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Marissa Lingen

@marissalingen

Science Fiction and Fantasy author

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Mar 16, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

The Fortress, by S.A. Jones

Review copy provided by Erewhon Books. This is the first book I've gotten to review from Erewhon, I believe the first book they're putting out at all. It's an interesting choice to set the tone for t…

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Mar 16, 2020, 5:08 PM UTC

Decameron Project

I'm very excited about a new project I'm involved with: the Decameron Project! Maya Chhabra, Lauren Schiller, and Jo Walton put this together, and it's an effort of many writers to have new fiction c…

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Mar 10, 2020, 6:42 PM UTC

Revision: what and when

The other major question(s) my friend had about revision was: how do you know what needs to be done? And how do you know when you're done? Okay, so: what you're doing, in general, as a writer, is: yo…

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Mar 9, 2020, 6:30 PM UTC

Revision: some first thoughts

One of my friends has heard me mentioning that I'm revising various things, over the last year, and asked me to talk about my process a little more here. So I'm going to do that, probably in more tha…

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Mar 8, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

Books read, late February

John W. Baldwin, Paris, 1200. This is a very convenient title that will help me to find this book for reference on the shelf. It does just what it says on the tin: talks about Paris and what was goin…

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Mar 3, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

The Winter Duke, by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Review copy provided by the author, who is a personal friend and represented by the same agent as me. One of the things I often talk about most enthusiastically in my blog series about long-establish…

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Feb 27, 2020, 11:33 PM UTC

Important tools

One of the things I often think about advice is that it usually reflects the advice-giver's needs rather than being some kind of universal law. "Don't smack yourself in the face with a frying pan," o…

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Feb 19, 2020, 4:29 PM UTC

The exact right thing

Today it's been over three weeks since the three-day flooring project began. It will not end today. I hope it ends this week but who knows. I have learned to just...go with whatever is, to not rely o…

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Feb 18, 2020, 10:48 PM UTC

Books read, early February

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time. I had not read this fairly famous set of essays, and now I have. It was horrifying and instructive, as of course you would expect it to be. I think that in some way…

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Marissa Lingen
@marissalingen Feb 10, 2020, 2:05 PM UTC

The Unspoken Name, by A.K. Larkwood

Review copy provided by the author, who is a personal friend since we're repped by the same agent and all. Which is not to say that you should discount my squee, because: squeeee this is so much fun.…

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