Alex Lyn | Author 🏰🐉

Had a few off days over the weekend but im back at it again! I'm over a quarter of the way through this draft - 23,000 words and counting!

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15000 words in 10 days! I might actually finish this draft on time 💙
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I've written 6,500 words in 4 days! Im ahead of the curve for the writing challenge im doing with my writing group. Today is day 5, hoping to break 8,000!!

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Just some worldbuilding stuff #worldbuilding

I've been sharing monthly writing challenges on my other platforms and thought I'd share them here too! Let me know which one you're going with!

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Worldbuilding tips for all storytellers!!

April writing challenge! Posting a few days late as I'm late to joining skylight but it should be totally doable to catch up!

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Marketing your books is hard...

Anyways, if anyone needs worldbuilding resources, I've got you covered.
books2read.com/u/49RL2Y

Looks are super important when it comes to worldbuilding, but don't forget to cater to the other senses when you're writing as well! What does something smell like, sound like, or feel like? If your characters are at an ocean, can they taste the salt in the air?

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In case anyone needs some positivity today 🩵

Easy and quick ways to Support your favorite authors (especially indie authors)

- ask your local library to carry their books
- add them to your "want to read" piles in your reading apps
- leave a rating or review

It's literally that easy and helps us more than you know 💙

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Listening to EPIC: The Musical.... I get it now. I'm obsessed
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Keep reading, keep writing, keep telling stories

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Cry, Voidbringer In a broken system, do you save yourself or fight for t…

Do me a favor. If you have a Goodreads, go add Cry, Voidbringer to your TBR.

If you morally can't, I get it! Everyone else, I am asking because TBR's like this do have an impact on how effectively a book can be pushed to many retailers. Black and brown authors deserve to be on shelves.

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Me the last few weeks #author

*screaming internally*

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Just fyi your first draft is supposed to be bad. The point of the first draft is for getting your ideas on paper. You can make it pretty later. A rought first draft does NOT mean that you are a bad writer. Keep writing. Keep going.

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If you've ever wanted to learn a skill, especially one that might aid your community, now is the time to do it. I've added a few recs, please feel free to comment more.
(remember, nonfiction is not just history books, but you might want to have a few of those on hand too)
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Recap of my January reads! I highly recommend all of these!

The full post is on the gram

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I've been playing around with the Tome app and the new block tag feature is pretty helpful! You can block the tags for problematic authors, and you'll stop seeing posts about them.

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Take your meds.
Take your vitamins.
Hydrate.
Rest.
Hold close your friends and family.

Taking care of ourselves and our community is also resistance.

Working on an exciting book-adjacent logistical project right now. I'll definitely be letting everyone know when it launches ❤️

(fyi if you sign up for my newsletter, you'll learn what it is in tomorrows update)

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Ahhh you're so sweet 😭😭

Someday 🤞

One of my author dreams is to be on someone's auto buy list someday

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Reminder to sign up for my newsletter to get sneak peeks and early updates on the novel I'm working on!!

You'll get to learn more about the characters like this one and the world!

The next issue drops Feb 1st!

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Working on some marketing stuff today. Also, a new slide with more worldbuilding tips is coming soon!

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Art is not a distraction.

Just went to costco and the samples did not hit today 🙃

Absolutely!