Imposter syndrome; going to work when I know I want to be writing. Writing when I know no ones paying me to do it... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #impostersyndrome #help

It’s gone full meta… I’m writing a book ✍️ while reading Beach Read (a book about writers writing books) and finishing the day with Alan Wake II — *spoiler alert* video game about a writer in a book within a book trying to write his way out. Send help. #AmWriting #WritersLife #BookCommunity #Meta

New talk just added to the publishing academy schedule - editorial and poetry with Jazmine Linklater (Carcanet) www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/publishingac...

Literal chills tonight. 🕯️✨ A spine-tingly evening in @porticolibrary.bsky.social feat @essiefox.bsky.social and @kateagriffin.bsky.social — featuring full-on fangirling over Victorian Gothic (❤️ Jane Eyre ❤️) and a first edition Byron. 📚💀 #BookCommunity #Manchester #GothicLiterature #ReadersLife

Put my WIPs cast in one room and suddenly it’s a bad joke setup: A pirate, a princess, and a hunter walk into a bar… and I’m not sure who’s making it out. 👀 #AmWriting #WritingCommunityUK #FantasyWIP

All these charity shop book hauls made me realise… it’s time to return the favour. 📚💛 Shelf sort incoming — and probably some tough goodbyes. 👋😂 #BookLife #BookHaul #blueskybookclub #Decluttering

Spooky reading season begins. 📚🎃 Can’t wait to dive back into this one — easily the best 50p I’ve ever spent. 👻 Well, I gave them a bit more than 50p, but got to love pro-reading pricing. #SpookyReads #BookCommunity #AmReading #AutumnVibes

Cornish charity shop book haul today. ☀️📚 Nothing beats the thrill of a good find by the sea. 🌊 #BookHaul #BookCommunity #Cornwall #AmReading And the tbr gets a little fatter...

New favourite sentence in a book... "She strolled over to the litter tray, squatted down and urinated loudly, maintaining extremely assertive eye contact with me throughout." 🐈‍⬛️ Structure and content is just divine ✨️ 👌 Let me know if you recognise it 😉 #bookrecommendation #amreading #eoicf #read

Picking from my tbr is like picking crumbs out of my toaster...

The Blood over Bright Haven ending got me 🔥 Now time to trawl though fan art to see if anyone imagined it the way I did. #wasreading

#caturday 🐈‍⬛️

Editing hat is on, I cut 1000 words today ✂️ ...somebody hold me 🥲 #amediting #crueltobekind #amwriting #toughdecisions

Give me a libary, any shape, any size and Im happy... 📚

I was today years old when I learned… 🫣 It’s “whet your appetite” not “wet your appetite”. Thank you, revisions, for humbling me yet again. ✍️😅 #AmEditing #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #AmWriting

Big day — I just sent out my first submission! ⚓📚 Fingers crossed they’re ready for pirates, curses, and a whole lot of chaos. 🏴‍☠️✨ #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #Romantasy #FantasyWriters

I feel like there's a whole book I could write about this dress... Something like about a widow who marries time and time again, always adding expensive features to her gown until its worth more than anyone she could wed. #AmWriting

There are books and there's game changers. Bright Haven just absorbed me, it feels so real, so perfectly imperfect, I could read this all again, just looking for the clues. 🔥 🔭🥼✨️ Anyone else read it? 📚 #amreading #bloodoverbrighthaven #mlwang #blusskybookclub

Working 14hr days... but still have to write for an hour before bed. Thats my sleepy, happy time. ✍️ #AmWriting #dailyroutine #blueskywriters #habit

Calling book lovers! Sat 27 Sep | Mcr Central Library Meet indie northern publishers & discover unique titles! Get publication Qs answered at our 'chatty table' with agents Plus! The Fly on the Wall Press Publishing Training Academy launches here! fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/87204...

Just got the best gift 🎁 Always loved myths and legends, no two stories can ever be told the same way. It's all about voice and perspective. 📚 ✨️ #mythology #legends #charityshopfinds #booksky

Magical evening ✨️ @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social and @waterstones.bsky.social hosted the perfect Q&A with @rgrosvenorauthor.bsky.social and @jendelaneyauthor.bsky.social. Had me in stitches. Phase of the evening; 'praise whore' 👌 If you need me, I'll be London bound, nose deep in Witch Bourne...

Well done Zoe 🎊 Tell It To The Bees has been picked for the Good Housekeeping Readers’ Pick! 🐝✨ Over coffee and books, Zoe has always been such a cheerleader. Her advice kept me and my story going. So happy for you, Zoe — so deserved! 💛 #BookCommunity #RomanceWriters #AmReading #ReadersPick

Five books that made me. 📚✨ The stories that shaped how I write, dream, and build worlds… 👇 What are yours? Never too old... #BookBluesky #FantasyReaders #AmReading #BookCommunity

Classic. Spent all week working on ten pirate-tastic, sea worthy hooks…🪝 …only to realise that all I've got are blurbs. 😭✍️☠️ #AmWriting #FantasyWriters #WritingCommunityUK #WritersLife

Last week, someone asked me for my top 5 anime GOATs… 🐐🎌 Hardest question of my life... because I had no idea what a GOAT was. 😅 But after a week of intense soul-searching, I finally have my list. 👇 Paprika Food Wars 🫣 Yu Gi Oh Kill La Kill Mononoke Tell me yours 🙌 sharing is caring

Big day. ⚓✨ I’m writing my first query letter for my high-seas pirate romantasy… and honestly? Send rum...🏴‍☠️ — or even better, your best query tips or blog links! 🙏 #AmQuerying #FantasyWriters #Romantasy #WritingCommunityUK

Anyone else on @pagebound.co? 👀📚 Just discovered it and I’m loving the interface — so much smoother and easier to use than the others! Drop your profiles below ⬇️ and I’ll follow you. Here’s mine: pagebound.co/users/Elles #writingcommunity #blueskybookclub #amreading #goodreads

Romantasy on Radio 4?! 👀✨ Loved hearing @authorimanierriu’s hot take on Woman’s Hour today — and somehow she made us Romantasy fans sound… not too unhinged. It’s all about appearances… 👏📚 #womenshour #romantasy #heavenlybodies #amreading www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I need help, book lovers! 📚✨ My book nook is finally taking shape, but the all-important chair choice is breaking me 😭 Do I go: 🪑 Classic & cosy 🛋️ Slouchy & soft 🫘 Bean-bag dream 🖤 Sleek & modern Show me your reading chairs so I can choose mine! 💺📚 #BookNook #BookLovers #bookclub #readers

This is the mood, not just for wonderful summers, but for everyday 🌄

I think I'm ready to throw my laptop against a wall 🧱 Gods bless my creative juices but its editing time, not the time to try to squeeze in new ideas. 130k words needs to come down. Not go up! 🧠 💥 #blueskywriters #writingcommunity #badday #help #write #toomanywords #author #fantasy

Chappell Roan just conquered the Reading stage like a villan in an '80s fantasy epic. Iconic doesn't even begin to describe what she did here tonight. #ChappellRoan #PinkPonyClub #Reading25 #festivals #Icon

...i’m inside out. on a getaway-train-to-anywhere. just counting stars. in dark-rain skies... ©WIP-dww #thoughts #quotes #photography #zen #sunset #light #spirituality #amwriting #nature #sunrise #bluesky #sky #cloud #landscape #writingcommunity #writesky #skyscape

Stole some time today to re-write my Morgan Le Fay inspired short story... Added a cat and made it much better. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best. 🐅 #blueskywriters #writingcommunity #everythingisbetterwithcats #crazycatlady #writing #shortstory #avalon #arthurianlegend #cornish

"Plots are driven by character choices" - said all my favourite authors. So I spent the day playing snog, marry avoid with my character's... Lets just say things got weird. ☠️ #FantasyWriters #snogmarryavoid #shagmarrykill #Blueskywriters #WritingCommunity #Fantasy #characterdriven #wip

I needed this. I've been trying to puzzle this one out for months! #writers #dialogue #thingstheydontteachyouinschool #punctuation #grammar #writing #speech #tags

She craves the waves 🌊 Surfing on Polzeath will always be my favourite. Maybe because I dont have to crawl out. 😬

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. - Tolstoy

What a side and what a Keeper! Go Lionesses! #UEFA

Got a gem of a action scene tip today... ✍️ More paragraph breaks and dialogue = more white space on the page = readers turning faster = perception that time is moving faster ⚔️ Brilliant 👏 Show me your tips!

Nearly lost a finger because I thought I could read while chopping. Its been a long week. 🫠

Can't argue with that... Especially a second hand bookshop. Thats the smell dreams are made of.

factoryinternational.org/whats-on/lib... Liberation. What a show. The passion and the history. These actors delivered on every level, doing justice to a truly incredible script 👏 MIF

Organising a new round of novel edits feels like stacking rocks. Some are bigger than others, and you know you've left alot out, but you're doing something at least.

I've done it. Its taken 3 months but I've edited my whole high sea fantasy into 1st person. I didn't even realise it was going to be today and then... Boom! Nearly dropped my tea and all. 📚 ☕️ ✍️ #writersky #piratefantasy #fantasy #romantasy #writer #editing #writing #blueskywriter

From the North West to London, featuring a classic view from the train... #northwest #Macclesfield #liverpool #Manchester #London #londonbound #righis #train #pendelino

Im officially Beta Reader! 📚 This must be what it feels like to earn a Brownie girl badge 🏕 #betareader #booksky #publishing #drafting #bookclub

Saturday mornings were made for... #booksky #bookclub #reading #weekend #murakami #readinginbed #tea #kafkaontheshore

Peering from behind the wall, the figure scowls at me. Its a trick. The light from the LEDs too sharp as it shoots across the folds of marble, the bust doused in a technology its creator never dreamed of. I know this because I've seen it before. Because I was there when she carved it. #writecbc