My manuscript is at the interior designer... My manuscript is at the interior designer... My manuscript is at the interior designer... #OhGodItsHappening

I'm really, REALLY doing this! My debut novella goes live in a little over 3 weeks as part of the Neurodivergence in Queer Romance promo event on BookFunnel! 🫢😬🫣 #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #MMRomance #NeurodivergenceRep

Of course it's two days after I send the manuscript to beta readers that my Muse is like, "OMG, you know what would work here?? That epilogue you deleted from the outline!" #WriterProblems #AmEditing #RevisionPlanning

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. *sigh*

Line/copy edit draft? ✅ Compile in Scrivener? ✅ Format in Word? ✅ Convert to PDF? ✅ Send to beta readers?? ✅ Guys... What do I do with my hands now? #WeeknightWriters #WritingCommunity #MMRomance #IndieAuthor

First Draft word count: 49,981 words Chapters Line/Copyedited: 15/21 Current word count: 49,914 words Total Words Cut? 67 😑 #AmEditing #RevisionTime #WritingProcess #WritingCommunity

Today I start line editing my draft. Why so soon after finishing? Because this bad boy comes out on February 1st as part of the Neurodivergence in Queer Romance BookFunnel Promotion event! EEK! #AmEditing #RevisionTime #WritingCommunity

Tonight's progress: Draft: 2,231 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +3,279 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 49,981/estimated 50,000 Chapters to Go: 0 Total Writing Days: 74 MY FIRST DRAFT IS DONE! 🫢😯🥹😭😭😭😭😭 #AmWriting #FirstDraftFall #WritingCommunity

There may come a day when Kansas's "Carry On (Wayward Son)" does NOT remind me of Supernatural. Today is not that day. #WritingPlaylist #AmWriting

Tonight's progress: Draft: 1,708 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +1,767 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 46,591 Chapters to Go: 2.5 Chance of finishing by December 15th? ~90% #AmWriting #FirstDraftFall #AlmostDone #WTFIsEvenHappening #WritingCommunity #WeeknightWriters

Tonight's progress: Draft: 1,374 words Difference between MMCs' word counts: +1,936 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 44,364 Chapters to Go: 3.33 Chance of finishing by December 15th? ~85% ALMOST THERE 😱😭 #AmWriting #WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall #MMRomance

Tonight's progress: Draft: -39 words Chapters to Go: 4 Chance of finishing by December 15th? ~80% The whole premise almost fell apart. Cue 16-hour author panic. Finally threw out the last four chapters' outline and redid it. Back on track. #AmWriting #WriterProblems #FirstDraftFall

Tonight's progress: Draft: 1,115 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +595 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 42,963 Chapters to Go: 4 This most recent chapter was so much harder to write than I ever expected. My heart hurts. #AmWriting #FirstDraftFall #MentalHealthMatters

Tonight's progress: Draft: 947 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +1,634 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 41,848 Chapters to Go: 4.56 Chance of finishing by December 15th? ~70% #AmWriting #AlmostThere #WeeknightWriters #MMRomance

Dialogue-only drafts are truly one of the most effective ways to figure out who your characters are in relation to each other and the world around them. They're also a fun way to let your subconscious run free for a bit.

Tonight's progress: Draft: 1,509 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +2,419 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 40,901 Chapters to Go: 5 Chance of finishing by December 15th? ~60% #AmWriting #FirstDraftFall #MMRomance #WritingCommunity #WeeknightWriters

That moment you break your own heart with the end-of-scene dialogue... #AmWriting #EmotionalDamage

Tonight's progress: Draft: 925 words Elsewhere: 498 Difference between MMCs' word counts: +905 MMC Total Draft Word Count: 39,387 Chapters to Go: 5.55 Chance of finishing by December 15th? 65-ish% #AmWriting #WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall #MMRomance

If you need a callback to the good ol' days of Al Gore's interwebs, go to Google and search "Geocities". This is what I get for slipping random references that show my age into my manuscript. 🪦👵🏾 #ComicSans #MyBackHurts #WriterProblems

I just reached out to a super-famous queer romance cover photographer about licensing/buying one of their images for my novel. The gasp I gasped! 😱😱😱 "The image you requested is available. Price is $1,250." #WriterProblems

Tonight's progress: Draft: 1,527 words Elsewhere: 322 Difference between MMCs word counts: +96 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 38,462 Estimated Words Left: ~13,000 Chapters to Go: 6 😱 #AmWriting #WeeknightWriters #MMRomance #FirstDraftFall

Draft: 2,256 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +2,240 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 36,194 Chapters to Go: 7 If I write a chapter every other day, I'll finish in time to do a final line-edit readthrough before I send it to my sensitivity/beta reader(s)! 🫢😱🤯 #AmWriting #FirstDraftFall

I haven't written anything in two days. I'm going back to my drafting notebook. It always helps me get out my own way. #AmWriting #FirstDraftFall #WriterLife

I don't think there is a character in all of English literature that I hate more than Wuthering Heights's Heathcliff Earnshaw. I thought Victor Frankenstein was a piece of shit, but GOOD. GOD. Reason #1487 this remains one of my favorite books of all time.

Been a very long week, and it's only Tuesday. Tonight's writing is a win. Draft: 266 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +254 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 34,208 Chapters to Go: 7.9 #WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall #AmWriting #MMRomance

Draft: -467 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +64 MMC2 Total Draft Word Count: 33,986 Chapters to Go: 8 Chapter 14 reads MUCH better now and more in line with what the second scene originally needed to do. #WeeknightWriters #AmWriting #WIPWork #FirstDraftFall

SHIT, I FORGOT TO TAKE MY MORNING MEDS 😭

Tonight's progress: Draft: 867 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +485 MMC2 Total Draft Word Count: 34,459 Chapters to Go: 8 #AmWriting #FirstDraftFall #MMRomance #WritingCommunity

Making steady progress: Draft: 1,019 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +382 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 33,592 Chapters to Go: 8-ish #AmWriting #MMRomance #FirstDraftFall

All of my longer works have come from prompts I thought would just be flash fiction 😭

FINALLY added words for the first time since Tuesday Draft: 1,091 words Elsewhere: 48 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +1,401 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 32,573 Chapters to Go: 8.5 #AmWriting #WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall #WritingCommunity

Draft: 133 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +2,437 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 31,469 Chapters to Go: (Still) 9 Oh boy, did my neurospicy brain tweak my outline in such a way that I'll actually be able to write tomorrow. ✍🏾💨💨💨 #FirstDraftFall #AmWriting #WeeknightWriters

Draft: -31 words Difference between MMCs word counts: +2,141 MMC1 Total Draft Word Count: 31,311 Chapters to Go: 9 #FirstDraftFall #AmWriting #AmEditing

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

I'm rereading Wuthering Heights for the first time in over a decade. First chapter in and I realize how much of Heathcliff is in my own main character... 😭😭😭 #AmReading #ReadingCommunity #CurrentlyReading

Tonight's progress? Draft: +1,281 words Back Matter: +14 words Total Draft Word Count: 30,058 Chapters to Go: 9.5 ✍🏾💨💨💨 #WeeknightWriters #QueerAuthors🌈✒️ #AmWriting #MMRomance #SlowandSteady

I'm getting there. Monday and Tuesday were great writing days. Yesterday and today, not so much. #FirstDraftFall #WeeknightWriters #AmStillWriting

Chapter 13 was not raring to go tonight like I expected. Instead, I cut all of 394 words across my co-protagonist's six current chapters. This is no longer a novel-length novella (~44K words). It is going to straight up be a novel (~57K words). #AmWriting #WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall

OMG-OMG-OMG-OMG-OMG-OMG-OMG-OMG I don't even know what else to say. Because this is really happening. I'm really publishing alongside 26 other absolutely AMAZING neurospicy authors! Hope y'all can support us when the event starts in January! #NeurodivergentRep #QueerAuthors🌈✒️ #WritingCommunity

I really did it. Store’s LIVE! Focused workbooks for queer romance & detective thriller authors—prompts for HEA/HFN arcs & detective case spines, plus scene tests to catch plot holes early. 👉🏾 payhip.com/sageediting #QueerRomance #DetectiveThriller

1,612 words and Chapter 12 finished. Ten chapters left in the first draft. Current word count: 28,645. The original requested word-count range was 10–25K... 🫣 #WeeknightWriters #AmWriting #QueerAuthor🌈✒️ #MMRomance

1,440 words after FINALLY figuring out where I wanted to start that new chapter. A damn good writing session, if I do say so myself. #WeeknightWriters #AmWriting #QueerAuthor🌈✒️ #MMRomance #WritingCommunity

My co-protagonist is really trying to take over my current WIP. But if I let him do that, as much as I love him, the whole story would shift on its axis and need to be reevaluated. #FirstDraftFall #AmWriting

All I said was the man had a point, y'all. 😭 I didn't say ANYTHING about how he went about proving said point!

The man had a damn good point, is all I'm saying...

Still trying to remember that banger chapter start that was in my head a few days ago. But I at least adjusted my outline accordingly to fit some new reveals. #WriterProblems #AmWriting #WIPWork #WritingCommunity

Thought up the *perfect* starting place for my next chapter...last night. I knew I should've wrote it down 😭😭😭 #AmWriting #WriterProblems #WritingCommunity #QueerAuthor 🌈✒️

Just a reminder that writing a book, being creative, in the current state of the world is heroic. Keep creating. 💜

Legit had a crush on this dude...