Stephanie Duncan Smith
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Stephanie Duncan Smith
@heystephsmith
senior editor | seminary student | lipstick and liturgy enthusiast | Writing SLANT LETTER: craft + soul care for writers like you. Join below!
Katılım Haziran 2011
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Love @heystephsmith's take on ambition and craft. For the days when the connection between our writing and its purpose seems tenuous, when our longing crashes against our fear, take heart.
#WritingCommunity
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"Your voice is your personhood brought to the page as only you can."
🔥🔥 I love this writing wisdom from @heystephsmith
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Dear friends, let the people say amen. Especially the people who, however inadvertently, swipe Augustinian classics as their own. I wish this were not a true story.
Sharon Hodde Miller@SHoddeMiller
Just a friendly reminder that in addition to citing direct quotes, it’s also important to cite *ideas*.
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@heystephsmith I gave up on this a long time ago. I CAN NOT keep it straight, so I use ET, CT, MT, and PT and trust the receiver to translate as necessary.
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@MelissaMoore77 @blackliturgist I underlined this exact sentence ♥️
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"And what is shalom but dignity stretched out like a blanket over the cosmos?"
(Cole Arthur Riley @blackliturgist, THIS HERE FLESH, 8)
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Reading about Boyle's Law and this is all I can think about
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Me to my authors: no dangling participles! Can we cut the weird ellipses here? This is internet-speak, which is normal online, but maybe not in a print book?
Also me, freaking out to their best work: SO MUCH YES! ME LOVE! THISSSS!
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@jadoogan Had them in a cider stew tonight—so good!
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@heystephsmith My family hates parsnips almost as much as I love them!
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The unsung hero of the vegetable world is the parsnip. Fight me.
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@adamlorenz @benirwin @smarcorodriguez @kkdumez @TravelingNun @ryankuja @steveryancarter @d_l_mayfield @pauljpastor @StaceyRathjen @wilsonhartgrove @heysarahcarter @Julie_rodgers @ZaackHunt @AdrielBooker @ShaneClaiborne @dianabutlerbass Thanks Adam, I am following this story and so sad to hear it. @benirwin thank you for bringing this to light and your detailed documentation.
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Thank you, Tsh! I love seeing the various corners of interest cultivated here 😊
Tsh Oxenreider@tsh
Since @HaleyCarrots is starting a @substack, as a writer of my own & a reader of many, I thought I'd share some of my fave newsletters that I subscribe to: @DavidAFrench's French Press George Saunder's new Story Club @claireswinarski's Catholic Feminist @heystephsmith's Slant
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From @annehelen’s article +new book I can’t wait to read: “We love to talk about kids’ personalities…We don’t grow out of those characteristics so much as subsume them with duties…We must preserve those inclinations toward delight and whimsy” google.com/amp/s/amp.thea…
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“Don’t just do something, sit there.” - Sylvia Boorstein
This week's 5QT includes goodness about skinimalism, minimalism, & writermalism (yes I just made that last one up) from @jessicadefino_, Cal Newport, @heystephsmith, @joshua_becker & more: thecommon.place/p/206
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@taffyakner The Dinner, Herman Koch--the whole simmering thing
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Twitter, what is the best-ever written scene of a family dinner in all of contemporary literature?
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@HEBaumeister Necessity is the mother, and all that I guess! Impressive!
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TFW after days of being totally creatively stuck you get your mojo back...but the work is still hard. Can I get a witness?
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