Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing
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Jen Jilany_Up Style Editing
@jenjeditor.bsky.social
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Owner and Editor, Up Style Editing. Writer. Fiction and Creative Non-fiction. Dev, Line, Copyedits. Beta Reading, MS Eval's. 📚 EFA Member, Editors Canada Exec, WCC Workshops. ✍️ www.upstyleediting.ca
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I have a short fiction piece, prose, and a poem pending publication. I'm also working on a book length manuscript (albeit, slowly 🐌).
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Do you have a #KidLit or #YALit book launching this wk? Or do you want to help boost someone else's #PublicationDay #BookBirthday?

Reply below with info + link to the post.

Only for books launching Oct.20-26th, 2025 #2025-Wk43.
Haha, fair question! Maybe they've gone stale.
Haha, yes, I agree with the modernization of the meaning, yet it still has to roll off the tongue somehow...

Someone proposed "feed two birds with one scone." 😂
"Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book."

#booksky #bannedbooks #readeverybook #Library #Eisenhower #bookburning #bookban #bookeditor
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, born on this day in 1890
Just realized that "Killing two birds with one stone" is actually an awful expression.

Who would want to kill birds? (Even one, let alone two!) 🐦

#Englishlanguage #idioms #birds #editthis #modernlanguage #antiquated #phrases #positivitynotnegativity #editor #strangerthanfiction #dontsayit
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*Submission reminder*

We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual.

More info below🐐
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...
Pop up submission window — wild hunt books
Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions  from 6-12 October 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under)...
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk
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I want going to dress up for Halloween this year until I stumbled across...
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A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
Awesome; glad you are acting fast. The first two sessions are already 80% full! 😯
📢ATTENTION Hamilton-area writers 🖋️

We have expanded the Blue Pencil Writing Consults program to the @gritlitfestival.bsky.social audience!

Receive free editorial guidance on up to 2,500 words. Spots are limited! Sign up here: www.gritlit.ca/blue-pencil.

#amwriting #booksky #literaryfest #editor
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
Graham Greene, born on this day in 1904
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Every day is a good day to share a piece of writing or art you love. Or like. Or found uncomfortable. Or made you question or feel or think. That made you want to smile or cry or paint or draw or love. That reminded you of something you have or lost or could find. That carried your feet another step
Writer's Digest has shared their stance on AI:

"WD does not accept, use, or publish any material written by or with the aid of gen AI...The vast majority of publishers do not accept AI-influenced material."

www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...

#AI #saynotoAI #AIisnotwriting #genAI #writersky
Writer's Digest AI Policy
As new technologies emerge, the Writer's Digest team feels it is essential to make our stance on generative AI clear.
www.writersdigest.com
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Dear writers:

Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.
Have come to the realization that my 2025 writing projects are dominated by the animal kingdom. 👑

- Prose, pending pub., about a swan 🦢
- Poetry, pending pub., about a muskrat 🦫
- Short story, pending pub., about a raven, opossum, and wolf 🐺

🔜 Next project: From the POV of a cat. 🐈‍⬛

#wildlife #pub
"The only purpose of revision is to get more deeply to the truth."
—Margaret Robison, poet

#poetry #writingcommunity #booksky #amediting #amwriting #art #editing #editor
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" — Isaac Asimov
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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️