Elizabeth R Elford

Fiction writer; communications director; freelance writer and coffee lover.

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

My piece on shame in childhood: "The trouble with a secret as big as this one is that it produces a deep shame, and it doesn’t contain itself to just one area of your life..." https://t.co/7aXl4b8N2H via @HuffPost #gaymom #gayparent @mothermag @mother_pukka

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

If anyone in bldg opposite is looking in my bedroom (let’s face it, their windows are prob filthy with nose print) they’ll see my sexy a.m. ritual of dumping loads of clean laundry on my bed to fold and then hours later me again scooping everything onto the chair so I can sleep.

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

But now it has been an hour of waiting and I’d happy take that aluminium pod coffee!

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

In a Mercedes service garage in Geneva getting winter tyres on. Every man who walks in gets offered a coffee by the female receptionist. The women don’t get asked. So far 4 men with coffees; 3 women no coffee. I’d like to be asked. Even if I don’t want their crappy Nespresso.

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

@e_mugaju Thanks I sent you an email.

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

this is amazing! Thank you @willrdean for taking the time to write all this down and share it.

[Will Dean @willrdean]

10 years ago I was still stuck in the query trenches (lost & confused). Here’s a few things I’ve learned about writing/publishing in the past decade 🧵

1. Resilience. Rejection is part of the job. It gets easier. It’s not that your work isn’t good it’s that it isn’t a good fit.

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

#NewProfilePic

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

Just discovered Kendrick Lamar.

[Jon Stewart @jonstewart]

This is the dumbest thing The UK has done since electing Boris Johnson…what the actual fuck…

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

Tsitsipas=Big Sting

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

#Altmaier on his third shirt change this match, has definitely improved his pep. Meanwhile #Tsitsipas sticking with his bumblebee outfit which seems to be working for him. #rolandgarros #tennis

[Barbara Byar @BarbaraByar]

I've always been vague about my age, reckoning it's a handicap in the publishing game. But age isn't a handicap, it's Experience, Resilience. I've won awards. Grants. Bursaries. Published loads but never a novel Today, I'm 62 & writing my 4th novel
This will be THE ONE
It will

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

The sweetest little duck brought his nesting partner breakfast and a new stick for the nest. #geneveplage #ducks

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

Ok 12 things on the to-do list today and only 3 crossed off. But at least one of the crossed off items is ‘write’. #amwriting #multitasking

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

@JodieRobins @jennieg_author Ah imposter syndrome and self-doubt, that constant friend at your side!! Feel it and create anyway!

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

Elderly man with little aging dog walked by my outside seat at coffee shop. I’m mid-croissant, and worry the dog will deposit his morning biz in front of me.

Doesn’t happen

Instead elderly man makes eye contact and says: Buon appétit.

Made my day. Another way I ❤️ Geneva.

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

@AbbyWambach my real question is how do I handle the pain of potentially seeing him not do well!!

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

Brand new soccer mom question. Do we have to attend matches especially if they are at 8am on a Saturday? @AbbyWambach

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

@JLQuoVadis But then I don’t see when or what I need to put back in oven. The pork? My MIL?

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

@JLQuoVadis Emergency question about this recipe which I’m making for my MIL today (and she thinks I can’t cook, and she’s correct!)

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

@JLQuoVadis Ok so you write in first para after ingredients to take pork out and let rest for half hour then turn oven up to 200

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

But then I don’t see when or what I need to put back in oven. The pork? My MIL?

[Elizabeth R Elford @ElfordElizabeth]

Ok so you write in first para after ingredients to take pork out and let rest for half hour then turn oven up to 200