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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 5h

That's fair, LOL.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 6h

Yup, they have.

And my mentor in my MFA program routinely does.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 6h

It was a bad scene for sure.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 6h

That's certainly true.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 9h

Oh wow.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 9h

It was such a weird response, but that makes sense.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 9h

I don't have video.

And even if I did, I'm not sharing that moment and my resulting scream of "OH SHIT" with folks.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 9h

My second favorite part is the people who ask if I got the tumble on video.

Like what the hell?

Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 9h

My favorite part of wearing the boot for my sprained ankle is all the folks who ask me what happened and are profoundly disappointed when I tell them I took a tumble out my front door.

People in their 40s don't injure themselves in exciting ways.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 9h

For those who have known me for awhile, this is the second picture frame related injury.

The first involved picture frame glass and a sliced pinkie.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 9h

I wasn't wrestling an alligator.

I was excited about packages on my front porch that contained...picture frames.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 9h

My favorite part of wearing the boot for my sprained ankle is all the folks who ask me what happened and are profoundly disappointed when I tell them I took a tumble out my front door.

People in their 40s don't injure themselves in exciting ways.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 11h

Became a co-host of @podonlyknows.bsky.social with @johnbrooks.bsky.social because of social media too.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 11h

I also got my first freelancing gig that turned into two separate books because of Twitter.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 11h

❤️

Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 11h

I found my bestie, @miguelmallet.bsky.social because of social media

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 1d

😀

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 1d

Or it could be that writing an introductory essay to my collection is really f**king hard.

Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 1d

It is also possible that I no longer know how to write.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, this essay is making it seem likely.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 1d

It is also possible that I no longer know how to write.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 1d

My shitty writing is still shitty.

I keep reminding myself that the beauty of writing is that you can always revise.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no!

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 5d

And I am still unbelievably pissed that I sprained my ankle less than a month after I got out of a boot for foot surgery.

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Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social · 5d

My sprained ankle hurts. And I feel like my writing is shit right now.

The two might be related.

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Reposted by Kelly J. Baker (she/her)

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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