Eliot
@eliotedits.bsky.social
Editor, educator, word nerd with a specialty in inclusive language and storytelling and a big love for romance fiction. (Maybe I can help you with your writing! https://www.eliotwesteditorial.com/) Joy matters too 💖🌈
I feel so seen!!! xkcd.com/3166/
Big and Little Spoons
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November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I feel so seen!!! xkcd.com/3166/
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A friend and I were talking about awkward stock photos again and I realized it's never a bad time to reshare this list of sites with free stock images that are both less awkward AND more inclusive in terms of the people in them. (It includes a great one for your fall vaccine coverage!)
Free Sources for Inclusive and Stereotype-Busting Stock Images — Madeleine Vasaly
One problem you’ll run into in almost any stock library is that a lot of images are pretty stereotypical and don’t tend to feature a lot of diversity. That’s why whenever I find a new site with free-u...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A friend and I were talking about awkward stock photos again and I realized it's never a bad time to reshare this list of sites with free stock images that are both less awkward AND more inclusive in terms of the people in them. (It includes a great one for your fall vaccine coverage!)
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I keep thinking of @eliotedits.bsky.social's thoughts about the way some romance readers don’t like the little quiet at home chore/mundanity moments and how that might land differently for queer readers/queer characters.
It’s reminding me of when some evangelist types came to my door.
It’s reminding me of when some evangelist types came to my door.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I keep thinking of @eliotedits.bsky.social's thoughts about the way some romance readers don’t like the little quiet at home chore/mundanity moments and how that might land differently for queer readers/queer characters.
It’s reminding me of when some evangelist types came to my door.
It’s reminding me of when some evangelist types came to my door.
Catching up on Fated Mates episodes & struck that neither Jen nor Sarah can stand chores and ordinary day-to-day in romance novels. I'm now curious if queer romance readers/writers have a different orientation toward the domestic & ordinary because the fantasy is a safe home where we can be boring.
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Catching up on Fated Mates episodes & struck that neither Jen nor Sarah can stand chores and ordinary day-to-day in romance novels. I'm now curious if queer romance readers/writers have a different orientation toward the domestic & ordinary because the fantasy is a safe home where we can be boring.
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Do you care about #InclusiveLanguage and storytelling? Want to explore ideas outside the gender binary? Sign up for our Nov. 12 webinar with Tanya Gold and Eliot West for tips to help you support authors in creating authentic non-binary gender representations: webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Do you care about #InclusiveLanguage and storytelling? Want to explore ideas outside the gender binary? Sign up for our Nov. 12 webinar with Tanya Gold and Eliot West for tips to help you support authors in creating authentic non-binary gender representations: webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
Wholehearted Writers Week applications close 1 week from today (11/12)! Write in good company Jan 12–16, supported by 4 kind, skillful editors/writing coaches + 8 writers across genres offering hour-long sessions on the process from idea through publication. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wholehearted Writers Week applications close 1 week from today (11/12)! Write in good company Jan 12–16, supported by 4 kind, skillful editors/writing coaches + 8 writers across genres offering hour-long sessions on the process from idea through publication. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html
Editors, join us for an informative chat on a very cool topic! We're excited to share context, strategies, and tips big & small for folks working at all levels of edit.
Want to learn more about editing fiction with nonbinary characters?
Join me and @eliotedits.bsky.social for our @editorscanada.bsky.social webinar on November 12!
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
#AmEditing #QueerEditors #Editors 🌈📚
Join me and @eliotedits.bsky.social for our @editorscanada.bsky.social webinar on November 12!
webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
#AmEditing #QueerEditors #Editors 🌈📚
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Editors, join us for an informative chat on a very cool topic! We're excited to share context, strategies, and tips big & small for folks working at all levels of edit.
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This is genuinely heartbreaking.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is genuinely heartbreaking.
This whole series is so much fun!
Just a few more days to get my Thanksgiving romance novella for free!
He was never supposed to see his one-night stand again, so why is she at Thanksgiving dinner in his hometown?
The ebook of A Match Made for Thanksgiving is free until the end of October!
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The ebook of A Match Made for Thanksgiving is free until the end of October!
jackielaubooks.com/books/a-matc...
October 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This whole series is so much fun!
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So many people who love to write, who want to learn more, who want to quietly share their excitements and frustrations - just don't.
They think they don't qualify as a #writer. But no one gets to determine that but you.
What 'rules' about #writing have you found to be... less than true?
They think they don't qualify as a #writer. But no one gets to determine that but you.
What 'rules' about #writing have you found to be... less than true?
October 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Here is my most damning indictment of romance as a genre: we are currently living in a time when stalkers, rapists, and murderers are romance MMCs, but I doubt I could name more than 10 books in the whole history of the genre where an FMC has an abortion.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Here is my most damning indictment of romance as a genre: we are currently living in a time when stalkers, rapists, and murderers are romance MMCs, but I doubt I could name more than 10 books in the whole history of the genre where an FMC has an abortion.
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A healthy and tasty muffin using whole wheat flour and flavored with citrus and full of dates and walnuts. With Demo Video
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October 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I hereby endorse these muffins, which are my new favorite muffins joyofbaking.com/muffins/Oran...
$50 off through tomorrow 10/12! Laugh & think & write in community, with guidance & information from 4 professional editors & 8 extremely smart, kind writers, for 5 days this January! Online, inclusive, full of heart. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
$50 off through tomorrow 10/12! Laugh & think & write in community, with guidance & information from 4 professional editors & 8 extremely smart, kind writers, for 5 days this January! Online, inclusive, full of heart. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
My rec for the soulful & practical book Living Revision for writers www.eliotwesteditorial.com/blog/read-th... (I wrote & scheduled this post ages ago, but now the author Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a speaker for Wholehearted Writers Week! Apply by Sunday 10/12 for a reduced rate...)
read this book about revision that’s also about your deep inner writing life
I recently spent six months teaching revision strategies (and strategies for emotionally navigating the revision process) to creative writers across genres through the Loft Literary Center in...
www.eliotwesteditorial.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My rec for the soulful & practical book Living Revision for writers www.eliotwesteditorial.com/blog/read-th... (I wrote & scheduled this post ages ago, but now the author Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is a speaker for Wholehearted Writers Week! Apply by Sunday 10/12 for a reduced rate...)
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We will also be doing our online auction again, check out the shawl I made!!! (Photo was taken in our synagogue's beautiful historic sanctuary, which I wanted it to match)
Register for the auction by viewing its home page while logged in to your 32auctions account: www.32auctions.com/Bundled2025
Register for the auction by viewing its home page while logged in to your 32auctions account: www.32auctions.com/Bundled2025
October 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We will also be doing our online auction again, check out the shawl I made!!! (Photo was taken in our synagogue's beautiful historic sanctuary, which I wanted it to match)
Register for the auction by viewing its home page while logged in to your 32auctions account: www.32auctions.com/Bundled2025
Register for the auction by viewing its home page while logged in to your 32auctions account: www.32auctions.com/Bundled2025
Early bird discount ends one week from today! Learn from & chat with 4 kind, talented, kinda goofy editors and a lineup of 8 truly amazing writers across genres, and work on your project(s) in good company this January. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
#WritingCommunity
#Writers #QueerWriters
#WritingCommunity
#Writers #QueerWriters
Wholehearted Writers
What is Wholehearted Writers Week? This five-day-long online event is a writer’s retreat, a conference, a festival, a community space . It's also highly individualized and flexible. Your ...
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October 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Early bird discount ends one week from today! Learn from & chat with 4 kind, talented, kinda goofy editors and a lineup of 8 truly amazing writers across genres, and work on your project(s) in good company this January. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
#WritingCommunity
#Writers #QueerWriters
#WritingCommunity
#Writers #QueerWriters
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Lizzie Huxley-Jones is an autistic author based in London. They are the author of queer holiday rom-coms, Hits Different co-written with Tasha Ghouri, and the Vivi Conway series. They write joyful stories that centre queerness and disability
We're so excited to have @littlehux.bsky.social join us!
We're so excited to have @littlehux.bsky.social join us!
October 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Lizzie Huxley-Jones is an autistic author based in London. They are the author of queer holiday rom-coms, Hits Different co-written with Tasha Ghouri, and the Vivi Conway series. They write joyful stories that centre queerness and disability
We're so excited to have @littlehux.bsky.social join us!
We're so excited to have @littlehux.bsky.social join us!
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Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is the author of three books on writing. Her creative work includes memoirs, novels, and personal essays. She also teaches writing as a transformational practice and hosts an online writing community.
We're delighted to have Elizabeth giving a workshop with us!
#conference
We're delighted to have Elizabeth giving a workshop with us!
#conference
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is the author of three books on writing. Her creative work includes memoirs, novels, and personal essays. She also teaches writing as a transformational practice and hosts an online writing community.
We're delighted to have Elizabeth giving a workshop with us!
#conference
We're delighted to have Elizabeth giving a workshop with us!
#conference
Just got a "reminder that your subscription ends soon!" email but they mean I need to renew by the end of *December*. I think ... it's okay ... for now? lol
October 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just got a "reminder that your subscription ends soon!" email but they mean I need to renew by the end of *December*. I think ... it's okay ... for now? lol
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We're so excited to have emelkrishnan.bsky.social join us!
M. L. Krishnan has been awarded Fellowships & Residencies from Tin House, MacDowell, the Carnegie Corporation, Millay Arts, and the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.
#writers
M. L. Krishnan has been awarded Fellowships & Residencies from Tin House, MacDowell, the Carnegie Corporation, Millay Arts, and the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.
#writers
October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We're so excited to have emelkrishnan.bsky.social join us!
M. L. Krishnan has been awarded Fellowships & Residencies from Tin House, MacDowell, the Carnegie Corporation, Millay Arts, and the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.
#writers
M. L. Krishnan has been awarded Fellowships & Residencies from Tin House, MacDowell, the Carnegie Corporation, Millay Arts, and the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere.
#writers
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Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. Her fiction has won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Edgar Award, and the Minnesota Book Award.
We're so excited to have @naomikritzer.bsky.social joining us!
We're so excited to have @naomikritzer.bsky.social joining us!
September 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. Her fiction has won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Edgar Award, and the Minnesota Book Award.
We're so excited to have @naomikritzer.bsky.social joining us!
We're so excited to have @naomikritzer.bsky.social joining us!
Looking up thoughts on a particular use of ellipses, I came across the blanket statement "Editors don't like ellipses." This amuses me to no end so I am passing it along to you. (I did not realize I'm supposed to dislike whole entire punctuation marks; I don't think I have it in me! alas)
September 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Looking up thoughts on a particular use of ellipses, I came across the blanket statement "Editors don't like ellipses." This amuses me to no end so I am passing it along to you. (I did not realize I'm supposed to dislike whole entire punctuation marks; I don't think I have it in me! alas)
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The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
September 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
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Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.
September 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.