Jessie Schilens

Writer by design, Author by intent. YA Fiction writer, Freelance Editor, and Lover of the Oxford Comma

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Reasons to love small towns: drinking wine at the local hardware store with kittens and live music #smalltowns #MondayMood

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@joedayvie The first thing that pops into my head about this is the book Six of Crows. It completely changed my mind on the benefits of 1st person across more than 2 characters & locations. If you’re really considering what that could do for your story, I would highly recommend it!

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Anyone else ever loose something behind a piece of furniture & think, “that’ll be a fun find when I move” or is it just me? #TuesdayThoughts #AdultingAndStuff

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If a fraction of the people who argued masks save lives would donate blood, <1 hr of their time every 60 days could save 3 adults or 6 children. Imagine the lives we could save if we applied the same social consciousness to that as we did masks. #donateblood #savelives #Masks

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For any #authorsofinstagram with a MC who wears glasses, know that I had to pause after walking outside for my glasses to un-fog because it was just too humid #writing #summerproblems

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@MaroftheBooks I love this question so much! This is basically my MC Lilly throughout the whole first book

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As the southern writer that I am, I can tell the humidity level by how quickly my notebook pages become wilted #author #summernights

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People have the misconception that writers have amazing vocabularies. If they saw our search history, they would know that we have to google the definitions of basic words multiple times.

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As a writer, I hate seeing/using “just then,” to start a sentence. But just then, it seemed to fit. What’s something #WritingCommnunity dislikes using in their #WIP? #WriterWednesday

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@eloisahilton The melodious voice of Tom Hiddleston as he reads literally anything from poetry to the label of a cereal box

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Real talk, once I start putting my manuscript out there, I’m gonna have to change all my passwords, am I the only one? #CharacterSecurity #WritingCommunity

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@agletterman I’ve always found the most compelling villians are the ones that believed they’re hero. People are rarely evil for evils sake, they have their own reasons &/or moral compass. So those that make you consider, even for a moment, if they’re right are the best in my opinion

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#WritingCommunity if you’ve ever been worried about your MC’s name being to out there, just know I met a Socrates and a Butler in the span of one day in my #beachtown #uniquenames #authorlife

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You know it’s humid when your glasses fog up walking outside #southernproblems #beachlife

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The dingbatters, dit-dots, and people from off are out in force this weekend. Do your MC’s world have any fun terms for non-locals? #WritingCommunity #SaturdayThoughts

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When I get writers block, I like to either get outside or grab a beer. Thankfully in my town, I can do both in style #Writer #author #beachlife

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Direct quote from dominos night: “...he could have been talking about LOTR, there’s a lot of harry people round here. Just ask Mr Potter.” #book #saywhat

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#WritingCommunity found out what I’d do when a snake hitched a ride, what would your MC do upon the same surprise? #authorlife #FridayMorning

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My Granny has recently starting referring to the @BBCWorld as the “bad boys club” because the British are apparently quite sassy in her opinion #QuarantineLife

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#WritingCommunity if you’re looking for something to binge with amazing writing and a mind blowing twist, you’ve got to see Hunters on Amazon! I am flabbergasted and gruntled at the same time