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Mary Robinette Kowal
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Are you a pantser? Doing #NaNoWriMo this year?
My No Prep NaNoWriMo class this weekend is for you.

There are grants for BIWoC, LGBTQ, and Folks who are broke. See next tweets for details.

eventbrite.com/e/no-prep-nano…
If you're BIWoC, I have two spots available, funded by my Patreon supporters.

Reply to this tweet with a little about yourself by midnight CDT tonight (Oct 3)
If you are anywhere under the QUILTBAG umbrella, I have two spots funded by a fellow student who wants to see you write more.

Reply to this tweet with a little about yourself by midnight CDT tonight (Oct 3)
If you don't have the $55, I have two spots funded by me, because I been in the arts my entire life and I know what it's like to be broke.

Reply to this tweet with a little about yourself by midnight CDT tonight (Oct 3)
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Mary Robinette Kowal
@MaryRobinette
I've done the same thing Scalzi has and it has often resulted in them hiring a man. For more money.
The OP asked for real world advice on how we got where we are.

If I can get an in-person interview & have my hair and makeup done, I can charge more.

Knowing that people are influenced by appearance, is 1 of the most effective tools in my arsenal.

I hate that this tool works.
I know that this is not a tool everyone can use. As creatives, I think it's important to remember when we're dispensing advice that not everyone has the same privileges that we do.
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Mary Robinette Kowal
@MaryRobinette
At #WXR19, several participants were frustrated 'cause they hadn't finished anything in years. We added "Short Stories on the Fly" in which I said we'd complete a 250 word draft in class.

I couldn't arrange for a projector, so here is my very fancy power-point presentation.
Writing is fractal - Once you understand how a technique works at a paragraph level, you can scale down to sentence level, or up to scenic level.
Here's the infographic that shares the same info.
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Mary Robinette Kowal
@MaryRobinette
Who wants to watch people launch into space today?

As you watch them walking in their spacesuits, the reason that they are bent over a little is because the suits are designed to be "comfortable" in something close to a fetal position.

I have been told that comfortable is relative.
We're twenty-seven minutes away from launch, so that gives us time to talk about a couple of historic aspects of this flight.

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Lisa Desjardins
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THIS. HHS inspector gen report on separated kids:

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- Some kids thought their parents had abandoned them
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For #TenThings today, let's talk about HOW TO BUILD A SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWING BEFORE YOU'RE AGENTED/PUBLISHED.
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1. Why do people follow you on social media? Because you add value to their life. If you don't have a book out that they love, don't expect them to follow you as a fan. Find another way to add value. Helpful links, encouragement, recipes, poems, whatever you can do consistently.
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@DaedalDahlin
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