Amy Weingartner

@NealFAllen I’m all in on this book -- saying “yes, yes, yes!” to the gamut and “see?” in my head to my writing students…

Anne Lamott and Her Husband Neal Allen Want to Be Your Writing Teachers mariashriversundaypaper.com/anne-lamott-an…

@ANNELAMOTT If I can bear to put this down — I Might be finished by then — I would love to be there!

I am hilariously and adorably incompetent, so am not sure if I mentioned anywhere that this is online this time:

@BurbankFire Way to go!!! Thank you!!!

🔥 Academy: Week 14

@Supersonic_Red Thank you! I feel seen! I have been writing about this, and I will start getting my writing out there more… Wonderful essay.

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones. And honestly, it explains a lot. We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media. We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life. That is not a small thing. People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly. Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that. We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to. We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming. We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime. We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen. And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one. That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials. A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time. We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them. That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us. But we exist. We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age. And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

@AskMaridee Great!

@Weinbrain I’ll tell you when the first full story is posted! Pumpkin first

New comic story starting on my Instagram, why I have four cats

@theislandwriter @james_aidan Congrats!!!

I SIGNED A BOOK DEAL FROM A BIG 5 PUBLISHER THIS MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH! ITS FINALLY OFFICIAL! Years of hard work, determination, and persistence. IT REALLY DOES FEEL LIKE I MADE IT TO THE OLYMPICS OF WRITING!!! 😭🥳🎉 #publishing #author #writingcommunity #kidlit

@itsme_urstruly I feel the same way, and I love your choice of blueberries, laughing in the feeling of sun on your face!

The earth is just spinning through infinite darkness at 67,000 miles per hour and somehow it also made blueberries?? And laughing?? And the feeling of sun on your face?? What is this place. What a an absolute gift.

@weskrantz Wonderful portrait shot! Class photo! 😍

good morning

@Scotterybarn Congrats! So cool. What a great shot too. Where is this diner? I live in LA and I’m hoping it’s somewhere around here…

wrapped. the professional honor of my entire life. would take a bullet for this cast and crew with a smile and ask for another.

@SuzanneGriffin1 @roadmapwriters Big congrats!!

Feedback from a general with an exec producer who offered to submit my Romantic Horror/Fantasy pilot BROOKLYN GOTHIC for staffing consideration for a show they are developing at Amazon MGM (🤞show goes forward.) Thanks,⁦⁦@roadmapwriters⁩ for the intro! 🙏💜 #tv

@AskMaridee @kellyyanghk @Scholastic @FumioObata Definitely wanna read it! Does look great!

@Weinbrain @kellyyanghk @Scholastic @FumioObata The art is fantastic! Very entertaining book that works well as a GN

The graphic novel I adapted for @kellyyanghk and @Scholastic is up for preorder wherever books are sold! Art by @FumioObata This is going to be a big hit with middlegraders, can’t wait to see the final product on the shelves

@weskrantz Sheer noir perfection! Is he the detective or is he the criminal…?

some Finn noir

@Joseph_Fasano_ @WhitStillman As a professor of writing and literature, all I can say is …I’m not crying you’re crying… 🥹 thank you for posting that

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

@rajarj8083 I made a little and lost a little on PLTR. I will heed your advice there and cut my losses. Thank you!

@Rep_Stansbury I love that! 👩🏻‍🏫

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

@NASAArtemis @Twitch When are we going to get Rise T-shirts we can purchase? 🚀😍

@Twitch Now I know and I love you and everyone on the whole planet!!!! -Rise

Hi! I’m Rise! About a week ago, I launched aboard the Artemis II mission with four of my besties. Since then, I have been serving a very important purpose aboard the Orion spacecraft… I float. (And I look cute.) Today, I am taking over the Artemis social media accounts! -Rise

@azsweetheart013 @nilslofgren Unbelievably great! Thank you for that, Amy!! 💜🎸

And @nilslofgren

@tonyhenandez790 Also, I have a few clients who are looking for cover designers… Where is your website so I can send them to take a look?

@Weinbrain Wow, that’s a lot on your plate 😅 When you’re ready to get those stories or your novel polished, I help authors with editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, basically making the process smoother so you can focus on creating.

Who's writing and what are you writing?