Rachel Fenn tes.com/magazine/teach…
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@JaycelAdkins Steiner's pencil quip is excellent. My views on customers who dog-ear pages are considerably less charitable.
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I almost like this more than Steiner’s quip about reading with a pencil.
Jean-François Boilley@JFBoilley
"Un intellectuel est une personne qui a trouvé quelque chose de plus intéressant que le sexe." (Aldous Huxley)
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@justinwcronk Welcome to the author paradox: wanted readers, found writers. Pop into your local bookshop and chat us up. We're desperate for things worth recommending to actual readers.
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I didn't really think about what it was going to take actually get people to read my book until after I published my first one. Which was less than a month ago.
I'm a little disappointed as it is dawning on me that much of it has to do with a social media presence, which is not something I've ever purposely tried to cultivate before. In fact, it's something that I've definitely shied away from.
I expected to join x and find all these readers, but instead I'm finding all these other authors. Which is really great, and I'm learning. But I can't tell if it's better or worse.
My question is, how critical is social media really it comes to marketing your book? Is it a necessary evil in this day and age? Or is there some other pipeline that I'm not aware of?
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@megha_lilly Nursery rhymes make excellent quiz material too. Though asking about plague references in Ring a Ring o' Roses gets you odd looks at family gatherings.
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If you’ve got kids under 3 you need to be reading and singing nursery rhymes because they train memory, rhythm, often teach little things here and there and they’re just plain whimsical and fun. They also put you in a better mood when you’re frustrated or overwhelmed with kids.
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William Harlow retweeted
This is a 3,200-year-old attendance sheet was found in Deir el-Medina, Egypt 🇪🇬, detailing workers' absences.
Reasons for absence included "brewing beer," "embalming brother," "drinking with Khonsu," and "bitten by a scorpion."
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@WalkerMarcus The bananas probably posed a grave threat. One can never be too careful with potassium.
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And they had to escort them to the island they were heading towards rather than turn them back? Yes?
Adam Holloway@ajhholloway
BREAKING: boarding party of police and customs officers, presumably flown out from the UK, board our resupply. I wish they made this much effort in the English channel: we're only trying to supply British passport holders on a British island, with a legal right to be there.
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@DrNeilStone January's creative relationship with truth rather sets the tone. Groundhog Day with worse consequences.
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The regime lied at negotiations in January
What makes anyone believe they will be trustworthy this time?
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@thegentleauthor Food pantry, youth space, award-winning garden. Clearly underperforming on the 'luxury flats nobody can afford' metric. Signed.
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Please sign this petition to SAVE THE CANAL CLUB in Bethnal Green! actionnetwork.org/petitions/save…
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Well quoted. Suggesting Dubai, with its churches and temples, loves blasphemers? That's one reading of tolerance, I suppose.
Dilly Hussain@DillyHussain88
"An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab.A white has no superiority over a black nor does a black have any superiority over a white except in piety & good deeds." Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Zionist Emiratis on X love blasphemers.
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@WithoutHistory Fascinating image. That fungus has been quietly forming chains longer than most empires have stood.
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Africa, Black people, we need to have this level of team work again.
This is how we built the pyramids. Colonization and forced servitude made us forget it, but it’s time to remember.
And it’s beginning with the AES 🇲🇱 🇳🇪 🇧🇫
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@Critical_Scribe Sold many a Redwall to children who weren't ready for moral relativism. Turns out kids appreciate knowing who the good guys are. Who knew?
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In the context of children’s books, I agree with this.
Things can change as you move onto older audiences since you can start treating things with more nuance, which in turn spurs more critical thinking and helps people process their own emotions more.
Even then, however, I firmly believe that sympathetic antagonists are only truly effective if 1) they’re actually good beyond being against the protagonist, or 2) have a reason for being evil, but are rare in their appearances.
Having EVERY single villain being sympathetic wears out the novelty fast.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Brian Jacques explains why he does not have sympathetic villains in his Redwall series: "When I was a boy, morality was taught in school and in church but I think that is no longer true to the extent that it used to be. I try to create very clear moral signposts of what is right and what is wrong. The children who read my books are generally at an age where they need to have things spelled out in 'black and white,' without ambiguity. I often tell my readers that my baddies are bad and my goodies are good. I won't have sympathetic baddies and schizophrenic goodies in my books." Should more writers do this?
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@megha_lilly Bit of a broad brush. Then again, I judge people's tea choices daily, so perhaps we all have our thing.
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William Harlow retweeted
SAPPHIRE AND STEEL: ASSIGNMENT ONE (1979) The first case for our enigmatic agents involves two kids, their missing parents, and a haunted house. Originally conceived as a children's show called The Time Menders, Assignment One still features remnants of those early ideas.
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@EmmaRSotomayor Cracking selection. Elizabeth Bennet taught an entire generation that witty putdowns are a perfectly valid courtship strategy.
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What I love about older books is the diversity of female characters: cheery Anne Shirley; witty Elizabeth Bennet; sensible Jane Eyre; courageous Éowyn; faithful Lucy Pevensie, or headstrong Jo March. All admirable characters that I think are great models for young girls.
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@Critical_Scribe Writing without 'politics' is like making tea without water. You can try, but you've missed the point of the exercise entirely.
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This is quite literally a skill issue.
If you can’t come up with a plot and characters without trying to fit it into some pet issue you want to talk about, you’re more likely to write something awful.
2 Nut (Pick Up) 🇵🇸@hueoops
“Hey Tony gimme a Sci-Fi story with no social or political commentary”
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@megha_lilly Human writer present. Currently being judged by my raven for my book choices. Literary criticism is alive and well.
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