writer - themes of identity, memory, loneliness, intimacy, and isolation - talk to me about tragedy 💖
Coney Island, Brooklyn
Joined September 2020
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Saw an amazing concert in Stamford with @PlatinumMoon3 opening. I don't think I've ever seen an opener who I've been more interested in seeing again as a headliner!
I just signed the @iatse petition: Open Letter to Walt Disney Animation Studios/Disney Leadership. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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“You die alone. You think about that from time to time all through life, and it continues to make no sense against all the little efforts you make to be happy and have friends and pass the time.” —Anne Carson theparisreview.org/interview…
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I’m seeing this in so many bios as I’m following fellow writers :
“Aspiring writer”
“Amateur writer”
What does this mean? If you write, you’re a writer. Don’t downplay your talent.
#writersoftwitter #writingcommunity
New #substack post! In which I mourn the end of Xavier Dolan's film career, and celebrate the reemergence of Richard Siken's poetry.
phoebewest.substack.com/p/an…
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I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way.
Vita Sackville-West, letter to Virginia Woolf
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“Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays & poetry provide the ‘food’ for AI systems, endless meals for which there has been no bill.”
—@AuthorsGuild
We need a restart button for GenAI, not a pause.
Training sets need to be rebuilt on the basis of consent. #TeamHuman
I just signed the @AuthorsGuild's Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders calling on them to compensate writers fairly for the use of copyrighted materials in their AI programs. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
A lot of the comments are using a sort of "kids these days" rhetoric, blaming entitlement and other forms of media. So thank you for this insight, and for recognizing that the kids are not the problem.
hehe i ~made a thing~ come follow my writing journey on #substack! #writerslife #amwriting
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Here we go. These two have my sword.
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Companion Piece: a moodboard for his foil in Act I #amwriting #WritingCommunity
Looking to engage more with the #writingcommunity on here! #writerslift -- tell me what's up with your WIP!
... is a fiction writer with a history in screen and stage writing. Her novel is set in Paris, where she spent her early twenties, and follows a mathematician’s descent into the city’s darker temptations. She currently lives in a Brooklyn studio and writes lonely characters.
In my writing class we were asked to draft author's bios, a short blurb we could use at a reading. Here was mine:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the #Pride march must be on the hottest day in June, regardless of the weather patterns on the day preceding and following
