Ed Ratcliffe

Writer, Attorney, Well past my sale date

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Join me and writers worldwide in the @nycmidnight Short Story Challenge kicking off January 24! Learn more at https://t.co/lX54pWCynV

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@RhymesWithDavis Funny post. Good luck.

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Join me and writers worldwide in the 500-word Fiction Challenge on August 25th! Learn more at https://t.co/iFKaEUG7XR

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Received honorable mention for #nycmidnight screenwriting challenge.

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@PopeZuzi Thanks. You too.

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Excited to do the second round of the #shortstorychallenge2023 of #nycmidnight. Good luck to all.

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@lmbayley Funny! Best of luck.

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@rlambertauthor @nycmidnight Nice. We’re in the same group. Best of luck.

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Submitted a flash piece to Malabar Review’s Far Horizons contest. Piece is about grief and how one reconciles with life after loss.

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Getting ready to submit my middle grade book about a shape shifting dragon to another agent.

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@MadameGilflurt 50 years (give or take)

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Is it a sign of maturity to not be baited by sarcasm or is it merely that I’m missing the point?

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Revision. Is nothing ever complete?

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Morning dawns. Two rejections from agents. Badges of honor to drive me onward.

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@rlambertauthor @nycmidnight Nice. Good luck on the next round.

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Got my first novel query rejection. The countdown is started.

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November is #NaNoWriMo. I keep getting pulled into this month of writing. I wish that I had the fortitude others have to put out 50,000 words. Still, a more modest goal is still progress.

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Finishing up a story for #grumpydragon anthology. I’d be grumpy too. Saint George was no saint.

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Reading famous book passages this morning. “But I remembered one thing: it wasn’t me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.” Ken Kesey captured a resonance of invisibility.

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Just signed up to read at the #salonofshame. People read old journals, letters, poems to entertain people who like that sort of thing. Scary.