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Protected: #TRUESTsem Part Five (21-25)

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 #TRUESTsem Part Four (16-20)
Query #12 October 2015 

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Author crushes for #igwritersoct. These people blow me away with the way they give life to characters--they're goddesses basically, using words and pixels and story instead of clay, flesh, and bone. 📖 Also they are extremely talented yet *very cool* humans, so you end up loving them too much to hate them for being way better than you 😉 Their earthly names and my favorite of their works, clockwise from top left: Lora Innes--The Dreamer Taylor Jenkins Reid--One True Loves Shannon Hale--The Goose Girl Noelle Stevenson--Nimona #authorcrush #favoriteauthor #graphicnovelists #novelists #bookrecommendations Finished this last night. 🤓😍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ " 'Then I wish I was in one of your stories.' And who wouldn't wish that? Certainly everyone here--dressed up as aliens, and wizards, and zombies, and superheroes--wants desperately to be inside a story, to be part of something more logical and meaningful than real life seems to be. Because even worlds with dragons and time machines seem to be more ordered than our own. When you live for stories, when you spend so much time immersed in careful constructions of three and five acts, it sometimes feels like you're just stumbling through the rest of your life, trying to divine meaningful narrative threads from chaos. ... Fiction is there when real life fails you. But it's not a substitute." #socksunday #bookquote #thegeeksguidetounrequitedlove It's only mostly dead. #igwritersoct day 14: Dead WIPs Today's theme for #igwritersoct is writing rituals. I have playlists to help me get in the writing zone. And I usually need some caffeine of some sort to keep me energized and ready to go. Plotter or pantser? I used to write wild and free, but now? ... I can get a bit carried away. #igwritersoct I envy all the writers who still pants! It takes me way too many drafts to get somewhere workable if I don't plan ahead. I forget how to use spaces or write letterforms when I write longhand. And I'm super DUPER self-conscious about my handwriting because I'm both a writer and designer. My handwriting also has multiple personalities and is never consistent. But according to TV, that means detectives will never be able to use my handwriting as evidence, so at least I have that going for me! #igwritersoct #igwritersoct for the 9th is writing adventures, for the 10th is writing & metal health. Well, it's always an adventure to write while inattentive, unable to focus or get motivated, and struggling to remember and juggle plot points and lines. I've learned so much about ADHD-inattentive type and how my scattered brain works since my son was diagnosed. I'm still trying to make my mind work for me, but that's a WIP. #realtalk #writingwithadhd #thisadventurewecalllife #writingandmentalhealth #adhdinattentive Mismatched #socksunday and one of my favorite novels of all time. I waited YEARS for this to come back into hardcover and it was so worth it. Look at that gorgeous cover! I don't like purple, but this is changing my mind a bit. #pupper #booksandfluff #bookanddog #dogandbook #superfriendssocks Things that make you smile for #igwritersoct: puppy tail wags and Harrison Ford laughing. (My husband and kids make me smile daily, too)

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