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I've got a major fiction writing project underway, a vulnerable nonfiction post scheduled for early September, a review to write for a book coming out on September 22nd, and two smaller pieces connected to the first (hopefully novel-length) work.
I think I'm definitely back in the swing of things.
It feels nice.
What are you grateful to be working on that you can share? #WritingCommunity, #WritersOfMastodon, #MastoWriters, #AmWriting, & #TheWritersRoom
New indie release!
Tempting Mr. Vincent is a steamy historical romance about unexpected love, second chances, and finding a family where you least expect it.
https://storyoriginapp.com/swaps/019ffc99-661b-7a14-b5dd-b984f2d111c1
#Bookstodon #Romancelandia #HistRom #IndieRomance #TemptingMrVincent #MastoWriters #WritingCommunity #Histodons #VictorianRomance #SpicyRomance #OpenDoorRomance #SmutBooks #RomanceReads #MarriageOfConvenience #EnemiesToLovers #ForcedProximity #BroodingHero
Kids deserve stories that see them as full humans. I wrote this piece about creating sci-fi that respects young imaginations. https://inkican.com/stl-scifi-people-who-treat-kids-like-people/ #kidlit #scifi #thoughtfulfiction #MastoWriters #Booksky
I explore what courage really means in speculative worlds. My essay looks at heroes who choose growth over perfection. https://inkican.com/stl-heroes-cowards-and-science-fiction/ #scifi #characterwriting #specfic #MastoWriters #BlueSkyBooks
I’ve always celebrated sci-fi’s weird nerds. We connect across difference and build bridges of understanding. https://inkican.com/scifi-thought-leader-bridging-the-world-of-weird-nerds/ #geekculture #scifi #indieauthor #writingcommunity #MastoWriters
Kindness is a force that shapes worlds. I wrote about normalizing empathy in sci-fi storytelling. https://inkican.com/stl-kindness-is-normal/ #scifi #kindness #indieauthor #specfic #MastoWriters
Choosing who to trust in sci-fi matters. I talk about seeking thought leaders who respect our agency and complexity. https://inkican.com/scifi-thought-leader-choice/ #scifi #indieauthor #thoughtleadership #amwriting #MastoWriters
I’ve learned that online connection can be real when we value people over performance. This piece explores the line between genuine bonds and algorithmic noise. https://inkican.com/stl-parasocial-and-genuine-social-relationships/ #openweb #amwriting #MastoWriters #digitalculture #Bookstodon
Alex Winter as a surprising ally in the fight for creative independence? Transparency and courage can be rebellious acts. https://inkican.com/alex-winter-unlikely-mesh-supporter/ #scifi #MastoWriters #BlueSkyBooks #openweb #indieauthor
Queried one of my top choice agents, eek!
I'm just excited to be in the pile honestly. Knowing she'll read my ideas is neat even if chances are low regardless. Plus I keep refining (ha, title pun) my query materials as I go.
#YAauthor #AmQuerying #QueryTrenches #AuthorJourney #mastowriters
Spent way too much time in Canva last night, but I'm pretty thrilled with this result (and it was a good distraction from the query trenches). New cover art for The Refinement: Mercury, plus cover art mock-ups and trope notes on my other 3 WIPs.
Which one's your favorite?
Which WIP should I focus on first?
#YABooks #coverart #amquerying #querytrenches #WritingCommunity #Mastowriters
📜 Ausgehend von dem Bild möchte ich mit euch zusammen eine Geschichte schreiben. Schickt mir eure Ideen, Wendungen, Figuren - wir spinnen gemeinsam einen Plot!
Mögliche Fragestellungen:
Wer saß in diesem Schaukelstuhl? Was ist passiert? Warum ist der Raum leer? Wo ist die Figur jetzt?
#Schreibcommunity #Schreibprojekt #KreativesSchreiben #gemeinsamschreiben #communitystory #schreibideen #Schreibchallenge #openstory #mastowriters #mastofiction #mastostory #Geschichten
Wer macht mit? 📒📖⌨️🕯💡👍👋
I got my first form rejection!
I know it's taboo to respond so I won't, but I wish I could reach out to thank her. It probably sounds silly, but this is a huge milestone for me (and it means that initial wait for the first one is over).
Something just clicked.
Trying to get a book published is a lot like being a parent, isn't it? Like you start with one problem that seems insurmountable, then somehow you get past it by just staying in the game, yet your only reward is getting to deal with a whole new problem that seems insurmountable.
And through all the problems there are these glimmers of joy because the whole thing is worthwhile as long as you love it.
Query no. 1: Submitted. Heartrate: 122.
Being an author with anxiety is a trip, y'all. When I signed up for Publisher's Marketplace last night, THAT gave me anxiety. Like logging into the website. Literally nothing was happening.
It's official.
I've finished the last polish on my manuscript (give or take a random "Oh I should go change--").
I've got my website, query letter, 2 versions of a synopsis.
I signed up for PM and QT and started researching agencies that rep YA Fiction or YA Fantasy.
Tonight, I join the trenches.
It's been 20 years since I graduated with a cum laude fiction degree, reading and writing without querying, but now I believe in this book with my whole soul.
Help me procrastinate my final edit by telling me what your favorite writing/editing music is.
I saw some advice about using MS Word's Read Aloud function on your manuscript and I didn't realize that it was good for more than just spotting typos.
My book actually sounds good. Like a real book that I would enjoy reading. Low Self-Esteem Brain doesn't know how to process this.
#amwriting #mastowriters #booklovers #impostersyndrome #writerstruggles #amediting
I wrote a 500-word synopsis for my query package.
This is normally where I'd say, "Oh no 😱!" but the truth is that it's been an exercise in remembering just how much I believe in this book and in my main character.
Once I trim another thousand words and do a final pass on my manuscript, I think I'm ready for the trenches.
#amwriting #amediting #WritingCommunity #yabooks #MastoWriters
It's almost time for my final planned edit before I start querying: trim down the 2385 words I added when I made the OTHER edits. 😅😭
#amwriting #amediting #WritingCommunity #yabooks #MastoWriters
I've got query-writing on the brain so bad that I'm having stress dreams about it. In last night's episode, I got a stack of form rejections because I forgot to attach my pages. I haven’t even started submitting yet, y’all. 😭
Started reading through my hopefully-well-researched list of comps and I have NO idea what I’m doing. 🙃
Do I:
- spend the next couple months reading 10 books cover to cover just to be sure?
- find every similarity possible?
- cry from self-comparison??
Joke's on me it's probably all of the above.
#MastoWriters #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
One of the most vulnerable things I can do as a writer is add my own real anxieties & failures.
My main character blurts out something too enthusiastic to a new friend, and the other girl's smile goes stiff: "Too enthusiastic about a new friendship again. Too weird. Had to tone it down. Maybe she could make Daisy something, to say sorry-- oh, but that would probably be too much as well."
Have you used any real-life vulnerable moments in your writing?
My first beta reader finished the book (IN ONE WEEK WHAT 😱) and I am just quietly vibrating over here with my fidget ring trying not to spontaneously combust.
#MastoWriters #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #BetaReads #YABooks #DarkAcademia
CAW Term of the Week - ARC - Advance Reader Copy
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#ARC #AdvanceReaderCopy
CAW Term of the Week - As You Know, Bob (AYKB)
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#AYKB
CAW Weekly Writing Prompt - Stop Yelling at Me!
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CAW Weekly Writing Prompt - It's So Hot That...
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CAW Weekly Writers Prompt - Happy Birthday, Lynda!
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🛰️ Grey Noise
Chapter 1:
by A.W. Rayne
The first time Sarai heard the signal, it was buried beneath static... a whisper wrapped in frost.
She didn’t tell anyone.
Not because it wasn’t real.
Because it was too real.
She’d been scanning the outer bands of Vesta Relay Station, rerouting telemetry from a defunct weather drone.
Routine maintenance.
Dead air.
Then a pulse...
a rhythmic stammer, like breath caught on metal teeth.
Then it spoke.
Not in words.
Not exactly.
It felt like language.
Felt like meaning clawing its way out of a collapsing star.
A tone.
A code.
A cry.
And then
“receiver confirmed”
buzzed like burnt copper through her earpiece.
She yanked the headset off.
Her heart was hammering.
The relay room suddenly too quiet, too still.
There was nothing on the logs.
No interference.
No inbound signal.
Just Sarai.
And the feeling she’d been seen.
Seen through.
The way a telescope sees a flicker in the void and doesn’t blink.
She sat back down.
Replayed the buffer.
Nothing.
No voice.
No pulse.
No anomaly.
Just grey noise.
Looking for beta readers for Moon Money, my gritty cyberpunk novelette (8.7k words). It’s got ghosts in the machine, broken men, & code that dreams. Queer. Disabled. Bleeding with grief & defiance. If you like stories that flicker like static & hurt a little—DM me. 💀💾🚬
#BetaReaders #Cyberpunk #QueerFiction #DisabilityLit #OwnVoices #AmWriting #MastoWriters
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FevdcmOA4QwGMZkcoAj3CCKEmYHCJc2XCw5xwn7IQlc/edit?usp=drivesdk
CAW Weekly Writers Prompt - Monster
#CAW #CartersvilleAreaWriters #WritersPromptWeekly #WritingPromptWeekly #WeeklyWritersPrompt #WritersPrompt #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingTips #WritingLife #WritersOfMastodon #WritersOnMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #AuthorsOnMastodon #MastoWriters
#Monster #Dystopian #Apocalyptic #WhoDoYouSave
A helpful piece about ableism in workshop feedback / expectations, by Sarah Fawn Montgomery:
"I wanted to write stories about bodies and brains like mine without having to justify that yes, this really did happen and, yes, I really did feel this way, and no, I was not exaggerating to garner attention or sympathy."
full article: https://electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-disabled-stories-i-needed-to-unlearn-ableist-workshop-critiques
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#WritingCommunity #MastoWriters @writingcommunity #chronicIllness #neurodiverseWriters #disabledWriters #MastoPoets #cripLit
CAW Weekly Writers Prompt - Imposter Syndrome
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#ImposterSyndrome
CAW Term of the Week - Synecdoche
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CAW Weekly Writers Prompt - A Leaf on a Tree
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CAW Term of the Week - Assoance
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CAW Weekly Writers Prompt - Here, Kitty Kitty
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CAW Term of the Week - Alliteration
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#Alliteration
CAW Weekly Writers Prompt - Sudden Change
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CAW Wednesday Writers Prompt - Last Day of School Before Summer Break.
Write about the last day of school before summer break. Ask these questions before you begin - 1) What emotions are dominant today? 2) Is there excitement or fear? 3) Is there something special about to happen?
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When you think you're writing a thriller, but your characters want a romance.
#kdbsmiththewriter #WritingCommunity #authorcommunity #writerslife #writersproblems #writing #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #mastowriters
CAW Wednesday Writers Prompt (but late this week) - Describe wind blowing through trees, any length you want, any style you want. You just can't use the words blow, blew, or rustle in any form.
#CAW #CartersvilleAreaWriters #CartersvilleAreaWritersGroup #WritersPromptWednesday #WritingPromptWednesday #WednesdayWritersPrompt #WritersPrompt #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingTips #WritingLife #WritersOfMastodon #WritersOnMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #AuthorsOnMastodon #MastoWriters
When those pesky deleted characters fight back!
#writers #writersofmastodon #mastowriters #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorcommunity #writerslife #DELETEDcharacters #writing #editing
When you think you finally gotten a response to that story you submitted months ago.
#WritersLife #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #authors #AuthorCommunity #MastoWriters #WritersOfMastodon #authorsofmastodon #waitingtohear #Writing #writers