Roberta Carr

Writer - journalist/academic, writing a novel. Love Georgette Heyer and quizzes. I #followback writers. Please add me on Goodreads!

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OK everyone I joined @goodreads but I could really do with some friends over there! If anyone would like to add me I'd be grateful. https://t.co/0sr0ZdOtHq

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Can you help me identify this book? It begins with a cat burglar breaking into the flat of a government minister in London on New Year's Eve. He uses the cover of the fireworks to blast into the safe, looking for jewels. However, he accidentally takes away some secret papers.

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@SurtseyAna 😂 very evocative! Might have to channel a little of that energy!

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Does anyone else struggle for motivation when it comes to writing the last chapter of a book? I'm there and it's going soooo slooowly, and I think it's some sort of fear of it ending. Not sure how to tackle it, this is a recurrent problem.

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@4BethCarpenter Ah yes, that may be it! I'm gritting my teeth and grimly keeping going.

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@Shiv_who_burns Dangerous business, reading AO3 on the train...

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@joan_galt I only outline in my head. I feel that writing it down would kill it for me, don't know why!

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Just reached 100,000 words on my WIP which I think is honestly a bit too long. I've lived with these characters for so long and I can't let them go, so I keep on giving them more problems to deal with! Can anybody relate?

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Just reached 100,000 words on my WIP which I think is honestly a bit too long. I've lived with these characters for so long and I can't let them go, so I keep on giving them more problems to deal with! Can anybody relate?

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@spinningfables Hi 👋

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@aweighwithaword Fabulous, well done!

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@TimothyBalding Oh - it says I'm following you! Puzzling

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If you're a writer and I'm not following you back, let me know. Twitter doesn't always notify me 🤷‍♀️

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@vivianavasiu92 Hi 👋

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In February I decided I'd write fiction every single day. I've stuck to it religiously, with the exception of when I was backpacking without my computer! It's improved my sense of wellbeing immensely - no day is wasted when you've created something. Who's the same?

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Seven weeks later and I've just hit 90,000! Wasn't really expecting it to be this long. Definitely in the final act now though. I'll be bereft without it once it's done.

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Just hit 50,000 words on my WIP, can I have a wahoo?

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@sophiakb_writes I would very rarely reach the top end of your range!

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How much does everyone write per day? Since I started writing daily I average a little over 800 words, which on the one hand seems OK given that I work full time, but on the other hand sometimes feels lazy!

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@TNiederriter I think I write more when I write less daily rather than more irregularly, but of course it doesn't work for everyone.

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@lisekimhorton I know, more just interested really!

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@stevenjdaniels Ha ha lol! I'm constrained to write only AFTER cocktail hour.

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@JackCanis Ooh yes, the trials of ageing..