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Current WIP: Timid payroll cryptid terrorizes humble editor 🫠😀

Avoiding editing by creating more things to edit! 📝🔥

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Meet my lovely idiots, Emma and Daniel (+Eduardo, their emotional support sheltie 🐕)
Art by @motcha_draws on insta ❤️

Yes, I squealed when I saw this. No, I’m not chill about it. 🥲
#WIP #romcom #IdiotsToLovers #OfficeRomance #SlowBurn #AmWriting #Romance #IndieAuthor #Booksky
I'm more on Threads these days, in case you are interested you can follow me there for more updates.

@zoeymhart
July 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Trying to connect with people on social media regarding writing is so fun sometimes. Other times it just reinforces my real life fear that what I have to say isn't that interesting or worth listening to. (Hence I'm usually a listener and lurker 🥲).
July 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I’m doing this weird thing when I read a book I truly enjoy: I keep putting it down to make it last instead of rushing through it. I don’t want it to end, especially if it’s a standalone. I keep thinking about it constantly, but I drag it out as long as I can before actually reading more.

#BookSky
June 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
How would you trap your MC?
🫣

Either way these two have premium tastes but for entirely different reasons..

#WIP #dramedy #OfficeRomance #SlowBurn #AmWriting #Romance #IndieAuthor #Booksky
June 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
At the heart of my stories is the ache and effort of trying to truly connect with others.

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky #PretendPanel
Happy Friday the 13th, #PretendPanel! You know what time it is 😁

June 13th: What are the major themes of your book? Did you consciously plan them, or did they arise organically during the process of writing?

Looking forward to y'all's answers! ❤️

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky
June 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Reposted by Zoey ❤️
Mood.
June 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
First round of edits: 43/3 chapters done on the dramedy. 😇

My brain this morning: Let’s just write down the opening line for the fantasy prequel. 😈

Flirting with temptation. (It’ll turn into a full-blown make-out session if I’m not careful.) 💏

#WIP #romcom #AmWriting #Booksky #fantasy
June 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I'm learning to be concise, so I only use longer sentences when I want to highlight the thought spirals my overthinker of an FMC goes through.
#WritingLifeMonthly #WritingTips #WritingCommunity
🧹#WritingLifeMonthly June Day 04✏️
Too many long sentences = reader fatigue. Too many short ones = choppy chaos.
Mix it up!
A varied rhythm keeps your prose musical. Read your paragraph aloud. Does it flow, or stumble?
#WritingTips #WritingCommunity
June 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I love her so much! 🥰
Art Challenge, draw your OC but tiny (and lost in the void).
#tinyocchallenge
June 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just what I needed to motivate me to work through my 2nd draft of my hidden identity / office dramedy, Read Between Her Lines 🥰 Let's do this! 📚✏️📝
#WritingLifeMonthly #WritingCommunity #amwriting
🧹 #WritingLifeMonthly JUNE ✏️

#WritingCommunity This month, we are going to work on cleaning up our prose a little. Tune in for tips on how to clean up those sentences (your editor will ❤️ love you❤️ for it)

#writingtips #amediting #amwriting #creativewritingtips
May 31, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Reposted by Zoey ❤️
🧹 #WritingLifeMonthly JUNE ✏️

#WritingCommunity This month, we are going to work on cleaning up our prose a little. Tune in for tips on how to clean up those sentences (your editor will ❤️ love you❤️ for it)

#writingtips #amediting #amwriting #creativewritingtips
May 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
In theory I'm currently editing my fantasy.. 🥲 Wrote another book instead. 😅
I’ll just write a short character study, I said. It’ll be a quick look at the two MCs of my werewolf horror/romance, I said.

I wrote 2200 words for it today and it’s still not done. 🫠

#WritingCommunity
May 28, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Reposted by Zoey ❤️
May 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I can see now why @akcaggiano.bsky.social was raving about T. Kingfisher. Reading Paladin's Grace rn, and I'm like: Where was this book all my life?? (Same feelings I got when I read Throne in the Dark last year 💜)
May 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Not sure which planet is in retrograde right now, but I keep tearing into myself over the stupidest things. Like, why didn’t I start taking writing more seriously earlier? And why is it so hard to just sit down and focus on the less fun part like editing?
#AmWriting #Booksky #writerstruggle
May 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My two cats are really into eating spider plants but they leave my calatheas alone for some reason!
I gave up on house plants when I got my first couple of cats back in 1998. It's impossible to keep something alive that gets eaten or kicked off the shelf seven times a day.
House plants
May 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Emma and Daniel's story is complete at 117,581 words.
I only met them in March, but I fell for them so quickly it felt like I had to tell their story.
I swear I won't start the spin-off until I edit this one. For real.
Maybe 😇
#WIP #romcom #IdiotsToLovers #OfficeRomance #SlowBurn #AmWriting #Booksky
May 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I could scream that only the epilogue remains but I have the female urge to rewrite my last chapter from scratch. Ugh!!!!

#WIP #romcom #AmWriting #Booksky #writerstruggle
May 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I adore this 🫠🥰
Kinda like The Kiss by Gustav Klimt but Dorohedoro
May 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Stuck at 98k words for a week now. The frustrating thing is, that I'm like 3-4 chapters away from the finish line.

#WIP #romcom #IdiotsToLovers #OfficeRomance #SlowBurn #AmWriting #Romance #IndieAuthor #Booksky
a cat is standing on the floor with a loading bar on its head .
ALT: a cat is standing on the floor with a loading bar on its head .
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May 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Yes please!
May 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Does it count if the FMC is her own worst enemy? I think so! And maybe it's scarier than any external threat she could be facing. 😔

#MayWeDance #WriterSky #WritingCommunity #Romancelandia
#MayWeDance Day 14

Tell us about the antagonists of your WIP. Do their machinations involve keeping the MC and LI apart? If so, why?

#WritingCommunity #WriterSky #WritingPrompt #Romancelandia
May 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I spent a copious amount of time in bookstores in London last weekend. So many beautiful covers, and so many books added to my TBR! 📚

#authorlife #AmWriting #Romance #IndieAuthor #Booksky

Some finds in the comments below:
May 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Rewriting the almost-smut scene into a soft, tender moment took all of my restraint for the week. 🫠🔥

#WIP #romcom #IdiotsToLovers #OfficeRomance #SlowBurn #AmWriting #Romance #IndieAuthor #Booksky #writerstruggle
May 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM