Sarah LaPolla
@sarahlapolla.com
Freelance editor of YA & Adult fiction (sarah@nextchapteredits.com). Writer, optimist, all-around bookish.
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Editing: https://www.nextchapteredits.com/
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/SarahLaPolla
Everything Else: https://linktr.ee/sarahlapolla
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Editing Update: Writers, I am booked through the end of the year & starting to schedule for January & February. Let’s work together in 2026! See details & reach out to reserve from now: www.nextchapteredits.com
Update to the update: I am now scheduling for spring! 👇🏼
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Impeachment is the moderate position.
January 15, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Impeachment is the moderate position.
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Writing for kids is NOT easier than writing for adults, so choose your age category deliberately. #WritingTip
January 14, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Writing for kids is NOT easier than writing for adults, so choose your age category deliberately. #WritingTip
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If you're calling a Republican, don't feel the need to tell them you're a Democrat. You can take the libertarian-ish old-school "what the hell is the federal government doing, sending masked secret police to snatch people off the streets if they aren't carrying papers?" angle.
January 11, 2026 at 10:37 PM
If you're calling a Republican, don't feel the need to tell them you're a Democrat. You can take the libertarian-ish old-school "what the hell is the federal government doing, sending masked secret police to snatch people off the streets if they aren't carrying papers?" angle.
Finally added my new logo & a shiny new editorial service to my website! An ongoing project, but happy to get these updates out there first: www.nextchapteredits.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Finally added my new logo & a shiny new editorial service to my website! An ongoing project, but happy to get these updates out there first: www.nextchapteredits.com
Update to the update: I am now scheduling for spring! 👇🏼
Editing Update: Writers, I am booked through the end of the year & starting to schedule for January & February. Let’s work together in 2026! See details & reach out to reserve from now: www.nextchapteredits.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Update to the update: I am now scheduling for spring! 👇🏼
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You can say Merry Protein again
January 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
You can say Merry Protein again
Writers: If you want to start the new year with an online workshop that jumpstarts your novel, my friend & extremely talented author, Jennifer Cody Epstein, has a great one coming up (feat. some amazing guest authors too!): jennifercodyepstein.com/awake-on-the...
January 7, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Writers: If you want to start the new year with an online workshop that jumpstarts your novel, my friend & extremely talented author, Jennifer Cody Epstein, has a great one coming up (feat. some amazing guest authors too!): jennifercodyepstein.com/awake-on-the...
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I see a lot of arguing on here and I just want to help out a bit: It’s possible to enjoy Marjorie Taylor Greene burning bridges with conservatives without also concluding that she is now a reformed progressive icon
December 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I see a lot of arguing on here and I just want to help out a bit: It’s possible to enjoy Marjorie Taylor Greene burning bridges with conservatives without also concluding that she is now a reformed progressive icon
ICYMI, my final newsletter of 2025 went out, featuring my various Top Fives of the year: buttondown.com/SarahLaPolla...
December 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
ICYMI, my final newsletter of 2025 went out, featuring my various Top Fives of the year: buttondown.com/SarahLaPolla...
This is the most accurate description of Bluesky I’ve ever read. Signed, an elder Millennial
bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression
December 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This is the most accurate description of Bluesky I’ve ever read. Signed, an elder Millennial
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Some of you are grinding or suffering anxiety because you're not going to make your self-imposed New Years deadline on your manuscript.
Stop. Take a deep breath.
Targets motivate you to get the words out, but the minute that motivation feels bad is when it poisons the well. Finish when you finish.
Stop. Take a deep breath.
Targets motivate you to get the words out, but the minute that motivation feels bad is when it poisons the well. Finish when you finish.
December 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Some of you are grinding or suffering anxiety because you're not going to make your self-imposed New Years deadline on your manuscript.
Stop. Take a deep breath.
Targets motivate you to get the words out, but the minute that motivation feels bad is when it poisons the well. Finish when you finish.
Stop. Take a deep breath.
Targets motivate you to get the words out, but the minute that motivation feels bad is when it poisons the well. Finish when you finish.
Sending my last newsletter of the year later today! Subscribe from now to get it in your inbox & start 2026 knowing more micro-essays (by me!) will arrive monthly: buttondown.com/SarahLaPolla
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sending my last newsletter of the year later today! Subscribe from now to get it in your inbox & start 2026 knowing more micro-essays (by me!) will arrive monthly: buttondown.com/SarahLaPolla
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"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
New Yule log dropped.
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
New Yule log dropped.
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Darlings, a reminder, in case no one has told you lately: the world is better with you in it.
Stay.
Stay.
December 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Darlings, a reminder, in case no one has told you lately: the world is better with you in it.
Stay.
Stay.
Welp, just unfollowed one of the last (seemingly) reputable news sources. How depressing & disappointing.
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Welp, just unfollowed one of the last (seemingly) reputable news sources. How depressing & disappointing.
Just thanked a customer service rep for being an actual human & we both laughed and then she quietly added a sad, "yeah..."
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Just thanked a customer service rep for being an actual human & we both laughed and then she quietly added a sad, "yeah..."
Seriously. Please stop screenshotting that man & spreading his hate here.
I will never understand people's impulse and desire to repost the words of that cesspool of human waste and depravity here on Bluesky. Why inflict that on others and help to spread such virulent hatred and evil?
December 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Seriously. Please stop screenshotting that man & spreading his hate here.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
Let’s go, NY-10! A congressional rep with a personality *and* progressive values?? Do we dare?
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Let’s go, NY-10! A congressional rep with a personality *and* progressive values?? Do we dare?
Is there an image that better encapsulates 2025?
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Is there an image that better encapsulates 2025?
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posting AI videos is grounds for blocking with me, even if i would agree with the message in the video
don't post AI
don't post AI
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
posting AI videos is grounds for blocking with me, even if i would agree with the message in the video
don't post AI
don't post AI
Long live the Queen.
What Was Literary Twitter? *The Champion*
I wish I could say it was close, dear reader, but with 72.6% of the vote, Joyce Carol Oates won our bracket by a wide margin. We sensed that this was coming watching the returns—JCO was putting up …
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November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Long live the Queen.
A good night for Democrats and for the first time in a while they were Democrats people were actually excited to vote for. The midterms will be chaos. For now, let’s enjoy this. 🥂
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
A good night for Democrats and for the first time in a while they were Democrats people were actually excited to vote for. The midterms will be chaos. For now, let’s enjoy this. 🥂
Let’s do this, NYC!
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Let’s do this, NYC!