Jay Heltzer

Just read this passage from “Mrs Death Misses Death” by @salenagodden and I may have a new mantra for creating art. #5amwritersclub #writersoftwitter

In this month's LOW NOTES, I try to apply a year of "Less is More" to my writing desk, and it doesn't go well. Read and subscribe, peoples. #5amwritersclub jayheltzer.substack.com/p/all-the-colo…

First VDP of 2026 is tomorrow, building MOMENTUM for the rest of the year. Plus... first details about the annual Journey to Jupiter in-person writing retreat. You KNOW you want to be there... so be there. #5amWritersClub

Virtual Donut Parties are back for '26, starting this Friday 1/9 at 5am ET via Zoom. How to build MOMENTUM for a successful year -Repetition -Asking little & big questions of your work -Measuring Success -Celebrating without Slowing Down #5amWritersClub DM for the new link

🧠More. ♥️Less. ✋🏻Some? 🧠It needs more. ♥️But not with unnecessary fluff. Move on. ✋🏻Gimme something, please. 🧠We haven't fully told the story. We've barely filled the scene. ♥️The reader understands. We shouldn't be working this hard! ✋🏻Kinda like this post? #5amWritersClub

🧠I'm so tired. Not sleepy tired, but so... ugh. ♥️I get it. You wanna write? 🧠Yeah, but... its easier to not bother. ♥️That's no fun. Writing is fun. 🧠Yeah, but– ♥️Hey... don't ever forget: Writing is fun. Doesn't have to be anything else. 🧠 😀 ✋🏻Game on! #5amWritersClub

♥️The holiday concerts are over. 🧠Halleluyah! ♥️Time to finish with the gifts. 🧠Crap! ♥️But we get to write first. 🧠Halleluyah! ♥️Time to finish that synopsis. 🧠AW CRAP! #5amWritersClub

@KhristinaChess Yeah, this blows!

@JayHeltzer Have a great day, Jay! I hate writing synopsis.

🧠It's synopsis time. ♥️I believe in you. ✋🏻Good luck. 🧠The heroine... The night was... ♥️Take your time. ✋🏻You know the story, right? 🧠On a dark desert highway... ♥️That's not– ✋🏻Oh lord.🤦🏻 🧠Who's the MC again? ♥️This may take a while. ✋🏻I'll make more tea. #5amWritersClub

@RedVoltage11 Meh. Not a good weekend for focus! Thanks.

@JayHeltzer No,but if I see it, Ill let you know

I predict there's going to be a ton of frustrated Wordle players today. Anyhoo, anyone seen my focus? It was here yesterday. #5amWritersClub

@loomis_melody Oh sheet! I dig your beat! (sorry... couldn't resist. I do love the looks of this work though.)

Working on my beat sheet for Hurricane Season! 🌀 ❤️ #5amwritersclub

@JCurtinVA That ship sailed a while ago. The bigger challenge is not drowning in the shit that don't make any sense, and there's a lot of it.

How do we make sense of the world? 🌎 Through the written ✍️word. Working on edits. #5amwritersclub

🧠Its go-time. ♥️Hold on... a few more journal thoughts... ✋🏻We'll be with you in a sec. 🧠... Now? ♥️... 🧠Now?? ♥️... 🧠Now??? ♥️If you don't mind, I need to SCREAM INTO THE VOID AND CAN'T START THE CREATIVE PART TILL I'M DONE, OK? 🧠Damn. ✋🏻Told you. #5amWritersClub

♥️You really need to finish holliday shopping. 🧠What would my MC want for Christmas? ♥️Most of the good stuff is gone. 🧠Are there any gifts in Chapter 6 of my WIP? ♥️You're running out of time. 🧠Time is a plot problem. ♥️Oy, you're your own plot problem. 🤦🏻🎄 #5amWritersClub

@lisabarger “How dare you write something several years before I wish to write something similar!“ The nerve, right?

@JayHeltzer I have sooooo been there. 😬

👀Hey! This best-selling book is like the one we're writing. 🧠Wut? 👀Sweet! It's got scenes just like the ones we wrote. 🧠Come again? 👀Wow. That cool idea we loved... they wrote it much better. 🧠<cry, panic, anger, cry> ♥️It'll be ok. ✋🏻<opens new document> #5amWritersClub

🧠'26 will have big plans, big changes, BIG GOALS! ♥️What about today? 🧠Let's survive today, ok? ♥️Will we be a different person on 1/1? 🧠Same, but new, cool direction. ♥️So, why wait? 🧠Shut up. '26 is our year. ♥️What about today? ✋🏻Today we edit or die!!! #5amWritersClub

@KhristinaChess @SusanGreyWrites Horrendous acts of violence. I trust the world will not spare you and you'll find out soon enough, I'm afraid.

@JayHeltzer @SusanGreyWrites You're making me curious about what might have happened yesterday, as I was successful in not looking.

♥️Please don't look at the news. Let's just write, okay? 🧠It's incomprehensible. 👀We can handle it. ♥️No... yesterday was awful. Please don't. 🧠C'mon, just a few hours of creative work first. ✋🏻<click> 👀... Holy shit... 💔 #5amWritersClub

@SusanGreyWrites My review of Dec 14, 2025: 0/5 ⭐️ Do not recommend

@JayHeltzer I feel like we should be able to unsubscribe.