Mitchell Hadley

📖 The Book of Revelations “Every life has a story waiting to be revealed.” Nan becomes Robin, Robin becomes Nancy, Nancy becomes Ellen. A life shaped by memory, loss, and the echoes of childhood — until the last story is finally revealed. Coming June 16.

@reeetums Good luck tomorrow, Rita! Praying for you!

I have a big surgery tomorrow and as a mother of small children I'm really looking forward to a long anesthesia nap. Mmmmmm.

@pennyistyping "March Violets," by Philip Kerr.

If you see this, you're obligated to reply with the title of your cr 🧐

@AuthorGFAllen Everything I learned about writing I learned from reading good books and studying why I liked them, what I liked about them, the structures of paragraphs, and the rhythms of sentences. Nothing has ever surpassed those lessons.

Does reading a lot naturally improve writing ability?

@tinyurltweets I think a lot of it has gone way beyond discussing to slandering and outright hostility. Take it from someone who's a veteran of both political and liturgical wars: I know bickering when I see it!

@MitchellDHadley Is it bickering about or discussing? what does one expect of writers if not to write to one another about ideas and constructs and craft?

I'm so tired of the #writerscommunity bickering about AI, I'm beginning to look forward to the political posts again!😂

@GoldJustMLP @PyresMagicka Look, I DON'T feel threatened. But that doesn't address the areas I was discussing: journalists and copywriters, for example, who are losing their jobs to AI. It could be that the market in those areas is fine with something other than "actual."

@MitchellDHadley @PyresMagicka Existential nothing. Actual artists and authors are in no actual danger. We will thrive and survive the way we always have. Consider this your John Henry moment. Look the Devil on that hickory stump and show everyone why you are the best there's ever been.

Why is it so important to people how a post is made? Whether or not AI was used is being discussed as an existential crisis. “How can I trust any writing is real anymore?” Do you think? Can you discern truth from fiction? Who CARES how it was written? What about the point made

@ToraBrinn Thank you - I hope so!

@MitchellDHadley That’s helpful.

No matter how many chapters I’ve written, I still catch myself somehow changing tenses a lot. That will be my biggest editing headache. #WritingCommunity

@nivenrile I'm with you on this.

I fear I may never be one of the cool writer kids because my characters don’t tell me things, nor am I surprised by things that they do—first of all, because I am no longer a kid as most reckon, and also because I plan and write my characters on purpose. Am I missing something?

@ToraBrinn Yes. At some point you just have to close your eyes and start a sentence or two earlier, and read it to yourself and see what tense your inner voice naturally goes to, and go with it.

@MitchellDHadley That’s a difficult one. And something like, “He had been here before,” where the present-tense-type word is a necessity.

@Syla_Fox I'm not directing those thoughts to anyone specifically, but to the whole community. It's wearying.

Nobody wants to read your opinion about ai. Nobody wants to read your opinion about ai. Nobody wants to read your opinion about ai. Nobody wants to read your opinion about ai. Nobody wants to read your opinion about ai. Nobody wants to read your opinion about ai. Nobody wants to read your opinion about ai.

@PyresMagicka It can be; I know of journalists and web writers who've been replaced by AI; some of them are in an existential state of dread. Is it that bad? I don't know, but I acknowlege their concerns as valid, and the effects as being negative. But time will tell.

@MitchellDHadley I don’t see it as an existential threat to writers. Maybe to those who get cancelled by the mob, temporarily. Why do you?

@StARadtrad A very difficult movie to watch, but so much of it was prescient with what's happening today. I thought the ambiguous ending was actually quite effective. It helps to read up on the author of the novel, Brian Moore.

I came across a movie called “Catholics” starring Martin Sheen. It’s about the struggle of a group of Irish monks who refused to go along with the modernist take over of V2. Has anyone else heard of this movie ?

@hwjohnston7 In Word. Start with the skeleton: how many sections (as opposed to chapters or parts). Then, what purpose does each one serve in advancing the plot. Then, what events have to occur in each to make this happen. Look at the scenes that I already know I want and place them.

Plotting a novel is the perfect excuse to buy loads of notebooks and pens. I outline as I write and then rewrite the outline. How do you plot your novels?

@DNicholsAuthor I Have the Remote.

Hey, fellow writers... If you were to write an autobiography about your life, what would the title be? #WritingCommunity #writers #writing #writingq

@Syla_Fox Count me in!

@MitchellDHadley yeah, it's been rough coming into this.. um... climate? from the beautiful, uplifting indie community of yesteryear. Shocking, but Heck, we can build something even nicer somehow, can we not? A tall order, perhaps, but I think we can find some good ones and help each other out!

@Syla_Fox Absolutely right. I've never viewed other authors as anything other than comrades. When one of us succeeds, we all succeed, and when one of us is in trouble, we all are. I know that sounds corny ("quietly corny"?) but if we don't stick up for each other, nobody else will.

@MitchellDHadley Wow thank you so much for reading it! I hope we can all start having a little more fun around here- shit's getting toooo serious all the dang time about some pretty dumb stuff we have no control over. ♥️

@MillerDakotaJ None for family, because it's just my wife and me. Maybe 10 for friends; not sure, could be a couple more or less.

How many copies of your books do you give away to friends/family/marketing? I’ve already given away 20 and just ordered another 10 to have on hand.