DAY TWO - ACT TWO (1/...) So, on Monday I put up a *skeet* (thanks for letting me know the term @pmchoan.bsky.social 😊) about how I was going to skeet every day about the process of writing my new book and then, on the very next day, I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO SKEET 😱😬😱😬

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 8) And that's it. Day one of planning and First Act done. I mean obviously I have to redraft it roughly one hundred times still but it's there. The bones are there. Exciting, huh? Come back tomorrow for Act Two 😊

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 7) Act 1 - Set up/Inciting incident ▶️Prologue (if you have one) ▶️Introduce your protagonist / setting / tone ▶️What's broken in his/her world? ▶️Inciting incident - what happens that CANNOT be ignored? ▶️Decision point - what does you MC do that means they cannot turn back now?

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 6) And I'm going to give it to you because I'd never gatekeep anything that can help fellow creatives 😊 Next 'tweet' (what the hell do we call these things??) is a (very) brief idea of what I plot/plan for the first act...

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 5) Act one. And yes, I talk in terms of acts, because I started out as a screenwriter, and because it is easier when trying to plot or plan something if you can break the story down into three or four parts. Wanna know what's in the first part of that planning doc?

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 4) I have taken the kernel of an idea and made it into a walnut and then a kiwi, an apple, cantaloupe, watermelon and finally a full-sized book baby. And now I need to give birth, or rather, write it down. So today I am writing the first section of the plan...

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 3) The book that I am working on has been in my brain for about a month. I have thought about it in the shower, walking the dog, when I go to sleep, when I wake up, whilst driving, during boring conversations, sometimes during interesting conversations...

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT 2) After years of trying and fruitless research I found a plan that works for me - not something that needed loads of time and effort - a 3-page breakdown that gives me something to hang my plot on and then muddle and mould into a first draft. IT HAS BEEN A GAMECHANGER....

DAY ONE - PLANNING (CONT...) I'd tried not being a pantser, I tried to plan. I tried writing a short story, I tried doing a story graph, I tried chapter breakdowns, I covered my house in post-it-notes. It never helped ☹️ But then, last year, a miracle occurred...

DAY ONE - PLANNING... I've always been a pantser when it comes to books. Have an idea. Think about that idea for a bit. Start writing that idea. See what happens... What normally happens is I write 150k words in order to get a 80k book out of it at the end. It's long, intense and hard work....

So, my BlueSky has gone a bit empty and bereft but I am going to fix that starting now. Who wants to come along with me whilst I plan and write a new book??* Not just any book. THE book. *Trick question. You don't have a choice. I'm doing it and I'm going to write about it here. Every. Single. Day😊

Fri-yay!!! 😊❤️😊❤️😊❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

The 14yo is having cheese with his Christmas cake for the first time this evening... I shall report back...

Finding the photos your daughter took when she stole your phone seven years ago is one of life's unspoken joys ❤️

Watching 1923... Me: Harrison Ford is still a good looking fella... Husband: Even at 150-years-old Me: 😳 Husband: What?! He's that old now isn't he??

This weekend I started the Korean romance-drama TV show Guardian: The Lonely and Great God. I did not realise there are 19 episodes and most of these are c80 minutes long. I am OBSESSED and planning to take the week off writing, eating and sleeping to binge it. Send help. Do not tell my agent.

The housing market these days is INSANE - Here's a two-bed in need of renovation, a perfect starter home for someone looking to get on the housing ladder. £550,000 please

Puppy sitting is the best kind of sitting 😍

HELP! I can't find the Japanese Mundane Halloween Costumes thread 😭 Does it only exist on Twitter??? Surely someone must post it here?? I NEED IT!!!!🎃

My sister's cat has gone missing 😞 We've done FB posts, gone house to house, walked out every day calling and put posters up. Any other suggestions for finding little Finn please? We miss him so 💔

In an RTA, car a write off (not my fault) Got no details of other driver cos police said 'we'll do it all, call you later, visit tomorrow' No phone call, no visit. Insurance company blaming me until police say otherwise. 3 days later still no police contact & they can't say when they'll call *sigh*

Sitting on the train listening to an adorable 3/4 year old having a chat with the woman opposite about why she's wearing a hijab and what being a Muslim means and it's maybe the best example of 'kids ain't born racist' that I've ever seen...

Well 28 years later was not what I thought it was going to be like. At all.

Genuinely devastated about #DameJillyCooper She and her books were a huge inspiration to me and I always wanted to meet her, and always thought I would at some point, because I always thought there would be more time, as you always do 💔

Been discussing with an author pal about doing a podcast talking about books &book deals and how we'd have to *bleep* out names & swear words so it would just be... 'Welcome to our podcast. Today we discuss why *bleep* is such a *bleep* & why *bleep* will *bleep* their *bleep* soon. Please subscribe

Absolutely living for the eye-octopus in #alienearth Best mute sci-fi character in a very long time...

Endorsed and also 100% approved. 10/10 will read again ❤️

Going on holiday at 5am tomorrow, haven't started packing yet. Whoever said you get less wild in your middle-age was WRONG!

I'm Fine by @richardhwrote.bsky.social is out today. I got to read a proof and I'm quoted for it because I absolutely adored this book - charming, engaging, funny, sad and surprising in all the best ways ❤️ And a story that deserves to be told. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Buy it please...😊

I will be officially gushing about #ImFine on its publication day tomorrow but for now I will simply say - do the below please 🔽🔽 Order a brilliant book from the brilliant @bertsbooks.bsky.social You won't regret it ❤️

Bit mean to Vegas whorehouses if you ask me...

Tried to watch #AndJustLikeThat but the programme's depiction of a teenager with ADHD is so fucking awful and poorly researched, I can't do it. Terrible, terrible writing... I NEVER criticise other people's art... and just like that...I am.

Gotta love it when Google memories messages me all excited and says - Remember this day??! And it's just a series of clothes photos I took for Vinted...

Just watched #fightorflight which was excellent and I very much enjoyed Josh Hartnett having the absolute time of his life 😁

It's only as you get older and the people around you get older that you realise #Landslide doesn't just have to be about romantic love...

Well, we're halfway through the year, so let the battle of the still-alive #poinsettia commence... This is mine - still going strong ❤️ @bethmorrey.bsky.social did yours survive this year??

It's been a rough couple of weeks but I just learnt that the Swedish translation of Last One At The Party has earnt out its advance and I am now making royalties! Which is lovely news 😊 So, if anyone has any good ideas about what I can treat myself to with £46.21 let me know ... 😉

ISABELLA'S NOT DEAD - by @bethmorrey.bsky.social is out TODAY! I loved it ❤️ It's so funny and clever and charming and captivating that I was both thrilled to have read it and devastated it was over by the end. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Buy it, love it, thank me later ❤️

This seems INSANE! That's 27 core cast members. Even if they all only get six minutes of lead character screen time that's a three hour film....

They should do a remake of #ThisIs40 with them at 50 just going 'yup, we were wrong. 40 is hella young and the best years of your life. Sorry.'

God grant me the confidence of a three year old singing a rock version of Let It Go... Please.

Hey @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social My husband and I are genuinely devastated it's #TomRobinson last show as he has soundtracked our entire relationship for the last twenty years. And my husband owes most of his Shazam list to him 😊 He will be most sorely missed xx

Someone is ringing my mobile and leaving messages which comprise of excerpts from different songs - nothing else, just excerpts from songs. It's weird, but they're not the worst messages I've received so I'm not completely mad about it...

I think we're all in agreement that #allbarone by #baxterdury is complete genius, aren't we? AREN'T WE?????

Rain + sun + No-Mo-May = Gorgeous, wildflower-filled walks 😍

Thought that maybe I hadn't made enough icing for my carrot cake...I was wrong 😬

Seriously - they are programming AI to do my job and take over the world but they *still* can't programme fucking Word to learn that I do not mean to type form a thousand times in my manuscript??

Asked my flight attendant buddy what her best tip for surviving a plane crash was and she said- Sit at the back. Planes never reverse into a mountain... Excellent.

Petty, cheap parent stories?? I'll go first... I brought the kids Easter sweets but forgot to give them out. Found the sweets today and they're good till 2026 so I shall be keeping them in a drawer for a whole 12 months and then giving them to the kids next Easter 🐣😊 #goodparenting

I was lucky enough to read an arc of this and it is EXCELLENT - warm and funny and moving and an incredible love letter to queer culture in the 90's - it feels strange to say a book about abuse can be uplifting but this one really is. I loved it ❤️ Pre-order now because it's going to be huge.