Robert Acosta
@fifthdraft.com
Dad | Elementary Teacher | MG Author | Bad Mexican | He/Him | Former Writer @GeorgeTakei | ロバート アコスタ
1:35p
#AmWriting
|> Project NESS, middle grade contemporary fantasy
|> this was given a Revise & Resubmit from an agent this past summer, and while I laid all the groundwork for what needed to happen and started it...
|> ...I never finished it
|> today all we're doing is reconnecting with the story
#AmWriting
|> Project NESS, middle grade contemporary fantasy
|> this was given a Revise & Resubmit from an agent this past summer, and while I laid all the groundwork for what needed to happen and started it...
|> ...I never finished it
|> today all we're doing is reconnecting with the story
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
1:35p
#AmWriting
|> Project NESS, middle grade contemporary fantasy
|> this was given a Revise & Resubmit from an agent this past summer, and while I laid all the groundwork for what needed to happen and started it...
|> ...I never finished it
|> today all we're doing is reconnecting with the story
#AmWriting
|> Project NESS, middle grade contemporary fantasy
|> this was given a Revise & Resubmit from an agent this past summer, and while I laid all the groundwork for what needed to happen and started it...
|> ...I never finished it
|> today all we're doing is reconnecting with the story
12:39p
#Blog
|> updating the website now
|> feels a little like airing my dirty laundry out, discussing how little writing I've done over these last two months...
|> but then I remember, "Oh. Right. New baby."
#Blog
|> updating the website now
|> feels a little like airing my dirty laundry out, discussing how little writing I've done over these last two months...
|> but then I remember, "Oh. Right. New baby."
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
12:39p
#Blog
|> updating the website now
|> feels a little like airing my dirty laundry out, discussing how little writing I've done over these last two months...
|> but then I remember, "Oh. Right. New baby."
#Blog
|> updating the website now
|> feels a little like airing my dirty laundry out, discussing how little writing I've done over these last two months...
|> but then I remember, "Oh. Right. New baby."
|> so we stopped the old notebook short (a lined Picadilly insert) and switched to this blank page, leather bound one I picked up at the AZ Renaissance Festival
|> it feels opulent, but it works really well
|> what else are $60 notebooks for?
|> it feels opulent, but it works really well
|> what else are $60 notebooks for?
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
|> so we stopped the old notebook short (a lined Picadilly insert) and switched to this blank page, leather bound one I picked up at the AZ Renaissance Festival
|> it feels opulent, but it works really well
|> what else are $60 notebooks for?
|> it feels opulent, but it works really well
|> what else are $60 notebooks for?
12:25p
#MorningPages
|> I've been doing this intermittently since the baby came, but what I was learning was my journaling practices were wanting to change
|> I didn't just want to write three solid pages of words on line sheets
|> I wanted freedom, sketching, marker, short bursts, etc.
#MorningPages
|> I've been doing this intermittently since the baby came, but what I was learning was my journaling practices were wanting to change
|> I didn't just want to write three solid pages of words on line sheets
|> I wanted freedom, sketching, marker, short bursts, etc.
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
12:25p
#MorningPages
|> I've been doing this intermittently since the baby came, but what I was learning was my journaling practices were wanting to change
|> I didn't just want to write three solid pages of words on line sheets
|> I wanted freedom, sketching, marker, short bursts, etc.
#MorningPages
|> I've been doing this intermittently since the baby came, but what I was learning was my journaling practices were wanting to change
|> I didn't just want to write three solid pages of words on line sheets
|> I wanted freedom, sketching, marker, short bursts, etc.