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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 2d

Hey friends! I’m teaching a brand new Tin House craft class on defamiliarization, associative leaps, and injecting surprise into your prose. I’m soooo excited to teach it and talk shop. Come join me!

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Fall Craft Intensive: Mac Crane - Tin House

In this class, we will discuss the craft of writing personal essays that relate to identity and that speak to both the specific and the universal, engage in a close reading of published pieces on this...

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 9d

if my Spotify daylist (correctly) calls me fragile ONE MORE TIME 👊🏼

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve been unemployed for 7 months & am unable to find work—please hire me to edit your work, provide a MS consult, be your book coach/dom 🙏🏼

www.marisacrane.org/manuscript-c...

Manuscript Consultations — Mac (Marisa) Crane

www.marisacrane.org

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you!

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GW @gwoltjer.bsky.social · 12d

Powerful essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social in this collection. Provided me with a perspective that I’ll not ever fully understand. Thank you for sharing your words & experience with us, Mac.

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 13d

nice to see my first book, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, on this list about the grief

www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/bo...

10 Books That Know Grief More Intimately Than Any Condolence Ever Could

In the quiet between heartbreak and hope lies a shelf of stories that understand sorrow better than any spoken condolence ever could., Books, Times Now

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 22d

I’m afraid it’s me

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 22d

Lmaooooo

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 22d

And I was incredibly lucky to get to work with @tlpavlich.gay AGAIN, editor extraordinaire & women’s sports enthusiast who happened to be craving an essay about ACL tears :)

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 22d

I have a new essay out in The Offing today! It’s about playing college basketball on a torn ACL, the fucked coach-player power dynamics, inherent worth & value, our cultural attitudes towards sacrifice in order to WIN THE BIG GAME, & more. give it a read ❤️🏀

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Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain - The Offing

Essay - The Offing Magazine

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Théo | Boston Le'Gay FC Supporter @tlpavlich.gay · 22d

I got to edit another essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social and now you all get to read it in @theoffingmag.bsky.social. If you've followed the impact of ACLs on WoSo in recent years, it's a must read.

Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain - The Offing

Essay - The Offing Magazine

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 23d

Love this, I know people do it on their own but I want to see the shift happen in the industry and culturally like normalize them as a way to consume books. Like I’d love to start a print journal that serializes novels and people receive in the mail cuz mail is fun and so is holding books

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 23d

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks for letting me know

Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 23d

I mean I know. But I want to do it with novels in a print format even or in a lit journal. I’m not discounting those other things

Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 25d

bring back the serialized novel, we could spend all week discussing each chapter online like we do tv shows

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · 28d

nice to see my novel I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF on this list of dystopian books on Scary Mommy (though wish the list were not necessary sigh)

www.scarymommy.com/lifestyle/dy...

14 Dystopian Books For Those Of Us Yearning To See A Corrupt Government Crumble

If you just want to watch a horrible government crumble, then here are some excellent dystopian books for you to choose from.

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · Sep 29

reframing all the pics of boys on my wall growing up as my very first Pinterest board of gender inspo

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · Sep 29

hiiii the ebook version of A Sharp Endless Need is discounted to just $1.99 from now until 10/5!!!! get it while it’s hot 🏀🔥

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762682...

A Sharp Endless Need by Marisa Crane: 9780593733646 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A vibrant and intimate novel about growing up, first love, and all the joy and heartbreak of competitive high school basketball, from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of I Keep My Exoskeletons...

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · Sep 25

what it gonna take for my novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself—a very clear abolitionist text—to show up when I google literary fiction or speculative fiction about incarceration, prisons, critiquing the prison industrial complex, etc

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · Sep 17

my kid woke me up at 3:30 am to tell me he had a bad dream (he was on a mountaintop with his books & one fell down & he screamed)

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hi only 5 spots left!

Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · Sep 2

surprise! I am teaching a 4-week, online, asynchronous class on writing sex scenes, including expanding what a sex scene can be, complicating character psychology and emotional and relational history, and beyond. it runs from Oct 4 - Nov 3. sign up below!

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Registration for 4-Week Online Class on Writing Sex Scenes

What a Sex Scene Can Do Are sex scenes really so hard to write, or are we thinking about them the wrong way? What can a sex scene do? How can it achieve psychological complexity on the page? How can ...

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · Sep 9

hi! I have been unemployed since March despite my best efforts to find a job. so I am freelancing in the meantime & am open for novel manuscript consults & book coaching. email me marisacrane12(at)gmail(dot)com

www.marisacrane.org/manuscript-c...

Manuscript Consultations — Mac (Marisa) Crane

www.marisacrane.org

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · Sep 8

I would pay YOU to let me read some of your gay sex scenes

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Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social · Sep 8

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