Mark Wheats

Having my theory, ‘The Spike that Intervenes: How I Accidentally Solved Drood’ published in the summer 2024 edition of The Dickensian feels like I’ve just been knighted by Charles Dickens himself! (I can officially die now.)

@DonnaSundblad Happy Birthday! 🎉🎈🎂

It’s my birthday! 🎂 Feeling grateful for cheesecake, coffee… and the ‘undo’ button—without it, Chapter 29 of my WIP might not have survived. ✍️🐾 Now on chapter 30. #BirthdayMood #AmWriting

If you love Charles Dickens (like me), be sure to view Dr. Lydia Craig’s article in Dickens Studies Annual, “Recent Dickens Studies: 2024.” (There’s also a brief summary of my “Spike that Intervenes” theory under the Law, Crime, and Detection section.) Happy reading! 📚

@BenMank77 #4, with hopes the plane would go down and we’d get stranded on a desert island. :::wiggling eyebrows like Groucho:::

Nine. First, like most of us, I love a middle seat. Two, I love the tension of a long awkward silence. Where are we headed?

@vickyweberbooks This falls under the “I believe“ category: That by writing fiction, you can accidentally solve the world’s greatest literary mystery and have your theory published in an academic journal.

What’s something you believed about publishing that you don’t believe anymore?

@lady_valor_07 There were always some crazy kids who would grab the beams atop the roof and hang from them. (Oftentimes those are the ones to look out for.)

@lady_valor_07 :::raising hand::: I did. What it really came down to was not wanting to look like a coward in front of your gym class. (I say this because I would be perfectly fine being a coward by not climbing it if I were alone.)

Who really did this ?

In the “funniest faces while performing”category, Keith Moon shall always reign supreme. youtu.be/moNGqf6iSME?si…

@oelma__ Homefries

What’s missing...

@DoseOfDickens Wishing you a wonderful 2026, my true friend Daily!

‘How are you, ma’am? Wery glad to see you, indeed, and hope our acquaintance may be a long ‘un, as the gen’l’m’n said to the fi’ pun’ note’ - Sam Weller The Pickwick Papers, 1836-

@DickensFellowHQ I love this—it has become a holiday tradition among Christmas shows!

Tonight on Channel 4.

@TheaLanden Anita on a pita (onomatopoeia)?

OH SHIT, I ALMOST FORGOT It's December 1st, and you've heard of Elf on a Shelf, so it's time for...

@poppygibsonuk There’s no “the”?

Can you spot what’s unusual with this paragraph?? 👀

@bethcarter007 Most definitely a plotter than a pantser. (Aren’t those two Of the names of Santa’s reindeer?) 😉

This is my writing style. I'm a pantser (sometimes called a discovery writer.) Basically, I let the characters take over and write from the seat of my pants. Several author friends are pantsers, but some are strict plotters (outliners). My husband, an engineer, would definitely be a plotter IF he wrote. There's also a middle ground called a plantser. Half of each method. Which are you, author friends?

@HDunn_Writer I don’t think I’ve ever read a highlighted book whereas the highlights were something beneficial. (At a very young age, we learn we can’t rely on others to do our reading.)

@kaulshaee Congratulations!📜🍾

okay it’s not cute anymore someone tagged gr*k so closing the replies now

@a_bookishgirl Precisely what’s missing from today’s AI society: heart and soul.

I live for books that bruise the heart a little, ones that make you cry and forget about work or study till the last page. Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is one of those. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booktwt

Gotta like rookie Jaxson Dart on the NY Giants. (He’s like something out of Lord of the Flies.)

@SketchesbyBoze My advice, just imagine you’re a detective, solving the mystery of each word as you go along. (Other than that, you may want to wait for the “text edition” to come out [with emojis]).

all-time great review from someone who doesn't know what “pious” means and refuses to look it up

@DailyFlickNY @tcm youtu.be/218iXiKhKlg?si…

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Alfred Hitchcock made cameos in almost every film that he directed. Can you spot Hitch? Don't forget to join us for another Sundays with Hitch double feature starting with NOTORIOUS ('46) followed by THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH ('56).