Lori Siesto, Author

Picture book author, 9923 hrs from illustrating her words▪︎Learning the craft▪︎Plotting new worlds▪︎Whispering cat ▪︎Lost in the woods▪︎Following breadcrumbs ▪︎

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Cory Booker has criticized Trump on Senate floor for more than 23 hours, nearing record – live https://t.co/62xlZP7jE4

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This webinar could've been an email.

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@golvio Take care of you!

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We all got together. Had a meeting. Decided that this is all your fault, @gmail. No one asked you to save unopened marketing messages for more than 10 years, and no one is going to pay you to keep holding them. Burn that file, fam. Clean up your act. We're worried about you.

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We are rarely presented opportunities to meet ourselves anew and, though insodoing we may challenge outdated notions and assumptions, and subsequently experience the growing pains of awareness, self-acceptance is always worth the hazing, the tutoring, and the adjustment.

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"I feel so sluggish!" She gloomily intones, wearily raising the 3rd caffeine cup to her lips, struggling to remember when she last drank actual, unflavored water, as her blood vessels churn a cement-like sludge yet another go about the cycle.

"The 4th," the demon presses.

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Twitter was once akin to my favorite thrift shop: guaranteed to provide once-loved hidden treasures I could buy, in organized depts I could choose to peruse.

Now it's the bargain bin at a fast fashion store. What's even in here? Trash mostly, I mutter, losing hope as I dig down.

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Started Tears of the Kingdom & my only complaint is:

Don't make me earn points at inns by renting horses and beds for the right to have better horses & nicer beds.

Me and Beedle are the only travelers in this apocalyptic hellscape. Let me escape reality in games w/o gamifying.

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Does anyone else agree that gamification is ok but not necessary for literally everything we do? I just want to sleep, not get hygiene reports that I missed an automated goal. I just want to comment, not earn Responding badges. Keep your points, give me the goods.

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You ever have a workday realization that your outfit doesn't match at all? #dressedinthedark

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If you pivoted your author brand or audience after (self or trad) publishing your book, did you change to a pseudonym? Did you do a rebrand? How did you handle it?

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I've started keeping notes on cool ideas I have in dreams. If I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night, might as well document or sketch why.

And now I've starting tweeting about recording ideas. Xing? Meta.

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The only time to learn if a sleep podcast is effective is when you want to sleep, which is the worst time to be experimenting.

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We are having so much fun with this groovy fish by @Catit.

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Oh yeah? Well authenticity is what's trending in this kitchen!

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2 point question for my part-time writers/full-time other jobbers who structure their time:

1) What mechanism do you use or how do you schedule yourself to write regularly?
2) How do you measure that writing time? How much of that metric equals "on track"?

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The only time to learn if a sleep podcast is effective is when you want to sleep, which is the worst time to be experimenting.

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@TheZeusJuice Oh I love sports. Big football fan actually. I have no issues with Taylor either. Just not really into the celeb watching culture. People date who they date. I'm not here for this... just curious who was and why.

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Unpopular sentiment: I don't care about Travis and Taylor.

Seriously wondering, why do you?

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@TheZeusJuice Hmm. I can't decide if this meets my threshold for being considered an answer.

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@CasieBazay Do you follow other celebrities with the same level of interest? If so, who?