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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 7h

"A Pickle for the Knowing Ones" (1848) is a marvellously bizarre piece of writing. (No punctuation!) Thank you to @PublicDomainRev for sharing it: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s *A Pickle for the Knowing Ones* (1848)

A strange 1797 text — in a personal eye dialect and entirely devoid of punctuation — written by the eccentric 18th-century businessman known for his wildly good luck.

publicdomainreview.org

Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 12h

New post! Encouraging you to experiment (in writing).
open.substack.com/pub/nataliem...

You can do whatever you want, if you can do it

(In writing, I mean.) Thinking about practical limits in creative writing; odds and ends and hits du jour

open.substack.com

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 1d

💙 I am so so pleased you like it! (& I agree, it is a beautiful cover. But you are far from the first to mention feeling it was misleading!)

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 1d

Part of it was, "We really want a lady on the front since ladies buy fiction." But friends, is this maybe because you keep printing fiction with romance-esque covers

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 1d

💙💙💙

Haunted Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Finished reading this by @nataliemorrill.bsky.social and it made me cry at the end

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 1d

Lol my agent & I brought this up with the publisher & the response was "Marketing says this will sell better" 🤷‍♀️

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 1d

:(((

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 4d

Some bugs wanted in

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 8d

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

A Richard Scarry illustration of a skeleton-bone dragster being driven by a little mouse

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 7d

"She was harassing people." "She was accusing people of crimes." I guess I can make these assumptions, but I'm not convinced all the examples of letters bear them out, & even so... prison. It seems extreme, 1980s Britain. (But she does love it!)

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 7d

I love Alan Bennett, & I love Patricia Routledge, & I love this monologue specifically, but I also admit to being baffled as to how she ended up in prison for sending too many letters
youtu.be/iOqgDmaYdqA?...

A Lady of Letters

YouTube video by Rick Salvi

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 7d

Three Cicadas - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14687

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 7d

Had a little frog on my front door (spring peeper) when I went out for a run this evening. He briefly hopped inside but I shoo'd him out again. No frogs in the house, please.

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 9d

Every time I do this to Gus, this Onion headline rebukes me

Screenshot of headline from The Onion reading "dog's eye gunk wiped back on dog"

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 9d

NYT I'd like to use one of my three wishes, please, to ban the word "brothy"

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think the cabbage gets enough respect.

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 10d

The concept of this image came up in a conversation awhile ago, so I made it during my flight

Flag with text "dont tread on me, mom" and the image of a rebellious teenage snake riding a skateboard

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 12d

Imagining how sticky her desk must have been after she painted this

old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 12d

sandersha mangoes, painted by amanda almira newton, 1907

Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 12d

Stop

Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 12d

Opportunity here for publishers with no marketing budgets to reframe this as a positive: "Unlike other (?) publishers, we will NOT take away your opportunity to plan a marketing campaign for your own book."

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 12d

A student of mine was worried that a potential publisher might not like the fact that they, as a former marketing student, had come up with a marketing plan for their book—"Would they insist on handling that themselves?" & this was one time where I got to go, "Buddy, I have great news for you."

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 13d

Truly... shall we say... eclectic set of interests here

Screenshot of text reading, "... and devoted himself to such useful tasks as managing the finances of the Mind Association (formed to oversee the running of the flourishing journal of the same name), ghost-hunting (still a respectable occupation for gentlemen) and the sterilization of the poor."

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 16d

Events in Ottawa to mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation #Ottawa #TruthandReconciliation #Canada #September30

www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Events in Ottawa to mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at some of the events in Ottawa to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 15d

So lovely to join Liisa Kovala on her podcast!

(Ed: I mention in this conversation that my agent has sent a manuscript to my publisher... False alarm! She is holding it off till November.)

Listen here: open.substack.com/pub/liisakov...

Thumbnail image for the "women writing podcast" showing photos of natalie and liisa

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Natalie Morrill @nataliemorrill.bsky.social · 16d

"... paint the portrait or the porch. Try again after the miscarriage; love the children whose hands you wash and the children whose hands you never got to. Get the puppy. Live. Live. Live."

Very beautiful short essay:
www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

Six Kids and Six Pets

A chaotic puppy taught me to embrace the beautiful messiness of life.

www.plough.com

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