Hope Siegel

I'm a fiction editor specializing in fantasy. I also run a writing advice blog for the anxious writer. Find me at my blog "Relax, It's Just a Draft"

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

Just finished watching Secrets of Dumbledore. My damning with faint praise is that it was better than Crimes of Grindelwald.

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

@RWeberWrites I read bad trade fiction. I look at dragging plots and hollow characters and I say “very few people have it 100% together. If I can get what I’m doing done, then I’m in good company.”

[Luna Station @lunaquarterly]

A word after a word after a word is power. - Margaret Atwood

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

I go over the reasons not to use two paragraph marks in a row to create space and what to do instead. https://t.co/2J0JyKJxpJ

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

Still working on The Fellowship of the Ring though.

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

More than half a year to go and I am so ahead on my reading goals that I have had to up my goal twice. Very proud of myself for getting back into reading for pleasure.

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

Really pushed myself to try new genres too. Didn't think I could enjoy literary fiction or historical fiction, but those have been some of my favorite books this year.

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

I promised myself when I saw Crimes of Grindelwald that I would not go see the next movie in theaters. It was that boring and nonsensical.

But now the new one is out and I'm insanely curious about how they're going to reign in the franchise.

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

Following some personal events, I look into the utility of betrayal in narrative structure. #writing community https://t.co/Qd2zu9QU93

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

I do feel measurably better when my corporate overlords play a sick jokey-joke on me.

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

I discuss the books that caused me harm and my unhealthy relationship with reading. https://t.co/PLX9AAFOs4

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I want to share with y’all some of my favorite classified ads from the back of some of my ‘60s Fantasy and Science Fiction pulp magazines (@fandsf) 1/14

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

I discuss a book review for Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. https://t.co/sdmWcqHJ6A

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

I should not read bad reviews of books I've just read. This is gonna be my whole day now.

[Hope Siegel @relaxdraft]

I go through my self-indulgent reading spreadsheet and some basics on how to use Apple's Numbers #books #BookCommunity #writing https://t.co/hR8OpHRE8s

[Author James Fuller @AuthorJFuller]

Thankfully this is not me anymore. How about you? Day writer? Night?

[Baratunde @baratunde]

When we ban books in schools before we ban guns, we admit we are more afraid of our children learning than we are of them dying.

[Sean R. Frazier, Author @TheCleftonTwain]

For all the #librarians on my timeline: