Lorelle Page
@lorellepage.bsky.social
Aussie YA writer of quirky, sarcastic characters in contemporary coming-of-age stories💙#survivingblue💙
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Lorelle Page
@lorellepage.bsky.social
· Dec 9
Procrastinactualisation:
🔵The belief that if you think about your book long enough, it will come into existence🔵
I wish this was a thing
I’m not convinced it isn’t
#writingcommunity #writersky
#amediting #writers #yalit
🔵The belief that if you think about your book long enough, it will come into existence🔵
I wish this was a thing
I’m not convinced it isn’t
#writingcommunity #writersky
#amediting #writers #yalit
Any other writers going through perimenopause and feel like there’s a bear in the next room? And the next room is where you write?
#writingcommunity #amwriting
#writingcommunity #amwriting
October 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Any other writers going through perimenopause and feel like there’s a bear in the next room? And the next room is where you write?
#writingcommunity #amwriting
#writingcommunity #amwriting
I wonder if we should look at writing trends as shifts instead.
With the low-fat trend, we learned that it doesn’t mean low sugar or low calorie. Won’t forget that.
And this protein hype. We’re always going to be aware of its importance. Won’t forget that.
Food for thought
#writingcommunity
With the low-fat trend, we learned that it doesn’t mean low sugar or low calorie. Won’t forget that.
And this protein hype. We’re always going to be aware of its importance. Won’t forget that.
Food for thought
#writingcommunity
October 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I wonder if we should look at writing trends as shifts instead.
With the low-fat trend, we learned that it doesn’t mean low sugar or low calorie. Won’t forget that.
And this protein hype. We’re always going to be aware of its importance. Won’t forget that.
Food for thought
#writingcommunity
With the low-fat trend, we learned that it doesn’t mean low sugar or low calorie. Won’t forget that.
And this protein hype. We’re always going to be aware of its importance. Won’t forget that.
Food for thought
#writingcommunity
October 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Day 1 of 50 chapters in 50 days revision challenge.
Chapter one needs more than a day and it shows. 2 days at least. Same for chapter two, I think.
It’s the first ten pages. It deserves the extra attention, right?
#writingcommunity
Chapter one needs more than a day and it shows. 2 days at least. Same for chapter two, I think.
It’s the first ten pages. It deserves the extra attention, right?
#writingcommunity
February 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Day 1 of 50 chapters in 50 days revision challenge.
Chapter one needs more than a day and it shows. 2 days at least. Same for chapter two, I think.
It’s the first ten pages. It deserves the extra attention, right?
#writingcommunity
Chapter one needs more than a day and it shows. 2 days at least. Same for chapter two, I think.
It’s the first ten pages. It deserves the extra attention, right?
#writingcommunity
I have 50 chapters ready for draft 2 revision
Plots fixed, scenes relevant, character development evident.
Just need to start revising…
This is the most frightened I’ve been since I started.
#writingcommunity #amrevising #yalit
Plots fixed, scenes relevant, character development evident.
Just need to start revising…
This is the most frightened I’ve been since I started.
#writingcommunity #amrevising #yalit
February 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I have 50 chapters ready for draft 2 revision
Plots fixed, scenes relevant, character development evident.
Just need to start revising…
This is the most frightened I’ve been since I started.
#writingcommunity #amrevising #yalit
Plots fixed, scenes relevant, character development evident.
Just need to start revising…
This is the most frightened I’ve been since I started.
#writingcommunity #amrevising #yalit
There is nothing more satisfying than writing the last line of a chapter and it pulls everything together, like the chapter was a short story in its own right.
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
February 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
There is nothing more satisfying than writing the last line of a chapter and it pulls everything together, like the chapter was a short story in its own right.
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
The scariest thing about rewriting my first chapters is that I love them.
They are becoming the yardstick for the rest of my MS.
I’ll add on another 3 months before I’m ready to query..
#writingcommunity #amrevising
They are becoming the yardstick for the rest of my MS.
I’ll add on another 3 months before I’m ready to query..
#writingcommunity #amrevising
February 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The scariest thing about rewriting my first chapters is that I love them.
They are becoming the yardstick for the rest of my MS.
I’ll add on another 3 months before I’m ready to query..
#writingcommunity #amrevising
They are becoming the yardstick for the rest of my MS.
I’ll add on another 3 months before I’m ready to query..
#writingcommunity #amrevising
As I Frankenstein parts of my MS, wishing the arms and legs were still attached to the original torso of my first draft, I forget:
Those parts came from dead bodies.
And now they are alive.
#writingcommunity #amrevising #writersky
Those parts came from dead bodies.
And now they are alive.
#writingcommunity #amrevising #writersky
February 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
As I Frankenstein parts of my MS, wishing the arms and legs were still attached to the original torso of my first draft, I forget:
Those parts came from dead bodies.
And now they are alive.
#writingcommunity #amrevising #writersky
Those parts came from dead bodies.
And now they are alive.
#writingcommunity #amrevising #writersky
Having to write all day to meet my personal goal.
To avoid eating all day, this day shall hereby be called The Day of Thirty Teas.
#writingcommunity
To avoid eating all day, this day shall hereby be called The Day of Thirty Teas.
#writingcommunity
February 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Having to write all day to meet my personal goal.
To avoid eating all day, this day shall hereby be called The Day of Thirty Teas.
#writingcommunity
To avoid eating all day, this day shall hereby be called The Day of Thirty Teas.
#writingcommunity
Here’s a question:
If you could hand your first draft to a hive-mind twin to complete the next draft - so you could start another MS - would you?
Or would you like to be the one that refines those imperfections?
#writingcommunity
If you could hand your first draft to a hive-mind twin to complete the next draft - so you could start another MS - would you?
Or would you like to be the one that refines those imperfections?
#writingcommunity
February 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Here’s a question:
If you could hand your first draft to a hive-mind twin to complete the next draft - so you could start another MS - would you?
Or would you like to be the one that refines those imperfections?
#writingcommunity
If you could hand your first draft to a hive-mind twin to complete the next draft - so you could start another MS - would you?
Or would you like to be the one that refines those imperfections?
#writingcommunity
So when does a first draft become a second draft? Is it after the first round of rewrites and edits, before beta reads?
And then does it become a third if you change your MS after that feedback?
Or: who bloody cares, get it done, it’s not a competition, Lorelle?
#writingcommunity #amrevising
And then does it become a third if you change your MS after that feedback?
Or: who bloody cares, get it done, it’s not a competition, Lorelle?
#writingcommunity #amrevising
February 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
So when does a first draft become a second draft? Is it after the first round of rewrites and edits, before beta reads?
And then does it become a third if you change your MS after that feedback?
Or: who bloody cares, get it done, it’s not a competition, Lorelle?
#writingcommunity #amrevising
And then does it become a third if you change your MS after that feedback?
Or: who bloody cares, get it done, it’s not a competition, Lorelle?
#writingcommunity #amrevising
Any other writers read like they are literary vampires?
Just sucking out all that goodness for survival
#writingcommunity
Just sucking out all that goodness for survival
#writingcommunity
February 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Any other writers read like they are literary vampires?
Just sucking out all that goodness for survival
#writingcommunity
Just sucking out all that goodness for survival
#writingcommunity
When I look at my first draft and say, what in fresh hell is this?, it would be acceptable if I was writing an urban fantasy about angels and demons, referring to an alternative dimension for the afterlife.
But this is YA contemporary…
Not good…
#writingcommunity #yalit #amrevising
But this is YA contemporary…
Not good…
#writingcommunity #yalit #amrevising
February 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
When I look at my first draft and say, what in fresh hell is this?, it would be acceptable if I was writing an urban fantasy about angels and demons, referring to an alternative dimension for the afterlife.
But this is YA contemporary…
Not good…
#writingcommunity #yalit #amrevising
But this is YA contemporary…
Not good…
#writingcommunity #yalit #amrevising
So I laughed when I was told the 2nd draft would be harder than the 1st.
I read my first draft
I started my second draft
I stopped laughing
#writingcommunity
I read my first draft
I started my second draft
I stopped laughing
#writingcommunity
January 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
So I laughed when I was told the 2nd draft would be harder than the 1st.
I read my first draft
I started my second draft
I stopped laughing
#writingcommunity
I read my first draft
I started my second draft
I stopped laughing
#writingcommunity
I’m doubting myself for the first time
Huh, maybe I’m a writer after all…
#writingcommunity #amrevising
Huh, maybe I’m a writer after all…
#writingcommunity #amrevising
December 20, 2024 at 9:08 AM
I’m doubting myself for the first time
Huh, maybe I’m a writer after all…
#writingcommunity #amrevising
Huh, maybe I’m a writer after all…
#writingcommunity #amrevising
Has anyone had a ‘stuff it, I’m done, I can’t do this, this is a dumpster fire’ kind of day and then woken up the next day with a new mindset without anything changing?
Even experienced writers, who already have some kind of validation?
#writingcommunity
Even experienced writers, who already have some kind of validation?
#writingcommunity
December 17, 2024 at 7:11 AM
Has anyone had a ‘stuff it, I’m done, I can’t do this, this is a dumpster fire’ kind of day and then woken up the next day with a new mindset without anything changing?
Even experienced writers, who already have some kind of validation?
#writingcommunity
Even experienced writers, who already have some kind of validation?
#writingcommunity
Sent hubby first two pages.
He says, it was good!
Me: he hates it
I’m going to change it 500 times
#writingcommunity #amrevising
He says, it was good!
Me: he hates it
I’m going to change it 500 times
#writingcommunity #amrevising
December 15, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Sent hubby first two pages.
He says, it was good!
Me: he hates it
I’m going to change it 500 times
#writingcommunity #amrevising
He says, it was good!
Me: he hates it
I’m going to change it 500 times
#writingcommunity #amrevising
My new writing goal is to sit at my desk without bribing myself with food, coffee, or tea
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
December 13, 2024 at 3:52 AM
My new writing goal is to sit at my desk without bribing myself with food, coffee, or tea
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
Day dreaming about writing?
See below for a 1 part, 1 line, 3 word—
START DAY DOING!!
#writingcommunity
See below for a 1 part, 1 line, 3 word—
START DAY DOING!!
#writingcommunity
a cartoon of a blue whale wearing pink headphones with the words day dreaming below it
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December 12, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Day dreaming about writing?
See below for a 1 part, 1 line, 3 word—
START DAY DOING!!
#writingcommunity
See below for a 1 part, 1 line, 3 word—
START DAY DOING!!
#writingcommunity
Family may read my #ya book and say, oh, you’re the dead sister!
To which I’d reply, ‘yes, it’s a zombie memoir.’
It’s not a zombie memoir…
But now I’m thinking about one
#writingcommunity #kidlit #writersky
To which I’d reply, ‘yes, it’s a zombie memoir.’
It’s not a zombie memoir…
But now I’m thinking about one
#writingcommunity #kidlit #writersky
December 11, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Family may read my #ya book and say, oh, you’re the dead sister!
To which I’d reply, ‘yes, it’s a zombie memoir.’
It’s not a zombie memoir…
But now I’m thinking about one
#writingcommunity #kidlit #writersky
To which I’d reply, ‘yes, it’s a zombie memoir.’
It’s not a zombie memoir…
But now I’m thinking about one
#writingcommunity #kidlit #writersky
I love my kids, but I love writing alone at home. They are 18 and 20, so a gift for me would be to send them on an amazing holiday overseas. And they can take hubby if he wants. I’ll leave that up to him :) #kidlitchat
TOPIC: As you think of gift-giving this year, don't forget yourself! Short of a book deal, what is the dream career-oriented gift for YOU this year? A brand new laptop? A treasure trove of brushes and pens? That blissful retreat you've always promised yourself? Think BIG! #kidlitchat
December 11, 2024 at 2:25 AM
I love my kids, but I love writing alone at home. They are 18 and 20, so a gift for me would be to send them on an amazing holiday overseas. And they can take hubby if he wants. I’ll leave that up to him :) #kidlitchat
Started revising finally…
The first few chapters need some Frankenstein work to bring the action forward.
Should I spend a week fixing? Or do I keep pushing on, knowing I can get 10 chapters fixed instead of 2?
#writingcommunity #amrevising
The first few chapters need some Frankenstein work to bring the action forward.
Should I spend a week fixing? Or do I keep pushing on, knowing I can get 10 chapters fixed instead of 2?
#writingcommunity #amrevising
December 9, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Started revising finally…
The first few chapters need some Frankenstein work to bring the action forward.
Should I spend a week fixing? Or do I keep pushing on, knowing I can get 10 chapters fixed instead of 2?
#writingcommunity #amrevising
The first few chapters need some Frankenstein work to bring the action forward.
Should I spend a week fixing? Or do I keep pushing on, knowing I can get 10 chapters fixed instead of 2?
#writingcommunity #amrevising
Procrastinactualisation:
🔵The belief that if you think about your book long enough, it will come into existence🔵
I wish this was a thing
I’m not convinced it isn’t
#writingcommunity #writersky
#amediting #writers #yalit
🔵The belief that if you think about your book long enough, it will come into existence🔵
I wish this was a thing
I’m not convinced it isn’t
#writingcommunity #writersky
#amediting #writers #yalit
December 9, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Procrastinactualisation:
🔵The belief that if you think about your book long enough, it will come into existence🔵
I wish this was a thing
I’m not convinced it isn’t
#writingcommunity #writersky
#amediting #writers #yalit
🔵The belief that if you think about your book long enough, it will come into existence🔵
I wish this was a thing
I’m not convinced it isn’t
#writingcommunity #writersky
#amediting #writers #yalit
Does anyone else think they are capable of getting everything writing related done if they just
didn’t.have.to.make.dinner?
#writingcommunity #writersky #kidlit
didn’t.have.to.make.dinner?
#writingcommunity #writersky #kidlit
a man dressed as an elf is talking on a cell phone while sitting at a table .
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December 8, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Does anyone else think they are capable of getting everything writing related done if they just
didn’t.have.to.make.dinner?
#writingcommunity #writersky #kidlit
didn’t.have.to.make.dinner?
#writingcommunity #writersky #kidlit
December 7, 2024 at 10:54 AM