Spent a good week being pummelled all at once by rejections and poor results. My heart needed a break.
But I checked my emails today to find a very enthusiastic acceptance for an off-the-cuff story I wrote in December. My much-needed glimmer of sunlight. ⛅️🥰
nobel prize. right fucking now. im serious.
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If that’s you (or someone you know) please email us to accept the generous offer!
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Nothing like submitting in the last 5 minutes to get the heart pounding
Oops, she did it again!
Thank you! I'd love to see your name on the longlist next round! 👀
An honour to make that sweet, sweet longlist for the inaugural Write-Off 🎉
Congrats to everyone else who made it 🥂
@notquitewrite.com
A killer story! Congrats 🎉🤩
Befriended a local ghost in Edinburgh, had a rainy adventure, committed to the bit... @lunapress.bsky.social 👀👻✨️🖤
Congrats!!! 🥳 🥂
I placed 2nd with my story, “Celebrity Collarbones” 🎉
Off to the finals this weekend! Congrats to everyone else! 🎉
I was recently interviewed by Creag at @elegantliterature.bsky.social about my award-winning short story, "To Gut a Fish" 🐟
We do a deep dive into the story, including writing negative character arcs, flawed women, and my fave topic — verbs 🤩
If you have an hour to listen to me ramble, click here ⬇️
Niceness is an attitude. The meanest, cruelest people in the world can be nice to others. But they are mostly incapable of being kind.
Kindness is in action. It is found in choices. Donations of time, money, or influence with no regard to reciprocation. Someone can be an asshole, and still be kind.
Just a reminder that the discounted early bird entry fee for the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction ends this Saturday!
If you haven’t already signed up for the April comp, you might want to get on that.
We also have a small number of sponsored places available for writers on low income.
incredible how many buckaroos do not realize the universes constantly spilling off of them, all the time, every day. you are the most glorious, beautiful being across a thousand different worlds because every choice you make is a REALITY YOU JUST BUILT, and you can build them with love
Today I started a "weakest sentences" pass as described in Refuse to Be Done, and it's always amazing how much good this mass culling of a novel's prose does, even late in the game. ("Weakest" here doesn't mean "bad," necessarily, only "not as strong as the rest." Your book gets better so fast!)
I have thought about this story a lot since I first read it on the forum. Stoked to see it’s found a home! Congrats! 🎉🥂
Thank you so much! 🥰
When you’re out shopping for that special someone this Valentine’s Day, remember flowers wilt and chocolates get stale but rolling library ladders are forever
To celebrate Bookshop.org (US) now selling paperbacks & ebooks from trad & indie authors (& profit sharing w. indie stores😉)...
Authors: drop your book blurb, graphic & bookshop.org link! Affiliate links are welcome.
(If your ebooks via D2D aren't on Bookshop yet, bookmark this 🧵& add them later!)
Always up to celebrate with you! 🥳🥂
Might have to keep him!
in solidarity with the authors on social media who have been getting mocked or harassed for celebrating their accomplishments i would like to announce that i too am the worlds greatest author and i sell a lot of books. thank you
My partner went and got trophies custom made for me to celebrate my Elegant Literature and NYC Midnight wins. It’s so motivating having something tangible like this on my desk when I’m writing.
Immensely grateful 🥹
My questionable stalker thriller made it through! 🎉
