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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
29 Mar 2021
One of my undergrad professors (who I adore) once told me โEvery generation needs its greats. So why not you?โ And I think about that OFTEN.
๐ฃ WHY. NOT. YOU?!?!
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What perspective do you prefer to read from?
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First person
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Third person limited
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Third person omniscient
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second??
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
21 Jan 2021
Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
1 Jan 2021
I donโt have a list, I just read all the works of any good author I come across
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1 Jan 2021
Happy New Year ๐ฅ How many books are on your #TBR for 2021??
55%
0 - 6
21%
7 - 16
12%
17 - 33
12%
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
31 Dec 2020
How to meet a writing deadline:
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
15 Dec 2020
Weโre thrilled to be partnering with @RocNation on the new Roc Lit 101 imprint! sites.prh.com/roclit101
15 Dec 2020
Devoted to publishing books at the dynamic intersection of entertainment and genre-defying literature, Roc Lit 101 will feature creative work across a wide variety of interests.
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
11 Dec 2020
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
11 Dec 2020
"We guessed that most of the authors would be white, but we were shocked by the extent of the inequality once we analyzed the data. Of the 7,124 books for which we identified the authorโs race, 95 percent were written by white people."
nytimes.com/interactive/2020โฆ
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
25 Nov 2020
The sale of the company will profoundly reshape the publishing industry, increasingly a winner-take-all business in which the largest companies compete for brand-name authors and guaranteed best-sellers nyti.ms/2JbWm6A
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
25 Nov 2020
BREAKING: Penguin Random House will buy Simon & Schuster. Our story is forthcoming.
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1 Nov 2020
Writers: You doing #nanowrimo2020??
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Already started ๐๐พ
23%
In theory, yes.
41%
nope
25%
ahaha ahahahahahasknvdabk
712 votes โข Final results
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1 Nov 2020
The incomparable @MsLaurynHill: Motives & Thoughts (2005) youtube.com/watch?v=rHhaX3TSโฆ #poetry #litchat
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
28 Oct 2020
snuggling with my em dashes
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18 Oct 2020
Oh, hey. Beverage of choice for reading/writing?? โ๏ธ๐ต๐ท
31%
coffee, of course
29%
the tea
20%
wine and spirits
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something else / nothing
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LitChat (brb lol) retweeted
19 Sep 2020
It rained yesterday and the city is smoke free today. I went outside and took huge gulps of clear air, feeling my spirits lift for the first time in weeks. As long as we can breathe, we can fight, and every period of darkness eventually ends.
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