it's really cool when you finish the hard edits of your book and get to move onto the easy stuff. Like last week I was reworking the ending and adding 2 new chapters, this week I am figuring out if I want to change this side characters name because a book I am currently reading uses it

There are some people I am convinced are NPCs Especially this guy who has an eagles(the football team) shine on top of his car and he will blast bird nosies and the fight song. Like I see him at least once a week and am convinced he does nothing but drive around. HOW COULD HE BE REAL

I decided to skip writing to watch sports this morning... I shouldn't have let myself get invested

That is a wrap on the developmental edits of GODDESSwip! Somehow I managed to get it done in a month Now to add 2 more chapters and fix a few small things before line edits!

made an 'oops all food' moodboard for KNEADING ANSWERS #agents if you want cooks with a side of slow burn romance and a serving of cozy mystery, keep an eye out for this contemporary romance in your inbox! #amquerying

I did three things off tomorrows to-do list! I didn't do 6 things on todays...

It’s time to light the candles and celebrate national cake day! Writing is a long process, so tell us about some of your milestones and achievements! #writingcommunity at #foodpit we are celebrating 39 days of existence!

yall i am so excited for my next video, I just wrote a 2300 word script in 40 minutes

This is one of my favorite things to do. In GODDESSwip I take 'only one bed' and turn it into 'too many beds'

I'm starting to set up my substack... and why didn't I do this sooner? I am so excited

The problem with being crafty is i don't buy anything because i think i can make it. A fancy dinner? I could cook that. A holiday sweater? I can crochet that. Literally any dessert? Let me open my oven. Artwork? I can paint that

we have officially reached the part of dev edits where I am jumping around because there are too many chapters I am scared of. A lot of these last ones need near complete rewrites, but I think I will be able to get it done this week!

when you come across the perfect album to help push you to finish editing <3 #writingcommunity

Why do I feel like we have moved on from the A ____ of ____ and _____ titles to just A _____ and a _____

GODDESSwip is starting to take a toll on me which means I have more motivation to edit KNEADING ANSWERS again! A win is a win even if I have to abandon my favorite character for a night

yall I was so hopefull... these last 10 chapters are going to kill me

i'm starting to get really worried about the word count for GODDESSwip, its dropping close to 80k, and I know I still have 5-10k left to add back in through additional scenes but for a fantasy that seems so short

the first title for KNEADING ANSWERS was Hot Cocoa for Two but then my creative writing professor said it was too childish so I changed it to Christmas in Code before deciding that was too formal and settling on KNEADING ANSWERS

currently clicking back and froth between my two wips because I don't want to work on either

man, really wish my chronic illness would warn me of flare ups before hand so i could add it into my schedule

This but with rewrites

the first draft of this book was 130k, and this latest draft is looking like its going to be under 90k. But it's wild how little the structure of the story has changed, I just had a lot of unnecessary scenes #writingcommunity

week two development edits for GODDESSwip. Made a lot more progress than I thought! Still too scared of chapter 11 and 27 is getting added to 29

sent out more queries today after a 2 months break <3 #amquerying #agentguide #writingcommunity

ALSO I would count a book deal or getting 1 million subscribers as 'winning the lottery'

I'm looking into my next formal education steps and it feels like I either have to win the lottery or finish it over 20 years. Which I am find with either outcome, but there's definitely one I prefer

I always planned for this manuscript would be a little test run for querying that I could learn from and makes some mistakes now . But I didn't realize how quickly I would want to give up on it. 1/3 #writingcommunity

In one of my wips I am doing revisions and in the other I am rereading to figure out what needs to be changed And I think my problem with editing is the latter. I love working, I love writing, and I love fixing things. But having to figure out what to fix is a bit more difficult

With the goal to finish dev edits by the end of the month, that means I have a lot of editing to do. To keep myself on track, I made a little chapter checklist that I will update every week. This week I skipped chapter 11 because it was too hard and did 14 because I was combining it with 10!

This book already had favorite child status from me, but I just edited it for 2 hours straight and could keep going... like don't worry baby, nothing is coming to top you. You don't have to make me love you more

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 86: You don't have to go far to get ideas. They're everywhere around you. What you need is to train your mind to see the familiar in a new and unfamiliar way. Change angles. Play with perspective. Take tired tropes and wake them up.

busy thinking about the yearning and slow burn in KNEADING ANSWERS... 🥘workplace romance ⏲️forced proximity 🍲coded cookbook mystery #amqeuerying #writingcommunity #agentguide

I know some people say not to set up writing sessions in terms of time spent and instead focus on word count, which I agree with for writing, but the same DOES NOT apply for editing I recently switched to editing for an hour instead of chapter limits, and I feel like I am getting so much more done

I forgot how great it is waking up early to get things done before work

me to nisa <3

In high school my friends used to call me Lee(as Hailey is a lot like saying hi to someone named Lee) So when I ended up with a character named Lee, I knew what I had to do

I’ve been putting the whole ‘doing a little bit is better than nothing’ mindset recently and you’d be surprised at the results

I NEED to get the edits of GODDESSwip done by the end of the month because I want betas to be reading it while I am on winter break… but oh man do I have a lot of work to do to get there #writingcommunity #booksky

Hello everyone I am Hailey! Ever since I was a kid I have been writing. My mom still has the stories I wrote on printer paper and stabled together #writingcommunity #booksky

woah, can't believe my video about the truth on the literacy rate came out the same day as National Family Literacy Day! if you want to understand the charts going around and this talk about the declining literacy rates make sure to go watch my video so you can celebrate the holiday properly

I am so excited for this event! Make sure to add it to your calendars!!

i have been working on both KNEADING ANSWERS and GODDESSwip for over a year now and let me tell you once I am done with these projects I will become a one at a time person It is just too much work to keep up with both but I don't want to pause either for even a day

Today I remembered that I can edit while in bed and oh boy… I’m about to be so productive

Hello all! I have come back to this site and figured I should do a little writer introduction My name is Hailey, I write fiction and fantasy with an emphasis on dreams, time, and memories. I am currently querying KNEADING ANSWERS and editing GODDESSwip I also love baking and the sims!

You will like this book if you like: ⭐️Ace of Spades(but want something more fantasy focused) ⭐️Casual/informal narration ⭐️FMC chosen to save the world tropes #booktwt #bookreview

"kill your darlings" I whisper as I delete a whole scene because I don't want to edit it #WritingCommunity

I hate being a night reader and working late shifts, because when I am supposed to read??

let's talk about; This Woven Kingdom. Whether you are wondering if the books are right for you, or if you are looking to have a discussion on the characters and plot, head over to my video

This week I signed up to take surveys on YouGov(which I highly recommend you do as well), and they were asking questions on immigration and then asked this. Made me laugh. I need to see the results

Writing is easy because I tell myself it doesn't have to be perfect. Writing is hard because it takes time Editing is easy because it's fast. Editing is hard because now it has to be perfect #writingcommunity