Typing away. I am trying to carve out more time for both reading and writing. Today its in between SPC and UT. I have about an hour. Let's see how many words I can get in! #writingcommunity #writingessays #amwritingmemoir #amwritingessays
Hey I'm Lukas, a Sydney-based gay dad who just finished writing a memoir about our 5-year surrogacy journey. I'm half-way through my first children's book, and have another memoir in the works 😊
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Ok folks, give a boy a hand please? Where can I find a decent/central list of literary agents in Australia that I can pitch my memoir to?
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Deep in design-mode building my author website tonight. Honestly, I think writing the miscarriage chapters of my memoir was easier 🙄 Send help!
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QUESTION: There seems to be a LOT of debate on Reddit about which website platform is best for author profiles and self-publishing. Shopfiy vs Squarespace vs Wordpress etc etc. Which platform do you use and why?
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QUESTION: When considering how to publish your work, what guided your decision making between self-publishing and a traditional publishing journey?
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Starting the day on a high. Just received some feedback from my writing coach on the birth chapter of my memoir. "THAT'S the ending I've been looking for!" What you've written will be used in your blurb/pitch/promo. Lukas you have done it! (wipes eyes) xo
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Three rounds of revisions on a key chapter ending. My writing coach said, 'You're ending on logistics, not emotion.'
Me: deletes 300 words of COVID drama and adds a quiet reflection scene
Result: Ending makes readers cry now
Trust your editors folks 🙏
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Hey Bluesky! I'm Lukas, a Sydney-based gay dad who just finished writing a memoir about our 5-year surrogacy journey.
Looking for: other memoirists, queer writers and same-sex parents 🏳️🌈 Who should I follow? Drop me your recs below 👇
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I’ve spent the better part of 25-years as a professional writer. PR strategies, corp comms, white papers—you name it, I’ve written it. Words have been my bread and butter, but when I sat down to write my memoir, it felt impossible. Then I learnt this 👇
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Today I finished my memoir. 88k words. My son's surrogacy story is finally on the page.
I know first draft ≠ finished book, but it's out of my head now.
To everyone writing their own hard story...keep going 💙
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Moderation is torture!! Those of us who cannot moderate are SO Much better of just stopping drinking forever.
Most of my friends are able to just have a glass or two... but I needed to accept deeply that I could not. Relief!!
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The horrors of hangovers and of all that self-abuse.
I do not miss it!
When I re-read my own words, I shudder.
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Hello, writer lovelies! It's been so long since I've done an author bio, and I was inspired by a cute one today. Mine didn't come out as cute 😂 #writingcommunity #amwriting #amwritingnonfiction #amwritingmemoir #amwritingessays
What three words best describe your relationship with writing today? #amwriting #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #amwritingfiction #amwritingpoetry #amwritingmemoir
An office wall covered in sheets of paper taped to the wall with painter's tape. Also an office chair, a small table with a notebook on it, and a large desk with three notebooks, a phone, and a water glass.
Things are getting serious over here. #memoirmonday #memorialmemoir #amwritingmemoir #theresabookintheresomewhere #booksky #writingcommunity #scrivener #outliner #painterstape
A terrific way to spend lunch-time!! Buy their memoirs -- TRANSPLANT by Bernardine 'Dine' Watson and UNARMED: An American Educator's Memoir by Megan Doney -- available everywhere books/ebooks are sold!
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What's a writing retreat REALLY like? 🖊📖📚 Read the answers of participants, in their own words!
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Green type on lime green background.
Sad but true. Current situation. #writingcommunity #booksky #writingwoes #authorlife #writinglife #amwriting #amwritingmemoir #amstuckonchaptersix #memorialbook
I'm still writing my first draft! I'll likely be bugging YOU about the marketing bits later, tho!
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Round table covered with printed manuscript pages, colored pens, and a pair of glasses situated near a window. Looks as if a writer could be at work or she could be stalling by positioning these things to take a photo to post on social media. In this day and age "working" has many connotations.
Today's office.
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5/7 Emotion needs balance. The Evidence was heavy, sometimes overwhelmingly so. Half Life pairs raw grief with moments of humor and lightness. Readers need that balance to truly feel the journey. #Storytelling #AmWritingMemoir
I may finally be in a place where I can revisit the hybrid memoir I worked on for my MFA thesis without too much detriment to my mental health. It explores medical trauma and is a sort of bildungsroman.
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If you’re interested in writing personal essays or a memoir about traumatic events, you might have some therapeutic work to do before your project is ready for critique or editing, let alone the public: https://buff.ly/3swyWfg | insight from @LisaEllisonsPen #amwritingmemoir
