Sarah Jane Cody
@sarahjanecody.bsky.social
📖 Writer. Words: Gulf Coast, The Common, Cincinnati Review, Joyland, & more. Bathrobe Gal webcomic. 👋 autistic. Rep: Jess Regel. Former Asst. Editor Pigeon Pages. she/her.
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Hi, new and migrated writer friends! Do we do introductions here? I write surreal/magical-real fiction esp. about experiences of outside accepted norms: divergent minds & bodies, chronic illness, feminism, the uncanny, slippages & erasures etc...
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The misconception that writers are good at spelling because we, uh, write...
Nope, I'm a storyteller. Spelling is boring as fuck.
Nope, I'm a storyteller. Spelling is boring as fuck.
May 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The misconception that writers are good at spelling because we, uh, write...
Nope, I'm a storyteller. Spelling is boring as fuck.
Nope, I'm a storyteller. Spelling is boring as fuck.
Morning writing - bathrobed with warm lap Bun (Bunny)
May 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Morning writing - bathrobed with warm lap Bun (Bunny)
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Things I wish someone had said to me at particular points in my life––so I'm saying them for anyone who needs them. 💖 #autistic #neurodivergent
April 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Things I wish someone had said to me at particular points in my life––so I'm saying them for anyone who needs them. 💖 #autistic #neurodivergent
The great thing about puppy not letting me sleep is that I actually get so much done at 6 am now because AFTER she thoroughly wakes me get up, wants to play, eat, poo, etc, she wants to take a 2-hour lape nap. 😂
Who else is writing at 6 a.m.?
Who else is writing at 6 a.m.?
April 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The great thing about puppy not letting me sleep is that I actually get so much done at 6 am now because AFTER she thoroughly wakes me get up, wants to play, eat, poo, etc, she wants to take a 2-hour lape nap. 😂
Who else is writing at 6 a.m.?
Who else is writing at 6 a.m.?
I'm in the Times today!
Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com for including my voice and combating RFK's dangerous claims:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/o...
#autism #neurodivergence
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/o...
#autism #neurodivergence
April 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm in the Times today!
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Much to say, but for now, here’s something I made a while ago that felt hopeful and still does––despite. Let’s never stop fighting for a better world. #autism
April 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Much to say, but for now, here’s something I made a while ago that felt hopeful and still does––despite. Let’s never stop fighting for a better world. #autism
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Autistic humans deserve to be valued, supported, and deemed worthy for being who we are, as we are, at all levels of need. Despite what RFK wants you to believe, human value is not based on “functionality;” children are not merely a “resource” to feed the economic machine. #autism #neurodivergence
April 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Autistic humans deserve to be valued, supported, and deemed worthy for being who we are, as we are, at all levels of need. Despite what RFK wants you to believe, human value is not based on “functionality;” children are not merely a “resource” to feed the economic machine. #autism #neurodivergence
What are we writing this weekend?! Share for mutual motivation ✨
I'm working on my new novel! (While holding a puppy in my lap 🐶😍)
I'm working on my new novel! (While holding a puppy in my lap 🐶😍)
April 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
What are we writing this weekend?! Share for mutual motivation ✨
I'm working on my new novel! (While holding a puppy in my lap 🐶😍)
I'm working on my new novel! (While holding a puppy in my lap 🐶😍)
Yes, I did name my dog Bunny partly just so I could say, "I love you, Bunny" (Mona Awad). She's a literary gal. Plus, naming animals what they're not is my favorite.
April 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Yes, I did name my dog Bunny partly just so I could say, "I love you, Bunny" (Mona Awad). She's a literary gal. Plus, naming animals what they're not is my favorite.
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Top two tips on how to improve a piece, from draft to draft:
April 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Top two tips on how to improve a piece, from draft to draft:
Laughting at how my husband and I are speaking in the royal We about our puppy, as in: We played, and then we pooped...
April 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Laughting at how my husband and I are speaking in the royal We about our puppy, as in: We played, and then we pooped...
Reminder that writing memoir is not cathartic. More like having an illness & the only recovery is pushing thru to other side. Or being haunted knowing you have a story you must tell. Or being the mush-goo of a whatever a caterpillar is in a chrysalis, hoping to Nature you get a butterfly.
April 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reminder that writing memoir is not cathartic. More like having an illness & the only recovery is pushing thru to other side. Or being haunted knowing you have a story you must tell. Or being the mush-goo of a whatever a caterpillar is in a chrysalis, hoping to Nature you get a butterfly.
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I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! my third one 💀 🏚️ ✨ grateful as always to editor @aaronburch.bsky.social for providing a wonderful home for my words + to all of you who read it ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
March 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! my third one 💀 🏚️ ✨ grateful as always to editor @aaronburch.bsky.social for providing a wonderful home for my words + to all of you who read it ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...
Can I tell you something pretty cool? My new webcomic is getting a lot of love & I kinda can't believe it - I've been so moved by the responses I've been getting & in just a few months of sharing. 💖❤️
March 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Can I tell you something pretty cool? My new webcomic is getting a lot of love & I kinda can't believe it - I've been so moved by the responses I've been getting & in just a few months of sharing. 💖❤️
Love this, and I agree with Joy, I see this as very motivating & helps make the writing propulsive and urgent!
Something I think about often when writing: No one owes me anything, least of all their time. Yet when I put a story out into the world, I'm saying “This is worth your time.” At every stage of the process, we need to remember this reader whose time we’re asking for.
March 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Love this, and I agree with Joy, I see this as very motivating & helps make the writing propulsive and urgent!
My advice to those of you going to #AWP is to prioritize naps. Think of AWP as a series of naps in between which you see amazing people. I'm sad to miss you all this year, but I'll be napping elsewhere in your honor.
March 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My advice to those of you going to #AWP is to prioritize naps. Think of AWP as a series of naps in between which you see amazing people. I'm sad to miss you all this year, but I'll be napping elsewhere in your honor.
What if life was like a videogame & you could just eat more food to get more energy?
March 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What if life was like a videogame & you could just eat more food to get more energy?
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I have a secret: it's my escape route. Do you also have an escape plan or safety in place? #autism #neurodivergent
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I have a secret: it's my escape route. Do you also have an escape plan or safety in place? #autism #neurodivergent
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"So we mask to fit in and hopefully succeed, though this comes at great mental and physical costs"
Important and eye-opening essay from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social I could recognise a lot of this. Someone once told me a CNF piece about my illness lacked stakes... 🤷♂️
Important and eye-opening essay from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social I could recognise a lot of this. Someone once told me a CNF piece about my illness lacked stakes... 🤷♂️
For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE.
electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...
electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...
To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques - Electric Literature
I masked in workshop and on the page, even as it invalidated my lived experience
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March 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"So we mask to fit in and hopefully succeed, though this comes at great mental and physical costs"
Important and eye-opening essay from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social I could recognise a lot of this. Someone once told me a CNF piece about my illness lacked stakes... 🤷♂️
Important and eye-opening essay from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social I could recognise a lot of this. Someone once told me a CNF piece about my illness lacked stakes... 🤷♂️
I love this compilation of tips put together by Joy, along with more of her stellar craft wisdom. Happy to be included!
14 Tips on Writing Speculative Fiction, by me, for all who write and dabble in the magical! Biggest thanks to the amazing writers quoted throughout for sharing their wisdom! Hope you enjoy! Read here: joybaglio.substack.com/p/14-tips-on...
14 Tips On Writing Speculative Fiction
that I'm constantly reminding myself of, and coming back to, again and again
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March 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I love this compilation of tips put together by Joy, along with more of her stellar craft wisdom. Happy to be included!
Our world is frequently devastating and unconscionable, and also, have you even SEEN a tree? Trees are glorious, hope-giving, kinder creatures. I have not yet managed to become one but at least in my time I can honor them.
March 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Our world is frequently devastating and unconscionable, and also, have you even SEEN a tree? Trees are glorious, hope-giving, kinder creatures. I have not yet managed to become one but at least in my time I can honor them.
Taught myself to animate - not. easy. ✨
Made this comic into an animation! Writing and drawing allowed me to express my autistic struggles before I knew what those struggles were or that they had names. ❤️
#autism#neurodivergent
#autism#neurodivergent
March 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Taught myself to animate - not. easy. ✨
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Made this comic into an animation! Writing and drawing allowed me to express my autistic struggles before I knew what those struggles were or that they had names. ❤️
#autism#neurodivergent
#autism#neurodivergent
March 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Made this comic into an animation! Writing and drawing allowed me to express my autistic struggles before I knew what those struggles were or that they had names. ❤️
#autism#neurodivergent
#autism#neurodivergent