Author • Activist • Innovator • Afrofuturist:. ✍🏽 Currently querying The Drop, a post-apocalyptic novel about human resilience. #WritingCommunity #SFF
Los Angeles, CA
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Thank you for sharing my interview on The Drop, its inspiration, and my #writing journey.
I was eleven years old when the world went to shit. Literally. It just started falling away, chunk by horrifying chunk
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Took a Twitter / X hiatus, but I'm back now and am thrilled to share that I'm finally querying my debut novel! The first two Fulls are out the door. Wish me luck!
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So much of writing is thinking about writing. Of course, you have to put words on paper at some point, but don’t downplay the work your mind puts in when your fingers are at rest. #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writing
Sadness is neither weakness nor strength, but it is possessive. Jealous. I worry if I embrace it, it won’t ever let me go- and then what will become of all the things I was meant to do and feel? No, it’s easier to be mad. Anger is welcoming. Anger shares.
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“… You’ve been a reader much longer than you were ever a writer. Simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still & ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world [you] would most want to read…” - J.D. Salinger
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Upon finding out that I’d written over a million words between all my books, my sister’s immediate reaction was to ask if head was any emptier now. My response? No emptier than the day I was born. Take that whatever way you’d like. 😂 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Wait a minute…. Great question. 🐺
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Would you rather be resilient or resourceful? #WritingCommunity #QOTD
If human beings have an infinite capacity to love, then why is the heart such an insufficient container for grief?
Does your story have a made-up world? If so, I’d love to hear about it in the comments. World-building is my favorite part of writing.
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50%Yes, completely fictional
50%I took some liberties
0%Nope, set in our reality
4 votes • Final resultsGreat question! I’ve got two pieces of advice on chapter division: one from a commercial and one from a storytelling standpoint. (1/3) 🧵 —
1/ Commercially: In his @StoryGrid podcast, Shawn Coyne discusses the concept of a “Potato Chip chapter”…
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How to split a novel in to chapters?
*noises of panicking*
… A potato chip chapter is one that’s around 2k words long and structured to leave the reader wanting more. It’s late at night, but they want to read “just one more chapter” (they tell themselves as they grab a bag of chips from the pantry); “I have to find out what’s next.”
Well, let’s see if we can help! Who wants to follow Justina? #writersoftwitter
1 shy of 3,300 followers. I’m weirdly excited about the prospect of making it to 3,333 followers. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #readercomunity #readersoftwitter #amreading