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Timea Sipos

@timeawrites

Hungarian-American writer/translator. Steinbeck Fellow.✨MacDowell ‘22. 💻: @passagesnorth @jukedmagazine @theFLReview @JoylandMagazine Rep: @heatherannecarr💜

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Joined February 2017
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Sometimes the most effective writing prompt is going on a walk
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Person: what's it like writing a book? Writers:
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erin chack@ErinChack30 Jul 2022
america is wrong about everything except fahrenheit. farenheit is the correct way to measure temperature. fahrenheit is like "man, it's so hot out. it's gotta be like.......100 hots."
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Yeah, sex is great, but have you ever reread something you wrote and actually loved it?
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"If my father knew how to eat, my mother knows how to starve. All my childhood, my mother was either fasting or juicing or dieting while my father gorged and smoked and sang and boozed." — from 'A Stomach Full Of Clenched Fists' by Timea Sipos joylandmagazine.com/fiction/…
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A resolute.@Aresolute_6 Jul 2022
The only reason people hate boundaries is because they want to continue disrespecting you.
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Being a writer means giving yourself imaginary deadlines to create unnecessary anxiety.
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Poetry isn't something you recite after you give up. It's the summoning and shouting and prayers before you charge at the gods you don't believe in. Live más.
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Sara K. Runnels@omgskr25 Jun 2022
My ideal summer body is one that I have complete control over
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Forced pregnancy is a crime against humanity.
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Elisa Gabbert@egabbert23 Jun 2022
I'm entering my Old Poet stage... I don't have experiences per se anymore, I just go into the backyard and remember I'm going to die
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“Lines of closeness over time” – at Seattle, WA
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Tara Skurtu@TaraSkurtu18 Jun 2022
“Before we begin writing stories, we begin thinking in stories.” —Amy Tan
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A writers brain is complex because it has the magical ability to have amazing ideas when you’re busy doing something, and then instantly forget the idea minutes later
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Tara Skurtu@TaraSkurtu9 Jun 2022
“The writing life is mostly about stamina.” —Deborah Levy
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The underlying theme of all my books is “Victor needed money.”
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Writer: *Writes for hours* Writer: I just wrote SO MANY WORDS! 100,000? 200,000? A MILLION!!!??? No, I should be realistic. I bet it's 10,000 Word count: 250 Writer: *Screams internally*
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People have the misconception that writers have amazing vocabularies. If they saw our search history, they would know that we have to google the definitions of basic words multiple times.
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Live today, new fiction from @timeawrites! Please check out “Lines,” about a mother’s unexpected late-night visit and the secrets we keep from family and ourselves… floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/ar…
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Completed my modest morning revision checklist PLUS one extra item, which is how projects get DONE ⚡
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