Cynthia_writes (she/her)

✨Writer, perpetually tired, far more ideas than time, currently drafting a fantasy novel *whoops* now it’s a trilogy ✨

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[Peter Clowes @peterclowes]

So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would you sacrifice time with your kids over the holidays for vague assurances and the opportunity to make a rich person richer or would you take the out?

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

I'm sorry but if you are unreliable, I do NOT think you should be a narrator. Conveying trustworthy information is LITERALLY your job. If you are tragically lacking in self-knowledge or blinded by your own unwitting biases, maybe you are not the right person to tell the story

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

Whichever of us is the last person to leave Twitter, make sure your last tweet is just the word "CROATOAN"

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

@Salerno_Thomas There’s a lot of value in enjoying the world you are creating! And of it makes the most sense for your plot, go for it! (That’s what I’m doing…)

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

@pairofclaws Does he ever "lift" any accounts belonging to men? (Even was just an exercise in misdirection.)

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

Good news for my #NaNoWriMo goal: so far I’m just shy of 40k words in draft for November 🎉

Less good news: being a non-linear planster means project is now 110k words total across 5 books, because as it turns out, I #amwriting a trilogy in five parts. 🤷‍♀️

#amwritingfantasy

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

Sometimes the tooth fairy gets the notification too late for same night delivery and it has to go on the list for the following day. 🤷‍♀️

What can I say, even tooth fairies can have difficulties managing their paperwork and squeezing in a last minute addition to their schedule...

[emma lord @dilemmalord]

sometimes i'm like "what is wrong with millennial women" and then i remember how in the early 2000s special k tried to wipe us all out by telling us to replace breakfast and lunch with a cup of cereal and a splash of skim milk

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

https://t.co/K60HUsmEEY

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

I went from outlining 1 novel to a 3-part series of novels in a week. After wrestling with world-building for another month, I've thrown in the towel wrt trying to make the story fit in 3 books. In other words, f@%k everything, I'm doing 5 novels. #amwritingfantasy #amwriting

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

When initially outlining my planned singular (1) novel, it became a trilogy pretty quickly.

Now, just over a month and 90k words in draft later, it's going to be a trilogy in five parts, something that'll thrill my Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy loving dad.
#amwritingfantasy

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

@AuthorHopkins @JenniferDoede Yeah -- thanks! One of the first things I noticed when joining writing twt was warnings about this and I already had a look at the threads. (Thanks a lot for looking out for me! I really appreciate it.)

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

@MikaelaWillmer That sounds exactly like how I write and Scrivener is perfect for it! I cannot say enough good things about Scrivener for non linear writers — best tool for managing that chaos!

[Cynthia_writes (she/her) @cynthia_writes_]

@theantoniagold The last sentence from this Tumblr post echos in my mind whenever I stumble across an example of this in the wild.