The new book has begun! Woo-hoo!
Right now it's looking like it will take me 7 weeks to finish. Which is perfectly within my stated deadline. Whew!
#AuthorLife #AlwaysWriting

Now that this manuscript is on my agent’s desk, I’m free to get back to the other two books I’m working on! 🤓📚🤓📚🤓
#AlwaysWriting

And one more epic shot of the hoverbike trooper in the large, majestic hallway of the library. Their pose seems provocative, playful, looking over their right shoulder. In the background stalls carrying books and art and such. All under a gorgeous rounded roof with a floor of white and black towels.

😈 #HarlandPrijs #writer #writersofbluesky #debutauthor #alwayswriting #starwars #scifi #fantasy #horror #bookaward #HarlandAward

Whites, browns and light blues. A man wearing beige pants and a blue shirt sits on a brown leather couch, staring off into the distance. We see him in profile, from the side. He's sitting in a tall room in a museum. No other people are visible. Far away we can perhaps spot some paintings.

Visited a museum today. My partner took a candid picture of me as I sat down to quickly write down some thoughts for a story I'm working on.

#writing #writersofbluesky #alwayswriting

Making an Emotional Connection to Your Protagonist Personally, I think the best films are those where audiences can emotionally connect with the protagonist, mainly because the protagonist is the main focus of the film. From the opening scene to the c...

New blog post and it’s all about making an emotional connection to your protagonist which some writers tend to miss the mark.

davidschwartzconsulting.com/blogs/news/m...

#screenwritingadvice #scriptreading #alwayswriting

Na bijna drie decennia in het vak blijft het een voorrecht om deze job te doen. Deze week alleen al zit volgepland met inspirerende ontmoetingen. Ik interviewde imaandag iemand die zijn organisatie in de voedingssector moest stopzetten, vandaag zag ik een vader en zoon die samenwerken in hetzelfde bedrijf en leerde ik meer over de kunstcollectie van een bedrijf. De volgende dagen spreek ik nog professionals uit de luchtvracht, de juridische dienstverlening en de gezondheidszorg. Zoveel verhalen, zoveel invalshoeken, het blijft boeiend om te luisteren en te leren. Nu alleen nog de tijd vinden om alles neer te schrijven …

Foto van een notitieblok met stift na het afnemen van een interview. Het geschrift is onleesbaar 😏

13/365

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Swim? Check.
Smoke? check.
coffee? check.
Time to write.
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finally wind down enough to close my eyes and get comfy for bed when the perfect line to start this next chapter pops into my head.
😤
But also
🤗
#AlwaysWriting
#AmWriting

Remember when I said I was “done” with my novel. Hah. My husband was like, it definitely needs more, so 15 more chapters to write it is and v5 will be done…I hope.

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The first time Carusse experienced being among strangers, she was eight years old and had never before left home. Her maas and daas had made it a habit at the dinner table to talk about their various outings in the world, to share them with Carusse. She listened raptly, especially about how singles were viewed as suspicious. She didn’t quite understand what was so suspicious about herself, but she was learning to adjust her view of the world to this other one, in which her mere existence was a threat. Her parents probably understood that her curiosity would get the best of her before long, and she might put herself in real danger if they didn’t give her some hands-on experience. The plan for this first outing was for all four parents to take Carusse and either Mare or Nola to visit a religious celebration in a more distant town, meaning they would be less likely to run into people who knew them. Mare was more adventurous and would have been the better choice, but Nola pitched such a fit about being left alone that they ended up taking her instead. Mare balked a little, but the maas gave them all a promise that the next trip they would swap the sisters, and that seemed to pacify her.

From The UnTwinned, my scifi novel in its final polish.
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#WIPsnips Real
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I've had trouble coming up with comps for my book. It's soft speculative or sci-fi, second world, focused on character, sociological, pre-industrial, and not fantasy.
Suggestions?
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Hash tag writing fun...

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Wrote a lot, my brain's on snooze,
Time to rest and recharge the muse.

Pages filled and stories spun,
Calling it now, this day is done.

Goodnight friends, I’m off to bed,
With sleepy thoughts inside my head.
#poetry #poetrylovers #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #alwayswriting

A fuzzy shot of a laptop screen, the words "The end" in the middle. The last line of text is visible but not legible at the top of the screen and the chapter outline on the left suggests this is chapter 54.

Finished!
I'm happy with this, third draft, I think. Going to let it sit for a bit now. I could get straight on with the sequel, but I have a story scratching the inside of my brain wanting to get out, so I think I'm going to write that next! #alwayswriting 📚

Every book you write is an autobiography.
#writingcommunity
#SkyBooks
#autobiography
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Morning challenge:
I've got a two hour flight. And an upgraded seat. (YAYAYAYAYAY). How many words can I write?

Starting this weekend with a mid air sprint! #writing #alwayswriting

No air. No spell. No hope.

Mortality rushed in like a flood.

I had survived gods and monsters. I had walked the line between myth and reality for longer than I cared to count.

And here I was—about to die strangled by something I never even saw coming.

pt 3/3
#writing #alwayswriting #preview

@tadwilliams.bsky.social @margaretatwood.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and Tolkien.
#alwayswriting #stories #fiction #writersofbluesky

An Author is working 24/7. Yup sometime the inspiration hits during break time
#kablazeventures #authorlife #alwayswriting #creatingbooks

Some more submitting today, lots of editing, some world building. Leftovers for dinner, cats are annoyed that we don't open a window for them.
#alwayswriting #alwaysediting #submitting #fiction #cnf #microfictin #litmags #blueskywriters

Another poem from my ongoing collection, really pleased with how it turned out! ☺️

#5amwritersclub #writer #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poem #poet #poetry #booksky #amwriting #alwayswriting #librarysky

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Always love sitting and writing at Mugz Coffee Bar just down the road from my house.

It’s Sunday morning. No rest for the weary. 😎 What are your writing goals for today? I’m thinking 2000 words for me.

chrismullenwrites.com

#amwriting #blueskyauthors #writers #writinggoals #alwayswriting #writerslife #authorsofbluesky #sundaymorning #coffee #chrismullenwrites

A hand holds a tiny paper with a quote by Susan Sontag. It reads: A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”

Or, as Mary says: “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work” ✍️ #AlwaysWriting #WriterQuotes #TeachingWriters #EduSky

Thanks so much Caroline! #alwayswriting 😍

While I sit on THE HEART AND SOUL OF AOS for a bit before final-final-FINAL edit, I will return to project code-named TREES which feels a bit like Addie LaRue X The Originals? Excited to revisit this one! New projects always feel so shiny! 🤩
#amwriting #alwayswriting

Went trail running today. The small amount of people I saw on the trail didn’t justify the large number of cars at the trailhead, and I keep coming up with spooky reasons why.

#alwayswriting #horror #writerlife

Set my rewrite on LEN aside. Feels too mainstream for my headspace.

Jumping back to outlining my haunted-house feature, THE HOLE IN THE WORLD. Trying to figure out the ending.

As suspected, the YOU ONLY BLEED ONCE short is...bad. Needs a full rewrite/rethink.

#alwayswriting #scriptsky