Ahhh the classic editing conundrum. Am I doing fewer edits in these scenes because they’re good or because they’re good ENOUGH? #amediting #WritingCommunity

IT'S HERE! Five fairy tale retellings like you've never read before. 4.7 stars on Goodreads Be daring - grab your paperback or ebook today books2read.com/NotYourEverA... #indieauthor #fantasy #fairytale #anthology #beautyandthebeast #cinderella #redridinghood #shortstory #novella #booksky #booktok

Urrgghh edit my stupid important book or have nerdy fun writing my Doctor Who script? Decisions decisions… #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amediting

October 25 Wrap-up! ✍️ Good start on Not Technically Ghosts part 2 edits! 👨‍💼 On the path to getting new day-job! 🔀 Mostly fixed a Not Technically Ghosts side plot that had been bugging me! #WritingCommunity #amediting

Very happy with work done today. Been dithering for some days over a side plot that just wasn’t hitting as I wanted. Nearly scrapped it (again) but after tweaking a scene and planning changes ahead - looking good now! Benji lives to see another day! #WritingCommunity #amediting

Hmm writing (another!) new scene I QUITE like... but that I'm 70% sure I won't include in the book. Still, nice to have as backstory. May incorporate elsewhere. #WritingCommunity #amediting

At last - x2 new scenes finished. A very necessary extra 3200-ish words, but I'm happy with the additions. Getting into one of my favourite sections now, looking forward to *these* edits! #WritingCommunity #amediting

Close to being done on x2 new scenes I’ve needed to add. Happy with how they’ve come out but eager to get on with actual editing again! #WritingCommunity #amediting

Always feels counterintuitive to add scenes during editing but these last couple feel really needed. Letting the plot breath and organically get the mains where they need to be. #WritingCommunity #amediting

Welp if I keep writing much more of this I’ll have no choice but to count Witch-wip as my new side project! (Christopher does NOT approve of me arranging pages on his side of the couch) #WritingCommunity #amwriting

Edits on this particular scene have been fighting me all week. Needed to add a new part, but dithered between it being a few lines or a whole new section. Well now it's TWO new sections. Ho hum. #WritingCommunity #amediting

Had a deleting day - found a subplot that I'm not happy with. Plus it was a tiny bit cliché and stretched credibility. Cut! There's 3000-ish words back #WritingCommunity #amediting

So I'm officially shelving my first book, Spirit Rider: The Royal Problem -- but I'm not sad, no woe-is-me stuff! (cont.)🧵

And that's a wrap on edits for Part 1 of Not Technically Ghosts! Part 2 is a LOT meatier so can't decide if it'll be easy to do big cuts, or I'll agonise over every scene?? #WritingCommunity #amediting

September 25 Wrap-up! ✍️ NEARLY finished Not Technically Ghosts (part 1) edits! 🚴‍♂️ Got on a new health kick! 🧙‍♀️ Started a new witchy wip! (Madam Quail’s Totally Legitimate Witching School Where Absolutely No One Gets Eaten) #WritingCommunity #amediting #amwriting

Very happy with this unplanned pov shift. Had gotten too stuck on the idea all switches need to have a kind of symmetry. Now this quite pivotal scene gets half each! #amediting

Into edits for the final scene of Part 1 of Not Technically Ghosts! Splitting POVs, bringing elements from later to now, more feelings, more details - onwards! #amediting #WritingCommunity

Edits getting good now! Had disliked underwritten this story felt in places. Done a lot of enriching work so far. Just hoping there’s some fat to trim in the middle and pull the wordcount back! #amediting #WritingCommunity

Had the chance to read CP’s high-tech Red Riding Hood story that’s part of this collection - and people are in for a TREAT! Better believe I’ll be buying my copy on day one!

Edits flowing well now on Not Technically Ghosts but damn if I can’t get this new fake/not-witch-school-wip out of my head! Might be one where I need to write the opening chapters to get it out of my system. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amediting

No no hush brain, I need to focus on editing and NOT my shiny new wip idea. But ughhhh the fresh worldbuilding and ending already planned 🤤 Working title: Mistress Quail’s Totally Legitimate Witching School Where Absolutely No One Gets Eaten #WritingCommunity #amediting

Alright I’ve got the full layout for every pseudo-chapter/ switch in Not Technically Ghosts. Much easier now to see where things can and NEED to shift for better flow ahead of the bigger edits. #WritingCommunity #amediting

Making ‘story cards’ to represent each switch/pseudo-chapter of Not Technically Ghosts to get a proper visual of how the story all hangs together. Already finding parts ripe for cutting / reworking! #WritingCommunity #amediting

Possibly approaching some big macro edits for Not Technically Ghosts, shifting story-beats etc. Currently a clear divide between happy fun times and then sudden plot, stakes, and peril. Need to redress the balance… #WritingCommunity #amediting

August 25 Wrap-up! (Do I do that now? Guess we'll see at end of September? What is this pose??) ✍️ Off to a good start with Not Technically Ghosts (part 1) edits 🏠Moved house (not writing, but big stuff) 🖼️Took part in a bunch of #pitch events #WritingCommunity #amediting

As nerdily fun as it was, I've spent FAR too many days wrangling the formulas in my Magnovalis Royal Family Tree spreadsheet -- now I need to get back to work on Not Technically Ghosts edits. You know, my supposed MAIN project *sigh* #WritingCommunity #amediting

Had to take a few days to move house - but feels great to get back to edits today! Feels like good ‘enriching’ work happening right now. Hope everyone else’s writing/edits are going well! #amediting #WritingCommunity

Early doors, but Not Technically Ghosts isn’t being TOO monstrous to edit yet. With all the pre-edit work and beta feedback, Part 1 of the story was always going to be easiest. But thinking of later parts… oof. That’s when we hit hard-mode. #amediting #WritingCommunity

Despite wanting to keep the wordcount down, I’ve gone into these edits knowing there were a lot of thin areas. Really liking some of added description and scene depth I can add now. Just need to get better at cutting too… #amediting #WritingCommunity

Had a great time participating in #QueerPit & #PosterPit ! As always found a bunch of new writers and projects I look forward to following! 😁 #WritingCommunity

WORLD WAR Z x DR WHO x SILO The Aurora's Pale Light Before his friend's time machine kickstarts the demon apocalypse, a deceased war hero must prepare the world in secret, knowing success is not an option. When he inevitably fails, it's up to him to lead humanity out of Hell. #PosterPit #W #A #SF

Imagine opening a book and finding your grandma’s 10th birthday. Or your classmate’s worst day. In The Last Blank Page, every book holds the last borrower’s memory… until the story starts to vanish. #PosterPitq #posterpit #MG

#posterpit #WIP #FantsayNoir X Files x Dark Souls Gelmir, a mage who can only dispel magic and a wayward graduate of the Cyan academy, Gina Spectre investigate a series of anomalies, outbreaks and mages gone bad, culminating in them trying to stop a plot to bring about the 3rd extinction of magic.

Ryan & Albert live 200 years apart - but once per day a time-slip lets them meet. Now they need to solve the mystery of Clarence Hall before they accidentally change history! Oh… and try not to fall for each other in the process! NOT TECHNICALLY GHOSTS #PosterPit #W #YA #F #R

When Chess becomes the Midwest's newest reaper, she must learn to control her power before the veil between the living & the dead disappears, taking with it the soul of the only person she's ever loved #PosterPit #YA #F ♿ Disability Rep 👻 Pet Ghost Dog 😍 Enemies to love interests 🏰 Small town

🌙 Previous Moons - A young druid is determined to prove his missing father is alive. To save him, he must travel to a dying world—one his powerful mentor will stop at nothing to control. #posterpit #PosterPitW #YA #F

When luckless Mick agrees to be his mage best friend Eleanor's adventuring partner, it's to keep her safe. But after a mishap turns him into a dragon and plants the ghost of a god in his head, Mick must go from sidekick to champion before his existence triggers a divine war. #PosterPit #W #NA #F #R

THE OFFICE x GOOD OMENS Virgil Mora has three months to turn around a vampire-ran Ohio gas station to restore Heaven’s faith in Hell and save his boss, Lucifer, the angel he’s fallen for. Before his past mistakes come back to haunt him. Literally. #PosterPit #W #A #C #F #LGBT

The last Conduit is dead—and Magpie of Lornwhen is thrilled about it. #PosterPit #Q #PosterPitQ #F #NA #YA

INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE x PERCY JACKSON 12 y.o. Félix gets body slammed to a parallel dimension where magic is real and his recently deceased mom is alive. But when a dark force threatens his new life, Félix must fight to stop it before it destroys both dimensions #PosterPit #MG #OS

Mission Brief 13/01/1972 TOP SECRET 🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar 🕵 Take out Soviet spies 🔫 Use a gun ❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda 📃 It’s all theoretical 😕 Apart from *that* demo ✅️ Full government endorsement 👍 Nothing can go wrong 🇷🇺 💣 💥 ⬛️ Redacted #A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ 🦋

The worst thing Sam ever had to deal with was telekinetic ducks. That’s until the Grim Reaper HERSELF appears in his living room. Now Sam & Grim must work together to solve a royal mystery, with reality itself at stake! SPIRIT RIDER: THE ROYAL PROBLEM #PosterPit #Q #F #MG / #YA

Welcome to my #AgentsGuide for SPIRIT RIDER: THE ROYAL PROBLEM 💁‍♂️Ace cinnamon-roll trying his best 💀Snarky Reaper turned mentor 👑A Royal Mystery 😵‍💫Demonic possession 🎩Charming psychopath antagonist 🦆Telekinetic ducks!! #QueerPit #Q #F #MG / #YA

#QueerPit "baram; baram" When a retired mage receives an unusual call through time and space, she ends up tumbling into a foreign, modern world, where she falls in with an equally doomed tactician and an otherwise modern man with modern sensibilities :)

Miguel is the first elemental mage to attend an esteemed school of magic in New York and now he's struggling between following the dreams his mami set out for him and uncovering the mystery behind her death. #QueerPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

in SHE IS KING you get: 👑 Reincarnated King Arthur ⚔️ Knights of the Round Table as Magic Weapons 🌩️ An Utterly Devoted, Godly Love Interest 🌈 Trans Boy Merlin? Trans Boy Merlin 🪶 The Morrigan's favorite host ❌ And a Mordred that gives you the Biggest Ick #QueerPit #F #NA

#QueerPit Queer romance FOREWARNING ❤️ NB fashion icon prince 🧡 Hunky royal guard who crochets 💛 Forbidden romance but the internet ships it 💚 Psychic powers 💙 Royal murder mystery 💜 Best friends to lovers HEA 54k, on query #CR #F #R #RS #A #SPF 3 agent RQ's ODD THOMAS as an upbeat queer romance