Ali Wentletrap

*Opens editor report* What fresh horrors await me today?… 🥲😇

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Any advice on how to emotionally handle getting notes/feedback from an editor? My manu will be back in a couple of weeks and I’m so nervous for all the edits. I can take criticism but I know this will hit different!

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Oh me too 😩

I just finished a read through of my novella. And I liked what I read.

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I wish I had a small animal waking me up instead 🥹

My alarm 😫

What is your most traumatic read?
I have 100 pages left of A Little Life and it has been a rough one.

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I feel empty without my novel to work on… (it’s with an editor). What am I supposed to do when my other dimension is not available?

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I’ve been packing my bookcase at my parents house and found some treasures.

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Is sending your book to an editor supposed to feel like sending your kids off to school? (Not that I have any… but I think this is how it feels)

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Taking breaks from polishing my manu to read this…

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Good Morning from London

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My writing group is the thing I miss the most since moving to the city. 😫

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Fourth Draft complete!

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Yes! So fun

I added some of it in later parts but it is better without it for sure 🫣

Mine does not. Not even pierced ears. The opposite of the author. 🤭

Trying not to freak out about the whole paragraph I just edited out of my manu.

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She is like me in some ways but I made her very different too. It’s fun to write a whole new person.
You can do it. Take inspo from your fave books and shows or even people you admire irl 💛

Thank you. The FMC is a young woman with a lot of anxiety but equal ambition. 💛. Are you working on something too?

Exhausting but worth it! ❤️‍🩹This main project is a character driven political drama.

I wake, I edit, I rest, I do it all again, and I will keep doing it until my book is out in the world.
💛❤️

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Force is the key word here 🫠 I’ll be doing more of that.

Good idea. I need to learn to walk away and break more.

Any advice for when you get stuck editing one sentence/paragraph in a chapter for hours?

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I’m unable to visit every location and area I write about, but I like to do research in person whenever I can. Yesterday was one of those days.

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Thanks! That’s a good way to put it! I did get the chapter finished in the end and it was worth the struggle. 💪🏻

Trying not to beat myself up over the pretty terrible editing day I had yesterday. Some days it just isn’t happening, and it’s hard not to get frustrated. But today is another day and I’m going to try and finish the current chapter.

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I partially re-wrote a scene today after some feedback. I’m often resistant to changes, but I’m always more happy with my story when I embrace them, and I should have a difficult chapter finished today.

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