Katerina tries to resist. Tries to be good. Tries to stay safe. But her mind has other ideas... #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard #ActuallyAutistic

Professor Serena Fawntooth has what we would now know as rheumatoid arthritis. 'Katerina noticed the curled nature of the Professor's hands for the first time, the joints swollen and gnarled.' Doesn't stop her being a formidable force of nature though 💪🏻🌈📚 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

A Festival of Stories is needed in The Colours of Ellengard. It's needed everywhere, in every time, you could argue. #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #ActuallyAutistic

What do you use your hyperfocus for in Georgian-inspired Portia? Making quill nibs, obviously. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Neurodivergent

Rostam has a tattoo. It's of significance to him, he only has the one. Katerina has no rules to follow when she accidentally sees it... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic

A synonym today - I've gone with ‘snip’. Another insight into the political mind of Councillor Cavendish in The Colours of Ellengard… #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Cold v warm is a theme in my book - Katerina’s rigid life keeps her safe, but it's cold and geometric. Something is calling her into the warm, organic mess of really living. Here, Billie & Katerina are getting closer to finding out about the Colours… #WIPSnips #WriteSky #Neurodivergent #AmQuerying

Katerina's experience is highly sensory, so The Colours of Ellengard is full of this... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Neurodivergent

Today's #WIPSnips word 'guide' is at the heart of The Colours Of Ellengard. Katerina knows she is different. She clings to the rules in 'Mrs Radcliffe's Guide to Etiquette' to navigate a world that is too bright and too loud… #Neurodivergent #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

Nothing like #WIPSnips for pointing out you have two ‘happened’ in short succession 🤣 Portia Library is Katerina's sanctuary. But she discovers that other libraries have been threatened before... #WriteSky #TheColoursOfEllengard #WritingCommunity

It is possible to find people who understand. Katerina braved the market... #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard #Neurodivergent

The rules of engagement for a 1720s young woman... #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #Neurodivergent

Books are straightforward. People, on the other hand... #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #Neurodivergence #ActuallyAutistic

It's often said that grief is love with nowhere to go... #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard

Most people would sit inside on a chilly day. Katerina is not most people… #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #Neurodivergent #TheColoursOfEllengard

We can have many lifetimes if we are brave enough to go searching for a new one. #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard

What's that book doing there? Don't worry, Katerina is on it #LibraryLife #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard

Since becoming a writer, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what it actually is I want to say. New campaign: Be more writer* *Better writers with snappier slogans and grammar welcome

Katerina didn't know if Billie was a friend who would follow her into the unknown. Reader, she followed her. #WIPSnips #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard

I've avoided that trope where the #neurodivergent woman is cured of her awkwardness and inability to tolerate social situations by love 💕 #Mememay

Late to this as needed to check with my resident Pokémon expert... Rostam is an astronomer so we (me and mini-me) have chosen... Cosmoem, a protostar Pokémon #Mememay

👩‍💻📚Tell me you're a writer without telling me you're a writer. Funny and weird answers only! 👇 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky Me: What do you want to know about the unusual jaw structure of the European Badger Meles Meles? Everyone:

Author of this thinks nobody reads Pratchett any more because most of his readers have blocked her.

Billie knows. #WIPSnips #AmQuerying

Pick a Bond villain from pictures you already have in your phone

I have two children to keep alive, sadly long baths can't be my method in writing my comedic fantasy. Guess I'll have to go back to rereading Hitchhiker's and concentrations on learning from it rather than being constantly bowled over by its genius. #AmWriting #BookSky

Katerina is used to ridicule when her literal mind needs clarification. But Rostam is different… #WIPSnips #Neurodivergent #AmQuerying

Nice to meet you. I'm Roberta, writer of literary-leaning fantasy. Characters are often #neurodivergent because 'write what you know' seems like solid advice. Querying my historical fantasy novel about the cost of living in a world that doesn't understand you. #AmQuerying #BookSky

Thanks James. Non-paywalled version below. Meanwhile I’ll get onto Slate - the original version used to be free

My fictional city of Portia is inspired by London so I had a bit of fun with the flora - London Pride (Saxifraga × urbium) with a name change… #WIPSnips #AmQuerying

Katerina's nervous system is running for its life... #TheColoursOfEllengard #Neurodivergent #AmQuerying #WIPSnips

Katerina loves canons and fugues so I choose... youtu.be/SlPhMPnQ58k?... #MemeMay 22 #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard

A Councillor takes counsel in #TheColoursOfEllengard #WIPSnips #AmQuerying

Regular author: he wore a smart coat and boots. Georgette Heyer: His long-tailed coat of blue superfine, the pantaloons of delicate yellow, and the tasselled Hessian boots which marked him in the Metropolis as a veritable Tulip, or Bond Street Beau

Ok, but pudding has different meanings in a) cake v pudding b) pudding v dessert Sorry. #UKEnglishIsFun

Movement as regulation in my 1720s fictional city of Portia... #AmQuerying #Neurodivergent #WIPSnips

this entire thread is great, but this bit here is the key point :)

Families can be lonely... #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard #Neurodivergent #WIPSnips

I'm on draft 1 of a new book. I miss editing. Editing is rolling up my sleeves and giving the kitchen a good scrub. You end up with something shiny. Drafting is scrabbling around my brain for a buried coin for hours, then giving up. And finding it in the shower the next day. #AmWriting #BookSky

A story of a #Neurodivergent woman in history.... #AmQuerying #WIPSnips #TheColoursOfEllengard

Not considering books which are yet to be published was also a source of incalculable bias.

The Great Library of Portia... #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard #WIPSnips

'Do you know your name, girl?' #AmQuerying #WIPSnips #TheColoursOfEllengard #NeurodivergentWriter

Every 1720s woman who struggles to understand the rules of society needs a helpful pocket guide... #WIPSnips #TheColoursOfEllengard #Neurodivergent

Raising neurotype-aware kids is going to help unpick the chicken or egg question for the first time - is a nervous system that regulates in certainty trained that way, or built that way? Source: Space Daily share.google/IOyEQVQiAK9n... #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

What did a 1720s woman's calculation of 'spoons' look like, I hear you ask... #Neurodivergent #AmQuerying #TheColoursOfEllengard

I watched Vanity Fair (2004) in the cinema in Bath. The place erupted into laughter when @reesewitherspoonbr.bsky.social stepped out into the famous and highly recognisable Great Pulteney Street under a massive caption: London 1802

When your world is different to what everyone else experiences, being believed is everything. #TheColoursOfEllengard #AmQuerying

I have never seen an adult summer reading challenge in the UK. I'm gonna start one. Who wants to join? I'll give out points. And points win... Absolutely nothing? Pride? A slightly increased knowledge of the amazing world we live in?

Slightly increase a band: Green Week