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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The expository signpost sentences in early drafts are like tacking stitches, holding pieces together until the details fit. There's a pleasure in pulling them out, but a worry too. What if the remaining words won't fit together in one form, speaking for themselves?

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If somebody tells you they have cancer, please for the love of god do not tell them what to eat.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Consider the legions of books with "Girl" in the title. Substitute "Boy". Case made.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I loved this and now I think I want my own fire tamer.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think you need to follow me or grant me permission. xx

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Susanna may I dm you about this? Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When Christina Koch went round the moon on the Artemis she told her husband he couldn't just ring her up when he couldn't find something in the house, like she was on the mere Challenger - he'd have to actually find the something.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What @timonroad.bsky.social said. Your work is on my Christmas list.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh god mother daughter cleaning lady rows, whole novels....

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What I meant to say was..... and you didn't come of age in the 70s and have smart ass older boyfriends who thought they were feminists because they read....... Kristeva. And you should have heard how they talked about her appearance.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve been trying to write about a Ukrainian I know from Chernobyl and this just stops me in my tracks.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can feel the woman’s love for her dying husband and his for her so viscerally.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's the law of thermo-dynamics for writers that only after you submit new work, convinced it's done, dusted, and perfect, will you see all of the ways in which it must - with great effort - be improved.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Morning @nytimes.com. It's free rein, not free reign (Connections). Come on now.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For complicated reasons I have a very expensive accountant (inverse relationship to my income) and was obliged to fill in a box marked "Royalties" and it did not feel like my finest hour.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I did go, and there was enough energy on that stage to light up all of London. Still not sure what the play said about Mozart but hey. Those two.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Truly am excited for this one. Keep reminding us all so it doesn't get lost in the swamp of lesser news.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I love him but it didn't work for me. Tell me if I'm wrong. Nagihan rules in this house.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

He has a tap root to the unconscious and he works brilliantly with women.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I love them all. I don’t even know why. They’re dreamy.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Best laugh of the day, thank you.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Christmas sorted, thank you and thanks to your mate who doesn't allow comments on Bluesky xxx

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Who am I to say but unless it says no Id on the ms I figure I want them to see my name. A lot.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Then what kind of person am I who has twice travelled to see an eclipse, 5,000 miles once and up back mountain roads in Idaho, and then totally refused to look at it even with protection and in fact shut her eyes tight just in case -

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I do what I'm told :) and when in doubt put name only at top of each page.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I see it more as an industry response to a growing and desperately needy market, from the hordes of post covid writers to the spawning of self publishing and the longing for faux niche escapism. Not at 7.5k words yet ha ha.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My thoughts on the rampant genrification of contemporary literature.... I feel 7.5K words coming on....

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I swear it's new and I have thoughts.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I get that. The talking mouths are the worst. After watching the film I saw my dog as an AI artifice and expected her to speak, which is like writers who now post in AI style. The creeping horror.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s the very worst. I can feel their suffocating despair.

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Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Posted with gratitude to Gilgamesh Nabeel Sidqi, the Iraqi-born writer and translator, who was kind enough to let me natter and blather on for a whole hour about a book I published three years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Vd...