Rebekah Yoder

Fantasy novelist, visual artist & copyeditor in training with over half a million words of fiction written. Expect writing advice & encouragement!

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@WeirdMedieval Teenage mutant ninja plague frogs
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[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@OSPyoutube SPAAAAAAAAAACE

[Orion's Belt magazine @OrionsBeltMag]

All writers are mad scientists. You hide away from civilization, staring at screens in the darkness as you concoct strange tales. Still, if it works, if the story is good, then it's all worthwhile. Sometimes being a mad scientists pays off.

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@jodyjsperling When isn't it? A few of those broken rules will become "common errors," then "casual usage," then grudgingly accepted, then they'll be in the dictionary. That's language for ya!

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@Borderlander_P @SarahCAndersen All Star by Smash Mouth automatically started playing in my head when I saw this image.

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

I'm not complaining though. I don't care if the trope is kind of ridiculous, I love it anyway 😂

Fanfic sometimes is just "screw being serious, let's have fun" and I love that for it. Just take it -> 👑

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

Fanfic characters never JUST catch the flu. There's a special sickfic strain for max drama: isolated characters become helpless within hours and need rescuing, characters keeping secrets blurt things out while feverish, and sometimes it's literally bioengineered by your enemies.

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@MillerEditorial Anyway, I also loved the book Eragon when I was 13. Everything that book said had already been said better by Star Wars, but I didn't care. Sometimes originality just really doesn't matter as much as we think it does.

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@MillerEditorial Snark aside, they are different works even though they cover very similar themes. Longfellow wrote his while processing grief, so it's written as a rebellion against despair, while the heavy metal song is more exuberant. Their voices are different despite their shared topic.

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@jodyjsperling Exactly!

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

I have been Perceived.

[Orion's Belt magazine @OrionsBeltMag]

There are two kinds of writers: the kind who triple-check every paragraph of every story to try to make sure it's exactly what they intended, and the kind who just give each one a few passes, shrug, and write 5 more stories that compensate for the failings of the first one.

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@SendenStories Terry Pratchett, obviously.

[Amalie/AR Frederiksen @ARFrederiksen]

This is your periodic reminder that betaing is about offering suggestions, not solutions.

Allow me to repeat...

Betaing = offering suggestions, not solutions.

You wanna be helpful, certainly, but pls trust me that a massage tool is better than a worksite tool in this case.

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@jodyjsperling Sometimes I turn it on for bends in the road, it's just that automatic. I also live in the Midwest, where if you hear honking it means someone actually did something dangerous and then everyone looks around to see what happened.

[Steven William Hannah @SWHannahAuthor]

I keep making the same notes reading self published work:

- show me character via action, body language, speech
- dont build up tension then stop to explain it
- chapters need structure just like stories
- every scene needs a reason: plot, character or action

#WritingCommunity

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@emily_glenister We know publishing professionals work nights and weekends. It'd say to me that you don't put things off! Just as long as you wouldn't get upset with an author who replied on Monday.

[Grace Li @gracedli]

thinking about the best publishing advice i ever got, which is whenever you're feeling jealous about someone else's professional success, ask yourself if you would trade the book you're writing for theirs

[Rebekah Yoder @readystetgo]

@D138Mohd @marilynnvicente @jodyjsperling https://t.co/duWIoIP8ls