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Sly

@SeeLyonsWrite

Analyst for sticky problems | USAF | Writer & logophile | LitFic enthusiast | Powered by espresso & tortilla chips | Wahoowa 🧡⚔️💙

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Joined January 2012
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All of my important life decisions are done on whims. But here’s to the next adventure. #writing #amwriting #WritingCommunity sehlyons.com/2023/06/30/deci…
Decision Calculus

Decision Calculus

[Written at a tiny hotel room desk while my child screams in the background] My worst-kept secret is I applied and was accepted to an MA/MFA program at Wilkes University. I had no intention of appl…

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Anyone else having a year? (Thoughts on that. And habits.) #amwriting #writingcommunity sehlyons.com/2023/06/16/the-…
The Liminal Zone

The Liminal Zone

[Written while waxing nostalgic] I have good intentions. Usually around the fall, I inventory my life and decide what needs to change, though it isn’t fall. We are days from the summer solstice, ye…

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Gorgeous nothing. Or random things I found in my iPhone notes. #amwriting #writingcommunity sehlyons.com/2023/06/13/my-g…

My Gorgeous Nothings

[Written while trying to move my life across the country] I’m in the middle of what will be the fifteenth time I’ve had to pack up my life and shuffle it elsewhere. My spouse’s work called as work …

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Had a great conversation with a woman who kills rattlesnakes for a living, so… sehlyons.com/2023/06/08/inve… #amwriting #WritingCommunity

Inventing the Manuscript

Inspiration appear when you least expect it—and also when it’s least convenient.

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Lessons in Rejection | Writing was never for the faint of heart. sehlyons.com/2023/06/05/less… #amwriting #WritingCommunity
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In the spirit of pride month, I’ve collected a list of my favorite books aligning with the theme 🏳️‍🌈 Accepting recommendations, always. #amreading #amwriting sehlyons.com/2023/06/01/thes…
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My current parenting mantra is I could do worse.
Book idea: a retelling of Dante’s Inferno but the rings are writing anxieties, like recovering corrupted draft files and receiving form letter rejections, but the Woods of Suicides is replaced with drafting synopses because, really, what’s the difference? #amquerying
Remembering those the war claimed: an essay. sehlyons.com/2022/05/29/dulc… #amwriting #memorialday

Dulce et Decorum

[Written as the war as yet to kill me.] My first brush with loss in the military was the F-16 student who g-LOC’d during training. G-force loss of consciousness occurs when a pilot endures sustaine…

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We've all been there
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I know it’s #NationalGrammarDay but I lost track of time and forgot to write an ode to the em dash. But can we talk about accessible writing? #amwriting #writingadvice #WritingCommunity sehlyons.com/2022/03/04/lost…
[Lost in Translation]

[Lost in Translation]

[Written while standing on my proverbial soapbox] An unsung talent of an effective writer is making anything accessible. Access may seem odd when applied to language since we think of it more in th…

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Thoughts on the Ghost of Kyiv and the importance of stories to inspire hope. 🇺🇦 🌻 #ghostofkyiv #amwriting #essay #WritingCommunity sehlyons.com/2022/02/28/lear…

Learning to Believe in Ghosts

[Written when I should have been doing my taxes] In Sapiens, Yuval Harari argues that the ability to conceive of imagined realities has permitted humans to thrive as a species. Supposedly, we are t…

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Some thoughts on surviving dystopian realities. Or languishing. (But this is fine—really!) sehlyons.com/2022/02/24/how-… #amwriting #WritingCommunity #essay
How to Live Happily in a Dystopian Novel

How to Live Happily in a Dystopian Novel

[Written on my phone when I should have been sleeping] The world is crumbling, and I have never cared more or less than at this moment.  Languishing? Yes, thank you, how are you? Don’t worry a…

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Thoughts on loves and expectations. [Written while waiting in line for coffee ☕️] sehlyons.com/2022/02/21/love… #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity
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I found my grammar soulmate.
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when you love the em-dash
Weekends are for essays. Let’s talk about my southern accent. sehlyons.com/2021/08/21/song… #amwriting #essay

Song of the South | A Requiem

[Written with a white-hot urgency] I grew up in rural Virginia—the sort of rural where the roads lacked lines until recently and the bridge we required to circumvent a twenty-minute drive took near…

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Me: Let me sit in on this critical work meeting and provide meaningful contribution. Child: Absolutely not.
Check on your friends who have served in Afghanistan, your Afghan friends, your friends. It’s been a difficult day (or weekend, decade…) A perspective: sehlyons.com/2021/08/16/a-gr… 🇦🇫💔 #Afghanistan #military #veterans #amwriting
Twitter: What are some of your favorite classic reads? (I have a lot of early/mid-twentieth century favorites and am always looking for suggestions.) #amreading #WritingCommunity
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I have friends looking to draft and publish a cookbook. Anyone familiar with what most agents will want for that sort of project? #WritingCommunity #literaryagent
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