Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

Sci-Fi/Fantasy & YA fiction writer. English teacher. Book nerd. Hufflepuff. Lover of greyhounds, tea, and a good grammar controversy. 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 Kansas, USA Joined February 2019

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

3 months ago

Check out my series of articles for the Anselm Society! I loved thinking through the rich symbolism of The Magician’s Nephew. #cslewis #artandfaith #theanselmsociety anselmsociety.org/blog/cultivati…

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

4 months ago

#flanneryquotes #flanneryoconnor

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Jessica Hooten Wilson @HootenWilson

4 months ago

Writing advice: start each day reading what you wrote the day before, that way you're revising as you go. Flannery O'Connor used to do this.

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Aubrey Yazzie is DRAFTING @aubrey448

4 months ago

My favorite horror movie is the morning after staying up until 4 a.m. to finish a book.

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“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.” –Flannery O’Connor #flanneryoconnor #mysteryandmanners #artandfaith

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Alyssa Matesic @AlyssaMatesic

5 months ago

What are your least favorite ways to open a novel? I'll go first... 🧵

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

5 months ago

Revision pass #1 of my WIP is complete! …now to start over with chapter 1. 🙈😅🙃 #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amediting

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

5 months ago

Haha yes

Brandy Vallance, Literary Agent & Author @BrandyVallance

5 months ago

Haha yes

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Kajornwan Chueng | Sienna Frost | Faye @Siennafrst

6 months ago

Why should you keep writing if nobody reads your book? Whenever I feel this way, I need to write even more, not less. Why? When the world turns its back on me, my refuge is my book. If I stop writing, I lose the only place that makes everything all right. I lose the only real…

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

7 months ago

Question for the #amquerying community: What should I do if I have an outstanding query that is almost a year old? The agency says they respond to every query. I want to query another agent at the agency, but they don’t want the same query w/ multiple agents. Is it ok to nudge?

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

7 months ago

For real though… 😭🙈

Hannah @HanClareWrites

7 months ago

For real though… 😭🙈

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

7 months ago

Dreaming of the day when I will never again see the sender “Query Tracker” in my inbox ever again…📥🤪😭

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Alyssa Matesic @AlyssaMatesic

9 months ago

You may have heard literary agents talk about wanting manuscripts that have a strong "hook." But what exactly does that mean? And why is having a hook so important? Here's how to pinpoint your book’s unique hook & use it to your advantage in the querying trenches: 🧵

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Em- Nature Nurture🍂 @nnaturenurture

10 months ago

Okay *now* I’m ready to frame this, ‘A Christmas Game’ embroidery, from Sir Gawain & The Green Knight

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

10 months ago

Unbelievable. Glad this student got an exception after people advocating for her, but the university’s policy hasn’t changed. Women deserve better.

Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco

10 months ago

Unbelievable. Glad this student got an exception after people advocating for her, but the university’s policy hasn’t changed. Women deserve better.

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

a year ago

🍂🍁What is everyone reading for Fall? #readers #bookcommunity #fallreads

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

a year ago

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

a year ago

When your 2k word essay comes back with 116 edits… ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN!!! 😭🙈😂 #writerscommunity #WritingCommunity

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

a year ago

Hey #WritingCommmunity ! Any tips for revising? 🙈📖

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Karissa Riffel @RiffelKarissa

a year ago

#WritingCommunity Does anyone have any suggestions about where to submit flash fiction? I now have quite the collection I wrote for a contest but didn’t win. Now I’m not sure what to do with them, and I quite like how they turned out.