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The US government has just made my gender illegal. It denies the concept of gender. It says we don't have genders, only sexes: male or female. We knew they'd come for us: immigrants, scientists, medics, environmentalists, LGBTQIA, others. Now we fight. Our fight is to be visible. #nonbinary #LGBTQIA

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Textbook example of "order force": "Nice new house." They say "new nice house" sounds wrong. But no. Different order simply signals different meaning: "a new house that's nice" vs "a nice house that's new" (implying you had a nice house before). There are no absolute rules. #writing #grammar

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Experts trump on the order of adjectives in English: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. Mark Forsyth says, "If you mess with that order in the slightest, you'll sound like a maniac." Other sources cite this as a rule with no exceptions. I disagree. #writing #grammar

I used to oppose parentheses and semicolons in literary prose ("too academic"), so I used m-dashes only. After 2 decades of writing, I'm pro-everything. Parentheses are winks, dashes are asides. Colons signal explanation, semicolons clarify lists. Hail punctuation variety! #writingcommunity #fiction

Have you noticed how TV characters die and become ghosts, or out of phase with reality after a transporter accident, or whatever, and they can't grab a cup, they walk through walls, they fall through chairs, but they never seem to fall through the floor? #sciencefiction #fantasy #startrek #goofs

I'll read any good writing. "Genre" is useful for shelving, but not for judging a book. Great literary works have been "genre." Austen wrote romance. Bradbury wrote sci-fi. MASTER AND MARGARITA is fantasy. MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN is hard-boiled. CLOUDLAND is murder mystery. #books #writingcommunity 💙📚

Debut literary novels rarely pay or sell well. But they can bring memories of a lifetime. Thank you, National Jewish Book Award and Massachusetts Book Awards! 📚💙 #books #literature #novels