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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

DEAR AUTHORS: I just want to reiterate, a female character is NOT strong or independent just because she's angry and/or petulant all the time.

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MaryTheWriter @marythewriter.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Sometimes I think I could live off grid then I watch a survivalist on YouTube and realize I’m made for hot showers and memory foam everything.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Good god. What kind of "stoners" is this guy hanging out with?

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Turns out there's a proper verb for the Irish goodbye.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Considering I catch a lot of AI use by students accidentally citing they use AI or leaving jarring tell-tale signs in the text, I think it is suicidal that universities are teaching any sort of "proper use". I hate to use the old example but I do not want a doctor who was too lazy to read and edit.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

To paraphrase and to dare update the inimitable Anne Carson, I offer the following: Why are we full of rage? Because we are full of grief. Why are we full of grief? Because we are full of love and longing for what might have been.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I miss the way I looked at the world before I knew too much about it.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

“If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.” – Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

That's correct, Dr. Cole, which is why a number of us punched out years ago. I can't tell you how exhausting it was to fight continuously with small-minded bosses, for years, who had little interest in covering the news.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Such a brutish, violent, and vulgar culture. We won't make it unless we evolve.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A commenter on my essay on the age of alt-weeklies left this comment from "This Woman Votes," which states my premise so much more powerfully than I could--in the fight against fascism, the urgency of stories that linger--that I added it to the post. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-longfo...

The death of alt-weeklies didn’t just kill a publishing model; it gutted the last public square where curiosity had the right of way. The corporate dailies sanitized the world until it smelled like hotel disinfectant, and the internet finished the job by selling off the bones to Craigslist and Google. What we lost wasn’t just longform stories about drag queens, roller rinks, and shady bail bondsmen — we lost the habit of lingering, of sitting with the mess of reality until it revealed something worth knowing.

Now, every damn thing is a “take.” Condensed. Opinionized. Algorithm-flattened until all that’s left is rage bait and a comment section war over scraps. Fascism thrives in that emptiness because it offers certainty where there should be questions, discipline where there should be curiosity. Alt-weeklies were graffiti against the blank wall of capital’s sterilized “redevelopment” projects. They taught people to ask: Who benefits? Who gets erased? And what’s hiding in plain sight?

That isn’t nostalgia, it’s strategy. If you want to fight authoritarianism, you need more than slogans. You need the peculiar, meandering, hyper-specific stories about the oddball texture of life - the very stuff the right wants to scrub out with power-wash morality. The long form of lingering wasn’t a luxury. It was democracy in print.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

JFC. Everyone needs an editor, especially tattoo shops.

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Erik Buchanan @erikbuchananauthor.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Have spent an hour on social media, scrolling without reading, looking without seeing, filling my mind without paying attention. I'm signing off for the weekend. See everyone on Monday.

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 22/07/2025

“There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.” — Hunter S Thompson

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Authors, don't forget that rest and recuperation are also parts of the writing process. Obstacles such as plot holes, character deficiencies, or mistakes in voice or tone are all easier to solve if you're not exhausted. Find time and space to take care of yourselves.

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 29/06/2025

“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve... I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.” ― Georgia O'Keefe

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

"Knowing why" is our domain as writers.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My dear author friends, Your novel should be a series of progressions. Let it breathe and reveal itself in its own time across the passage of the pages. The moment you try to force it, you lose the magic of the storytelling.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

One criticism I do have of the way Americans teach English lit in school is that there’s too much emphasis on symbolism and not nearly enough close reading of the language itself. Most people don’t come out with the very basic vocabulary of literary devices or the ability to analyze structure.

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PD @patrickdavitt.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

You said it!

Grocery store sign advertises Kellogg's "poop" tarts.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The average authors holds 74.2 grudges. Far more if they've sold more than a million copies.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I hope this happens. I've edited a considerable number of Canadian authors, and this would be a welcome addition to my library. Also worth noting the Canadian Oxford Dictionary hasn't been updated in decades. canadianenglishdictionary.ca

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

They have their own prophet: Y'all Dib.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"The future belongs to crowds." — Don DeLillo

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 28/03/2025

Let’s use our words this weekend.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Back when I was a cub editor, I hadn't fully internalized how the rest of my life would be spent in one-hour increments.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Authors' backgrounds (such as Rabelais's deep medical-editing history) always fascinated me—back when we had graduate programs that focused on things beside getting over in a decrepit, bleeding system of state-corporate mercantilism (capitalism died long ago, babies).

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

As a former longtime newspaper editor, I can confirm the accuracy of this photo.

A gorilla is pictured holding a carrot in its mouth, which is reminiscent of the stereotypical image of mid- and late-twentieth century newspaper editors chomping on cigars while barking orders to staff.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I liked Cheryl Hines better when she was "married" to Larry David.

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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I really want more writers to embrace “I don’t know.” You don’t have to know how all of your mythology perfectly fits. You don’t need to know how the magic works or how the lore all connects. Sometimes fantasy stories are just isolated little fables, best understood by the heart, not the head.

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity…”

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy new year, friends! Who knows what 2025 will bring, but knowing all of you and interacting here with you is a continuous source of wisdom and wit that I'm thankful for.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The real threat to society is the harmful dogma of a church that claims sexuality is something to repent from, not getting your dick sucked in a porn booth.

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Jason Whited @saltyscribe.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

"Come out to the coast. We'll get together, have a few laughs."

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