Genre fiction has intrinsic value. Never forget that. #writingcommunity #booksky #fiction

Is revision always necessary? Not for Jim Harrison: "I wrote Legends of the Fall in nine days and when I re-read it, I only had to change one word. There was no revision process. None. I had thought so much about the character that writing the book was like taking dictation." #WritingCommunity

My first editorial review is in... four stars from Literary Titan. #Writingcommunity #booksky #indieauthor #fiction

That’s not just a White House demolition. That’s Southern-style middle-finger politics in action.

First reader-submitted photo of my book shared on social media. It was fun seeing this. #booksky #writingcommunity

This Is Fascism

My first book is finally live on Amazon! It's been a tough, but rewarding journey. Thanks to all for the encouragement along the way. Here's the full wraparound cover with art by the talented @kimberlybrown.bsky.social (Hopefully, the art shows up.) #booksky #writingcommunity

My first experience dealing with Amazon KDP has mostly been positive. I'm thankful for the unlimited edits. I've uploaded my manuscript several times, each time thinking it was the "final" version. Weird that they allow pre-orders for the ebook, but no reviews before publication. #WritingCommunity

Yes, editing can be painful. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his friend, Maxwell Perkins, that he cut 18,000 words from his book during editing. The book was "The Great Gatsby." #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Keep in mind that EVERYTHING he says or does going forward is to distract from the EPSTEIN files. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.

One "good" thing about my dog's UTI -- she's been getting me up at 4:30 a.m. every morning the last few days. So, I've finally joined the 5 a.m. writer's club. (She's on medicine and getting better.) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

"You want to cultivate a clear blank—a mind that is open, vulnerable, and plain. Empty, basically, of thought. This is a writing mind. When you are empty, you are able to focus." - Heather Sellers, "Page After Page" #writingcommunity

Bonnie Friedman: A young painter comes to Michelangelo and says, 'I've seen your religious paintings. Teach me to depict the human soul.' 'Fine,' he says. 'Learn to paint a human knuckle. Observe it closely...study its shifts of color. You paint a soul only by painting a knuckle.' #writingcommunity

Superman has always been woke ☺️

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I would pay a boatload of money for someone to teach my corgi Clyde or Claudia’s corgi Gracie to do this. But I think only Gracie would be adventurous enough to take to it ht: @amazlngnature.bsky.social

Still need help with my book cover. Fiction. Humorous outdoor stories. Adult. Limited budget. Suggestions welcome. #booksky #writingcommunity

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the release of "Jaws." We streamed the movie last night, and it had a special introduction by Spielberg. After 50 years, it's still one of the finest examples of pure cinema. #jaws #movies

What kind of book cover should a collection of humorous outdoor stories have? The stories center around a fictional outdoors club. They range from the adventurous and wacky to paranormal. Needs to appeal to adults (not YA), and hopefully to both men and women. #writingcommunity #booksky

My wife just said, “Are you even listening to me?” I thought that was a weird way to start a conversation. 🤷‍♂️

#nokings day in Charleston, West Virginia. Great turnout.

“To actually be a writer, you have to be willing to be a different kind of person — maybe only slightly so, but still different from how you are right now.” - Heather Sellers, “Page after Page” #writingcommunity

If you were going to publish a modern version of the 1982 bestseller "Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche" by Bruce Feirstein, what would you title it? #booksky #writingcommunity #masculinity

“When I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed.” -Joan Didion #writingcommunity

Writing is awesome. Writing is power. Writing is stressful. Writing is exhausting. When we finish a project, no matter how big or small, that feeling moves beyond description. Keep at it. #amwriting #writers #writing

What I’m reading… From Robert E. Howard Foundation Press. #booksky

Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive

Finally made contact with the "Tree of Life" at Dolly Sods Wilderness. It figures in a story I'm writing, so I felt it was time to meet. #writingcommunity #trees #photography

#WritingCommunity Any suggestions for titling a collection of interconnected short stories (same characters, same setting)? It seems many books like this pick one of the story titles as the book title, then add "and other stories" as a subtitle.

It’s hard for me to believe this is a “radical, leftist, socialist, commie” way to think.

“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. Especially if they all have cats in them.”— Ray Bradbury & C. N. Reed (I added the cat bit.) #writing #authors #booksky

As a writer, if you don't have grudges against some words, you have a problem. My example: literally. #writingcommunity

I kind of want to go

Day 4 of #IndieApril and today we have @azshure.bsky.social, writer extraordinaire of romantasy and retellings. I love her Zodiac series. I'm 2 books in and desperate to start on book 3. They will keep you gripped plus the writing is amazing. Quickly becoming one of my faves. #indieauthor #BookSky

"Science fiction and fantasy were never meant to be mirrors. They were meant to be windows -- windows into worlds where anything was possible, where humanities flaws could be confronted, yes, but also where hope could bloom in unexpected places..." -- From a baldbookgeek video #WritingCommunity

#writingcommunity "The mutter, the cracked voice, the false start, the false start again, all precede the song. Those who write do have a trick. They lean on the process of writing the way an unsteady person leans on a cane." -- Bonnie Friedman

Fascism 101. Keep em dumb and brainwash them young.

Today would be a good day to walk down to your local library and get a library card.

Dogwoods in bloom. The sky was blue—though not quite the vivid azure I remember from spring hikes with my dog, Vinnie. He was by my side for so many years it's hard to recall a spring without him. But still, spring has arrived. Spring is resolute. And Vinnie will always be part of it. #Dogs

Wake up!!!! Coffee is on.

"When writing is going well it is not like pushing. It's like falling. You fall the way you do in dreams." - Bonnie Friedman #WritingCommunity

#CyberTruck #Tesla #SmudgeTheCat

ICYMI — Trump’s social security commissioner sounds the alarm about SS being in peril from DOGE, and again says millions of dead people are not getting checks despite what Trump & Musk have said. www.propublica.org/article/reco...

Are we great again, America? Put clowns in charge and you have a circus.

Anyone read this? Is it true to the character’s sword & sorcery roots, or something else? #BookSky #Fantasy

“Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.” — Bonnie Friedman #writingcommunity