Angela Dicken
@avdicken.bsky.social
writing strange little stories you might relate to
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I haven't posted by #Litmag starter pack in awhile. Find some you love and share this post. Sooner litmags see Bluesky as a viable option, sooner they leave X/Twitter.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I haven't posted by #Litmag starter pack in awhile. Find some you love and share this post. Sooner litmags see Bluesky as a viable option, sooner they leave X/Twitter.
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
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“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”
― William Trevor
― William Trevor
April 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”
― William Trevor
― William Trevor
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All right. I'm off to the word mines. Keep looking up, fam.
March 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
All right. I'm off to the word mines. Keep looking up, fam.
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I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
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March 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The way I have to explain this to friends when they ask to read my stuff
January 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The way I have to explain this to friends when they ask to read my stuff
Can't stress this enough: a random story you write on a lark may end up being the one that gets you the most recognition while the one you really love may get few reads and/or your worst reviews. Don't overthink it. Publishing is a gamble. You'll win some; you'll lose some.
December 13, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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"One of the reasons that I write is because I'm more interested in looking, as opposed to looking away." ~ Terry McMillan
December 9, 2024 at 12:11 PM
"One of the reasons that I write is because I'm more interested in looking, as opposed to looking away." ~ Terry McMillan
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Top three suppliers of paper to the US: Canada, China, Mexico.
This is a post about books.
This is a post about books.
November 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Top three suppliers of paper to the US: Canada, China, Mexico.
This is a post about books.
This is a post about books.
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie
November 27, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie
Just a writer being super chill.
Writing is like doing exploratory surgery on yourself. You take out all of your internal organs and put them on the table and hope you can put them back in the right order and that you make it out alive somehow.
November 26, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Just a writer being super chill.
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Context always adds to the work. (Not always in a good way—but knowing the context can only add to your understanding of the work and help you decide how to engage with and interpret it.)
I’m not telling you to stop reading Cormac McCarthy— I read Mishima! But don’t do the baby thing where you pretend art and books don’t have an implicit politics and historical/social/bodily context, or pretend that aesthetic choices can be totally divested of these things. Own it.
November 23, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Context always adds to the work. (Not always in a good way—but knowing the context can only add to your understanding of the work and help you decide how to engage with and interpret it.)
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Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!
November 23, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!
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People often apologize when they mention audiobooks to me, I guess because I’m a writer and they assume I think it’s some kind of betrayal.
Look. People were googling “what’s a tariff?” the day AFTER the election. I’m grateful y’all are reading, however you’re reading. Also, I love audiobooks.
Look. People were googling “what’s a tariff?” the day AFTER the election. I’m grateful y’all are reading, however you’re reading. Also, I love audiobooks.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
November 23, 2024 at 10:35 AM
People often apologize when they mention audiobooks to me, I guess because I’m a writer and they assume I think it’s some kind of betrayal.
Look. People were googling “what’s a tariff?” the day AFTER the election. I’m grateful y’all are reading, however you’re reading. Also, I love audiobooks.
Look. People were googling “what’s a tariff?” the day AFTER the election. I’m grateful y’all are reading, however you’re reading. Also, I love audiobooks.
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Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
I’m at the take a walk and see if I can jump start my brain portion of the writing day
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM
I’m at the take a walk and see if I can jump start my brain portion of the writing day