Joan Galt
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Writing a book and beta reading my way through life. I love reading tweets and other people's accomplishments, even the small ones.
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Moving to a beautiful town with an unconventional school seemed great until another new student told X about a murder.
Now X needs to investigate why the town is covering up murders and other oddities.
Did she move from a bad situation to worse one?
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I did it! I typed, The End.
80,200 words which seems perfect.
Now I need to sell it to an agent, who can sell it to a publisher, who will sell it to the people.
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I just thought of a reason people might not be going to theaters.
No subtitles.
Poor sound mixing geared supposedly towards theater has led everyone to use subtitles.
No one trusts they'll be able to hear while in a theater without being blown out by the music.
No one goes.
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I am 14 pages away from finishing a 590 page book in 8 days. Might be a personal record.
I had a hard time putting down, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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It just occured to me that if you write a book set in the future, you can make up your own slang.
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Do you ever watch a movie and the good guys keep making so many mistakes that you start rooting for the bad guys?
I'm at that point.
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Today I learned smooched is an inappropriate colloquialism.
Maybe I am stuck in a past I never grew up in because how is smooshed inappropriate? And is it really a colloquialism?
Does no one smooch anymore?
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There seem to be 2 types of writers:
Those who write 500,000 words and are trying to get it down to 150,000.
Those who write 40,000 words and try to expand to 70,000.
There might be a middle ground, but these are the two I see.
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Does anyone else find themselves unable to read through their WIP without changing at least one word?
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Author bio. What do you use when you don't have an English degree or published short stories?
No one wants to hear about my finance career. Not even me.
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I see all these writing rules and then every traditionally published book I pick up breaks every rule on every page.
Maybe a great story means more than anything else.
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I'm sitting 6 feet from my van and a black and white creature crawled out from under it. That ain't no cat.
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Today, in a grocery store, I felt like I stepped back in time. Across the aisle stood a woman in this simple, beautiful dress.
I realized she was just some mom doing her regular shopping.
I started to wonder how much nicer things would be if we all dressed up a little bit more.
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I'm watching this show and the couple keeps randomly taking a side of the bed.
One night she's on the left. The next he is.
Does that happen? Because I have a side I always sleep on.
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A little editing hack I'm trying.
I change everything to red and read line by line. If I'm satisfied I change the line to black.
If I have any doubt I leave it red and move on. I don't change the color until I'm 100% satisfied with it.
If it sounds off.
If it's telling.
Boring
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I'm 70 pages into Slaughterhouse Five and so far it is absolutely brilliant.
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I finally did it. I made the dumbest homophone mistake I can think of.
I wrote: Andrew breaks I contact
Instead of: Andrew breaks eye contact
🤦♀️
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I am writing my current WIP in past tense. I have no ability to write in past tense.
I have to write a scene and edit it into past tense, because otherwise half the sentence is in past and half is in present.
Does anyone else struggle to stay in a tense?
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Pretty sure a Nigerian Prince just offered to rep my finished book sight unseen.
Should I say yes? 👀
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The only thing dumber than a prologue is an epilogue.
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I'm seriously considering writing an epilogue for this WIP. I already have a prologue.
What is wrong with me?
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I found a copy of the book The Godfather on my parents' bookshelf.
Is it worth stealing and reading? They will never miss it (they are happy when I take books).
#BookTwitter
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Does outlining kill creativity for anyone else?
When I'm pantsing the words fly. If I have an outline, I'm constantly checking the outline.
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I have moved on to soup recipes.
They must be easy and not contain meat or fish.
So far I have vegetable soup.
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I'm starting to hate the word glanced.
There must be a better way to convey to people glanced at each other
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Do you ever change a character's name and then find the old name while editing and go, "Who is Lucas?" or whatever the old name was?
Cause I did that and I don't know how find and replace didn't find it the first time.
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I used the word moist to describe cake.
Do you think people will stop reading when they see the word?
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Would you rather
1-Have someone mark every line of your WIP with a note as to what's wrong with it
or
2-Have someone blow smoke up your bum and then tell you in a vague way they don't like your work?
I prefer the brutal truth. Thanks for giving it to me.
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Pre-heated the oven for dinner.
Open it to cook the meal and found a pan of cinnamon rolls, covered with a dish towel inside.
The oven is not a storage place.
Ahhhhhh!
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As I change words like "think about" to "contemplate" I realize my 1st drafts start at a 2nd grade level and as my brain remembers words during edits it slowly transform into 6th grade
My inability to easily recall words is.... what do you call it?
#amediting
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Have you ever read something and had to reread it because it didn't quite make sense, then on the reread it made even less sense than the first time?
Is it me?
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I just asked Google if there is a word for a short prayer and it came back with ejaculation or ejaculatory prayer and I don't think I can use either one.
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I swear I grammar checked my writing, yet everytime I dump it into Grammarly it's like, you have 40 issues.
How? I ran these same pages through 2 weeks ago and made like 2 changes.
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I hate it when I proof read a tweet, hit send, and immediately realize I used the wrong form of a verb.
stores is
Really! How did I miss that?
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Does Grammerly tell anyone else to make a change in their writing and then tell them that the change is wrong and should be removed?
It's like Grammarly is messing with me.
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Slight panic attack.
I thought I opened my full manuscript, but what opened was an excerpt of a chapter.
For a second I thought I had saved the excerpt over the full story.
No worries. I opened the wrong document.
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If I am writing a novel about two American kids growing up in the heartland, are the names Jack and Diane too cliched?
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I once lost a friend because I said people falling down is funny.
But, have you seen someone fall down?
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I'm almost done reading The Andromeda Strain.
What other Michael Crichton books are worth reading?
Or which ones aren't?
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Would you read this book?
To avoid living with her parents after graduation, Anya accepts a commission based bookstore Manager position in the middle of no where.
The customers are few, the difficulties are many, but with the help of the community she might just succeed.
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Does anyone else have a panic attack when they watch a movie and the driver turns completely around to talk to a passenger in the back seat?
Usually it's a British show and the person turning around is actually the passenger, but until I realize that I'm in full panic mode.
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Does anyone else find action scenes incredibly boring?
I pretty much skip them at this point.
There is something satisfying about fast forwarding past chaos I can't follow anyway.
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Searching for something to watch a murder crime drama came up.
I thought, I can only watch a story about the murder of a woman or child so many times.
Then it hit me, is it always a woman or child?
Are there any where a man is killed and the police have to figure it out?
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I intended to include a line in my WIP about a girl so insignificant no one bothered to introduce her.
I forgot to include the line, effectively forgetting to introduce her.
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Do you think a book can be written for YA and Adults?
3rd person POV following some adults and some teenagers. A little for everyone.
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I got bored reading the beginning of my WIP. That's not a good sign.
I also kept thinking, I should expand this section.
Will more words make it less boring?
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2 hours of editing did me in.
Are there people who can edit for 8 hours straight?
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@teaareads
@_CassidyWells_
Different genre, but I love black westerns. They were there. I want to know their stories.
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@TeresaTraver1
Pretty sure villians are both unattractive and super hot.
If my villian is sloven he/she will physically refect that.
A tragic villian back story may come with scares.
Conman/narcissist villians are often attractive.
I think it is more important that the features have a reason.
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Can Grammarly stop telling me I'm using potentially sensitive language everytime I use a word ending in man or men?
No on says upperclass persons or whatever their corrective suggestion is.
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While walking the dog a random guy in a flatbed stopped and handed me some honey.
He said, "Neighbors. We have bees."
I said, "Thanks."
He drove off.
I didn't know who he was. We've never met. I watched until I saw the house he pulled into to see who it was.
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Have you ever seen a water stick?
I swear the guy who did my parents' well used one back in the 70s.
I don't know if it was the guy who found the water or the otherguy who didn't.
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I've named several of my chapters after books of the bible.
If the chapter is about paying for tuition and I call it Numbers have I gone too far?
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What is up with books without a backcover teasers?
How am I supposed to decide to read the book if I have no idea what the premise is?
Half of them have, he's a good writer quote instead.
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I feel as if I haven't written in days, but I've almost finished the breakfast section of my cookbook.
I'm trying to figure out what goes well in an egg bake that isn't meat or cheddar cheese or any aged cheese.
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How important are first pages?
An 8 year old brought over a book. Insisted I should read it when she finishes it.
What page was she on? 5, page 5, chapter 2. Within 4 pages she had decided it was good enough to start suggesting to others.
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How can I be both excited about my WIP and thoroughly sick of editing it at the same time?
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The book I'm reading is in 1st person and the person narrating changes each chapter.
Halfway through the chapter 2 it seemed like the person narrating morphed into the same person as the chapter 1.
I am so confused.
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Submitted a query that required pronouns.
My thought was, great, now they are testing me to see if I know what pronouns are.
I get asking but requiring it felt like forcing me to pick a label. I did not like it at all.
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Here me out.
'I shrug with my lips.'
What do you think?
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If there is another word for this please tell me. It's all I could come up with.
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I just deleted a post because I thought I used the wrong their.
I had it right the first time.
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Do you think former movie actors ever move to the middle of no where, and then one day they get bored and show up for auditions at their local theater?
Or is that the opening to a romcom?
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It just took me almost an hour to figure out what bus my MC needs to take. How do people use public transportation?
I only figured it out because of some random site not related to the CTA.
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I'm working on a book and I'm not sure it has a market.
Do people read books about college age kids having to dodge the police so they can smoke pot, or has that ship sailed?
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Mad respect for all of you authors out there grinding out your novel one hour a day.
I spent all day today polishing a 13 page chapter.
I don't know how you guys get it done, but hats off to you.
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@blackgirlinmain
I told my boss to buy a gun safe. He replied, my kid would never touch my guns. Next week he brought his gun into the office to lock up because his son made a verbal gun threat at school. He went and bought a safe.
If a boy is angry, no amount of talking will be enough.
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I'm going to skip the 2nd act, write the 3rd, and fill in the middle with everything I need to get to the end.
Do you think it will work?
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Last night I dreamt Liam Neeson was investigating a fraudulent cake baking competition.
No idea what caused that gem of a dream.
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I made the most beautiful bowl of popcorn I've ever made in my life.
And then I dropped it. 😭
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Why is this book only 16k words so far, and why can't I seem to write more than 1700 words at a time?
I have an outline, kind of. Shouldn't that make it easier?
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It's my birthday.
He took me to an awkward new restaurant. Before we ordered I said I wanted Mexican and we left. Yeah, me. Normally I would've just eaten the food.
I got 2 bottles of wine 🎉 Unfortunately chardonnay which is the only wine I can't drink
I got 2 lbs of fudge 👍
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I may have just cheated on
#NaNoWriMo
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I took a huge chunk of words from my prior attempts to write this story and jammed them into my current attempt.
On the plus side, I'm up to the part of the story I need to figure out. Is that a plus side?
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I finally did it. I edited a chapter and closed the file without saving. I straight up told it not to save.
Luckily, I work in multiple programs and one still had the latest version on it.
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Why is it, in a house with a dog, five cats, and a rabbit, when I see blood on the floor I assume the rabbit killed someone?
After investigating, the rabbit ripped out a toenail attacking a cat.
The cat seems fine.
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Does anyone else suffer from narcolepsy while reading?
I'm trying to read an action packed book with subject matter I love, and even though it's the middle of the day I'm lucky to get through a chapter before my eyes start closing.
At night I get it, but...
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Lol. Pretty sure someone blocked me because I didn't want to use their suggestion of changing upperclassmen to some other weird phrase.
I guess upperclassmen is more offensive than I thought.
WTH. 😂🤣
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Impostor tweeting syndrome
The number of times I write a reply tweet and don't send it each day.
Reasons:
I think I'm funny and decide others might not think so.
I am correcting someone and decide I don't care or want to get into that conversation.
I decide my reply is boring.
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@BrynDonovan
This is why I never worry about posting my pitch on Twitter.
Oh, someone stole my idea, okay. The thing is there is no way they wrote it the way I did.
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I hit the halfway mark and I am officially giving up on this read.
Multiple 1st POV with constant memory flashbacks and characters with names and lives that are too similar.
I never know which character I'm reading. The name at the start doesn't help.
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I've googled enough about my current WIP to start receiving ads about recovery and treatment.
Is this an author milestone?
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How many times have you heard the following?
I don't understand why you would oppose stealing money from a specific group of people. You're not part of that group and never will be.
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Well, theft is morally wrong no matter who you steal from and you can't convince me otherwise.
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I've blocked maybe 4 people total on this app. Usually I just let the other person cry themselves out and then they go away.
Today I blocked a guy for being a belittling contrarian ass for no reason at all. A fellow writer to boot. Who does that?
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Edits are done for the day.
10k words left to review and about 5 beta comments I need to implement, big change type comments.
Tomorrow I hope to finish this thing. Might even type The End.
#amediting
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Have you ever written a book and thought, is this the book I want as my debut novel?
I have 5 finished novels. Each is in a different genre. 1 is good.
I have a book idea I'd love to have people associate with my name, but I haven't written it yet.
Do I wait?
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Anyone else think they finished writing and then realize you forgot to include a super important line that pulls your entire story together?
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I just opened a file on a WIP that I dabble at from time to time.
There were 89 pages written.
When did I do that?
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Nothing like a little childhood trauma.
The Christmas Puppy
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I used the word "skedaddle" in my WIP and I have to say I am pretty proud I fit it in there.
Someone will probably make me take it out later.
🥺
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I need to add about 30k words, so what do I do? I cut 1500 words out of my opening.
They were good scenes, but I need to get to the action faster.
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