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

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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...

Got in 108 words tonight, but today was also about doing more line edit work than new drafting. Back to the drafting tomorrow, though! #WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall #AmWriting

I love when I give myself a writing deadline and then my characters laugh in my face. Still got ten chapters to write, but my sensitivity reader has been gracious enough to grant an extension for draft delivery. #WriterProblems #NeurodivergenceRep #QueerAuthor🌈✍🏾

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I'm just a simple plantser dancing along the whims of a somewhat guided path. But holy shit, I have a completed outline and I'm... What do you mean I can now write the second half of this story in a month?? #AmWriting #WriterSky #WritingCommunity #MMRomance

My writing goal for the week is to finish 2–3 chapters this week. I have 14 more chapters to write. My self-imposed deadline is to get the draft written, edited, and out to a sensitivity reader or two by December 8th. What're your writing goals this week? #AmWriting #MMRomance #QueerAuthor

Last night I pumped out almost 3,000 words in just about 4 hours. My worry that I wouldn't even be able to write 10,000 words for this event has been smashed to atoms. I'm on track to freaking hit 50K in the next six weeks. #AmWriting #QueerRomance #NeurodivergenceRep #WritingCommunity

A little under a third of the way through my novella draft now and sitting pretty at 15,456 words. Four more chapters to the halfway point! #AmWriting #QueerRomance #QueerAuthor #WritingCommunity

I *may* have panicked a little too soon... A few tweaks here, some character profiling there, and my antagonist isn't AS antagonistic as they claimed they needed to be. #AmWriting #WritingJourney #WritingCommunity #QueerAuthor #MMRomance #NovellaInProgress

Seriously feel like I could walk a mile and write at the same time. Not sure if this is a good thing or not. Kind of regretting my life choices in this moment.

10 oz. of Death Wish Espresso Roast + 10 oz. of Cafe Bustelo Espresso Roast within 3 hours = I can count colors and see numbers! #ARealWriter #AmWriting #WhatIsSleep #DoAllTheThings #WriterSky #QueerAuthor

I hate being the type of neurospicy that can't move forward in a draft until I untangle all the knots in a chapter. I don't necessarily have to start over completely, but I definitely have to do some deep edits to untangle said knots. #AmWriting #WritingProblems #WritingCommunity #MMRomance

I got a real profile and cover pic now, y'all 😭 #QueerAuthor #AuthorJourney #WritingCommunity #MMRomance #BabySteps

Mostly done drafting Chapter 7 of my novella, and who decides to come in and tap dance all over my outline? A minor side character who has self-upgraded to Main Antagonist. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingProblems #QueerRomance #IndieAuthor

Slowly but surely building out my website 🫣😁 Moved over some already existing #flashfiction, and I didn't realize how many I'd written up last year. You can check it out here: authorkalibenson.com/kalis-kreati... #AmWriting #QueerAuthor #GenreWriter #WriterSky #WritingCommunity

Small Language Model. (Yes, I know these are already a real thing. Don't make me tap the sign.)

I'm sound sensitive. There's a droning in the background (outside) so steady that I can hear it even over my rain white-noise playlist. I cannot find the source. Concentration is now impossible. I cannot live, laugh, love in these conditions, dammit! #WriterProblems #QueerAuthor #WhyIsItSoLoud

Nothing quite like working on a chapter for three days wondering why it feels like I'm scraping my soul to get words on the page...only to realize that, oh, I'm starting it in the wrong place. *sigh* #WriterProblems #AmWriting #MMRomance #WriterSky #WriterCommunity #QueerAuthor

Support a queer author! Because someone out there needs to know they're not alone, and we're handwriting it into chapter seven 🌈✒️ 📚💙 #AuthorSky #WriterSky #WritingCommunity

I'm stoked to announce that the novella I've been steadily working on is for the Neurodivergence in Queer Romance BookFunnel Event! 28 original stories, 28 insights, 28 amazing authors! I'm humbled and grateful and terrified! #QueerRomance #NeurodivergenceRep #DebutAuthor #ISuckAtMarketing

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