Piri Shepherd

@AutumnK2022 Well this is a thing, because Monica thinks she is 29. But there is something odd going on about these ages....

How old are the MCs in your current WIP? In my Rapunzel retelling, the MMC is 30 and the FMC is about to celebrate her 25th birthday!

@klhicks912 Well totally, of course. In my dreams. But first I would turn it into a set of graphic novels.

If you could turn your book into a TV show, would you? #writingcommunity

@iaincmgray It's like a high-tech version of the paperclip. Remember the paperclip?

@WilChanWrites I don't. No cat.

Why does every author have a cat?

@CaiRoss21 No I was worried about polio!

Did anyone else spend a disproportionate amount of their childhood worrying that they would die in quicksand? Assuming I hadn’t spontaneously combusted by then.

@AustinJ_P_ Crazy people, that's me.

Are you a normal person who wrote one book and called it good? Or one of those crazy people who hides in a room and writes book after book, even though they don’t get published, but just keeps writing and writing and writing… ? #amwriting #writingcommunity #amquerying

@atgeiger11 You right, grammarly wrong.

Where is my trusty writing community! I choose you over Grammarly. 😅 QUESTION: Is there an apostrophe after girl in this dialogue 👇👇👇 “A girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do.” Grammarly says no, but isn't girl’s short for girl has??

@rueisreading My book club definitely are put off by length.

if you see a book thats 600+ pages do you get put off reading it?

@byMorganWright I have never had 500 likes!

Why is that every time a tweet gets a little too much attention (more than you expected it to), trolls start showing up? Is it like some unwritten rule? Tweet gets over 500 likes & poof, the trolls simply “must” show up in the replies💀🤣? Good morning from Spain, everyone😂❤️!!

@APoetForThePyre I realised recently that the thin guy with the bad skin who smokes and runs off with my MC's wife is actually my first husband....

Writers: have you ever based a not-so-likeable character on someone you know, then worried they might recognize themselves if they read it? #WritingCommunity

@WrnrWrites Be consoled. Half of the brilliant stuff one thinks of in the night turns out to be nonsense in the morning.

I’ve woken up in the middle of the night with brilliant ideas for my book 4 times in the last 10 days, adamant that I didn’t need to make a note and would remember them in the morning Alas, I have forgotten each one and I’m so annoyed at myself for thinking I’m better than I am.

@meikiecakie My slippers are going-outdoors slippers.

I’ve been out in the garden in my dressing gown, meant to just be a little stroll round with the Bear. Start ripping the ivy of my laburnum and attempting to train the clematis up there instead for the umpteenth time. An hour later my slippers are muddy 🙄. Anyone else do this?

@CharyseAAuthor "Process"...?

What does your writing process look like?

@WardProWords @AuthorGFAllen This is good advice.

@AuthorGFAllen It's not tough to take constructive critique personally if you take charge. Set the focus of the feedback. Don't ask people for their "opinion" - ask them for their perspective, to pose it as questions, and challenge the ideas. I typically don't start this process until Draft 4+

How do you handle constructive criticism on your writing? It's tough not to take it personally sometimes. #writerslife

@AuthorGFAllen I am so bad at this. And it's so hard to distinguish between useful criticism, and un-useful. Sometimes the critic may mean well but not get what you're trying to do. In which case it's not the specific criticism which is the problem, but maybe something wider.

@CarolaHuttmann @StephDRondeau Yeah I'm with you on this one, not because it was difficult but because I just didn't get the connection between prescription drugs addiction, and Dickens' David Copperfield.

@StephDRondeau I simply couldn't get into Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead. I hate myself for it, because I *love* all her other books. That novel just took me too far out of my comfort zone and I couldn't engage.

Do you ever read a book that is *extremely* highly regarded, and when you don’t connect, feel a little bad about it? Asking for me. Because I’m currently struggling with a book that is APPARENTLY God’s gift to the earth. But all it makes me want to do is sleep 😴

@MorganSloan215 Nightstand is American, isn't it? Bedside table is English / Irish.

@AuthorGFAllen "Harvey". But that's a working title and will not survive editing I suspect! It may end up being "TwoThree" instead.

What's the title of your current WIP?

@AustinJ_P_ My only reason to write is to somehow try to give reality to the story inside my head. There are so many of us jostling for commercial viability, I don't feel there is any point joining in!

Is it better to write what you want to write, or what you think other people will want to read? #amwriting #writingcommunity

@PurgePaladin Agreed! I long ago gave up being worried about commercial viability.

@PiriShepherd are you worried that it won't be commercially viable? or that people won't like the topic/genre? cuz being 'minimum commercial viable' should not be the goal, nor is that a sign that the book's worth reading.

Are there any readers on here at all or are we all writers futilely screaming into the void hoping someone reads our work? #WritingCommunity #writingq