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Jeannine Ouellette

@jeannineouellette.bsky.social
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I write and I teach. I wrote The Part That Burns, and I write Writing in the Dark on Substack, and both are dreams come true. Doing language together is the best. Otherwise, I'm a super fun Nana, an avid dog lover, and a helluva gluten-free baker.

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Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Totally separate topic--my lifeline since Nov 7 has been to snuggling my dog like a teddy bear. This pic is from a year ago, but now it's like, lifesaving. So grateful to her.
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Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Asha Dore of Totally Biased Reviews asked me recently about using the craft to tell difficult stories, among other things. I spoke to her the week my dad died, and I know I was tender (I still am), but in spite of that, or because of it, or both, it was an incredible conversation.
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Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just out in LitHub, reprinted from the just-released Invisible Strings anthology. ❤️✨❤️
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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key." Ann Patchett via @jeannineouellette.bsky.social
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Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I wrote something over at Writing in the Dark today, and people say it's useful, so I thought I'd share it here, too. Free for all. xo writinginthedark.substack.com/p/what-an-ed...
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What An Editor Really Wants
Lit Salon on five things I want to see in writing ... and five things I don't
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Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
WTFJHT is the most succinct daily news source for what's going on, and today's edition is very grim, but it's important to know what's coming down. In a nutshell, Trump IS declaring a national emergency & unleashing the military against 11 million undocumented immigrants on day 1.
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Trump, Biden, and Harris Political News
Today’s essential guide to the daily shock and awe in national politics. Read in moderation.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I had 60,000 followers on Twitter after 14 years on the site. I have 30,000 after maybe a year here. If journalists are looking for a place to build back up a coherent reading audience that’s actually engaging with our work, this place obviously seems like it has that particular juice
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/11/2024
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Also, Indivisible, which was awesome in the wake of the 2016 election, is preparing to be awesome again, and has a toolkit. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink
If there's one universally accepted truth in the modern age, it's that sequels suck. And Trump 2.0 will be no exception. Trump, Vance, and their MAGA minions feel vindicated by the victory of their bi...
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It is so discouraging to see that the media hasn't learned a single thing over the past decade. They normalize the absolutely insane things Trump and his surrogates do and treat them as legitimate.
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Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If you haven't seen this yet!
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Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I signed up yesterday and BlueSky asked me to click all those boxes of things I like and I clicked Animals because you know Animals but wow that's a lot a lot a lot a lot of cats!
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Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Ok, I'll share a few recent posts from Writing in the Dark, for those who don't know it. Here's a free one: writinginthedark.substack.com/p/eleven-urg...
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Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts
From the Archives | The number one most helpful practice you can take up to improve your writing is to pay close attention to the world.
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Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Holy shit it's so good to be here in The Good Place. Can't wait to get going and reconnect with everyone!
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