🧵 I'm in 3E: The Love Triangle: Author-Agent-Editor Relationships with Jus Triunfo, Barbara Jones, Rebecca Podos, and Malaga Baldi. #Muse23 @GrubWriters A REALLY good thing to remember from Rebecca:

Your editor works for your publisher.
Your agent works for YOU.

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🧵 I'm in 2B: Has Publishing Made Progress on Diversity? with @evascalzo, @thekatsmews, and @allisonlanelit. #Muse23 @GrubWriters Excellent point already, from @allisonlanelit:
"No community is a monolith."

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🧵I'm watching the afternoon keynote at #Muse23: "How We Made This: The Man Who Could Move Clouds" with author @ingrid_rojas_c, @_preetysidhu of @GrubWriters, @kentdwolf, and Margo Shickmanter of @AvidReaderPress. Re: word changes
@kentdwolf shared about how he wanted to change "believed" to "claimed," and it led to a discussion about putting a colonizer's stamp on language. [paraphrasing]

Wouldn't have thought of this with such a (to me) benign word, but I get it in context. #Muse23

🧵 I'm in Session 3F: What the HarperCollins Strike Means for Writers with Heather Carr and Alex Rice.

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@GrubWriters (Had some technical gremlins, but there's been some great discussion happening thus far!)

I missed #Muse23 Session 1A: Get Your Work Noticed By Literary Agents with Mitchell Waters and Miriam Altshuler this morning, but the recording is already up, so I'm going to live-tweet my re-watching. (Is that still live-tweeting? 🤔) #ProTip: Sending super-outrageous things to catch an agent's attention might be so unusual that the agent forgets there's actually a query involved. Don't distract them from the task at hand!

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At #Muse23! In Session 2A: How Can Writers Show Up as Literary Citizens? with Saba Sulaiman (@agentsaba) and Katherine Fausset. 🧵 I'm sorry, y'all -- I am usually MUCH faster live-tweeter, but I'm discovering that web Twitter has become significantly less usable since I last did this. Jesus, Chief Twit. 😖 #Muse23

I'm in "Plot Engine Tricks" with Annie Hartnett. 🧵
#Muse22 (6E)
cc @GrubWriters @GrubWriters Or I'm in it until the internet guy shows up. #Muse22 (6E)

I'm in "The Art of the Non-Fiction Book Proposal" with Lucy Cleland. 🧵
#Muse22 (5C)
cc @GrubWriters I've been trying to catch everything Lucy has been saying, and I forgot to, you know, tweet. 🤦🏻‍♀️ She's sharing some great info -- I wish this session was being recorded so I could go back to it later.
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I'm in "Identity, Folklore, and Magic: Showing (Not Telling) Identity Conflicts in Graphic Novels" with @heylauragao. 🧵
#Muse22 (4B)
cc @GrubWriters And...
"What makes a folktale so timeless and universal?"
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I'm in "What Fiction Writers Can Learn (and Must Unlearn) From Journalism" with @KarenDukess. 🧵
#Muse22 (3F) All fiction requires research. As soon as you write a character that's not you, you'll need to do at least some research. It adds richness to your story.
-- @KarenDukess [paraphrase]
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I'm in "On Beginning (Again)" (2D) with @chenchenwrites. 🧵 #Muse22
cc @GrubWriters @chenchenwrites @GrubWriters "...the two great things are metaphysics and gossip." Something Russian poets said? Seems right. (Missed the beginning of the quote because I was laughing! 🤦🏻‍♀️) #Muse22 (2D)