Meeting a publisher today about my first book. Wish me luck 🤞 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #ToBeAuthor #Books

Writing is 10% talent, and 90% convincing yourself you've got talent. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books

Editing—deleting everything you loved yesterday. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books

Hero's Journey = Workday 1. Refuse the call to adventure. 2. Forced into adventure anyway. 3. Meet the wise mentor who gives you pants and a kiss. 4. Tests, Allies, Foes, all day. 5. The Abyss (post lunch) 6. Metamorphosis (clock out) 7. Return with the elixir (takeaway) #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Free writing tip: Don't name your protagonist Aurora. Etymologically: A strong, symbolic name 👌 Phonetically: Like a dog trying to speak 🫸 P.S. Auroras of the world, forgive me. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books

First Draft—A raw, untamed organism composed mostly of caffeine and questionable grammar. Handle with gloves. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books

Procrastination—The noble art of doing absolutely everything except the thing you should be doing. Frequently mistaken for research. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books

Inspiration—a mysterious entity that appears at 3 a.m. when you’re too tired to type, then vanishes the moment you open your laptop. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #AmWriting #Books

There's no hope of writing for a living nowadays, is there? They say, without a lucky hit, you need 10 books under your belt, before you might earn enough. As a side hustle, a single book takes several years to finish. So, you need decades to (maybe) make it? Rough 🫤 #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Have you guys seen Hundreds of Beavers? 🦫 I just did! What an absolutely brilliant and unique modern indie slapstick comedy! 🦫🦫 Seriously, It's amazing! My abs are cooked after laughing so much! Go check it out! 🦫🦫🦫 #HundredsOfBeavers #MovieSky #FilmSky #Comedy #Slapstick #IndieFilm #Cinema

A question that has bothered me for a while now: Can someone explain, what stops Trump from revising, or even destroying, the Epstein files? Like, how can we be sure that whatever is eventually released hasn’t been altered? #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #Trump #ReleaseTheFiles #Politics #US #Question

Another decent writing tip: Don’t chase flow. Chase clarity. Flow is what you feel while writing. Clarity is what the reader feels while reading. Many writers confuse the two, and that’s why their “inspired” drafts don’t land. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

A decent writing tip: Stop trying to sound like a writer. The moment you start performing on the page, your voice disappears. Good writing isn’t impressive—it’s invisible. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Reading makes you aloof. Writing makes you insane. Editing makes you scream. Why do we do this again? #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #Writers #AmWriting

The President of the United States responded to nationwide protests against dictatorship by posting a video of himself as a king pouring sh*t on the American people. Let that sink in. #NoKings #Trump #NoKingsDay #NoKingsProtest #Politics #WTF

Do you ever feel like life is an RPG and you've f*cked up your build? #WritingCommunity #BookSky #GameSky #GamingCommunity

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I just realized, while I write and think about writing a lot, I never have dreams about it. What’s up with that!? None of my characters even show up in my dreams. Kinda shocked to realize this. Does someone here dream about their writing? 💤 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #Writing #Writers

Have you ever noticed how reading makes you wanna write, and writing makes you wanna read—just read—and never scribble another word on paper again? I call it the cycle of fu*k this sh*t! 💩 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #ReadSky #Writing

I started off as a lyricist, arranging 500 carefully chosen words in perfect order. I decided to start writing books, thinking I’d have more room to maneuver. It turns out the only difference is that now I have to arrange 80,000 carefully chosen words in perfect order 🫠 #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Bad writing tip I see everywhere: “Just get your first book out of the way, it’ll be trash anyway.” Firstly, believing this will kill your writing morale. Secondly, my debut just landed me a meeting with a publisher. Not so trash after all! Don't fall for this "tip"! #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Sooo… I recently finished my debut novel and started sending it off to publishers. And now—gulp—I have a meeting with one of them next month. Apparently, they want to include me in their lineup for next year! Unreal 🫠 #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Ha! Trump must be fuming. Deranged truth social post incoming 😂 #NobelPeacePrize #Nobel #Trump #Loser

Like if you wrote today 💙 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Writing #AmWriting #WriteSky

Tolkien was 38 years old when he started writing his first novel, The Hobbit, and 45 when it got published. It's never too late to do great things! #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Tolkien #TheHobbit #WriteSky

Just read a sad article in a Finnish science magazine, Tiede, about reading becoming an increasingly elitist hobby. The modern middle class (especially on the right) scoffs at it. "People used to be ashamed if they didn't read. Not anymore." Such a sad trend 😕 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Reading

HOLY COW! The first reply I got on my book was an invite to meet one of the publishers I submitted to! They are interested in including me in their lineup next year! 😱 I'm shaking, you guys! 🫨 What the heck! Any tips for the meeting with them? #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Writers #Authors #Books

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Just canceled my Disney+ subscription 👋 I suggest you do the same. #CancelDisney #BoycottDisney

My very first book is now in the hands of 20 or so renowned publishers to be inspected 😱 It's time to play the waiting game... Wish me luck! 🤞 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #FirstBook #Writer

It is clear he is on the list, and many times over. If he wasn't, he would have not only released it, he would have turned it into merch, t-shirts, posters, crappy sneakers, and so on. He. Is. On. The. List. #Epstein #Trump #EpsteinList #EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheList

Happy Towel Day everybody! 🎉 Today we carry a towel with us the whole day long! 🧣 Join us in the celebration of life, the universe, and everything! 🌌 #TowelDay #DouglasAdams #Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky #HitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HHGTG #DontPanic

OMG! I DID IT! 🎉 First draft of my first book DONE! 🎉 Some 50k words in total! 🎉 I almost broke down when I slowly typed in 'The End' 🥲 Now what? Any tips on how to proceed? Read-throughs, rewrites, edits? When to contact publishers/agents? #WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmWriting #WriteSky #Writers

I need to write just one more chapter to complete my first book! ✒️ But—I'm in a terrible slump. Haven't written in like two weeks. 🙇 Can I get some love from my fellow writers here to push me over the finish line? 💙 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmWriting #WriteSky

Reading really is like magic: Across space and time, you summon another person to wield your inner voice. For a moment, the writer speaks through you, as if you're possessed. And only when you close the book does the spell break. Magical, isn't it? ✨️ #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books

While you may forget the specifics of a book, you'll never forget how it made you feel. This feeling, you may forever evoke at will. Essentially, on an emotional level, you can revisit an entire world in a single thought. That's pretty neat. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Reading #Books

I just read Lolita for the first time. A disturbing case study of an unreliable narrator. The true horror of the events is brilliantly embedded behind the romanticizing narration. I see why people call it "the most unsettling masterpiece." #BookSky #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Lolita

There's no hope of writing for a living nowadays, is there? They say, without a lucky hit, you need like 10 books under your belt, before you might earn enough. As a side hustle, a single book takes several years to finish. So, you need decades to make it? Rough :/ #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Just reread Orwell's Animal Farm. This truly is the administration of Napoleon the pig 🐽 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Orwell #AnimalFarm

I usually post about writing, but I really need to vent: Fuck you Trump! Fuck you Vance! Fuck you USA! 80 years of trans-Atlantic collaboration destroyed in seconds. Europe now stands alone against the orcs of Mordor. US regime serves Russia. Hope you Trump-voting morons are happy! #FuckTrump

After a week of being stuck on a pivotal scene, I found a way forward today! 🙌 #WritingCommunity #BookSky

To consume or to create... #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Books #ReadingCommunity

Read and write! Why? Because they don't want you to. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Opening the file changes everything... #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Writers #Books #Writing

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you heard the sound a page of a book makes when you turn it? #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Book #Books #ReadingCommunity

When you dress up for your author headshot: #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Me rereading my day's work: #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Cool Words 📖 Part 12 'Lickspittle' is a sycophant or someone who flatters others to gain favor. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Cool Words 📖 Part 11 'Snollygoster' is an old term for a person, especially a politician, who is shrewd or self-interested, often in a dishonest or unscrupulous way. #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Does anyone else find it so friggin funny that the big AI companies are now crying over DeepSeek stealing their work to create their product? The word 'irony' gets thrown around a lot these days... #WritingCommunity #DeepSeek #Meta #OpenAI #AI #Irony