Mat_Pennington

Urban fantasy writer 🧙‍♂️ Wanting big things in 2021 🖊️ Stuck between worlds & loving it 🌏 Testing the limits of how much one can love coffee ☕️

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

Recently bought a #kobo took me long enough, I know!

Any #BookRecommendations for good books or series (not too long) on the platform? Currently looking for urban fantasy, horror, thriller, or something that blends it all together? It can be your own work, no worries!

#bookrecs

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

My most recent listening. Great atmospheric music for writing or even just reading & drowning out background noise.

#Writing
#Playlist

Sebastian Plano — Impetus [Full Album] https://t.co/CAqIhsnROI via @YouTube

[Patricia Correll @Author_PCorrell]

The curse of the indie author (and even trad-pubbed authors too sometimes) 😅 #WritingCommunity #indieauthors

[Wash Lively @WashLively]

"Have you heard about the new #cemetery?"

"No, is it nice?"

"Very. People are just dying to get in."

#vss365

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

Congratulations! That's so good. Best of luck on the refinement stages 🎉🎉

[𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔬𝔫 𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔰 @thestickwitch]

120,641 words.

They're a mess. There's so much work to do. But they're my mess, and I can do it.

y'all!!!!!

I finished my second book. 😭😭😭 #HadesBridesWIP

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

I needed to shift to actually refining said words & not just writing new ones. I want to actually have some books to show at the end of the year, not just lots of words.

That said, I have some small goals for OCT. So let's see!

#wordcount
#writing

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

Total Words Written in JAN 2021:

4,302

Definitely not my best. No daily word counts and not a lot of pressure, working on simply carving out time and putting words out there.

#wordcount
#writing

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

Total Words Written from JUL-AUG-SEP 2021:

0

The past 3 months have been slow. I decided, I really needed to focus on my editing & not just output. It was almost like cheating. I was counting even the smallest of edits so that I could make up a word count.

#wordcount
#writing

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

@thestickwitch Sure! Why not? 👋👋

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

Has anyone seen The Invisible Guardian on #Netflix or read the books? I loved the atmosphere, probably want to watch the trilogy. But I just feel like I wasn't happy about something with the ending. let me know!

#BookTalk
#Movies

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

Yes, i did just create a 6-tweet thread over a span of days to put off reading a problematic chapter in my #edits

Or was I just documenting the process? 😂🤣

#amediting
#WritingCommunity

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

We finally did it! We finished chapter 56!

Delayed by another day, but got there. I read the chapter first in all its messy glory. Only after that did I dare to open my #editor notes.

Nothing so bad. But still had to quell my inner anxiety & shame looking at my poor #writing.

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

Oh no! Reading through my developmental report & saw #editor has highlighted most if not all of my chapter 56. What do I do? Anyone have any advice for mindset? I'm seriously dreading re-reading the chapter & what they have to say.

Will keep posted on my progress.

#writing #wip

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

*sigh* and now we have come to what I've been dreading the most... Chapter 56. It's largely dialogue and all that dialogue has been yellow highlighted by #editor

Wish me luck & any #advice on how to mentally prepare & fix my mistakes after would be great!

#WritingCommunity

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

@TwoBooksBlog Kimba... the White Lion!

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

@RNGainey Perfect, love that you're available wide. All the best :)

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

Recently bought a #kobo took me long enough, I know!

Any #BookRecommendations for good books or series (not too long) on the platform? Currently looking for urban fantasy, horror, thriller, or something that blends it all together? It can be your own work, no worries!

#bookrecs

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

@RNGainey Liking the sound of this one. Thanks for the recommendation! Are you also available on Kobo??

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

Re-reading and re-plotting my #wip getting to the part where things are getting really grindy.

Have been working on other stuff and applying feedback in newer work. Those things are just looking like so much more fun.

Any experiences with overhauling your wip & #rewriting ?

[Mat_Pennington @PenningtonMat]

@marisviews I don't read much magic realism, but this definitely sounds like something I might enjoy. After who doesn't like cute cafes? I only read a few pages of an awesome book, but it was translated from Mandarin to English and it was obvious something was lost in translation.