Angela Booth

Author, keen blogger (since 1998), writing teacher.

[Angela Booth @angee]

Word to the wise: publish it yourself. Trad publishers DO NOT know more than you do.

[J.M. Goodwin @jmgwritten]

Remember folks, when you send one of the Big Five publishers that manuscript you worked so hard on, this is the kind of person deciding it's fate

Stop wasting your time trying to please psychos who hate you

[Libby Emmons @libbyemmons]

I'm sharing the lifetime reading list from my high school English teacher. He loved books, thought deeply, and told us that during the War he always had a paperback in his back pocket to escape into.

*not my checkmarks, had to get a copy from a friend after losing mine

[Angela Booth @angee]

@Rahll Typical.

[FEAR GOD @FEARGODMINDSET]

Marie-Louise von Franz on what unused creativity turns into

[Angela Booth @angee]

@HannahWardEdu I sincerely hate abridged versions. And audio books. But I understand that these can be a gateway and foundation, so cheers for them. :-)

[Angela Booth @angee]

@DefAMustRead Yep. Total BS ... "things that never happened."

[Angela Booth @angee]

@Titi_Suru 2000 passage: wealth insulates against justice; money covers all sins. 2025: be present? Oh FFS. Moronic passage. Embrace the present? What choice do we have?

[Ismael Sanz @sanz_ismael]

Cada vez más estudios muestran que escribir a mano mejora la memoria y la comprensión conceptual. The Economist: Tomar apuntes con bolígrafo obliga a sintetizar ideas, mientras que teclear favorece copiar literalmente sin procesar la información. La diferencia no es nostalgia, es cognición. ✍️📚
https://t.co/REstYbkCDx https://t.co/EnN5xGqK7Y

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Aldous Huxley

His last novel, published the year before he died.

[Angela Booth @angee]

Back in the day, there were books for BOYS. If publishers want to sell more books, publish for boys too. Different interests; different books. See Twain's Tom Sawyer etc.; written for BOYS.

[MADDIE📚 @omgmaddie]

Obviously, this is incorrect. Boys and girls (especially middle grade) have different interests due to their sex-based differences. And there’s nothing wrong with that!

It will be hard to improve literacy rates if boys (or girls) are constantly belittled for their innate interests or desire to relate to main characters, which is especially important for young readers.

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

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[Angela Booth @angee]

Everything depends on the voice and the point of view. And your characters. Meander if you like, if that's the voice. Develop your characters. Read, but when writing, follow your creativity. Forget "optimization", please. :-)

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

When I read older books, I'm always struck by how unoptimized they are. Books wandered in their prose, had meandering backstories for side characters, and had strange and illogical plot points. Now, it's like every word in a book has to be razor-focused, hurtling toward the conclusion. There's no room for idle dreaming.

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Mozart on when his ideas flowed best

[Angela Booth @angee]

@agonyhope1817 A hero? Mrs Bennet is a moron. And a narcissist. She's a dumber (much dumber) early version of Hyacinth Bucket of Keeping Up Appearances fame.

[Angela Booth @angee]

@favwontmiss I enjoy using Canva, but they brought this on themselves. Instead of giving us more tools to enhance creativity, they push AI. Like AI companies and Google. They should have seen this coming; they forgot their loyal users.

[Angela Booth @angee]

What is a story?
“In its purest form a story is just three elements: conflict, action, resolution. Someone is faced with a problem (conflict) he must struggle with (action), and he wins or loses (resolution).”
- “Immediate Fiction” by Jerry Cleaver.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Hilaire Belloc explains why you need to read old books:

“There is no habit more dangerous to a man's active intellectual life than that of reading only modern books. The contemporary writer is usually not yet judged by time. He writes under the pressure of fashion and opinion. But the old books have survived. They have been tested. They come to us stamped with the approval of generations. To read them is to breathe a larger air.”

Which old book are you immersed in right now?

[Val. @MVaaal_]

Porque los seres humanos, sin importar cuántos siglos pasen, somos los mismos y estamos atormentados por las mismas cosas. Por eso es tan importante leer los clásicos, para entender que el mundo no empieza ni acaba con nosotros.

[Angela Booth @angee]

@VictoriaPeckham Yes, the little pull-along was a gem. Tell me you've never had anything to do with kids without telling me.

[Angela Booth @angee]

“If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer … (If) you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market … you are not being yourself.”
- “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury.