Thomas Lester

Longtime scribe, hopeful first-time novelist. Very OK guitar player. Fantasy novel in revisions, hope to query soon. Be kind always, no matter

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@davematthewsbnd Celebrate, we will, with @SLessard on Friday night in Raleigh.

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@AlyssaMatesic He's repairing a recurring infrastructural problem at the exact spot where his father died 10 years previously.

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@DMBGorgeCrew Above all things, if kindness is your king, then heaven will be yours before you meet your end.

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Just grabbed my tickets to see @davematthewsbnd in Raleigh. Friday’s going to be a good night.

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@kcdunfordbooks Absolutely

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Turns out revisions showed me a chapter that was needed and didn’t yet exist at the end of part one. So now it does. And the manuscript is better for having it.

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Three chapters in: some is really good, a lot needs work and then there are parts that remind me of Hemingway’s thoughts on first drafts. #amrevising

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@dpshow @JoeyVotto International treasure

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Revision pass starts next week. Got a notes document full of things to add/change. Will find more in the reread. Wish me luck. #amwriting #amrevising

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@SLessard Dave Matthews Band (of course)
The Who
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Stone Temple Pilots
AC/DC
Robert Plant
Ozzy Osbourne
Rush
Gin Blossoms
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

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@AlyssaMatesic Can you skew a little older? Say I've got two good recent comps and two others that are 10ish years old.

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@Ava_D_Elliott @scottbradford84 How do you differentiate? Interested in how that split works.

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@DolapoHikm56625 Sure

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And while I wait to dig into revisions of my novel, I got the idea to draft something that starts in the traditional noir detective genre and ends somewhere a little more absurd and whimsical. First part is done and I had a few of these. #amwriting #amrevising #amediting

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Daily reminder that you need to be stacking *physical* books. Why?

-they can’t be changed
-you can pass them on to your children
-they’re a break from a screen
-you don’t lose entertainment when your battery goes out
-they make great decorations
-they smell amazing

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@DMBGorgeCrew BOWA

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And my first ever first draft is complete. I tend to write skinny, so at 68,000 words, it has plenty of room to grow. But first, I’m going to let it rest a few weeks. #firstdraft #amwriting

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@oliviamemerick At the rate I'm going, I think I'll likely have a gaslamp fantasy mystery close to ready about the time your fall open cycle hits.

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@TommyDeanWriter "I think you meant 'morrow.' Marrow is what's in in bones."

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@GuyFieri @boschusa @BoschHomeUS @BoschToolsNA Is that... Tom Bosley?