Rebekah Yoder

@WeirdMedieval Teenage mutant ninja plague frogs Teenage mutant ninja plague frogs

plague of frogs, spain, 12th century

@OSPyoutube SPAAAAAAAAAACE

making promising strides in my reboot propaganda campaign -R

All writers are mad scientists. You hide away from civilization, staring at screens in the darkness as you concoct strange tales. Still, if it works, if the story is good, then it's all worthwhile. Sometimes being a mad scientists pays off.

@jodyjsperling When isn't it? A few of those broken rules will become "common errors," then "casual usage," then grudgingly accepted, then they'll be in the dictionary. That's language for ya!

Why is breaking the rules of grammar so popular at this time?

@Borderlander_P @SarahCAndersen All Star by Smash Mouth automatically started playing in my head when I saw this image.

I'm not complaining though. I don't care if the trope is kind of ridiculous, I love it anyway 😂 Fanfic sometimes is just "screw being serious, let's have fun" and I love that for it. Just take it -> 👑

Fanfic characters never JUST catch the flu. There's a special sickfic strain for max drama: isolated characters become helpless within hours and need rescuing, characters keeping secrets blurt things out while feverish, and sometimes it's literally bioengineered by your enemies.

@MillerEditorial Anyway, I also loved the book Eragon when I was 13. Everything that book said had already been said better by Star Wars, but I didn't care. Sometimes originality just really doesn't matter as much as we think it does.

@MillerEditorial Snark aside, they are different works even though they cover very similar themes. Longfellow wrote his while processing grief, so it's written as a rebellion against despair, while the heavy metal song is more exuberant. Their voices are different despite their shared topic.

Feeling uninspired lately. Some days it seems like everything you want to say has already been said better by someone else. How do you fight that feeling?

@jodyjsperling Exactly!

@readystetgo I tweet like the former and write novels like the latter.

I have been Perceived.

@SendenStories Terry Pratchett, obviously.

You can bring back one author from the dead to finish one more novel. Who is it and why? #WritingCommunity #booktwt #readingcommunity

This is your periodic reminder that betaing is about offering suggestions, not solutions. Allow me to repeat... Betaing = offering suggestions, not solutions. You wanna be helpful, certainly, but pls trust me that a massage tool is better than a worksite tool in this case.

@jodyjsperling Sometimes I turn it on for bends in the road, it's just that automatic. I also live in the Midwest, where if you hear honking it means someone actually did something dangerous and then everyone looks around to see what happened.

Do you use a turn signal in a dedicated turn lane?

I keep making the same notes reading self published work: - show me character via action, body language, speech - dont build up tension then stop to explain it - chapters need structure just like stories - every scene needs a reason: plot, character or action #WritingCommunity

@emily_glenister We know publishing professionals work nights and weekends. It'd say to me that you don't put things off! Just as long as you wouldn't get upset with an author who replied on Monday.

Unrepped authors, I’m curious to know: if an agent you had submitted to emailed you on a Sunday, asking perhaps for a phone call or meeting etc, would that be a red flag for you? Or does the day of the week not matter (prior commitments notwithstanding)?

thinking about the best publishing advice i ever got, which is whenever you're feeling jealous about someone else's professional success, ask yourself if you would trade the book you're writing for theirs

@D138Mohd @marilynnvicente @jodyjsperling xkcd.com/513/

@marilynnvicente @jodyjsperling Does your friend usually make the nice guy friend who is treated as a push over by his lady crush who he tries to comfoet after every break up she has from dating fuck boys become the murderer?? 🤨🤨🤨

What should thriller writers learn from romance writers?