Susan Shiney

Writer. Middle Grade. Avid Reader.
Californian.

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[Susan Shiney @SusanShiney]

7 Tips for Writing Twitter Stories!
🐦🐚🎍⌨

#writingcommunity #vss #vss365 #sffiction #twitterfiction

https://t.co/f4Ds128tUY

[Susan Shiney @SusanShiney]

Her lips and nostrils jutted up at the water's surface.
The seaweed clung to her, keeping her from rising any further.
Taking in bubbly wheezes of air, she spit away the salty sea.
A mermaid transforming into a human was dangerous business.
The low tide would #save her.

#vss365

[Susan Shiney @SusanShiney]

Her broomstick wouldn't fly. Her crystals ground to sand.

When she caught the wizard slurping frog venom stew instead of picking up the witchlings, she #accepted it was over. 

Her broomstick sprung to life.
She soared through the top of the stone tower, to a new life. #vss

[~Fine Art @FineArtAI]

Her #mystical aura is like a veil of enchantment, surrounding her in an ethereal glow that is impossible to resist.

[Kate @WabiSabiKate]

Morning has broken
Keeping it open for me
My heart is the ocean.

#haiku #poem #writing #mystical #heartopening #ocean #peace #innerpeace #simplicity

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

High winds at the perfect time of day created a previously undocumented 2,400-foot rainbow waterfall in Yosemite National Park

[How Things Are Manufactured @fastworkers6]

How plants move in a 24-hour period 🪴

[Jaclyn (Rios) Hoselton @jaclynmarina]

A few bike rides
today
shook
the words
loose
and
p
l
o
p
they fell onto the page.

[Susan Shiney @SusanShiney]

Mother nature must have gotten a critique that she should use more color in her landscapes. Langevin in Réunion Island is something else... 🙂💖🐬

[Kyra M. Nelson (Updates Only) @KyraMNelson]

Temporary hiatus break because I ran some querying stats to try and quantify just how different my experience has been since querying in 2016 re: request rates, response times, etc.

Note: The next tweet includes request rate stats. Skip if you don't like seeing those!

[Jonathan Eyers @EyersJonathan]

Last year I worked with @writementor on this video about the 7 most common issues (character, plot, voice, perspective etc) I encounter with writers I mentor. I also explain my most irreverent opinion: that the 1st line is NOT the most important... https://t.co/6ZsPC0EAYk

[Adara Spence Author VT ✒️ @AdaraWrites]

LJ SMITH X MARISSA MEYER
With intergalactic peace, her home & wolfishly handsome flat-mate on the line, artist Lucy (17) races to find a kidnapped tree spirit & Cross-Key & Co's disappearing stock. Not easy when 'Co' stands for vampires − in space?
#WMPitch #YA #DIS #SF #R

[Susan Shiney @SusanShiney]

@hannahvanvels

[#LGBTQ+ historical fiction with a French accent! @astarte73]

Rolling up my sleeves for my first writing thread in a LONG time!
Queries.
Love them, hate them--they are indispensable to "selling" your book to professionals.

There's nothing new under the sun--but there are twists, and that's what you need to show
1/12 #revpit

[Jeni Chappelle is inactive @jenichappelle]

Logline formula (save this tweet!)
A [quick MC description] wants [goal] but [obstacle creates conflict] that causes [something bad to happen/stakes]
#RevPit

[Jeni Chappelle is inactive @jenichappelle]

Sometimes it can help to think of all these materials you need for your sub package as nesting dolls.

Your MS=the biggest one
Synopsis=the next size down
Query= the next
Logline=the smallest
#RevPit

[Susan Shiney @SusanShiney]

@chrissydvs10 I am interested! :)

[Middle Grade Hub @MiddleGradeHub]

Please help out and retweet if you can.

[Jaclyn (Rios) Hoselton @jaclynmarina]

Today’s writing session is like:

[Jason R Lady Author @JasonRLady]

Want to treat your family to some fun this holiday season? Enter to win an 8-book #giveaway! Contest open from Nov 14 til noon ET on Dec 14! ‘Tis the season to give the gift of #reading!

Enter now! https://t.co/zw73UGQrFG

#booktwt #bibliophile #IARTG #books #free #BookGiveaway