Thaddeus📚Thomas
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Multi genre book giveaway. Including my Detective, 26 AD
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"You're a truck. You'll always be a truck."
Optimus Prime: There are mysteries to the universe we were never meant to solve, but this is not one of them. I was only ever a robot who appeared to you as a truck. All sentient creatures deserve to be more than meets the eye.
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@sara_carrion_
Come. Cease this challenge. I cringe at the caprice of failures which circle me. I collapse, comatose, in this catastrophe. You consume me without cause with this critique and yet cruise ahead on a chloride sea and consume your cake as I cache myself in the cave of my conscience.
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You can improve your writing by removing "just", "that", and "was".
Example: He was just that person.
Becomes: He person.
And isn't that better?
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The other day someone asked why do men keep getting better looking as they age?
Society's standards of feminine beauty is about sexualizing girls and then holding adult women to that standard. Men don't objectively get better looking; they are afforded age-appropriate standards.
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I'm working on the last ten chapters before sending the book to beta readers.
I believe in this thing.
I've been writing since I was a child. I'm 51. I want this.
Root for me?
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I'm 50.
I've been writing for 40 years.
I've produced a radio play and several short stories, but I'm still working for that big break.
If you're over 50 or close enough to 50 you think it counts, let me know we're together in this.
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In 1985, on a school bus, I overheard a girl say, "Why would anyone read a book if they've turned it into a movie?"
My recovery has been a long process.
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The only reason my book is being read by an agent right now is because of Twitter. The
#WritingCommunity
works. Thank you.
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I did the scariest thing possible this Halloween. I've submitted the first query for my manuscript.
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Came to write
But only tweeted
That's why this WIP
Is not completed.
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I have a confession to make.
In high school, I won the school English award for my paper on Moby Dick.
I made it part of a literature class I taught. Chose is of my own volition.
I have still never finished reading that book.
I understand if you unfollow me now.
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If you self-publish to avoid rejection, you are in for a shock.
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I'm going to bed 49.
I'm waking up 50.
Don't tell me time travel doesn't exist.
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Do women write anything other than chick-lit and romance and fantasy and cozy mysteries and classic sci-fi and blood-curdling horror and psychologically astute literary tomes and historical fiction and contemporary fiction and poetry?
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We are a writing community. Why can't we spell our own hashtag correctly? 😂😂😂
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@WriterNatSwift
In the last decade, a company lost a lawsuit based on their failure to use an Oxford comma. Without it, it changed the meaning of what their contract said they were to pay their drivers (in the drivers' favor).
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I'm having a Twitter identity crisis moment. My strategy is no strategy. I talk about anything and everything here. Writing. Jokes. Politics. My personal journey, which includes religion. I go through times when I think that's a mistake. I'm probably alienating people.
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My name is Thaddeus Thomas, and I write historical fiction genre-mashups.
Who are you and what do you write?
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Who's old enough to remember when Mandalorian was pronounced Firefly?
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Hi, I'm Thaddeus. I write historical genre fiction.
A mystery thriller in New Testament Palestine.
Steampunk in classical Egypt.
Fantasy in a renaissance Italy.
Who are you, and what do you write?
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I'm about to sign off, but I miss interacting with people. It's the nature of an account this size. I don't see you in my timeline. Help? If you consider(ed) us Twitter friends, say hello. I'll respond tomorrow after yard work.
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My cat died today. I've got no jokes, only philosophy.
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That's it. The first COMPLETE draft of this novel is done. Goal: 500 pages. Total: 511 pages. Goal: 100 chapters. Total: 100 chapters. Goal: 100,000 words. Total: 101,816 words!
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I want to thank
@realDonaldTrump
for making me the progressive I am, today. Thank you for making your lies too bold to ignore, your bigotry too obvious, and your fascism too plain. Without you, I would still be a Republican. I lost my old life, but I found so much more.
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Your regular reminder: You are not an
#aspiring
platypus. If you platypus, you are a platypus, whether you're a published platypus or not.
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Can I say this? I'm terrified. The closer I get to releasing my first book... Okay, I built a landing page with a countdown timer, and suddenly it felt real.
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Mom is still in the hospital but it looks like she's beaten the pneumonia.
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No offense, but every self- published author here is better than they give themselves credit for.
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If you follow
@eliciadonze
, what you witness is a great talent who demystifies the process and for that, she is harassed. Critics compare her not to other artists but to their fantasy conception of artistic genius. Do not let them hold you to the standards of an imagined process.
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@aaronsibarium
Ashamed to be a fascist? Good. Very good. Excellent, even.
Fight tyranny. Don't side with it over the oppressed and marginalized. We'll not cry over authoritarian tears.
They marched over white supremacy dying and attacked the capital.
Now they can sit down and shut up.
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Just a reminder: since I've revealed myself as anti-Trump on Facebook, you're the only friends I have left.
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Wife shared this. The sign divided the library staff.
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Does anyone else here spend more time rewriting than writing?
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Psst... My daughter was offered an internship with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. (Keep it quiet.)
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A new year? How about a fresh list of beta readers?
If you'd like to beta read for someone, comment below with the genres you're interested in.
If you need a beta reader, comment below folks who are interested in your genre.
RT so we can get people connected. Thank you.
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Me, because I'm 6 years old: Someone told me you sound like an owl.
Co-worker: What?
*no one has answered this right, yet*
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#WritingCommunity
when you've got a book debut to announce, traditional or independent, ask me to retweet. K? I love getting your words out there.
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First, I'm realizing there are many of here who are... older than those younger than us. I'm 50. Some of us have published before (to whatever degree) but are still struggling to breakout. Some are new to the game. Either way, it's good not to be alone.
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Maybe more people need to be writers. Then they wouldn't have to create so much drama in real life.
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Lots of talk about whether spouses read your books. Thought I'd share.
Many years ago, at a party, another wife excitedly said to mine, "It must be wonderful being married to a man who writes poetry."
My wife replied, "They're just words."
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Buy my book!
I don't actually have one to sell. Just practicing.
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The book banners have said that anything with a sex scene is porn (with the exception of a few older works of their choosing).
I am really stunned how the right is trying to attack porn...
...but seeing people go "Ban all the porn, but not MY porn" kind of puts the pieces together for me.
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@RewriteAgain
Feedback is only useful when it can help make your book the best it can be. Feedback that attempts to have you write a different kind of book isn't worthwhile or meaningful.
You are not responsible for the limitations of your readers.
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Bragging Time!
My daughter
@christy_tree
is not only having her
poem published in her
University's Art & Lit Magazine
but it's placed second
in competition.
This is her FIRST publication!
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So, I listened to a booktuber declare a book the worst ever because it was historical fantasy and didn't fit in the strict confines of historical fiction or alternate-history fiction and shouldn't even exist.
As that's when it hit me. I write historical fantasy. Thank you.
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Do you wish you could tell one author what a powerful influence they've been in your life?
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I was going to call my aunt yesterday but put it off to today. She died this morning.
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The problem with plotter /pantser differences turning into territorial disputes is we should be learning from one another, not defending our ground.
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#writerscommunity
members with small followings. Let me know if you want me to retweet your pinned tweet on Wed. December 12th. If there's too many responding, I may stretch out the retweets over a few days.
You define "small" for yourself. If you think you qualify, you do.
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Do the words that go missing from my sentences find a home on the island of refugee socks or are the two unrelated?
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Account reactivated. I am here. I think. Right? I mean, you can see this? Twitter weirdness abounds. I don't even know.
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New to Twitter?
I see people asking questions and not getting responses, and I know how frustrating that is. A question tweet will be ignored by hundreds before it gets a response. Start by responding to others and joining in some of the games... Even if you're not tagged.
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I respect differences, but here's my stance:
I didn't just leave the Republican party because of their support for Trump, I've left my church, too.
Their inability to see him for who he is forced me to see us for who we are, & I can't be a part of that.
I was an elder.
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Finding an agent is like being your book's nagging mother who keeps asking why it isn't married, yet.
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So, I want to build this account so someone will hear me when I one day have a book to sell. In the meantime, I don't censor myself the way someone with those goals should.
To those who have not unfollowed me, I say thank you.
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If you love The Mummy (1999), you love Thor: Ragnarok.
Prove me wrong.
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JKR has lost another 22k followers in the last two days.
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@theHetal
My profile pic is the world's third most gorgeous male over the age of fifty, and I like to pretend it's really me. This is what I actually look like:
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@AGramuglia
Message = American stories that aren't straight, white, and patriarchal. These people lack the capacity to understand the art they consume.
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Who hides little nuggets in your work even though you know no one will ever find them?
I'll share a few of mind because why not?
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Who else suffers from excruciating levels of sympathetic embarrassment when watching comedies?
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Am I alone in this?
Don't play down to an assumed reader's ignorance. If you include something a reader doesn't understand, they'll survive.
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The people on Twitter take isolation and give it community. Thank you.
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I can disagree with someone and still have a high opinion of them.
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Do you understand how bad this is? I have a cold. And I'm a man.
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I was researching my novel and ended up on . Now I'm afraid my MC has cancer.
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Before cell phones, we stared at the back of cereal boxes.
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If you consider me an old Twitter friend (and not because of my age), say hello.
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In some areas of Twitter there is a problem with men sending unsolicited dick pics to people in their DMs. It's different in the
#writingcommunity
. Here, they send unsolicited advice about how you're using Twitter wrong. Same basic thing.
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If you'd like to beta read for someone, comment below with the genres you're interested in.
If you need a beta reader, comment below folks who are interested in your genre.
RT so we can get people connected. Thanks.
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TFW your wife reads the first draft, bursts out in tears, says you need help and she's leaving and taking Danny with her, hits you with a bat, knocks you down a flight of stairs, and locks you in the pantry.
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Writers, do not date or invest any significant amount of energy into a person who is not a main character in your ongoing series.
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What's a truth about writing that no one on Twitter wants to discuss?
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I am breaking another fundamental rule of writing. Don't introduce new characters in the third act. I'm a rebel and no good, I tell you. No good at all.
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No character in any book of mine will ever lie or lay anything, again! 🤬
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I have a confession to make.
I buy the sharing size of M&Ms.
But don't share.
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I was accidentally retweeting pitmad pitches from six years ago.
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The first music I ever purchased for myself was the Steve Miller Band album "Abracadabra".
Do you remember your first?
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While the whole JK Rowling writing room thing is still going on, let me say this. I've got one. True, my wife also has a desk in the room, and the cats' litter boxes are there... but still.
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Today, I ate Wal-Mart sushi that was discounted half-price because it hadn't sold.
I'm still here.
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What's the worst possible title you could give your WIP?
Mine: The Many Adventures of People Whose Names All Start With "P".
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Deep seeded
Deep seeded
I thought it was "deep seated"!
"Deep seated" doesn't even make sense!
I'm going to have to sit deep and think about this one.
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People have suggested there's no such thing as time travel because of the lack of time travelers. I propose it only demonstrates that ours is not an era worth revisiting.
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I could have been a best-selling author, but then I shared a tweet with a typo.
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In breaking from my church, I find myself feeling friendless. I think that's what's affecting me right now. It's part of the grieving process, and something I'll work on replacing when I'm ready. Some relationships will continue. Most won't. I'm just at the stage where it hurts.
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If you're an author looking for reviews, or you're a reviewer looking for a new book, post your genres below and let's get you together.
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Twitter: YOU CAN DO THIS!
Me: you don't know me
T: DOESN'T MATTER!
M: you've never seen my work
T: DOESN'T MATTER!
M: how can you say that?
T: BY ENCOURAGING YOU, WE ENCOURAGE OURSELVES!
M: really? that works?
T: WE HOPE SO!
M:
T:
M: YOU CAN DO THIS!
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