Excuse me while I re-read this story that I wrote for the thousandth time.🤓📄

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Chapter one is edited! (Whoo) now just the rest of the book to go 😂

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Cracks knuckles. It’s editing time.

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US students arrested in Gaza campus protests face academic and legal woes As classes restart, many of the 3,000 students detained are navigating legal system and disciplinary proceedings

My first novel, ✨️ The Last Remnant✨️, was inspired by many global events.

Here's one you may or may not remember:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Fear is an incredible way to influence behavior.

#dystopianthriller #writerthings #

Did I submit my novel to #RevPit last night?

Yes. 💃🎉

Did I immediately start thinking of brilliant ways to make it better?

Also yes. 🫠

#writerthings #author #writingcontests

Against my best efforts (gratuitous procrastination) I may actually finish this novel today 😮

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Accidentally typing bane whip instead of bone whip and thinking damn that is so much cooler. Alas, not supported by the magical system of this world.

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My friend thinks I have the opposite of summit fever - I get close to the end and my brain starts screaming noooooo!

Hence the final chapter of my novel taking about a month to write. I’m still crawling to the end though.

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Me, at my character whom I created, whose dialogues I write, whose actions I decide, whose development and personality are completely under my control: Why are you such a bitch? )

Me, glaring at my self-insert character: I can't believe this mfer! Why isn't she listening!?

( After I gave her the same trauma I went through )

Me, realizing it: Oh shit..

#writer #fandomthings #writerthings

Now that I’m close to finishing a novel all the ideas I’ve been steadfastly ignoring to focus on the current WIP are popping up with the baby seal eyes going ‘our turn?’.

I’m in the trenches hitting opening lines, character designs and cool scenes off me with a stick. Send help 😭. #WriterThings

Finally picked a name for my main bad guy! (It had to be done, the final confrontation really loses something with your MC going [NAME], what have you done?)

#WritingJourney #WriterThings #PlottingAlong

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Me just trying to get some sleep.

My brain, coming up with the sickest scene never written for a third act in the story that I definitely haven’t got past the vague thinking about stage.

Me, goddamn it.

#WriterThings

Noticing a lot of my favorite pens and wishlist pens are #writech brand. Clearly I recommend them. I also don't let people borrow them. #writerlife #writerthings

When u didnt want to do the classic start-ups to stories so u dont and start in the middle but then u later come to find out that everything started with classic story-telling like "There was a prophecy" or "They are long lost runaway royals!"

#writerthings

Just ordered a proof copy of my next planned release, Vanguard: Roswell 1947 #writerthings

You don't need flowery words or poetic prose to be a writer. You don't need some profound message or heartwarming theme.

All you have to do is write. (Which is arguably the hardest part 😂)
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Spending the day writing my #selfinsert fanfiction, because my mood is all over the place.

I'm using this as a way to work through some trauma and feelings that I have been avoiding.

So far, I'm up to 7,073k words.

#fanfiction #healing #writingcommunity #ao3 #writerthings #depression

i’m not editing this story until it’s finished
i’m not editing this story until it’s finished
IM NOT EDITING THIS STORY UNTIL

#52in2026 #writesky #writerthings

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I finished writing my first verse novella!
Time to edit edit edit!!! #writerthings

“What is the etymology of tisane?” Just another normal conversation in my house.
#languagenerds #writerthings

After working on the same chapter for almost three months, and starting over with it completely four times I think I have finally figured out what was causing the issues! (There was a bit of lore that needed tweaking to make the chapter flow) #WriterThings #WriterJourney #WritingAgain

Me, watching so many writers and artists immortalize their abusive ex in their work: Girl, WHAT...

#don'tdothat #writerthings

Some stories teach us how to let go, others show us how to hold on.
From decluttering your space to finding your peace, there’s a little wisdom in every page.

Which book has done that for you recently?

👉 www.joanneradkebooks.com

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My foolproof technique for #WritersBlock. Trap myself somewhere with no Wi-Fi for five hours until I have to work through it out of sheer boredom. #WritersJourney #WriterThings

In about a week I’ll be able to start having a consistent writing routine again! #writerthings

Eliza is like a goddess among short people. I love this for her. And her main simp is Dax lol

#EditingThouoghts #WriterThings

You ever think of a great #monster you want some of your #characters to face, and then realize they would be so out of their depth against such a thing that they'd all die horribly if you did that? And then have to backpedal because you don't want them to die?

#author #authorthings #WriterThings

Wrote one line today. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t nothing. Progress is weird like that quiet, stubborn, and just barely moving. But hey, the line exists now. It didn’t yesterday.

#smallwins #writerthings #writerlife #writinginprogress #5AMwritersclub

Read a really good article on the internal panopticon people from my generation or later build inside of themselves (and the resulting association of sex with fear) by Kate Wagner and it helped me understand what has been holding me back from writing in general (1/5)
#writing #writerthings #journal