Cat Melville
@catmelville.bsky.social
Wrestling with a tricky second novel. (The first one is safely tied up in a drawer.) 💙📚👀
Time spent reading:writing = 10:1
#writingcommunity #amquerying
Time spent reading:writing = 10:1
#writingcommunity #amquerying
July 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
When you chase your dreams but they’re stuck in 1080p
#CatvsTV #pets
#FelineFails #writer #writingcommunity 💙📚
#CatvsTV #pets
#FelineFails #writer #writingcommunity 💙📚
July 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
When you chase your dreams but they’re stuck in 1080p
#CatvsTV #pets
#FelineFails #writer #writingcommunity 💙📚
#CatvsTV #pets
#FelineFails #writer #writingcommunity 💙📚
The pups checked I was in the bath and then took the opportunity to steal my stuff #pets #writer #writingcommunity 💙📚
May 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The pups checked I was in the bath and then took the opportunity to steal my stuff #pets #writer #writingcommunity 💙📚
Reposted by Cat Melville
The 5th best #Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is The Birds from 1963.
On our rewatch of The Birds, we discuss Bob Newhart sketches, lava lamps and television show Birdland, before closing out with genuine audio from our local cockatoos
overcast.fm/+AAyngGBR1Kw
On our rewatch of The Birds, we discuss Bob Newhart sketches, lava lamps and television show Birdland, before closing out with genuine audio from our local cockatoos
overcast.fm/+AAyngGBR1Kw
HitchPod Rewatch Countdown - Number 5, The Birds — HitchPod - A Podcast About Alfred Hitchcock Movies
The 5th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is The Birds from 1963. On our rewatch of The Birds, we discuss Bob Newhart sketches, lava lamps and television show Birdland, before closing ou...
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March 31, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The 5th best #Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is The Birds from 1963.
On our rewatch of The Birds, we discuss Bob Newhart sketches, lava lamps and television show Birdland, before closing out with genuine audio from our local cockatoos
overcast.fm/+AAyngGBR1Kw
On our rewatch of The Birds, we discuss Bob Newhart sketches, lava lamps and television show Birdland, before closing out with genuine audio from our local cockatoos
overcast.fm/+AAyngGBR1Kw
I wrote 800 words by dictating into my phone while walking the dog today. Pretty sure that shifted me out of GenX into GenZ. #writer #writingcommunity 📚
Anyone ever free write into a notebook or a notepad app on their phone while they're at work? Or be reading a book at home and constantly pushing it aside because you keep getting ideas for your own stories? I've been feeling that a lot lately
#writers #writingcommunity #authors
#writers #writingcommunity #authors
March 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I wrote 800 words by dictating into my phone while walking the dog today. Pretty sure that shifted me out of GenX into GenZ. #writer #writingcommunity 📚
Any #petpeeves related to the books you’ve recently read?
Mine is use of epigraphs - especially multiple quotes - at the start of books and chapters. I’m heartily sick of it.
#writingcommunity 💙📚
Mine is use of epigraphs - especially multiple quotes - at the start of books and chapters. I’m heartily sick of it.
#writingcommunity 💙📚
January 15, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Any #petpeeves related to the books you’ve recently read?
Mine is use of epigraphs - especially multiple quotes - at the start of books and chapters. I’m heartily sick of it.
#writingcommunity 💙📚
Mine is use of epigraphs - especially multiple quotes - at the start of books and chapters. I’m heartily sick of it.
#writingcommunity 💙📚
A beta reader has made this comment about my synopsis: "It's very matter of fact, without the snarky, humorous tone of your novel. Is this the done thing with a synopsis – to focus on clarity over voice?"
Help! Should I insert more voice into my synopsis?
#writingcommunity #amquerying #writer
Help! Should I insert more voice into my synopsis?
#writingcommunity #amquerying #writer
January 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A beta reader has made this comment about my synopsis: "It's very matter of fact, without the snarky, humorous tone of your novel. Is this the done thing with a synopsis – to focus on clarity over voice?"
Help! Should I insert more voice into my synopsis?
#writingcommunity #amquerying #writer
Help! Should I insert more voice into my synopsis?
#writingcommunity #amquerying #writer
I must’ve done a previous pass on my ms, changing the sequential “and”s to “and then”.
Just changed them all back.
What do you think?
Eg: I knocked and (then) entered.
#writer #amquerying #writingcommunity
Just changed them all back.
What do you think?
Eg: I knocked and (then) entered.
#writer #amquerying #writingcommunity
January 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I must’ve done a previous pass on my ms, changing the sequential “and”s to “and then”.
Just changed them all back.
What do you think?
Eg: I knocked and (then) entered.
#writer #amquerying #writingcommunity
Just changed them all back.
What do you think?
Eg: I knocked and (then) entered.
#writer #amquerying #writingcommunity
Reposted by Cat Melville
mary shelley’s frankenstein is a timeless classic that dares to ask the question which one of these mfers is supposed to be the monster.
January 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
mary shelley’s frankenstein is a timeless classic that dares to ask the question which one of these mfers is supposed to be the monster.
We got an ensuite but Santa got there first.
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 25, 2024 at 4:46 AM
We got an ensuite but Santa got there first.
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
Reposted by Cat Melville
Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
December 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
Any #Lost fans out there? New podcast!
Remember this conversation over on Twitter? Of course you don't. You're not a weird obsessive. Nevertheless, it happened.
And so, naturally, it's transformed, like so many things do, into a podcast. A #Lost podcast. (The first one ever? Maybe.)
Come join us. Subscribe!
linktr.ee/lostwithinlo...
And so, naturally, it's transformed, like so many things do, into a podcast. A #Lost podcast. (The first one ever? Maybe.)
Come join us. Subscribe!
linktr.ee/lostwithinlo...
December 24, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Any #Lost fans out there? New podcast!
For anyone who feels like their #amquerying is fruitless, I give you my dog burying a stolen sock.
#writingcommunity 💙📚
#writingcommunity 💙📚
December 17, 2024 at 2:03 AM
For anyone who feels like their #amquerying is fruitless, I give you my dog burying a stolen sock.
#writingcommunity 💙📚
#writingcommunity 💙📚
SEVERANCE meets THE NOTEBOOK with THURSDAY MURDER CLUB humour
The hospital elevator transports a nurse back 15 years to her dead ex’s apartment, where her baby sleeps and her ex tries to change history. An elderly patient offers wise advice, but has secrets of her own.
#holipit #A #T #WF #Q
The hospital elevator transports a nurse back 15 years to her dead ex’s apartment, where her baby sleeps and her ex tries to change history. An elderly patient offers wise advice, but has secrets of her own.
#holipit #A #T #WF #Q
December 15, 2024 at 3:52 PM
SEVERANCE meets THE NOTEBOOK with THURSDAY MURDER CLUB style characters
The hospital elevator transports a nurse back 15 years to her dead ex’s apartment, where her baby sleeps and her ex tries to change history. An elderly patient helps, but has secrets of her own.
#wippit #con #S #T #WF #spec
The hospital elevator transports a nurse back 15 years to her dead ex’s apartment, where her baby sleeps and her ex tries to change history. An elderly patient helps, but has secrets of her own.
#wippit #con #S #T #WF #spec
December 14, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Does anyone have useful tips or resources for creating a Moodboard for #pitch events?
A free app, article, template, etc…
#writer #amquerying #writingcommunity
A free app, article, template, etc…
#writer #amquerying #writingcommunity
December 12, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Does anyone have useful tips or resources for creating a Moodboard for #pitch events?
A free app, article, template, etc…
#writer #amquerying #writingcommunity
A free app, article, template, etc…
#writer #amquerying #writingcommunity
More details on the #Bookclub Christmas crackers. Here are the ingredients….
#AltText #writingcommunity 💙📚👀
#AltText #writingcommunity 💙📚👀
December 9, 2024 at 7:20 AM
More details on the #Bookclub Christmas crackers. Here are the ingredients….
#AltText #writingcommunity 💙📚👀
#AltText #writingcommunity 💙📚👀
I just loved this #flashfiction from @sudhab.bsky.social - won 3rd place in Flash 500.
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
Flash Fiction 3rd Place: Mango Lassi by Sudha Balagopal - Flash 500
Soni, my granddaughter, yanks a petal off the rose in the bud vase. “Rahul loves me not.” She buries the pinkness in her fist. “Why do you say that?” I kiss her forehead. “He should love me the way ...
flash500.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:34 PM
I just loved this #flashfiction from @sudhab.bsky.social - won 3rd place in Flash 500.
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
flash500.com/flash-fictio...
1/ I'm making Christmas crackers for my bookclub - with book themed tiny gifts and jokes.
If you'd like to do similar, here are 12 riddles
(some found, some I made some up!) 🧵
#writingcommunity 💙📚👀 #BSBC
Q - Why did the ghost always need more books?
A - Because she went through them too quickly
If you'd like to do similar, here are 12 riddles
(some found, some I made some up!) 🧵
#writingcommunity 💙📚👀 #BSBC
Q - Why did the ghost always need more books?
A - Because she went through them too quickly
December 2, 2024 at 11:54 AM
1/ I'm making Christmas crackers for my bookclub - with book themed tiny gifts and jokes.
If you'd like to do similar, here are 12 riddles
(some found, some I made some up!) 🧵
#writingcommunity 💙📚👀 #BSBC
Q - Why did the ghost always need more books?
A - Because she went through them too quickly
If you'd like to do similar, here are 12 riddles
(some found, some I made some up!) 🧵
#writingcommunity 💙📚👀 #BSBC
Q - Why did the ghost always need more books?
A - Because she went through them too quickly
December 2, 2024 at 2:42 AM
That’s one way of avoiding spoilers.
I don't want to cast doubt on the impeccable dependability of google AI, but I don't remember this particular plot twist in du Maurier's REBECCA
November 29, 2024 at 12:19 PM
That’s one way of avoiding spoilers.
Some days, I need a push to open my manuscript. Today it was this prompt. As it turns out, page 47 is one of my favourites. Maybe I'll do some editing now...
#writingcommunity #writer 💙📚
#writingcommunity #writer 💙📚
November 28, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Some days, I need a push to open my manuscript. Today it was this prompt. As it turns out, page 47 is one of my favourites. Maybe I'll do some editing now...
#writingcommunity #writer 💙📚
#writingcommunity #writer 💙📚
#WIPSNIPS looks like fun. But the instructions say “share a line” so why does everyone post multi paragraphs?
Vibes. I need to ride the vibes and not the rule book.
#writingcommunity
Vibes. I need to ride the vibes and not the rule book.
#writingcommunity
It's Monday already?! Boo!
The #WIPSnips word for November 25th is "ride"
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky #authors #writingprompts
The #WIPSnips word for November 25th is "ride"
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky #authors #writingprompts
November 25, 2024 at 11:35 AM
#WIPSNIPS looks like fun. But the instructions say “share a line” so why does everyone post multi paragraphs?
Vibes. I need to ride the vibes and not the rule book.
#writingcommunity
Vibes. I need to ride the vibes and not the rule book.
#writingcommunity