Emily Weaver Rogers

Read my latest Substack on the importance of being bored...

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Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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Here’s the annual #Goodreads roundup! Lots of fluffy romance, my foray into romantasy, and, as always, balancing it out with some nonfiction.

Favorite read? The Fourth Wing series! @rebeccayarros.bsky.social

Well, I've been on #Substack for almost a whole year. So why not actually start writing close to NYE! Check it out and subscribe!

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🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.

If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.

Here's one! toastedseattle.com

“What I did have were survival tactics like small scraps of control when my body threw chaos my way once, sometimes twice, a month. It was the first of many long goodbyes, this time to a version of childhood that I traded for pain, secrecy, and the sense that my body was not fully my own.”

The Long Goodbye You never forget the day of your first period. Sometimes you’re fortunate enough to have health class, stories from your mother or grandmother, or whispered advice from sisters and cousins. I had a…

Read my latest #essay “The Long Goodbye” on period struggles and fighting for care and answers.

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I never used to read my own stuff out loud, but lately I’ve been reading everything out loud; especially in novel revisions (draft two!) …

Now I find myself loving some of the things I write, then stumbling over the rest. That’s the clue that I need to slow down and revise to make sure it’s clear.

Been busy writing and editing! Onto draft two… I wrote two epilogues?! And am revising and rewriting before I bestow this mess of a 12-year draft to my beta reader!

#amwriting #1000wordsofsummer #author #novel #fiction

This is not a drill, folks. Indie bookstores can sell ebooks now. As of this morning, you can now easily buy ebooks from your local indie bookstore. Thanks to Bookshop.org, the reigning David to Am*zon’s Goliath. As Wired reports, a new platform on the site…

Indie bookstores can now help fulfill your ebook needs.

Must read. Musk has taken control of all of our money!

Finally watched Severance, which was a thrilling ride! Loved the cinematography and balance of light and dark.

alright you wanna know how to support trans people?

hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.

Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

Taking a break from the Metaverse for the rest of the week… just to see how things go. #needtolookaway Here’s a cute cat!

Mary Oliver bringing truth this morning.
@maryoliverdaily.bsky.social

all of our brains have been lightly boiled

The Best Place to Start When things feel heavy.

"I always try and write. And it always makes me feel better. I always recommend writing a few sentences down when things feel complicated and tough and heartbreaking."

Or like fire fruits from LOZ TOTK.

#mini1000 day four and five: revised the prologue and part one with an additional scene. It’s exciting to finally fill in these RESEARCH RESEARCH notes… @jamiattenberg.bsky.social

It’s giving Kendall Roy

Currently writing fiction, but wanting to start a #memoir. Any suggestions on a virtual course or courses? #amwriting #memoir #author

#mini1000 day three: more edits and hoping to rewrite the end scene and a few loose ends the next couple of days. @jamiattenberg.bsky.social

#mini1000 day two involved making edits to my novel, but I realized that there is a point in which I stopped marking chapters. The rest of the manuscript is just one big blob of text… this will be fun. #authors: when do you break up writing into chapters? Or is that last? @jamiattenberg.bsky.social

Day one: 45 minutes of editing Draft One! Happy to have structured time for this. #mini1000 @jamiattenberg.bsky.social

Here’s to finishing up draft two edits! (Will try)

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Coming soon.

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