Hit the halfway point with my redraft, therefore I have realised that the whole thing is utter garbage and I need to be forbidden from writing anything ever again.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy was decent, but was really just an Evil Dead x The Exorcist hybrid with an Egyptian twist. May Calamawy was a highlight though!

Simultaneously proud of how much I have improved as a writer, and enraged that I'm not at the level that I want to be.

In this latest episode of "Sarah Procrastinates", I have only started some writing on the final day of the bank holiday after three days of doing absolutely nothing of any use. Why am I like this.

Over the past week I blitzed through the Morgan trilogy by @sophiekeetchauthor.bsky.social and it was just AMAZING. A stunning retelling of Arthurian legend through the eyes of Arthur's half-sister Morgan Le Fay, with beautiful, lyrical prose and gorgeous star-crossed romance. #booksky 📚

My friend catsat for me recently and Cassian was very happy about it #Caturday

My synopsis of my witchy Yellowjackets book is ten pages long but I think it's done??? This means I can finally embark on my final draft 😱

Trying to make the pieces of this synopsis fit together is like doing the worst jigsaw puzzle ever.

Had a lovely few days on a mini-break in Paris and managed to get a big chunk of my synopsis finished today! I'm finally getting there!

Realising I have to re-structure more of this book than I thought and I would like to lie down now please.

Already eaten half a bag of these banana chips today. Whatever they put in them,* I am obsessed. *It's sugar. Lots of sugar.

So much that’s good in this, but clipped out this in particular. Yes, yes, yes: it’s a losers’ ideology, demonstrably, historically so. It’s stupid and pointless and wearying, and, as he says, it ends up eating itself. It’s who it takes with it on the way down the shitter that’s the tragedy.

I finished the first chapter. *Toots tiny trumpet* 🎺

About to embark on draft 3 of my witch book. Wish me luck.

Bought a miniature knight helmet for my cat because of course I did.

Just a boy and his pom pom 🐈‍⬛

I should be writing. So naturally, I have collected a parcel, done my food shop, bought travel insurance (owie my wallet), put a wash on, vaccuumed, brushed cat hair off the sofa, taken rubbish out, and eaten a banana. I have not written anything.

Renaming him the Poop Goblin, for reasons #Caturday

Me with Lancelot in Merlin versus me with Lancelot in any other media

I found the first 30 pages of Merlin fic I wrote back in 2013 and it's quite funny how it actually ended up being the original starting point for my Arthurian novel 😭

Today I finished reading Local Gods by @melindasalisbury.com (out in August) and it was utterly stunning. An A24 folk horror film in the form of a YA novel, with beautiful, hazy and shimmering prose and a sense of creeping dread. Just amazing!! 🦉 #booksky

Me whenever King Arthur retellings are pitched as the gritty, REAL story behind the legend

Had an idea for a sequel to my Lady of Shalott novel which I can base around Sir Gawain (AKA best knight) and I want to write it nowwwwww but I have to finish my witch book first. Someone hurry up and invent a way I can write multiple books at once

I confess that I haven't read Le Morte d'Arthur in its entirety (only chunks of it) and I am considering attempting it. Thinking that reading it in small bursts will prevent me from going cross-eyed and wishing I could turn back time and throttle Sir Thomas Malory for being so dry

It's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me

Last night I finished The Bright Sword by @levgrossman.com and it was just wonderful!! So much of what I love about Arthurian legend packed into one novel, and it was full of heart and magic. What a read 💫 📚

average workshoping session

I thought writing out a synopsis that I could edit would help me work out the bits of the plot that need untangling, but I am still stuck 😭

Is it sacrilege to say that I think 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is my favourite of the franchise

A small blessing today: got a partial request on my last manuscript, that I thought was dead in the water 🥺 #amquerying

Stopped myself from ordering a milkshake. Instead I microwaved a carton of custard and ate that, and then ordered £30 worth of books. Choices were made.

All Elaine of Astolat wanted was to love and serve Sir Lancelot forever. But when she wakes upon a funeral barge with lilies blooming from her lips, she must pose as her missing brother to find who tried to kill her. 🏰 Camelot but it's a cult 🥀 Flowers grow from flesh #BluePit 📖 #A #F #LGBT #OV #Q

Last night I finished Slayers of Old by @jimchines.com and I absolutely loved it! Found family, supernatural hijinks, chocolate chip muffins and a tentacled cat - a real treat for Buffy fans. I can already see this being in my top reads for 2026 and the year has barely started!

Why, oh why, did I choose to write a dual timeline novel? Trying to restructure it has got me like this

And now my doppelganger, and statistically yours too. He was in a DSA anarchist tendency on Corellia but dropped out when they endorsed the wrong city council candidate: Folks, it's Karis Nemik. (BTW, they got the *names* right for this show. Perfect lucas-grade names).

I've worked out that part of my secret sauce for writing a better draft is to write a chapter-by-chapter synopsis first. Does this make me want to write the synopsis? No.

Particularly love* the part of writing where you start a new draft and realise you have completely forgotten how to write. *This is a lie.

One day, thinking about Arthurian legend won't make me want to chew my own fingers off in the midst of obsession, but today is not that day.

My top reads of 2025! I had a great reading year and it was hard to narrow them down to just 15! I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday and looking forward to 2026 🖤 📚 #books #booksky #readingwrapup

shall we have a celebratory drinkYA revival

(am a complete cinema philistine so genuinely mostly knew Rob Reiner as Jess's dad in New Girl and even in that daft little sitcom he was so funny and so obviously radiated love and joy, what a loss)

Having a break from my current WIP while I get some feedback from betas. Already itching to work on something else 👀

A string of rejections this week. Sigh. Not feeling very festive at all.

I DID IT. It only took me till December to finally pick it up but I read it! And I enjoyed it a lot.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

I don't usually post when I get a full request but I got my first one on my Arthurian novel today after a ton of form rejections and I'm feeling hopeful about it again 😭 #amquerying

THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING x SPEAR All Elaine of Astolat ever wanted was to love and serve Sir Lancelot forever. But when she wakes upon her funeral barge with lilies blooming from between her lips, she must pose as her missing twin brother to find who tried to kill her. #WIPPit #amquerying #F #LGBT

I think I've finished my edits?? Got to do one more read-through but then it's done 😱