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@Kestrel_Bates Ha, I know exactly what you mean. Just getting an agent would feel great. And then comes the bigger fight!

@anyordinarybun But I'm still trying to live in the fantasy where all I need is an agent to be a successful writer. Don't reminder me that there's another step! 😆

We don't talk enough about novels that have died on submission and how confident those authors have been through their entire journey to move on and write even better stories. I see you. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife #authorslife #amquerying #amediting

Accidentally used the phrase "key deliverables" in my draft this morning. The day job is leaking into the manuscript. If my protagonist starts scheduling a stakeholder alignment meeting I'm checking myself into a facility. #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #authorslife

How many drafts did you go through till you decided your novel was ready? Mine went through 7 drafts. Almost as many reinventions as Madonna. Draft 1 would not recognise Draft 7 in a lineup. #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity #writerslife #authorsoftwitter #authorslife

@CoveJay61782 Ha! Multiple copies then.

@anyordinarybun But I’m not gonna lie… Plan D has chaotic legendary author energy. Somewhere out there, a random stranger would absolutely become obsessed with that laminated manuscript on the tube

Querying is Plan A. I not only have a Plan B (serialization), but I also a Plan C (self-pub). Plan D is printing the manuscript, laminating it, and leaving it on the tube for strangers.😂😂😭😭 #amquerying #writingcommunity #amwriting #authorslife #writerslife #5amwritersclub

@jandrewellis That. Would. Be. Awesome.

@anyordinarybun An autopsy perhaps, but then you edit and shoot lightning through it to make it alive.

There is no humbler writer on earth than a pantser like me opening a spreadsheet to reverse-outline their own "word vomit" first draft. It’s a forensic investigation into my own bad choices. #amwriting #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #amquerying #writerslife #novelist

@DBecker1990 Yes, and also there is a random Jason in there who never makes another appearance in any other scene.

@anyordinarybun *reads draft* Oh, so I guess they never learned each other’s names and the antagonist was right about everything.

This. This is what it feels like to me when all the feedback on the manuscripts come in. From the brilliant @gemmacorrell (get her book Anxietyland now!). #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife #fictionwriting #novelist #5amwritersclub

@Kestrel_Bates Also, I love that your name is Kestrel!

@anyordinarybun I have been following this very good advice, but must admit that I am slowly running out of agents to query. 😟

If you're a querying author and feeling like the trenches are extra deep right now, you're not wrong. Even with three fulls out it seems like I'm getting nowhere. Keep at it. If not this one then the next one. Keep at it. #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity #writerslife

@Kestrel_Bates I feel you. If you cross 30 or 40 without any requests, tweak your query letter and try to sharpen your first 3 chapters or first 10K words or 50 pages. Then query another 30. What happens after you get a full request is where I am, and to that I have no answers 🥲

@BryonyDianexx Damn! Writing to deadline is something else. Good luck!

@anyordinarybun I write episodes of a book for my page, but I'm also writing a pilot script and two film scripts with deadlines. The struggle is real 😂 But the hardest part is responding to the comments after posting, it eats more time than the writing.

Trying to draft a short story in the middle of working on a second novel while querying the first one. Harebrained and idea-stupid, because clearly I don't think I have enough problems in my life. #amwriting #amquerying #writerslife #writingcommunity #novelist #5amwritersclub

@annamead551 I'm at amritachowdhury.com!

Writers, do you have a website or blog? Drop your links below and I will happily repost some book links, websites, and anything related to your book! Let’s support each other! #WritingCommunity #WritersLift #IndieAuthor #AmWriting #BookTwitter #book

@GasparHAuthor Ha, I wish. I like observing people and their situations and then my hyperphantasia does the rest.

Good morning! 🌞 Where do your ideas come from? Do they just fall out of the sky? 🤔 #WritersLift #WritingCommunity #Author #thriller #IndieAuthor #AmWriting #GoodMorningPost #GoodMorningMonday #GoodMorning

@NofisatReads Thanks! I write adult upmarket/book club fiction.

@anyordinarybun Great work! What genre does your second novel based on?

If you're a self published or indie author and you write lit fic, book club, upmarket, romance or contemporary fiction, please leave your book links below! Working on a list for the blog #selfpublishing #indieauthor #amwriting #writingcommunity #amreading #boooklovers #bookpromo

@KeruboSk So many. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne. Waste of time. Solo in Singapore, Tanushree Podder. Absolute garbage. Picked it as an airport read and thankfully, no one has ever recommended it.

What’s the worst book you’ve ever read? Not the “so bad it’s entertaining” kind. I mean genuinely painful to finish. The type that still irritates you every time people recommend it online.

@Naomi_A79 *your. Ugh.

@Naomi_A79 It's a gaping maw that keeps stretching because of so many factors: more agents than editors because of the industry hits, low attention economy so you're book absolutely has to be hooky, AI intrusion messing things up....endless.