Happy Monday, fellow writers!

Here's your reminder that if you're applying to be interviewed as an author, PLEASE keep track of which book of yours that you want to be interviewed about from which person/group. Yes, I'm calling myself out for this. 😆

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#BetaReaders hypothetically, how does one find them? 🧐 #CreativeWriting #WritingProblems #WritingCommunity

Okay so I still have placeholders in this draft, but the draft is currently 75000 words. Gonna try to keep it under 85000.

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First beta feedback for WIP - overall positive but first time I am having to seriously deal with critique of content. Critique was fair - but having to restrain the impulse for knee jerk changes. Cannot immediately change huge parts of the book over one comment!!

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When writing it doesnt seem like I overuse words. But then it comes time to read it in full and I realize how much I use the word "just" 😵‍💫
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*Thumb drive storing writing projects fails to connect and needs to be plugged back in to get working*

WELP! Time to re-back it up in every single alternate storage spot I can possibly find! 👀

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Just in time for Valentine's Day! Join us for a free educational workshop on the dos and don'ts of the oohs and ahs. That's right, we're teaching you about writing spicy scenes! www.eventbrite.com/e/1982724257... #writingadvice #writingromance #writingproblems #writingworkshop #writelife

I promised a friend a #horror #shortstory. Prompts are: Harbin; Snow & Ice Festival; mysterious nosebleeds

I despise horror movies/books so I’m off to a good start… #sarcasm

I need an idea for who or what is causing the nosebleeds. Help?

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Why does inspiration always have to hit while I am *diving* and can’t write it down?!

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Trying to finish outlining a chapter to have it nice and done

But man I’m drawing a blank!

Everything I can think of can’t happen yet but idk how to connect them lol

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She’s absolutely shocked to hear how popular her cosplay was but to also see I haven’t written a damn things…. #blackcats #blackcat #kittycat #cat #funnycat #writing #writingproblems

I finished a midpoint chapter with a very epic fight scene and I feel pretty great about it, but also now I need to have fight through the adrenaline of that to keep going and write the next chapter 🫠 #writingproblems

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It's been a full day! Got home, started critiquing, and promptly fell asleep. (It wasn't because of the story!!) Anyone else have this problem? 😅

Wishing you a more productive #writing session than mine!

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Writing is so weird sometimes. I’m over here wondering why I’m so stuck with my 2nd book and realized it’s because the first four chapters belong in the 3rd book instead. So now I have to transfer and tweak 50+ pages to a different book. 🤦‍♀️

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Time to start working on those translations again... and hopefully before my submitted article revisions/comments come back! #amwriting #academicwriting #writingproblems

I write dialog the way I have conversations in real life: rambling and hard to off-ramp.

Just land the plane, dude!

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Just thought of a potential solution to a plot problem I’ve had for months and audibly gasped. The struggle is real, lol #amwriting #writingproblems

Why TF is the plural of "chassis" also "chassis"??? I'm trying to describe multiple of these things being carted around somewhere, and finding it difficult to write in a way that isn't awkward as fuck.

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Learning about being able to publish books on itchio after it decides to hide queer books/authors and withhold payments is… something

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The moment you open the software that holds your entire manuscript for your upcoming book...and it casually throws up the WORST jump scare imaginable: "File not found." It’s sorted but I didn’t need my nervous system to go into overdrive today. #authorlife #writingproblems #author

Struggling to get this scene written. Reads like a scene I wrote a week ago.

I didn't (I checked) just feels like it.

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I desperately want to write but I’m so out of it from all the social obligations and driving today I can barely write this

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Fellow writers, it's so unbelievably frustrating sitting down to write the same scene for what must be the fifth or sixth time. But it's so, so gratifying knowing without a doubt that it's also the last time the scene needs to be written. Final draft time, baby! #WritingProblems

Plot twist: your protagonist refuses to follow your outline. What now?

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That moment when you realize you've written a whole scene!! ... Where the main event goes against the lore of your world's magic...
Bye bye words 🥲

Hope your #writing session is more productive!

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Which I really don't want to do. Yay. Why the HECK did I start it this late, man 😖 #writingproblems #iamanidiot

Before anyone gets up my butt, yes I have been writing it's mainly notes/shorts for my book but the motivation to sit down and write big sections is very daunting right now... #wrting #writingproblems

My only real writing goal is to make my book exactly 69,420 words anything less is amateur, anything more is disrespectful to the craft. #Booksky #writing #writingproblems

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So... done proofing. I wrote too much for one chapter. To make this even more of an "occasion" I didn't even have a name for the chapter. Now I have to come up with names for two chapters. I need an adult...
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The problem with having a large supporting cast in a book and also not working on said book in months is that I forget what everyone behaves like.

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