Debra Birdwell Winkler ✡️💜

@byMorganWright How sad. I'm crinching like a fingernail was scraping across a black board! 😬

Just saw someone write “would of” instead of “would’ve”. … Consequently, the little grammar & spelling fairy inside my soul died😭🥴💀🤣. (Yes, I’m dramatic, shush🤣)

@klhicks912 Kayla, I have 7 written (& edited) & 1 planned. I have been querying but no nibbles. BTW, I'm no longer posting on Twitter/X because my webmaster traced some problems. This is my last post to you, but I wanted to say I've been enjoying posting with you. Take care! 💜

How many books do you have planned?

@klhicks912 98,890 words in a romantic suspense. An editor said I had to cut it down to 84,000 to be published.

Whats the highest word count you've reached for a manuscript? Mine is 70k

@klhicks912 Mmmm... I'd be honored my book was chosen for a movie & would ask if I could be involved with the production. Once rights are sold, there's not much an author can do but bask in the limelight!

If you were offered to have your book turned into a movie, would you worry about them ruining it? I ask this as the common argument is, the book was better than the movie. #Bookstomovies #writingcommunity

[2/2] can't kill all the Jewish people. So make arrangements to release all hostages & lay down your weapons. Am Yisrael Chai!!!** 🕊️🗳️✍️💻 🇺🇲🇮🇱✡️💜 #Authors #Writers #WritingCommunity #WomenWritersNet #WritersLife #WritersSupportingWriters #TheWritersWarmth @WritersParadise

Simple Happy Sunday. **Don't forget to vote!!!** Today was an easy day. Spending time with family is always happy. Memories I have are the foundation of my stories. Hope your day was full of a joyous feeling you can write about! **Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran: You [1/2]

[2/2] is held as part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. This event is open to Adults only. **Don't forget to vote!!!** 🕊️🗳️✍️💻 🇺🇲🇮🇱✡️💜 #Authors #Writers #WritingCommunity #WomenWritersNet #WritersLife #WritersSupportingWriters #TheWritersWarmth @WritersParadise

Today from 4:00-5:45p join our LUW Romance Chapter as we present "Romancing the Book." Learn about romance writing at this interactive workshop. All experience levels welcome! This event [1/2]

@DRRanshaw Ditto!!! 💜

Amen.

@AuthorGoodwin The 10 Commandments say to "Honor your parents." It doesn't say to love them forever, especially when they've harmed you in any way. They gave you birth, that's all! You are YOU because of how you responded to the hurt. I found myself & stopped the cycle. You can too! GOOD LUCK!

Is it best to avoid a relationship with toxic parents? I've not spoken to my dad in 13 years because he refuses to apologise for hurting me. Now my step mum wants to talk... I've cut ties with my mum a year back because she returned to alcoholism and was drunk looking after my kids. Now she wants to talk... I just want to live a stress-free life and not have to deal with my parents' crap. Do I just ignore them? Or should I talk?

[4/4] but throughout the World! **Don't forget to vote!!!** 🕊️🗳️✍️💻 🇺🇲🇮🇱✡️💜 #Authors #Writers #WritingCommunity #WomenWritersNet #WritersLife #WritersSupportingWriters #TheWritersWarmth @WritersParadise

[3/4] are supported by Iran in an attempt to make all countries in the world Shia Jihadists. This is just a reminder of what is happening, not just in the Middle East, [3/4]

Remember what happened in Beirut, Lebanon, on 23 October 1983: 220 U.S. Marines, 18 Navy Sailors, & 3 Army Soldiers were killed when Hezbollah suicide bombers blew up the U.S. Marine barracks. The U.S. military was there at the request of the Lebanese government to help [1/4]

@janeholland1 Jane, don't compare yourself to others. You are amazing to write 3-4 novels a year & you have thousands of followers. I have no where near your followers. I have one book & lots of short stories out. I'm jealous of you. So, congratulations on all your accomplishments🎉 Yay you🎉

What am I doing wrong, peeps? Just saw someone with a couple of hundred followers saying she'd finished her novel after writing it for 2 years, and her post had over 700 likes. 😱 I write novels in 3 months or less. Finish the damn things all the time. Nobody gives a stuff.

@MetzgerKaty Nothing is wrong with you. You're a writer & the sky is your limit!

Drafts 1-10: No, I can't move this scene or do it a different way. It only works this way! Draft 11: Omg, what if I moved this scene & did it this other way? It'd be amazing!

@katieemorann Used to journal. Now, I post a little something on social media every day & write. ✍️💻💜

Do you journal?

@klhicks912 Both & more. When I finish a MS, I give it a quick review/edit & send it to beta readers. I update my MS w/their edits, sending it to paid editors who send back their suggestions. From there I update my MS based on those suggestions. Not easy but my story is better afterwards. ☺️

Do you hire an editor or do you edit your own work? #writingcommunity

[4/4] surrender & release all the hostages so war can be over. Peace for all will follow!!!** 🕊️🗳️👩‍🔧🧑‍🔧✍️💻 🇺🇲🇮🇱✡️💜 #Authors #Writers #WritingCommunity #WomenWritersNet #WritersLife #WritersSupportingWriters #TheWritersWarmth @WritersParadise

[3/4] for writing stories. Whether writing fiction & especially nonfiction in any genre, don't cheat your readers by not researching your storyline. ( I don't write anything about engines or technical engineering, I'm not a mechanic nor an engineer!) **Hamas should just [3/4]

Tuesday Tips. When I write my stories, I want to be as accurate as possible in writing my stories w/o being totally constricted to just the facts. Several years ago I began reading a romance story set in 1832 London where a child was sleeping with a teddy bear. Teddy bears [1/4]