John Greystone

@lhallwriter Inspiring! Thank you for the boost in motivation!

Over the years I have learned that it is never too late for a book to find success. My debut launched nearly 10 years ago and sat with a handful of ratings for a long time. Today is has nearly 400. Keep going 💪

@ChrisC_Writes Short-form videos for sure are hitting attention spans. It's hitting the movie industry too.

Is short-form video destroying our collective attention span for reading, or are books just getting boring?

@NovelistNotions Got you back. Always happy to encourage folks to keep writing!!

@GreystoneJohn Thanks John. Needed to hear that today. Threw you a follow by the way

I have a lot of drafts sitting in folders on my computer. They are not sitting there because I think they are bad writing. They sit there because, though the themes are important to me, I run into doubts as to whether they would sell. That ends today. Write what you feel, friends. The right audience will find you. #WritingCommunity

@AlisonLyleBooks Amazing!

I was so busy working on my next book that I almost missed this milestone... 1,000,000 Kindle Unlimited page reads! 🎉🎉🎉 I'm so excited and grateful. Thank you to every single reader who kept turning those pages!! On to the next million! 😊

@AuthorGFAllen Definitely. Going to the bookstore and finding a new paperback is the best.

Anyone else still prefer physical books over ebooks or audiobooks?

@The_Grimwalker Fantastic feeling for sure! Congratulations!!

This was fantastic to wake up to. Nothing quite like when a reader LOVES your work. Makes all the stress and anxiety worth it.

@AuthorGFAllen Jeff VanderMeer. He has a lot of hits, some better than others, but always worth the time spent reading.

Do you have a favorite author you always pick up, even if you haven’t read their book yet?

@Ava4you_ Oh there's been quite a few books I picked up off the shelf just because I like the cover design haha!

@GreystoneJohn I strongly agree… people really do judge a book by its cover😂

A good cover makes you pick the book up, a good synopsis is what makes you buy it. (In my humble opinion of course). #readers #booklover #bookcover

@theGrimWriter I usually jot it down and let it incubate until the one I'm working on is done!

#WritingCommunity I’m curious. What do you do when you get another book idea but are already writing a book? Do you work on both books? Or do you write the idea down? #writingq #authors

@ZB_Steele That's amazing! Inspiring to see and congratulations!

Song of the Damned has hit 2 million page reads 📈🎉 Surreal number to hit, actually took my breath away seeing how many page reads Whispers of the Storm & Rising Gale have gotten this month Blessed, thankful, and working every day to bring book 3! 🫶

@JohnAdcox Congrats! That's big!

Also, y’all, I finished writing a novel today!

Has writing in a genre ever made you like that genre more or turned you away from the genre? #writerscommunity

@ChrisC_Writes In the words of Barney Stinson it's wait for it (comma) legendary

Using commas where they shouldn't be for dramatic pauses, can read like a typo. Omitting commas where they should be can make the prose look clunky and overstylized and bloated. Breaking rules for irony, however, works well sometimes. 😉 Writers, how's your comma game?

@MattWhelanUK Now it gets fun! I love round one of editing!

Finished the first draft of my high fantasy novel today. 131,000 words at final count. Really, really enjoyed writing this one. Now for the looooooong road of editing.

@DelendaStories Definitely the toughest part of the publishing journey!

I LOVE writing books. I HATE promoting them.

@SsempalaEd23472 Absolutely! Direction is everything

This might offend some writers: Readers rarely quit books because of one bad page. They often quit because the book feels directionless. #WritingCommunity #Authors

@Jameswriter371 This... 100%

Writing a book, published or self published, is one of the greatest achievements of all time. You have to agree!?

@itsdylanmercer I change up what I'm writing if I'm stuck during a novel. Nothing like a five page short story to shake something loose!

To all the writers out there: How do you keep writing when you're in a mental slump? I'm struggling to sit down and write because external anxiety is so pervasive I can't enjoy what I'm doing. #amwriting #writingcommunity