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and if you're reading this, fortunately we do have a mentorship currently accepting submissions!! i'll be a mentor in this one accepting YA/NA/Adult scripts across multiple genres, and i'm so excited to be a support to you as a querier, writer and person! www.roundtablementor.com/apply

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as a writer who was backed by community both from twitter and my mentor, i feel horrible knowing that new/young querying writers dont have the same resources. with that said PLEASE apply to Roundtable Mentor! not getting in doesn't mean anything, but getting in could do you a world of good <3

all my mentee friends are still friends with their mentors, and your mentor is both a career and emotional support through the horrible experience of querying. of course, thousands of authors succeed without a mentorship. but i'm saying please give it a shot !!

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it's not even about the book editing - you'll grow as a writer to edit your own book. you can have friends to beta read. but a mentorship is extremely useful for industry information, for knowing how to act with agents, learning query etiquette and avoiding red flags that could hurt your career.

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want that for our new generation of writers. i feel so bad that this is the community you get. this is why mentorships are SO important. it links you up to a writer with experience, who's been screened and who has actual experience. it gives you information that the old grapevine could've given you.

simply put, the careful grapevine of information for publishing and querying broke. it took two years, and it eroded slowly enough that we didn't quite realise it was gone until it was. but i've seen the horrible querying advice and practices boosted by engagement farming on twitter. i DON'T-

blue-check click baiters and people who paid for verification and 'expertise', not people who've earned it. the broken twitter algorithm favours those who've paid, and misinformation runs rampant - about publishing, about querying. the community, overrun by bots, no longer connects organically.

THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTORSHIPS (for querying writers): let me paint a picture - circa 2022-2024. the biggest mentorships have just died. the biggest vessel of community for publishing and writers, AKA twitter, has sunk. writing info threads are dominated by-

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WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY TO A WRITING MENTORSHIP (ft the old guard of mentorships, my experience as a mentee, and Roundtable Mentor) in 2022, I was a mentee hopeful with a manuscript that would later become my debut novel. Why did i choose to do a mentorship?

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as a young author...both these interviews had me frothing at the mouth like people do not get me like this artist trajectory does...it is part of my foundation

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han jisung 2019 to 2024...im bringing my obsession to bsky bc yall don't get him like i do...young artist overcompensating for his inexperience in a horrible industry and pushing his creative boundaries vs finding himself and overcoming the glaring imposter syndrome oh im SICK

screenshot of a man saying 'but i can't get out of work because i'm anxious. people like me can't take a break because they feel empty'

young man in a black shirt saying 'i became much healthier. i let go of many negative things. back then, not being able to sleep felt different from having trouble sleeping now'

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4 more days to apply to the excellent mentors at RTM...as a former mentee of a writing mentorship, i can't emphasize enough the support that a mentorship offers. you have peers, a mentor, querying resources and a community through the thick of it all. this is a great opportunity for all writers!!

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

hit a new level of comfort in my house (going to the toilet without turning any lights on)

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I've been using goodreads less but I got an email from them announcing the winners of the awards and I was like...whew

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when the same white authors are allowed to dominate the charts over and over again in categories like fantasy or romance, it pushes bipoc/marginalised stories out of the limelight and gives those stories so little chance to get popular

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i know goodreads has stopped becoming our touchstone of quality, but it's still a pretty big marketing feature for many authors and still one of the biggest reader databases. many bipoc/marginalised stories rely on being in popular genre markets for publishers to take a chance on them, and-

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going to say something really controversial,, but the goodreads awards allowing the same white woman/women to dominate several gigantic categories that many debuts/poc writers are in honestly really piss me off

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

every night my flatmate comes home at 3am telling me she feels bad for me because she always sees me working at 3am and im like "no dont worry" the reality is i am writing fanfic. i cherry-picked my poison and i enjoy its burn all the way down.

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adhd screening test with my school today and guess who passed with flying colours and now has to go to the gp,,,,

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

writing doesn't get any easier as an author with a deal btw. wrote this in my wip and despaired so deeply that i immediately had to write 1k words of fanfic to heal myself

He learnt from a young age that no one likes clairvoyance. The human curiosity for the future fails to outweigh the human comfort for homogeneity, and people shun the things they’re afraid of. (what the fuck is this line)

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did law firm applications until the world began to feel a bit too big and heavy. time to escape (write fanfic)

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APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!! send me your found family, non-western fantasies, anything novel and a little harder to place on the market - i can't wait to support you into the industry!!

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craving ice cream vs worst cramps ever

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this got me ctfu IANSISNEJS and how many of those are for writing 🤨🤨🤨

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WRITERS!! no cheating: what are your tabs looking like right now? mine (i am a university student and a writer) are:

2 google drive tabs 8 google docs tabs, 3 google docs tabs under 'writing' 2 google sheets tabs, 1 grey tab, 1 calendar tab, 2 author google doc tabs, 9 more sundry/private tabs

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sicko!!! i'll figure out how to get it to work and i'll lyk when we can do a lil session!

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can't even post a snippet of what i've been working on lately because it's just pure fanfic. sorry everyone

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

can't wait to see your applications 👀👀👀

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Reposted by cam! 🐍 瑷薇

Moo Deng says, don’t panic, apps will be open for two weeks—from noon Eastern Dec 1st to noon Eastern Dec 15th—and mentors will not begin reading apps or requesting fulls until after apps close, so please feel free to submit at a time that works for you. #roundtablementor #writingcommunity #writers

Image: Moo Deng the baby hippo punches through a wall and shows their face while a brunette woman screams and dodges. Text: Mentee apps open tomorrow!

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this meme format but for you/your characters, go

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keep nearly (wrongly) signing off school/work professional emails with 'cam' because that's how i sign off on every publishing email...feeling that hannah montana double identity now

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looking for a sprinting group <333 preferably gmt

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hey writers!! have any of you guys done ohwrite before and would you like to start sprinting together!!

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trying to do a thousand things at once and remembering that's not how things work

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one girl i knew who used to be made fun of for her height is now a model. another girl i knew who was made fun of for being a nerd is both hot and smart. another girl i knew who was made fun of for being weird became influential. good people win

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an application asking me explain why i did not use ai in my application but only use to use exactly 2500 characters (aka the most ai task ever) is lowkey so funny...

Please provide details on your decision and elaborate on the reasons behind your choice. {Provide answer of 2500 characters}

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telling myself that if I finish this law firm application I can go back to writing my gay fanfics...they don't teach u these hacks in school

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