Author and Adventurer! Also likes to throw a party every now and then.
Joined May 2020
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@MargaretAtwood , I’m running a fundraiser for the Children’s Speech and Reading Center, an incredible charity. The event has book clubs donating year-round to win a grand prize: a meeting with a famous and beloved author. I was hoping that author could be you. Will you help us?
I wish someone told me this before I proudly hit 200k on my first draft
Guys, this would have saved me so much time.
As a beginning author with no experience: a lengthy book is a liability to a publisher not an asset! No one's gonna pick up War and Peace by nobody. Stick to a length of 80k-100k words. #amwriting #WritingCommunity
#authorTipTuesday
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Apparently in Romero's move, the monsters (originally ghouls) were cannibalistic because the writers room thought it was the scariest thing imaginable. #zombie
#MythicMonday #writerscommunity #WritersCafe
Did you know that the original #zombie was a Haitian slave that committed suicide (therefore their animated corpse bound to Hispaniola, never to return to their homeland in Africa)? The cannibal zombie only came to be after the Night of the Living Dead #MythicMonday #funfact
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#AuthortTip if a publisher is expecting YOU to pay THEM for your work, run straight to self-publishing instead. Vanity Press make most of their money from hopeful authors, NOT book sales. #writingcommmunity
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For the overwriters out there, if you are being rejected because your WIP is already 50k too long, it's time to map out your book on the three Act beatsheet to see where those extra words are! #amediting I had to gut 80k from the first pinch point to the midpoint with a machete.
For the authors Who are #AmQuerying Or just starting out, check out the #TenQueries tag to see why agents say yes or no! It's a great insight into the business.
I've officially graduated to that level of adulthood where, while I can't tell fancy #wine or any flavor notes, I most certainly can recognize that $5, hangover-in-a-bottle taste.
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Just got off a call with a small publisher and it's looking very likely that my book is coming out this year! I just need to be sure my little hummingbird heart didn't explode with excitement mid-Zoom call and I'm actually dead. Is this real life? #WritingCommunity
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After staring at the same opaque research paper for ages, finally closing it and getting back into writing, I sometimes just talk to my MC. "Its ok if you don't get it either. You don't have a medical degree. You can just be confused." Gotta love the #unreliablenarrator
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Ever finish writing an action-packed chapter, then afterwards, look through your Google search history and you just think to yourself, "Yup, I'm definitely on an FBI watch list by now." #WritingCommunity #writing #amwriting
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On his deathbed, Oscar Wilde declared, "Either those curtains go, or I do," and then promptly died. I idolize that man. #goals
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As admirable as some think it is to believe that you 'don't see color,' unfortunately, the rest of society does. And in erasing color, you suddenly lose the nuance of life and lived experience. #BlackLivesMatter
I scratched my cornea because my allergies are making me crazy. So, now I have to wear an eye patch to stop me from rubbing it. It's the Cone of Shame: Pirate Edition. #allergies #hayfever
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I love the tension in the pitch alone!
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I really feel like we don't appreciate ancient demons as much as we should in literary works.
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Great concept! Very unique
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No one hears "save the rainforests" and asks why the environmentalist hates all other types of forests.
If your response to #blacklivesmatter is #AllLivesMatter you're missing the point and are part of the problem. #BLM
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