Chapter 7: If the lion doesn’t tell his story, the hunter will.

Stories traveled faster and further than people.
But in this foreign land, Nanyamka’s story hadn’t been told.
Not yet, anyway.

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Saturday #amwriring

If I had to describe the tonal shift in this chapter I'm editing in terms of songs, it'd be like going from System of a Down's "Chop Suey" to Mahler's Symphony No. 1 Second Movement. #amwriring

Oh wait… it IS me.

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*Reminder* Your first draft is supposed to be awful. That is the point of editing
So write it. You have time to fix it later. You can't edit a blank page

#motivation #amwriring #author #writer

a man in a suit says i don t know if you re allowed to do that ALT: a man in a suit says i don t know if you re allowed to do that

When someone reads my second novel, and realizes that it's dark satirical scifi, bordering on horror, and not the low stakes fun fantasy setting like the first.
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Writing 101:

Hide your keyboard at the end of every writing session so your cat has a nice place to sleep.

Also protects keyboard against cat hair and vomit.

Oliver. 💕

#Caturday #writers #amwriring
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James bond opening through rifling of barrel

Plot Point: GUNSHOT WOUNDS

Bullets don’t necessarily travel in a straight line and can end up in weird places in the body

Also, we say “gunshot wound” (or “GSW”), not “entrance/exit wound” since there might be multiple bullets…

#writing #scriptsky #filmsky #gamedev #booksky #amwriring

i’m experiencing a certain kind of anxiety in the last 20,000 words of my first draft #amwriring #amdrafting #fantasy

Someone asked me what my first Faust book is about. I think finding an "about" for it is challenging. It's a good magical adventure story.

But book two... That's really about identity. About how we see ourselves and how others see us and how those competing views meet in the middle.

#amwriring

An hour later than I planned, still in my robe, but I got my ass in the chair... Do you? Really, the cat wants to know.

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The Pioneer Sessions: Week 4 Working on two projects at once has its perks.

From suddenly writing a novel to two projects at once, the life of a #writer is never dull. #WritingCommunity #amwriring #books kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/t...

Unrepentant notebook addict. I buy them everywhere but never write in them. I wouldn't know what to write in one tbh.
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Okay this is fun. I give you: the very first paragraph of Starfall, book one of the YA Fantasy trilogy of which Sunfall is the final installment. So: taking it all the way back to the beginning of a project that is now on year six!

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Skimmed a couple chapters that really aren’t relevant to what I’m looking for. Good news is I’m days ahead now. 🙂 #womensupportingwomen #women #womenstudies #womenrituals #persephone #greek #roman #mythology #history #studying #productivity #consistency #amwriring #writing #reading #currentlyreading