Ooo would definitely like to take you up on that when it looks less like I’ve just put it through a blender. 😁 thank you! Definitely helps to have fresh eyes on it.

When you added more and more ideas to your first draft, so revising now feels like doing a puzzle blindfolded. #writing #thestruggle #mademelaugh 🥲

When you take a class to research a component of your book and you realise “my character is stronger than I will ever be”. 😅 #writing #hobbies #novice #struggles

Doing revisions and finding scenes I *thought* I finished. Turns out I daydreamed those 🥲 #writing #writingjourney #whyamilikethis

Do not wait for inspiration. You don’t need to be inspired, to write a poem. You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.

— Audre Lorde

Don’t give me ideas 😆

Very much enjoying finding #writing memes. Glad to know we’re all going through the same stuff.
#writingjourney

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Replotted my story’s ending because I was not a happy bunny. Now I can’t sleep because I can’t wait to get up and start rewriting it. #writing #firstbook #revision #editing #sleep

What a beautifully lit, hench boy!

I remember once being so engrossed in a book I was reading it on the walk home, but it was dark and I was annoyed whenever I was too far from a street lamp to see the pages 😆 The audacity of nighttime! #booksky

🤣 new challenge to myself - plan how to end each scene before I start writing

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Feedback! I’m finding myself both shaking in my boots and obsessed with opening up feedback notes at the moment. Obv the fear of “what if they hated it and I suck?” 😫 But also the buzz that is “yes, find my flaws so I can fix them faster! Make me better!” #feedback #writing #writingjourney #nerves

It’s like they say “you can’t edit a blank page”. I agree, editing absolutely helps me find my flow. Drafting results in me staring at blank pages and that feels like failure sometimes 😆 Big love for the editing process!

The original kindle!! 🤩

I see no problems with this being what educated our political compass! 🧭 ☺️

Any day now Klingon fan fiction is going to find its mainstream stride 😆

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After #betareading anonymously for years, I’m now loving being part of writing groups and getting to talk to authors about their books right there and then. It feels like peeking behind a secret, ✨magical✨ door. Unexpected bonus that came with starting to write. #writing #debutnovel #writingfriends

Look at that pretty artwork! 🥰

I think this about gaming too - the process of finding sales and buying video games is a totally different hobby to playing games. And absolutely - getting beautiful books for you collection is completely separate from the books I’m (re)-reading 😆

Reverse outline of my first draft = done! Reading some scenes like “wow this is really good” but others “what was I thinking? This is awful!” 😂
My ‘to fix’ excel spreadsheet is also huge now. But that’s good right.. i understand what’s wrong, right?? Right? 😅 #writing #writingjourney #debutnovel

Got a good laugh from @NR_Walker. Will think of all characters as glow sticks from now on.

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Feeling the buzz of finishing a first draft. What a wonderful feeling to look back at all those words like “I put those there” 🤭 Now the next juicy part - editing! Wooooo!

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