#amwriting

  1. Come sit with me at Sukiyabashi Jiro tomorrow and be served by a master Shokunin! #writer #amwriting #travel #traveler #storyteller #sukiyabashijiro #JiroOno #LifeInParts
  2. Milestone

    Significant milestone today on the WIP: 70K+ words passed, which is about average for my books. One or two more chapters to go. Fake cover from random website attached. #amwriting #writing
  3. Small Magics, 14

    "The urge to disappear into the forest and become folklore is a thing that many people experience, not just magical practitioners. That shit is not "mystical" or "spiritual" or "revolutionary". Hells, it's not even particularly imaginative." #AmWriting #SmallMagics #Fiction
  4. The Pros(e) And Cons Of English #Limerick #Limericks #Humor #Humour #Language #Wordplay #English #Poetry #Verse #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
  5. "Who am I when I'm stripped of my familiarities? What do I believe when all my usual signposts are gone? How do I feel struggling to speak and communicate? Where do I fit in around the people who came to the same place to experience everything?" To travel is to look deep inside yo
  6. NEW PODCAST EPISODE!

    Join us in conversation with Andrew Crofts, one of England's most prominent ghostwriters. Andrew got his start by taking out a three-word ad in the British trade publication The Bookseller : "Ghostwriter for Hire." He ran the ad every week for nearly fifteen years, only giving u
  7. Good progress on the current draft this afternoon. Not done for the evening but taking a break. Putting on a pot of coffee. I have a life to end in this chapter and I’m not ready. #amwriting #wip #workinprogress #book #ath #speculativefiction #writersofinstagram
  8. I can't believe I didn't know this before

    We are doing some high brow learning here. Any other body oddities I should know about? Link below to my Instagram post: I can't believe I didn't know this before #TodayILearned #HowTheHellDidINotKnowThat #LearnSomethingNewEveryDay #LearningOfTheDay #FactOfTheDay #TheMoreYouKnow #Di
  9. EPILOGUE-- initial word count: 2573 revised word count: 2374 now i've only got to do one last run-through of my list of filter words on the full manuscript, and it's off to the races. the #AmQuerying races, that is. #EastCity #AmWriting #AmRevising #WritersOfPost
  10. About This Writing Stuff...

    This month on the blog, Philip Athans explores the concept of originality in fiction while Chris Winkle shows us how we can effectively suspend disbelief in our readers. Kristen Lamb explains the value of book reviews to an author's career while Garry Rogers illustrates how the Fe