Jessica Swannie

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[Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks]

As the weather gets cooler and spooky season approaches, don’t forget to get that costume ready.

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

no more vague writing advice pls. start dropping the location of the forest where you made that deal with a bog witch for your edits, and tell us the full-moon ritual for finishing a draft, and did you fill your plot hole with moss or fungi. go on, tell us.

[Moniza Hossain @moniza_hossain]

I’ve just realised I could never be a dragon rider because I suffer from terrible motion sickness, and somehow this fact is much more upsetting to me than not being able to be a dragon rider cus dragons don’t exist

[Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks]

Please understand that when I go on vacation I only want to drink coffee in cute cafes and visit indie bookstores.

[Jessica Swannie @JessicaSwannie]

Attempting to fill plot holes like:

#amwriting #fairytales

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

sometimes being an author is just rewriting your rewrite's rewrite and then laying down to become one with the moss and that's okay

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

"these characters live in my head rent free" well mine need to start paying rent 🤨 i'm charging for this space. they can get their one braincell together and form a cohesive plot and and start earning thank you

[Alexander Pennington @Authoralexp]

Writers after finishing a single sentence:

[Alexander Pennington @Authoralexp]

Agents: You wrote a 100,000 word book?

Writers: Yeah!

Agents: Great! How would you summarize it in a sentence or two?

Writers: How would I what

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

"i don't have time for another book idea it can wait," i mutter, literally already writing up a pitch and letting the idea play out like a movie in the back of my mind every waking second

[Adam @adamgreattweet]

i’m mature enough to admit that the life of any party is either 1) a pet or 2) the snack table

[Adam @adamgreattweet]

“oh that was a big mistake” i say to the competitors on a cooking show while i eat crackers by the handful on my couch

[Adam @adamgreattweet]

friday night plans? you mean the bath and bodyworks annual candle sale?

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

two types of inspiration
1) getting hit with an idea and feeling that energised spark of creative need to write
2) an idea follows you around like a whiny gnat going on and on and on about how you should wriiiiite meeeeee until you get fed up and do so

[Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks]

Types of writers, based on my son’s LEGO Duplo figures, a thread.

Because we’ve been playing with these all evening. 🧵

[Adam @adamgreattweet]

i’m no actor but i will absolutely perform the part of “never tried an oreo” if it means an extra sample at costco

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

writers will be over there complaining how hard writing is and that they don't wanna do it...and then you ask them how many wips they have, and they comfortably list like 9382394 books they plan to write.

[Dorothy Rose 📖 @Rose_BlancheGG]

Does anyone else picture what they're writing in their head like a movie playing out and get really anxious when they can't type it out quick enough?! 😂 #WritingCommunity #amwritingfantasy #writersoftwitter

[Orlando Food Tourist @orlfoodtourist]

https://t.co/RgUxYaeBIz

[Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks]

Oof.