Paige Nick

Author, Sunday Times Columnist, ad copywriter & stuffs. Insta: amillionmilesfromnormal

[Paige Nick @paigen]

Big congrats to awwwl the authors on the @SundayTimesZA longlist.
Got a couple of personal favourites I'm rooting for, it's a tough year, big competition. Also, strong cover game this year IMO.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

@Andrea_Nattrass True, okay. :)

Mrs H @Heckitty
1. You have your work cut out for you.
2. I'm sorry, okay?

[Paige Nick @paigen]

When you discover the word 'okay' is an echo in your manuscript and you've used it like a one hundred million times. The irony is that's not okay.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

And you can't edit your tweet without upgrading. Still not okay.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

And THEN you notice an error in your tweet, and that's also not okay.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

Some days opening that manuscript document is the hardest thing I'll do all day.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

@CollinsMandy you forgot the bit before it, bum, bum, bum, bum, Parmalat.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

At first glance, I read 'calculate' as 'chocolate', and now i'm sticking with it.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

"While Thomas Running invented running in 1748, his invention was heavily influenced by the heavily credited inventor Joshua Jogging, (1726–1784) who, in 1746, invented jogging by walking one and a half times at the same time."

[Paige Nick @paigen]

I don't know if this is true, but it's hilarious.
I sent it to a friend, who messaged me back ten minutes later to say it had sent her down a Google rabbit hole which led to the next tweet in this thread.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

48 374 words down on new novel. 🤸‍♀️

Only 32 hundred million thousand billion to go.

[Dr Helen Moffett @Heckitty]

Of all the mantras authors need to recite daily, this must be in the top five. No, three. DON'T DO IT!

[Paige Nick @paigen]

@RicharddeNooy Anyone ever tell you you should write for a living?

[Paige Nick @paigen]

I thought I was filming when they first walked past me, turned out I was just holding my phone up pointed at them thinking I was filming.
David Attenborough has no competition in me.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

@RicharddeNooy I feel that might be a euphemism for 'totally shit' or 'very shaky'.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

@LeratoTJ OMG yayyy, go go go. I've skipped the first chapter and moved forward anyway, i'll come back to the beginning later or at the end.

[Paige Nick @paigen]

@Andrea_Nattrass hahahahaha

[Paige Nick @paigen]

I'm in hour four of not opening my manuscript today.

Where are you at?

[Paige Nick @paigen]

@GodPenuel @sterkinekor Brilliant. And how about picking a quiet night once a month and flighting independent SA films looking for an audience. So much great local content right now.