Another night of falling asleep working through plot points and thinking "I definitely won't forget that solution"

Another morning of trying to remember what I was thinking about 😭

*WRITE IT DOWN you'll never remember*

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Going through the massive manuscript edits-to-make list that I made and found a "make prose better." Cool, thanks past me, very helpful

My feed keeps showing me authors who had massively successful Januarys, which is amazing and so worth celebrating!!!

But remember, even though months like this seem small in comparison, they are also awesome and normal. 22 new readers is 🔥!

From my "Tropes for Epic Series Someday" note in my phone:

Main character gets stabbed and someone from afar screams 'no!' lol

To #authors feeling pressure to do ALL the platform rebuilding right now because of tiktok/meta mess... take a breath with me (as I say these things to myself)

You don't have to do everything.

You don't have to figure it out right away.

It will be a process. And we'll support each other. 🫶

Find yourself a writing friend who agrees to do 6:15am writing sprints 3x/week 🥹 getting out of bed is always hard... but it's a little easier on the days when I know she's at her laptop waiting to write with me.

When Death Is Hiding (The Severed Fates Book 3) Cover Reveal!!

✨Releases 9.2.25✨

Books 1-2 on sale for $1.99 🎉

• 4-book YA dystopian fantasy series
• Death dates are known
• Future overgrown Vegas
• Emotionally unstable goddesses
• Plant/life power
• Found family
• Twists and turns

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Yesterday I hyped book 1 (When Death Is Coming)..

Tomorrow I'm cover reveal-ing book 3 (When Death Is Hiding)

Today, here's my forgotten middle child, book 2, When Death Is Watching!

🌙 False utopia
🌙 Death date notices
🌙 Cult-y vibes
🌙 Visions of past + future
🌙 The Fates
🌙 Shattering reality...

You get home after a long day, want to crash... reminisce about the days when you'd just binge watch a show or read or sleep...

But you grab the laptop. You start typing.

Because your story is WORTH IT.

(Also, take a break when you need it... 🫶)

#writing #writer

On Weds, I'm revealing the cover of BOOK 3 in my 4-book YA dystopian fantasy series about a future where death dates are known.

So hyping the first two:

Book 1 - When Death Is Coming!

⏳ Ticking clock
☠️ Magical realism
⏳ Found family
☠️ Sibling bonds
⏳ Oppressive gov
☠️ "The Fates"

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My current dystopian/kinda-post-apocalyptic debacle: creative ways that train tracks in the future could be used for other modes of transportation? 👀

#indieauthor #dystopianauthor

My husband two months ago: bluesky is awesome!

Me: yeah but Instagram is my writer community

Me two months later after meta makes dumb decisions: ok fine

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