sagetyrtle

@sagetyrtle@writing.exchange

Sage Tyrtle's writing is available or upcoming in New Delta Review, The Offing, and Apex among others. She's told stories on stages all over the world and her words have been featured on NPR, CBC, and PBS. She runs a low cost online writing workshop collective.

Nominated 3 times for Pushcart, twice for Best of the Net, once for Best American Short Stories.

Avatar description: Person with shaved head and blue bangs, blue cats-eye glasses, cleft palate.

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. The way the wind around the high rise makes snow go up instead of down.

  2. A really warm, kind personal rejection with an invitation to submit again.

  3. Tiny tweak to one of the flash pieces in the novella and it's ready to be submitted, very proud of this weirdo hermit crab.

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sagetyrtle, to random

- "Describe the saddest moment you've written." Rather than the saddest ever, the saddest in my novella in flash is when a person gets up the courage to stand up against oppression and no one backs her up. It was hard to write. How about you?

sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. Writing an excerpt of a memoir one of my characters wrote for my novella in flash and laughing at how much I want to read the whole thing.

  2. The LaMian packaged laksa came out literally better than restaurant quality. (They have it at T&T in Toronto.)

  3. Syntax highlighting in Linux MAKES ME SO HAPPY.

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. Mysterious keyboard space bar issue mysteriously wandered away.

  2. Proved to myself that indeed half the socks ARE mysteriously gone.

  3. Mysterious headaches are probably because of coffee. Sob sob sob, but also, tea is really nice and I can pretend I'm on the Repair Shop when Todd brings me a cup.

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. Lovely chat with improv classmate on the subway home.

  2. With excellent feedback, I finally was able to get to the heart of a tricky part of the novella.

  3. The ebook version of my near future novella The King of Elkport is available.

https://tyrtle.com/the-king-of-elkport-by-sage-tyrtle/

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. Snyder's Pretzel Pieces are as rare as hen's teeth in Toronto, and I get the same thrill as I did hunting easter eggs when I come across them.

  2. Cannot wait for 2 hours of laughing tonight with smart humans at improv class.

  3. With 2 acceptances under my belt am feeling much more excited about submitting stories.

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. It's cold outside AND the sun is shining. I love this weather.

  2. After the microwave obligingly made the same Terrifying Noise for maintenance that it made for us, the high rise is getting us a new one. Whee!

  3. 2 months with no coffee makes THIS coffee extra delicious.

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. Drank self-heating coffee, sometimes the future is JUST SILLY.

  2. Keeping a record of just one moment from each day in lieu of a diary and so far I love it.

  3. Finished the 1960s article for the novella in flash. Used Lacrosse names throughout. THE MOST FUN.

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. Toronto turns blue in the winter. Like, literally. Look out the window and it's blue.

  2. Excellent luck selling stuff we don't use that still works just fine. Now if someone would just buy my typewriter...

  3. Began a flash piece in the style of a 1960s newspaper article and REALLY enjoying it.

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. Second acceptance of the year, and it's ALSO the first story in my novella in flash! I AM SO HAPPY

  2. see 1

  3. see 2

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. I was so nervous to send a sample of my writing in to apply for a fancy writing class, but I got in! Eee!

  2. My resurrected from the 80s 0.3mm rapidograph makes handwriting a JOY.

  3. Weekly injections of belly laughs in improv class have made the zillions of litmag rejections so much easier to deal with.

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. A real, old-fashioned SNOW outside, I do regret not buying gloves before the cold snap hit but wow is it beautiful.

  2. Really proud of a hermit crab "transcript" in which I successfully evoked some gorgeous audio.

  3. Squish's cat tummy.

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sagetyrtle, to random

Figured out how to change the drawstring on my hoodie and it is now my FAVOURITE EVER.

sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. Delightful hang out today with a friend I have known for... jesus, 15 years? Surely not.

  2. Delightful first class with improv class, been doing improv for 14 years and this group? THEY ARE GOOD. So excited to learn with them.

  3. Delightful acceptance for the first time in 13 years! (Okay, it was since July but it FELT like 13 years so it totally counts.)

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. ALMOST FINISHED creating The King of Elkport e-book, which will be for sale in all the places!

  2. Wrote the first draft of the last story in my novella in flash and love it so, so, so much.

  3. Reading a novel by a friend and EVEN THOUGH IT KEEPS MAKING ME CRY it is absurdly good.

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sagetyrtle, to Cat

Squish is also a fan of The Repair Shop.

sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. Auditioned for a fancy improv group and got in. Really over the moon to be making things up with other people, after such a long break.

  2. Son baked peanut butter cookies SO YUMMY.

  3. Novella in flash stories are cohering in a very exciting way.

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sagetyrtle, to random

- "What aspects of your life do you bring into your writing?" I really enjoy setting my stories in the 70s and 80s, because I was there when they were happening and while both were FAR from ideal, there was a lot to love in the lack of technology. (I recently gave up on a book set in 1971 in which people used the term "partner" to refer to a girl/boyfriend and ordered macchiatos which is I guess what happens when the writer AND the editors are all in their 30s...)

sagetyrtle,

@sandralindsey RIGHT? I grew up in the States and the first time I ever heard anything but instant coffee mentioned was in stand up comedy shows on PBS in the eighties.

sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. The first place I subbed the new short story encouraged me to send it to their sister publication AND to mention their names. Pretty great!

  2. I forgot how much I love to sing with other humans. I wish this musical improv class went for 52 weeks instead of 3.

  3. The app Too Good to Go means we can buy surplus unsold food for 1/4 of the price. Yesterday we got croissants, cinnamon buns, banana bread, and cheese bread for $8, ALL OF IT DELICIOUS.

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sagetyrtle, to random

3 Good Things

  1. I'm 51, so my 25 year old son telling me I'm nailing millennial slang in a piece I'm writing is VERY pleasing.

  2. A writer I admire VERY much has invited me to write a novella in flash with them and I am OVER THE MOON.

  3. The Starbucks that was a 5 minute walk away left and has been replaced by a socially conscious independent coffee place! I KNOW!

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sagetyrtle, to art

People send words. I randomly pick 2 and draw - today's is "sensational ankle" (Bonnie, Woj).

Come one, come all, see the Sensational Elephant Ankle, just five cents!

To play, reply with one word.

Want to buy one of these drawings? Get in touch, they're all for sale.

sagetyrtle, to art

People send words. I randomly pick 2 and draw - today's is "symbiotic thief" (Ms. Gubbins, Ms. Mac).

THE BEST KIND OF THIEF

To play, reply with one word.

sagetyrtle, to random

Two free writing workshop spots available for people who can really use them - please get in touch if that's you, let me know which workshop and I'll set it up for you no questions asked: https://crowcollectiveworkshops.com/contact/

sagetyrtle, to art

People send words. I randomly pick 2 and draw - today's is "tight cheezits" (Jancis, Katie).

These best friend cheezits will be friends FOREVER, I just know it...

To play, reply with one word.

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