Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus)

Writer. Aspiring optimist. Your cool Jewish mom friend. MSW. MFA. She/her. #PitchWars alum. I am a #WIP. Views=own, coffee=💚 Rep: @allidhellegers

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

Write the book you want to rewrite.

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

@2024Debuts The X platform settings won’t let me DM this account… can y’all follow/message me? (Also trying insta!) thanks ✨

[Darlene P. Campos 🇺🇸🇪🇨 @DarleneCampos91]

Had lunch with the amazingly talented @ByBethKander today! We met through @allidhellegers who represents us at @StimolaLiterary. We had a wonderful time!

#WritingCommunity

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

...just no.

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

Really missed the boat here not calling the place Payless Booze

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

11k Meta workers laid off, 3.5k Twitter workers laid off... that's a lot of suddenly-unemployed social media folks angry at the overlords, please point me to the coming Rebel Alliance platform

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

@MsAnnetteMC

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

... I am not sure I want to stay on Twitter but I am also not sure I could ever join a social media app where you share "toots"

... "Mastadon toots" sound especially heinous

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

@brazenhussyrant busted toots huh?

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

Schools are closed for #ElectionDay so I took my kids to a nature class with an adjacent coworking space & the new young teacher, looking mortified, just brought me my 2yo: "um... this is... this is some serious poop"

and if that doesn't sum up election day

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

I 💙Chicago

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

@benny275 @BookRecommende7 thanks, yes, I muted him when he became my whole freaking feed... but muting all the parody-musk accounts (some of which are very funny, but OOF there are a lot of them) is like a new part-time job...

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

Wow. I'm seeing the followers-decrease, the vitriol increase, and also I feel like 90% of my newsfeed is now Musk, and I don't even follow him... 🙄

Weighing my options but likely exiting this platform soon. What are other #WritingCommunity folks thinking?

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

Excited to see this show + bring the kiddos along since on-site childcare is an option (truly amazing). Bravo to @HalliePalladino and @Propthtr and also cc @PAALtheatre 😉

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

Some folks love to rag on #NaNoWriMo these days, but it's been such a terrific kickstarter and entrypoint to novel-writing for so many writers - me, included. Don't yuck the yum, y'all.

And to everyone cranking out words this month, good luck! Right there with you 😉

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

Kid1's hamster died. We buried him this morning.

Kid2 had an allergic reaction, projectile vomited everywhere (fine now).

Black birds are circling our house (hopefully not to eat hamster corpse).

So far: Pet Cemetery, The Exorcist, The Birds.

WE GET IT #HALLOWEEN CALM DOWN

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Mundane Halloween is back!

Japan does Halloween better than anyone, but best of all is the annual "mundane Halloween" contest sponsored by website @dailyportalz.

The point is to dress up as something super ordinary.

Here are some of my favorites from this year...

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

ok YES I'm still on hiatus but I was on a Zoom meeting & forgot to take off my hat & got called out for looking like I was auditioning to be a burglar in a Home Alone remake & I just☠️

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

Going on hiatus until at least Halloween. At which point I'll change my name back to my real name. Especially since I missed the memo that no one's doing Halloween names this year. SEND ME THE MEMOS.

[Beth Kander (indefinite hiatus) @ByBethKander]

I've struggled with what to say about #antisemitism right now. I don't know if these are the right words, but here are some words: https://t.co/eKqpjtKMcz

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