Jesso

You’re not just writing a story.
You’re making magic,
one word at a time. ✨

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There are 1835 bookshops on the various lists on the Independent Bookshop website and my goal this week is to add as many from my bookmarks as I can, hoping to get it to 2025 😉

It was a little chewie?

Welcome! 😂

Dear first draft,
You're messy
Imperfect
Full of plot holes
And I love you anyway
Because you prove
I had the courage to begin.

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Basically all dystopian sci-fi authors really, really want to be wrong. #Booksky

Write new worlds. Write beautiful places. Write angry people. Write imaginary beasts, futile quests, broken hearts, lifelong injustices, mysteries, love affairs, lost children, newfound purpose. Write anything that allows you to escape or heal or vent or rage or explore or reconcile. Write 🖤

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This. Is. Amazing. Finally, an ebook alternative for Amazon, but for independent bookstores. This is amazing for readers who want to be more intentional about where you're spending your money. 📖 #BookSky

Being serious, one thing I have just remembered - Kobo is a CANADIAN ebook company. I might do my ereading with them instead of Amazon.

Half of writing is actually writing.
The other half is convincing yourself
what you're writing isn't completely terrible.
(It's not, by the way.)

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Hey, #booksky! Say hi to Emily. Her beautiful M/M historical romance, the 11th Code, had me copyediting through my tears—and she's currently writing her first fantasy novel. So excited to see her on here!
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When stuck, I try to do some freewriting but keep it focused on the scene. Usually ends up being a summary of what I WANT to happen and elements included in the scene in the hopes that I'll figure out what's blocking me and gives me a structure to go off of 🤷‍♀️

100% 😌

Ink & Ambition 👍

Let's go! 👏👏

Small goal but I want to write at least 500 words a day on my current WIP. 🤞

Oh dang I didn't realize it had that trope. Good to know though! Hope it ends up being a good read for you in the end. 👍

What do you think of Assistant to the villain so far?

Appreciate the heads up! I did a little googling after you mentioned the books and honestly that fact sold it entirely for me 😁

YEP!! 😂 I'm here for it (but I'll start with Déjà Dead first, lol)

No, I haven't! But my tbr just grew by a few books, thank you! 😂

Ok #booksky, let’s talk.

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I'm about 120ish pages in currently and I'm enjoying it so far! I'm just so worried for the characters, especially with what happened at the end of book 1 😵

I recently read Hannah Whitten's The Foxglove King and loved it. Her Wilderwood duology is also fantastic.

Same!

Naps are the highlight of my day personally 😂

Of course! Bear with me here, as this will be a bit of a thread. (1) Are there any familiar phrases or cliches? E.g., describing characters by eye and hair colour, or opening scenes with a character waking up. In other words, what differentiates your story and prose from other authors' work?