Tracy Manaster

Folks, I wrote two books! YOU COULD BE HOME BY NOW (2014) and THE DONE THING (2016) she/her/hers

[Tracy Manaster @tracymanaster]

I hate the “how do you balance writing and family” question because no one *ever* asks male authors.

That said, the answer is that I exclusively sign my kids up for activities that have long practices near dive bars that are particularly conductive to hunkering down to write.

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@keith_rosson Do they really have little targets painted in the urinals to encourage aiming and thus reduce potential gross? I read somewhere ages ago they'd installed such in the Newark Airport and cut cleaning time by 2/3...

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@V_V_G The only crime of my childhood was to steal the copy of Long Live the Queen from my 6th grade classroom library because I didn’t want to go a summer sans re-read. Sorry, Mrs. Sheppard!

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@keith_rosson Nah (as other funnier people have said before me) he has to carry to term.

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@keith_rosson Wise Child (and prequel Juiper) are YA and so much this vibe.

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@MegStEsprit Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

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@rebeccalehmann I assumed “Papa” was some ominous and distant priest. The whole saga just became marginally more upbeat for me.

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@rebeccalehmann Wait. It’s a school not an orphanage?

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@ORAmyW I might be on your kid’s side, actually. I nearly dissociated at Fred Meyer today when my twins shrugged and said we should “just get Bic or whatever.” Who ARE these children?

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Back to school is fun because you get to learn that your children have sincerely-held beliefs about appropriate protractor brands.

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Imagine your job is Fulton County mugshot taker. The pressure of knowing someday soon you will produce what will inevitably be one of the most circulated (and OMG most Etsy-ed) images of all time.

[Will Neville-Rehbehn @WillNeville]

Sounds right.

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My Barbie memory is that one time in the late eighties the neighbor kid wanted us to make Barbie and Ken fuck and I made Barbie and Ken get an HIV test first because my parents were two of the like twenty-seven people in Utah who believed in comprehensive sex education.

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@LianaBrooks Chandler, wainwright, collier, alewife, any kind of monger (fish, iron, gossip, whatever).

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The think piece I am waiting for is an analysis of the "Barbie bump," breaking down how much extra press Oppenheimer is getting due to its incongruous release date twin.

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@rebeccalehmann If you get stuck/frustrated try something wild (a switch to first person from third, present tense from past) for a chapter or so. Yeah, you’ll wind up changing it back, but the extreme change will refocus you on the fundamentals of your voice and make you fall back in love.

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@KCDavisSays @Webwight The only things worth memorizing are the times tables to 12 and the rank of hands in poker.

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@rebeccalehmann Print out the whole damn thing and stand on top of it for a moment.

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@manzanitafire I was that child who knew an alarming amount about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

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@jacasiegel Weighted blanket substitute for the win!

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@jacasiegel I know you said you’ve muted this but for anyone else reading the thread: asking to keep the lead blanket/shield thing on post X-rays helps with getting through the rest of the proceedings so damn much. Signed, my 2022 root canal and crown.