Chloe Paige

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 🥂

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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! 🎉

YouTube video by Elegant Literature $3000 Winner Chloe Paige: Elegant Literature Award For New Writers (Lasting Legacy)

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

For your next pass, read your novel paragraph by paragraph, and in every single paragraph, highlight (again, in a color you haven’t yet used) the weakest sentence. This will take some time, and it may not feel great, but I promise it’s worth it! Once back at the computer, do two things: First, delete all these weakest sentences. Second, consider if what remains of the paragraph is strong enough to stand the deletion. Most often it will be, because the weak stuff—especially the kind of weak sentence you’ve already rewritten a dozen times but never got right—eventually forces the surrounding sentences to make up for its lack. Wherever you feel something is awry in your post-deletion prose, write a new sentence into the deleted one’s place instead of continuing to tinker with the broken one. This is a big job, but the outcome can be dramatic. My novel Appleseed contained about 2,500 paragraphs in its final form. If it’d had that number in an earlier draft, and if I had removed the weakest sentence from every paragraph, the novel would immediately have become a lot more concise, and what remained would have been of a higher overall quality. A variation on this exercise is to let yourself cut only the weakest clause you can find in each paragraph, instead of the weakest sentence. That’s a less dramatic operation, but it has a similarly powerful outcome, while also exposing any sen- tences that are too convoluted or that start early or end late.

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

Two gold cup trophies on a desk next to a pot plant with plaques reading “Elegant Literature Award. Chloe Paige” and “NYC Midnight 500 word Fiction Challenge. Chloe Paige”.

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! 🎉

4th for me with my icky stalker thriller! Hoping to keep the momentum going 🤞

You got this! Get that novel out into the world! 💪

A literary agent told me this was rarer than talent (but maybe more important?) On surviving the Writing Games

An excellent read 💯

I don’t want a future where disabled people are inspirational exceptions.
I want a future where we’re impossible to ignore.