D.A. Schaeffer
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D.A. Schaeffer
@Purlandion
Middle grade/YA fiction writer, author of The Boy in the Balloon, Book One of the Purlandion Chronicles. NO DM's unless requested please.
My wife died in March, 2026, and that day my fiction writing stopped. But now, I’m ready to start again. I promise a committment to writing daily with the goal of my next novel releasing in the near future. (posting to stay accountable).
I got an acceptance for another story. I’m excited!
I just had a moment with writing I haven’t had in a long time. I wrote for a few hours almost uninterrupted. I didn’t even realize how much I had written. Turns out it was 4800 words. Wow.
I sat down to write a play tonight. Wrote a few sentences and then realized I have no clue how to write a play
Entertainment. You are competing with tv, movies, games, and life for someone's time- to help them escape or make sense of their world.
I can’t believe it guys—I’ve gotten my first major review today and I couldn’t be more thrilled. My fellow Kaleidoscopic Quill authors and I were reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. I’m crying over the kind words 🥹 big shout out to @demimschwartz for championing and editing my work
Waking up to a message from a friend (who doesn't really read much) saying he read the last 200 pages of the third and final book in my thriller series 'The Columbus Archives' in one sitting is the kind of stuff author dreams are made of! 😍 #amwriting #indieauthor
@Purlandion I love that. It sounds less like you study the subject and more like you're in an ongoing conversation with it. As a writer, I find the ideas that stay with us the longest are often the ones that keep revealing new layers. Has any layer changed the way you write or see your work?
@Purlandion This has the feeling of a line that reveals more every time you revisit it. Has its meaning changed for you over time?
adults who reread the same novels every few years aren't stuck — they're using fiction the way other people use therapy, returning to a stable mirror to measure who they've quietly become since the last reading. leravi.org/adults-who-rer… via @wpsharebuttons
First edit complete for my newest fantasy novel! Dipping into the adult world - ⭐️ One more editing round, and she’ll be ready for query/formal edits! 👏✨ This might be my favorite place in the process. What’s yours? #writingcommunity
@Purlandion What wasn’t nice?
About 6 months ago I submitted a story to The Masters Review Winter Story Award (a journal I’d never had much luck with), and yesterday I got an email saying it had made it onto the longlist. Not exactly a win, but nice that it got into the last 2 percent of about 2,000 entries.