Whether you get an MFA or not, goddamn, find a workshop, find a way to talk to some working writers and editors, I dunno, all of that would've made things a lot easier and faster for me in retrospect. Get your onboarding somehow but do GET IT, writing is solitary but publishing is collaborative.

Eagerly awaiting!!

So come level up your editing toolkit!

LMC members can try 1 month of The Forever Workshop freeee

Link in our Discord🔥
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/how-to-com...

He'll chat with the writers and break down what they did in revision and why.

🔥w/ a BSF 2023 winner by @robroensch.bsky.social
🔥a Wigleaf Top 50 longlister by Rina Olsen
🔥a stunner by Brittany Ackerman
🔥and a Lindsey Peters Berg piece adopted by Australian standardized tests (🙃true story)

And in November, Editor @stevexisxok.bsky.social will be teaching a course at The Forever Workshop on different story types and revising for common challenges they present.

w/ pre- and post-revision versions of 4 pieces from @okaydonkeymag.com

www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/how-to-com...

AND we'll have beautiful generative prompts posted by @kathyfish.bsky.social on the 1st and 15th!

The writing life is hard and lonely, yes, but around here it doesn't have to be🔥

And ICYMI: we chatted with our favorite fabulist @benloory.bsky.social about how he writes stories that are both fun and profound and… the answers might surprise you.

Here’s a teaser of his foolproof 6-step method.

Pop into our Discord to catch what you missed and grow with us in November👋See you!

+ @haydensferryreview.bsky.social editor Chiara Kaufman will lead our monthlong reading of @olgaravn.bsky.social's futuristic workplace allegory, The Employees!

On Nov 6 6PM ET, join our live communal close-reading of The Employees’ 1st pages & share your thoughts!

Discussion starters on Thursdays

Want to break hearts while landing zingers like “adorkable but hotkward?”

On Nov 16 at 8PM ET, chat and get craft-y with award-winning author @1demerith.bsky.social & @epochliterary.com editor @jrobertlennon.com about Meredith’s fizzingly witty, disarmingly tender short story “The Best Man.”

Got questions about residencies? Wanna improve your chances when applying?

On Nov 23 5PM ET, we’ll chat with Jeff McMahon, Director of Operations at Willapa Bay AIR, and @jrigamonti.bsky.social, former Program Coordinator at the @cmwritershouse.bsky.social for insider tips.

Come and learn with us🔥

Want more chills? Here's another haunted fave by @abigailoswald.bsky.social

You'll love what it does with doppelgangers & disappearing

(Even if you don't believe, like I do, that the screen is a mirror from beyond which The Nether beckons)
#commonsense

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