Brainstorming titles = one of my least favorite parts of the writing process. Give me researching comps or drafting a pitch any day. 😅💀 #WritingCommunity

Something came over me this morning. This never happens. How in the heck do I bottle it? 😂🫡 #WritingCommunity

Drafting November, Week Two is complete! 🩷🎥⭐️💋 I'm calling it a resounding success for Y2K WIP: we hit Act Two, managed some great consistent writing sprints around 'real life', and we didn't burn ourselves out. 🙌 Onward to Week Three we go! #WritingCommunity #amwriting

Officially my favorite thing I've done so far this week... 📚☕️🔪🐈 #WritingCommunity

Sunday afternoons are for fixing plot holes and stealing snoogles. #writingcommunity #amwriting

Week One of my non-specific, very low pressure, fueled almost exclusively by vibes and pumpkin pie, November writing 'challenge". 😅 In an ideal world, I'd like to have the first act drafted by the end of the month. If I don't make that... eh. At least I'm having fun. 🙃 #writingcommunity #writerlife

It's always spooky season if you try hard enough. 🥲 Just hit 5k in my newest bubblegum horror WIP... and I'm falling in love with these characters already (sorry my darlings, in advance for what I'm about to do to you 😈🩸⭐️🩷) #WritingCommunity

There's nothing quite as intimidating to me as a brand new WIP. Draft one, a blank page, and enough ideas to make my brain hurt. And yet, is there anything more exciting or hopeful than a fresh start? #WritingCommunity

As this gorgeous bookshop suggests... why yes, yes it does. Hope everyone's enjoying the gift of placing pen to paper this Monday afternoon. Your words really, really matter. 🫶💕 #WritingCommunity #writers

Officially the longest, most detailed outline I've ever written.🙌 Good grief, I hope all this hard work pays off. 🤞🏻solid pacing, satisfying arcs, and a plot that actually stays on the rails🤞🏻 (I mean, as much as a campy, 2000s horror can). #WritingCommunity #horrorcommunity

How is my favorite month almost over already!? 😭🎃✨

When perpetual loser, Harri, survives a notorious LA serial killer, fame finally comes knocking--until work-bitch Mia survives too. Now Harri must decide what she's willing to do to stay in the spotlight, & if she's a true final girl or just another starving monster. #GhostPit #H #A #agented

Just me, the pouring rain, and the neighbor’s Halloween lights this morning. Time to finish this outline. #WritingCommunity

When I found this sticker I squealed. Out loud. In a near-silent bookstore. 🥹😍👻🚪📚 It was worth the momentary blush, though, since now it can lift my *ahem* spirits, every single day. #writingcommunity #horrorcommunity

This outline is consuming my every waking thought. That's normal, right? RIGHT?! #writingcommunity #horrorcommunity

Hi, my name is Carly, and my toxic traits include (but are not limited to): writing huge stream-of-conciousness outlines my agent has to interpret, indulging in an imposter syndrome spiral between projects, and habitually killing off the 'favorite' character. #WritingCommmunity

brb just realizing I live in the wrong house 😐💀 #WritingCommunity

Late to the party as usual... 😂🩷 #WritingCommunity #writerlife #authorlife

The plotting of my next bubblegum horror is well underway… I can’t wait to drench my 2000s Hollywood gals in buckets of blood (maybe it’s corn syrup, maybe it isn’t 😈🪣💕) #WritingCommunity #HorrorCommunity

Best. Day. Ever. 📚 #WritingCommunity #writerlife

I'd bet a good chunk of $$$ that I know what's hiding in here... 😂👀mostly 'cause it sits on my nightstand all year long. Any guesses? #WritingCommunity #bookshopday #bookshop #bookblinddate #blinddatebook

After a much needed weekend of rest, reflection, and recuperation I'm ready to take on one heck of week. Wish me luck. This one's shaping up to be wild. 👀 #WritingCommunity #writerlife #authorlife

The Horror Moth PTA women have quite the arsenal at their disposal… 😈🛼💋💄💅 #WritingCommunity #HorrorCommunity

Welp… I’ve found my happy place. 🥹⛲️📖 #writingcommunity #writer #booklover #horrorcommunity #horrorbooks

A well-earned piping hot beverage to celebrate a fantastical sort of week... #writingcommunity #writer #writerlife

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If I could only bottle up all this 'new project energy' for a rainy day... 😂 #writingcommunity #writer #amwriting #horrorwriter #horror

Spent this cozy Sunday preparing for an exhilarating week ahead. And wishing... hoping... dreaming that one day something I create will grace the shelves of this section. #WritingCommunity #writerlife #authorlife #horrorwriter #horror

Anyone else like to start a project with a new signature scent? Choosing a candle to represent the vibes of a novel has become one of my favorite writing rituals! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerlife #authorlife #horror #horrorwriter

Better late than never... I’ve LOVED seeing everyone sharing what makes them ‘tick’ through this trend! #WritingCommunity #writer #horror #horrorwriter #authorlife #writerlife #horrorcommnuity

Today’s writing: powered by a dark and spooky night. 🌕✨🔮🐾

Added a new artifact to my writing cave. We keep things atmospheric around here. 👻 #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writer #horrorwriter

Diving hard into some fall reading this month… what’s on your recently read or TBR? #WritingCommunity #writer #reading #tbr #fallreading

I’m pretty sure I get as excited about my agent’s reactions to my oddball, girly, grisly little pitches as I do about actually writing the dang books. 😂 Anywho, my next adult horror WIP is green lit… here we gooooo! 💗💞💓 #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writers #Y2K #horror

Because who said there can only be ONE final girl? 😈🛼💕💋💅 #WritingCommunity #writer #horror #horrorwriter #bubblegumhorror #agented

Fully “in the mood”. #writingcommunity #writers #horror #HorrorCommunity

I love a good Easter egg in a book… so naturally I had to slide a few into my own campy, 80s, feminist horror 😏 #writingcommunity #writersofx #horror

I made a thing to celebrate a thing.😈🛼💕💄 HORROR MOTH is a whole-heart homage to all the campy, blood drenched 80s horror I grew up on. The ragtag group of pi$$ed off middle-aged final girls are just the cherry on top. 🍒💋 #WritingCommunity #horror #writers

A dreary day of rain and cloud can mean only one thing… we must retreat into our writing cave and create something abysmal 😈 … in the best kind of way of course. #WritingCommunity #horror #horrorwriter #Writers

There is something new brewing in my brain, and it looks a lot like this… 👀💕 #WritingCommunity #writer #amwriting

SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA 💋middle-aged feminist rage 🛼campy 80s setting 💋body horror 🛼the darkest of deals 💋satanic panic backdrop 🛼dark humor 💋bubblegum horror #PosterPitA #A #H #PosterPit #WIP

Revisions are going well. Totally productive. Not at all interrupted. Thanks for asking. #WritingCommunity #amwriting

When a cult-driven murder-spree hits an 80s midwest PTA, Janet puts her true crime obsession to work. Alongside her misfit mom friends—a writer, a goth, & a sickly sweet PTA matriarch—Janet must uncover the real monster in town, before it claims them all. #QuestPit #AG #A #H #WIP

SOUTHERN BOOK CLUBS GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES x HYSTERIA 💋middle-aged feminist rage 🛼campy 80s setting 💋body horror 🛼satanic panic backdrop 💋dark humor 🛼the darkest of deals 💋bubblegum horror #QuestPit #AG #A #H #W #WIP #editorguide

BRING ON SPOOKY SEASON! 🎃👻🍁 When a Halloween ghost hunt awakens a haunting family legacy, 12 y/o Casey must figure out who he is beyond his recent grief, and who he refuses to become. Especially since his sister’s soul, and reality itself, depends on it. #MG #H #editorguide

#questpit, welcome to an #editorsguide to WELL PLAYED! this rivals-to-lovers #YA romance about high school trumpet players will be #OS SOON 💛 #AG #R

When a 12y/o loner befriends an ancient scarecrow, they team up to teach his bullies a lesson. But with each escalating act of vengeance, Oggie’s own body bears the hatred, and 'Old Crow' reveals he is much more than a grinning farmyard prop. #questpit #AG #MG #H #ownvoices #OCD