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Ex-lawyer, current writer. Of the American South. Words in Salvation South ("Best of 2025"), Porchlight ("12 Southern Writers to Read Alongside the Canon"), Dorothy Parker's Ashes, Exterminating Angel Press, etc. Pushcart Special Mention. Peter Taylor Fellow. Writing facilitator. WHEN WE WERE MURDEROUS TIME-TRAVELING WOMEN (Literary Wanderlust, 2026).

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Joined November 05, 2022

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Ellen's Very Southern Voice @ellenmorrisprewitt@writing.exchange

· 6mo ago

#SilentSunday

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· 2mo ago

I just learned that because I was on the Rooted Magazine podcast, my book is on their page on Bookshop.org. I find that so cool! https://bookshop.org/lists/rooted-reading-list #Books #Bookstodon #Writing #Mississippi #NewOrleans #Fantasy #TimeTravel

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· 5mo ago

#SilentSunday
Wave breaks over seaweed

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· 2mo ago

#ScribesAndMakers What book are you currently reading, or have you finished most recently? "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory," a mere stepping stone on the rocky path of my Reconstruction reading. The "most recently" finished book was "Black Reconstruction in America" by W. E. B. Du Bois. This is the, I don't know, 15th book I've read on Reconstruction since Christmas. Why on God's earth would I immerse myself in such a niche era? Because my ancestors killed that era of hope

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· 2mo ago

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What I worry is that people are so unsure of their writing, and so trusting of AI, that they will come to accept the cardboard, endlessly repetitive, boring AI writing as a professional standard. And I will be left shouting into the wind. #WritingCommunity

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· 2mo ago

#ScribesAndMakers What's something you feel yo've become better at with your creative work this month? I keep saying I'm going back to doing near-final editing using a printed copy of the memoir, but it's hard to wean myself off this computer. I did it this month! (It's interactive, of course: read and edit with the hard copy; make revisions on the computer; meditate on how I feel about the resulting structure; return to the hard copy.)

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· 2mo ago

#ScribesAndMakers Do you prefer when a time traveler can choose a specific time/place to go, or when they don't have control over it? I've written 2 time travel novels. In both the time-traveler was hijacked into travel. Jean Lafitte the Pirate King returned to Katrina-threatened New Orleans because Jazzy controlled his ship-in-a-bottle. In WWWMTTW, the Dauphine, his assassin, plus the 3 grannies were all brought back by Etoile's ditty. The time-travel world is at the mercy of my female MCs.

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· 8mo ago

#SilentSunday

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· 6mo ago

#ScribesAndMakers Self-promotion Day. Shame optional.

How serendipitous. I'm two weeks out of the launch of my literary fantasy, When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. Is it self-promotion if I use the words of those who wrote blurbs? Here's one:

A whirlwind adventure that unfolds in enchanting New Orleans. Rest assured, expectations will be subverted. Oh, and how awesome our grannies are, especially the murderous ones.
—Gordon Haynes, author of Catching Souls for Beelzebub

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· 3mo ago

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@lydiaschoch@mastodon.social I do hate the "FB is my website" option. I get 48 seconds of the "public" page, then I'm asked to log in to continue, which I can't do because like millions of other people, I am not on FB!

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· 5mo ago

I feel all kinds of ways when I realize I've fallen for one of the greatest lies of American history

https://ellenmorrisprewitt.com/lies-of-history/

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Lies of History - Ellen Morris Prewitt

I feel all kinds of ways when I learn that I have fallen for one of the greatest lies of history, and its telling was intentional.

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· 4mo ago

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@lydiaschoch@mastodon.social @MargaretSefton@writing.exchange Me, too! I hate crackers that taste like cardboard.

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· 8mo ago

It's just an idea, but maybe we should actually have a White History Month where all of us white folks tell the truth about our history. How Reconstruction was a moment of opportunity that we killed with violence. How lynching was the enforcement arm of Jim Crow. How convict leasing took over from slavery. How the "law and order" of the Clintons was the new Southern Strategy. How the perpetuation of white supremacy has been our ever-primary goal.

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· 3mo ago

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@harry_wood@en.osm.town @lydiaschoch@mastodon.social Sometimes, I'm reading for less than a minute (so I randomly picked 48 seconds) when up pops the LOG IN blocker. Other times, I get the top half of a static page then, if I click anything, "LOG IN" blocks the page. In both instances, I'm not able to access the information I came for.