My grandmother use to take me to Ichabod's in Scappoose, OR where they had one of these electric waterfalls on the wall.

When I find something that doesn't work I'm not done with it until I feel that it is my best work. All my best efforts started with my worst. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

It was supposed to be a simple polish. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Okay but WHY?!? #writingcommunity

Happy to have made it through open heart surgery on my book. It's very scary when a part of the connecting tissue does not work and has to be cut away. The procedure appears to have been a success and the patient is recovering nicely. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I get myself through writing blocks by finding pictures and videos close to what I am writing and focusing on the details. The floor of the airport lounge says "SERVICE FROM THE HEART." Okay, I can work with that. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Sick. No chance of getting any editing done. The elevator does not reach the top floor today. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

#writing #writingcommunity #writer #amwriting #creativity

I don't have a lot of oxygen for things I don't like.

As a writer, I see my job as parking a bus in front of the reader without them seeing it. Someday someone may tell me if that worked.

I sometimes in writing a book I feel like the underpants gnomes in reverse. Opening: Cough...cough... Middle: Oh this is really picking up steam, profit! Ending: Cough...cough...

A narrative beat, where nothing really happens, sometimes feels like the hardest thing to write. Describing silence without describing silence. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

What do books and renovation projects have in common? 😅

All my energy as a writer is spent to give the reader the experience of being stabbed to death. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I often find myself switching gears. Last chapter was last chapter. This chapter is an entirely different mood. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

We're so trained as writers to care about the stupid word count. I said it - stupid! #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

New personal challenge. Just how many variations of "liquid" can I put in the same paragraph? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Continuously running on 10% battery and one day that is all the charge it will take. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Punctuation is just not a thing I enjoy, especially as it becomes more sophisticated. Colons, semi-colons, and the dashy things...I am a simple person - I really haven't even mastered commas yet. Oh! I used an ellipse! Maybe correctly? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I feel like other people might have learned to write more...formally? Me: I have no idea what a participle is. Even when it is explained. Repeatedly. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I am really bad at placing commas. A sentence in desperate need of one gets none, and the next gets four extras, just to make up for it. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I was this years old when I learned what a gerund is...maybe. Learning is fun? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Warm your hands in front of a firestorm... At times, I use "White" and "Black" - capitalized - as visual shorthand for a person's physical appearance. Thoughts? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Writing advice is well-intentioned, and I want to be a better writer...but I am the writer that I am. I feel unsettled as I stray from my inner compass, even when it points off to nowhere. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Tonal void. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

A heron stool motionless at the shoreline... How??? This is my 3rd revision. What did I do the first two times? I guess ol does look a little like a d. Okay, I blame the English language. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Two months later and I finally hit the halfway mark on my line editing revision, now revision #3. I am certain I will need at least one more pass. Every day gives me more reason to admire professional writers. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Subject, squirrel, verb. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I wrote the word "connection" twice in the same sentence. Sigh. I didn't even catch it in the first two revisions. Double Sigh. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Mowing a lawn with a pair of scissors is the rough equivalent to line editing. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

They edited Kafka, sanitized him, only to realize that the mess was the point. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

A nameless author with 12 traditionally published books to their name once slept on my couch for a year. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Why are content warnings so rare? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I would guess that the vast majority of violence is written by people whom it has never stained. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Confession. When writing a scene, I mine youtube and google maps for visual details. I wish I could live in all the places and see all the things that I write about. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Line editing is half water flowing downhill...and half trying to make it go the other way. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Agents, editors, publishers, beta readers, sensitivity readers - the scary sacrilege in letting go of the handrails of their advice. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I am amused by tiktok authors posting videos of writing. Monty Python literally did that as a skit. My videos would include hours of getting absolutely nothing done. Squirrel! #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Me after one page of line editing: The rhythm of this sentence feels a little constrained. ...100 pages later... "emoulderate" ... I don't think that's a real word. eh. whatever. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I somehow hit 70,000 words exactly. That's it, I'm done. No one touch it. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

This sentence would work great with the word "phalanx". *edits* ... *reads next sentence* ... I guess that explains why I already used it here. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Slowly. Quickly. Y'all writers know what I am talking about. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Fact: an Armenian dance troupe makes every wedding better. We need this joy in our lives!

I feel so much empathy when I see a sentence repeated in a book. Someone went over this book until their eyes bled. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Relative: Did you ever publish that book you finished? Me: ... um...no. How to explain line editing...it is done except for the words. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Being a writer is a second, or third, full time job. Sometimes I have to be okay with taking a step back. There is only so much wick to burn. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Life took me away from my line editing for a little while. I might have been a little okay with that. Now to climb back on the horse... #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

It is a curse that I do my best writing at insane o'clock in the morning. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I was driving behind this car this morning and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so seen 😅. We all just out here tryin our best, ya know? It’s a tough crowd out there. Happy Friday, friends!

I only want to reach specific readers. Even as a reader, I more often than not fail to connect - nothing wrong with the writing - it's just the nexus of who I am and that specific book. Is there some Her in the future that knows exactly what I want to read? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity