Some Organised Chaos

Library person. Occasionally pretends to write.

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

○ buying books because you love reading
○ buying books to support artists
◉ buying books as a little treat to fill the void inside you and then stacking them in comforting piles

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

still confused as to what non-writers think about all day. so they AREN'T writing a novel in their head at all times? they don't listen to one song and construct epic action scenes for it? they're not zoning out to imagine complex tragic backstories for their characters????

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

calling your writing "trash" is a bit demoralising so alternatives should include:
- disorganised alphabet soup
- uncooked pile of letters
- currently a smudge
- choose-your-own-plot-characters novel so i don't have to
- basically an onion (makes us cry but what can you do)

[cara.city elsewhere @caraesten]

zoology section at this book store goes into some unexpected categorization

[Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks]

Me: *writes “Chapter 1” at the top of a blank Word document*

Me to Myself:

[Aiko @aikohwrites]

i'm totally fine

[jamie | #IICPOL27 🎨🖤 @jfrancewrites]

This....

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“I read this book because you suggested it and it blew me away” is a love language

[Some Organised Chaos @ChaosSome]

@Sotherans There was a murder in my city that was made to look like it was motivated by rare book trading drama. It wasn't, but the killer knew staging it like it was would throw the cops off because rare book people just be like that sometimes

[Henry Sotheran Ltd @Sotherans]

what you have to understand about the rare book trade is that traditionally no-one came here via academia, it was a gritty trade about two steps removed from organized crime, you just looted dead peoples estates and traded stacks of books often without even opening them

[Henry Sotheran Ltd @Sotherans]

people are always asking us what life is like in a bookstore and I feel it is about time we gave them a serious answer so I made you a story generator

[Kayleigh Donaldson @Ceilidhann]

Getting emails from NaNoWriMo asking me how I'm doing on my novel feels like a personal attack.

[TZE CHUN @thetzechun]

Broke: Kill your darlings

Woke: Copy and paste your darlings into another document so you can save them for other projects

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Strong Female Characters are nice but we need stories about all different kinds of women—women who are clever and clumsy and scared and confused, women who make magical spaghetti and turn emperors into llamas.

[📚Lydia M. Sigwarth📚 @LibraryLydia]

When you were 11 did you hand-write 3 chapters of the first book of a planned trilogy and then completely forget about it until you discovered the notebook as an adult and were horrified or were you normal

[Chelsea Hodson @ChelseaHodson]

The idea in my head vs the first draft