Scott Jackson

Canadian in 🇺🇸.
🎓 BYU & Queen's.
⛪Latter-day Saint.
💼 Publishing @CedarFortBooks
📕 tips for #Writers

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

(Day 2 #NaPoWriMo
Cont'd)

"At least I'll be done, for at twelve-O-one..."
Naught'll be left but self-reproaches.

Though still not perfect, you must submit it,
Near rhymes, miscounts, and ... cockroaches."

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

Day 2 #napowrimo2022 :
The eleventh hour, especially dour,
When the deadline fast approaches.

You type and you sweat, full up with regret.
Soon fear and despair encroaches.

(Last two stanzas in thread #characterlimit)

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

I haven't been on in forever but I started #NaPoWriMo yesterday so here's my first poem (2nd in following Tweet--thread).

"Thatching the front lawn,
Yellow strands entwined in tines,
Space left for green shoots."

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

@Lin_Manuel I just watched encanto with my family and it was awesome. Thank you for the wonderful songs you made for it :-)

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

@StudioSakizzie Sad face, will you have a second chance?

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

@BrandSanderson That's awesome :D.

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

@JM_Herrington Thanks :)

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

I'm on the 4th draft and this is already true lol. #amediting #writingcommunity #writer

[Jason Herrington @JM_Herrington]

😂😂😂😂

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

https://t.co/luugefrE8X
Not sure if you've seen this yet @BrandSanderson but thought it was pretty great :p #stormlightarchives

[sunny 🌦 (hiatus) @sunnyvwrites]

self deprecating humor about your writing is OUT self mythologizing humor about your writing is IN. no more "lol they're going to reject me" just "lol this piece is going to be told millennia from now in aged murals upon the walls and it will bring torrents of rain to the people"

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

@EmilyKaitlinnn Unfortunately I vacillate between the two between #writing and #editing lol. #writerslife

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

#betareaders are so important. My book is going to be at least 531x better because of them :p #writerslife #amediting

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

As a #writer you often have to "kill your darlings."

So... I suppose that I have become a CONTRACT killer of darlings!

Watch for my #RegencyRomance with @CedarFortBooks early next year!

#amwriting #writingcommunity

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

So #betareaders are reviewing my manuscript before I have to turn it in to the publisher, and one mentioned the sheer number of ellipses in my #WIP.

So with ellipses and dashes, dashes and ellipses, It appears that I'm writing in literal Morse code! 😭 lol

#amediting #writing

[Draw and Talk @tyler_c_world]

Last night someone told me my art was bad and I should get better. Those comments always hurt. But I have to remind myself that I’ve come a long way in 6 years. Here’s a splash page I did in 2015, and one I did last night. I’m still growing. Give me another 6 years 👉👌💦

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

@dustinhitz I'm learning how to do this myself, but-- besides well-motivated characters-- I'm trying to focus on where the best conflicts happen, and bring those to the forefront. #amediting

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

Like sorcerers of time immemorial whose bodies break down as a cost for their power, I too pay in years off of my life...

Though, instead of unspeakable powers, I gain hours of scrolling late into the nigh--and to still wake up for work the next day, somehow. #LifeGoesOn

[Arlynn Lake, Professional Optimist @DrWhoWhatWhyHow]

What has 4 letters, occasionally has 12 letters, always has 6 letters, but never has 5 letters

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

@Donna_Munt Lol, true. This one is a #RegencyRomance though :p

[Scott Jackson @scottjackson300]

Apparently I had Vermillion and Veridian mixed up... I described a guys eyes as a freaky red color :p #writerslife #amediting