I shared some of the novel I am working and it took them about 5 minutes to find 3 major flaws - one of which will have me doing tons of rewriting. So I am no longer interested in any feedback for my work unless they agree to only say nice things. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

The publishing industry has been built as the pile of bodies you have to climb over to reach the top. Every win is someone else's loss. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I do wonder if there will come a time when someone who reads my work takes it to be autobiographical. Since my protagonists are completely broken people, I wonder how that will go. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Novels should be written like taking a final exam. Times up. Put your pen down. Hand it in. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

If you like ... you will like my work. I just need to figure out the ... hmmm... traffic? getting stabbed? I think that's it. If you like traffic and getting stabbed you will like my work. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

If my work receives a poor reception - will it matter? Have I done everything I could to honor my vision, the stories, the characters? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

It's hard to trust the process. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

15 hours in a row of revisions. Sometimes my problem is starting. Sometimes, it is stopping. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

All the search engines are very confused with what to sell me. Now he is looking up types of spruce trees. Now it's the layout of the SEATAC airport. Now it is the history of a tunnel. Oh wait...you're a writer! Whew. Now we can sell you things. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Happy coincidences. Just realized that The Bellwether Hotel - in the novel I am revising - is on Bell St. I did not do that on purpose. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I am really hoping all this revision work means fewer silly errors in the next book. That might be wishful thinking. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I've started tracking my individual revisions as I go. Last week was 189. I'm getting through about 2 chapters a week. Aiming for finishing this revision by December and publishing by March of 2027. It's a long journey. Fingers crossed. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I saw advice that writing should make you happy. ... it's a job, a blessing, and a curse. Exhausting, heart-breaking, anxious, tedious, grueling, ... happy might be #97 on my list. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

This section had a burn barrel. Now it does not. Cold sweat. Where did it go? Did I edit it out and forget? Am I editing two different versions somehow? Did I not save something? Some kind of word hypnosis? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

With so, so many revisions, it is hard not to think I am coming from a little behind the starting line. I also might be just about the last to make across the finish line. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I love to think about the story a person's clothing tells about them. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

:( Me finding an error on Chapter 1 which I have gone over at least a dozen times. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

There is a common video game oxygen meter that flashes red when you are under water for too long. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I get it. There are easier ways. But I need the hard, painful, walking-through-broken-glass way. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I still live, but editing is so slow I am starting to empathize with Winds of Winter. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

We are all living in media res #writingcommunity

I was ten in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Malaysia, on a giant volcanic boulder half a mile or more from shore. I cut myself getting up on it only to find out it was blazing hot. I couldn't stay and no one knew where I was. There was nothing to do but to get back in the water. #amediting

The further I go, the more refined my editing gets - which is part of why I need to do it. But it creates this endless loop where by the end of the run I am so much sharper than when I started...which means I need to start over. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

The conventional wisdom is that the involvement of others: Agents, Publishers, Editors make your work better. But everyone bends what they read to their own story. It feels like giving your power away as an author. I'm open to other opinions. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Write, and re-write, and re-write. Six versions? The reader spends 20 seconds, the writer an hour. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I may not be a good writer. I see a lot of happy writers out there. For me every moment is a painful, stressful slog I am absolutely compelled to continue. Sisyphus pushes the keyboard across another page. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Everything is Everything by Lauryn Hill is top 1 best song of all time. Just stating facts.

My life, as a writer, is about managing my C-PTSD, which manifests through a lot of executive dysfunction. God said I gave you a stone to carry, but it will make you stronger. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

A book I am reading missed the transposition of "spots" for "stops" - in context the correct one is obvious. Let me pull back the curtain. This is not a lack of effort. This is humans being human. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

A glaring hole in an important scene. How did you get there? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

So long I am making progress, however slow, there is a reason to keep going on my own - as painful as it may be at times. If I ever hit a wall, I'll reconsider. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I want to say that editing is going well and I am enjoying it. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Pushed and my brain rebels. Ignored and it creeps forward. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I have really come to focus on finding remedies for my executive dysfunction. Having so much left to do can feel paralyzing. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I am normally one to keep work and the state of the world separate. But these days, that is becoming harder as a writer and a person consuming so much senseless tragedy. It's harder to maintain those boundaries when the world is once again on fire.

sic semper tyrannis

#WIP #writeaway #WriteMore #authorhousemedia #Indieauthor

Ugh. I have a new idea and I am still deep in line edits. I have to win one war before I can fight another. #amediting

Restarting after the holidays...anyone ever push start a car? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

2025 as a writing year comes to a close for me. What did I accomplish? 8th revision of Halved. 4 revisions of Lily Webb. Close enough to know that I will be done in 2026. Writing is a long slog, paragraph by paragraph. Progress is slow, but progress. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Pertussis. 0 out of 5 stars. Do not recommend.

First 1/3 of the book - meticulously edited. Next 1/3 ... reasonably edited. Final 1/3 ... are we there yet? #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Writer's life: 10% writing, 90% editing. #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

#WriteMore #writerscommunity #WritersLife #writersky #authorsky

I know it will all get another polish, but with each chapter done at the whetstone I admire the edge. #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.

I don't every want to say that editing through my 4th revision is finally going well, no, no, no. #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I wonder how many other things in life have these kinds of errors after at least three full revisions? Laws maybe? #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Good writing is a magic trick. They can re-read it to see where you hid the Ace of Spades, but the empty palm needs to hit. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Now imagine the many dramas going on in the author's life in the years it took to write, edit, and publish the book. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity