Laura Devlin ✨

Chocoholic 🍫 Fantasy Nerd 🤓 Aspiring Author📝 Member of the Golden Egg Academy 🐣 #amwriting

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

And I'm in. Good luck to everyone! 🍀

[Searchlight Writing for Children Awards @WritingAwards]

Competition closing this Sunday at 23.59pm, UK time. Good luck, everyone! 🍀

https://t.co/qoZlWYsDJf

#writingcommunity

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

This is Kevin Kelly.

The close friend Tim Ferriss goes to for advice.

He taught him a philosophy for life that made Tim stop giving a f*ck.

Here's the philosophy:

[Inferam @InferamAI]

How to hack happiness chemicals

[Alex Penunuri @penunurialex]

Elon Musk is a big believer in Inversion Thinking.

Not just Musk — Albert Einstein, Charlie Munger, and Marcus Aurelius too.

Here's what it is, how to use it, and become better at it:

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

Everyone talks about legendary writers like:

Hemingway, Stephen King, or Henry David Thoreau.

But there is a British author who redefined the game forever.

Here’s the secret technique J. K. Rowling used to write one of the best-selling book series of all time:

[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.

[Guppy Books @guppybooks]

CALLING ALL ASPIRING AUTHORS! Check out the Guppy website for information about this year’s Open Submission Competition - please share and retweet! @LizScottPR https://t.co/eRQV6en7hS

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Another day of queuing for #DuaLipa tickets, only to be disappointed. The immediate sight of that 'Resale Tickets' option is shattering💔

[Alamin @iam_chonchol]

This is pure gold 🤯

$12,880 worth of Storytelling Degree in just 5 minutes.

Just watch this video. Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard.

[Bookmark]

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Ready for my first day on the 12 month course at @TheGEAcademy 🥰

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Day 8 ✅ yesterday! I’m very sporadic at the moment with work commitments but I start the 12 month course with @TheGEAcademy this week 🥳🤩 very excited and also looking forward to having some real accountability for my WIP!!

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Received this in the post! Very excited to get reading @erandalljones - congrats! I’m feeling very Halloween-y 🎃 👻 all of a sudden … a Friday night on the sofa with a blanket and hot cuppa is calling me 🥰 #witchstoneghosts

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Finished #CarrieSotoisBack and now on to the second book in #HisDarkMaterials! I’m very happy (if not a teeny tiny bit ashamed) to finally be reading these in my 30s - there’s an appreciation for them that I don’t think younger me would have had! #TheSubtleKnife

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Day 6 ✅ yesterday after a busy weekend! And now on to Day 7 after finishing my 30 day trial of @NovelSoftware - I’m hooked! Just subscribed. The layout even for character profiles is fab 🥰

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

Storytelling is a game of psychology.

10 tricks rooted in psychology to make you a better storyteller:

(a visual thread)

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Day 5 ✅ this evening! Nothing major, a little rewriting and tidying up scenes! Plus an addictive new adult read … as I wait for an Amazon order of more middle grade books to devour 🤓 #100daysofwriting

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Day 4 ✅ of #100daysofwriting - I was on a plane yesterday when I typed up around 500 words in Notes on my phone! Mad how some days it’s like bleeding a stone and others it flows out in the 15 minutes before takeoff 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

I preordered yesterday @erandalljones cannot wait 🥳🤩

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

@jillcbquest Literally finished it today and I’m obsessed! Ordered the rest of the trilogy 😀

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Day 2 of #100daysofwriting ✅ only 200 odd words but also read a few chapters of His Dark Materials too! Obsessed 🤩

[Laura Devlin ✨ @LMcDevlin]

Day 3 ✅ of #100daysofwriting - bit late with the tweet but I got over 100 words in before bed last night. Progress!! 🤓