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Alyssa W.
@akwwrites.bsky.social
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Writer by night, office drone by day
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Literary magazines will come back 3 years later to tell you they didn’t want your story. Like bitch why. What story. Who the fuck are you

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August 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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One thing about living in NYC is that the dog barking:man barking ratio is not as lopsided as you might hope
August 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Writing is like stand-up comedy with a much longer lead time

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August 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Make sure you get two friends to beta read your manuscript so that you can hear completely opposite things about every part of it

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August 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Just got my copy of @jacobinmag.bsky.social so I’m officially a Socially Conscious Intellectual now. Catch me on NPR next week if it still exists
August 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Writing is fun cause sometimes you spend 18 hours sweating over a terrible story and sometimes you crank out something great in 45 minutes

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July 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Heyyy girl. Are you one of those handy dykes. Cause you can move my box
July 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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After 8 hours of day job: I still have energy left for drinks

After 30 min of writing: time for bed

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July 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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They say there’s no such thing as a synonym but idk the words all seem pretty similar to me after 2 hours of staring at them

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July 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I think I should have a podcast with the voices in my head. We’re pretty funny together
July 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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New Story_DRAFT (1) (2) Beta/Chapter 6 Edits ver 2.docx really do be hitting different rn

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July 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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It feels scary to give someone a manuscript to beta read, but don’t worry! Nothing they’ll say will possibly be as cruel and crushing as what you’ve already told yourself about it

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July 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Sometimes instead of editing I like to ram my head repeatedly into a wall. It’s the same effect

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July 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Sometimes I take a break from fiction to read nonfiction books about the state of the world. Then I remember why I don’t do that

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July 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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It’s very defeating when you type up 30 pages of handwriting and it turns out to be 1 paragraph of print

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July 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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One thing I’ve been surprised by this month is the bromance between my 2 shut in roommates who never go outside. They’ve become besties

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July 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Writing is like dentistry: sometimes you gotta keep going even if there’s a little blood

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July 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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What if you wrote a 700 page Ulysses-style tome but the middle third was just a bunch of stuff copied from the dictionary. How many agents would you have to submit it to for someone to figure it out

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July 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Finding inspiration as an author is easy. Just wait for a time to come when it’s absolutely impossible for you to write anything down

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July 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Living in New York really broadens your horizons. I’ve learned that no matter what someone’s race, gender, class, or creed, they are equally capable of behaving like an absolute mouth-breather in the subway

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July 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I love the song Yesterday, but the lyric “why she had to go I don’t know, she wouldn’t say/I said something wrong/now I long for yesterday” makes me think that Paul McCartney DEFINITELY knows what he said wrong and is denying it

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July 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Sometimes I like to write by hand in a spiral notebook because then I can pretend my story is some kind of insane political manifesto

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June 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Dating apps be like the ugliest person in a 5 mile radius wants to suck yo toes
June 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Breaking: the sticker that stuck to the bottom of your shoe 2 miles ago and then stuck to your hand when you tried to get it off has endorsed Andrew Cuomo
June 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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It’s important for kids to be digitally literate so that’s why I’m naming my son Lincoln Bio
June 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM