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I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.") https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · Nov 9

Hello, new followers! I'm Lili; I write books, sometimes other people even read them.

This feed holds squirrel stories, the life of a working writer, Morning Walk Reports, random ephemera, and links to articles I find interesting, thought-provoking, or cool.

Nice to have you along.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1h

"But over and over his daemon goaded him to give things the time they take, often leading him back after a long lapse to ideas he had given up on."

Heed Your Daemon: Rudyard Kipling on Writing

It is worth remembering that anything worth doing, anything bound to earn its keep in the house of tomorrow, takes a long time, takes riding the troughs of doubt with unassailable devotion, takes b…

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 3h

(And yes, I remember who was shitty to me then. I don't say it publicly... but I do remember.)

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 3h

(Years ago, I got shouted at and relentlessly harassed for telling authors "Amazon is not your friend" and thereby (apparently) pissing off the Kindle Unlimited "gurus"--who were, of course, profiting from Amazon's bullshit even then.)

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 3h

"If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store."

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

www.theguardian.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 4h

"Yet, while it’s true that Kafka never set foot on these shores, he draws in the novel not only on his imagination, but also on what he knew and intuited about the United States."

Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika

Unlike the obsessive protagonists of The Trial and The Castle, who draw us into their labyrinthine thinking, Karl Rossmann, the naive young hero of Kafka’s Amerika or, to use Kafka’s own title, Der…

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 5h

"Others were hollowed out to have two opposing leaves on each side of spine for assembly into a codex. One is engraved with a word that may be a name. Another example has six lines written in ink."

Wood writing tablets found in Roman wells – The History Blog

A group of at least 15 wooden writing tablets has been discovered in ancient wells at Izernore, eastern France. The tablets and other rare organic remains were beautifully preserved thanks to the waterlogged environment and low light and oxygen levels of the wells.

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