Dame Natalie of Jones
@Whinger1973
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Joined Twitter three weeks ago because I finally finished my novel and wanted to show off.
Last thing I expected was to make friends, but there are some genuinely warm, creative, funny people here.
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If you support the
#ShutUpHarry
hashtag, please unfollow me immediately.
He lost his mother tragically and he's allowed to "whinge" about it as much as he wishes. You might not have feelings, you right wing loony gammon, but many of us do.
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I just told someone to "gird their loins"
They had no idea what I meant
How archaic is this phrase; do you know its meaning?
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Moment of tension.
If the bishop moves forward, the queen can take him.
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Very tense moment.
If the bishop moves forward three spaces, the queen can take him.
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So, according to lots of "writers" here, it seems all my effort learning the craft of writing over the years may have been wasted.
Apparently, all I need is a good story. I can write it badly and editors will do the rest.
🤦
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Do you have a problem with trans women using female toilets?
Yes
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Controversial opinion...?
In my humble opinion, if a friend (etc) recommends a book, and you can easily afford to buy a copy, you should buy it rather than borrow it.
To me, it's like not tipping waiting staff. Most authors have a low income and need support.
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#SelfPublishing
#IndieAuthors
are rubbish. Awful.
I haven't come across a decent book yet.
Don't you dare reply to this tweet with adverts for your books. I'll be very, very annoyed and there's absolutely no chance whatsoever that I'll buy some of your books.
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Someone recently replied to one of my questions, saying:
"A good story written badly is still a good story."
I couldn't disagree more.
What's your view on this?
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I think I might have followed all the writers on Twitter.
There's hardly anyone left.
Do I win a prize?
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My local library just got back to me. They'd like to stock my books!
Why didn't I think of this earlier? 😜
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I lost a ton of followers yesterday. I'm guessing it's the ones who didn't get my sarcastic tweet about indie authors.
However, I gained about six times as many as I lost.
So s'all good!
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I'm having a lovely chat with an amazing woman that dropped into my DMs.
If you need cheering up, read this...
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How very exciting...
I've been called up for jury service.
Have you done it?
What's it like?
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Never sniff a
#smell
.
You're a writer.
Inhale a scent. Breathe in an aroma. Snuffle a bouquet. Detect a fragrance on a soft breeze. Perceive a stench of death. Trace the perfume of a flower. Savor the tang of citrus. Trail the redolence to its source.
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#vss365
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I'VE HIT 30,000 FOLLOWERS !
It may seem gauche and crass to celebrate.
One should always remain modest.
And quality is better than quantity.
BUT I'VE HIT 30,000 FOLLOWERS !
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I really love it when Americans try to correct my English - my own language - according to their grammar rules, then refuse to accept that we have our own British English rules.
Yeah, sure pal, you're right.
🤦♂️
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I got an email last night, from someone in the US, who picked up a copy of my book in my recent promotion.
They explained how much they liked the read, that they've recommended it to others, and they're enjoying it too.
It doesn't get better than that, right?
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Today marks six weeks since I smoked a cigarette!
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Do your characters have a
#backstory
?
In my humble opinion, they should. Even if their tale will never be told, a character's history defines who they are, and when details of their past come through in their dialogue, it breathes life into them.
#vss365
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What would you do if you agreed to beta-read for another author, and when you received their manuscript it was nothing short of awful?
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50th birthday today...!
I'mma shake off my hangover and return to sanity, go out for a late lunch with fam (wife, mum, mum-in-law), then go to see A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Yesterday, it was explained to me that the English language is now owned and controlled by Americans, since there are a lot more of them than us.
When rules conflict, there's is right, ours wrong. And us continuing to evolve our language is out of order.
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I'm done.
I'm leaving Twitter for a short while for the sake of my mental health.
I've spent two days being bullied and harassed and I can't take any more. I'm too upset. It's triggering my bipolar disorder and anxiety.
#WritingCommunity
#vss365
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What are your opinions on Wikipedia?
I've experienced a bunch of people here on Twitter dissing it as totally unreliable.
I think it's great. Big fan.
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I'm unapologetically woke.
If that offends you, please unfollow me.
To me, being woke means calling out anything that's bad, so the opposite is accepting the worst parts of life.
Stay awake, stay woke.
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What's the highest number of times you've read a novel...?...
(If it's 3+, comment which book)
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When penning a manuscript, do you give thought to the final word count, or is it irrelevant to you?
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I've been gone for a while
Sad news
On top of coping with a divorce, due to changes in tax and benefits, I'm being forced to stop my beta reading work
Financially, it just doesn't make sense
I've been quite, quite sad recently. Sad and quiet
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Query not
#accepted
, manuscript rejected, sadly it's expected, but my ego's unaffected, so efforts resurrected, pen selected, thick-skin protected, I will not be bested.
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King advises to keep your writing
#minimal
, tight. I agree, to a point.
As a reader, sometimes I want to wander along nebulous paths of purple prose, littered with "wasteful" words. To get lost in a maze of myriad "sinful" adjectives and adverbs...
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What's the first job you wanted to do as a child?
I wanted to be a fireman.
Did anyone want to be a writer way back when?
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Slightly disheartened by members of the
#writingcommunity
who think that even a few typos/errors are unacceptable, and that work containing them isn't worth reading.
Not everyone can afford an editor!
I'll support all
#selfpublished
#indieauthors
who write great stories.
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Someone just DM'd me to let me know that reading my book is inspiring them to try writing themselves.
Something inside me is melting.
I feel a bit like crying.
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Why make your characters smile when they can grin from ear to ear? Have them beam, smirk, simper, snigger, leer. Let the side of their mouth curl up. Fill their face with amusement.
At least make them
#smile
with a twinkle in their eyes.
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Twitter.
A community where you share some information, and others come charging at you passive aggressively, shouting their opinions, despite knowing nothing about the topic whatsoever.
I love it!
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Grammar rant...
I always want to write "what on Earth" but everyone writes "what on earth".
Surely we mean, for example, "what on this planet (Earth) are you doing?" Rather than, "what on the ground/dirt (earth) are you doing?"
-rant over-
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If someone finds and returns your wallet/purse intact, containing cash, credit cards, etc, is it the "done thing" to offer them a reward?
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Airport smoking areas.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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What's your ultimate goal as a writer?
Fame, money, writing that perfect book?
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Keep writing.
Never give up.
You'll thank yourself for your persistence and hard work eventually.
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I could've forced myself to cry at dad's funeral, but crocodile tears would've been pointless. His death meant an end to his suffering, and he'd been very lucky; lived a wonderful life. I felt happy for him, but that still feels wrong to this day.
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Random Q...
Do you think religion is largely a positive or negative thing?
I wrote a paper on this for my philosophy degree. I wanted to argue it's a "bad" thing, but ultimately I couldn't, the logic just wouldn't fit.
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Am I the only writer who puts a comma before "too"?
I.e. "I adored the scents coming from the bakery, too."
Am I following an outdated, abandoned grammatical rIs this individual to me? It just feels right.
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You're being paid one million to get a full back tattoo based on a novel.
What you gonna have inked?
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@labourloyalist
It's repeatedly weaponised for political gain. To not see this is highly naive.
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I'm visiting my mum in a sleepy little English village named Beer.
Last night, a neighbour found a hand grenade in a dark corner under their stairs. The "bomb squad" came and everyone was on the street. Very exciting.
It turned out to be a cigarette lighter.
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I think we need to normalise finding the odd typo or error in novels.
I've been reading self-published works for months now, and it doesn't bother me one bit.
Being human means being imperfect but still being beautiful.
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I'm very sad to say the plucky mouse I rescued from the cats yesterday died last night.
It passed away warm, cosy, quite relaxed, and with a belly full of jam and oats.
RIP
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Assume mankind eventually becomes extinct.
What would most likely wipe us out?
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Oh wow.
Just had a row with a romance author who's "fed up" with her books being called dross because she's sold thousands so they must be great.
Apparently, only sales numbers count, and all unsuccessful literary writers are rubbish.
Lol.
Jealous much?
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Dad said that if I want financial security I've got to have a budgie.
Well, I got three, but I'm still broke. 🤷
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#vss365
#budget
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#WritingQ
for the
#WritingCommunity
Has becoming a writer ruined your ability to enjoy reading books, especially ones below a certain level of quality?
Does your mind edit as you read?
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I've been away from Twitter for a while.
Social media suicide; I expect everyone's forgotten me. 😂
So what's happened while I've been gone?
Anything?
Anything?
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Are we all using Excel now?
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I'm now a member of the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders.
And I'm about to embark on my first proofreading accreditation course.
I'm terrified!
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If you've written a novel, published or unpublished ...
Well, you're amazing !
What an incredible achievement
Reply to yourself here, congratulating yourself, tell yourself how cool you are, what a fantastic thing you've done ...
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Writing Q...
As writers, do we have a responsibility to push boundaries and explore controversial topics, or are some topics simply too taboo to discuss?
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Writing Q...
Do you use swear/curse words in your characters' dialogue, or do you avoid them?
If you avoid them, how do you deal with the dialogue of characters that would usually curse/swear a lot?
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I now have two books published.
Can hardly believe I've written two books!
I'm floating through this weekend on a cloud of pride.
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Your opinions, please...
My current project is a reworking of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. I'm rewriting it in a contemporary style, with a punk feel.
Is this pompous of me, to take on Dickens?
Do you think readers might be interested?
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The malevolent AI overlord is a trope in literature and on screen.
Mainly because a nice AI wouldn't make for much of a story.
But how realistic is this cliché? Why wouldn't an AI be benevolent? Why would it want to destroy or enslave us rather than help us?
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I asked a question about trigger warning usage, and there's definitely an age divide.
It appears the older you are the more likely you are to despise them, and vice versa.
Interesting.
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Racism explained simply, for those who struggle with the concept ...
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Writing Q...
Do you deal with themes such as diversity, representation, or social issues in your writing, or do you leave that to other authors?
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I want to rant/moan about users that constantly tweet questions but hardly ever interact with their moots that reply...
But I'm not sure how to word it.
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Writing Q...
When writing, do you concentrate on producing sentences of various lengths, to keep your writing interesting, or does this come naturally, or don't you bother at all; it's just not important to you?
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Is it just me, or do most fantasy novels/series/movies seem to be set in cold, wet climates?
Mud and misery.
Has anyone set their fantasy novel in a tropical environment?
Dwarves sunbathing on the beach, elves having a refreshing swim in the sea, that kind of thing...
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Do you eat
#octopus
?
We don't any longer.
As a flesh eater, it might seem hypocritical to eat some animals and not others, but there has to be a line, and we don't eat creatures that can show empathy and solve puzzles. 🤷♂️
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It doesn't seem to matter what you tweet...
There will always be a bunch of people who take you too seriously and try to correct or "educate" you.
Lighten up, dudes. Why so serious? Smoke a doobie, meditate, take a chill pill. Get off your pedestal. 😆
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#Disconnect
your devices, go outside, and enjoy some sun and fresh air.
Only joking !
Stay indoors in a dark, comfy corner. Drink coffee, brandy and ink, smoke a pack of twenty, invent a few words, break the rules; get some writing done!
#WritersLife
.
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Writing Q...
Is writing a form of therapy for you, or simply a creative pursuit?
Alongside another bunch of tools, writing definitely helps keep my winter depressions at bay.
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Elon Musk?
I don't care who owns/runs Twitter.
By following, unfollowing, muting, and blocking, I've built an amazing, talented, supportive community of cool peeps. As long as I can continue this, I'm in.
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Twitter isn't worthy of putting on a
#pedestal
, perhaps, but I love this damn place.
#WritingCommunity
, please don't follow this
#TwitterMigration
.
Pretty please?
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What's your weakest element of grammar?
I struggle with hyphen usage. I read all the rules yesterday, as I'm determined to memorize them, but there's so damn many...
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Has employing correct grammar in your writing changed the way you speak?
As an example, I now use can/may and fewer/less correctly.
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Writing Q...
Do you think honest, often cutting criticism of one's work is essential to improvement, or do you consider it overly harsh and discouraging?
Do writer's need thick skin, or should critics be gentler with feedback?
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I just watched Twilight for the first time
Quite disgusting
Worse than Lolita
The most obvious case of grooming a naive seventeen year old girl by a much older man I've ever seen
😂
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Random Q...
What are your opinions on clairvoyants?
Are you a believer?
Personally, I think most, if not all, are guilty of fraud.
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#Save
your flattery for traditional authors and their generic, bland regurgitations.
I'm self-published, I'm made of tougher stuff.
Critique me, cut me to pieces, do your worst; it only makes me stronger.
#vss365
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I really feel like just giving up today.
If a local, indie bookshop won't even take a look at my book - a book set in the city we both love, by me, a local indie author - then what's the point?
I feel the odds are stacked too highly against us, comrades.
😬😑😥😮😫😯☹
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My mum and dad.
Dad died 18 months ago and it's been difficult for mum, but she's persevered like a trooper. Never met a stronger woman. I've been there for her every step of the way and always will be.
#HappyMothersDay
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Divorce advice pls...
We're currently separating. My wife won't break relations with my mum. Mum is elderly, vulnerable, and I'm just not happy that the wife is not respecting the boundaries I need right now.
Mum is too nice not to take her calls.
Am I being unreasonable?
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I'd rather read a great story with a bunch of typos and errors than a dull, perfectly edited story.
#WritingCommunity
#selfpublished
#indieauthor
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I don't think you could get a more British headline...
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Now I've got a half decent number of followers, I occasionally get a response/like to my tweets.
Before, it felt a bit like shouting into an empty void.
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